The Foodie Thread

[Daniel]

OK, Big post here, but it's worth it.

Chicken Tinga I made awhile back...

I used:

• about 2lbs boneless chicken breasts - sliced on bias into approx. 1" strips
• Chipotle in adobo
• 1.5 onions
• 1 orange habanero chile, chopped
• 1 bulb of garlic, peeled and mashed/chopped
• Mexican Oregano, MX coarse sea salt, black pepper, cumin, a bay leaf, hot chile flakes, some poultry seasoning in lieu of Thyme, and a cube of Knorr beef bullion
• for liquid, I used some saved liquid from boiling a few sausages with sauerkraut. (adds a nice beefy tartness)
• one diced Tomatillo
• one roasted tomato, also diced
• additional chipotle, garlic and MX chile powders

Poultry, sliced up.




The stuff. I divided the onion/garlic/habanero into piles for cooking the chicken and for the later slow-cooking. The larger chunks of onion were for the stewing so they wouldn't disappear.




Heated some leftover fat from making a bacon burger along with some Manteca, then added the onions, Habanero and garlic. Cooked a bit to season the fat nicely, then added the chicken and spices. Cooked until slightly browned.




As it cooked and I moved the pieces around, I broke them up with my bamboo spoon. Saves the PITA of shredding them. ;-)




Meanwhile, I'd put the liquid, the Chipotle in adobe, roasted tomato, tomotillo, the beef bouillon cube, the extra powders and the remainder of the veggies in the cooker to heat. Then, added the chicken when it was tender and ready. Mashed the chicken with a potato masher a bit in the sauce, brought to a simmer and turned down to slow-cook for about 2-3 hours. =)




Behold the spicy awesomesaucery!
I prefer having some chunks instead of all shreds...if I want smaller I can make them smaller.



Yummmm!!

Dayyyyyummmmmm, I would LOVE to experience that dish 1 time, just 1 time. It looks so good I tried to lick the screen...lmao, not really, but jeez, that looks great!!

 

[CaFF]

The sandwich for boyfriend today. Jalapeno Cheddar bread, mayo, salt, ground peppercorns, Devil Dust, Cajun Chicken, 3 Pepper Colby Jack, and LARGE pepperoni.
View attachment 2805

I like that all to hell....well done!

(BF is a lucky human)

 

[CaFF]

Dayyyyyummmmmm, I would LOVE to experience that dish 1 time, just 1 time. It looks so good I tried to lick the screen...lmao, not really, but jeez, that looks great!!

Thanks!

It's pretty easy to make, actually. It's basically stewed chicken in a slow-cooker.

Why did I leave the meat in 1" strips instead of smaller? Because, sliced on bias, the larger strips are easy to find and break up into nice bits. Try breaking up cubed chicken...

I like the smaller portions getting more sauce in 'em then if I'd say, quartered the breasts. More surface area = more flavor to soak in.

 

[Huckleberried]

I like that all to hell....well done!

(BF is a lucky human)

I just showed this thread to him. He smiled so big that his sandwich made it to the internet, lmao.

 

[CaFF]

Bday debauchery pix....

(sorry about the chroma aberrations...they have multicolored lighting that really messed with my camera.)

Frickin' GOOD freebie steak. They marinate 'em. Tender and juicy served sizzling hot..
Garlic toast was good too. Baked Potatoes went in the metal to get some of those yummy steak juices. ;-)

Also, had two local beers:
Big Barn Brewing Strong Oat Stout (pictured)
No-Li (pronounced no-lie) Brewing Born and Raised IPA.

Strong stuff.

 

[Crennan_Baker]

Guys! I'm back! Tonight the wife and I made a chicken tortellini dish with bell pepper alfredo sauce. I pureed bell peppers into some dressed up jar sauce, diced pan seared olive oil and Italian chicken, made a garlic french loaf and that was that. Sorry for the absence. Anyone going to ASD in Vegas?

 

[Whiskey]

Last nights dinner was pork loin chops and Veggies

 

[m3rma1d]

Trader Joe's Steak & Ale pie. I don't encourage anyone to buy this. I was tricked because I've never had a dud from there before now.

I was so mad I did a review on instagram...
#traderjoes Steak & Ale Pie #expectationsvsreality. Doesn't LOOK that bad, but it's bad. Bland chunks of beef with congealed gravy, mushy carrots, tiny potato cubes, and real bits of gristle inside a doughy, soggy pastry. Mmmm #dinnersready!

 

[Crennan_Baker]

@m3rma1d looks delicious, ISNT delicious. Also, I like to pronounce your name mer-mald.

 

[m3rma1d]

@m3rma1d looks delicious, ISNT delicious. Also, I like to pronounce your name mer-mald.

It is pronounced mermaid lol

 

[Crennan_Baker]

Well, yeah, I know.

 

[Ace]

I haven't had steak pie since my mom passed. It was a staple in the house growing up. It would probably be my death row last meal.
I almost grabbed that trader Joe's one but it has mushrooms which I hate. Now I'm REALLY glad I didn't.

Trader Joe's Steak & Ale pie. I don't encourage anyone to buy this. I was tricked because I've never had a dud from there before now.

I was so mad I did a review on instagram...
#traderjoes Steak & Ale Pie #expectationsvsreality. Doesn't LOOK that bad, but it's bad. Bland chunks of beef with congealed gravy, mushy carrots, tiny potato cubes, and real bits of gristle inside a doughy, soggy pastry. Mmmm #dinnersready!

 

[CaFF]

Woke up last night at like 1am, couldn't sleep. So made a snack for watching a movie.

I'd pre-cooked a few corn torts, so just piled on my meat filling with cheddar cheese, onion, mashed garlic, black olives, jalapeno and some S&P.

Added to that the last of my veggie rice with more of that same olive/onion/garlic/jalapeno stuff, some leftover Stagg chilli, more black olives and cheese. Used Cheddar and Queso Oxaca cheeses.

Sauced it up with a bit of Bufalo Picante Especial Mexican Hot Sauce and everything got a sprinkle of crushed dry Majoram and Chipotle powder for color. Served up with my fave Homestyle corn tortilla chips from Don Pancho. They have rounded corners!







Not bad at all for 1AM cookery.

 

[Frawg]

Bday debauchery pix....

(sorry about the chroma aberrations...they have multicolored lighting that really messed with my camera.)

Frickin' GOOD freebie steak. They marinate 'em. Tender and juicy served sizzling hot..
Garlic toast was good too. Baked Potatoes went in the metal to get some of those yummy steak juices. ;-)

Also, had two local beers:
Big Barn Brewing Strong Oat Stout (pictured)
No-Li (pronounced no-lie) Brewing Born and Raised IPA.

Strong stuff.

Color me green with envy. I had walmart deli pizza for my birthday with a small side of food sensitivity.

 

[Frawg]

@Ace this is for you - http://damndelicious.net/2014/07/26/bacon-wrapped-tater-tot-bombs/

 

[Ace]

Oh dayum. That's some mighty fine lookin tots there.
Tater tots people!! Geesh,

@Ace this is for you - http://damndelicious.net/2014/07/26/bacon-wrapped-tater-tot-bombs/

 

[Frawg]

Should I create a bacon only recipe thread?

 

[CaFF]

Well, I got this....



Some real-sugar vanilla Pepsi and 8yo Black Velvet I got on sale for $13 a fifth. That is terribly cheap here. =)

It was worth walking the 6 blocks in 96F heat to Rite-Aid and back. Most of that distance is pure deserted blacktop. One whole side of the "mall" is empty..nothing but a scorching hot parking lot about two blocks long. Frickin' HOT.

Too hot to cook still, but made a tasty tuna salad sammie. Lot 'o stuff in there, on sourdough hoagie with bacon ranch.

 

[m3rma1d]

I haven't had steak pie since my mom passed. It was a staple in the house growing up. It would probably be my death row last meal.
I almost grabbed that trader Joe's one but it has mushrooms which I hate. Now I'm REALLY glad I didn't.

There weren't any mushrooms in this. I love mushrooms, it woulda been the only redeeming quality LOL

 

[m3rma1d]

Suppah's done! Hamburger Helper "Ultimate Cheeseburger Macaroni" with peas, corn, mushrooms, French's fried onions, black pepper, and Sriracha.

#ghettogourmet

 

[Ace]

@m3rma1d I'm way to lazy to track it down but just imagine this space being filled with that mac and cheese squares picture you posted awhile back.

 

[m3rma1d]

@m3rma1d I'm way to lazy to track it down but just imagine this space being filled with that mac and cheese squares picture you posted awhile back.

This was freakin' delish tho. I left out the "fuck it"

 

[CaFF]

Made a nacho cheesy bean dip...three cheeses, refried beans, jalapeno, onion,garlic,etc.

 

[Ace]

I haven't had much to contribute so here we go. My daughter refuses to eat any Mexican food that I don't make (kinda cool actually) so every now and then she begs for taco night. Tonight was taco night. ignore the unappetizing blue plate, the x got the good stuff, and the good table.

 

[flowerpots]

I'll be right over, @Ace

 

[Ace]

@flowerpots there's plenty left. I can't seem to cook for 2

 

[flowerpots]

That looks delicious, Ace. I can't seem to cook for 1, but that means I just can't seem to cook period lol

My dinner is delivery - lemon pepper wings, fries, mozzarella sticks (to appease my inner teen) and a peanut butter chocolate pie slice for desert.

 

[Ace]

The 1st wife was mexican. The 2nd Italian. I made sure to learn all the recipes. I'm trying to figure out what type of food to learn next

 

[flowerpots]

Hmm I think I'd go for Spanish or Greek next time...

 

[Ace]

Hmmmm. Sounds good. I may have to get right on that.

 

[CaFF]

Yeah, it's not food per se, but it's food-related and made me chuckle.

 

[Ace]

That'll need a big bottle of bbq sauce

Yeah, it's not food per se, but it's food-related and made me chuckle.

 

[CaFF]

Made a funky stew yesterday. I had some potatoes that were getting old and needed using up, so this happened.

It's got:

• Potatoes
• Onion
• Garlic
• A sliced Jalapeño
• Smoked AK Salmon
• Asian Frozen Veggies
• Mae Ploy Sauce
• A dash each of 3 Crabs fish sauce and Rice Vinegar (The salmon is so rich it takes over, so needs some balancing)
• Saffron Flower
• Majoram
• About a tsp. worth of EVOO
• about a 1/2 tsp. of chicken bouillon
• S&P

Tasty and different! And, my learning curve on the new camera is getting a bit better...

 

[CaFF]

@Ace this is for you - http://damndelicious.net/2014/07/26/bacon-wrapped-tater-tot-bombs/

Damn, I have to try that. I've made similar snacks before, but hers are just awesome.

Damn again - for the cute gal with the $2,000 camera setup to take foodie pics.

I want.

 

[CaFF]

Gonna be almost 100 dgrees today, as in 75F by 9am. Ughhh.

So, starting off with a 32oz Quad White Chocolate Iced Mocha....

 

[CaFF]

Yesterday's stew, reborn as today's breakfast.

Just ladled out some stew, cracked a couple of eggs on it and added some oyster crackers. Covered and nuked it, breaking up the eggs as they cooked....voila...

Eaten with flour torts, it's fun eating.

 

[Ace]

Something about nuked eggs skeeves me out

 

[CaFF]

Something about nuked eggs skeeves me out

Why? Ya know, that was one of the first things cooked as they discovered microwaves. ;-)

In 1945 the specific heating effect of a high-power microwave beam was accidentally discovered by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine. Employed by Raytheon at the time he noticed that microwaves from an active radar set he was working on started to melt a candy bar he had in his pocket. The first food deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery


If you use the power settings, it is easy to cook eggs and not ruin them.
Japan does it all the time with an egg on top of ramen, which is what I emulated here except I scrambled them.

 

[CaFF]

Went to Dollar store for a few things, may have gone overboard a tad.

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Some good deals, plus a few things I wanted to try for the hell of it.

I really like those "Jamaican" beef pies, packed with spices; lots of coriander and cumin. The Arizona Green Tea was a good steal, those are usually fairly pricey. The ice cream is sort of meh, but I bought it to put in iced coffee for nomz.

Me like bargains.

 

[Frawg]

None of us have felt like cooking much so its been protein bars and microwave food for the last several days. Tonight if I remember I'll take a pic of what's in the oven.

 

[Frawg]

This seems to happen a lot around here.

 

[CaFF]

Found some good chicken nuggets finally. Actual chicken.

Made up a nice sauce of Homemade Hab sauce, Mae Ploy and a fave BBQ sauce.
Frakkin' white balance is still off...grrrr.

 

[Frawg]

I just inhaled a brookie - one of those half brownie half cookie things. this came from the walmart bakery.

DO NOT EVER BUY THEM, you will eat them and get fat, leaves more for me...

Um yeah today was "just hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt" type of day. I'll consider real food as soon, if I could figure out what we have that doesn't require I stand up for much longer to fix it.

 

[RichS]

All this food and no desserts, that's just not right. I'll be trying my hand at making these tomorrow.

Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes
http://recipesnobs.com/2011/10/21/oreo-and-peanut-butter-brownie-cakes/

 

[Celtic Fog]

Guys! I'm back! Tonight the wife and I made a chicken tortellini dish with bell pepper alfredo sauce. I pureed bell peppers into some dressed up jar sauce, diced pan seared olive oil and Italian chicken, made a garlic french loaf and that was that. Sorry for the absence. Anyone going to ASD in Vegas? View attachment 2932View attachment 2933

bro, even the boys in compton quite drinking Old E a decade ago...you got moxy my man.

 

[Celtic Fog]

just spent 12 hours making Momofuku! would have taken a picture of it, but it only lasted for fifteen minutes!!! nomnomnomnom!!!!!

 

[CaFF]

just spent 12 hours making Momofuku! would have taken a picture of it, but it only lasted for fifteen minutes!!! nomnomnomnom!!!!!

Ha, I like this guy:

"Momofuku" could be translated from Japanese as "lucky peach", though Chef David Chang has written that the name is "an indirect nod" to Momofuku Ando,[7] the Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant ramen. Chang also suggested it is not an accident he chose a word that sounds like the English curse word "motherfucker".[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_(restaurants)

I'd love to hit up Ming Tsai's Blue Ginger for some burgers and beer. ;-)

 

[CaFF]

BTW, I happened on 3lbs. worth of eye of round being marked down . Gonna make some Habanero Beef Jerky shortly.

Until then, here is the last of that brekky stuff as a burrito.




Served up with green enchilada sauce and sour cream with liberal Black Pepper.

 

[Hobby Kid]

@CaFF do you cook like that every night? My dinner looked really UNphotogenic but it was nice

 

[Celtic Fog]

Ha, I like this guy:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_(restaurants)

I'd love to hit up Ming Tsai's Blue Ginger for some burgers and beer. ;-)

I found his ramen recipe a few years ago, my family loves it so much that we make it at least twice a month!