Dinner menu help

[frijolefrito]

A friend of mine asked me to make him some food. To "imagine feeding a fat trailer trash drunk. That's my taste". I'm not looking for anything weird and he's from Missouri. I was thinking just burgers, hot dogs wrapped in bacon. It's just not that fun. When I like to cook for people I try new cool things or make a supped up version of something normal. Example:

I wanted to make to die for sheperds pie. So I made home made beef stock in the pressure cooker (only takes two hours). I took the meat that was in there (ox tail + groundbeef) mixed that with vegetables. I braised some short ribs in red whine, beefstock, other stuff sauce. Let the sauce simmer for 2 hours. Mixed all the meat that was super tender with the sauce and the veggies. Put it in a dish covered home made mashed potatos and cheese ontop. It was very time consuming but not work intensive. Set it and forget it parts in every step of the way. This Dish came out amazing. I'll add a picture but it really doesn't do it justice. I served at work everyone had 3 plate fulls at least. Even some of the people were saying I'm going to make them fat.

So help me out! Maybe tailgating stuff. I've seen like brawts split in half stuffed with cheese wrapped in bacon. Ostridge eggs. BBQ I dunno.

[johnsteen]

Sounds like you can dream up some super meals on your own. You can smoke a meat loaf and send it to the moon with stuffing, bacon wrap it, or ring it with mashed taters for baking.

[Amajeff99]

fresh ground burgers. if you have a grinder buy really good meat (equal parts chuck and sirloin) and grid it right before you cook it makes an amazing difference. I know it does not sound fancy but fresh ground burgers are amazing.

[frijolefrito]

I have a grinder never used it. HMMM.. loving these ideas.

[Notavegan]

I do meatloaf in the bge and love it. I'll cook the bacon on the side and serve as a side dish rather then put it on top.

How bout boneless chuck "ribs". We know they aren't ribs but I'll tell ya what. 5 hours at 250 and either dry rub the whole way or sauce after a few hours, those are INSANE. Your whiskey tango friend will love them. Easy, put em on and walk away.

[frijolefrito]

Looks amazing. Never done boneless chuck ribs.

[RonB]

Smoke a chuckie and make something that normally uses ground or sliced beef:

Shredded beef sammies
Phili cheese steaks
Tacos
Burritos or chimichangas
Pot pies (one of my favorites)
Chili
Beef stew
??

[frijolefrito]

what's a chuckie?

[RonB]

Chuck roast - if you decide to use one, buy the one with the most marbling. Cook it like a pork butt, but use a beef rub.

[Karon Adams]

Scotch eggs are great. boiled eggs then wrap the eggs is sausage and bake them off. you can then use some of the oil from the sausage to make some hot water pastry and make some small meat pies. you see I'm hanging in the Brit food. Brits have us beat 7 ways from Sunday for hand food. Savory pies are the norm rather than hamburgers or hot dogs as hand food at soccer matches.


look up what Brits eat as hand food, it's mostly savory pies of one sort or another. and there are TONS of varieties of them. you can also BBQ a shoulder and make some Chinese steamed dumplings of the meat & sauce, again, a good hand meal.

For veggies, you can roast them, root veg is great when roasted. and that gives you a alternative to frying. there's also stuffed peppers, you can use some smaller sweet peppers as well as the hot ones.

various cheeses roasted/melted on toast, and various versions of bruschetta.

then there are all the variations on popcorn, cookies or mini sweets.

I hope this gives you some ideas.

[frijolefrito]

These are all amazing ideas. I never thought of making dumplins out of shoulder.

[jgreen]

Ribs of any kind are always a great choice.

[Michael Brinton]

If he wants, "fat trailer park drunk," type your going to have to deliver. Anything imaginative could disappoint. Have you seen the recipe for brioche buns on the main site? http://amazingribs.com/recipes/bread...rger_buns.html It will be basically the fanciest bun you can provide without losing that TP appeal. https://www.chefsteps.com/activities...s-on-the-quick You can quickly bust out some pickled toppings, crunchy and amazing. Recognizably. Really good bacon is a huge upgrade! http://amazingribs.com/recipes/porkn...m_scratch.html making your own bacon will never disappoint. It ends up fully cooked so you don't have to worry about it being under cooked when you wrap things. Lastly grinding your own burgers is really good advice. A bacon wrapped, brioche bun, short rib and brisket ground, sous vide pickle topped, burger might knock your friends trailer park taste up a notch. Or just give him simple well cooked burgers and dogs, they are delicious too.

[frijolefrito]

"A bacon wrapped, brioche bun, short rib and brisket ground, sous vide pickle topped, burger might knock your friends trailer park taste up a notch."
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[frijolefrito]

I'm liking what I'm hearing! There was a recipe on that was a bacon wrapped meatloaf but I've never liked meatloaf. I know it's me but I did like the idea freshly ground hamburgers and short ribs. I'll get some pics of this cook and show you what I end up with. Homemade buns sound great but I'd be willing to give meatloaf another go. I appreciate you all taking the time to respond also.

[Ernest]

Cut up some rib racks, wrap individual rib bones with thin slices of bacon and smoke em.
Smoke a bunch of meatballs

Wrap wing drummettes in bacon and smoke em at high temp.
Smoke a bunch of fresh ground burgers

Asian stores carry riblets, make "rib wings"

[Notavegan]

meatballs wrapped in bacon...

[frijolefrito]

So the update is I decided to just go with everything traditional nothing fancy just well cooked bbq with premium ingredients. I'm going to make the local butcher super happy.