Beer brewers tend to be pretty good cooks. So share… wots fo dinah tonight?
Tomorrow is Monday - wash day.
Jus started dem red beans soaken fo red beans and rice, me.
You?
Grilled chicken and steak tacos with rice and beans to celebrate my birthday today. 8)
Yesterday I sliced up 12 lbs of cured, smoked meat. 8lbs of pork loin, cured with curing salts and various spices (including garam masala, don’t ask me why), and a 4lb eye of round beef roast, which isn’t much on its own but cured, smoked, and sliced thin should make great sandwich meat. Run through the meat slicer, bagged, and frozen.
That done, it was onto Sunday night’s meal. I spatchcocked and almost completely deboned a chicken, using all the bones and trimmings to make an aromatic stock. The chicken was seasoned and refrigerated, the stock was used to make a gravy. Boiled and mashed some potatoes, and then smoke-roasted the chicken with hickory wood for an hour and a half. Heated up some homemade rolls the wife had made the other day, and glanced furtively at some vegetables (no more than a glance, I admit), and it was dinner time. Good stuff! Not health food, but ok every now and then.
I did spatchcocked chicken last night too. Kroger’s had whole chickens for $0.49/lb on Saturday so we stocked the freezer. Marinated one for half the day in a ancho/chipotle/lime and olive oil mixture and then seared breast down over some lump for 15 minutes, flipped, lowered the coals, tossed in some applewood chips, and roasted for an hour. The wife roasted some new potatoes and steamed some broccoli and we ate wonderfully! We’ve been having such great weather around here lately. High 60º’s in the evening so kids played outside all afternoon.
While cooking, I noticed several areas for improvement on the side pit smoker. I have the wood stove gaskets ready and just need to glue them down. Should shore up some smoke leaks and help keep a more consistent temp when smoking.
Turkey Burgers with spicy chili mayo on grilled bun
emmenthaler/sharp cheddar mac and cheese (cavatappi not elbows)
baby arugula salad.
damn, its 10:30 and I’m already ready for dinner.
Happy Birthday, Ron! Me, I’m working a 15 hour day today, so dinner will be whatever fast food I can find on a short break.
Yeah, Happy Birth Day Ron,…and nothing fancy for us, we had some deep fried popcorn shrimp
and frozen mixed vegies…
Happy Birthday! Hope you’re having some cake with those tacos. Or at least a celebratory kine beer!
Sat I had grilled grass fed Angus: a choice NY strip and a top sirloin steak both marinated in fresh squeezed lime juice and cilantro.
Grilled medium and sliced thin most of it got vac-sealed in small portions. I’ll be taking them to my geriatric parents at Thanksgiving. Also did two racks of St Louis style ribs. They’ll get most of that too.
The next night posole from smoked country-style pork ribs. It was truly awesome and there’s nothing left. Dinner? Tonight? If I’m lucky something barely edible from the cafeteria at work… 
Veggie tacos with homemade tortillas, grilled brocolli, mushroom and onions, black beans a smashed avacado. a little habenero sauce just to make things interesting. pie for desert maybe
Tonight, pan seared thick cut free range pork chops, whipped potatoes infused with roasted garlic and onion. Saute green beans. Applesauce.
As an appetizer, boiled peanuts. Not sure if they are “green” though. The ones I have had before did have green color involved. These are completely brown but raw.
How can you tell if they are green.
“Green” peanuts are freshly picked - not dried or “raw” as such. They still have a lot of their moisture in them and are still pretty tender. They are brown in color. Never seen a green-colored peanut before.
Im pretty sure these are not dry. They are moist to an extent. I have never seen a dried raw peanut so I dont have a reference. Maybe I can post some pics in the boiled peanut thread.
These are from an Indian store. The other ones I used to get are from a Korean store. Those definitely had some green color in them, especially where the root or stem was attached. They were also much smaller.
Oh man, I eating myself sick on boiled peanuts. I just cant stop.
heh heh heh… I warned ya
Monday was smother beef/bean burritos, last night grilled chicken with stir fried squash medley, tonight I have no idea. My problem is I never know how many people will be around for dinner so I can’t really plan meals in advance.
Tonight is pork cannon balls grilled over a kiawe wood fire, rosemary potatoes, an avacado/tomato/Maui sweet onion/Japanese cucumber salad, and homemade bread rolls. Homemade haupia ice cream for desert.
Black Friday night, turkey soup!
The turkey carcass goes into the stockpot at breakfast time for the long simmer. By dinner time it is transformed into turkey soup. My favorite T-Day left-over recipe!
I have a game running on Facebook right now, I’ll extend it here. Free hugs to the first person who responds with the correct name of this delectable dish!
Chicken pot pie? Thats how my grandma made it. It was soup. When we were kids we called it Chicken Popeye.
Chicken and Dumplings?
Damn, free hug for Cap. Actually ham and chicken pot pie. Post-thanksgiving tradition in my family - Leftover ham gets made into pot pie.
Just like Grandma used to make.