Ok this isn’t one of my usual posts and I know you get to see lots of pics of meals me and my boy create.....but I thought I’d would share the dinners that my wife made/ created this week.....
In full disclosure she had me smoke 1/2 a dozen dry brined chicken breasts and 2 beef chucks. That said she has been studying Gordon Ramsey recipes and how he focuses on layering flavors together to make magic....
Sunday....smoked chuck (@ 3.99/lb $16 bills)....Tuesday smoked 6 breasts (@ 3.49/lb $8).
Creation#1 - Deconstructed Shepard’s “Bowl” & Garlic Toast....
This has a bed of GR Idaho Russet mash, smoked chuck, scratch beef Marsala, fresh veg, seared baby bella 1/4s & GOs...... flavors just layered together!
Creation 2 - The next night dinner was mixed up with a bed of leftover mash, scratch beef burgundy w/creme fraise, smoked chuck, seared Bella 1/4s, GO, & toast....
The burgundy completely transformed the bowl to a whole new set of flavors!
Oh and this had to be joined with my wife’s scratch made blood orange vinaigrette & orange salad........it’s taste is as loud as the color!
Next up showcases my wife new kitchen tool! I have to admit this thing makes rice good enough to eat it plain out of the bowl.....
Creation 3 - So this next dinner starts with a bed of rice out of the wife’s cooker then circled first with shredded cabbage, smoked chicken breast, glass noodles, & smoked chuck. This was topped with scratch bulgogi, yum yum, soy sauce glaze, GO, seeds & cilantro....
This bowl is a off the chart next level layers after layers of flavors!!!!!
Creation 4 - Ok if that wasn’t enough for the week, my wife makes this smoked chicken SW salad...
This meal is elevated with layers of flavor in my wife’s creamy cilantro lime dressing.... it is a vinegar/oil base with Serrano peppers, garlic, shallots, smoked paprika, Mayo, & sour cream....
She sliced the chicken thin and warms it up with chard corn, GO, cojita, cilantro, & tortilla strips..... it is again layer after layer of intense flavor.....mind blowing!
So today being all out of smoked chuck & chicken so my wife had me smoke up another 4lb chuck (3.99/lb)..... had to show my work cause I worked real hard on it....lol....
Creation 5 - So my wife had something special for this chuck..... she made up a scratch dark chocolate almond butter mole...she makes it with a combination of blanched peppers & dry ground (3 different kinds).....
These layers of flavor started with a bed of scratch Spanish rice....my wife makes a hot bowl of liquid seasonings that is blended into rice cooker made rice. Gordon Ramsey uses this technique for his cilantro lime rice, so my wife adapted it to Spanish rice....makes it way good and NOT dry...next some graded cheese, mole, topped with seared corn, chuck, olives, GO, & cilantro, GR caramelized red onion w/ a side of toasted FT ....
This wraps up how Mrs Civilsmoker used basic smoked meat though out the week in a economic but elevated way...... needless to say I’m a lucky and happy man!
In full disclosure she had me smoke 1/2 a dozen dry brined chicken breasts and 2 beef chucks. That said she has been studying Gordon Ramsey recipes and how he focuses on layering flavors together to make magic....
Sunday....smoked chuck (@ 3.99/lb $16 bills)....Tuesday smoked 6 breasts (@ 3.49/lb $8).
Creation#1 - Deconstructed Shepard’s “Bowl” & Garlic Toast....
This has a bed of GR Idaho Russet mash, smoked chuck, scratch beef Marsala, fresh veg, seared baby bella 1/4s & GOs...... flavors just layered together!
Creation 2 - The next night dinner was mixed up with a bed of leftover mash, scratch beef burgundy w/creme fraise, smoked chuck, seared Bella 1/4s, GO, & toast....
The burgundy completely transformed the bowl to a whole new set of flavors!
Oh and this had to be joined with my wife’s scratch made blood orange vinaigrette & orange salad........it’s taste is as loud as the color!
Next up showcases my wife new kitchen tool! I have to admit this thing makes rice good enough to eat it plain out of the bowl.....
Creation 3 - So this next dinner starts with a bed of rice out of the wife’s cooker then circled first with shredded cabbage, smoked chicken breast, glass noodles, & smoked chuck. This was topped with scratch bulgogi, yum yum, soy sauce glaze, GO, seeds & cilantro....
This bowl is a off the chart next level layers after layers of flavors!!!!!
Creation 4 - Ok if that wasn’t enough for the week, my wife makes this smoked chicken SW salad...
This meal is elevated with layers of flavor in my wife’s creamy cilantro lime dressing.... it is a vinegar/oil base with Serrano peppers, garlic, shallots, smoked paprika, Mayo, & sour cream....
She sliced the chicken thin and warms it up with chard corn, GO, cojita, cilantro, & tortilla strips..... it is again layer after layer of intense flavor.....mind blowing!
So today being all out of smoked chuck & chicken so my wife had me smoke up another 4lb chuck (3.99/lb)..... had to show my work cause I worked real hard on it....lol....
Creation 5 - So my wife had something special for this chuck..... she made up a scratch dark chocolate almond butter mole...she makes it with a combination of blanched peppers & dry ground (3 different kinds).....
These layers of flavor started with a bed of scratch Spanish rice....my wife makes a hot bowl of liquid seasonings that is blended into rice cooker made rice. Gordon Ramsey uses this technique for his cilantro lime rice, so my wife adapted it to Spanish rice....makes it way good and NOT dry...next some graded cheese, mole, topped with seared corn, chuck, olives, GO, & cilantro, GR caramelized red onion w/ a side of toasted FT ....
This wraps up how Mrs Civilsmoker used basic smoked meat though out the week in a economic but elevated way...... needless to say I’m a lucky and happy man!
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