I absolutely love making and trying new delicious dishes!! I hope I can inspire people to try the daring dishes and love to be in the kitchen making masterpieces as much as I do!!!

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Honey BBQ Spicy Chicken Wings!!

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!

It's been sooo long since my last post!! But here is a simple, inexpensive meal that I'm sure you all will LOVE!!

Ingredients!
Chicken Wings (as many as you want!! I did about 8)
1 cup BBQ Sauce
1 tbsp of Red Chile Flakes
1 tsp of Olive Oil
1 tbsp of Honey
Pepper
Salt

Directions!!
Now before you start your grill, you should prepare the meat first! That way it can marinate for about 30 minutes!

When you are working with poultry, make sure you run the meat under warm water and cut any access fat off that you don't desire. FIRST! Take your salt and pepper and season your chicken to your liking! Next, take your red chile flakes, BBQ sauce, olive oil, and honey, and put all your ingredients on your chicken! HINT HINT: The olive oil helps your meat stay moist!!!  Mix the ingredients together very well so every spice hits each chicken leg!

Make sure that EVERYTHING THAT TOUCHED RAW CHICKEN IS PUT IN THE SINK AND WASHED!!!! 

After you have all the ingredients in the bowl, cover the bowl and place in refrigerator to let sit and soak in all the yummy goodness!!

Grill until the chicken in COMPLETELY DONE and clear fluid is coming out of the meat!!

once that is done..... ENJOYYY!!!

And yes, I realize an AFTER COOKING picture is missing, but that is just because we devoured the meal so fast I didn't have time to take a picture!!!

I hope you all enjoy this recipe!!

LOVE AND HAPPY COOKING TO YOU ALL!!! 

Friday, January 11, 2013

The Joys of Seasoning!! :)

Cooking tip #2!!!

SEASONING!!! When you are seasoning ANYTHING  if you cannot see your seasoning, you DID NOT put enough in.

For example, I was just making a tomato sauce and I added pepper and parsley (real light seasoning). Once I stirred my sauce, the seasoning disappeared! So what do you do when that happens??? ADD MORE OF COURSE!!!! Add more pepper and more parsley! Add another teaspoon or so and then stir your sauce or whatever you are seasoing, and if you can fantley see it you did great!!! The parsley made my dish pop with color as well as adding nice aromatics!! :)

If you are marinating any meat, put a healthy coat of dry rub on BOTH sides!

Your dishes will taste so flavorful and even when you make a simple tomato sauce like I did, that seasoning will take it to the next level! Just make sure you add enough or your meal will taste...just...average..and NO ONE wants that!!!

HAPPY COOKING!!!! 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Cooking Tips!

Cooking tip #1:

BUTTER BUTTER BUTTER! 

In my opinion you can NEVER have enough butter!! So, with that said, enjoy the fatty flavor of butter! When you cook any meat, inclduing fish, you can stick about 1 tbsp of butter right on top or, if your cooking chicken, stick the butter underneath the skin.

Butter will make your recipe POP! 

I learned to show respect for butter from watching Paula Dean's cooking shows on the Food Network!
For those of you who hate butter, tell me what you substitue your dishes with!! 

I will now start putting recipes AND cooking tips for you all!! :)