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

Still on my wine kick, so cookin with red tonight.
Cacciatore with an Argentinian red wine reduction.

Now it’s reducing with the thighs in the broth for 45 minutes..

Cheers.

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

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.

He never ate my grandmothers cooking.

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.

Served with a watermelon/ feta salad and basmati rice.

Good hump day grub!

Follow up to a beef rib dinner is who loves the left overs..

Buddy approved!

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,


That's a Four Roses Single Barrel with soda behind it.

I had braised lamb
with sweet potato gratin...


Susie had the New York strip with local pepper romesco and smoked potato dauphine


Finished off the night with strawberry shortcake and German chocolate cake.


Five star meal without a doubt.

Homemade Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo....beats the restaurant stuff