This is a little trendy but I roasted a whole head of cauliflower. I saw it in a magazine and let's face it, cauliflower is really good but it's really hard to get excited about it. This works! A spritz of oil, s&p and that's it. Roast.
I grilled my marinated chicken breast strips on my new Emeril Lagasse Grill pan. It took me a minute to remember how to season it. I'll never forget when I went to visit my folks in Tucson. It was all going well. My dad made us a nice big breakfast so I washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen. I scrubbed his cast iron pans clean and left them stacked together in the oven, dry. That night he pulled them out to make dinner and all I heard was a loud run-on sentence of curse words in Spanish that had my name on the end of it. This was a very familiar sound from my childhood but not something you want to hear when you're visiting as an adult. I made a point not to learn the translations of his rants lest I get my feelings hurt. But it would be hard not to notice words like stupid, pain in the ass, that sort of thing. I didn't know you had to rub a bit of oil on the pans after cleaning or they'd rust right away.
You'd think you'd never forget a lesson like that but ironically I did the exact same thing with this new pan the first time out. Some people just don't learn good.
