Barbecue Party

I love barbecues. I love the aroma of charcoal grilled meat and vegetables. However, I never dare to make barbecues by myself. Even though I am living in an apartment, I can easily make barbecues at on my balcony. I have never had any barbecue party because I personally scare of fire. Gas stove I can Handle but barbecue fire is too extreme for me. I feel than it is hard to control barbecue flame. One of my inspiration for barbecueing is chef Michael Smith who is the host for cooking program called "Chef at Home" on Food Network. I have been watching this show for many years already. This show takes place at chef's house located on Prince Edward Island. His house has beautiful yard and nice deck surrounded by lot of trees. He did a lot of barbecueing and he made it looks so easy. I think I am definitely going to make a barbecue party for me and my friend when I buy a house in the future. I need some space which is bigger than my balcony when dealing with fire. Now, I think I am going to my favorite steak house for some rib eye steak...yum...

Chocolate Cake

Many people are on gluten-free diet. I can not picture myself as a gluten free person. I love pastry and desserts. I have always wonder how flourless cake will taste like. I have never tried one. I came across one very interesting cake recipe. It is flourless chocolate cake recipe. The picture looks very rich and moist. Since no flour means less carbohydrates, it makes me wonder that this flourless chocolate cake will have less calories than regular chocolate cake or not. I am sure that it still has lots of calories because it contain eggs, butter and sugar. I think I have to look into it further. However, I will definitely try that recipe as it definitely looks very delicious.

Salmon Roll Recipe (Salmon Maki)

If you have leftover salmon, you can have fun with it by making salmon roll or salmon maki. This will be a great nutritious snack idea because of fish oil benefits. This is considered a very healthy recipe that can be served during a party as well. You can make it even more fancy by adding other ingredients such as cucumber, crab meat, fish roe, etc.

Ingredients

2 seaweed sheets
100 g salmon
400 g cooked sushi rice
Optional: cream cheese (eg. Philadelphia), wasabi-paste, fish roe, cucumber, crab meat
To serve: soy sauce, wasabi paste, pickled ginger
for 24 pieces ( 4 maki rolls )

Instructions

1. Cut salmon into thin stripes.

2. Cut seaweed sheet into halves.

3. Put the seaweed sheet on the bamboo mat. Then, spread rice approximately 2 cm wide and 0,5 cm high on the seaweed sheet.

4. Put a tiny bit or a desire amount of wasabi onto the rice.

5. Place salmon in the middle of the rice.

6. Wetten the end of the sheet a with water.

7. Roll the sheet with the bamboo mat and "glue" the wet ends of roll together.

8. Cut the roll into appr. six pieces.

Tip : You can wetten the knife with water mixed with vinegar in order to prevent the rice from sticking at the knife