What did I cook this weekend.....

[Temptd2]

I agree! I'd rather have perfectly cooked seafood vs. perfectly cooked potatoes!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Fresh kielbasa, fresh steamed vegetables and frozen pierogi. Two out of three ain’t bad.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

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Fresh kielbasa, fresh steamed vegetables and frozen pierogi. Two out of three ain’t ba

Replace the vegetables with butter or sour cream and you get

 

[OleBrewing]

Replace the vegetables with butter or sour cream and you get

was thinking replace veggies with kraut.

 

[BongoYodeler]

was thinking replace veggies with kraut.

What if they’re sauerkraut pierogies?

 

[AZ Maverick]

Yesterday/this morning, I did a brisket on the Grilla Silverbac pellet smoker.

 

[wetmk]

Chuck short ribs... grilled. I was a little skeptical, but they came out great.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Big baked tater that I didn’t finis, roasted turkey and yellow carrots with zucchini.

 

[OleBrewing]

Chuck short ribs... grilled. I was a little skeptical, but they came out great.

Looks perfectly cooked. there are a few cuts that are great besides the common strip, ribeye, etc. (the butchers cut). had a chuck steak the other night, they called them chuck tenders which i assume are a small pc of the chuck roast that gets trimmed off. fabulous they are lean so do take longer to cook, but smoked on the pellet oven then pan seared in butter. better than top sirloin or strip and more flavor than tenderloin just not as tender. then there are some cuts of pork that get overlooked.

since the high end cuts are well into the 20$ lb range for beef i go towards the other end.

 

[TwistedGray]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

It’s a brat!

 

[passedpawn]

Pastrami ribs. Pretty awesome. I just used the exact same procedure I use to make pastrami. Cure meat (pork babybacks) in a solution of salts (incl pink salt) and mulling spices, soak in water for a day or two to remove some of the salt, rub with pepper and coriander, smoke as usual. Pretty incredible and unexpected, for sure. It's pastrami off the bone. Try it

 

[Rodent]

@passedpawn thanks for the inspiration - I definitely gotta try this!

 

[passedpawn]

@passedpawn thanks for the inspiration - I definitely gotta try this!

• If you don't have experience making your own corned beef, look up a recipe. It's pretty easy, but you need to find pink salt for curing (not Himalayan btw).
• When making corned beef, it can take 7-10 days for the cure to work its way into the meat. With ribs, just 3 days. Do your best to remove the membrane from the back of the ribs to allow the cure to get in.
• Don't skip the water soak! It'll be too salty, otherwise

 

[Rodent]

• If you don't have experience making your own corned beef, look up a recipe. It's pretty easy, but you need to find pink salt for curing (not Himalayan btw).
• When making corned beef, it can take 7-10 days for the cure to work its way into the meat. With ribs, just 3 days. Do your best to remove the membrane from the back of the ribs to allow the cure to get in.
• Don't skip the water soak! It'll be too salty, otherwise

thank you for the tips!

and YES - always get that membrane offadem ribs!!

 

[Rodent]

took my first stab at extending my canning beyond jams and syrups, and made a batch of spicy dilly beans.

Packed the jars on edge as tight as I could force a bunch in and had lengths adjusted to within a 1/2" of the rim, but the cold pack beans shrunk up quite a bit during the hot water bath processing. Maybe this is normal and/or the beans will expand a bit in the coming days. We'll see soon enough

Mustard seed, black peppercorns, fresh garlic, sweet onions, and a couple fresh Thai chilis (split lengthwise) accompany the beans and brine in each jar.

 

[wetmk]

Pastrami ribs. Pretty awesome. I just used the exact same procedure I use to make pastrami. Cure meat (pork babybacks) in a solution of salts (incl pink salt) and mulling spices, soak in water for a day or two to remove some of the salt, rub with pepper and coriander, smoke as usual. Pretty incredible and unexpected, for sure. It's pastrami off the bone. Try it

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Certainly looks interesting. I just put a brisket flat into a brine for pastrami yesterday. I'll keep the ribs in mind but I think next I'm going to try salmon.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Tuna steak, salad and Kasespatzle.

 

[DonT]

I just picked up this Blackstone griddle. I've done a few cooks on it... mostly smash burgers. This is a maple sausage gnocchi skillet dish that I did the other evening. There's a meat market kinda near us and a buddy of mine goes there regularly. They specialize in sausage and they are amazing.

 

[OzzyPeeps]

Organic chicken tikka for the win, ready to add to this week's curries.

Weatherman says it's gonna be a dhansak week ...

 

[TwistedGray]

Pineapple tomatillo (from the garden) salsa on top of some swordfish - really good

 

[bwible]

Lobster tails were on sale for $5 each, we got 4 for $20. Couldn’t pass on that. I made cheddar scalloped potatoes to go with it.

Lobster tail is really easy to cook once somebody shows you how and you do it once. I have 16 seasons of America’s Test Kitchen on dvd and learned a whole lot from them.

 

[Rodent]

@bwible - Two-fers! (if you'd have been eating out in MA or ME during sea rat season)

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I know, I know! It’s just a cold sandwich, but it’s so good on home baked bread.

 

[bwible]

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I know, I know! It’s just a cold sandwich, but it’s so good on home baked bread.

Yeah we have an abundance of tomatoes right now too. My wife has made sauce 3 times

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Boneless chicken breast, cauliflower and a baked sweet potato.

 

[wetmk]

That's a really nice looking chicken breast.

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Boneless chicken breast, cauliflower and a baked sweet potato.

 

[Temptd2]

No pic, so didn't happen BUT we scored some heavily-marbled, Korean-cut beef short ribs at Sam's this week. I put them in an Asian-inspired marinade for 4 hours, then grilled 4 minutes each side on the Weber gas grill. OH MAN! KOTC kept saying how good they were. If we see ribs like that at Sam's again we will be buying them up!

 

[OleBrewing]

I know, I know! It’s just a cold sandwich, but it’s so good on home baked bread.

no bacon lettuce or mayo?

 

[lschiavo]

Is it a BLT without the M?