What did I cook this weekend.....

[ericbw]

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I came home to find this almost ready to eat. Seared sea bass with ginger, fish sauce, and sesame oil, over wilted greens and asparagus.

Naturally, since I didn't cook it, I did the dishes.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Made penne arrabbiata for dinner, along with sausage
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Then homemade shortcake biscuits topped with fresh berries & whipped cream.
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[kev211]

I'm bach'n it this weekend since swmbo is visiting her sister so I went simple tonight. My evening consisted of... Sitting on a cliff watching the sun set over the ocean, kegging my new honey blonde ale and grilling this... Wild boar sausage from a 200 lb boar I downed last year with polenta and a sauce made from the boar sausage drippings and beef stock. Nothing fancy, not pretty, but super tasty

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[mcspanner]

View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1459602958.882653.jpg Prepping pork loin in Ruhlman & Polcyn's spicy dry rub (p88 of charcuterie for anyone with the book). Will either hot smoke or oven roast tomorrow depending on the weather.

 

[Staestc]

Made penne arrabbiata for dinner, along with sausage
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Then homemade shortcake biscuits topped with fresh berries & whipped cream.
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Omg, that's just amazing!

 

[Staestc]

View attachment 348395 Prepping pork loin in Ruhlman & Polcyn's spicy dry rub (p88 of charcuterie for anyone with the book). Will either hot smoke or oven roast tomorrow depending on the weather.

That's just amazing too! I love cooking BIG MEAT!

 

[Staestc]

Speaking of, here's fresh pineapple and BIG MEAT! Lol
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[Staestc]

And big meat turned into smaller meat, seasoned and browned.
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[Staestc]

Then a sauce of white onion, achiote paste, ancho chilies, garlic, cider vinegar, chipotles in adobo, and fresh pineapple (both blended and some just diced) goes in. Now it's doing its braise thing for the next 2 or 3 hours, then Wahoo!, Taco meat!
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[mcspanner]

And big meat turned into smaller meat, seasoned and browned.
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Looking good, what's it destined to become?

Ah missed the last post in the sequence. Now I see it!

 

[Staestc]

Tacos con Sabor "Al Pastor". The pineapple combined with the pork and chilies sounds like a can't miss to me! New recipe though, so will see in a few hours.

 

[mcspanner]

Tacos con Sabor "Al Pastor". The pineapple combined with the pork and chilies sounds like a can't miss to me! New recipe though, so will see in a few hours.

Pineapples and chillies form the base of a lot of my hot sauces so that's got to be good based on my experience. Post the recipe if it's a winner.

 

[BrewingTravisty]

I forgot to take pictures of my food tonight. I grilled some top sirloin steaks, each steak was about 2 inches thick. Mine was cooked to a perfect medium rare, the others were about a medium well. I marinated the steaks with some chopped rosemary from the herb garden, minced garlic, black pepper and some Worcestershire. I used the left over marinade to pour into the veggies (string beans, peppers, onions and potatoes) that I cooked in a foiled bag on the grill. I was too hungry to think to take a picture lol turned out wonderful though. The rosemary really came through nicely in the steak.

 

[Remmy]

Smoked pork butt. Made made nachos. Smacked.
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[mattmmille]

Tacos con Sabor "Al Pastor". The pineapple combined with the pork and chilies sounds like a can't miss to me! New recipe though, so will see in a few hours.

That reminds me, I need to make some more pineapple-chipotle salsa this Summer. Created it a few years ago with dreams of marketing it...never got off the ground, but it's a good salsa.

 

[StonesBally]

Sous vide sirloin, seared, and served over soft polenta with roasted mushrooms and carrots, with a sauce made from roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, and reduced brown beef stock. Matched the snowy weather here today nicely.

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[Staestc]

The new taco recipe was indeed a winner! Was good on both flour and corn tortillas, with chopped green chilies, sour cream, queso fresco, mozzarella, hot sauces, salsas, additional fresh pineapple, etc.

The recipe is available at http://pinaenlacocina.com/2015/08/06/tacos-con-sabor-al-pastor-quesadillas-gringas/

I made it pretty much like her recipe calls for. It's a little confusing. I put 1 cup of pineapple in the sauce in the blender. Then after that was smooth, I mixed in 1 additional cup of small dice pineapple before adding it all to the browned pork.

Not the best picture but I almost forgot to get one at all of the finished product

 

[mcspanner]

The new taco recipe was indeed a winner! Was good on both flour and corn tortillas, with chopped green chilies, sour cream, queso fresco, mozzarella, hot sauces, salsas, additional fresh pineapple, etc.



The recipe is available at http://pinaenlacocina.com/2015/08/06/tacos-con-sabor-al-pastor-quesadillas-gringas/

Will try that out for sure.

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[mattmmille]

Will try that out for sure.

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Man, that looks like a plateful of "Oh HELL yeah!"

 

[Staestc]

Ditto what Matt said. Looks fantastic!

 

[iijakii]

Thanks to this thread last week I'm currently reseasoning my cast iron skillet that hasnt been used in a good 5 years (and left in the garage and seriously neglected). Ran it through the oven self-clean cycle, scoured some rust off and washed with soapy water, now it's baking with a thin layer of olive oil. Wish I had a flax or something that can take much higher temp, but it'll do. I did just remember that I have coconut oil... maybe do that on round 2. Going to make nothing in it but bacon for awhile to get it nice and seasoned.

 

[slym2none]

Hydrogenated vegetable oil (Crisco, essentially) is your best bet for seasoning a cast iron pan. But whatever's clever. Cooking lots of bacon is a good one too, because, well, bacon.

 

[ChefRex]

The new taco recipe was indeed a winner! Was good on both flour and corn tortillas, with chopped green chilies, sour cream, queso fresco, mozzarella, hot sauces, salsas, additional fresh pineapple, etc.

The recipe is available at http://pinaenlacocina.com/2015/08/06/tacos-con-sabor-al-pastor-quesadillas-gringas/

I made it pretty much like her recipe calls for. It's a little confusing. I put 1 cup of pineapple in the sauce in the blender. Then after that was smooth, I mixed in 1 additional cup of small dice pineapple before adding it all to the browned pork.

Not the best picture but I almost forgot to get one at all of the finished product

Did you make the tortillas? I did my first flour ones last week, no turning back now.

 

[banesong]

Did you make the tortillas? I did my first flour ones last week, no turning back now.

Flour, bah. Masa or bust!

Except with burritos.

 

[ChefRex]

Flour, bah. Masa or bust!

Except with burritos.

I usually prefer corn and my first attempt wasn't all that impressed, more work to be done

 

[kev211]

Flour, bah. Masa or bust!

Except with burritos.

This. Corn ftw. Tacos on flour tortillas are a Mexican crepe if you ask me. But i do agree with banesong on the burrito comment.

 

[hunter_le five]

Started some kimchi tonight. Obviously should have done a double batch.

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[Staestc]

Did you make the tortillas? I did my first flour ones last week, no turning back now.

Not this time. The flour ones were fresh cooked from Kroger, and were still warm when I bought them and are just great. The corn ones I should have made myself.

 

[BGBC]

Started some kimchi tonight. Obviously should have done a double batch.

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Looks like you forgot the chili powder.

 

[hunter_le five]

Looks like you forgot the chili powder.

The wife doesn't like spicy food.

I went, really, reeeeally light on the chili.