On to our menu:
- Grilled Corn - As per my usual, I like to grill the corn in their husk, so it more or less steams inside. As usual it turned out great, if I do say so myself. I had pinned a recipe for Siracha Street corn recently and thought, now was as good of a time as any to try it out. It turns out I'm not really a fan. While I really like spicy and Siracha sauce, I'm more of a sweet corn purist - I like to taste the flavor of the corn.
- Grilled Radicchio - I'm never quite sure what to do with radicchio, but I had seen several recipes for the grilled variety in past internet searches, so I thought I would try it tonight. The only thing I left out from the recipe was the orange peel, as I didn't have any; also I used Parmesan cheese instead of Romano. I didn't really miss the orange, though I probably could have grilled/cooked the quarters a bit longer. Overall I thought all the flavors were excellent - the radicchio was a little bitter, which was cut by the spicy balsamic marinade.
- Baked beans - well these came out of a can and were prepared on the stove, but I thought they went well with everything, and Ebon likes them :)
- Veggie Italian sausages and grilled onions - I like the Tofurkey brand and the onions were sprayed with olive oil and cooked on top of a foil sheet on the grill - Yum for carmelization.
- Potato Salad - I didn't really have a recipe, I just kind of threw some things together. I boiled some new potatoes - either cut in half or whole depending on their size. When they were tender, I stopped cooking, drained and let them cool for about 20 min (this is where I was doing the preparations of other things above). When they were cool, I cut them into bite-sized chunks. The dressing was a dip that I prepared a few days earlier -
~2 tablespoons fresh dill
~1 teaspoon salt
~1/2 teaspoon pepper
~1-2 tablespoons of olive oil
couple pinches of sugar
I mixed the dressing portion together and poured over the potato chunks and mixed everything to coat.
This was a very filling meal, and it would have been much better to have more than just two people to help eat this one!
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