Friday, July 19, 2013

Our Summer with Santa Maria BBQ Grill


Our Santa Maria BBQ Grill works so hard in the summer time. We enjoy grilling and eating in our patio so often during the summer.

These are from our past couple of dinners...

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Fourth of July dinner party. We did 4 racks of baby back ribs in 2 different flavors (homemade miso sauce, and apricot paprika) for a main course. I made many other dishes but I was too busy to take photos. Only one more picture, which is taken by a friend...my crab, white beans & avocado salad.

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Grilled fish night. Appetizers included poke made with fresh ahi from Hawaii, herloom tomato marinade, baby potato & grilled asparagus salad, and roasted eggplant dip. Hew.

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The main course was Stripe Bass, which weighed 4 pounds! It was so fresh and so heavy. I stuffed its belly with mixed herbs and grilled both sides. It came out perfect!

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Side dishes were sautéed shishito peppers & shimeji mushrooms over charcoal grill, and corn rice which was cooked with my double-lid donabe rice cooker, "Kamado-san". Dessert was homemade matcha honey ice cream.

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Leopard-look grilled branzino, the next day.
Non-stop grilling and donabe cooking this summer.