First stab at a work in progress.

ingredients:

• 1.5 lb ground beef
• 1 giant sierra nevada
• 2 onions
• Garlic
• 3 stalks of celery
• 1 Red bell pepper
• 1 fresh japaleno
• 4 anaheim chilis
• 1 can kidney beans
• 1 can black beans
• 1 27 oz can of whole tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato sauce
• Cumin
• Salt
• Chili Powder
• Celery salt

1. Saute onions for several minutes
2. Add ground beef and garlic and saute….
3. Separately saute fresh jalapeno, red bell
4. Saute until nice… use celery salt to flavor
5. Combine the two pans
6. cook a bit longer and spice up with 1/4 cup chili powder and 1 tbsp cumin
7. Put in crock pot
8. Add  beans (drained and rinsed) tomato sauce and whole big can of tomatoes crushing them with hands as you add
9. Roast Anaheims, peel skin… chop and add
10. Add half of giant beer (or a whole regular beer)
11. cook for 6 hrs… lets see what happens

Ingredients:

• 1 pound filet mignon or mignon tips (cut into 2 inch long and 1/4 inch wide)
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 pound mushrooms, caps only thinly sliced
• 3/4 cup beef broth
• 1 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 3/4+ cup sour cream
• 2+ teaspoons flour (eyeball it)
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh dill
• 2 tablespoons minced parsley
• Salt and freshly grounded black pepper
• A couple shots of Sherry or dry vermouth
• 2 cloves garlic
• 8 -10 ounces medium egg noodles, cooked al dente

1. Heat large non-stick skillet over high heat and sear meat on all sides, for about a minute. Work in small batches so meat does not give off liquid. Do not use oil etc. Remove to a plate.
2. Cool the meat skillet slightly and deglaze it w a couple shots of sherry or dry vermouth to bring up all the love.
3. Add butter to meat love skillet, stir it up. Add onions and sauté, after a bit add mushrooms and garlic and sauté until deep golden, about 15 minutes or longer.
4. While this is all going on blend broth, mustard, heavy whipping cream and sour cream in a separate saucepan and bring to simmer.
5. Lower heat, add flour and cook stirring for a minute to thicken
6. Whisk the gravy and any meat juices slowly into the veggie pan, simmer, without boiling until sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.
7. Add meat to sauce and heat, without boiling until meat is warmed through. Season to taste with salt and pepper; stir in dill and parsley and spoon over noodles.

Do’s: make extra sauce

Don’ts: overcook meat

Grilled Red Snapper and Mango with Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette

6 tablespoons olive oil (1/2 lime oil and 1/2 reg)

5 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro

3 tablespoons fresh lime juice

1 1/2 teaspoons grated lime peel

4 5- to 6-ounce red snapper fillets

1 large mango, peeled, cut into thick wedges

3/4 teaspoon cumin seeds

8 large buttercup lettuce leaves

Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Whisk oil, 4 tablespoons cilantro, lime juice, and lime peel in small bowl. Season vinaigrette with salt and pepper. Brush all sides of fish and mango with some of vinaigrette. Reserve remaining vinaigrette. Sprinkle fish and mango with salt, pepper, and cumin seeds. Grill fish without turning until fish is just opaque in center and mango is soft and beginning to brown, about 6 minutes.

Top lettuce cups with fish and mango. Drizzle with remaining vinaigrette. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro.

This breaks out in 6 very distinct phases.

1. Meat preparation
2. Chile preparation
3. Husk preparation
4. Masa preparation
5. Production
6. Cooking

Brisket:

Ingredients:

1. 4 heads of garlic
2. Large crab pot
3. 22 lbs of Brisket w fat remaining
4. Ladle of salt

Brisket Prep:

1. Cut the brisket into baseball size chunks
2. Add brisket and garlic to crab pot in garage or outside
3. Add cold water to the crab pot to 3/4 full
4. Bring to a boil and add salt
5. Once boiling, skim the yukkiness repeatedly as it comes to the surface, this will go on for 10-15 minutes until the foam becomes less murky
6. Boil on high for 15 minutes
7. Reduce heat and boil for another hour and 45
8. Take out of water and shred by hand while still hot (forks)
9. Set aside

Chile prep:

Ingredients

1. 1 lb new mexico dried chile peppers
2. 20% of broth from the brisket (u will use the other 80% for the masa)
3. Lard
4. Flour

Process (epic)

1. While someone is hand shredding the beef, clean the chile peppers by rinsing and taking the tops off. Keep the seeds etc inside.
2. Remove about 80% of the broth from the large crab pot.
3. Bring broth in crab pot to a boil again (it was off)
4. Once broth is boiling, stir all of the whole cleaned chile’s into the crab pot broth.
5. Cover
6. Boil on high covered for 5+ minutes
7. Turn off and let sit in covered hot crab pot for 15 minutes
8. Ladle the cooked chili out into a separate large pot.
9. Using a blender, blend the chile and some of the broth to the consistency of canned tomato sauce. Blend it all and set aside.
10. Now to fry the chile sauce. Put a large ladle of lard in a very large pan, (we used electric roaster oven) add a half ladle of flour… yeah are you fukin kidding me. It keeps getting better.
11. Separately heat the spicy broth (see pic for amt)
12. Once the lard and flour are combined and hot, add chile sauce and fry. (we are frying the chile sauce so that it binds better with the brisket)
13. Add the spicy broth into the chile sauce you are frying to make it into a consistency between whole milk and half n half.
14. At ideal consistency, bring to a slight simmer and start to add the brisket. Add broth and chile as necessary based on volume so that its all coated perfectly.
15. Simmer for a while to bring the flavors into the meat, 10-15 while stirring
16. Side note: fresh chile doesnt make your tamales (or anything) too red
17. Set aside overnight for tomorrow we make the tamales.

Prepping the husks:

Choose high quality husks that are not too dry.

1. Separate the larger usable husks from the chaffe.
2. Clean the husks and separate into piles. Bad, good small and good large. Good large is what you want to use. The good small pile is for doubling up for a single tamale.
3. Soak the husks for 20-30 minutes in warm or hot water. This softens them
4. Drip dry them, they will not be totally dry.. on purpose.

A simple way to season and serve grilled sea bass. We used the leaner local stuff, not the super oily chilean stuff.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• lemon pepper to taste
• sea salt to taste
• 1.5 – 2 pounds sea bass
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 large cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 tablespoon finely chopped Italian flat leaf parsley

Process:

1. Mix the spices in a bowl and spread evenly over towel dried sea bass
2. Grill the sea bass on a very hot, well oiled grill for approx 6 mins each side.
3. While grilling, melt the butter in w the chopped parsley and garlic over very low heat
   1. When butter is finished, hit it w a little kosher salt.
4. Spoon butter over seabass on served plates.

Do’s: WIP..not sure yet

Dont’s: WIP..not sure yet

We found this very simple recipe and it worked like a charm. 

1. To prepare lobster tails for grilling: Using kitchen shears, cut the top membrane off the lobster tails and discard. 
2. Partially loosen the meat from the shell, leaving the end of the tail attached. 
3. Gently lift the loosened tail meat up and rest just on top of the shell. Brush tails with melted butter with an herb infusion, we use fresh thyme, lots of it.
4. When the grill is ready, arrange the tails shell side down and cook 6-8 minutes. 
5. Turn tails over so the meat side is on the grill and continue to cook 2-4 minutes until the meat is cooked through. Serve with a touch melted herb butter and fresh lemon. 

 

Dont: add butter before turning flesh down, causes burning

Do: use a lot of herbs in butter, the lobster is basically roasting in the butter