Thai inspired ground beef Pad Kra Pao
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Fired up Solostove Pi. Homemade dough for pizza night.
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Apple wood smoked chicken thighs for about 45 minutes after which they were direct grilled and sauced. Grilled zucchini and summer squash with roasted banana peppers. This is the first year that I planted banana peppers in the garden and they produced an abundance of peppers.
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I’m enjoying my exploration of fish and seafood. Here’s a new one (for me). Buccatini con Sarde - Sardine pasta. My instagram algorithm has flooded my feed recently w tinned fish lately, so, complying with the brainwashing, I went out a bought some. This is not your grampa’s canned tuna! I sampled both prior to cooking. Both excellent. I really liked the Spanish (round) one that had a little spice. The texture was nicer too. Anyway, this is a Sicilian dish with their “holy trinity” (lookin’ at you Looosiana) of raisins, pine nuts and bread crumbs. This dish is incredibly flavorful. Highly recommend. I looked at 3 or 4 recipes online and kinda made my own. I don’t think you can go wrong. Oh and I recently discovered Assyrtiko. It’s a great Greek white that is delicious and cheap!! Definitely under $20 for a bright, uncomplicated, just wonderful white.
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Meatloaf, string beans, mashed taters.
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texastweeter We should open up our own Cracker Barrel……
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Reverse-seared a dry brined lamb rack on the Weber gasser. Paired with flyingpiglet 's zucchini fritters with lime cilantro crema.
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Well, I will be the FIRST to admit I have fallen off my cooking game this entire year. Live has been busy and chaotic, and the past month or two have revolved around my youngest daughter and her kids.
So, last night, Yvonne rolled in about 6:30 from her "job" helping with grandbabies, and I asked what she wanted for dinner, and she didn't want to go out, or send me to a drive through.... I had not thawed or cooked a protein, so we looked in the somewhat bare pantry, and came up with....
A can of spam I stashed last year to make Spam fried rice, and a bag of potatoes that had not sprouted yet.
So I worked culinary MAGIC in my Lodge 12", while two potatoes cooked in the microwave oven...
I'll be straight up. This is the first time I've had Spam since the 1980's, when I had friend spam on white bread with mayo while sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table, talking about life with her, while I was in college. And guess what? It was not bad at all! Kinda salty, kinda savory. Little fat cooked out - I had drizzled some olive oil in the skillet prior to putting the "meat" in there. Yvonne liked it too, and asked for seconds...Comment
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Red Beans and rice adjacent. In other words, RG Baya chocolate beans, best stop andouille sausage, steam rice. Beans were made with a smidge of bacon, onion and some of the roasted hatch chilis. Good stuff!
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All I can think about is the Monty Python sketch... "Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam..."
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White beans, onion, carrot, celery and andouille sausage. Was served over jasmine rice.
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English Pub-style fish and chips. The fish was Alaskan cod. I made the beer batter. The chips were frozen steak fries from the supermarket which I deep fried.
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Had a friend and his wife over for dinner tonight. He’s been one of my two best friends since second grade. I’m 69 years old. Do that math! They retired to SC a few years ago and are in town to see their kids. So it was beef plate ribs from Wild Fork. I only took one pic just as they were coming off to rest. We had a blast as usual. The food was pretty good too.
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Chicken tacos on a soft flour tortilla. I did drop some shredded cheese in a small frying pan with the tortilla on top so the cheese would crisp up and stick to the tortilla. This Hardcore Carnivore rub has become my favorite rub.
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texastweeter - of course. You can see a little above the large blob of sour cream upper left.
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Purple tacos again.
These were not as good as the last time I made them. As usual, the first week of classes hit me like a freight train and I ended up marinating the steak for two days instead of just ~8 hours.
What I have learned is that you can marinate a steak, especially a thin steak like skirt, too long. It didn't turn to mush like some websites would have you believe, but I found it near impossible to get the crust I wanted before the steak got to the doneness I like.
The other problem is that I totally forgot to make the pickled red onions. So, I picked up some at the store -- Mezzetta brand. For store-bought pickled red onions, they are better than what I thought they would be (color, texture, acidity), but wow, way too sweet. Made the taco not taste like a taco.
I still want to try my hand at making my own blue corn tortillas. The tortilla presses are not expensive and neither is the Masa. I just gotta find local source of Masineda.Comment
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Michael_in_TX I carry it at my job. I got your back! Send me your address.
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