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It's national pepper pot soup day. Just sayin

I had tomato basil bisque for lunch. Darn.

I just thought up a restaurant concept for the Trump brand. It's really expensive, and they take you and your family or clients back into the kitchen and start barking orders at you as you try to keep up with the peeling, chopping, searing, seasoning, and plating of a sequence of items. It's a complete disaster until the chef says, "Ha ha! Just kidding!" and then presents you with a gorgeously prepared feast, and hands off the mess you made to some group of homeless people huddled around the back door as you sit down to dine luxuriously.

Epoisses

We're making the same thing we always make on New years Eve. I don't know what you call it though. It has beef kielbasa sausage, egg white noodles, cabbage, and onions all cooked in a big pot. Good stuff.

azgreg wrote:We're making the same thing we always make on New years Eve. I don't know what you call it though. It has beef kielbasa sausage, egg white noodles, cabbage, and onions all cooked in a big pot. Good stuff.

And you always look at the wife and kids and say, "We should eat this more often."

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:We're making the same thing we always make on New years Eve. I don't know what you call it though. It has beef kielbasa sausage, egg white noodles, cabbage, and onions all cooked in a big pot. Good stuff.

And you always look at the wife and kids and say, "We should eat this more often."

We have it a lot. Love the stuff and it's easy to make.

That sounds like a recipe I'd like.

I love my wife but sometimes I really wish she wasnt vegetarian, or that I cared more about such things in my 20s.

Making that dish would be table for one in my household. (Fortunately my daughter loves hamburgers and salmon, so there is hope for me having a culinary partner in crime in a few years as her palette rounds out.)

A Chinese friend's Szechwan mother who doesn't speak a word of English made us all a big dinner tonight. Holy holy.

Longhorned wrote:Epoisses

Had to Google. Had kugele on Christmas Eve. Like it even better the next day fried in butter for a breakfast side dish.

Used my new pressure cooker for split pea and ham soup yesterday. Best I've ever had.

Some kind of sweet potatoes experiment.

Yam and eggs?

I'm making Lipton onion soup meatballs.

Bacon wrapped pork loin, au gratin potatoes, green beans, salad.

My kids ate the shit out of everything except the green beans of course.

How'd you make the green beans?

gonna be a hotdog night around here.

My daughter loves em!

Chicat wrote:Bacon wrapped pork loin, au gratin potatoes, green beans, salad.

My kids ate the shit out of everything except the green beans of course.

In the 90s, Oprah Winfrey's personal chef went on her show to promote his cookbook, telling Americans to hide their vegetables inside au gratin potatoes so you could eat your green beans without noticing them. My mom obliged. Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

ASUHATER! wrote:How'd you make the green beans?

Sautéed with garlic. They were delicious, but unfortunately cooking them perfectly didn't change the fact that they're a green vegetable other than peas.

Longhorned wrote:In the 90s, Oprah Winfrey's personal chef went on her show to promote his cookbook, telling Americans to hide their vegetables inside au gratin potatoes so you could eat your green beans without noticing them. My mom obliged. Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Sounds like some Dr. Phil shit...

Chicat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:How'd you make the green beans?

Sautéed with garlic. They were delicious, but unfortunately cooking them perfectly didn't change the fact that they're a green vegetable other than peas.

Longhorned wrote:In the 90s, Oprah Winfrey's personal chef went on her show to promote his cookbook, telling Americans to hide their vegetables inside au gratin potatoes so you could eat your green beans without noticing them. My mom obliged. Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Sounds like some Dr. Phil shit...

I like to boil them just for a minute and then put them in ice water, then Sautee with half butter half olive oil with shallots, salt and pepper.

ASUHATER! wrote: I like to boil them just for a minute and then put them in ice water, then Sautee with half butter half olive oil with shallots, salt and pepper.

And then cover them up with a bunch of creamy cheesey potatoes.

That always works as well. Why did God make creamy cheesy potatoes? Why am I chubby?

Sloppy Joe's, potato chips and a Coors Light slushy. Need to turn down the mancave fridge a bit.

I made parmesan panko crusted salmon and zucchini noodles (zoodles).

My kids are assholes and refused to eat it. I thought it was delicious so fuck them.

I slow-roasted a 9 pound pork shoulder roast on Saturday. It set me back $25 including tax. It's been the gift that keeps on giving.

Saturday: Danish pork roast with crackling, Danish caramelized potatoes, Danish braised cabbage and apples

Sunday: Pork roast sandwiches with Montamore cheese and claytonia

Monday: Pork crackling bucatini all'amatriciana, claytonia salad with olive oil and balsamic

Tomorrow: Philadelphia roasted pork, provolone, and broccoli raab sandwiches

Day after tomorrow: The rest of the pork crackling amatriciana

Chicat wrote:I made parmesan panko crusted salmon and zucchini noodles (zoodles).

My kids are assholes and refused to eat it. I thought it was delicious so fuck them.

My boys were like that for a while. I used to cave and make what they wanted. Not anymore. If they don't eat what we make they don't eat unless they fix it themselves.

Eat what the cook cooks. Pretty simple.

azgreg wrote:

Chicat wrote:I made parmesan panko crusted salmon and zucchini noodles (zoodles).

My kids are assholes and refused to eat it. I thought it was delicious so fuck them.

My boys were like that for a while. I used to cave and make what they wanted. Not anymore. If they don't eat what we make they don't eat unless they fix it themselves.

I didn't cave. They probably went to bed pretty hungry. Oh well, maybe next time they'll eat.

Salmon was the dinner rejected by my sister's 7 year-old kids that ended the showdown.

"Fine, you're getting candy from now on!"

Breakfast: Two handfuls of miniature candy bars unceremoniously tossed on the table. The kids were thrilled.

Lunch: Off to school with just candy bars in their lunchboxes.

Dinner: Still more candy bars thrown onto the table.

"You don't love us anymore!" they yelled, breaking out into an uncontrolled bawl.

The next night they even ate their vegetables.

Sandwich dinner:

Roasted pork, provolone, and broccoli raab on ciabatta

Reminded me how much I love a roasted meat sandwich.

That sounds awesome. Needs some kinda sauce though

ASUHATER! wrote:That sounds awesome. Needs some kinda sauce though

They serve a solid Dinic's roast pork knockoff at Frankie's on Campbell. No sauce needed, the pork is super moist and flavorful.

wyo-cat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:That sounds awesome. Needs some kinda sauce though

They serve a solid Dinic's roast pork knockoff at Frankie's on Campbell. No sauce needed, the pork is super moist and flavorful.

Got a cheesesteak there the other day. Always good. Best in town, especially with cheese whiz and onions.

wyo-cat wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:That sounds awesome. Needs some kinda sauce though

They serve a solid Dinic's roast pork knockoff at Frankie's on Campbell. No sauce needed, the pork is super moist and flavorful.

I roasted the pork using Kenji Lopez-Alt's slow method: 8 hours at 250 degrees. It's incredibly moist, succulent, and filled with roasted flavor. Then I rendered some pork lard, sliced the pork roast and reheated it in the pan with the pork lard. I steamed the broccoli raab bright green, shocked it, rung it out, chopped it fine and cooked it in a pan with the pork lard and chopped garlic. I put the pork on the lower crust and melted the provolone over it under the broiler, then came the broccoli raab. So yeah, it's all moist, and with the gooey melted cheese, pure comfort. You could really ruin the whole thing with a squirt of sriracha or a mayo-based sauce. Possibly a couple drops of colatura d'alici would bring out all the flavors on the umami magic carpet, but it wasn't needed.

Last night had grilled mahi mahi tacos and hot pepper wings from Chuys. So damn good with their baja sauce.

All kinds of north Indian food delivered last night. The whole damn family is nursing a cold and wants the spicy.

For dinner tonight I made a potato salad with red wine vinegar pickled onions and jalapeños, eggs, mustard and celery.

Last night: Swedish enchilada pie

Tonight: Shaksuka

Made a superb pot roast with potatoes, carrots, parsnips and rutabaga

scumdevils86 wrote:Made a superb pot roast with potatoes, carrots, parsnips and rutabaga

I'd like that more than boef bourguignon.

Tonight: grilled calimari and potatoes with mache.

I almost made bourguignon. But decided the plain ol American pot roast with just a splash of wine at the end was better.

Made zucchini "tots" with shredded veggies, parmesan cheese, egg, panko and spices. Also made a lime/cumin/curry/cilantro aioli to go on homemade brioche buns with trader Joe's vegetable masala burgers. Topped those with some cucumber and fried onions as well. Brilliant dinner.

Chicat wrote:zucchini noodles (zoodles).

zucchini and/or squash pasta is the BOMB!!

well done, Chi.

Kettle cooked potato chips and a few to many Kilt Lifters.

azgreg wrote:Kettle cooked potato chips and a few to many Kilt Lifters.

That's almost an Irish 7 Course Meal. A six pack of beer and a potato.

spaghetti alla carbonara

Wife has been baking lots of different breads from scratch lately and made this tonight. So damn good. It's challah stuffed with parmesan, spinach and mushrooms. Amazing.

Damn! That looks great!

Making tri tip with grilled mushrooms and zucchini tonight.

Did the shredded rotisserie chicken with long grain wild rice, cheddar/jack cheese, and salsa burritos tonight.