Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

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?

Originally Posted by 32t

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!

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.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

The very next time someone drops by with a basket of shrimp, I guess!

I am from MN so the chances of me showing up with 70 lbs is pretty slim....

Ready for breakfast tomorrow. Fresh brioche and raspberry jam.

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

Originally Posted by TheGeek

Give that Lad an Atta Boy for me!

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.

Light dinner tonight. Baked Parmesan tomatoes and bruschetta was just enough.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Give that Lad an Atta Boy for me!

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.

Food plays a big role in our family lol.

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