It's the weekend, what did YOU cook?

[aholsber]

I started this thread on several other boards, and figured it was time to start it here. So, here we go!

Last night, I made a Cuban Style Chicken. Found the recipe in Bon Appetit. Came out fantastic.

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Tonight, I made a roast beef, roasted asparagus, and a red wine, sundried tomato, and thyme risotto.

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What can I say, I like to provide good meals for the family.

Alan

[Headbanger]

Those meals look great man. Well done.

[Wasch_24]

Man, we don't cook anything like that in my house...nice job.

[BradMc]

Mouth watering Alan.................Looks yummie

[AZsteelman]

I'll be right over!

[MithShrike]

Looks tasty. I made a spicy beef sauce. Made "Mexican pizza" for my mom and myself. Wasn't bad.

[caudio51]

I'm coming with Randy! We'll bring the cigars and liquor!

I made a batch of Bourbon BBQ beef jerky today

[oneaday]

A few weeks ago for the annual Christmas party I made Ropa Vieja, black beans and rice, Taquilla shrimp and roast pork with mango/papaya salsa.
Tonight it was a Subway Sandwich with the games at the Hampton Inn. What can I say ,I'm workin out of town.
The only constant in my life is good cigars..........I can live with it.

[caudio51]

At least ya got the good cigars!

[geckoheart]

Looks great!!

Smoked a Sirloin Roast on the grill- something for me to eat for the next 4-5 days. Will grill a chicken tommorrow with a my NC style vinegar BBQ sauce. My oldest son and I will try to eat the whole chicken ourselves.

[caudio51]

You show that bird who's boss!

[CWS]

Wow. Got to go eat now. Looks fantastic.

[derek]

Wow looks good!

All I made this weekend was a batch of Almond ice cream with toffee chips and dark chocolate chips.

[caudio51]

hmmmm I could go for some ice cream right now

[cvm4]

Damn that looks great. I'm hungry again

[caudio51]

Happens to me every time someone posts to this thread!

[Boppa-Wasch]

What a meal!!

[Greg]

Making a pizza right now!

I followed this recipe copied from another board:

Over the years I had more people ask for my pizza recipe, I hope you try mine a couple times - don't be dissapointed if it doesn't quite turn out the first time: with a little practice and adjustments on the dough thickness, the sauce and what toppings you use you'll be making "Pies From Heaven". Ain't nothing like a really good homemade pizza. When I make this dough recipe I usually end up with a lot more dough than I intended to use that day, so what I do is make a bunch of small and medium sized pizzas with the leftover dough and PARTIALLY BAKE them, let them cool, put them in freezer bags and freeze them. You get a late night Jones for a pizza or you have unexpected guests drop in you're covered. Enjoy

Mis en place

DOUGH
1 package dry yeast
1/2 Tsp white sugar
1 cup tepid water
2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups bread flour


SAUCE
1 Jar your favorite pasta sauce
1 TBLS garlic chili paste (or Tabasco sauce)
1 TBLS Herbs de Provance
1 TBLS dry Oregano
1 TSP red pepper flake
2 TBLS white sugar

TOPPINGS
1-2 Cups grated mozzarella
1 Cup (grated parmesan, asiagio, provolone, ricottta)
meats
vegetables (be careful you don't add too many vegetables - you'll end up with a soupy top)



The dough: first I gotta teach you something about your ingredients here. Flour is made from processed wheat - flour has something called gleuten in it, part of the wheat grain - when making dough you knead the dough and in the process you work the gleuten in the flour. The more you work the dough the more you work the gleuten - as you're working the dough you'll notice some resistance, the dough gets a little elastic and tough - that's because you've worked up the gleuten, like working muscles when working out, working the gleuten in the dough will give your crust a nice "snap". That's a good thing.


Fill your mixing bowl with hot tap water, let stand about 2 minutes - you are "tempering" the bowl to remove the chill from it - yeast works best at body temperature - so if you start off with a cold bowl you're yeast won't grow as well as it could. Drain the bowl and now add 1 cup TEPID tap water (doesn't feel hot or cold on your had, it's roughly body temperature). Add dry yeast and white sugar and combine. Let stand about 10 minutes, meanwhile turn on your oven so your work area is pleasantly cozy - never make breads or doughs in a cold and drafty work area... The sugar you added to the water acts as food for the yeast to feed on. After 4 or 5 minutes you'll notice some activity on the surface of the water, some brown foam... at the end of 10 minutes the yeast will have come alive and you can proceed.


SLOWLY add half the flours to the water, with a large wooden spoon or spatula fold the flour and water together, adding a bit of flour at a time until the dough starts to come away from the sides of the bowl. NEVER add all the flour at once, chances are you'll have too much flour and end up with what we call a "slack dough" that's impossible to work properly (throw that away and start over). Add an additional dusting of flour and switch from the wooden spoon to working the dough with your closed fist, pushing down into the dough with your fist while turning the bowl with your other hand a quarter turn. Push down and turn, push down and turn. Repeat this for about 2 minutes - if the dough starts sticking to your fist, dust the dough with a tiny bit more flour. Work the dough for total of about 4 minutes - feel that gleuten toughening up and the dough working a little tighter ?? You're getting there. Now cover the mixing bowl with a soft towel and place in a warm not drafty location for at least 30 minutes. Prepare your sauce, grate your cheeses and prep your toppings, have a glass of wine.


Sauce: combine all ingredients listed and mix well.

Preparation, with oven preheated to 450 take a piece of your dough, dust the work surface with a small amount of flour (or use my favorite Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix) with an old wine bottle or rolling pin roll the dough thin, turn it over and dust with a little more flour and roll that side - if the gleuten got worked well the dough will try to shrink back a bit as you roll it out (a good sign). Now LIBERALLY grease a cast iron skillet or heavy aluminum sheet pan with a couple of GLUGS of EVO and place your dough out, pushing dough into edges of the pan. Next add sauce, a very liberal dose of assorted cheeses and your toppings. Season the top of the pie with some garlic salt, a little more Herbs de Provance and a dash of red pepper flake. Into the hot 450 degree oven for 15 minutes, rotate the pan 180 degrees and bake approximately another 8-12 minutes depending on how big your pie is and how "hot" your oven is. Remove pie from oven and let rest about 5-8 minutes before cutting into it - giving the ingredients to rest - you cut the pizza too soon and it'll go all runny on you.

[Wasch_24]

Good luck!

[calebnobbe2003]

Damn that looks great!

[Greg]

Good luck!
I got the dough resting right now. The instructions are really great!

Sauce is ready, oven is hot, pepperoni and onion are sliced, cheese grated, almost ready to go.

[Greg]

Going in the oven

[Greg]

Done!!

[Greg]

Better pic

[caudio51]

Man I'm hungry now! One good looking pizza!

[Greg]

This is the first pizza I have ever made from scratch.....it is FANTASTIC!

[caudio51]

We have a bread machine so making the dough is really easy

[Greg]

There's something about beating that dough with your fist though......

[caudio51]

I thought it was beating your meat????

[jrohrer]

no tom...you SLICE the meat...BEAT the dough...sheesh!:stretchgr

[jrohrer]

oh...alan and greg...both of those look gorgeous...nice work fellas!

[caudio51]

:rofl:

Just had some french toast with peach jelly

[aholsber]

Pizza looks great. Have you thought about grilling 'em? It's actually pretty easy and a fun thing to do. All you need to do is give your grill a good cleaning, make your dough, and instead of putting it in the sheet pan <baking sheet> put it on the back of it...when the grill is hot (maybe med temp, so the pizza dough doesn't burn) and the dough is ready, slide it off onto the grill. Close the cover, and grill for about 5 mins, and your pizza shell is ready as if you had baked it in the oven.

Enjoy!

Making a little Sunday Gravy for tonight, beef, lamb, veal and pork.

Alan

[Greg]

Pork Loin Rib Roast (marinated in a jalopeno/bourbon/maple/mint sauce)


Ready for oven

[caudio51]

Damn Greg, I need to come visit your place

[CWS]

Pork Loin Rib Roast (marinated in a jalopeno/bourbon/maple/mint sauce)


Ready for oven

Wow. That looks great. A chef no less.

[aholsber]

Greg,

Looks good.

[Wasch_24]

Pork Loin Rib Roast (marinated in a jalopeno/bourbon/maple/mint sauce)


Ready for oven
So how was it!?

[caudio51]

It had to be good, look at that pic!

[Greg]

My and my buddies tore this UP!

[goin' fer smoke]

I started Sunday off making an egg, potato and italian sausage bowl... took it up to the old lady who grimaced and said what the hell is that?
Pissed off I dumped it all in the garbage and said freak this, and grabbed a cup of coffe and a cigar and went to hang out at the river behind my house.

I came back in later to use the bathroom and the evidence of the where her "attitude" came from was displayed in the garbage can... it's HER time of the month... AGAIN!!!

Damn I need a place to stay.

[caudio51]

:rofl: @ Jim

[CWS]

TMI:lookaroun

[Wasch_24]

Ack...TMI!!!!

[Greg]

Ack...TMI!!!!yep.....:stickbeat

[cvm4]

Shit... TMI

[caudio51]

Back on subject

Didn't cook today but ordered in a slice of BBQ Chicken pizza

[CWS]

Half time. That reminds me. Im hungry. Were is the wife when you need them.:rofl:

[caudio51]

In the kitchen duh!

[cvm4]

Back on subject

Didn't cook today but ordered in a slice of BBQ Chicken pizza

Just a slice? :eyebrow:

[caudio51]

It's a big slice with all that chicken!

[cvm4]

Every chicken pizza I've ever ordered was missing the chicken, if you get my drift.

[caudio51]

Yea, they always do that crap except for this place by my house

[CWS]

Every chicken pizza I've ever ordered was missing the chicken, if you get my drift.

Thats because they dont want you to choke on the chicken.

[Boppa-Wasch]

Just finished up a nice steak cooked on the George Foreman..D licious!!!!

[tobby4]

in the process of boiling some chicken...

[cvm4]

As is a big pot and you put the chicken in it?

[geckoheart]

Made a batch of my vinegar BBQ sauce then grilled 2 chickens, bacon wrapped stuffed jalepeno's, 2 Vidalia onion bombs, and steamed cabbage with bacon. For desert, pound cake and pinapples toasted on the grill topped with whipped cream.

While everything was cooking, I managed to roast 3 batches of coffee beans. Set for the week

Time for a smoke :smokingme

[aholsber]

Tonight, I braised a brisket. Lightly seasoned, then braised it with aromatics and a decent mire poix.

Took the braising liquer, reduced it some, then pureed the rest into a nice gravy. Served with bowtie pasta with steamed broccoli.

Sorry, no pics this time.

Alan

[caudio51]

Every time I read this thread I get hungry for some reason :dunno:

[CWS]

Tell me about it. We grilled hot dogs last night. New gourmet.

[PetersCreek]

Aw hell, I've spent a fair bit of time cookin' this weekend.

Friday night, I sliced up a tip roast and started it marinating for beef jerky.

Saturday morning, I started that off in the smoker and got started on making 6 or 7 quarts of chicken and dumplings. After that was done, I trussed and rubbed down a pork tenderloin to cure in the fridge for the next three weeks. That'll get smoked to make Canadian bacon. Finally, at about 10pm, I pulled the last of the jerky out of the smoker.

Yesterday, as is our Sunday morning ritual, I made The Wife® a breakfast of potato pancakes, fried eggs, and link sausage.

This morning, since we had the day off together, we made a potato and sausage frittata. We haven't decided on what to do this evening.

[geckoheart]

The Wife®


:rofl:

[caudio51]

Aw hell, I've spent a fair bit of time cookin' this weekend.

Friday night, I sliced up a tip roast and started it marinating for beef jerky.

Saturday morning, I started that off in the smoker and got started on making 6 or 7 quarts of chicken and dumplings. After that was done, I trussed and rubbed down a pork tenderloin to cure in the fridge for the next three weeks. That'll get smoked to make Canadian bacon. Finally, at about 10pm, I pulled the last of the jerky out of the smoker.

Yesterday, as is our Sunday morning ritual, I made The Wife® a breakfast of potato pancakes, fried eggs, and link sausage.

This morning, since we had the day off together, we made a potato and sausage frittata. We haven't decided on what to do this evening.

It must be great to eat at your house. All these smoked meats, good breakfasts. What time is supper?

[cvm4]

That's a long haul for me. You're in luck!

[caudio51]

The trip is worth it for the stuff he cooks!

[PetersCreek]

Hell...quit talkin' about it and c'mon up! :rofl:

I failed to mention that Monday afternoon, The Wife® suggested I thaw out the turkey breast I smoked back at Christmas. So, turkey sandwiches, it was.

[Greg]

Alaska Herf!!!

[CWS]

You know we have been talking about a cruise. Id go for an Alaska herf!!

[aholsber]

Last night I made a quick marinade for some chicken I had.

Soy sauce
Garlic
Djion mustard
Olive oil
5-spice
Black pepper
Sesame oil

The chicken was fantastic.

Served with farfalle, and mixed vegetables.

Haven't decided what I'm going to make for tonight.

Alan

[CelticBasque]

Last night was a healthy batch of Chicken Saltimboca, sided with Angel Hair that was covered in fresh, Roasted Tomatoes/Garlic.
Yes, I admit it.... it was tasty...

[caudio51]

Last night I made a quick marinade for some chicken I had.

Soy sauce
Garlic
Djion mustard
Olive oil
5-spice
Black pepper
Sesame oil

The chicken was fantastic.

Served with farfalle, and mixed vegetables.

Haven't decided what I'm going to make for tonight.

Alan

That sounds good Alan

[tobby4]

hmmm, that does sound good...

I had some tuna out of a can tonight, I eat to get full not for flavor

[caudio51]

Well you can do both Clay

[tobby4]

yea i just dont take the time to prepare anything good

[caudio51]

They say good food can be done quickly but it always takes me forever

[tobby4]

exactly...

[caudio51]

The prepping, the cooking, the washing....

I think the key is having a well set-up kitchen, which I don't have

[cvm4]

Yup, I'm with you guys on that one.

[CWS]

geesh. Line a small baking dish with foil. Toss a chicken breat in it. Dump a little garlic salt on it. Cover with whatever salsa you like, Bake at 395 for 45 minutes. Dump grate mozzerella on top of that and melt. Chucks Italian Mexican chicken. Chicken, salsa, cheese all from Costco. Very easy takes minutes, cheap. SOuth beach qualified.

[caudio51]

Sounds good! Right up my alley!

[Greg]

I just finished a dozen oysters on the half-shell with a mignonette sauce ( Duvel Ale, fresh ground black pepper and shallot).

I served these with Duvel Belgian Golden Ale.

[Wasch_24]

I just finished a warmed up left over egg roll from last night.


Mmm-mmm-good

:rofl:

[jrohrer]

making homemade french-onion soup tonight...wifey baked some croutons to go in it!

[aholsber]

Tonight's dinner was chili with rice. Cooked the chili for 24hrs, was a mixture of beef, turkey and pork.

Cooked the rice with a cinnamon stick and couple of cloves to accent the chili.

Alan

[kirscovitch]

boiled some eggs and made egg salad sandwiches and devil eggs. combine with beer, and ill be sleeping on the couch tonite.

[cvm4]

Mmmmmm, cheese toast and eggs

[Greg]

For breakfast today, I made some flapjacks topped with a fried egg and warm maple syrup.

[cvm4]

:barf: On top of the pancakes?

[Greg]

I did not put barf on top of my pancakes.....I put an egg.

[cvm4]

:barf: @ the egg on top

[caudio51]

boiled some eggs and made egg salad sandwiches and devil eggs. combine with beer, and ill be sleeping on the couch tonite.

:rofl:

For breakfast today, I made some flapjacks topped with a fried egg and warm maple syrup.

That sounds damn good!

[derek]

Last night was clams and muscles over pasta with a garlic white wine sauce and some other seasonings. Also took some Italian bread, drizzled with evoo, garlic and parm. cheese and baked it in the oven for a few minutes. Dessert was home made brownies with 2 scoops of home made chocolate ice cream, topped with hot caramel sauce and whipped cream.

[Greg]

Deep dish pizza for dinner tonight. Topping were pepperoni, red peppers and diced jalapeno.