Now For The Fail - Corned Beef Champ

So a big bowl of red skin mash, not yet seasoned, a hunk of corned beef, not yet sliced, cabbage which Storm will not touch and some bacon that needed to be fried. Let the craziness ensue.

I decided to slice up all the beef nice and thin for sandwiches, we had some Russian Rye and Thousand Island ready for sammies. I had a bit of a stub from the end lying on the cutting board as I started frying up the bacon. I was thinking I would add some bacon to the red skin mash.

Originally I had intended to do some traditional champ of potatoes and cabbage to try and sneak the cabbage into Storm's meal. Figured it might be helped by sauteing the cabbage in bacon grease. Are you feeling it yet?

So I started heating up some potatoes for myself, seasoned salt and pepper, butter, added in some of the bacon / cabbage mixture, threw on some cheddar cheese, well cause it was there, and threw in the little stub of left over corned beef (chopped up) and presto...

Corned Beef Champ. The fail? I failed to make enough.

This Week In Fail

So the past couple weeks there was little happening because of the cold weather. No Q's happened and very little happened in the kitchen per se. Now with the weather turning to the eighties, we are going into full swing in the food department.

Saturday we went easy with some chicken wings and jalapeno & sweet pepper poppers (wrapped in bacon, of course). It was a nice little dinner for a really beautiful Saturday night, that was perfect for grilling and drinking beer.

Sunday we had some jumbo 12 count shrimp and small strip steak to feast upon. Decided not to grill because the neighbors were being too loud and annoying. Also because I was busy finishing off the corned beef that was going to comprise most of the meals this week.

I pulled the corned beef and potatoes out about 730 last night, let the meat sit and quick mashed the potatoes. Let everything cool and put it away for later consumption.

Weekend Grilling

We had a full weekend of grilling, some chicken, steak, shrimp. Tried a few recipe variations, improved on some other old favorites, on to the menus.

Not much in the way of failure, cleaned the grill up on Saturday, but still had some flare ups. The chicken on Sat was pretty juicy so it kept sparking the fire even before the chicken was sauced. The chicken turned out very nice, we used some Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet Vidalia Onion BBQ sauce, some caesar salad.

We also had some nice jalapeno poppers going, cooked them a good hour and they were really nice. Been checking out a nice little website (nice for products and information, not so much for the 1990's design), irondesert.com .

I had also marinated a steak on Saturday, but did not get around to grilling it until Sunday. Got a pound of shrimp to go with it, and we did some surf and turf. Added some grilled mushrooms, garlic bread and another caesar salad and we had quite a full plate.

Was pretty happy with how everything turned out, good weekend.