Iron Chef WAYCT - What Are You Cooking Today

[Madame Buttonfly]

I have the luxury of not cooking anything - I just mixed the gin & tonics and can now relax and watch Giles and Alex preparing dinner.  I will leave them to entertain you (and me) further…

[Alex]

Tonight we are playing with Giles' new kitchen toy and his new BBQ grill and cooking some sirloin steaks

Then we are making a potato salad, grilling corn on the cub with a miso butter and grilling some baby gem lettuces

[Alex]

[seawolf]

That all looks amazing. Especially the corn!

[Giles]

More plum jam, butter chicken and Tarka dhal (and Beef Madras and potatoes with red chillis off-camera)…..

[Giles]

Mis-calculated…Had to bring out a 2 liter Mason as a back up....

[twin]

Well done @Giles  The Plum jam must taste good. I still have some of the Blueberry left here. 20 pint jars.

[Madame Buttonfly]

Hey @twin - we'll save you a jar of the plum jam, it's very good!

Giles has been excelling himself in the kitchen recently, I try to help out a bit but usually just get left with the clearing up (wiping spots of jam off the unit doors and spots of curry off the work surfaces) 

[twin]

Hey @Madame Buttonfly I will save you one jar of Blueberry jam It's the best around.

[Giles]

2 deep, that should keep us going…

[mclaincausey]

Wanted to share a sauce recipe that we've come to call "crack sauce" because it is so delicious.

It's veganaise (or mayonnaise), dijon mustard, fresh dill, lemon juice, capers and caper pickling liquid, olive oil, and black pepper emulsified in a blender. I made this originally as a marinade and sauce for salmon, and then a binder for a salmon salad made of leftovers, but it makes a great dressing for salmon salad as well as for steak salad, or just a sauce to throw on your steaks, asparagus, or whatever else.

[Giles]

Nice, will give it a go

[Seul]

Sounds delicious.

[neph93]

Doing a joint tapas thing with some friends this evening… my contribution:

Classic tortilla

Chorizo, chickpea and grilled pepper salad

Olive swirls

[Chris]

Holy crap, that chorizo, garbanzo, and peppers dish looks amazing.

[Seul]

So does the fucking tortilla!..

[Eisenherz]

^ getting hungry

[Giles]

[neph93]

@Seul:

So does the fucking tortilla!..

@Chris:

Holy crap, that chorizo, garbanzo, and peppers dish looks amazing.

Thanks fellas. I was very pleased with them both.

The chorizo thing is super easy. It works because the sausage is so damn tasty that it creates its own sauce. I chose a chorizo that was heavy on the cayenne pepper for that reason. The original recipe called coriander but I subbed it out for parsley. I love coriander but it pretty omnipresent in recipes these days and the taste can dominate. The parsley worked really well.

The tortilla was easy too but time consuming. I made a fresh tomato dressing to go on top which was ace.

@Giles , is that a practice run for next Saturday?

[Giles]

@neph93:

@Giles , is that a practice run for next Saturday?

Yep….