Attachment 348400
Rice..gaahden fresh sautéed baby spinach..whisky sausages, bunch of fresh herbs, onion ,Gaahlick....and some other stuff I forgot..Oh ...black beans and sun dried tomatoes.
Printable View
Attachment 348400
Rice..gaahden fresh sautéed baby spinach..whisky sausages, bunch of fresh herbs, onion ,Gaahlick....and some other stuff I forgot..Oh ...black beans and sun dried tomatoes.
Red beans and rice tonight.
Attachment 348591
Home made Andouille sausage?? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by OCDshaver
No. If it was I would have posted it in the other thread. I was at a new butcher the other day and picked up some with a couple ham hocks for the beans. Picked up a lot of other good stuff too. I wish they weren’t so far away. The andouille tasted ok. But it was ground too coarse for my taste n.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
That new butcher has great chops too. Grilled these up tonight. Damn tasty.
Attachment 348660
Last night, chicken parm,
Attachment 348678
Tonight, no rain so did some strip loins on the Weber, with green beans, grilled peppers, videlia onions, and lil purple potatoes.
Attachment 348679
Good eats this weekend.
Attachment 348690
Just hankering for some pasta...some cast iron grilled zucchini in there too
Mini eclairs. I had the day off so made some.
Attachment 348708
Sideribs and trimmings Tonight, just cause..
Attachment 348921
Attachment 349057
Turkey breast, sous vide then broiled to brown a bit. They come out really nice this way, very juicy, never dry. For one this size lately I go 149°F for 6 hours in the tank, and broil on high, just enough to get a little browning. I spice and herb my sous vide poultry very heavy. Usually Slap Ya Mama, cayenne, black pepper, rosemary, sage, and a little turbinado sugar. Sometimes some orange zest.
Attachment 349058
For a simple lunch, I boiled a few shrimp. I spice the water VERY heavy, with Zatarain's boil, cayenne, red pepper flakes, and tabasco. Lots of everything. I boil the water good, drop the shrimp, bring back up to a boil, and turn the fire off, then let them steep for 20 minutes. Less, for smaller shrimp. They never get rubbery when you do it that way, but you do have to have the water extremely spicy when you don't actually boil the shrimp. When I am doing this serious, I boil about a basket (70 lbs) of shrimp or crawfish and also a sack of red taters, a few heads of garlic, and 3 to 5 lbs sausage. This little dab was just for the two of us.
My dip sauce is composed of Hunts ketchup, Zatarain's Creole Mustard, and Tabasco. Don't even bother with yellow mustard or Del Monte ketchup or any hot sauce other than Tabasco. Wife likes Arnaud's Remoulade sauce. I find it a little overpowering, for dipping.
70 lbs of shrimp and extras sounds like a party. When is the next one?
The very next time someone drops by with a basket of shrimp, I guess!Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
I wasn’t going to cook tonight. But I found myself at the grocery store and said screw it….let’s do it anyway. The summer heat kills my appetite. So a chicken with tarragon, some slow cooked tomatoes, and coucous.
Attachment 349067
Attachment 349068
I am from MN so the chances of me showing up with 70 lbs is pretty slim....Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
Ready for breakfast tomorrow. Fresh brioche and raspberry jam.
Attachment 349185
Attachment 349186
Attachment 349187
Attachment 349271
Attachment 349272
Tonight's dinner was braised brisket, roast potatoes in duck fat, Yorkshire pudding and veg.
Believe it or not, all made by my 6 year old boy.
My input was peeling potatoes and dealing with hot stuff in the oven, oh and throwing in the odd pointers and supervising fingers.
The boy did good, and safe to say I'm proud.
This all came about because he wanted to learn to make proper gravy.
Geek
Give that Lad an Atta Boy for me! :tuQuote:
Originally Posted by TheGeek
I learned to cook when I was in Boy Scouts. My patrol leader was Carl McLaren and he liked to eat! While the other patrols were eating bologna sandwiches, we were having a pot roast baked in the ground in a cast aluminum dutch oven. The adults didn't cook, they ate with the patrols and they had to draw straws to see who got to eat with us!
Carl is my oldest and best friend and he still likes to eat. When he and his fiance were up from California I fixed the entire meal in my cast iron outside using charcoal.(I didn't think that my landlord would appreciate me digging a hole and starting a fire in my backyard) Anyway, his wife was amazed at what I had prepared.
Many years ago, my kids and the then wife were on vacation and it was my birthday and I was baking a cake in the cast iron dutch using the coals and my kids were playing with some campers kids so I called them over and the mother came along. I told them that it was my birthday and that you couldn't have a birthday without a cake. So I carefully lifted the lid and they oh and awed and I told them that there would be enough to share. The mother stood there for a long time saying "I can't believe you cooked it in a pot"---------------------------I told her it wasn't just a 'Pot' it was a dutch over.
I really don't think she could get her head around it.:rofl2::shrug:
Light dinner tonight. Baked Parmesan tomatoes and bruschetta was just enough.
Attachment 349281
Food plays a big role in our family lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
My mother taught me to cook as a kid, and so I feel it's only right I teach mine.
Not to be outdone though, my daughter wants to make steak pie this weekend.
Geek
Still on my wine kick, so cookin with red tonight.
Cacciatore with an Argentinian red wine reduction.
Attachment 349300
Now it’s reducing with the thighs in the broth for 45 minutes..
Attachment 349301
Cheers.
I didn’t learn until I was in college. My family were horrible cooks. Every last one of them, one worse than the next. I didn’t get my first taste of decent food at home. My friend Mario who I’ve known since I was about four years old had a family full of good cooks. Food was part of their lifestyle. Now he has his own line of tomato sauce and makes these goofy videos. And he’s the fire chief in our old neighborhood.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
https://www.facebook.com/MariosMarin...ibextid=2Rb1fB
Jeff Smith (the Frugal Gourmet on TV) said his maternal grandmother Nettie Smith was the worse cook. Every year the family would gather to eat the turkey that she had cremated. :roflmao
He never ate my grandmothers cooking.Quote:
Originally Posted by cudarunner
I'd put my Mom in that race. She could burn the water. Never seen anyone ruin a perfectly good price of meat like she could. We ate shoe leather all my childhood.
Now, my great Aunt Edna could cook. She was this little round woman and she came up to my grandmothercs house every Christmas. She made the best cornbread dressing...and basically everything else! Man I can still almost taste her mustard greens, ambrosia salad, cranberry relish, cornbread and giblet gravy. I'm literally salivating just thinking about it.
tonight’s fare, beef ribs off the traeger.
Marinated overnight in red wine, EVO, and a few other goodies.
Cut the cooking time down to 2 hrs, and still had a great taste.
Attachment 349311
Served with a watermelon/ feta salad and basmati rice.
Attachment 349312
Good hump day grub!
Follow up to a beef rib dinner is who loves the left overs..
Attachment 349331
Buddy approved!
Attachment 349343
I'm having a wee celebration this weekend as last week my request to transfer back to a dev position got greenlit on Wednesday.
So a rump steak garlic rosemary shrooms and boiled baby potatoes.
Geek
Date night with my beautiful bride. Took her out to a place called Mildred's Big City Food. The have a 3 course meal on their menu: salad or soup, entree and dessert.
https://mildredsbigcityfood.com/menus/
First time I have had a Caesar with pieces of anchovies in a while. Susie had Sweet Corn Bisque with shrimp & andouille hushpuppy,
Attachment 349416
That's a Four Roses Single Barrel with soda behind it.
I had braised lamb
with sweet potato gratin...
Attachment 349417
Susie had the New York strip with local pepper romesco and smoked potato dauphine
Attachment 349418
Finished off the night with strawberry shortcake and German chocolate cake.
Attachment 349419
Five star meal without a doubt.
Attachment 349433
Homemade Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo....beats the restaurant stuff
Baked eggplant parmigiana.
Attachment 349520
Was away on holiday in St Andrews last week, we went for a walk around the town and found a nice butchers.
So on Friday we took a wander back to buy a 1.3kg Tbone steak and I proceeded to make bistecca ala fiorentina last night for the good lady wife and I.
Geek
Attachment 349854
Do you arm wrestle...to see who gets The Filet ?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGeek
Quote:
Originally Posted by nessmuck
Nah we're very civilised lol, we split it down the middle.
Geek
Pear tartlet
Attachment 349966
Texas red. No beans.
Attachment 349967
[QUOTE=OCDshaver;1976968]Texas red. No beans.
Best kind!!
I've been trying out some different chillies for my chilli lately, but the wife insists on adding kidney beans.Quote:
Originally Posted by OCDshaver
Geek
I have the same wife problems.. I always eat some without beans before I bow to her wishes.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGeek
I'm the same �� get a decent fill whilst taste testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
Geek
