There’s no excuse not to cook when it comes to pouch cooking. What is it? Basically take all your ingredients, wrap them in foil, and bake them @ 300 for about an hour or so. It makes some awesome tender stuff. Tonight I made pouch chicken. Here’s how.

Ingredients

• 2 chicken thighs
• 4 cloves garlic smashed
• 1 onion chopped
• 2 pads butter
• Salt and pepper
• Dried dill
• Hot sauce

Its so simple…
Take your ingredients and combine them in a large bit of foil on a pan. Bake @ 300 for about an hour (depending on how thick the meat is that your cooking).

Done! Its really that simple. You have no excuse not to cook a simple dinner at home tonight.

This is pretty chill, laid back and pretty. Let me know what you guys think of my first try at some electronic music.
techno-try

Jordan Cox - Summer Weekends - Hooray for new musics! This is the second or so run-through of this song, so its super rough. I still kind of dig it tho.

Summer weekends in the sun
You’ve got me feeling like I need someone (well)
I need you now
more than ever girl

Summer weeknights in the city
Hey I found you out, girl you’re so pretty
Well you got me amazed
Ya, you got me now

So we met under such auspicious circumstances
But, hey I’ve gotta say that that’s alright
ya that’s alright
That’s ok by me

Cause they say that the lognest road is the one htat leads you to the stars
the one that breaks your back is the one
that’ll bring you back to where you’re supposed to be

Spending summer weekends in the sun
Bathing out and catching up with someone
you know, you want to be around

Summer weekends in the city
Well I found you out, girl you’re so pretty
Ya you got me feeling
Ya, you got me feeling amazed

Ya, you brought back my inspiration
You brought back my music
That I lost along the way

You got me feeling alright
You got me feeling ok
Well, I know
Thanks to you its
gonna be a good day.

Jordan Cox - Jealous Stars.mp3

So there I was. Dutifully just picking up some orange juice to feed my horrible addiction to the delicious substance; when suddenly out of nowhere - cheap ribs appeared! They were priced at around $3 and I simply couldn’t resist. I was kind of Jonesing for Mexican, so I decided that this would be a perfect time to whip out some more delicious chipotle-themed foods. Thus, I bring you Chipotle Ribs!

Ingredients

• Pork ribs
• Chipotle Peppers
• Salsa verde
• 2 Small Onions
• 3 Cloves Garlic
• Orange Juice
• Worcestershire Sauce
• Ground Cumin

Method

These really are a pretty simple thing to prepare.  Start out by dry-rubbing your ribs with a healthy dose of cumin and salt.  One little trick here is to make small ~2mm deep cuts in the ribs so that the flavors have an easier time permeating to the center of the meat.

Setup for your liquid marinade is pretty simple too.  Just mix up a splash of orange juice, a dash of worcestershire sauce, chipotle peppers (one tin will do it) and salsa verde.  Slather up your meat (tehe, ya - I said that) and then throw in your onions (chopped) and garlic (whole with the paper removed is fine).

Massage the ribs nice and deeply to get everything fully worked in and let them sit for at least an hour.  I would highly recommend at least 24 hours for full flavor effect.

The rest is easy, preheat your oven to 350F and throw ‘em in.  Give them about 45 minutes and flip them over.  Give them another 45 minutes and you’ll start to see the meat falling off the bone when its ready.  Viola!  Delicious ribs! Top ‘em off with some of the salsa verde and a side of thickly cut avacado for extra om noms.

Om nom. I have some delicious seafood recipe up my sleeve for an awesome pasta dish that fills your kitchen with fantastic smells and establishes a great basic sauce that can dress up any pasta night. What is it? It’s salmon in a fantastically simple tomato sauce that will make any Italian proud. Primary constituents for this dish are tomatoes, salmon, onion and garlic. These are always a great combination and I’ll shopw you how to make them into an awesome pasta dish.

Ingredients

• Salmon (I used a salmon steak here, as it has some fantastic fat that you know I’m all about)
• 1 medium onion (diced)
• 4 cloves garlic (diced)
• 3 branches of basil (chopped)
• 4 roma tomatoes
• 1 beefsteak tomatoes (I use the roma for intense flavors and this beefsteak for increasing available volume)
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil (don’t skimp on this, seriously)
• Parmesan Cheese (some good cheese is worth the money, seriously you owe it to yourself to try this at least once)
• Red wine (something you would drink, of course)
• Penne pasta (or anything else thick, this is a thick coarse sauce that benefits from a big pasta capable of taking it up)

Method - Mise en place

Assemble everything before hand that you can. Chop your onions, dice your garlic and cut up your basil. Prep your salmon by cutting along the skin (seperating it) and removing any bones that you can find. Massage the salmon a bit and remove *any* bones that you feel. Reserve the skin, you’re going to fry it seperately to make some awesome cracklin’.

Method - Tomato Prep

Ok, so you’re working with fresh tomatoes and not canned ones. This is the way that things should be. Don’t compromise your flavor for ease with a sauce, its so easy to make a right tomato sauce that you shouldn’t let a little extra step keep you from it. Bring a pot of water to boil and gently place your tomatoes in for about 5 to 10 minutes. What you’re doing now is trying to peel the tomatoes to get the skins out of the way so that you can make a nice smooth sauce. You’ll know your tomatoes are ready when they start to split out of their skin. Once they’re splitting, plop them into a colander and run them under cold water to prevent any further cooking.

By boiling the tomatoes you’re making it nice and easy to peel off the skins. You should be able to remove them with your fingers quite easily, if not - they need more cooking.

Once done, just remove the skin

Method - Pasta

The pasta should be started second and its incredibly simple, really. Just bring some salted water to a boil and insert pasta. I threw in some of the wine to color the pasta and bring it more in line with the rest of the dish. Let it boil for about 15 minutes or until its al dente (tender, but a still firm). Midway through you should begin crafting your sauce…

Method - Sauce

This is pretty easy too. Heat a pan up to a medium temperature and add a good dose of quality olive oil and then pop in your garlic, onions and basil. Don’t let this get too hot, if you see anything browning remove your pan and lower the temp. You’re trying to make everything nice and soft - don’t go fast, this isn’t good here. When everything in the pan is fairly soft add in your tomatoes. I like to add in some chicken stock here too, just to make everything more tasty. This will continue for about 5 to 10 minutes until everything is nice and soft.

Whene everything’s getting nice and soft you’re going to be engaging in a bit of cheating. Take your sauce and pour it straight into a blender and get to making your sauce nice and smooth. I know, the traditional Italian will tell you that this is hogwash - but its far better than cracking a can of tinned tomatoes or *gasp* premade sauce.

Method - Salmon

Once your sauce is feeling nice and chunky and is in your blender, plop it back in on a low heat and get to working on your salmon. Crank a nice grill-pan up to medium high and make sure its totally hot. If you touch your salmon in and it doesn’t sizzle, take it out and let your pan keep heating. Get your salmon and its skin in there and sizzling for a good 4 or 5 minutes and flip it. It’ll be starting to change color and you’ll definitely know when its done cooking.

Method - Finishing

Once your salmon is all done and your sauce is back in its pan go ahead and mix the pasta, salmon and sauce all together. You want this to cook together a bit for afew minutes in order to let al lthe flavors combine into some awesome beautiful flavor. Put the pasta in a couple bowls and go ahead and grate some of your fresh parmesan over this delicious combination of flavors to add some extra sharpness to the whole affair.

Just lyrics so far…

A warmth intense
bright but lingering like incense
Her smell catching you
with every action that you do

You find yourself thinking
waiting
hoping
maybe
this is the case, that will make everything worthwhile

Take her hand and hold her close,
Something you thought you could never hold
beautiful and sweet
refined and removed

Across starways you met,
simple and pure
into each-other’s arms you fell

You didn’t think
and she didn’t think
it would amount to much

but something triggered inside
a blunt broadside
as you realized a warmth
that made you feel alright

So hold onto what you found
but don’t hold hard
you know if you do
the end is pressing to your heart

Take the happiness you have
bottle it all up
don’t let anyone see
now you’ve got a full cup

They’ll try to take it away
before you have the chance
to have but a single sip.

Her peircing eyes
and perfect lips
falling hair
and impossible style

Leave you thinking this will take awhile.
Leave it.
Leave it.
Leave it to fate.
Take what you’ve got and accept the date.

But she makes you feel warm
and makes you smile
like nothing else you’ve felt
in a good long while

Affection you have never shown
tonight is on display

Take everything else,
wrap it all up
its something you don’t need with a full cup

Keep your guard,
but hope for the best
let her inside your
armored vest.

Alright, that’s enough music posting for tonight.  I know I posted a lot, but I wanted to get some of my favorite Jordan-Made songs out on my blog pronto.  I hope you enjoy them, and be sure to leave comments (except for metronome comments James!).

jordan-cox-meow-mix

Meow mix mix please deliver!
You make the most  amazing catfood
I’m in love

I’m in love with you
and everything you do

Take it out of  your little bag
Put it into my cup.

Hey!  I’m so fucking hungry!

Meow mix, meow mix please deliver!
Kittens, chicken peas and liver.
Oh my god, I’m a cannibal cat!
Oh my god, I’m a cannibal cat!

jordan-cox-pacific-waves-v3

You can hear the waves crash low

on the horizon
as your eyes trace her beautiful fig-ure
and they come to rest on her beautiful face
with those sleeping eyes

you wanna tell her that you love her
but you’ll never-ever no you’ll never-ever
get that chance, no

she will be gone  when you’re awake
she won’t wait for you
no she won’t wa-it no

she’s the kind of girl who always gets what she wants
she doesn’t care about those around her
she doesn’t care about you
and what she does to you

no, she doesn’t care
she’s memorized her way to leave
with-out making a single sound
she knows what to do just to get away from you

ya you’ll wake,  ya you’ll wake
and you’ll find she’s nowhere close to you no

So take your solace boy
you’ve held something so beautiful
you thought you could never hold
never hold
no no no ever ever hold

so take your shot
and take your chance
taste that salt and the romance
you thought you found
package it all up
and wake her up

and tell her what you feel and tell her what you feel
she won’t listen to a word that  you say
but at least you know you said what you needed to say

as your eyes are busy tracing her beautiful figure
resting there before you
she is plotting her escape
she is plotting her escape
she is plotting

but she’ll never count on you saying what you’re gonna say
once you wake her up

so hear the waves crash low on the horizon
as you tell her your words
and your confession