Week 32 Neely's Barbecued Beef Ribs Grandmas Potato Salad and Gina's Perfect Rice

Carl

Ribs we OK really expected more but we didn't have the exact ribs they called for we had back ribs and the called for beef spare ribs but that OK. The potato salad was good there was alot of relish but I loved the rice....oh it was so simple but had an incredible flavor like no other. The time was the most part...wait noooo the thyme! haha.

David




Ribs. Wow they were good. We enjoyed the beef spare ribs. We had about 10 pounds of ribs. We put 2 cups of Neely's BBQ seasoning on it overnight. We also then cooked them for about 3 hours on indirect heat. They were tasty. I loved the potato salad. I always like potato salad.



The best was the rice. Here is the recipe. Sorry we didn't get a picture.




Gina's Perfect Rice




Melt 2 TBLSP of butter in a pan with a cut up onion.




Add 1.5 cups of long grain rice.




Add .5 teaspoon of salt and pepper.




Add 2.5 cups of chicken stock.




Add 2 sprigs of fresh thyme and 2 bay leaves.




Add 1 garlic clove smashed.




Cook to boiling and then cover and simmer for 16 minutes.




Add 1 TBLSP of chopped parsley to finish.









I love rice and this recipe was excellent. Give it a try.

Week 21 Potato Soup, Oven Roasted Veggies, and a Raspberry Dessert

Oven Roasted Veggies

Potato Soup

Carl

White Wine........ A lot of white wine in almost every meal in the potato soup with was all that great in the raspberry gratins that look amazing but I messed up the sauce that was supposed to be like a whipped cream but was a soup made from yolks, sugar, and white wine of coarse. the best was the vegetables that were fennel, fingerling potatoes, green beans, asparagus. the best thing on the menu. Next week is our last week of Ina Garten. Cant wait Nikki and Kelly and Dan are all comin!

David

SALTY. Wow. I put the required amount of salt in the potato soup and it was so salty that I we used it as a dip instead of a soup. Most everyone did not finish their soup. It also turned out the color of pea soup. I was very disappointed. However, I did learn that I should put the required amount of salt in "to taste" meaning, put the salt in until it tastes good. Don't put the whole required amount of salt in at once. Live and Learn.

The veggies were good. I even liked the fennel. I think I could eat veggies all day long.

The raspberry dessert tasted good. It just didn't have the consistency that we would have liked. Carl said he didn't cook it right. But I saw him follow the instructions to a T. Sometimes those things happen.

A special thanks goes out to LINDA who got all the food for us. We just didn't have time to go to the store this week. We are preparing to go on Spring Break.

Week 7 Beef Tips, Potatoes and Corn Chowder

Carl:
Well this week was kinda spicy for the week mouths. The beef tips were ok the tomatoes were canned and not the same fresh feel because are grill is broken and we have no broil to roast them. The potaoes got a little dried out because of the delay on the other recipes. THE CORN CHOWDER WAS AMAZING! Creamy a little kick and the delicous corn flavor YUMM! This week wasn't so great but the recipes would have been amazing (if not for the couple problems). Can't wait for next week!

David

HOT. Jamie about screamed when she put the soup in her mouth complaining that it burned her throat. Jamie thought the meal was a little too spicy. I thought it was medium. The soup turned out really well. It was creamy and had poblano peppers in it. I think I could have put less poblano pepper in it to help out the spicyness. The beef tips were good. I don't think I would make them again. The potatoes were average. They had some charizo sausage in them. I will give you the ingredients to the corn chowder. You might want to make this on your own sometime.

Corn Chowder:

Brown 1/2 onion and 2 teaspoons of garlic in 2 tblspoons of butter.

Puree the onion mix with 1/4 cup of water and 1.5 tablspoons of corn starch and 3 cups of defrosted frozen corn.

Add 2 cups of milk and 1 teaspoon of salt

Simmer for 15 minutes.

Add 1 cup of cream and 1 diced poblano. (make sure you burn the skin off the poblano)

Simmer for another 10 minutes.

Enjoy

Week 2 Berry Wonderful Week

Our second week was awesome.



Carl





We'll start out with dessert a berry wonderful dessert! The dessert was a berry trifle with rasberrys, blueberrys, strawberrys, and lemon whip cream. There also was pound cake but we ommitted pound cake from my dads dessert. All around are table we agreed that the lemon whip cream was wonderful with the berrys. We added lemon curd (a kind of lemon jelly ) to heavy whipping cream and sugar to create a tangy sweet mix.





















David

The salmon was easy. We just salt and peppered it and put it in a hot pan for 6 minutes each side. That came out great.

Next the side dish was an intresting mixture of flavors and ingredients. First, Carl was zesting the lemon and he accidently zested his finger. The zest was mixed with shallots in hot oil. Then we put in the peas and pearl onions. We heated that through and put that on top of some boiled potatos that were slightly mashed. I wanted the fiber in it so I left the skin on. Carl said we should have taken out the skin. We put a bunch of watercress in the mix. I don't exactly know what a bunch is. Carl told me to put the whole package in. OK. I think a bunch should be more descriptive. We also put some mint leaves in it.

All in all it was a great meal. I especially liked the potatos. Linda liked the dessert. Jamie liked the pearl onions. Carl likes just about anything. Talk to you next week.