Originally posted by randy56
View Post
-
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!! Spam is wonderful. Unfortunately my wife doesn't let me keep it in the house unless I'm going to make musubi. Mmmm, Fried spam, eggs, & tater tot "hash browns". I think I need to horrify my wife next weekend.
-
My mom can ruin any cut of beef in a staggering number of ways. I grew up hating most anything beef except hamburgers and Italian beef because she never tried to make it. I was almost 40 before I could be talked into ordering a steak at a restaurant and learned it could be not only edible, but delicious.
Anyway my pork steak method:
Pork steaks - 1" thick and seasoned however you prefer. I dry brine then use a salt free rub
Smoke @ 225 for an hour or so or until the internal temp is 160
Reverse sear
Sauce and return to indirect heat.
Wait 10 minutes and sauce again
Wait 10 more minutes
Optional - Sauce a third time and wait another 10 minutes or
Remove and serve
Notes on the sauce - Obviously you can use whatever sauce you like but try a slow cooker with a half gallon of sauce and a ham hock started 4 or more hours before you want to cook the pork steaks. When it's time to sauce, dunk a whole steak at a time in the pot. This is a variation of a common St Louis area method which is to cook the steaks in the slow cooker for half day then finish them over screaming hot coals for a minute or two.
Last edited by aladdin4d; August 5, 2019, 07:11 AM.Comment
-
My mom went back to work after my sisters and I were older. My mom had the night/morning shift at work so my dad got us ready for school and loved the ease of the microwave. He’d zap bacon and eggs. It was hideous; like eating wet shoe leather and a car sponge. Of course, made with love.
Comment
-
My mother, bless her heart, could turn broccoli or spinach either one into slime so limp you would have thought it had been run through an old laundry wringer! She only did it boiled. She would cook green beans to death and beyond! To this day I will not eat broccoli or spinach either one if it has been cooked at all. I do love raw broccoli and raw spinach. I can even enjoy fresh green beans or frozen, but never anything that is a canned vegetable.
Just too much childhood trauma at the dinner table! LOL!Comment
-
City Chicken, take the worst cuts of whatever scrap meat the butcher had laying around throw it on a wooden stick. Knew I was going to bed hungry as soon as my mom pulled that crap out of the grocery bag.Comment
-
For Thanksgiving Mom would make a "jello salad" instead of cranberry sauce from a can. I thought those were the only two options. Years ago I found a recipe for fresh cranberry sauce and was appalled at my life up to that point. It’s ridiculously easy and if you add some orange zest and Cointreau it’s out of this world! I am still baffled to this day as to why we ate that other crap.Comment
-
My mom was world famous for her "carbonized" chicken. Over the years you would think she would have caught on that my sister and I didn’t like burnt oven roasted chicken. Nope, I swear she would double down on it whenever we complained.Comment
-
veal breast with vinegar potatoes. ugh!Comment
-
Not so much any specific dish, but growing up it seems like my family didn't understand that food like gravy was so much better not coming out of a can, and that there are other ways to season dishes other than bits of raw onion.Comment
-
My mom is a great cook. But there were 2 words I dreaded hearing - pig ears. We had those regularly cause they were cheap. Skin and gristle. No amount of hot sauce and ketchup could make those things appetizing.Comment
-
My mom and day were both great cooks When I was a kid I liked spam that we heated in Kraft BBQ sauce and HATED kraft Mac and Cheese. Today I would have to be close to starving to eat any kind of spam but request M & C with a slice of buttered bread and some sweet peas when we are stumped for what to fix.Comment
-
Hmm, my mom is a great cook, but she did overcook beef and chicken out of fear of food poisoning - that was NOT going to happen on her watch. I honestly can't think of anything she'd make that "sucked", although I went hungry when she'd make ratatouille.
My MIL however... dear lord have mercy. They live 20 min away so we have dinners together occasionally and some of the things that have shown up on her dinner table are:- jello molds (I've seen green, yellow and orange) - these she calls "salads"
- pea "salad" - peas mixed with a jar of mayo and chunks of cheese, my 11 year old likes peas and won't eat this
- ham "salad" - bologna fed thru a meat grinder with hard boiled eggs and sweet pickles until it is mush, this is a HUGE family favorite on their side (note the lack of actual ham)
I am still confused by it all and just figure its their mid-west 1950's background (no offense meant, I just can't piece this together any other way) and assume they think my family food traditions are just as weird. But I can't explain why everything to her is a "salad" no matter what form it takes. I think the general rule is if its not the main protein - its a "salad". I've taken to inviting them over for dinners rather than going over there, which my wife greatly appreciates despite knowing my ulterior motives, and still one of these "salads" will make its way to us. I have actually stopped serving ham to them after I smoked a gorgeous spiral ham with a peach glaze and they insisted on bringing their own canned cherry sauce to put on top of it. Apparently they are incapable of ingesting ham without this cherry sauce.
Wow... ok, getting a little carried away sorry!Comment
-
Thats hardcore Woodson ! Fish sticks at all times - wow!!
-
My mother would make the worst biscuits. Always dry and void of any flavor. I think she wanted them to taste better but they just never turned out that way.
She was an incredible cook otherwise but when it came to biscuits and other bread related items it was bad.
Me and my sister dubbed the biscuits "hockey pucks"Comment
Comment