Show Us What You're Cooking! (SUWYC) - Volume 23, Fall 2021

[ecowper]

Cooked my world famous smoked chili (that is seriously gonna beat the chili that CaptainMike cooks) on the SnS Kettle for my second ever SnS cook. So far, so good! This is cook #2 of 4 planned cooks to learn the SnS

1. Tri-Tip - did that yesterday
2. Smoked chili - today
3. Roast chicken - Monday
4. Pork butt - Tuesday

Smoked the onion on the SnS for about 45 minutes and the chuck roast until internal temp hit 155F. Used red oak for the smoke.


That chuck roast is pretty! Got it at Safeway straight from their butcher, 3.1 lbs

1/2 lb of my maple-whiskey bacon


Been cooking about 3 hours now!

[CaptainMike]

Ha, ha, ha!!! I don't see the secret ingredients! You will never win, my benevolent nemesis!

[ecowper]

I love ya CaptainMike, but you’re going down!

[Panhead John]

Did a Blackened Ribeye tonight and used my new butane burner for the first time. It worked great and always starts on the first click of the knob. It also got plenty hot to sear the steak.

[Panhead John]

BradNorthGA Here’s a link to where I bought it. It’s a small portable gas burner, it works off a small 8oz. butane tank. I love it so far. Caffeine88 it has 15,000 BTU’s

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-1-burner-high-performance-butane-countertop-range-portable-stove-with-brass-burner-15-000-btu/472BR115.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=freeclicks&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping

[Jfrosty27]

The web page indicates it runs on butane, not propane as you say. Just saying......

[Panhead John]

Thanks Jfrosty27 Just caught that myself. Corrections made, thanks.

[dwlacroix]

I don't smoke beef often but decided to order some prime short ribs from Wild Fork.



The Big Bad Beef Rub is hiding how beautifully marbled they looked after trimming the fat and silver skin.



After 9 hours at 235 on the Weber Smokey Mountain.(Should have used a lighter tray for the picture.)

[FireMan]

Ooh!

[HawkerXP]

Nice!

[holehogg]

Oh boy.

[Caffeine88]

Over the top chili - it was really good.
I smoked a few of the peppers before they went in, and added a Tbsp of dark cocoa powder after seeing someone add dark morsels. The cocoa isn't noticeable as such, but there's an added level of flavor that I'd definitely do again.

Thanks BradNorthGA for the inspiration 😁

​​​​​​​

[Panhead John]

That’s why aluminum foil was invented shortly thereafter.

[Spinaker]

I like that set up!

[BradNorthGA]

Andrrr @Caffeine88

I use 80/20 and don't skim the fat off the top. I have seen videos & read web pages where people do skim it, but I don't even bother

By the time everything is mixed together well at the end I consider that to be just part of the flavor ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jfmorris]

Sometimes, you just GOTTA make some bacon. A 9 pound belly I found on a freezer dive, split into two chunks, cured for 5 days, and smoked on Saturday evening on the Slow 'N Sear Deluxe Kamado (in kamado mode). The top slab actually took about 10 minutes longer than the one on the main grate to reach 150F.



I let it sit in the fridge wrapped in foil for a day, then got out my 12" Victorinox slicer and went to town...




It's all vacuum sealed in packs of 8 to 12 slices, and frozen, except for a few slices I kept out for this week. I cut the odd shaped end of one of the slabs into a pound of chunks to use in beans or soup.

[Caffeine88]

Man, does that look good! How do you choose a porkbelly? Maybe a dumb question, but I eyeballed a few in Costco the other day and decide to pass. They appeared to be all 75% fat, which didn't look at all like what you've got here.

[jfmorris]

Caffeine88 I chose this pork belly because it was in the bottom of a deep freeze I had to move a week or so ago, and had been there for about 18 months! . It came from Costco, but in early 2020.

It's hard to tell what a belly is like unless you can see the ends, and even that doesn't tell you the full story. This one had a mix of lean on top, and mostly fat on the bottom, but worked out already. Fried some up for lunch today, and had it on a salad.

[Andrrr]

That is some great looking bacon! Honestly making bacon is some of my most rewarding smokes.

[jfmorris]

Sometimes, you need to do something like make a pot of Troutman Texas red, to eat after you take the grand baby trick or treating... and if you don't have time to man a grill, just gotta brown things up and dump it in the slow cooker!

Sorry Troutman, but the wife insisted on some beans, which is a corruption of all things chili in my mind. But... SWMBO! At least I used GOOD beans - I put a pound of Rancho Gordo pinto's in the pot. I ended up adding a little extra beer and chicken stock, and the beans after boiling separately did not soak up as much extra liquid as I expected, so I thickened it up before we ate with a few tablespoons of corn meal and flour.

[jfmorris]

Haha Thanks Panhead John! And letting something like this sit and simmer all day is one good use for a slow cooker. If I had left it in my DO on the stove, even on the lowest simmer setting I think I would have burned some stuff on the bottom of the pot if not stirring it occasionally.

[Troutman]

Well at least you used good beans !!!

[jfmorris]

Oh, and I had a good saison on tap out in the garage, so just filled a measuring cup with 12 ounces of that. I didn't have an IPA, but the saison added a nice flavor.

[efincoop]

I didn't have much time this weekend, but I did manage to make a batch of beef sweet & spicy beef jerky on the Pit Boss propane smoker. This is one of the reasons I bought this little smoker and it worked well. I ran it up 180F-190F for the smoke phase and then turned it down to 155F-160F to drying phase. It took 4 hours. I had always dehydrated my jerky, but I like the smokiness better and I feel like it is a superior taste to using liquid smoke in the marinade. The little Pit Boss holds about 2.5 lbs of thinly sliced beef. I used top round. It had a little more fat than I would've liked so I'll keep it refrigerated.

[Michael_in_TX]

Those are some perfectly uniform slices there!

[jfmorris]

I was tasked yesterday by SWMBO with turning the oven on to preheat so that we could roast pumpkin seeds. Then I had a better idea! Believe it or not, this is the FIRST time I've been able to convince her to help make something on the griddle! Of course, she had cancer and then a broken femur for all the time we've had the griddle, and is just getting to the point of walking a little without a cane...

Oil, salt and butter made for some great results. Probably about 15 minutes on a 350 degree griddle did the job, tossing them around every few minutes and spreading out. They do funny things too like jet and spin as they release steam.

[Jim White]

Okay, seeing Yvonne working at the griddle has made my day. Probably even my week.

[RichieB]

Looks like a natural cookin' on the griddle. You might have a hard time getting back to it.

[smokenoob]

Those look great! my first attempt at pumpkin seeds years ago ended with a fire in the oven, have ‘t done them since ……

[Michael_in_TX]

I've really been enjoying the stir-fry kick I've been on. Every iteration gets better and better. Last night I may have stumbled upon my "go to" stir-fry. (Sam the Cooking Guy recipe, actually.)

Like any stir-fry, it is extremely simple: sliced pork shoulder (i.e. country-style ribs), mushrooms, and sugar snap peas. The sauce is just three ingredients: equal parts soy sauce and black bean garlic sauce (which is really tasty!) with about a tbl of corn starch thrown in. All served over egg noodles.

Mise en place:



Mushrooms getting happy in a little avocado oil.....



Next, the peas.....



Finally the pork....I had a little bit of fear that this would turn out tough -- it is pork shoulder after all -- but with it sliced so thin it was perfect.



Everyone in the pool!



Tasty...and so fast and quick and, if we ignore the salt, decently healthy.



Here is the Black Bean Garlic Sauce I used, which is readily available at my local grocery store:

[RonB]

Sounds good. I will give this a try - if I can remember...

[glitchy]

You’re really making me want to try more stir fry for sure.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

Oooh I like this cook... I have a very neglected WOK... hmmmmmmm

[SammyJ]

I'm back. Due to heath reasons, I'm following a restrictive diet. I will be cooking still, as I can.

Somebody has to share a blue walmart plate

[Andrrr]

I’m willing to bet you aren’t the only one here on a restrictive diet, voluntary or not, so let us know what your goal is and I’d bet that someone here can help you out.

[SammyJ]

Type 2 Diabetic, AIC 8.1

[HawkerXP]

Rib roast from June turned into chili today.

[HawkerXP]

This should of gone into the "before and after" sticky.

[glitchy]

My absolute favorite pork product is Italian Sausage, especially just the loose stuff. However, I’m not allowed to use it in anything, but tonight I’m cooking for me, myself and I…so game on. It’s also funny the Roux thread showing up today, because I never make a roux, but looked in the cupboard last night and had no tomato sauce, only juice. I thought, no prob I’ll just whip a a roux and thicken it up to make a red sauce. I laughed when I saw the thread today.

So, I present…I have no idea what. It would normally be an Italian grinder, but I didn’t have any hoagie rolls. So, I don’t know if it’s an Italian Grinder Joe, a Sloppy Joey, or something else entirely. All I know is it was delicious and the Chicago style Giardiniera really added the perfect finish.

[Dr. Pepper]

Creative! Nice.

[Attjack]

A Sloppy Sal.

[mnavarre]

Gochujang cheesy pasta with bacon & shrimp. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite quick & lazy meals.

[mnavarre]

That's very similar, she's making more of a carbonara, mine's more of a Gricia technique.

[Caffeine88]

Brilliant - I've put gochujang on lotsa stuff, but not noodles.

You went with just bacon & rendered fat & parm & gochujang, but not cream/egg?

[mnavarre]

Yep. The sauce is pork fat, butter(or olive oil), cheese. gochujang, and the pasta water. I like butter here because it helps the emulsion come together.

[Attjack]

Obligatory fish taco night. Ajà amarillo, garlic, and lime marinated cod. Avocado, cabbage, and queso fresco salsa. More ajà amarillo on the tortillas and garlic-tumeric-habanero hot sauce on top with cilantro.

[Dr. Pepper]

Of course, the colors and presentation, Attjack ! Purple cabbage, green cilantro, and yellow whatever (I think the word is 'Amarillo.') Nice!

[Attjack]

Dr. Pepper Yes, the aji makes the fish amarillo (yellow).

[Caffeine88]

Gorgeous - you eat with your eyes first, and that's a winner. It looks like summer flowers on a plate....

[Ernest]

I was going to make a chicken sandwich à la chik fil a but things took a turn.....

[HawkerXP]

Every kitchen should have a George Forman in it. We carry one on the company plane!

[Ernest]

HawkerXP oh no!! No George Foreman grill in my kitchen. I use Lodge grill pan and a Lodge bacon presser

[Caffeine88]

LOL - you might have over-swung at that pitch, sir. It ain't no Chik-fil-A, but still looks like a home run.