mgaretz

About the 7th consecutive day of 100 degree plus temperatures here, so a cold dinner was called for. Shrimp with carrots, cucumbers, red bell pepper, avocado and a lesson in how not to plate:

Asian chicken salad. Started with a chopped Asian salad kit to which I added grilled chicken, snap peas, peanuts, cherry-flavored craisins and dry ramen noodles (the cheap package type).

Blasphemy ribs for the 4th - two ways - normal and char siu style. Served with fresh-picked local green beans.

Ours is still going strong. Great oven, only a so-so air fryer.

Do they allow visits? Didn't see anything about that on their site.

Tri-tip with artichokes.

Chipolatas (grilled) with baked beans. This was the "Cumberland Recipe" chipolatas, whatever that means. They were good but very peppery. The chipolatas I remember were milder and shorter.

Another burger with more corn from the farm behind us.

It looks interesting but I wonder if they will be coming out with different sized dicing units. The bigger, Paradice 16, offers multiple sizes including a 3mm cube size.

Simple burgers on the grill but with fresh picked Brentwood corn from the farm behind my house (the shot is from my fence). They have harvested already but a lot of corn is left on the stalks so they let us pick it.

Grilled pork chop with corn and butter.

Jolly Posh Foods https://jollyposhfoods.com/collections/our-products

I heated them up, so yes! (I think they were Bush's Maple and Brown Sugar.)

British-stye bangers, grilled, with baked beans.

Sirloin, cooked SV then seared, with artichokes made in the IP.

Grilled pork chop with steamed broccoli with butter.

I use a 3QT Instant Pot, makes as little as 1 "cup" of rice (their included mini cup). For Basmati or any other long grain white rice, 1 cup of rice, rinsed, 1 cup of water, 4 minutes on high pressure (not the rice program) and natural release. Natural release is the key to keeping the rice from sticking to the pot. Before that I used a 5 cup rice cooker - pretty sure it was a Panasonic - because it could make as little as 1 cup. Fuzzy logic and all that. It worked but no better than the IP so I gave it away when we moved. After all that, 1 cup cooked is still a lot of rice. If we have leftovers of the main dish that's fine, but if not I will vacuum pack and freeze the rest. Heats up nice in the MW.

Easiest is to type, insert picture, type again, insert picture and so on. If the pictures are inserted all at once, click on the picture, then use the right arrow key on the keyboard to get the cursor to the right of the picture, press Enter and type.

Memorial Day cook of Blasphemy Ribs, Blasphemy Cole Slaw and corn on the cob. Still a bit too early for corn, but it was decent for May.

A pair of grilled pork chops with corn in butter.

Essentially yes, but it’s a steamer/air fryer so it steams and air fries at the same time. 9 minutes from frozen to done.

A couple of recent dinners: Burger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, thousand island. Served with Blasphemy Coleslaw. Salmon in the Speedi with leftover fried rice with char siu:

Char siu with fried rice and Brussels sprouts.

Grilled British-style banger with steamed Brussels Sprouts with butter. Extra pineapple-bacon sausage not shown.

Carnitas, Spanish rice, guacamole, and chips.