Say “enchiladas” to me and what goes through my head is Mexican…
Category: Food/Recipes
The End that Justifies the Means…Hopefully !
My interest in outdoor cooking, smoking, grilling and so on would be less meaningful without a corresponding interest in Food, but those coming here expecting Tân y Ddraig Goch to be just a “Recipe Site” will be disappointed. There are some recipes, sure, but this is more a collection of Food Preparation Experiences, Lessons and Stories. In some instances, where I think it valuable, I’m including links to the recipes I’ve used. In others, especially where I’ve gone “off piste” I’m including my own recipe cards, and a video here and there, but mostly I’ll be describing experiments…and rambling…like now !
Feel free to browse, look at and read some of these stories to get a feel for HOW the tools and techniques I’m passionate about get applied to explore and create something useful…the Food…
Pollo a la Brasa — “Straight Up”
This one dates from February 2021, and I’m only writing it up…
How to Ruin Perfect Pulled Pork
This pork shoulder was perfect. It had a long smoke on the…
Boxing Day Creamy Moroccan Turkey
First world problems, I know, but “What to do with the leftover turkey after the traditional Christmas dinner ?”. Curry is a favourite, but this year I wanted to try something a little different.
Fogo de Siôn
Fogo de Chão is, to me, a very special now-American restaurant chain cooking meat over fire “churrasco style” and serving it up “rodizio style”. Brazilian in origin, this was one of the first steak chains I fell in love with when I started to travel to the USA in the 1990’s…Naturally, I recreated two of their signature dishes.
Ropa Vieja Roulade
Another recipe inspired by the collective motivation of the Internet BBQ and food communities I participate in. This week’s challenge was “cook something Cuban”. Ropa Vieja literally means “old clothes” and the traditional way of cooking this is “as a stew” probably in a Dutch Oven or similar. I found this updated recipe and thought I’d give it a go.
Chicken Tabaka Niortskali
This is a dish from Georgia…the country in the ex Soviet Republic, not the State in the Deep South. There’s a new Georgian Spice Blend, a Georgian cooking technique and a Georgian sauce involved here, so lots to experiment with…
Catch35’s Chilean Sea Bass (kind of)
Catch 35 describes itself as an “Asian -accented seafood destination” which is a fairly good description. This dish is inspired by their popular Chilean Sea bass menu item but with some last minute changes…not least of which is that it does not contain Chilean Sea Bass !
Joe Junior’s Smoked Queso
Queso is Spanish for cheese. This dish is really easy, very forgiving, and exceptionally tasty if you’re a cheese fan. If you can clean out the fridge and melt cheese, then you can make queso. Baked potatoes are optional.
Bourbon Cherry Glazed Pork
Costco. Fantastic place for meat but you need to go with an open mind. You might come away with a beef bargain, or chicken or even lamb. On our last trip it was pork…a HUGE loin for a low, low price which I cut into three. One’s destined to become Canadian (almost British) bacon, but this one was going on the rotisserie…