What did I cook this weekend.....

[Staestc]

I've been working out of town for two weeks and will be gone again next week but am cooking tonight. New recipe from America's Test Kitchen. Another slow braise this time with boneless beef short ribs. It's called Carne Deshebrada. I think I got the idea to look it up from one of y'all's posts a couple of weeks ago.

Here it is ready to go in the oven. Beef ribs sitting on top of onions with ancho chillies, cider vinegar, Homebrew Irish Red beer, garlic, cumin, oregano, bay leaves, cloves, and cinnamon.
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Will shred it when it comes out and do a cabbage slaw to top it on tacos.

 

[Melana]

My time to cook is coming....

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[gratus fermentatio]

Your kitchen is shaping up very nicely Melana!
Regards, GF.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Grilled some mahi-mahi and topped with homemade mango salsa. Turned out great and a nice slow burn on the salsa.
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Did you get any bitterness from the lemons?
Regards, GF.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Grilled some mahi-mahi and topped with homemade mango salsa. Turned out great and a nice slow burn on the salsa.
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The lemon bit sounds like a great trick!

Just to be clear, the fish doesn't come into direct contact with the grill and the lemons don't move during cooking?

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Did you get any bitterness from the lemons?

Regards, GF.

Nope - just a mild flavor of lemon

The lemon bit sounds like a great trick!



Just to be clear, the fish doesn't come into direct contact with the grill and the lemons don't move during cooking?

Correct.

 

[passedpawn]

My time to cook is coming....

Danged Melana, that granite is cool. I have a similar natural pattern in mine and love it.

 

[podz]

My time to cook is coming....

Gas stoves are awesome. What brand of sink do you have? Why does your countertop hang over so far from the edge of your cabinet? And why did you decide to have an electrical outlet mounted into the side of your cabinet? Are you going to get the wall tiled behind the sink, etc?

 

[mattmmille]

Gas stoves are awesome. What brand of sink do you have? Why does your countertop hang over so far from the edge of your cabinet? And why did you decide to have an electrical outlet mounted into the side of your cabinet? Are you going to get the wall tiled behind the sink, etc?

The last house I owned, before the current one, was purchased while early in construction and we were able to specify a very similar counter. Ours wasn't granite and it had a raised portion where Melana's overhangs. Unfortunately, the contractor made it too high. The idea was to have an area to put barstools, so kids (or whoever) could eat at the counter. We had ours bi-leveled to create separation from prep surface...but all barstools were too low. But my guess is the overhang is to accomodate people sitting there, with room for knees. Electrical outlet for blendor to make margaritas at parties, right?!

 

[passedpawn]

America is a place that ranges from the southern tip of Argentina to the northern tip of Canada; no single country has a claim to the name in the League of Nations, United Nations or ISO-3166 country code list. That's why we have the continental designations of North America, Central America and South America.

I was simply just a bit amazed that in this day and age, people still like dark wood cabinets with centuries old style of routed front panels. Sort of like wearing bell-bottom jeans and shirts with collars that reach to your shoulders ;-)

Are you trolling? Between the pedantic first comment and the mean second (a continuation of other mean comments), you seem to be looking for an argument here.

 

[ChefRex]

Braised an Asian inspired pork shoulder, fried rice and stirfried ginger/garlic broccoli, everyone was happy, so happy I forgot the pictures

 

[Temptd2]

I made up a big pot of chile verde with 4 pounds of pork shoulder cubes. Cooked it in the pressure cooker for 20 minutes, which yielded luscious tender pork and a nice sauce. I made a little slurry of maseca and water and stirred that into the bubbling liquid to thicken it up just a bit. Now it sits til Cinco de Mayo - it's so much better when it's had 24 to 48 hours to meld all the flavors!

Tonight we had taco salads with homefried tortilla chips. We also made 7 quarts of BBQ potato chips today.

 

[unionrdr]

Wife finally made her homemade lasagna yesterday. Washed it down with a SN summerfest lager.

 

[Homercidal]

Boring weekend. (Cooking wise).

Wife grilled brats yesterday. I cut a a couple of different brats/sausage dogs and grilled on a skewer and slathered in BBQ sauce.

The cheese sausage dogs were ok, but the plain brats were really good. Looking for a nice, simple, meat-on-a-stick thing to make for camping/brewing.

 

[DrunkleJon]

My time to cook is coming....

That is a beautiful granite slab. I really like the pattern.

And why did you decide to have an electrical outlet mounted into the side of your cabinet?

Looks like the outlet is on the side of the island. Gives you more working space for temporary appliances like a good stand mixer or maybe a meat slicer.


This weekend I continued reaccustoming myself to the charcoal side of my grill (a cheapish $200 Brinkman gas on the left, charcoal on the right, bought it a couple years ago and its holding up great). I grilled bratwurst on Friday night, some hot italian sausages for lunch on Saturday. Then I decided I had not had enough animal proteins and fats and lit up my smoker and threw about 13 pounds of pork shoulder/butt on the WSM at about 10pm Saturday night. Pulled it off at 2pm and had some amazing pulled pork for dinner. Quickest butt smoke yet, usually they go for 20 hours. My coworkers are going to hate me because the office is going to smell like leftover pulled pork sammiches all week.

 

[Melana]

I managed to get nothing cooked this weekend... BigJohn did grill some beautiful steaks.

The island has outlets so I can use my mixer, etc.
The island overhangs for seating ability.
Kraus Made my kitchen sink.
The range is a GE profile and i'm running it on propane because there is no natural gas lines on my street.
I am working with the existing light oak cabinets that were there when i bought the house. They are solid wood cabinets and in no way chip board or the like. By using half of the existing kitchen i am saving more than $10K on the remodel.
The granite is 'White Wave' and it's from Brazil.
I have been waiting on the backsplash to see what goes best with the granite.

I think i answered most of the questions?

 

[podz]

thanks Melana and sorry for dissing your style. hope you are cooking soon.

 

[mattmmille]

Simple but delicious: homemade pimento cheese on toasted whole wheat bread with thin sliced and salted tomatoes.

 

[vanishingpint]

Hey podz. Sorry if I was out of line with the America thing .I guess Az and I were over the line .I know we were off topic but it was all in good fun ergo the winkie icon .I'll be hanging out ,and reading .Love this thread.

 

[JonM]

Smoked a couple chickens yesterday, and they turned out great.

Friday, SWMBO made the "Grown Up Grilled Cheese" recipe from America's Test Kitchen. It uses a blend of shredded aged white cheddar, brie, and shallots on crusty bread, and then some dry mustard mixed into the butter on the outside. It was pretty freakin' fabulous.

 

[podz]

Hey podz. Sorry if I was out of line with the America thing .I guess Az and I were over the line .I know we were off topic but it was all in good fun ergo the winkie icon .I'll be hanging out ,and reading .Love this thread.

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[LakesideBrewing]

Whole leg of lamb on the open fire rotisserie.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

So, SessionableGoodness has been told by the pediatrician to get more protein in his diet. He made it pretty clear that he no longer wants chicken liver, and the idea of "meat puree" doesn't sound very appetizing... so I looked to tofu.

I made a carrot, ginger and tofu soup with curry powder (maybe the second time Ive cooked with curry powder), and ran the whole thing through the Cuisinart until it was nice and creamy-smooth. My son ate an adult-sized portion, and tried to eat more even though he was full. Success I think!

Best part is the corresponding diaper should be coming while I am at work. Poor nanny is making her wages today...

 

[banesong]

So, SessionableGoodness has been told by the pediatrician to get more protein in his diet. He made it pretty clear that he no longer wants chicken liver, and the idea of "meat puree" doesn't sound very appetizing... so I looked to tofu.

I made a carrot, ginger and tofu soup with curry powder (maybe the second time Ive cooked with curry powder), and ran the whole thing through the Cuisinart until it was nice and creamy-smooth. My son ate an adult-sized portion, and tried to eat more even though he was full. Success I think!

Best part is the corresponding diaper should be coming while I am at work. Poor nanny is making her wages today...

Ugh... There was a period when all my eldest would eat was blueberries. The diapers were darker than my soul.

 

[podz]

Whole leg of lamb on the open fire rotisserie.

That is just too awesome. I am in the planning stages now of building a brick grill and rotisserie that is able to cook an entire lamb in one piece. I've got a pile of bricks in the back yard and just picked up an old Hoover mangle for the purpose of using it's electric motor.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Whole leg of lamb on the open fire rotisserie.

That is truly a thing of beauty!
Regards, GF.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

So, SessionableGoodness has been told by the pediatrician to get more protein in his diet. He made it pretty clear that he no longer wants chicken liver, and the idea of "meat puree" doesn't sound very appetizing... so I looked to tofu.

I made a carrot, ginger and tofu soup with curry powder (maybe the second time Ive cooked with curry powder), and ran the whole thing through the Cuisinart until it was nice and creamy-smooth. My son ate an adult-sized portion, and tried to eat more even though he was full. Success I think!

Best part is the corresponding diaper should be coming while I am at work. Poor nanny is making her wages today...

You're either brave or vindictive to feed a baby curry. Though I think it's pretty cool that he liked it so much. Hopefully he won't be a picky eater & will enjoy culinary diversity. How long till he's eating fully solid food?
Regards, GF.

 

[Melana]

So, SessionableGoodness has been told by the pediatrician to get more protein in his diet. He made it pretty clear that he no longer wants chicken liver, and the idea of "meat puree" doesn't sound very appetizing... so I looked to tofu.

I made a carrot, ginger and tofu soup with curry powder (maybe the second time Ive cooked with curry powder), and ran the whole thing through the Cuisinart until it was nice and creamy-smooth. My son ate an adult-sized portion, and tried to eat more even though he was full. Success I think!

Best part is the corresponding diaper should be coming while I am at work. Poor nanny is making her wages today...

Cool! When mine was little the first meat product we let her gum was pulled pork and she loved it.

 

[unionrdr]

I used to toss a leg of lamb & a ham in the pit for Easter dinner. Dry-rubbed barky goodness! Yesterday, I used this new kind of center-cut bacon Giant Eagle has to wrap some hot dogs & broiled them, since it was raining on & off. It was the kind of up-scale bacon they gave a free pound of when you bought a gallon of orange juice & king-size loaf of bread. The bacon itself had 4 strips of meat running through a little fat. But upon tasting the wrapped dogs, I'd swear they brined the slabs, but didn't smoke'em or anything?! They tasted like a butcher shop smells, like clean, fresh meat.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

You're either brave or vindictive to feed a baby curry. Though I think it's pretty cool that he liked it so much. Hopefully he won't be a picky eater & will enjoy culinary diversity. How long till he's eating fully solid food?
Regards, GF.

He started eating things like pureed squash at 4 months. 6 months later and he's been a little eating machine. We have videos of him eating miso soup, my spaghetti sauce, veggie and fruit purees, mashed potatoes, cheerios (1 at a time) and on and on and he slaps the tray table of his high chair and makes "mmmm mmm mmm!" noises. His weird new thing is eating with one foot up... sometimes getting blueberries on his toes.