What did I cook this weekend.....

[DrunkleJon]

You forgot to mention making enough to portion out and freeze for a quick meal in a pinch. It never seems to last long though that way

 

[JonM]

Got some farm-fresh golden beets at a local farmer's market, and the fancy grocery store near work had some really nice wild-caught walleye on special. Grilled 'em all up together while baking some cheesy biscuits in the oven. Pretty darn good.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Never too late. That sentiment (no blue chez) is akin to "NEVER sauce ribs" as far as I am concerned.

Also, if you only have steak twice a year, then sure, simply enjoy the meat. Twice a month or more, then variety is natural!

Same with burgers. Gonna tell me bacon and blue cheese is blasphemy on a burger?

Guess you don't like beans in chili either!

Purists are good to a reasonable point, and effing annoying beyond that.

Anything goes with burgers its ground meat you cant obliterate it any more than grinding it. I had one today with pulled pork on it. It was good. As with beer and Mexican food i'm admittedly a total snob when it comes to steak and we eat it too often. Of course when you're buying it you're free to ruin it if you choose. I'm from Ohio beans always in chili and ribs either dry rubbed or sauced both is better.


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[bob1852]

Sounds great, how long did you cook the chili for?

This particular comp had a ~4 hour cook time. Chili came out great. Took 2nd place. :rockin:

I don't follow the chili forum but does everyone cook it the day of? I've made some good chili but the greatest by far ones are the ones the day after. I have one that's atomic the day you cook it. Tons of chilis and powders. You're eyes will tear as you're cooking it. The day of it's just atomic. The day after it all melts together to an incredible good heat of flavor.

I agree. Leftover chili is great. Sadly, all ~3.5 gallons were consumed during the public tasting and I didn't get any to eat, let alone and leftovers.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

The people I love to annoy the most are the people that tell me not to put ketchup on a hotdog! *Insert maniacal laughter*

Everyone's gotta pick their own path to hell...

...I think we just identified yours.

 

[Temptd2]

OK, you braunschweiger fans - try my fave: sourdough bread, yellow mustard on one piece, crunchy peanut butter on the other, top the mustard side with braunschweiger slices, then thin-sliced red onion, top with peanut butter slice. Heavenly!

And a recent addition - bread & butter jalapenos!

 

[banesong]

OK, you braunschweiger fans - try my fave: sourdough bread, yellow mustard on one piece, crunchy peanut butter on the other, top the mustard side with braunschweiger slices, then thin-sliced red onion, top with peanut butter slice. Heavenly!

And a recent addition - bread & butter jalapenos!

Please tell me you eat the two sides separately.

 

[BUCKNUTS]

Please tell me you eat the two sides separately.

Yeah i'm with banesong that sounds no bueno


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[Temptd2]

Yeah, it sounds very weird, but it's really delicious! Don't knock it til you've tried it!

 

[passedpawn]

Gyros. Came out much better than I expected.

I took a couple of pounds of ground lamb and a pound of beef and emulsified the mixture with some spices and onions in my food processor. This paste went into a small meat loaf form. At 170F, I took it out of the oven and set bricks on it to compress the loaf into a tight brick block of meat. Meat was sliced and fried briefly to get the right texture.

I made yogurt, strained it into greek yogurt, then added cucumber and mint to make a tzatsiki sauce.

Served in pita pockets with onions / tomatoes / feta, with greek salad.

 

[troy2000]

Getting back to the comments by steak purists: there aren't many bad things you can do to good steaks, aside from overcooking them. I like simply pan frying them, or searing them on a bed of rock salt in an almost red-hot cast iron frying pan, flipping them and turning off the burner; I like them grilled, and I like them broiled. I like them with salt and pepper, or marinated in Italian dressing, or with butter, or buried in mushrooms and onions. I haven't tried one with bleu cheese yet, but that's on my list now.

To call eating a steak with anything but salt and pepper blasphemy is akin to calling all sex but the missionary position perverted....

 

[podz]

Grilled vendace (little fish called "muikku" in Finnish), grilled onions, tomato with mozarella, and some Skeeter Pee!

 

[BUCKNUTS]

To call eating a steak with anything but salt and pepper blasphemy is akin to calling all sex but the missionary position perverted....

Oh no no no no terrible analogy!! Using the sex analogy Having Steak with anything other than salt and pepper is liking having sex with a farm animal it just ain't right.


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[passedpawn]

Grilled vendace (little fish called "muikku" in Finnish), grilled onions, tomato with mozarella, and some Skeeter Pee!

Those look a lot like the smelt I used to eat by the dozen.

 

[paulthenurse]

Don't be knocking the sheep till you've..... Oh wait... I need to be proper on this thread, right?

I had those grilled sardines for lunch every day in Lisbon. Love them.

 

[podz]

I haven't tried one with bleu cheese yet, but that's on my list now.

I always make a thick blue cheese sauce when I cook horse steaks (or horse burgers). It's awesome with a bottle of rosso.

 

[podz]

Those look a lot like the smelt I used to eat by the dozen.

At the price of 1.85 a pound (never seen them at this price before), I think we'll buy a bunch and put them in the freezer for later. My wife has fun sitting outside at the table cleaning them ;-)

 

[troy2000]

I always make a thick blue cheese sauce when I cook horse steaks (or horse burgers). It's awesome with a bottle of rosso.

Eating horses is a touchy subject with people where I was raised. A lot of them consider it one short step from cannibalism....

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I always make a thick blue cheese sauce when I cook horse steaks (or horse burgers). It's awesome with a bottle of rosso.

How does the flavour & texture of horse compare to beef? I've never had horse meat, but I've been curious about it ever since I heard it was fairly common in Sweden/Finland. Horse meat for human consumption is illegal here in the US; not sure why.
Regards, GF.

 

[headbanger]

How does the flavour & texture of horse compare to beef? I've never had horse meat, but I've been curious about it ever since I heard it was fairly common in Sweden/Finland. Horse meat for human consumption is illegal here in the US; not sure why.
Regards, GF.

Honestly sometimes I'm surprised we can still eat beef in the US, all those poor helpless cows.

Anyway, the butts from Saturday tuned out incredibly good. Melts in your mouth just like pork candy!

Also whipped up a loaf of white bread since we were out of buns..

 

[Homercidal]

Grilled bacon wrapped shrimp with BBQ sauce, Texas Caviar (Southwest corn and bean salsa kind of thing), guac and tomatoe salsa, and pulled pork this weekend.

I found a video on Youtube by a guy who does pork and I love that mop sauce he makes. I rubbed with mustard and some Jack Daniels rub (out of homemade stuff) and mopped a couple of times. I expected the butt to require a few more hours in the morning, but it finished by the time I got up from bed so I didn't get to mop it as much as I wanted but everyone said it was the best I've done yet.

Picked up a smoked cheddar yesterday in Petosky in one of them fancy gourmay stores. and we found a pear jam and sliced some pears to go with the cheese and the ladies bought a fancy fruit wine.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"Chopped" style I made dinner last night out of whatever was in the fridge. Boiled some ziti and the sauce was leftover goat cheese, chopped sundried tomatoes and chopped pepperocini peppers. Pretty good if I do say so myself... I might even make it again.

 

[passedpawn]

Two pork butts went on yesterday morning. I have one of those smoker controllers, which I LOVE. I took my two boys golfing during the day, and when we got back the pork was almost done. No worries.

I made a KFC-clone cole slaw. It was almost exact. My daughter says it's the best she's ever had. Here's the recipe. Saucy, sweet and slightly tangy, just like the colonel's (only better ). I used a food processor to chop the cabbage really fine.

 

[cheezydemon3]

To think that there is ANY food that should only be cooked 1 way is incredibly short sighted.


Saying that steak can only be cooked 1 way is akin to saying that scallops can only be prepared 1 way.


Enjoy the ketchup on that hotdog though.

 

[podz]

How does the flavour & texture of horse compare to beef? I've never had horse meat, but I've been curious about it ever since I heard it was fairly common in Sweden/Finland. Horse meat for human consumption is illegal here in the US; not sure why.
Regards, GF.

Horse meat is illegal (back and forth) in the US because the US mentality is an extension of the British mentality, with slight divergences here and there that haven't evolved much over 250 years time. As is Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. It was a British cultural thing to stigmatise the consumption of horse meat, nothing more nothing less. The rest of the world happily eats the meat when the animal is no longer useful, whereas countries like the US and Britain gladly killed horses so they could make glue out of their hooves and simply discarded several hundred pounds of top-notch meat as waste. The basic principle being that you don't eat your pets, and horses were considered as pets by the British. The fact is that a horse is livestock, and livestock aren't pets.

First of all, it's the most wonderful red meat you'll ever eat. It has absolutely zero fat or gristle. You can slice through the steaks like butter. The taste is a bit gamey or spicy, not really quite sure how to describe it. I've eaten a lot of reindeer also and horse tastes pretty similar to reindeer. Definitely try some if you get a chance.

 

[bob1852]

Geronimo (famous Apache warrior) was said to prefer horse meat over the cattle they'd russle from Mexico.

 

[mattmmille]

OK, you braunschweiger fans - try my fave: sourdough bread, yellow mustard on one piespeace, crunchy peanut butter on the other, top the mustard side with braunschweiger slices, then thin-sliced red onion, top with peanut butter slice. Heavenly!

And a recent addition - bread & butter jalapenos!

Speaking of picking your own path to HELL....

 

[BUCKNUTS]

To think that there is ANY food that should only be cooked 1 way is incredibly short sighted.





Saying that steak can only be cooked 1 way is akin to saying that scallops can only be prepared 1 way.





Enjoy the ketchup on that hotdog though.

I'm very narrow minded where certain things are concerned I freely admit this to be true . Beer i'm very snobby, Mexican food forget about it, I won't even go to a "mexican" restaurant near me And a really good steak should be done simply with salt and pepper unless its a tougher cut then do what you must to it braise it smother it in cheese etc. These are my opinions. shortsighted? Yes. Unapologetically so.


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[Temptd2]

Speaking of picking your own path to HELL....

Oh NOOOO, there are FAR more fun ways of getting there than eating a PB/braunschweiger sandwich! LOL!

 

[troy2000]

Horse meat is illegal (back and forth) in the US because the US mentality is an extension of the British mentality, with slight divergences here and there that haven't evolved much over 250 years time. As is Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. It was a British cultural thing to stigmatise the consumption of horse meat, nothing more nothing less. The rest of the world happily eats the meat when the animal is no longer useful, whereas countries like the US and Britain gladly killed horses so they could make glue out of their hooves and simply discarded several hundred pounds of top-notch meat as waste. The basic principle being that you don't eat your pets, and horses were considered as pets by the British. The fact is that a horse is livestock, and livestock aren't pets.

First of all, it's the most wonderful red meat you'll ever eat. It has absolutely zero fat or gristle. You can slice through the steaks like butter. The taste is a bit gamey or spicy, not really quite sure how to describe it. I've eaten a lot of reindeer also and horse tastes pretty similar to reindeer. Definitely try some if you get a chance.

I personally have no qualms about eating horses, or just about anything else that doesn't eat me first. But your narrative is based on dubious history and a touch of cultural bias, IMHO. Reality isn't that simple. For example, at one time the Roman Catholic Church forbade the eating of horsemeat, because doing so was part of pagan religious rites - especially in Germanic populations.

Eating horses and donkeys was common in England, up until the First World War. And horsemeat wasn't effectively banned in the US until 2007, when Congess voted to stop providing funds for health inspection at facilities which slaughtered horses. That's in the process of changing, by the way.

Nor do horses here generally get slaughtered for glue, and the rest of their bodies thrown away. Instead, they're shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.

When federal actions, lawsuits and local resistance forced the last three horse slaughter houses in the United States to close in late 2006, including two in Texas, exports of U.S. horses to slaughterhouses in Mexico skyrocketed 660 percent in three years and 148 percent to operations in Canada.

Long-haul trucks ferried 102,554 horses to slaughter houses in Mexico last year and 39,523 horses to comparable facilities in Canada -- roughly the number of horses that were being slaughtered annually in the United States before interruption of USDA inspections effectively ended the domestic horse slaughtering industry.

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/More-horses-being-shipped-to-Mexico-Canada-for-5379495.php

Texas is one of the more hypocritical states, when it comes to horsemeat. It has banned its sale since 1949, but you'll note two of the three slaughterhouses closed by federal action in 2006 were in Texas. And it ships thousands and thousands of horses to Mexico each year for slaughter.

Your attempt to draw a bright line between pets and livestock is simplistic, by the way; it's a continuum, not a sharp divide. There are working dogs that herd sheep; there are dogs whose only reason for being is keeping someone company. There are horses still being used as beasts of burden; there are riding horses that are loved and cared for as family members. In fact, I've seen a fair number of pet pigs - a couple of them owned by otherwise hardheaded, practical farmers.