My tasty take on a phenomenal recipe-Jambalaya

This recipe came to me through a dear friend Kirstyn, from her mother Wendi. The original recipe called for simply chicken and shrimp, but not being one to follow instructions substituted half of the chicken with Andouille sausage to give this already tasty dish a little extra kick. My favorite thing about the whole dish is the ease with which it can be prepared and as with any stew like dish the intermingling of flavors that occurs as the dish "ages." I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do.

These were some of the ladies that helped prepare dinner, from the left Monica, Britney's mother, and Britney. We all were very happy to eat and sorry that Cindi the other chef of the evening couldn't stay to eat with us.


A nice juicy closeup of the meal finished, I have to say for not being timed and only having a few curse words flung at it throughout the course of the evening the rice tasted delicious, cooked perfectly if I do say so myself. The chicken was another story. I apparently do not know what it means to be resilient to the touch, most of the chicken was cooked perfectly but there were some pieces, the thicker ones mind you that were just ever so pink in the middle of the thickest parts. Other wise still very tasty and once again since we were being hosted by good christian folks curse words were at a bare minimum, so sorry folks no fuck word blessed the chicken whilst it was frying away atop the electric stove top. (By the by they are WONDERFUL such even and quick heating, too quick for someone like me not quite used to it.)


And finally a nice little shot of your host extraordinaire and all around kitchen cursing master chef (yeah right!) Holding our desert a delicious chocolate cake called reine de saba or something of that nature. We served it with low fat vanilla ice cream (the only low fat option of the evening) very very tasty. The cake was actually one of the easier dishes Britney did an excellent job of whipping the egg whites to stand at attention stiff peaks! By hand by the way! Now for the dirty comment which I just have to put in here (forgive me for my adolescent behavior). So at least we know she gives a good hand job. I will probably be censored and forced to remove that comment so if this post is edited again this will be why. I just had to do it though! I will leave you with that awful comment I hope you all are eating well and so much so that you are gorged at this very moment!

The Challenge for Thursday Augus 27th

I can only hope that we will accomplish this culinary feat with the nine potential cooks that we will have present for this endeavor.

Shrimp in Coconut Milk! (Gasp it isn't French!)

So I decided that I would cook by my lonesome this weekend and try out a recipe for something that isn't quite so french. Since my dear friend Leigh is continually telling me of the joys of cooking with coconut milk I decided I needed a recipe to test it out! Shrimp is always a tasty options and I happened to stumble upon this recipe on Food&Wine's wessite, fate had once again stepped in and guided my food feet. OK not really i bought shrimp and coconut milk at the walrousmart and looked for a recipe to use for them. Inevitably I did not have all of the necessary spices so I had to sojourn out into the world again and acquire the needed supplies.

So after driving to the store and returning home so far the only time I said fuck was when I found a rather large grasshopper in the back seat of my car as I was vacuuming it out. Despite my best efforts I could not remove the insectoid invader from my backseat so I relinquished my control over those realms and focused on getting home without being attacked by any other bugs that might be hiding in my car. (I knew I shouldn't have left my car windows open despite the lovely weather.)

I managed barely to make it back to the house in one piece you cannot imagine how dangerous insects can be when in enclosed spaces with vulnerable gay men. It isn't a fair match I will tell you that much!

Back the the fucking food. So I arrived at my abode and unpacked my ingredients and prepped the required items (the onions garlic and spices) arranging everything in lovely bowls so they would be generally more photogenic than typical ingredients. You cannot imagine how much ingredients improve in appearance and flavor after just being put in an attractive bowl right before use! It is quite amazing try it out sometime! So after I prepped I fixed the rice to go with the meal I used vegetable stock instead of water for flavorful rice. Because I am a schmuck I cannot cook rice on a stove top because of this I have to use my dangerously dirty microwave to cook the rice and I have had great luck with that the rice generally comes out quite perfect.

I believe it took about 20 minutes to cook because that is how long the rice takes to cook and I was finished with the shrimp at around the same time as the rice. I was quite pleased with the result it was a very flavorful dish and I had to say a few expletives because it was just so good! I urge you whomever you are to try it try it for all the little people out there who cannot eat shrimp eat it and tell them how delicious it was and make them cry because they cannot have any! I will leave you with a photo of the finished product happy cooking and don't fuck around in the kitchen unless you have put away all the knives cuts in your groin and buttock region are painful!

The Anticipation Rises

Or not...

As someone who fails to get worked up until the last possible moment. I cannot say that I am excited about our upcoming cooking excursion on the twenty-seventh a week from today. I look forward with moderate anticipation and mayhap a bit of anxiety as we are expecting a substantially larger crowd than the group of four we had for our premier dinner. Though I style myself as an extrovert I am secretly and quite deviously introverted, which can be problematic when faced with larger groups of people with which I am not familiar. However, I plan on putting on my big boy super man underwear and toughing it out. As many great chefs have said at one time or another in one way or another. BE FEARLESS! Which is exactly what I aim to do. I hope to have the menu typed and posted over the weekend or the first part of next week. We will be selecting recipes once again from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which has proved to be a gem. I hope that we will be able to exciting your culinary imaginations as well as slip in a few f bombs along the way. Either way it will be a good time had by all, by all means and any means whatever the COST! (I apologize for this run on paragraph I have no sense of grammatical correctness and frankly don't give a damned dirty rats ass.)[There I said it]
{Oh and by the by there may be a few run on sentences as well please ignore those as well.} And some spellin at that!

Sauté de Boeuf à La Parisienne

Well we did it the evening was a success in under 2 1/2 hours we cooked a delicous french meal. We discovered that knowing when the butter's foam was subsiding was not quite as easy as was stated in the directions, but we figured it out anyways! (With minimal cursing at that!) I believe that the Fuck word was only used about a dozen times and the Goddamn word was used about half as frequently.

I was worried that four people in my tiny kitchen would be too many, but I discovered that while it might make it a little cramped during the cooking it makes for a quick and easy cleanup (which is the way I like it!).

The meat was delectable and the potatoes tasted like butter! Literally! They were very delicous and very fattening, I can actually feel my ass growing as I sit here and write this. Ah well such is life and I would rather die a dumpling than a dried up washed out prune. Besides I can always go induce vomitting at a later date if need be. I say that knowing full well that I don't have the dicipline for such gestures.

Any hoo I am enclosing a few pictures for your enjoyment hope they look as tasty as the dishes actually were!

Menu for Tomorrow

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Let the cooking Mayhem begin!