With Costco’s recent surplus of racks of lamb, we did that again. I must say 24 hours on marinade made a difference. Divine.

perfect dinner IMO....beautiful lamb, great sides. Nice job.

Oh thank you! Funny how important strangers’ validation becomes. But there it is.

corky, what have you got going in the kitchen this week? What will I want to make here? 😁

lol
It is always nice to have validation ...stranger or not. I posted last nights dinner of grilled salmon under the What's for dinner thread...had leftovers tonight and will again tomorrow even though i will be sick of it by then. The surprise of last night's dinner was the corn on the cob rolled in toasted panko..fun but needs some work. Maybe try rolling in crushed Cheetos next time. Lol
Either shrimp or lamb chops on deck...both in the freezer now. I am a girl who grills so that's my go to. I like to eat seasonal so will see.what's at the farmers market tomorrow . I usually go with the lamb chops because i kind of feel like the rack should be done in the oven but your photo is pretty inspiring .

That lamb looks perfectly cooked. It's 8 am here and now I want a lamb chop.

Reminded me of the tuna steaks I grilled last night. Even though she likes sushi, my wife likes her tuna steak cooked to medium, while I prefer just a seared outside. I got distracted by the dog (throwing his toy for him to fetch) and cooked them both to just a light pink inside. Stupid dog. I'm going to make him cook dinner tonight to make up for it.

LOL. It was so so good. Marinated overnight in mix of olive oil, squirt of balsamic glaze, garlic, rosemary. The outside was so nice and seared and crusty. Used a Meater to get internal temp to 120 then tented for about 5 minutes.

Since then, I've been really craving that Panera Asian Sesame salad / dressing. We grilled some chicken a few nights ago and had leftovers, plus some romaine, and some sliced honey almonds from TJs. So I found this copycat recipe for the dressing. It is SPOT ON. I have an irrational love of this dressing. (I know you can buy it in grocery stores but nowhere near me carries it.)
https://iowagirleats.com/panera-copycat-salad-recipe/

I did modify a little because when I "toasted" the sesame oil, it lost its nice sesame flavor. So I subbed more sesame oil for the canola oil at the end. I've made this salad 3x in the last 3 days. I need ideas of what else I can put this dressing on! Maybe marinade for some shrimp or something.

There really is no substitute for toasted sesame oil. Trader Joe carries it. It is usually in smaller bottles and is a deep golden color.--you don't need much. You can't really toast the oil as the toasted sesame oil is made from toasted sesame seeds.

Oooooo. Good tip! I will get some next time I'm at TJs. The sesame oil I have is very dark golden and purchased at an Asian food market. It's very flavorful. I sometimes put on big Cerignola olives with a dash of crushed red peppers.

Tonight we grilled shrimp (massive ones from Costco) with this marinade: https://www.food.com/recipe/grilled-lime-shrimp-43737

Was excellent. Served with a pasta salad with corn and parmesan and fresh basil.

Shrimp recipe looks great. And basil goes good with corn--that sounds like a yummy summer dinner.

Agree on the toasted sesame but you don't need to go to TJ's for it. I've found it at all the Jewel's (Albertson's) and Mariano's (Kroger) around here, and it's all good quality. I bring that up because you can get it on your regular staples shopping trip rather than specialties.

Yes...pretty readily available. OP mentioned buying other ingredients at TJ which is why I said that. For some of us TJ is our regular staple store.

Duck? Anybody recently cook it? The most rural of the three outlet grocers I visit has frozen duck breasts at $2.99/each. This is the brand/product in question.
They had them on Friday and since they are the one most out of the way, I will assume that they will still have them tomorrow or Tuesday.

Also, I was on pizza dough balls and I wasn't going to pay nearly $3 for a ball at Publix, but one of these stores had a Pizza Hut frozen dough for $5/case and a case is 20 pounds and comen in 60 discs of dough. 2 to 3 discs make 16" pie.

wow that’s a great price! I pay $2-$2.3 for frozen balls of dough, depending on white vs multigrain. I did buy 00 flour and I’ve pdf’d the Roberta recipe, but I’m procrastinating on making my own dough.

Pizza Hut breadstick dough for the same price too. As I said, it is in discs and I ended up wrapping the at a time up in wax paper then foil to freeze and it was easier to place it in available places in the freezers.
I cooked the pizza on convection at 425 for 18 minutes, but the crust did not brown well.
Next Friday, I'll place it in the bottom rack for a few minutes before making it. I am wary of setting the oven past 450 because there are times my folk's GE Profile oven locks up at high temps and even after shutting the breaker, the door won't open.
But for pizza, I still need to find more Leprino pizza cheese on the cheap as I am down to my last 20 oz. of five pounds. Mixing smoked provolone with mozzarella doesn't have the stretch compared to that Leprino cheese blend.

Welp. After receiving a broken grill, it seems like the whole country is sold out of full-size Weber charcoal grills so I will have to wait at least a month for a replacement from Amazon.

I bought a small camping size one in the meantime so I'll be in limited steak searing mode soon enough.