• Transcontinental BBQ

    by emily • April 27, 2009 • San Francisco, vinaigrette/marinade • 0 Comments

    Its good to hear it is finally warm enough to go to the beach in New England!

    Yesterday Billy and myself attended our community Pot Luck, where all of the eccentric adults who live in our building show off their bbq-ing skills. It is a time to meet your neighbors, drink, and eat good food. There is, however, and underlying tone of competition among the grillers. Below is what I brought to the table!

    Veggie skewers

    Marinade
    3 tons* minced fresh ginger
    2 tons minced fresh garlic
    1/2 cup Korean Chili sauce Sriracha
    4 T mustard of your liking
    4T Hoison Sauce (although plain soy would be good too)
    Enough grapeseed oil** to cover the veggies and thin out the sauce
    Red wine vinegar- I also think Balsamic or rice wine vinegar would work
    Salt, and pepper

    Veggies!
    Green Pepper
    Red Pepper
    Eggplant- Cubed with skin left on
    Mushrooms- any and all the mushrooms soak up the marinade the best!
    Onions

    On some of the skewers I put shrimpies, but I didn’t marinade them with this-just the traditional S&P.

    I let the veggies marinade almost 24 hours, and it was worth it! The chili sauce was grabbed up by both the eggplant and the mushrooms. But the sweetness of the mustard and hoison made the peppers delicious too!

    *as per hollys instructions. However, here I felt there needed to be some specification as to how much garlic/ginger we are talking about
    **which I have switched to for most occasions unless of course the olive oil is the star of the show!

    About emily

    The Story of Miz Emily

    Told by VBar

    Miz Emily, crow extraordinaire, hails originally from Connecticut and moved to Boston for college in 2004. She and Vbar met their first semester freshman year at Northeastern University and bonded immediately over their love of fresh food, the middle east and the likelihood that they will never get decently paying jobs. In the proceeding years, Emily lived first in the Mission Hill area of Boston before moving out to Jamaica Plain to roost. In the summer of 2008 Emily migrated west to San Francisco she still lives with her man Billy. Emily loves global travel and has spent time backpacking around Europe as well as in Turkey and Brazil.

    Emily’s cooking style can be described as clean, natural and adventurous. Never one to back down from a challenge, can-not-do is not a phrase in her pantry. A master of substitutions, she rarely follows a recipe exactly, often with deliciously innovative results.  Always one to be inspired by her surroundings, she enjoys shopping for new and inexpensive ingredients in farmers markets and ethnocentric neighborhoods, in particular Chinatown. Emily’s meals are strongly tied to the seasons particularly since she is lucky enough to have access to fresh California produce. Emily’s strong caw and yummy mowables make her a truly upstanding west-coast representative for the Crows.

    http://crowsinthekitchen.com

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