Asian satay is meat or fish or whatever cooked on skewers. In this case it was flank steak and boneless skinless chicken breasts cut into slices and coated with a marinate of ginger, cumin, curry sauce etc. It was really good. The peanut sauce was also very good but not as spicy as I would have liked. I am not sure why. I think there may be a mistake in the recipe. It says to add 1/4 teaspoon of red curry paste. I think it would have been better with more like 1/4 cup. In the end we added in some spiced peanuts we had leftover from the butternut squash soup recipe and that helped a lot.
We made another batch of the jalapeno cornbread cooked in the grill in a cast iron skillet. We undercooked it a bit so it wasn't quite as popular as last time but still had a great flavor!
Dessert was S'mores with candied orange peel (see picture). The grownups loved the orange peel. The kids loved the rest of the ingredients - graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows. Emily said she expected the orange to taste good with the chocolate but was surprised to find that it also went well with the marshmallow.
By the way, we got a new food processor today which really is Fat Albert!! Big improvement over the other one. Not as noisy and holds much more stuff.
Mark
Mrs. Grill'n says: The beef satay was fine, but the chicken was exceptional and I would recommend staying with that for this recipe. The marinade kept the chicken moist and tender; a big hit with the satay sauce. I agree with Mark's comment that we have had better peanut sauces, so if you have a favorite one (Barefoot Contessa comes to mind) then use that one and skip this one.
ReplyDeleteAs to the candied orange peel in the s'mores, it really was good. S'mores can be fairly over sweet and the tang of the orange peel cut right through. Really good, although so much trouble that I can only compliment Mr. Wisconsin Grill'n for pulling it off perfectly, totally unaided, the first time.
Audrey and I, in honor of the wisgrillin crew, did a cook out in Rock Creek Park this Sunday. We drew many longing glances from the walkers, runners, and bikers who smelled our dessert of grilled apples with cinnamon and brown sugar glaze. One jogger said he smelled our food cooking from a quarter mile away.
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Isn't Rock Creek Park full of snow? If so, you are a true Wisconsin Griller! The helpful tips from Weber in the paper on Sunday started with "start by scraping the snow off of the grill!"
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