3 Hour Onions

3 hour Onions are very jammy and sweet and almost melt on to grilled meats or sandwiches. You take your pealed onions cut in half and slice and place in pans. Just sprinkle with a couple tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and let them roast at 350 degrees for three hours.

Onion Syrup

After three hours, besides the delicious onions you get this really delicious onion syrup to use in pan sauces or just brush on meats or sandwiches.

3 hour onions are similar to confit onions. Confit onions should be cooked at 200 degrees for 8-12 hours along with butter wine and bay leaves.

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Italian Style Inspired Tuna Salad

As a child the only way my mother would make tuna salad was simply just canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise or a mayonnaise substitute. It was OK to me at the time served with that blue box macaroni and cheese that most young kids eat still to this day.

I am much older now and discovered a different way to eat tuna salad that taste much more delicious and is healthier too. Basically Italian Tuna Salad is really made with Italian Tuna in Italian oil with vinegar and Lemon.

I don’t usually use Italian Tuna or even tuna in oil.The addition of fruit with Briny Olives, Onions, Artichokes and capers is a nice play against each other. I don’t measure exactly but I think you will get the idea of how to put it together from these ingredients.

For about 4 servings.

About 10 oz. Tuna

Juice of one lemon and it’s grated zest.

About 1/4 chopped fine onion.

Either one small Asian Pear, Small or 1/2 Apple or a small bunch seedless grapes chopped into small cubes. I note Italians wouldn’t use Asian Pears but at the moment I’m liking them in this dish.

About 15 Olives chopped fine

About a Teaspoon of Capers

About a Cup of Chopped Artichoke. Fresh already cooked and cleaned is best but that’s a pain so the next best is frozen artichoke but in a pinch canned is fine.

Almost 1/4 Cup Balsamic Vinegar

About 1/4 Cup Good Extra Virgin Olive Oil

A very small amount of crushed Sea Salt

Some Fresh Ground Black Pepper

Now serve on top of mixed greens or in a sandwich or use as an appetizer filling.

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I love this delicious not too popular dip or spread called Muhammara. I first enjoyed it dining at a Lebanese Restaurant. After much research developed my own recipe. It is basically Roasted Red Peppers with Nuts, Exotic of Seasoning and Pomegranate. It’s very easy to make you just combine ingredients and process. Your mixture should be lumpy not smooth. Muhammara is so delicious I promise you that you will enjoy it!

Muhammara

5 fresh Roasted Red Bell Peppers Cleaned and Pealed with saved about of half cup of the pepper juice and make sure you get the really thick caramelized juice or reduce it till thick like maple syrup.

I Cup Roasted Almonds or Walnuts (I strongly prefer Almonds but Walnuts are more traditional)

One Pomegranate Fresh Roasted cleaned and juiced with a Ricer (or you can cheat and just use 2 Tablespoons of Pomegranate Molasses.

Juice of one Meyer Lemon

2 Red Thai Chili’s (use less if you don’t like spicy or don’t use but this dip should be spicy)

2 Tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil a good quality one.

1 large garlic clove or 2 small

1 t.Cumin

1/2 t. Coriander

1 t.Paprika

1/2 t. Chili Powder

1/4 t. Nutmeg

1/4 t. Cardamon

1/4 t. Cayenne

1/4 t. Kosher or Sea Salt

1/4 t. Black Pepper

Some people do like this thicker and add one or two slices fresh bread or about 1/2 cup bread crumbs to mixture but I don’t like it that way. Many people add sugar or honey to the mixture but by using the concentrated pepper juice and by my method of roasting a pomegranate brings out natural sweetness that I prefer.

You just blend it up and your ready to dip or spread on a pita or a kabob or even a sandwich.

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8-12 Hour Tomatoes

When I have extra tomatoes I slow roast them at 200 degrees for 8-12 hours with a little extra virgin Olive Oil and I crush fresh salt and pepper on them when I pull them out of oven.

The flavor of the tomato gets concentrated and is very sweet. Even those cardboard like  supermarket tomatoes turn delicious this way. They are excellent in a varity of ways including  entrees,  pizzas or grilled sandwiches.

They stay good in the frig  for about 10 days so I usually never have to freeze them but I have once and they froze and thawed well.