Posts Tagged ‘recipes’

Do You Know Anyone Who Hates Having A Bbq?

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

It’s so much more sociable than other methods. you will love the following recipe I have for you. Each step follows another. It’s easy enough to do.

Let’s not hang about. We’ve got something good to enjoy here. One of my favourites today, portugese style bbq sardines. Obviously we’re going to need some sardines to begin with.Weber Q 100 Try to get the largest ones you can. Atleast the length of your hand.

You’ll probably need 2-3 per person. Depending on how much the eat. The only thing to do with them is have them gutted.

Leave their tails and head on and in tact. Can you gut a fish like this yourself?

If not some come already prepared or ask your fishmonger. Ok, now give them a good wash under a running tap.

You can take a few of the rib bones out at this point. Now it’s seasoning time. This parts great! Give them a light coat of olive oil. Really light!

Now take some Rock salt and give them a good rubbing over with it. Put some inside as well, a nice pinch of it. You cn also add other things if you wish at this stage.

Some people add garlic inside or even olives. Personally I leave it just the way it is now. Weber Q 100 BBQWe just need to cook them off on the barbecue now.

Make sure you turn them so it’s evenly cooked. Ensure it’s cooked through, espeically the inner flesh. The scales will crisp up and looked scrumptious.Weber Q 100 Review They don’t take long usually 10 minutes depending on the heat.

Now take them and plate them up. Almost ready to serve. Now squirt lemon juice over the outside of the fish.

Truly delicious. Give them a go yourself.

Do You Trust The Recipes You Find Online?

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

If you are looking for some recipes to help spice up your meals in the evening then the internet is the first place I would look. There are so many different recipes online for everything you can imagine, there are simple desserts you can make like this recipe here for lemon treats or more complex ones for complete meals like these chicken pot pies. There are two problems with finding recipes online though, first of all you have no idea if you can trust the recipe or not so you don’t know what it will taste like or turn out like, and second there is no way to tell how complicated a recipe will be as you search.

That first issue is a tricky one, really you can’t know if the recipe is going to work or not until you have actually tried it. Although if the recipe is popular then there is usually a section on these sites for comments, which means you will be able to read what other people think of the recipe, how it turned out for them and any tweaks that they had to make to get the recipe to work etc. Really what you should do is print off a few different recipes and then spend a Saturday making them all to see how they go. Then just keep the meals which were a success and eat them straightaway, or freeze them to use later, and then any that didn’t work well you can just throw away. It is a lot of hard work at first, but afterwards you will have your own collection of recipes you know you can turn to whenever you need to make something tasty.

Trying to filter out recipes which don’t take hours to make is just about doing a little digging. The best way is to find a website that has a category for quick recipes, or some tell you ones which take 20 minutes or less etc, and then you can click through and they have all been sorted for you, if you don’t have that option then instead you need to look at the amount of steps it has to see how long you think it would take. Make sure there aren’t too many steps, and preferably avoid anything that asks you to leave the meat to marinate as that wastes a lot of time, also avoid recipes with a big long list of ingredients as you are going to have to prepare and use all of that so you know it will take a long time.

Probably the biggest and most popular recipe site right now is AllRecipes.com which has thousands of different recipes for you to choose from. The category system is a bit confusing at times, but they filter out the top rated recipes so in a couple of clicks you can have access to them and that is a great place to start. This might all sound like a lot of hassle but don’t forget these recipes are free so you can’t complain if you have to spend an hour sorting through them to find some suitable ones. You only have to do all this once though, when you have your own collection of recipes you like then you can stop searching and just use them to wow your partner and friends for years to come.