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BBQ , Grilling

Nail Shop Eats- Vietnamese Chicken Cabbage Salad Competition

August 22, 2010
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 Delicious Vietnam is a monthly blogging event celebrating the love and diversity of Vietnamese cuisine.  Delicious Vietnam was  founded by Anh of Food Lovers Journey and Hong and Kim of Ravenous Couple.

I’m joining in on this month’s festivities and sharing my Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe. If you love Vietnamese food and have a great recipe post to share, please join the community!


My Mother has acquired an unprecedented fan base here on our blog since I started writing about her Nail Shop Eats escapades and she…

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BBQ Chicken & Corn Pizza – Summer Fest

August 3, 2010
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Summer Fest is in full swing and  the theme for this week is corn, lovely sweet corn. To participate, read more about Summer Fest on Away To Garden from Margaret then come join the community!  Catch up on  last week’s theme on the bounty of Cukes N Zukes.

As a kid, I wasn’t particularly picky, but I had my likes and dislikes. We were lucky to grow up in a farming valley and during summertime there were the little farm stands filled with amazing freshly picked fruits and vegetables, not to mention ours and our neighbors’ gardens.  There…

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Citrus Tequila Shrimp Skewers – Good Bite Video

August 3, 2010
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There are few things which declare California summers like grilled shrimp and tequilla. Usually in separate moments, or side by side… Margarita anyone?!  However in an instant of lazy brilliance, we combined the two to form an intoxicating bit of deliciousness.

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Mango Salsa Recipe & Garden Roses Haircut

May 31, 2010
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As promised, “Voila!” the mango salsa recipe that toppled over our teriyaki burger post a few days ago. And we’re thrilled that we actually wrote about it, as promised, considering how behind we’ve been on everything else! The office is a mess, the bathrooms need cleaning and we have 2 other projects behind schedule, but at least we wrote out the mango salsa recipe!

The feeling of accomplishment is sincerely overwhelming.

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Teriyaki Burgers w/Homemade Teriyaki Sauce – Think outside the bottle

May 28, 2010
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A while back, we were lamenting about how overly sweet and artificial some bottled teriyaki sauces were. With the exception of one that we liked on our teriyaki burgers, most were too sugary. Fake tasting. Processed. Yuck.

With the grilling season underway, we wanted some teriyaki variety to our bbq menu and it was always a struggle to search for a bottle that didn’t look like a goop of sugary, sticky brown blue. We needed to think outside the bottle and needed to be quick about it because guests were coming over in…

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Grilled Prawns with a Citrus Garlic Butter -Al fresco Inspiration

April 18, 2010
Grilled Prawns Garlic Butter

A rare day off, the sun was out, and the air springtime warm. A day peacefully spent meddling about in the garden, harvesting the last of the sugar snap peas and planting tomatoes and veggies in their stead, throwing in the occasional play session with the dogs. Video it and soundtrack in some music, and it becomes one of the moments to be shown at a birthday or funeral which evoke the crowd’s tears reminding how great life can be.

Extra crunchy charred prawn eyeballs. Oh yeah!

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Sriracha Chicken Wings – Perfect party food for New Year’s or any Eve

December 28, 2009
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All right folks, hold on tight because you’re going to be blown away at how amazing these sriracha chicken wings are. If you’re a lover of Sriracha hot sauce, or any sriracha brand of hot sauce for that matter, these chicken wings will fly off your platter. The first test batch of these sriracha chicken wings almost disappeared within seconds of coming out of the oven. We literally inhaled eight of these chicken wings in 3 minutes  because the sriracha sauce was so good. So good. So finger-licking-good.

Sriracha…

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Grilled pork chops w/Apple-Cranberry Maple Glaze —Kingsford University

December 7, 2009
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Having the opportunity to spend three days in Sonoma wine country is thrilling enough, but to go there and experience grilling classes under the direction of Kingsford University and wrapped up in the hospitality of Seghesio Family Vineyards left us pinching ourselves to check if we were dreaming or not.

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The Ultimate Umami Burger

August 6, 2009
Umami Burger

For the longest time, we’ve been making the best darn hamburger on the face of this earth (insert personal bias.) We’ve never had a specific name for the recipe until someone tagged it as the “magic meat”, but not as in “mystery meat” or “I can’t tell if this is chicken or beef.” Rather, it was to describe the magical flavor sensations that everyone experienced when they bit into one of our patties. That “magic meat” term  described the juicy, flavorful and savory burger patty that everyone fought over. Sometimes the buns were tossed…

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Iron Chef Bloggers in Asheville, NC and Cherry Sauce Recipe

July 6, 2009
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“Let the battle begin!”

It definitely felt like a war during our first full day on the East Coast en route to the Asheville, NC blogger bash.  I won’t divulge into the details about our horrendous experience with !&*%#! Delta Airlines, but what I will say is THANK GOODNESS for the amazing Asheville hospitality and passionate food folks that saved me from sending a three page letter to Delta. I became this (pinching my fingers together) close to going postal on Delta’s terrible infrastructure. Luckily, it was the warmth of Sheridan and…

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Homemade Tomato Ketchup w/Fresh Tomatoes – Hello Summer!

July 3, 2009
Fresh Tomato Ketchup

“Three tomatoes were walking down the street. Papa tomato, Mama tomato and Baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. And Papa tomato gets really angry, goes back and squishes him and says, ‘Ketchup.’”- Uma Thurman, from the movie Pulp Fiction.

This is a hilarious joke from one of my favorite movies of all time. If you’re not laughing, then you’re a deadbeat. I’ll squish you too!

How can we NOT try our hands at homemade tomato ketchup? I don’t know about you guys, but I have a garden of tomatoes…

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Roasted Eggplant with Mint – Perfect Summer Picnics

June 29, 2009
Roasted Eggplant with Mint

Diane has been all atwitter about how much she loves that summer is here.  The air is getting warm and sweet and the garden is filling out it’s summer foliage.  We’ve even had the annual June bugs absent mindlessly flying into the house to die a day later.  Summer is definitely here and it’s the perfect picnic season. It’s time to lounge on the beach, in a park or anywhere outdoors to enjoy a simple meal that highlights perfect, summer produce.

One of our first summer veggies (ok, technically it is a fruit)…

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Good Bite- Internet Food Show featuring Food bloggers

June 22, 2009
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The “secret” is finally out! There’s been a mean tease of secrets and a string of underground comments over Twitter about a super secret project involving some food bloggers. For those of you who are on the edge of your seat, wait no longer. Believe us, it’s been hard for everyone involved in the show to try to keep our MOUTHS SHUT! But since we all signed a small, legal, binding contract called a Non-Disclosure Agreement, that was enough to seal the deal and put a big piece of duct tape over our mouths.…

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