What did I cook this weekend.....

[Remmy]

Bye bye.

 

[S-Met]

Eggs are one of the things I will not use the All-Clad for. I pull out the nonstick for those. There might be some guru out there who's figured out how to cook an egg in all-clad, but not me.

Not impossible, but with a wel seasoned cast iron and a non-stick teflon always handy, I don't see a reason to struggle.

The issue wasn’t the eggs themselves sticking, it was all the whispy pieces of egg white that floated around and finally settled on the bottom.

do you adf acid to your poaching water? Vinegar or lemon or lime juice helps coagulation of the whites.

Teflon releases fumes when over-heated that will kill parakeets, even when we can't smell it. If I HAVE to use Teflon, I guess I can use the propane on the back porch, but nothing in the house. It is just one of MANY ways the household had to shift around those birds...

We used them with birds in the house when I was a kid. We never put them on over medium heat and always did their 1st bake/high heat outside on the grill.

Get a better brie. There are quite few out there that are exceedingly marginal.

There are quite a few that are exceedingly inedible!

 

[S-Met]

It is real, and don’t use fabreeze with birds in the home either. Never feed them chocolate nor avocado.

Don't get them wet and never ever feed them after midnight!

 

[schematix]

Not impossible, but with a wel seasoned cast iron and a non-stick teflon always handy, I don't see a reason to struggle.

do you adf acid to your poaching water? Vinegar or lemon or lime juice helps coagulation of the whites.


We used them with birds in the house when I was a kid. We never put them on over medium heat and always did their 1st bake/high heat outside on the grill.


There are quite a few that are exceedingly inedible!

Yup I always acidify with white vinegar. But I really don’t know how much is the right amount. Probably a second use for my pH meter.

My rule of thumb with Brie is that if it looks like it’s holding its shape on its own I don’t buy it. I want to see it ooze. My normal grocery store fortunately has a really good cheese offering so this is easy to come by.

 

[Inkleg]

Sous Vide steak and smashed potatoes and Instant Pot Brussel sprouts.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Stuffed peppers.

 

[Staestc]

Chili turned out really well. Wife loves it and it’s pretty Keto since I left out beans and replace them with meat.

Wife ordered some baking mix from Amazon. I can’t remember the name. So I made these cheddar biscuits last night from the recipe on the box. Supposed to be around 1.7 grams of carbs each. These were surprisingly good!

 

[user 211287]

Legumes may be high in carbs but they are complex carbs and lots of insoluble fiber too. In some cases over 1/3rd is in fiber. So the real carb intake is lower than say.......a baked potato or rice in the same portion size. The glysemic index of some legumes is about 1/3rd of a baked potato.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/16/ask-the-expert-legumes-and-resistant-starch/

Try some Edens Foods black soy beans sometime. Only 8grams of carbs and 7grams of it is fiber but it packs in 11grams of protein.
https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/2814657/2

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Just some wurst.

 

[S-Met]

Top sirloin, Green beans, heirloom tomatoes and garlic bread (1/2 melted parmesan, other 1/2 melted bleu). Steak dipped in a balsamic reduction then reduction drizzled over everything.

 

[Staestc]

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Top sirloin, Green beans, heirloom tomatoes and garlic bread (1/2 melted parmesan, other 1/2 melted bleu). Steak dipped in a balsamic reduction then reduction drizzled over everything.

That's just mouthwatering! Very nice!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

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Just some wurst.

Wurst? It doesn't get any better

 

[Temptd2]

Travis, was that Carbquik you used? They have a recipe for cheddar biscuits on the box, or at least they did. I like that stuff, I use it for quite a few things, including the old "impossible Bisquick pies" recipes - just use the Carbquik in place of Bisquick.

It's also good for thickening gravies and stuff! AND you can make a roux with it, you just have to watch it really carefully.

 

[user 211287]

Pretty standard ham and beans. Just a tiny bit of heat added. Completely from scratch including the bone i saved and dried beans soaked for 24hr.

 

[jimyson]

Breakfast

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Timed perfectly for after OT game and start of Pat's game. Grass feed NY strip from a the next town over farm

 

[S-Met]

Wife wanted burgers. Went to the store to see what was on sale, got a chunk roast, tri-tip and top sirloin. Into the meat grinder... two beautiful delicious no-shrink burgers.
Melted Cambozola, sauteed onion and mushrooms and baby greens.

 

[S-Met]

Fyi, instead of hand chopping the meat like I usually do, I used my Kitchen-aid meat grinder attachment (that I didn't know I had) for the first time - inherited with a bunch of accessories. While I will openly tell you that its not the best meat grinder, It's good enough.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I've been dying to grind my meat. Target had the KA attachment on sale during Christmas for $30. I returned it because Amazon had a lightening deal for this $30 two weeks later. Reviews were similar but I like the metal

 

[S-Met]

I've been dying to grind my meat. Target had the KA attachment on sale during Christmas for $30. I returned it because Amazon had a lightening deal for this $30 two weeks later. Reviews were similar but I like the metalView attachment 608269

Is it all metal? Mine is plastic and metal and has some cracks in the plastc housing. Will eventually be replaced due to difficulty with sanitation .

 

[schematix]

3hr lasagna... spinach, sausage and a boatload of bechemel, plus pounds of cheese.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Is it all metal? Mine is plastic and metal and has some cracks in the plastc housing. Will eventually be replaced due to difficulty with sanitation .

All metal. I read about some of the KA breaking and I like the cleanliness of metal. Metal can still break tho but I also like the idea of chilling the metal before grinding. I have an old beefy cast iron one I've never used

 

[schematix]

I’ve had my KA grinder since 2006 and it’s always been dishwasher washed. Shockingly the plastic is still flawless. Only maintenance I do is put a drop of oil on the o-ring before use.

Plastic made today is not the same as a decade ago though. All those toxic additives were there for a good reason and the chemists knew why.

The grinder does a good texture for sausage but for burgers it’s too course and doesn’t make long enough ropes. IMHO.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I’ve had my KA grinder since 2006 and it’s always been dishwasher washed. Shockingly the plastic is still flawless. Only maintenance I do is put a drop of oil on the o-ring before use.

Plastic made today is not the same of a decade ago though. All those toxic additives were there for a good reason and the chemists knew why.

The grinder does a good texture for sausage but for burgers it’s too course and doesn’t make long enough ropes. IMHO.

I came very close to keeping both. Can't go wrong for $30.

 

[Staestc]

Travis, was that Carbquik you used? They have a recipe for cheddar biscuits on the box, or at least they did. I like that stuff, I use it for quite a few things, including the old "impossible Bisquick pies" recipes - just use the Carbquik in place of Bisquick.

It's also good for thickening gravies and stuff! AND you can make a roux with it, you just have to watch it really carefully.

Yep, that's the stuff. The biscuits were good but they are the only thing I have used it for so far. I did not know about doing roux with it. I'm going to make sausage balls again and use it in place of the bisquik!

 

[Staestc]

3hr lasagna... spinach, sausage and a boatload of bechemel, plus pounds of cheese.

That's a thing of beauty!!

 

[Temptd2]

This was dinner. Chicken fried in pure lard. NO seasoning, NO breading just -CHICKEN- and then just before serving you brush with melted garlic butter. OMG stand aside Colonel Sanders, I no longer love you!

It was crispy and delicious.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Made a big pot of pasta fagioli. Easy leftovers this week.

 

[LakesideBrewing]

This was dinner. Chicken fried in pure lard. NO seasoning, NO breading just -CHICKEN- and then just before serving you brush with melted garlic butter. OMG stand aside Colonel Sanders, I no longer love you!

It was crispy and delicious.

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I love everything about this!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

This was dinner. Chicken fried in pure lard. NO seasoning, NO breading just -CHICKEN- and then just before serving you brush with melted garlic butter. OMG stand aside Colonel Sanders, I no longer love you!

It was crispy and delicious.

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I'd eat that, and ask for seconds!
Regards, GF.