Blog #8: Recipe

Greek Garlic & Lemon Roasted Potatoes

• 3 lbs small red potatoes, scrubbed and cut in half
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 4 cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• Coarse salt, freshly ground pepper to taste
• 1 lemon cut in half
• 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
• 2 Tbsp fresh dill

Set up grill for indirect grilling (when charcoal is ready, either move it all to one side or to each side leaving ample room down the middle of your grill), or if using gas grill, heat to medium. Can also be roasted in oven at 350 degrees.

Place the potatoes in a roasting pan and toss with olive oil, garlic, bay leaves, oregano, salt, and pepper. Squeeze lemon juice over the potatoes, then place the rind halves on top. Set the roasting pan on the side of the grill that doesn't have any charcoal or in the middle if the coals are on either side of the grill. Cook potatoes with the grill covered until brown and tender, about 1 to 1 1/4 hours, stirring from time to time. Stir in the butter during last 10 minutes of cooking.

Remove lemon rinds and bay leaves. Taste for seasoning, adding salt and pepper, and serve.

Homemade Mac and Cheese!

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound elbow macaroni
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon powdered mustard
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 cup yellow onion, finely diced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1 large egg
• 12 ounces sharp cheddar, shredded
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• Fresh black pepper

Topping:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large pot of boiling, salted water cook the pasta to al dente.

While the pasta is cooking, in a separate pot, melt the butter. Whisk in the flour and mustard and keep it moving for about five minutes. Make sure it's free of lumps. Stir in the milk, onion, bay leaf, and paprika. Simmer for ten minutes and remove the bay leaf.

Temper in the egg. Stir in 3/4 of the cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Fold the macaroni into the mix and pour into a 2-quart casserole dish. Top with remaining cheese.

Melt the butter in a saute pan and toss the bread crumbs to coat. Top the macaroni with the bread crumbs. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and rest for five minutes before serving.

Remember to save leftovers for fried Macaroni and Cheese.

I Love Fried Chicken

BUTTERMILK-SOAKED FRIED CHICKEN
	Prep Time: 10 minutes Marinate Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Serves: 4
	BUTTERMILK-SOAKED FRIED CHICKEN Ingredients 1 1/2 cups cups buttermilk 3 teaspoons Lawry's® Seasoned Salt 2 1/2 to 3 pounds chicken, cut into serving pieces 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon Lawry's® Seasoned Pepper Vegetable oil for frying Directions 1. In large, resealable plastic bag, combine buttermilk with 1 teaspoon Lawry's® Seasoned Salt. Add chicken; turn to coat. Close bag and marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes. 2. Remove chicken from marinade, discarding marinade. In another large, resealable plastic bag, combine flour, remaining 1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt and pepper. Add chicken, one piece at a time, and shake to coat well. 3. Meanwhile, in deep 12-inch skillet, heat 1-inch oil to 365°. Add chicken and cook, turning twice, 25 minutes or until chicken is golden brown and thoroughly cooked. Drain on rack or paper towels.

pasta

2/3 cup Flour

1 egg

1 tsp oil

1/2 tsp salt

 mix with a little water, keep adding a little water till all sticks together, knead 10 min. let rise 10 min. then roll out with rolling pin slice thin. add to boiling water. takes a couple minutes to cook

Past & Present

Both of my parents have always been pretty good cooks, so growing up I got to eat a pretty good verity of good meals. However, its not the most fancy or expensive that stands out to me. The meal that I remember being the most excited for growing up was something my mom called Japanese Noodles. When I was a little kid I thought it was amazing! Still a good meal, now I can see how its made and what goes in to it. It turned out to just be top roman noodles and some chicken breast or left over steak thrown in and then some stir-fried veggies, a hard-boiled egg and some soy sauce.

Now that I have grown up, my tastes have expanded and I can cook for myself. It is funny that my previous favorite dish was something called Japanese noodles, because now I work in a japanese steakhouse as a hibachi chef. Now that my parents don't do all of my cooking for me, I have a new favorite Japanese dish that I can make. My favorite thing to make is the halibut, but it's not complete without the other parts to the meal, so I will just go through the entire meal. Starting with the fried rice that starts as just rice with some handashi butter pepper and diced veggies. Through that on the grill and add more butter, sesame seeds, diced green onions, then stir till rice is steaming. Then add our house mustard sauce and some soy sauce and mix until evenly dispersed and serve. Then throw on the veggies, consisting of zucchini, white onions, carrots and mushrooms. Mix them sparingly with butter and sesame seeds until charred nicely, then add some house ginger sauce and soy sauce. mix it together and serve as second course. Before the halibut goes on the grill, it must first be boned and butter-flied. Then dry off the fish and coat with corn starch. Then coat the grill with melted butter and set the halibut in the butter. Once it starts getting a nice crisp layer on the bottom, add some diced green onions to the top and flip the fillet over onto a new pool of butter for the other side. At this point, add fresh squeezed lemon, then let set for another minute until crisp on the other side. Last, add a little bit of soy sauce and then flip over for a final second of sear on the lemon/soy side.

It's funny how much my tastes have developed over the years. I think its cool that my favorite dishes have always been japanese oriented but have matured so much. I really love cooking, so its cool that I get to make this dish on a regular basis.

Credibility

The site that I found to be the most credible/reliable would have to be the tinyurl one. The reason I chose this one would be because it is a scholarly article that is written by an author with a PhD. The author has no reason to have a bias for or against genetically modified organisms. The article was written with intent to educate and not persuade in any way. It is a very clear article that is mostly up to date but not certainly. The order of the next two sites was much more difficult. Personally, I would not say that either of them are very reliable. If I had to put them in order, I would have to say that saynotogmos would be next reliable and in last place would be monsanto. The deciding factor for me on these two was the fact that monsanto is a .com vs. the .org. Although they both have a serious bias, monsanto is trying to sell their product. Marketing can really skew information to make it more appealing. Monsanto's website was created by people that work for monsanto and with the intent to make their product look as positive and appealing as possible to their potential clientele. They only mention the good things about genetically modified organisms without addressing that there are adverse affects from their product. Although the saynotogmos is not a .com and isn't trying to sell anything, I believe they really are trying to sell something. They aretrying to sell their idea. The page was created by volunteers in Texas. That tells us that just about anybody could have volunteered and written whatever they wanted on there. That doesn't come across as reliable to me. There is a clear message to stop GMO's, so it is clear what their intent is. Also it appears that they are targeting the general public which also concerns me. If they are just trying to get anybody to jump on the bandwagon, they might just say whatever it takes. I have never had any issues with eating genetically modified foods. I have been eating them unknowingly for as long as I remember. To my knowledge, I haven't suffered from any illnesses due to the genetically modified foods thus far, so why should I be concerned? I feel like any ill-affects that they may have, our bodies have adapted to and built a tolerance against them. The only reason I could come up with for the USA to not want to label the GMO's on foods, was just being afraid to change the status quo. Since the sticker has never been on products before, it will alarm people when they start seeing it on things. Being that our country is corporately run, they don't label them so that their sales won't suffer.

Lutz, C. Greg. "Genetically Modified Organisms: A Continuing Controversy." Aquaculture Magazine 27.4 (2001): 8. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 May 2010.

Which is best

When choosing a site to reference in your work there are many things that you have to look at. The who, what, when, where, how, and why are all determinates of reliability of the source. It is up to the individual to personally break down the source search for these determining factor, when doing so this leads to everyone having a different opinion on ranking the sources. When I personally compared these sites my primary focus on finding the most reliable was find which source had their information clearly stated (author, dates, contact info, etc.). Due to this criteria I gave myself when ranking these sources the order from best to worst would be, tinyurl.com/2f7kzr, http://www.monsanto.com/products/science.asp, and http://www.saynotogmos.org/.

The reason why I felt the tinyurl.com was the most reliable source was because tinyurl is the most

qualified when it comes to the determinates of how reliable something is. Everything is just placed

in front of you and is yours for the taking. It is an education based site, which primarily focuses on

getting accurate information out about their subject. While getting this info the fact that this article

was written in 2008 comes out which gives more of a validation. The currency may determine

validation because with data always changing, your references and sources always need to be

up to date it so it shows the most current findings. Another reason why tinyurl is the most reliable

is because all information is meet and if you cant find it there they have direct links to other

sites where you may find your answer.

The reason why I felt that saynotogmos.com was the least reliable source was because when looking

at it, it looks like a random person just threw this together. If i had the time I could of created

a more legitimate cite than this. Though this site has lots of information you have no type of

validation. No author, no references, I have no idea where their facts where taken from.

For all I know they could of made up all those facts. Also information that they do have is extremely

cluttered which makes things hard to read. With all these factors of reliability not meet plus more

I would recommend not using this site if researching for anything.