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Made some guac and grilled fish (striped bass) tacos this weekend....
Those look nice! I don't have a salad spinner or convection oven but I think low and slow with my "air bake" perforated pizza pan and then high heat after saucing will be good. I don't have corn starch but I might try pancake mix to see if I can make mine a little less crunchy and a little more crispy.
Did you soak, cook, then dry them? I've never bought bagged beans but decided to incorporate more in my diet so I want to save money over canned beans. I was wondering if I could soak chick peas and then slow roast them to cut out the boiling.
Tonight, I led off with Bacon-Wrapped-Tater-Tots and added some glaze with SWMBO's Pepper Jelly, brown water, and Sweet Baby Ray's. I wrapped them with my homemade bacon thinly sliced on a mandolin. I can highly recommend these served alongside a cool drank.
... We had homemade (not real) meatballs with spaghetti the first night...
...I wish I had taken pictures to share with you all, but when on vacation I try to keep the cell phone put away. You cannot relax properly with one of those things around.
"Homemade but not real" meatballs? How does that work? you not talking about faux-meat-meatballs are you!
Why not engage flightmode on you cell, then it is just a camera... as long as you don't have games/apps that crave your attention on there.
Bacon pasta salad. Not the cold kind of pasta salad. Onions and peppers where sautéed in the bacon's fat.
Looks good, vinegar base?
Blurry pic, so I apologize in advance...
More Mexican tonight. Early this morning I took a roast, rubbed it with salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin, and garlic powder, and seared the bejesus out of it in a hot cast iron pan. From there it went in the crock pot with more spices, garlic, onion, jalapeno, a nut brown ale, a pinch of cocoa powder, and the remainder of the morning's coffee. The roast went for about 12 hours and might have been one of the best I've done.
The beans were a huge disappointment. They were soaked overnight and simmered for a few hours today. I changed out the water and added some crispy bacon and onions (I'm not sure there's a better flavor combination to be found anywhere), some tomato paste, and spices. Maybe I didn't mash the beans enough or my seasoning was off but the whole thing tasted watered down and generally not good to me.
Cut up a green and red bell pepper, some garlic another jalapeno, and an onion and took that to same cast iron pan used for bacon and beef with a touch of tomato paste in each batch. Served on a storebought soft tortilla (usually make my own but ran short on time) with sour cream and shredded cheese.
If I didn't have a stupid job I'd be in the kitchen all day and no one would hear a peep out of me
Seems to be a mexican vibe in the air! Care to share your tortilla recipe? Never attempted them but it has crossed my mind.
Wow I don't normally salivate this early in the morning.Chicken Souvlaki tonight. I've been making tons of greek yogurt, so why not. Chicken, gr peppers, red onion on skewers, grilled, then into pita pockets with souvlaki sauce from my yogurt. So easy, and my family loved it. I brined the chicken for an hour before grilling and the meat was juicy. Sorry, no pictures of the stuffed pita pockets, we were engaged in a soccer match on the TV.
Ham tetrazzini for dinner. Food processor was dirty, so I also made a batch of salsa verde (tomatillos). I think I post too many pics here.
I think I post too many pics here.
I think I post too many pics here.
I think I post too many pics here.
Hey Bucknuts, I made that tomatillo salsa you posted a while back (with a few substitutions for necessity's sake) just this weekend thinking I could use it when I made Mexican a few days ago.
That **** didn't even last the night, wife and I ate most of the batch in one sitting! Super easy too...thanks for sharing!
Cast iron seared, grass fed, rib eye steak.
Huevos Rancheros, a favorite of mine, all the better with the salsa fresh from the garden, forgot the avocados.
LOOKS AWESOME!!!1
My cilantro has gone all spindly too. My parsley looks healthy as a horse, but the cilantro next to it is all flowers and wispy little leaves...
LOOKS AWESOME!!!1
My cilantro has gone all spindly too. My parsley looks healthy as a horse, but the cilantro next to it is all flowers and wispy little leaves...
It seems to be a problem every year, the tomatoes are coming into their own and the cilantro is going to seed, at least the basil is still going strong this year.
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