Inspired

I was so inspired after seeing Julie & Julia last night that I cooked up a storm today.

For dinner I made grilled ribeye steaks with herb butter sauce. Along with that I made grilled red skinned potatoes .

And for dessert I made mocha chocolate cake ( no box mix ! ) with espresso glaze. To top it off I also made a vanilla sauce.
Don't ya just want to lick the photos?

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Yummy Chicken

Last night for dinner I made rotisserie chicken for the first time and it turned out so good. So much better then the ones you can find in grocery stores.

I started the night before with brining my whole chicken like I do my Thanksgiving turkeys. The brine is never the same way twice and is always based on what I want the meat to taste like.

For this one after I cleaned out the chicken I put it in a huge bowl and covered it with cold water. I then poured in about a cup of whiskey ( it was the end of the bottle and looked like a cup), a half a cup of salt ( I know that sounds like a lot of salt but trust me the chicken will not taste salty) , a palm full of dried rosemary, sage, thyme & fresh ground black pepper, and the juice of one large lemon. I then covered it with ice, put some foil on the bowl and stuck it in the fridge over night.

The next day about an hour before I was ready to cook it I took it out of the brine and in the cavity I place some fresh rosemary, sage, thyme and half of a lemon. After that I trussed up the chicken and placed it on the spit.

This is what it looked like.

It takes about an hour to hour & a half over medium heat ( roughly 350 degrees) depending on the size of your bird.

And this is what mine looked like when it was done. OMG ! it was so tender and juicy ! I will be making this again, but with two birds next time because we finished that one so fast and wanted more.

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iPhone Photos

I take a lot of photos with my cell phone, mostly to show Barry what we are doing through out the day. Sometimes to show him what we are eating and he's not.... I can be so mean lol. These are a few I've taken with my iPhone since getting it.

A refreshing drink I enjoyed yesterday. I would like to point out that there isn't a giant hole in the center of my table, well there is now but that's our fire pit table and when I sit out there during the day I remove the fire pit and put a umbrella in there. It looks weird but it keeps the sun off of me.
Some chili cheese fries that B-Monkey made all by himself. He even made homemade cheese sauce. He loves to cook just like his mama.
My first try at making BBQ beef ribs. I've made pork ribs before, but never beef ones. They turned out really good, need to do some tweaking on the sauce but other then that they were really yummy.
A nasty storm that rolled in a week or so ago. I was standing on my front porch when I took this and right after I took the shot the sky's opened up and it poured.

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