Roasted Lemon Chicken with Dirty Rice.

Roasted Lemon Chicken with Dirty Rice. Start by marinating a whole fryer chicken in lemon juice and peels placed into a zip bag. I use about 3 lemons which I first zest keeping the scrapings in a bowl. Quarter the lemons, place the chicken into the bag and squeeze the pulp and juices into and over the bird. Shove a few of the squeezed wedges into the cavity and under the breast neck skin.  Let rest for a least 2 hours or 4 if there’s time, turning the bag each hour to revive the marinade. Remove after marinating and place onto a roast pan. Season the skin with salt...

Garlic Infused Lamb Rack

Garlic Infused Lamb Rack. Cover the lamb rack with several whole garlic buds and rub in 2 tbs of olive oil ,salt, pepper fresh fine chopped basil, parsley and oregano with a tbs of pommery grainy mustard. Do the same with the shaved corn segments and potato spears. Loosely wrap the lamb rack in some heavy gauge foil and place in a very hot 400 oven or on a BBQ grill for 35/40 minutes. Remove and let rest but do not open. After you get your plates set up open the  foil bundle and remove the rack and slice a few thick cut ribs off  then place back on the BBQ grill char...

Slow Roasted Kahlua BBQ Beef Short Ribs

Slow Roast Kahlua BBQ Beef Short Ribs. At one time these small joints of beef bones were cheap and used mostly for making stock or roasted brown sauce. Now they have are extremely expensive and have become a prime short rib menu item. Braised or slow crock pot done they are hard to make a bad meal with. Most restaurants just chop up season and deep fry them like chicken wings or pork rib bites. thekitchenman likes to brine the small portions in bourbon, scotch or rum to break down the tissue and the sugars when BBQed low and slow for several hours. The choice is yours to...

Cobb-Cobb Salad.

Cobb-Cobb Salad Fixing’s One of the best salads to make when you want to impress. Once you serve it you will be on the receiving end of many fine compliments from your guests. I enjoy making and eating this salad and take great pride in gathering all the fresh ingredients. The next time you want to make a salad stand out give this recipe a whirl. Just remember that it will only turn out good if you start with the best tasting ingredients at hand. You will need to shop at a reliable produce market to get the tastiest veggies. It may take extra energy to find good...

Beef Goulash.

Beef Goulash. The prices of groceries are rising rapidly and stretching your food dollar requires some easy recipes that pack good protein flavour and feed the whole family keeping within a budget Home comfort food that will make a nice meal alongside a crisp salad. I like using steak trim from the butcher which usually is a mixture of different cuts of beef. Stewing beef should have some fat marbling to add flavour and a achieve a more tender beef. Best time to teach the young ones survival in the kitchen and here is one of the first meals I was taught how to serve....