Swamp and Turf

Tonight we had some frog legs, steak, Fulton Farms corn and some sauteed spinach greens.
I marinated the frog legs in Italian dressing for an hour or so. I made a Bleu cheese topping for the steaks and grilled it all. I soaked the corn, with ends cut off, in cold water for 45 minutes.

Start with a hot grill 500+ degrees and place the corn on the warming rack turning often for 30 minutes. Place the frog legs and steak on the hot grill for 3 minutes per side turning only once. I quarter turn my steaks after 2 minutes just to make some nice grill marks.
Pull the meat and legs off and plate. The corn will be ready at this time as well.
Enjoy, we did.

Drunken Pineapple Skewers

So we had some ideas about cooking with tequila. These are very easy and you can make on any grill or even the oven. I used...

1 pineapple
1 juice from orange
1 juice from lime
4 tbsp honey
1/4 c fine Tequila
and lime zest for garnish
Zest a lime and an orange saving 1/2 aside, add the other ingredients and mix well.

Cut a fresh pineapple longways to get several long pieces after removing the core and outer parts. Soak these in the marinade. Grill on a hot grill for about 6 minutes a side. Drizzle some of the marinade over each piece and add a dollop if ice cream in a bowl. Sprinkle with some more orange/ lime zest.

Guinness glazed cedar plank salmon

Well tonight we had a special guest so we made a bourbon glaze sauce with Guinness beer.
1 cup packed brown sugar
6 tablespoons bourbon
1/2 cup Guinness beer
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 2.5# whole salmon fillets
4 teaspoons sesame seeds
Mix everything but the salmon and sesame seeds together and marinate the salmon for a couple hours in the fridge. Place on hot grill turning down to medium low, skin side down for 5 minutes. Place the cedar plank directly on medium low grill. Turn salmon over and peel the skin off discard and grill 5 minutes. transfer salmon to the planks with the skin side down and spoon marinade over the salmon several times during the next 10 minutes or so. When salmon flakes easily, pull from grill and spinkle sesame seeds over each fillet.
Happy Birthday; Jer.

Grilled Mahi Mahi with celery jalapeno pesto

We had two really nice Mahi Mahi steaks and tons of veggies. I made a pesto with celery tops, jalapeno's, and some fresh herbs.
I grilled the steaks over high heat for about 6 minutes a side. After the flip and turn (for grill marks) I added the pesto.

I also felt like a mushroom or two so I filled the caps with tequila and let them rest for about 10 minutes on the top rack. This pairs well with Fulton sweet corn and grilled zucchini topped with olive oil and herbs.