Scallops in Coconut Cream Sauce

It's been light posting for a while, but I'm taking vacation and I'm going to get caught up a little.

This recipe takes advantage of coconut cream to make a spicy sauce.

the rest is pretty straight forward veggies cooked in coconut oil.

Ingredient list:

Scallops - 5 large (huge?)
coconut cream
turmeric
ginger
cayenne
japanese sweet potato
purple potato
swiss chard
yellow squash


The scallops were broiled - 450 for about 12 minutes

Here's the cream sauce - about 1/4 cup of coconut cream.  Lots of spices.  Warmed it up and mixed it for about 2 minutes on low heat.

Veggies

Scallops

On the plate

Massive Pot Roast

Here we go.  This is another in the pot roast series.  While the slow cooker is very handy, pot roast takes half the time and is just as tasty.

This week started with 2 strips of bacon and 1/2 of a red onion in the bottom of the pot.  Additional ingredients:

Golden Beet
Japanese Sweet potato
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Kale
Coconut milk
Tomato sauce
1 3/4 lb grass feed beef shoulder roast
black pepper
turmeric (do you say tuR mer ic   or Tu mer ic ???  I prefer the former, but maybe I'm wrong)
cayenne


Photo sequence:

Part 1:  Imagine the bacon and onions

The rest:

Veggie Layer

Add 1 cup coconut milk and a nice chunk of grass fed beef

Coated with Turmeric and Cayenne

Ready for the oven - 325 for about 3 hours

The Perfect Steak

All these years I have been grilling steak and not getting very good results.  Grass fed beef often ends up tough rather than tender.  Luckily, I just bought Tim Ferriss's book - The Four Hour Chef.  Highly recommended!

Here are the basics to making a perfect steak:

• Warm it up - at least room temperature, or preheat in the oven (you'll soon see)
• Sear it on both sides on the grill (2 - 3 minutes)
• Put it back in the oven at about 250F and then cook slowly for about 20 - 25 minutes.  Check it with a meat thermometer.

And... there you have it, the perfect steak.  If you've been making it any other way, I suggest trying this method and seeing how it works.  Tasty!

Step by step

Warm at 200 degrees for about 10 minutes on a baking rack in the oven

Grass fed strip steak... you can see it is just a little cooked

After the grill - back to the oven at 250.  Check the temp after 15 minutes.

Seared, still cool in the middle

Interior temp of about 125F

Perfect medium rare - with a huge pile of veggies

Lamb Steak, Veggies, Curry

Here's another leftover recipe.  I grilled 2 lamb steaks and needed to reheat this one.  Same basic formula of meat, veggies, and ghee.  Added a bunch of curry and cayenne pepper to spice this one up.

Leftover Turkey

This is another quick one.  Perhaps you're overloaded with turkey after Thanksgiving?

Turkey

Japanese Sweet Potato

shallot

broccoli

yellow squash

asparagus

1 strip of bacon

cooked in ghee

This Week's Gruel - Pork Shoulder Stew

This weeks gruel is a bone-in pork shoulder roast from Frolona Farm.  I've buying both ground beef and pork from them for a few weeks at the East Atlanta Village Farmer's Market on Thursday afternoons.  Very tasty.

Ingredients:
2 lb bone in pork shoulder roast
tomato sauce
cauliflower
cippolini onion
purple potato
yellow squash
carrot
mustard greens

Okay, so here we go on the photo sequence:

Turmeric, black pepper, and cayenne for spices

Patient kitchen helper:  Got any plans for that bone?