Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Maybe this is all my fault.

Yesterday's game was at 5:00 so I had no time to cook anything before the game. I had a class to teach until 3:50 and then went straight home to pick up my youngest (21 year old son) and barely made first pitch.

And today I had to go to the 5 year old birthday party of the son of some dear friends and then went straight to the game from there. Again, no cooking for me.

Maybe tomorrow I should stay home and not go to the game and cook up something really good and have the game on the radio while I am cooking.

 

So far so good.

 

Cooking a clam stew/soup in a spicy lime/coconut base tonight. Kind of Thai style without being a traditional Thai dish.

 

Yum.

I wanted to braise lamb shanks today, but that didn't happen. Maybe later. Not next weekend, though. USCe in town means I will be spending too much time at the games to braise anything.

 

I will be at the games and won't be cooking.

But maybe I can cook early on Friday as it is a Reading Day and I don't teach so I have the afternoon off.

Chicken tangine sounds good. (A North African dish that is really tasty.) Beer-can chicken is really good as well. Smoked chickens (if you commit to smoking one, why not do 2 or 3?) are also awesome.

Maybe the last choice is the winner. Then I will have chicken to eat all weekend and I can go to all the games.

Or maybe cook chicken tangine on Friday whilst smoking a number of chickens for eating Saturday and Sunday.

 

I am eating leftovers: stuff ancho chilies stuffed with potatoes, Monterrey jack cheese, and chorizo. Since I had left over chorizo and potatoes I had also made a kale/potato/onion/chorizo soup/stew.

Got to get going to the game soon.

Dishes will wait until I get home.

 

Just add a bit of cilantro and I will be over to your place!

 

Cooking chicken tangine tonight.

Not going to the game tomorrow. My dermatologist would approve of that decision. Instead I will be braising lamb shanks with a pomegranate based liquid (pomegranate molasses and pomegranate juice) whilst listening to the game on the radio in the comfort and shade of my own house.

 

Damn.

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Tonight was nothing special, except that the very simple side is totally awesome once you can get fresh corn and fresh tomatoes.

This corn/tomato scramble first sautes thinly sliced white parts of a bunch of scallions, then adds the kernels sliced off of 8 ears of corn until they are cooked.

In the meantime two big tomatoes are sliced into bite size pieces and are marinading in olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

Mix the two together once the corn has cooled. Salt and pepper to taste, but I have to admit that I add the salt and pepper at each stage and not only at the end. Also add thinly sliced green parts from the scallions.

Three adults polished that off. It is so simple, but it is so good with really fresh corn and tomatoes.

And I grilled some chicken legs and changed the sauce that I use in this simple dish. Normally I use, and you are going to laugh out loud at this: Kraft's Original BBQ Sauce. Today I used KC Masterpiece Original.

Going back to Kraft next time. The KC was fine, but something about the Kraft version harkens back to my childhood. And I know exactly how to grill with it.