Muffuletta

This sandwich recipe originated in New Orleans in 1906 - Bobby Flay updated it and put it in Grill It! page 66. This is Grilled Chicken "Muffuletta" Sandwich with Spicy Olive Relish. I started with chicken breasts from Tag'z Five Star Meats. As usual the chicken from Tag'z is the largest and best quality anywhere. The olive relish was quick and easy. I chopped up red peppers, yellow peppers, serrano chilies and a red onion and put them on a pan to cook on the grill. Meanwhile, I cut up green olives, garlic, parsley, salt and pepper and mixed all that together with red wine vinegar and olive oil. So I had a hot portion on the grill and a cool portion in a separate pan. I grilled the chicken as usual with olive oil, kosher salt and ground pepper.  When the chicken was almost done, I toasted a hero roll on an upper grate of the grill and put provolone cheese on the chicken and another slice on the roll. When the chicken came off the grill, the cheese has melted so I put both the hot and cool parts of the relish together and spooned it all over the chicken. It was messy, but really good. I grilled a "stop light" of peppers (red, yellow and green) as a side dish and we were ready to go!

Weather Report. Blowing snow flurries continue to fall, but no more accumulation is expected. Instead it just got colder. I wonder sometimes how it will be to grill in the summer again. I have a friend named Don Culp. He is known as Captain Culp because he was once an airline captain for Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA before it was known as Trans World Airlines). Captain Culp is in his 90s now and does not fly anymore, but when he was in his 70s he flew rings around 20-year-old flight instructors. He would not allow any complaints about the weather, especially hot weather. As he walked out to the airplane, in 90+ degree heat, to give another flight test he would say "Its better than blowing snow!" Which meant you could fly in the heat, but you probably couldn't fly in blowing snow, so stop complaining and start flying. Today we had blowing snow - which reminded me of Captain Culp which reminded me of the heat of the summer which reminded me that I won't always be grilling in the snow!

But until the 90+ degree heat is back - we keep grilling - even in blowing snow.

Paul