This is a tasty kabob, the good thing about kabobs is that you can interchange meat and vegetables to your individual tastes, or what is available to you. Create and play with different food items.
California Kabob
1oz. - Chicken Breast (cut into 1 1/2″ cubes)
1oz. - Beef tenderloin (cut into 2″ cubes)
1oz. – Red Onions (cut into 2″ cubes)
1oz. [...]
Meat Recipes
This is a simple marinade that adds a lot of flavor.
Marinated Pork Chops
1Oz. – Garlic chopped
3Cups – Olive oil
3Oz. – Rosemary, Thym, Oreagno chopped (MIX)
Pinch ea. – Salt & Black pepper
marinates 6 chops
Procedure: mix all ingredients together and pour over Pork Chops and refrigerate for up to four hours, turning them over at half [...]
Made a quick meat rub the other night when we where having a piece of flatiron steak cooked on the grill. It”s quick, easy and really adds a bang to the flavor of the steak that I did not have all day to marinade. Could also be used on a steak for a salad.
2ea. tbls.- [...]
My wife was craving lasagna so I thought I would oblige her and make it, of coarse I love it too, and it is one of my favorite Italian dishes to make.
I would have to make as many as 15 full size hotel pans of lasagna in a day where I use to work, some [...]
Espagnole is a classic brown sauce, typically made from brown stock, mirepoix, and tomato product, and thickened with roux. This is one of the five mother sauces.
Espagnole sauce
1 carrot, coarsely chopped
1 medium onion
1 celery rib coarsely chopped
3/4 stick of unsalted butter
1/2 cup all purpose flour
4 cups of hot beef stock
¼ cup canned tomato paste
2 large [...]
I made Italian style meatballs the other night. When I was browning them off in olive oil, and the house filled with this great aroma. All these memories came rushing back to me when my mother use to make meatballs. Browning them off in her cast iron skillet. We (my brothers and sisters) would sneak [...]
This is a recipe I used back in the 80’s, to put on top of a Fillet Mignon. Nice creamy texture with lots of flavor.
You can also put one in the center of a salad.
Blue cheese flan
1/4cup – Butter
1/2lb. – Blue cheese crumbled
2lbs. – Cream cheese softened
6ea. – Eggs
2ea. – Egg yolks
2 3/4cups – sour [...]
The Flat Iron Steak is a cut of steak from the shoulder of a steer,well marbled, flavorful and tender. This cut of beef can be a little costly because you only get four pieces per steer, that’s why you don’t usually see it displayed. But it’s well worth the price.
Grilled Flat Iron Steak Salad
5oz. – [...]

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