Archive for the ‘Grillin'’ Category

So I have a bunch of wooden chairs from Ikea that I bough for my patio table. They never took the weather that well and a few of them are now falling apart.  My backyard also has a bunch of fallen branches that had yet to be cleared out.  Why provide such background details?  Well..

Friday night while waiting for some friends to come over to the house, my good buddy and I were sitting in my backyard drinking crappy beers (Natie light) and catching up on the week’s debauchery.  Friends were delayed, we got bored, and somehow or another, we started a chair throwing contest (I won after 5 competive rounds) with some of the older chairs.  This somehow devolved into us collecting the fallen branches and piling them on one of the wooden chairs so we could light it on fire.  We honestly weren’t even that drunk.  The few nips of scotch before hand doesn’t count.  This would probably have happened stone sober.  AS you know damn well it would have!

Why am I posting about this?  Well, once the fire got going we decided to cook some sausages on metal hangers which in my mind qualifies this story as relavent to food blogging.  You’re welcome.

I’ve long since given up on predicting DC weather.  On my way to work yesterday it was snowing.  Lunch it was cold and raining.  Going home it was warm.  Sooo, grill out?  Yup, grill out.  I’ve been itching to play with our underused gas grill for a while now, so I’ll take the excuse.  Pork, starch, and open flames is a really fucking beautiful thing.  This dish isn’t too involved either.  The marinade is good to go after 15 minutes and the veg and yams just need a coat.  Easy, slam dunk and ready by Top Chef.

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Yeah, fuck it.  I’ve been working on this fucking site for over a month and I’m sick of dicking around.  Awesome episode of top chef and nothing but good company.  Fuck it.  I thought it would be a good night for something, and it’s too damn nice in DC to not be grilling.  Here’s the meal.  Enjoy.  We loved it.

All I could think about was pork walking home so after a quick call to a friend i picked up a some pork loin (both sliced and whole) and a bit of mustard.  Green beans were easy and there i was, home after 10 minutes ready to throw my gnocchi in with the dish.

Spice rub of (SC spices) with a generous helping of cayenne pepper and Chinese five spice.  After a mustard rub and a rub of the spices a touch of olive oil and were off.  2o minutes after the rub on the grill four ways and on the plate with g nocchi and greenbeans.

Greanbeans was in deep pan with cup of chicken stock and extra salt/pepper.  A 1/2 lbs. of greenbeans laid out and 2o minutes later we’re good.

Gnocchi is a whole other story…