Show Us What You're Cooking! (SUWYC) - Volume 35, Autumn/Fall 2024

[Santamarina]

Breakfast sandwiches this morning. Bacon, eggs, home fried potatoes - potato cakes held together with egg - and breakfast sausage smash burgers served on an English muffin!

[hoovarmin]

I would eat that, and then just go back to bed and enjoy the food coma.

[texastweeter]

You been hanging out with Mosca ?

[fzxdoc]

Just like hoovarmin , if I ate a breakfast like that, I'd have to turn right around and climb back into bed to sleep it off while my fat cells had a heyday.

That looks so delicious.

[Michael_in_TX]

Last night, losing my mind that I was on day 11 of this head cold (I am getting better each day, but it is sooooo annoying!).....I wanted tacos. So I did tacos.

Flank steak marinated in oil, lime juice, and soy sauce, cooked in cast iron....



While the steak rested, HEB made-in-store flour tortillas were toasted....



Perfect doneness for me. (I like my skirt and flank done just a little more than I would a NY strip or ribeye.) Also, no, I did not cut with the grain, those pieces are from the piece to the upper right lol.



This is happiness. Tacos should be simple: tortilla, meat, onion, lime juice, cilantro.

[texastweeter]

Add dice jalapenos avocado and maybe raddishes

[Michael_in_TX]

texastweeter I've started to get into the thinly-sliced radish thing on tacos. Surprisingly good! Excellent on fish tacos, especially.

[texastweeter]

Goes well with cilantro, onion, lime, green salsa on birria tacos too!

[jhapka]

Lefse 🙂

[Spinaker]

Love it. Butter, cinnamon/sugar. I can't get enough. I went to a Lutefisk feed last weekend and I get I ate 30 lbs of a lefse.

[jhapka]

Spinaker lefse rounds are like a half potato each depending on size. Way too easy to eat so many potatoes

[Spinaker]

Yeah.....and butter, and sugar/cinnamon!

[SammyJ]

Salmon Patties, the hot sauce mediates the back pain

[theroc]

Something to warm us up on a chilly night. Sardinian fregula and clam soup with saffron.

[Carolyn]

That is impressive. I had to look up 'fregula.'

[hoovarmin]

Whoa!

[treesmacker]

Fantastic!

[Carolyn]

All of the posts of Louisiana dishes gave me the urge to make gumbo again.
Chicken and sausage. Turned out good except I don't care for the sausage I bought. Way too much garlic in it.

[RonB]

I have never had gumbo, but I have always wondered what flavor and how many sticks of gum do ya use?

[Finster]

I found some stew beef buried in the back of the freezer. Usually I make chili (no beans 😉) with it, but wasnt feeling it today.
I tried a beef tips in gravy recipe I found on line. Served over either mashed taters or egg noodles. Taters for me, egg noodles for the ladies.
Served with Brussels sprouts casserole.

[HawkerXP]

Mrs. H and I made this spaghetti squash parmigiana tonight. Cooked in the oven. Oh, so good.

[fzxdoc]

This actually sounds really good. Never tried it. So you scoop it out with the squash ending up on the top, mostly? Not too watery?
I really like marinara with zucchini zoodles; I'm guessing this would taste along those lines.

[HawkerXP]

I put the recipe for this out fzxdoc and barelfly

[barelfly]

fzxdoc - you will really enjoy this! I think more so than the zucchini noodles. Such a great sweetness added from the squash and then your favorite marinara sauce. I’ve never tried this with meat so will have to give it a go!

[DrJimmy2112]

10 pounds of pork belly made into maple bacon per Meatheads recipe

[bbqLuv]

Maple Bacon, I know that has to be good.

[radiodome21]

Today would be my dad’s 83rs birthday 🎂 so in his honor we made steak. I stopped at a Costco Business Center while at a volleyball 🏐 tournament near by, which was a first. Ended up buying a twin pack choice grade tomahawk steak pack. Tossed them on the silverback at 250°

it was fantastic.

[Panhead John]

After hearing all the hoopla the last few years about Iberico pork chops, I bought a few last week at my local Wild Forks retail store. Did a reverse sear on one of them using the vortex. Turned out pretty good!













Gotta say, they were the most tender thick cut chops I’ve ever done. While the flavor was very good also, I found it to be not drastically different than commodity chops. I really did like them, but not enough to pay $20. a pound. Probably my last time to buy them.

[hoovarmin]

Way to go PJ!

[texastweeter]

If you get some red wattle you will for sure taste a big difference. Berkshire is good as well, but not as much. Iberico really shines as a ham.

[fzxdoc]

Now that's a piece of pork!

Nice work.

K.

[jfmorris]

Well, I've been kinda MIA the past week, as I took a few days off, and we traveled to Birmingham to visit family and friends on Wednesday, then on to Dollywood up in Tennessee for a couple of days, to take in the sights and sounds of the Christmas season. Some amazing rides and shows there, and a great value I thought. Just don't go on Saturday. Weekdays are about 1/10th the crowd!

Anyway, I caught a cold from a grandkid and was sick Thursday through today, just toughing it out with lots of Mucinex DM and cough drops. Yvonne caught my crud and started feeling it last night on the way home, and is in full blown cold mode today. We wanted something to open up the nasal passages, so I made a pot of turkey chili. TURKEY CHILI you say!?!?!?! Yes. TURKEY CHILI!

I had a recipe from Chili Pepper Madness I saved off to Paprika a while back, and it did NOT disappoint.

Turkey Chili Recipe - Chili Pepper Madness

I followed the recipe to the T. Beans and all! Well, I used 2 pounds of turkey instead of 1.5 pounds. I hate turkey chili and went back for seconds on this one. Is it a bowl of Texas Red? No. But it was a good mildly spicy chili, and a dash or two of hot sauce gave it all the fire I needed. I also think that hour long simmer was important to infuse all the spices and flavors into that bland tasteless turkey meat.

[DaveD]

Yeah man! Turkey chili is fabulous. Hope you both feel better soon.

[fzxdoc]

I have always thought those two words, turkey and chili do not belong in the same sentence, much less in my special chili bowl. Why would I make chili with such bland meat? And not even smoked to give it a little pizzaz?

But I trust your I-have-a-cold taste buds enough to entertain that recipe. You haven't steered me wrong yet. Hope you and your Yvonne feel better soon.

Kathryn

P.S. Usually CPM's recipes are too spicy for my husband. Good to know that this has a medium spice level.

[jfmorris]

fzxdoc this recipe was not overly spicy, and a dollop of sour cream would tame any of the low-medium heat.

I diced up one 4-5 inch long jalapeño pepper, without seeds, which is listed as optional in the recipe. There is only 1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes, and I went for the Flatiron "regular heat" Calabrian pepper flakes, instead of my first inclination which was to get the 4-pepper or dark and smoky flakes out. For chili powder all I had on hand was McCormick "dark chili powder".

[RichieB]

jfmorris sounds like a good time. Sorry for the virus. I had the same. I contracted from any family member on Thanksgiving. Many were ill. Last night was the 1st no coughing. Let's hope for a healthy Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year.

[jfmorris]

Thanks. Last night was the worst, as I had a dry cough that would not stop. I ended up out of bed at 1am, sitting up in a recliner until about 6:30am, when the wife got up, and sent me to try the bed again. Slept to 8:15. Bah.

[theroc]

Smoked a couple of racks of Creekstone Farms back ribs on the Smoke Vault.

[bbqLuv]

Nice. I just started to thaw a rack of ribs, SLC they are, to Traegerize on Thursday. I hope they will look as nice as yours pictured.

[SammyJ]

We had just sat down and said Grace, when our daughter called. She wanted to take us out for dinner and to the festival of lights in the next town of course we accepted.
Mr. Lewis worked for Aaron Franklin and his four cookers are model after Franklin's. The barbecue did not disappoint. It was the best I've had.

[SammyJ]

Mr Lewis, I do not know his first name, Lewis BBQ. Big article in our local news paper, Arron Franklin and lewis ordered 4 more of Franklins cookers, and had them shipped to Charleston SC.

[Smoked Transistors]

Panhead John, https://www.lewisbarbecue.com/about/

[Panhead John]

That’s interesting and awesome! Thanks for the link Smoked Transistors