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Let the grille season begin!

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It was nice to finally be able to grill this weekend. Here is one meal: grilled chicken and haloumi cheese on greek salad:

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Hmmmm, I've never tried Haolomi cheese... It sounds like it might be a mellow feta? Not sure where you live, but it is SO nice to be able to cook outside after such a long snowy winter. Tonight I decided fajitas was the way to go -- plus, I wanted to break in my new Lodge sizzle pan! ;)

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Haloumi is similar in flavor to feta but not at all like it in texture. It is kind of squeaky, you can grill it and it won't melt.

Nice sizzle pan. I bought this cast iron plancha for my grill last year:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products ... chRules-_-

and I love it. I use it to grill sausage and pepper subs before Red Sox games.
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Boring pic, but here's last night's meal - roasted broccoli and shrimp, with a side of corn with basil butter.

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canucknyc wrote:Boring pic, but here's last night's meal - roasted broccoli and shrimp, with a side of corn with basil butter.
tasty is never boring! ;)

@liamsaunt, nice pan. Looks like it could so some serious culinary damage!

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This was so good! Trout with blistered tomatoes and couscous:

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Nice trout. I see your trout and raising you a bazillion mussels! ;)

Our son gave us Anthony Bourdain's cookbook from his Les Halles days, and his recipe for mussels in a butter wine sauce is pretty excellent.


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O! I need that recipe. We do mussels in wine often and need a new recipe. I'd really appreciate it. They look scrumptious!
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I have had the Les Halles cookbook for years and never cooked anything out of it. I'll have to give it a second look. Here is the recipe:

4 ounces butter
2 thinly sliced shallots
2 cups dry white wine
salt and pepper
6 lbs mussels scrubbed and debearded
4 spigs parsley chopped
heat the butter, add shallots, cook 2 minutes. Add wine and bring to a boil. Dump in the mussels, cover and cook until they just open. If you want, add more butter at this point. Add parsely and serve.

Last night I cooked cockles for the first time. So much more flavor than littleneck clams, super briny and deeply flavored:

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Tonight we are having Caribbean-style grouper and tuna to celebrate booking our next trip to St. John. Four months from today, whoo-hoo!
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Thanks for the recipe, Becky. Those cockles sure do look good. We're having salmon tonight but I think I'll head down to the fish market and pick up some mussels.
One of my favorite memories is eating mussels in an outdoor place in Brussels and they were done in a wine sauce. We had 2 buckets of mussels the other was done in with fresh tomatoes and wine.
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Thanks for posting the recipe, Becky. We had so many mussels left over that I made a reduction of the wine sauce and made a killer pasta dish out of the leftovers -- just adding some lemon juice to freshen it up.

Frankly, the only other recipe I use of Bourdain's is the one for steak au poirve. OMH, it uses a ton of cracked pepper and is totally awesome. Here's a version I did a while ago using tenderloin. I grilled the onions and potatoes to make them a bit smokey.

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Bongo Sticky Chicken
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Taco Salad!

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MB, that chicken looks so good!!! Will you share the recipe?

PMK, those mussels are making me drool!
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