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Food Thread: Stuffed Pork With...Stop...You Had Me At "Stuffed Pork!"

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Hmmm...whatever could that be, and for what does Dildo use it?

A one year cardboard membership with Troll-B-Gon included can be yours if you guess correctly!

And now that we are on the topic of non-standard tools for the kitchen, is there anything you want to share with the Horde?

I have a pair of needle-nose pliers in my kitchen tool drawer, and it is amazing how often I use it! Pulling stray bones from salmon fillets is obvious, but I find myself using it for other stuff too!

Anyone use bricks? I do!

So spill it...what weird stuff would we find if we go through your kitchen drawers?

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The current hysteria among those who fear everything is the so-called "microplastics" that can be found pretty much everywhere. Of course plastic has played a major role in the incredible improvements in our standard of living, as a glance around the entire world would show. Whether the downside is an issue will remain to be seen, but the upside is phenomenal.

But in the kitchen we have a few options. I'm not worried about plastic bags and plastic containers, but there is another obvious source of plastic, and that is the ubiquitous plastic cutting board. Yup...I use them, and I also sand them down when they get bumpy, and bleach them when they get stained. I have wooden cutting boards that take a bit more work to maintain, but are more pleasant to use, and certainly are cleaner. And aesthetically there is no comparison...a well-made wooden cutting board can be a thing of rare beauty.

My guess is that these are trivial risks that are dwarfed by many other things...like automobile accidents and workplace accidents and drug ODs and crime and...

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From commenter "Elric Blade."
It's "cuy" -- guinea pig -- that I ate a few weeks ago in Quito, Ecuador before a Galapagos cruise. It's a delicacy in the Andes region. They serve it whole, with the head (with teeth) and claws intact.

This was served in a fancy restaurant so it was sous vided and then flambeed. Often it's just roasted or fried. I split the cuy with my brother. Both of us thought it was delicious. Tastes like something in between flavorful chicken and rabbit. Our mother and his wife were horrified and wouldn't touch it.


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Awesome!

Okay...who would try it and who would run screaming from the restaurant?

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I saw this several years ago and, for whatever stupid reason, comlpletely forgot that it looked delicious. I will be trying this very soon, and expect to provide a breathless report about how delicious it is. Ham and Cheese Stuffed Fried Pork Chops just looks good! Am I the only one who reads recipes and decides immediately whether it will taste great, or will be another installment in the "Oh look! An internet recipe that is just like the other 8,000,000 internet recipes?"

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I had this drink in Savannah, and it was excellent. Sadly, the bartender was a bit cagey, so the only detail I could pry out of him was that he used a Honey/Rosemary simple syrup.

I'm going to play around with it later in the summer when my lone Rosemary bush is a bit bigger, but if any of you have some ideas, I'm all ears!

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Have a good Fathers' Day everyone! I assume many of you will be otherwise occupied...grilling, drinking, eating, and all of the other things that go with a lovely late spring day.

Cheers!

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Good butter, and Flap Meat...whatever the hell that is...just send it, Broccolini that isn't $6/bunch, garlic...lots of garlic!, well-marbled hanger steaks and elk chops to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

Who are those poor deluded souls who shake their Manhattans? These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

My and the world's patience has run out. Shaken Manhattans henceforth will be banished to the land of Long Island Ice Teas and Frozen Strawberry Margaritas.

And yes, I used to demand fancy bourbon, but let's face it, $1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

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1 Haggis!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:02 PM (FkUwd)

2 I would definitely try cuy. I've eaten lots of sketchy stuff while overseas and drunk (shut up).

The choppers really seal the deal.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:04 PM (FkUwd)

3 Still have yet to master the rolled pork loin. It's not an easy one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 16, 2024 04:05 PM (IG4Id)

4 I used to sous vide and flambe womp rats back home.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:05 PM (xCA6C)

5 weft, I have that one down. I have the butcher cut the loin.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 04:06 PM (7iAr4)

6 My guess: plastic hair net. But whether it's still used for that purpose in the Dildo kitchen?

Dunno.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:07 PM (/HDaX)

7 "Am I the only one who reads recipes and decides immediately whether it will taste great, or will be another installment in the "Oh look! An internet recipe that is just like the other 8,000,000 internet recipes?"

No. Sometimes I wonder why I bother--and then I get a couple of good ideas. I'm very grateful for reviews because they can quickly confirm or deny my gut hunch about deliciousness.

I do wonder why every recipe site has to tell the proprietor's life story just to give their personal take on chicken salad. Jeez.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 16, 2024 04:07 PM (FEVMW)

8 The plastic thing up top looks like a shower cap.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 04:07 PM (7iAr4)

9 Top pic looks like a fat bag of weed someone left out in the yard.

Oh look! Martini Time! One olive only please...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2024 04:08 PM (R/m4+)

10 top pic is a complimentary shower cap from one of those fancy motels that won't rent you a room by the hour.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 04:08 PM (fPzjs)

11 Heh. I like Ben Had's guess better.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:08 PM (/HDaX)

12 Ham and Cheese Stuffed Fried Pork Chops just looks good!

So, Pork Cordon Bleu.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:09 PM (/HDaX)

13 The cuy? Do they gut it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2024 04:10 PM (+o/4e)

14 Just used the needle-nosed pliers yesterday to fish out a packet of ketchup that dropped down between the passenger seat and the armrest/hidey hole between it and the driver's seat. My fingers couldn't quite reach it and was certain if left down there, the next time the seat was pushed back, there'd be ketchup squeezed out over everything. The Honda CRV seats leave something to be desired; there's no room under them for stashing stuff.

Posted by: tankascribe at June 16, 2024 04:11 PM (HWxAD)

15 Orbicular granite!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2024 04:11 PM (+o/4e)

16 So spill it...what weird stuff would we find if we go through your kitchen drawers?

There are two nails in my drawer next to the oven. I’m not sure how uncommon that is, since I’m pretty sure I read it as a handy tip in some old cookbook. They’re used to help potatoes bake more evenly. Drive the nail through a potato lengthwise, and it gets heat to the center much more quickly. Seems to work.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 04:12 PM (EXyHK)

17 The top pic is a guinea pig tooth. Used for grinding pepper.

Am I right?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at June 16, 2024 04:12 PM (AiZBA)

18 The Honda CRV seats leave something to be desired; there's no room under them for stashing stuff.
Posted by: tankascribe at June 16, 2024 04:11 PM (HWxAD)

so you have to stash your gun in the console?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 16, 2024 04:13 PM (+o/4e)

19 I found some rolling papers and a couple of shells for a caliber I don't own.

Hmmm....

Posted by: pawn at June 16, 2024 04:14 PM (QB+5g)

20 I do wonder why every recipe site has to tell the proprietor's life story just to give their personal take on chicken salad. Jeez.

Because they’re all taking clickbait tips from the same source. The point of the life story (or the entire history of some ingredient or dish) is to provide more space for advertisements before you get to the recipe.

I’m not even sure most of these are written by humans, let alone humans who actually cook.

I’ve gotten to the point that if the recipe doesn’t begin quickly enough to show up in the search engine summary, I’m not even bothering.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 04:14 PM (EXyHK)

21 Do they skin the cuy before cooking it? Or maybe they shave and wax it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 04:14 PM (fPzjs)

22 I'll take the squirrel instead.please.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 04:14 PM (7iAr4)

23 I do have an old set of pliers in the toolkit for our outdoor grill. I use it to tighten the screws on the rotisserie "claws" so that they don't slip while the rotisserie, um, rotates.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 16, 2024 04:15 PM (FEVMW)

24 So, the cuy - is there any reason they didn't chop the head off before serving? Is it just to unnerve the tourists?

If it was properly cleaned and prepped, I'd eat it...but I gotta say, not sure that pic meets my definition, no matter how "high end" the place was...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 04:16 PM (exHjb)

25 who would run screaming from the restaurant?
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*raises hand*

Posted by: bluebell at June 16, 2024 04:16 PM (120Gg)

26 Here's two cocktails that should let you reproduce your Savannah experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEoZGSA01Q

https://oursaltykitchen.com/honey-bourbon-cocktail-rosemary/

A tweak here, a tweak there, and BINGO!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2024 04:17 PM (eDfFs)

27 Top pic is a frozen mud pie. He's going to sous vide it for 48 hours and finish with a pound of cilantro, lightly broiled.

Posted by: bluebell at June 16, 2024 04:18 PM (120Gg)

28 Cmon, Bluebell, you've gutted bigger game than that!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:18 PM (FkUwd)

29 Made it to my parents with pizza

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 04:19 PM (KSR3y)

30 Odd tools in kitchen? The obvious one already mentioned, the needle-nose pliers.

A bit less obvious? A pair of 8" or 10" straight tweezers. The 8" pair I already had from Fisher Scientific for glove box operations, etc.. The 10" pair I just picked up from the Lodge cast iron outlet in Sevierville, TN. Handy for plucking things out of places they shouldn't be. Something nasty in a dish currently cooking? Pluck it out. Dropped something down the disposal? The same.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (/HDaX)

31 The plastic thing up top looks like a shower cap.
Posted by: Ben Had

.....used to sous vide whole monkey head, to be served ala Indiana Jones?

Posted by: mikeski at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (DgGvY)

32 Tonight's dinner b/c the spouse is a little under the weather...

Burgers with the veg and sauce works, fries, and fruit salad (strawberries and kiwi). Kid choice b/c dad wanted to save his choice for next weekend.

I did make him a killer "box cake mix" improvement cake that he loved...Duncan Hines French vanilla cake mix made with a whole orange (zest and juice and even squished in some pulp for about 1/2 cup), 2-3 TB fresh fennel fronds chopped, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup oil, and 3 eggs cooked in a bundt pan per directions. On top, 1/4 of a jar of Duncan Hines vanilla frosting with 2 TB raw honey mixed together...then drizzled on top.

It's the cheater's Italian orange fennel cake with honey (and vanilla)...that's also safe for dairy/nut allergies...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (exHjb)

33 That's a shower cap used for covering the smoke alarm when the kitchen is on fire.

Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (RG6z4)

34 I hate to admit it, but I'm with bluebell on this one. Adventure eating only goes so far.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (TVRRM)

35 I use a plastic cutting board like that, mostly to chop up vegetables

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 04:21 PM (KSR3y)

36
I'd eat the cuy.

But, I have to say- that does not look tasty! the way it's served.

Deep fried with Cream Gravy seems to be the way to go.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 16, 2024 04:21 PM (eDfFs)

37 Eris, I'm a total wimp when it comes to stuff like that. My husband will order anything that can eat him off a menu (boar, whatever) and I'll be over there in the corner going "I'll just have the Caesar salad, please."

Posted by: bluebell at June 16, 2024 04:21 PM (120Gg)

38 Dinner is frozen pizza (ultra thin crust with snossages and shrooms) and Miller Lite (for Mater) and B Nektar Zombie Killer mead (for moi).

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:21 PM (FkUwd)

39 Bluebell the vegan assassin!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:22 PM (FkUwd)

40 That's a shower cap used for covering the smoke alarm when the kitchen is on fire.
Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (RG6z4)
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And that sounds like the voice of experience.

Posted by: bluebell at June 16, 2024 04:22 PM (120Gg)

41 As for the bag - it's got a shower cap edge, but then a straight-edge, too. Is it a replacement crockpot lid b/c he broke his? Or a crockpot liner?

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (exHjb)

42 PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (TVRRM)

43 I'm not very adventurist. Why eat shit when there is so much good food to be had?

Posted by: Ronster at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (xL9ol)

44 Hemostats.

Posted by: creeper at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (M6moH)

45 Another potentially odd kitchen tool: a tiny c-clamp. Every once in a while an attachment will get stuck on the kitchen-aid because the pin doesn’t automatically move back in. The c-clamp makes it easy to force the pin back in.

(During the pandemic, my blog post on how to deal with that first-world problem suddenly became the most popular post on my site.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 04:24 PM (EXyHK)

46 CBD wears the shower cap when deep frying so he doesn't get his hair spattered.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 04:24 PM (7iAr4)

47 That's a shower cap used for covering the smoke alarm when the kitchen is on fire.
Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:20 PM (RG6z4)

I like that idea. The smoke detectors in our new place are ridiculously sensitive.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:24 PM (/HDaX)

48 Could be a steaming device also.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 04:25 PM (7iAr4)

49 It looks like a bag of greens. Is that a sous vide bag of turnip greens?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:25 PM (FkUwd)

50 Wife wants to go through my deep freezer.
I told her times aren't THAT tough yet.
Probably should just go buy another one for inside the house.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 04:27 PM (xcIvR)

51 Okay...who would try it and who would run screaming from the restaurant?

It's meat. It's not rotten. It's not human flesh.
bon appétit

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

52 And that sounds like the voice of experience.
Posted by: bluebell at June 16, 2024 04:22 PM (120Gg)
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I read about it in a museum!

Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:28 PM (RG6z4)

53 49 It looks like a bag of greens. Is that a sous vide bag of turnip greens?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:25 PM (FkUwd)

Sous vide salsa?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

54 42 PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (TVRRM)

Indeed. I get plenty of mouth-feel with vegetables I'm chewing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

55 WeaselDoctrine teaches us that just because you can eat something doesn't mean you should eat something!

Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:30 PM (RG6z4)

56 55 WeaselDoctrine teaches us that just because you can eat something doesn't mean you should eat something!

Posted by: Weasel at June 16, 2024 04:30 PM (RG6z4)

Also doesn't mean you shouldn't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)

57 The weirdest implements in my kitchen are probably the cherry pitter and the fish skinning pliers, which I use for removing silverskin from brisket.

The nut milk bag is badly named, but basically just a coarse weave bag.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:31 PM (xCA6C)

58 Putting a bag over a fire alarm doesn't work.
You need a sturdy wood broom handle and you have to poke at it until it shuts up.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (xcIvR)

59 57 The weirdest implements in my kitchen are probably the cherry pitter and the fish skinning pliers, which I use for removing silverskin from brisket.

The nut milk bag is badly named, but basically just a coarse weave bag.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:31 PM (xCA6C)

Leave me sporran alone.

Posted by: Scottsman at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (ynpvh)

60 BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Anyone know how to fix woodpecker?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

61 58 Putting a bag over a fire alarm doesn't work.
You need a sturdy wood broom handle and you have to poke at it until it shuts up.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (xcIvR)

Or do what they did in one of the last hotel rooms I stayed in; stuff in in one of the drawers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

62 60 BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Anyone know how to fix woodpecker?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

Take it to a vet?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

63 PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (TVRRM)

Indeed. I get plenty of mouth-feel with vegetables I'm chewing.

I like to listen to carrots scream as I chew them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (xCA6C)

64 Messermeister Fish Bone Pliers (FP-525)

CBD. The pliers listed above are amazing for pulling fishbones, also getting a start on the rib membranes

Pricey, but nice

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (WF/xn)

65 Nut milk bag. That's a good one

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 16, 2024 04:34 PM (WF/xn)

66 BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Anyone know how to fix woodpecker?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

Take it to a vet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)
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Hmmmm...
I'm thinking we're past that.
Drop it on Nurse's doorstep?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:35 PM (W/lyH)

67 I have an Apple Lathe.
Works with Potatoes too.
Great for sizing Potato gun rounds.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 04:36 PM (xcIvR)

68 Even though I have a soft spot for guinea pigs, I'd eat the heck outta that. I love rabbits, too, but note one of my entries in The Deplorable Gourmet. Nom, nom, nom....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 04:36 PM (Wnv9h)

69 66 BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Anyone know how to fix woodpecker?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

Take it to a vet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)
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Hmmmm...
I'm thinking we're past that.
Drop it on Nurse's doorstep?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:35 PM (W/lyH)

Spatchcocked. This IS a food thread.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:37 PM (ynpvh)

70 BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Anyone know how to fix woodpecker?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:32 PM

Has it been more than 4 hours? If so, call your doc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 04:37 PM (Wnv9h)

71 Or look at anything Ackbar posts.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (Wnv9h)

72 Cuttingboards: the brand Epicure has a background suitable for morons. Some guy watching his buddy make a skateboard took note of all the waste and pondered what he could make out of it.

Voila! the Epicure cuttingboard.

They started out expensive. Now you can get them at hardware stores. They're wood, very low maintenance. Don't absorb anything. You can set a hot pot down on them.

Posted by: Wenda at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (4GhzG)

73 It's meat. It's not rotten. It's not human flesh.
bon appétit

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

Picky, picky, picky.

Posted by: Alferd Packer at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (fPzjs)

74 I wouldn't eat rat either.

Posted by: look whats not at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (nakGR)

75 68 Even though I have a soft spot for guinea pigs, I'd eat the heck outta that. I love rabbits, too, but note one of my entries in The Deplorable Gourmet. Nom, nom, nom....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 04:36 PM (Wnv9h)

We had named goats, and my Mom killed some and we ate them. At the dinner table, while eating we'd go, "Do you think this was xxx, or yyy?". Mom was not amused.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

76 I keep a big wooden mallet in the bottom drawer. Bigger than one with the heavy checkered faces you use to pound out cutlets.

Big woodworker's mallet. Quartersawn white oak.

For me, it gets used for cutlets and for chopping ice. We do clear no-fog no-entrapped-air ice for cocktails, and one of our methods is to make large blocks that are then chopped up to make specials.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (ZtgZZ)

77 >>>>I'm not very adventurist. Why eat shit when there is so much good food to be had?
Posted by: Ronster at June 16, 2
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I agree. I’m reminded of the fat, lefty f@ck Andrew Zimernnnnnnnnnnn who would eat a plate of streaming turds if was deemed some 3 world delicacy. Those guys that served up that disgusting looking Cuy were probably laughing their asses off when they got off shift while eating a big cheese burger, fries and a cold beer.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (XsuFr)

78 Thanks for posting my pics! The cuy really was good. I’m a very adventuresome eater and will try anything once. Like literally anything. A lot of exotic food is nasty and I wouldn’t touch it again. But the cuy? I’d definitely eat it again.

To answer some questions above, it’s served gutted. No organs. I think it’s spatchcocked.

The head is served intact for presentation and also because for many, that’s the best part. It wasn’t for me. It was just fatty and there seemed to be no meat, so I gave up on the head.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (ZFJyl)

79 Messermeister Fish Bone Pliers (FP-525)
Posted by: Hatari

So was it bluebell or vmom who decided that the German word for knife should be "messer?"

Posted by: mikeski at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (DgGvY)

80 73 It's meat. It's not rotten. It's not human flesh.
bon appétit

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

Picky, picky, picky.

Posted by: Alferd Packer at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM (fPzjs)

Saw a think on pozole, that it was originally made using human flesh, and that only the Emperor was allowed to eat it. Well, we can't get the long-pork version anymore, but you can get the short-pork version.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

81 The plastic shower cap used to cover your bread dough while proofing?? As far as plastic cutting boards, I use em too, but only for the really big stuff. Much prefer wood. Been used thousands of years & much safer that plastic. Any bacteria on surfaces will be drawn in & lack of moisture will kill it. Also, they look better.

Posted by: Dino58 at June 16, 2024 04:40 PM (LVPff)

82 77 >>>>I'm not very adventurist. Why eat shit when there is so much good food to be had?
Posted by: Ronster at June 16, 2
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I agree. I’m reminded of the fat, lefty f@ck Andrew Zimernnnnnnnnnnn who would eat a plate of streaming turds if was deemed some 3 world delicacy. Those guys that served up that disgusting looking Cuy were probably laughing their asses off when they got off shift while eating a big cheese burger, fries and a cold beer.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (XsuFr)

Give Andrew Z some almonds and oatmeal.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

83 So was it bluebell or vmom who decided that the German word for knife should be "messer?"

Posted by: mikeski at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (DgGvY)
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"Mackie Messer" becomes "Mack the Knife" in English.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 04:41 PM (3Fz6p)

84 81 The plastic shower cap used to cover your bread dough while proofing?? As far as plastic cutting boards, I use em too, but only for the really big stuff. Much prefer wood. Been used thousands of years & much safer that plastic. Any bacteria on surfaces will be drawn in & lack of moisture will kill it. Also, they look better.

Posted by: Dino58 at June 16, 2024 04:40 PM (LVPff)

At least he didn't use an enema bag.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

85 so I gave up on the head.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (ZFJyl)


*types...deletes*
*types...deletes*

It is a food thread.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:42 PM (W/lyH)

86 78 Thanks for posting my pics! The cuy really was good. I’m a very adventuresome eater and will try anything once. Like literally anything. A lot of exotic food is nasty and I wouldn’t touch it again. But the cuy? I’d definitely eat it again.

To answer some questions above, it’s served gutted. No organs. I think it’s spatchcocked.

The head is served intact for presentation and also because for many, that’s the best part. It wasn’t for me. It was just fatty and there seemed to be no meat, so I gave up on the head.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (ZFJyl)

You didn't like the taste of head? What's wrong with you?

Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at June 16, 2024 04:42 PM (ynpvh)

87 I like to listen to carrots scream as I chew them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (xCA6C)

Can I get an Amen?
We must heed the cries of the Carrots!
For on harvest day many!! IF NOT ALL.. will be sentenced that day to a steamed... NAY possibly BOILED to death at the hands of an unbeliever.

What say you congregation?!?

Baaaaa baaaaa.

Posted by: Brother Maynard at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (xcIvR)

88 PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (TVRRM)

carrot Juice is Murder

https://youtu.be/KmK0bZl4ILM

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (D7oie)

89 Saw a think on pozole, that it was originally made using human flesh, and that only the Emperor was allowed to eat it. Well, we can't get the long-pork version anymore, but you can get the short-pork version.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

Can't get the long-pork anymore? Why do you think we let all those free-range migrants in?

Posted by: Your Secret Cannibal Overlords at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (fPzjs)

90 I agree. I’m reminded of the fat, lefty f@ck Andrew Zimernnnnnnnnnnn who would eat a plate of streaming turds if was deemed some 3 world delicacy. Those guys that served up that disgusting looking Cuy were probably laughing their asses off when they got off shift while eating a big cheese burger, fries and a cold beer.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (XsuFr)


I haven't forgotten that episode where he went to Morocco and they fed him spoiled meat. He thought it was authentic but the expression on the gals serving him suggested they were putting one on the unknowing tourist.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (/HDaX)

91 "That's a shower cap used for covering the smoke alarm when the kitchen is on fire."

I've been reading the comments about the shower cap to husband and he said "He probably uses it to fry bacon naked."

I almost did a spit take with my adult beverage.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (FEVMW)

92 87 I like to listen to carrots scream as I chew them.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM (xCA6C)

Can I get an Amen?
We must heed the cries of the Carrots!
For on harvest day many!! IF NOT ALL.. will be sentenced that day to a steamed... NAY possibly BOILED to death at the hands of an unbeliever.

What say you congregation?!?

Baaaaa baaaaa.

Posted by: Brother Maynard at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (xcIvR)

Some would give carrots a chili reception.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

93 https://tinyurl.com/4vrpmxz3
Dailytimewaster this week had a picture of cheesesteak making, if you don't know how

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 04:45 PM (KSR3y)

94 I wouldn't run screaming from the restaurant, but I don't want to see something that grotesque. So I wouldn't order it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

95 One kid is sharing her daughter's extended third birthday Friday with the father of said daughter, and my other is up in the Presidential hiking on an incredibly beautiful father's day.
So I'm all alone. Watching the open. A steak salting for later. Happy as a pig.in a wallow.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (4780s)

96 Which reminds me of a story my high school French teacher told us (he was actually French), about the siege of Paris and the chefs invented new sauces for rats.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (w6EFb)

97 For me, it gets used for cutlets and for chopping ice. We do clear no-fog no-entrapped-air ice for cocktails, and one of our methods is to make large blocks that are then chopped up to make specials.

What do you use to saw / score the block into cubes, or do you just whack it and use the randomized pieces?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (xCA6C)

98 44 Hemostats.
Posted by: creeper

Curved or straight?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (ZEKqJ)

99 98 44 Hemostats.
Posted by: creeper

Curved or straight?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (ZEKqJ)

Ribbed, for your pleasure.

Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at June 16, 2024 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

100 Attention, interested Morons:

Bluebell Ice Cream is available in TWO peach flavors this year, Peachy Peach and Peaches and Homemade Vanilla.

The Peach flavors are usually only available for a limited time, so I suggest hieing oneself to a local outlet to score while it's available.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 16, 2024 04:48 PM (Y28rR)

101 100 Attention, interested Morons:

Bluebell Ice Cream is available in TWO peach flavors this year, Peachy Peach and Peaches and Homemade Vanilla.

The Peach flavors are usually only available for a limited time, so I suggest hieing oneself to a local outlet to score while it's available.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 16, 2024 04:48 PM (Y28rR)

Cold stuff hurts my teef, at least the ones I have left.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

102 Corn brushes, a scalpel, and what I refer to as "kitchen bandaids."

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:50 PM (w6EFb)

103
Bluebell Ice Cream is available in TWO peach flavors this year, Peachy Peach and Peaches and Homemade Vanilla.

The Peach flavors are usually only available for a limited time, so I suggest hieing oneself to a local outlet to score while it's available.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 16, 2024 04:48 PM (Y28rR)

Cold stuff hurts my teef, at least the ones I have left.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:49 PM (ynpvh)
***

Smiles wide! I still have four that touch!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:50 PM (W/lyH)

104 I keep one of those plungers spring grab mechanics tools for dropped small things in the kitchen.
Sink disposal issues.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2024 04:50 PM (4780s)

105 I just had my first Luby's / LuAann Platter experience, so no cooking today. Luby's seems to be the Father's Day place to be.

Posted by: LASue at June 16, 2024 04:51 PM (Gq9/0)

106 The Power Puff Girls in "Beat Your Greens":

https://tinyurl.com/y4yb2s95

The broccoloids are ultimately defeated by being doused in cheese and eaten.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 04:51 PM (FkUwd)

107 I have a tanto knife that I use to chunk up pot roasts, it has a reverse ogive edge so it cuts raw meat real good. I admit I worry when I use it to cut up whole chicken.

I also have a number one Ideal food chopper, the type that clamps onto the counter. I use it for grinding up meat for collops and sausage. I mean, I also have a big screw-jack type sausage press, but it is not like ever use it.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 04:52 PM (D7oie)

108 What *is* the LuAnn Platter?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:52 PM (/HDaX)

109 Some miniature rubber scrapers to get sauce from skinny openings. Works for lotion bottles too.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:52 PM (w6EFb)

110 Well. Dinner will be light this evening. And without teeth.

Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 04:53 PM (pZEOD)

111 I like to listen to carrots scream as I chew them.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 16, 2024 04:33 PM

Some like to listen to The Horde scream as they add carrots to chili.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 16, 2024 04:54 PM (Y28rR)

112 108 What *is* the LuAnn Platter?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:52 PM (/HDaX)

Something served at Cannibal Bob's?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

113 I'm hoping to get Publius to pick up some takeout tonight. I'll be in the garden from 7 to half past dark.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:54 PM (w6EFb)

114 Poultry shears are handy in the kitchen, let's spatchcock together.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 16, 2024 04:55 PM (WF/xn)

115 So was it bluebell or vmom who decided that the German word for knife should be "messer?"

Posted by: mikeski at June 16, 2024 04:39 PM (DgGvY)

Messer is one name for knife in German. A fun fact is that a "messer" was considered a blade with a full tang, unlike a sword with the smaller type tang. When one of the German kings, or princes or electors decreed that only members of the aristocracy or peerage could wear swords, there came into style the wearing of full tanged "knives" that were really long and had to be carried in a scabbard on the belt or baldric.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 04:56 PM (D7oie)

116 Smiles wide! I still have four that touch!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:50 PM (W/lyH)

My teeth tried to kill me.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 04:56 PM (xcIvR)

117 Which reminds me of a story my high school French teacher told us (he was actually French), about the siege of Paris and the chefs invented new sauces for rats.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (w6EFb)

Whilst driving my parents through the Oregon outback, we spotted some wild horses.
"They're beautiful!" my mother exclaimed.
Putting on my worst French accent, I replied, "They look delicious!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 04:57 PM (fPzjs)

118 96 Which reminds me of a story my high school French teacher told us (he was actually French), about the siege of Paris and the chefs invented new sauces for rats.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 04:46 PM (w6EFb)

Rat-atouille
Rat a l'orange
Rat Bourguignon
Bouilla-rat
Confit de Rat
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

119 Got another one. This isn't so much an unusual tool as it is a combo that turned out to have a lot of utility in the kitchen.

The Combination Funnel with Sieve Insert for All Cream/Food Whippers and Canning:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/
product/B004ZMJ63Q/
ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Way more useful than just for your whipping siphon.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:58 PM (/HDaX)

120 I'm having boiled crabs & shrimp for Father's Day & I didn't have to cook'em. Sons are working the boiler.Just reading the food thread & watching baseball.

Posted by: Dino58 at June 16, 2024 04:58 PM (LVPff)

121 >>>I haven't forgotten that episode where he went to Morocco and they fed him spoiled meat. He thought it was authentic but the expression on the gals serving him suggested they were putting one on the unknowing tourist.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 04:43 PM (/HDaX)
*********
yeah, people eat that stuff because they’re protein starved, give them a choice between that authentic ethnic cuisine and a bucket of KFC, see which one empties first.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 04:58 PM (XsuFr)

122 Weird stiff in my kitchen?
Well, besides one of Mrs.D's compression socks that got shoved up under the dishwasher last month, I'd guess it would be the magnetic can opener (church key) sitting on the side.of the fridge. You just don't see them any more.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)

123 43 I'm not very adventurist. Why eat shit when there is so much good food to be had?
Posted by: Ronster at June 16, 2024 04:23 PM (xL9ol)

Same. If I am ever in a situation where I need to eat things like that to survive, I'll eat it.

Until then, I'll stick with the familiar and good.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 16, 2024 04:59 PM (OX9vb)

124 Unsung kitchen tool -- trauma scissors. Great for removing shells from lobster tails. Also, surgical gloves for making meat loaf. I hate the feel of mixing everything by hand

Posted by: Terry at June 16, 2024 04:59 PM (rRaaJ)

125 had to be carried in a scabbard on the belt or baldric.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 04:56 PM (D7oie)

Yes. Give it to Baldric that way he gets perforated as I slip out the back door.

Posted by: Black Adder at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (xcIvR)

126 Rat-atouille
Rat a l'orange
Rat Bourguignon
Bouilla-rat
Confit de Rat
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

Rat Cake
Rat Sorbet
Rat Pudding
Strawberry Tart

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (/HDaX)

127 Ok I've been waiting for the food thread to ask this question: Do any of you own one of those Ninja iCream machines? If so, how do they work?

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (oaGWv)

128 124 Unsung kitchen tool -- trauma scissors. Great for removing shells from lobster tails. Also, surgical gloves for making meat loaf. I hate the feel of mixing everything by hand

Posted by: Terry at June 16, 2024 04:59 PM (rRaaJ)

I too use food-handling gloves. It's high-risk for me to play with da meat barehanded...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 05:01 PM (ynpvh)

129 Well...bier time. Son in Law has 8lbs of pork shoulder on the smoker. Gonna be awesome!
Later ganf.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 05:01 PM (W/lyH)

130 124 Unsung kitchen tool -- trauma scissors. Great for removing shells from lobster tails. Also, surgical gloves for making meat loaf. I hate the feel of mixing everything by hand

I use surgical gloves for seeding and chopping chilis.

Posted by: jix at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (VghtP)

131 BTW tha picture up top looks like a bag of weed and I'd run screaming fr OM the restaurant if I was served roast Guinea pig. Yuck.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (oaGWv)

132 126 Rat-atouille
Rat a l'orange
Rat Bourguignon
Bouilla-rat
Confit de Rat
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

Rat Cake
Rat Sorbet
Rat Pudding
Strawberry Tart

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (/HDaX)

Crème Brû-rat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (ynpvh)

133 120 I'm having boiled crabs & shrimp for Father's Day & I didn't have to cook'em. Sons are working the boiler.Just reading the food thread & watching baseball.
Posted by: Dino58 at June 16

I hope all the Horde dads are having a great Father’s Day. I sent baskets of food goodies to both my dad and stepdad, they were ecstatic.

We will celebrate next weekend as J is in Boston for work, but my 3 girls and his daughter did call him this morning, he said his phone sounded like grand central.

Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (pZEOD)

134 Rat Cake
Rat Sorbet
Rat Pudding
Strawberry Tart
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (/HDaX)
--------
I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (3Fz6p)

135 Putting on my worst French accent, I replied, "They look delicious!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 04:57 PM (fPzjs)

When I was in France and was telling my French family what I couldn't eat, they laughed when I said "horse." They explained that only very poor people at that.

In Sweden, they sold horse cold cuts and it was very pricey.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (w6EFb)

136 We had named goats, and my Mom killed some and we ate them. At the dinner table, while eating we'd go, "Do you think this was xxx, or yyy?". Mom was not amused.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 04:38 PM

A former colleague raises some boutique breed of beef cattle. Her then 13cyr old granddaughter helped around the farm. Named one cow Taco. My colleague served steaks one night and said it was Taco Tuesday. Took the kid a minute to catch on, but when she got the gag it didn't phase her a bit. 😂

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (Wnv9h)

137 Faze? I don't even know today.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 05:03 PM (Wnv9h)

138 vole au-vent.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:04 PM (D7oie)

139 131 "BTW tha picture up top looks like a bag of weed"

I didn't want to be the first to say that and yeah it does.

Posted by: Reforger at June 16, 2024 05:05 PM (xcIvR)

140 134 Rat Cake
Rat Sorbet
Rat Pudding
Strawberry Tart
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:00 PM (/HDaX)
--------
I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (3Fz6p)

How abouts with some spam?
https://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 05:05 PM (ynpvh)

141 Magnet with a hook mounted on it. Small binder clip.

Clamp a recipe card with the binder clip. Attach Magnet to stove hood. Hang card from the hook. Now you can read the card without having to pick it up with your greasy/wet fingers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 05:05 PM (fPzjs)

142 I just had my first Luby's / LuAann Platter experience, so no cooking today. Luby's seems to be the Father's Day place to be.

Really? I thought that they had all closed down a few years ago.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 16, 2024 05:06 PM (/y8xj)

143 I don’t know that I have weird kitchen gadgets as much as I have a lot of them. I do find I use my mini food processor more than my big one, but I use my by kitchen aid pro more than the medium sized one, even though it weighs a ton.

Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 05:06 PM (pZEOD)

144 It doesn't look like a bag of weed. It looks like a shower cap provided by a hotel.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 16, 2024 05:06 PM (w6EFb)

145 I too use food-handling gloves. It's high-risk for me to play with da meat barehanded...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Especially after cutting up some hot peppers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 16, 2024 05:07 PM (cOq4q)

146 The LuAnn Platter is a menu option at Luby's Cafeterias, a Texas chain. IIRC, it's a half-serving of the entree with two sides and roll. Primarily an option for seniors and those on a budget.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 16, 2024 05:07 PM (FEVMW)

147 I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 16, 2024 05:02 PM (3Fz6p)

One slice of strawberry tart without so much rat in it later...

Posted by: Female voice at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (/HDaX)

148 vole au-vent.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:04 PM

Heard on a British food show, snarking at the French: "Vol-au-vent, what is that 'fart in the wind?'"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (Wnv9h)

149 Guinea Pig?

Not only does it look fucking gross, but it's so fucking unnecessary... just eat a fucking steak, you fucking weirdos.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (5AVMW)

150 the bartender was a bit cagey...
----------

Perhaps was hard hearted Hannah.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (XeU6L)

151 Posted last week about my fresh but tasteless shrimp...well, no more! Melted butter and bacon grease in cast iron skillet, rubbed Old Bay into the prepped shrimp, and fried those suckers.

They were so good I was eating them as I cooked, sopping them in the pan grease. Chilled the leftover ones and had some with cocktail sauce today.Never had better shrimp, and never had as much shrimp as I wanted! I still have enough in the freezer for another couple of go-rounds.

Posted by: skywch at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (uqhmb)

152 I will often write the recipes out on a slip of paper, it makes me focus on the ingredients, and review the process before I get elbow deep into batter or barbecue sauce.

then if it is a good one, and I haven't done so before, I write it into my recipe notebook to make again in the future.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (D7oie)

153 Tangentially related to having weird tools in the kitchen: I moved into my current location ten years ago. While organizing the kitchen (i.e., stuffing things into drawers and cupboards as I pulled them out of boxes and hoping it would make sense later) I came across a piece I had no idea what it was.

It looked like a drain strainer, but it had a protrusion on both ends which made that very unlikely. It was in a kitchen box, which meant that most likely it was in my kitchen in the old apartment, too. I never threw it away because it was so weird it had to be important.

About two years ago I started making recipes that involved canning (I’m not preserving, specifically, but some great jams and relishes and so on are best made by canning). And looking up canning funnels after messing up the countertop one too many times, there was a photo of that piece. It belonged with the funnel that I’d been using for pouring vinegar into the AC condensation pipe.

Holding onto it all these years saved me at least two, three dollars!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 05:09 PM (EXyHK)

154 Made a pineapple upside down cake from scratch today. Turned out nicely. Will see what it tastes like later. Son and grandkids coming for dinner. Oldest grandson requested a simple meal so it's just hamburgers, corn on the cob and a melon and blueberry salad.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:09 PM (oaGWv)

155 138 vole au-vent.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:04 PM (D7oie)

Hah! Nice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 16, 2024 05:09 PM (ynpvh)

156 I was hoping the LuAnn Platter was a selection of meats, all deep fried in LuAnn peanut oil.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 05:09 PM (fPzjs)

157 Ham and cheese with almost anything is good. Last night, on a whim I picked up some nice chicken boobies, some prosciutto, and some provolone. Cut the chicken is half lengthwise, put some ham and cheese inside, and cooked to 145. It was very good. Could the recipe be improved? No doubt. But this was easy, quick, and cheap. When we’re talking about food, what’s not to like about that?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 05:09 PM (ZFJyl)

158 GRAPEFRUIT KNIFE ... I often use this to remove fat from chicken parts ... The action is a "scrape" which separates the fat from the flesh (and causes less waste than slicing with a standard blade) ... Also works somewhat on selected aread of chuck roasts.

Posted by: Kathy at June 16, 2024 05:10 PM (p69D5)

159 What *is* the LuAnn Platter?

Hank Hill's niece. I imagine most people not from TX didn't get that joke right away.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 16, 2024 05:10 PM (/y8xj)

160 Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 16, 2024 05:07 PM (FEVMW)

Sounds like a good deal.

Posted by: Female voice at June 16, 2024 05:10 PM (/HDaX)

161 Had a nice rum drink a few weeks ago. Had smoked pineapple in it and was garnished with rosemary. Quite tasty.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 05:10 PM (qZEuM)

162 Perhaps was hard hearted Hannah.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM

Of the Savannah Vamps?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 05:11 PM (Wnv9h)

163 Tuna, that sounds like a great summer meal.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 16, 2024 05:12 PM (7iAr4)

164 GRAPEFRUIT KNIFE ... I often use this to remove fat from chicken parts ... The action is a "scrape" which separates the fat from the flesh (and causes less waste than slicing with a standard blade) ... Also works somewhat on selected aread of chuck roasts.
Posted by: Kathy

I love my grapefruit spoons. Grandkids had no idea what they were til I explained. Oohh that what they are.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:12 PM (oaGWv)

165 Not only does it look fucking gross, but it's so fucking unnecessary... just eat a fucking steak, you fucking weirdos.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (5AVMW)

guinea pigs were traditional in the Andes, because they were quick and easy to raise. They took the place of chickens because chickens were from Asia.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)

166 Anybody here know how to can stuff? How hard is it to learn? I don't want to die of food poisoning (there are better ways to go).

I'll have a big crop of tomatoes and I'd like to can some sauce.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 05:13 PM (FkUwd)

167 Had a nice rum drink a few weeks ago. Had smoked pineapple in it and was garnished with rosemary. Quite tasty.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 16, 2024 05:10 PM (qZEuM)

Cue the "Girl-Drink Drunk" sketch from the Kids in the Hall.

https://youtu.be/8C4TGGtPzBU

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 16, 2024 05:14 PM (fPzjs)

168 157 Ham and cheese with almost anything is good. Last night, on a whim I picked up some nice chicken boobies, some prosciutto, and some provolone. Cut the chicken is half lengthwise, put some ham and cheese inside, and cooked to 145. It was very good. Could the recipe be improved? No doubt. But this was easy, quick, and cheap. When we’re talking about food, what’s not to like about that?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Like a quick cordon bleu! We are going to do blackened chicken breast, broccolini, and baked sweet potatoes. Just me and the kiddo, she loves anything and everything blackened, so easy peasy.

Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 05:16 PM (pZEOD)

169 Made a pineapple upside down cake from scratch today.

Yum. Pineapple upside down cake was one of my favorite birthday treats as a kid! They are best when they’ve had a chance to cool and get crunchy on the upside down top.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 05:16 PM (EXyHK)

170 I used to have a scalpel in the kitchen. I had the idea that it would be the perfect tool for coring kidneys.

Spoiler: it wasn't. Use a sharp petty knife.

The other thing that comes to mind isn't that odd, but I love the name: Tactical chopsticks. They're some heat-resistant modern plastic, very tough. I bought them on a whim, but I use them all the time to stir stuff, including that peanut butter that comes with the oil separated on top. Haven't used them for self-defense. Yet.

Posted by: Splunge at June 16, 2024 05:16 PM (hmKaK)

171 >>Okay...who would try it and who would run screaming from the restaurant?


The second one.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2024 05:18 PM (cCVOS)

172 I just had my first Luby's / LuAann Platter experience, so no cooking today. Luby's seems to be the Father's Day place to be.

Really? I thought that they had all closed down a few years ago.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 16, 2024 05:06 PM (/y8xj)

I think that was Red Lobster. There are 2 Luby's in Austin and I think several in other Texas towns. The one in Austin we went to was hopping!!!

Posted by: LASue at June 16, 2024 05:18 PM (Gq9/0)

173 Tuna, that sounds like a great summer meal.
Posted by: Ben Had

My first instinct when having guests for dinner is something fancy. I knew I'd gone overboard when the middle grand said "Grandma, could make something simple like spaghetti the next time?" I LOLed.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:19 PM (oaGWv)

174 Not only does it look fucking gross, but it's so fucking unnecessary... just eat a fucking steak, you fucking weirdos.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at June 16, 2024 05:08 PM (5AVMW)

guinea pigs were traditional in the Andes, because they were quick and easy to raise. They took the place of chickens because chickens were from Asia.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:13 PM (D7oie)
———-
Correct. They still eat 10s of millions a year in the Andes. And despite some “omg that’s disgusting” comments, the cuy tastes a lot like flavorful chicken. It’s not an exotic flavor at all. I’ll bet any amount of money that if any of the naysayers here were given a piece of cuy meat without knowing what it was, the reaction would be “that’s really good chicken!”

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 05:20 PM (ZFJyl)

175 Anybody here know how to can stuff? How hard is it to learn? I don't want to die of food poisoning (there are better ways to go).

I'll have a big crop of tomatoes and I'd like to can some sauce.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 05:13 PM (FkUwd)

I can green beans, so yes, I am a pro.

Current wisdom is that you can tomatoes in a waterbath if it is acid enough, and you can add citric acid to bring up the acid if you need to. USDA has instructions, as does the Ball Blue Book, and the Fillmore Container Blog

https://www.fillmorecontainer.com/blog/?s=tomato+sauce

My suggestion is to dig out that 22 quart counter top roaster oven, and use that to cook down your sauce in big batches instead of standing over the stock pot on the stove. You can cook outdoors for one, and they have a good thermostat. You can also use a crock pot, which just makes smaller batches.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:22 PM (D7oie)

176 Hey, if the cuy wasn't presented as a horror show, I'd prolly give it a try.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 05:22 PM (hcgGK)

177 Magnet with a hook mounted on it. Small binder clip.
-----

I use binder clips a lot. Sealing bags, mostly. Pinning notes to the calendar, etc. Oh, wait you all use your smart phone for that.

An inherited jar opener from the early 50's sees a good bit of use, pic, except mine is blued rather than plated :
https://tinyurl.com/27d6ad6t

And that reminds me, in the miscellany drawer there is an ice pick. Not used often, and when it is, it's generally for some sort of non-food/kitchen reason. Need to lengthen that belt a notch? Heat the ice pick red hot and Bob's yer uncle.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2024 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

178 Ham and cheese with almost anything is good. Last night, on a whim I picked up some nice chicken boobies, some prosciutto, and some provolone. Cut the chicken is half lengthwise, put some ham and cheese inside, and cooked to 145. It was very good. Could the recipe be improved? No doubt. But this was easy, quick, and cheap. When we’re talking about food, what’s not to like about that?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Like a quick cordon bleu! We are going to do blackened chicken breast, broccolini, and baked sweet potatoes. Just me and the kiddo, she loves anything and everything blackened, so easy peasy.
Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 05:16 PM (pZEOD)
———-

Yup, that’s pretty much exactly what it was, without all the fussy French prep. I cooked it for my mom and she liked it too. And she’s not adventuresome — she was horrified by the cuy — and she’s picky, so,if she liked it must be traditionally tasty.

Anything blackened is good!

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 05:24 PM (ZFJyl)

179 " is there anything you want to share with the Horde?"

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Posted by: Guy who used to have a woodpecker sock at June 16, 2024 05:25 PM (vFG9F)

180 >>Anybody here know how to can stuff? How hard is it to learn? I don't want to die of food poisoning (there are better ways to go).


https://foodinjars.com/

She has a lot of small batch recipes, too, which are delicious.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2024 05:25 PM (cCVOS)

181 Correct. They still eat 10s of millions a year in the Andes. And despite some “omg that’s disgusting” comments, the cuy tastes a lot like flavorful chicken. It’s not an exotic flavor at all. I’ll bet any amount of money that if any of the naysayers here were given a piece of cuy meat without knowing what it was, the reaction would be “that’s really good chicken!”
Posted by: Elric Blade

I'm not a naysayer. I'll try most anything once but that presentation was appetite killing.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:25 PM (oaGWv)

182 Eris, consider freezing if you got the room.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 16, 2024 05:25 PM (4780s)

183 Yeah, I’m a softie. Roy and Dale would never eat their horses unless it got awfully sketchy. And they would get everything fixed up by a half hour. Early exploration they had to eat nasty stuff.

Early iron rations, salt pork, flour, even “portable soup” sort of like a tarr or rendered soup stock base better than bouillon though more concentrated. Hardtack. Horsemeat provided emergency ration. Couldn’t do that, or pray ya never have to.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 16, 2024 05:26 PM (16bRC)

184 Now, Eris, if you want to ask questions about using a pressure cooker, I say go for it. There are some basic safety requirements, but IIRC you used to live and work around ordinance so you will be fine.

Buy the Ball Blue Book for basic reference, and you can get specifics on canning from your local extension service, or if you like I suggest the Oregon State University extension service if you just need some place to start.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:26 PM (D7oie)

185 Not eating anything sold in a pet store.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:28 PM (SHMXB)

186 All Hail Eris, Check out the NESCO smart canner.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 16, 2024 05:29 PM (zudum)

187 so, anyways, canning is about as difficult as making soup. Follow the instructions and you will be fine.

I worked in a green bean cannery for summers way back when, and I will tell you that you will have a far higher degree of safety, sanitation, quality and care for your food than any of the idiots I worked with ever had. And everyone buys Santiam Brand veggies because they are high quality.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:30 PM (D7oie)

188 Does pork go with shrimp? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: George Snufunupaplagas at June 16, 2024 05:30 PM (ArbhN)

189 >>>>Not eating anything sold in a pet store.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:28 PM (SHMXB)
*******
This has to be the thread winner and a comment of the week.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 05:30 PM (XsuFr)

190 Again reminds me of my favorite innocuous part in The Matrix where it’s described that for all the food/animals the Matrix didn’t know the flavor they just assigned it to taste like chicken.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:32 PM (SHMXB)

191 I frequently watch Guga Foods and Sous Vide Everything, also by Guga. He has convinced me that sous vide is the perfect way to cook a steak perfectly followed by searing.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 16, 2024 05:32 PM (JLq/1)

192 189 >>>>Not eating anything sold in a pet store.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:28 PM (SHMXB)
*******
This has to be the thread winner and a comment of the week.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 05:30 PM (XsuFr)

But, they sell rabbit, and rabbit is great...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 05:32 PM (exHjb)

193 Not eating anything sold in a pet store.
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:28 PM (SHMXB)

Carp is GOOD. You will like carp. My grandmother's recipe, and she survived Stalingrad!

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:33 PM (D7oie)

194 Thanks for the info!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 05:33 PM (FkUwd)

195 81 The plastic shower cap used to cover your bread dough while proofing??

Posted by: Dino58 at June 16, 2024 04:40 PM (LVPff)

Ding, ding. At least tha's what I use the for.

Posted by: Javems at June 16, 2024 05:33 PM (8I4hW)

196 Given a choice between monkey on a stick and guinea pig on a stick, I'll take the pig.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

197 All right, nobody has a Ninja iCream machine. Sigh. I've seen a lot of ads lately and wondered if and how they worked.

Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (oaGWv)

198 My Dogs’ Better than your Dog!
….

Cuz he gets Ken-L-Ration!! (Neigh!)

Posted by: Common Tater at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (16bRC)

199 Mine are much more colorful though

Posted by: Javems at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (8I4hW)

200 Not eating anything sold in a pet store.

And those teeth just sealed the deal for me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (mH6SG)

201 All right, nobody has a Ninja iCream machine. Sigh. I've seen a lot of ads lately and wondered if and how they worked.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (oaGWv)

It's the way they sneak around at night and scale walls . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:34 PM (D7oie)

202 What kind of ice cream do ninjas like?

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 05:35 PM (vFG9F)

203 I'll have a big crop of tomatoes and I'd like to can some sauce.

Canning is easy, and tomatoes are a good way to learn it: they’re very acidic.

If you want to start with safer recipes, use ones that also add lots of sugar and/or vinegar.

I just made a really nice “tomato jam” from an 1876 almanac. Tomatoes, it turns out, really are a fruit, and make a great jam. It’s sort of reminiscent of the texture of peach jam with a flavor that while it’s reminiscent of tomato doesn’t taste anything like ketchup.

I started canning when I found an interesting tomato relish in an old Australian cookbook. And of course homemade ketchup is of course also a great way to use up ketchup. My favorite’s from the 1969 Kerr Home Canning book, page 38. (That’s also a good manual for canning.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 16, 2024 05:35 PM (EXyHK)

204 202 What kind of ice cream do ninjas like?
Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 05

It’s a secret.

Posted by: Piper at June 16, 2024 05:35 PM (pZEOD)

205 Give me a wooden cutting board. I have two.

I'll be getting some pork shoulder roast sometime soon so that I can drop that bad boy in a crock pot and make some pulled pork. That will be awesome. Just gotta wait a little longer yet.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 05:35 PM (8sMut)

206 I think that was Red Lobster. There are 2 Luby's in Austin and I think several in other Texas towns. The one in Austin we went to was hopping!!!
Posted by: LASue at June 16, 2024 05:18 PM (Gq9/0)

I coulda sworn all the Luby's in San Antonio closed down.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 05:36 PM (8sMut)

207 Shower cap to keep the bugs out of salads.

Mud spackling blades for working high hydration dough into boule.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 16, 2024 05:36 PM (xUqHO)

208 Am I looking at a rat on a plate? Clearly the decorations just add to the yumminess and presentation of the dish.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 16, 2024 05:37 PM (dmXQN)

209 181 Correct. They still eat 10s of millions a year in the Andes. And despite some “omg that’s disgusting” comments, the cuy tastes a lot like flavorful chicken. It’s not an exotic flavor at all. I’ll bet any amount of money that if any of the naysayers here were given a piece of cuy meat without knowing what it was, the reaction would be “that’s really good chicken!”
Posted by: Elric Blade

I'm not a naysayer. I'll try most anything once but that presentation was appetite killing.
Posted by: Tuna at June 16, 2024 05:25 PM (oaGWv)

No matter how unusual or unheard of the animal, the standard comment is "It tastes like chicken".

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 05:38 PM (8sMut)

210 CCX

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 05:38 PM (8sMut)

211 Alright! The grill is started.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:39 PM (/HDaX)

212 " What kind of ice cream do ninjas like?
Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 05

It’s a secret.
Posted by: Piper"

I figured it was chopolate.

Posted by: fd at June 16, 2024 05:39 PM (vFG9F)

213 That guinea pig deal looks like somebody deep fried Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern Show and served his ass up for dinner.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2024 05:42 PM (R/m4+)

214 Am I looking at a rat on a plate? Clearly the decorations just add to the yumminess and presentation of the dish.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 16, 2024 05:37 PM

Squirrels have entered the chat.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2024 05:42 PM (oxiUR)

215 >>>No matter how unusual or unheard of the animal, the standard comment is "It tastes like chicken".
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 16, 2024 05:38 PM (8sMut)
*******
So snake has entered the conversation. If it tastes like chicken, eat chicken not a fricken reptile. Just saying.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 16, 2024 05:43 PM (kgqaZ)

216 My Dad tried to pass off Cow tongue as Roast Beef to me. I was having none of it.

Put me in The Road situation and I will eat anything except long pig. But as long as there is chicken , beef, pork and fish available I don’t need to experiment with different proteins or waste parts of the above unless it’s in a hotdog.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:43 PM (SHMXB)

217 Just got in from the lake...

whatever could that be, and for what does Dildo use it?

A shower cap?

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 16, 2024 05:44 PM (xEhcB)

218 I would shoot that rat and use it for bait to lure in something tastier.

Rest easy, your red-headed stepchild is not on the menu.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 16, 2024 05:44 PM (dmXQN)

219 No thank you to the guinea pig

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM (Ka3bZ)

220 No takers on cheesesteak making?

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM (yuI/n)

221 My mom loved cooking with Shake and Bake. I liked it too.

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:46 PM (SHMXB)

222 No takers on cheesesteak making?

Actually, you got me drooling. But my wife's not fond of them, so I haven't made one in quite a while.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 05:46 PM (/HDaX)

223 Anyone looking for FUN foods to make with (or for) young children, the website named FOOD-BITES.COM has lots of cute and healthy items ... You can search by "recipes" and also by "ingredients".

Posted by: Kathy at June 16, 2024 05:46 PM (p69D5)

224 And why is CBD wearing a shower cap while cooking?

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (yuI/n)

225 >>>So snake has entered the conversation. If it tastes like chicken, eat chicken not a fricken reptile. Just saying.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

>Rattlesnake isn't too bad. One must be wary of the bones.

It's chicken with too many bones.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (dmXQN)

226 Polynikes, I love tongue. I adore it in burritos, though I prefer it if it is skinned.

You should see the look of doubt when this guero walks into taquerias and asks for the Burrito lengua.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (D7oie)

227 No takers on cheesesteak making?
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM (yuI/n)

I love a good cheesesteak. Lots of grease though if your making them at home.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (R/m4+)

228 176 Hey, if the cuy wasn't presented as a horror show, I'd prolly give it a try.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Exactly. Presentation matters.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 16, 2024 05:49 PM (OX9vb)

229 226 Polynikes, I love tongue. I adore it in burritos, though I prefer it if it is skinned.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (D7oie)

Have it paper thin in shabu shabu broth and then dip in homemade sauce...yes, do this at a hot pot restaurant (never prep your own tongue - it's a pain)...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 05:49 PM (exHjb)

230 Plastic thing that looks like a shower cap is probably a bowl cover. I have some.
I have long kitchen tweezers, they are 12" long and thin.
A ceramic ginger grater.
Razor blade because I'm too cheap to buy a lame for baking bread.
I have Pullman pans in 2 lengths.
Knee high pantyhose to strain royal icing so it doesn't clog the "00" icing tips.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 16, 2024 05:49 PM (PZo5T)

231 So... my wife and I were channel surfing on (whatever channel it was) and came across a burger joint that's signature is one with onions, pickles and mustard. I think it was some roadside dive here in KY.

Looked pretty good. So trying it tonight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)

232 And why is CBD wearing a shower cap while cooking?
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (yuI/n)

dandruff



I used those covers for my rise, though I quit doing it because my wife bought all three sizes and I never grab the right one. Now I use a glass pot lid I got from the thrift shop that fits my rising bowl.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:50 PM (D7oie)

233 I haven’t seen Steak Ums in a grocery store . Do they still make it?

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:50 PM (SHMXB)

234
My mom loved cooking with Shake and Bake. I liked it too.
Posted by: polynikes

And you helped!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2024 05:51 PM (63Dwl)

235 And you helped!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 16, 2024 05:51 PM (63Dwl)

Hah. Know how I know you’re over 29?

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:52 PM (SHMXB)

236 Polynikes, I love tongue. I adore it in burritos, though I prefer it if it is skinned.

You should see the look of doubt when this guero walks into taquerias and asks for the Burrito lengua.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 05:48 PM (D7oie)


I appreciate tongue too. But usually after a couple drinks and maybe dinner.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 16, 2024 05:52 PM (W/lyH)

237 233 I haven’t seen Steak Ums in a grocery store . Do they still make it?
Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 05:50 PM (SHMXB)

They do, but they are pretty lousy...the shaved beef at Aldi's is better if you are looking for low end and cheap cheeseteak meat (which is where I put Steak ums)...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 05:53 PM (exHjb)

238 Lamb!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:53 PM (QSrLX)

239 polynikes yes, I get shaved steak already packaged but you can get Steak-Um and Philly Steak frozen

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:53 PM (yuI/n)

240 My big fat greek wedding: Vegetarian? We'll have lamb.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:54 PM (QSrLX)

241 Virtue signaling? Try the 10 commandments. Fewer changes.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:55 PM (QSrLX)

242 And why is CBD wearing a shower cap while cooking?

Sometimes his weather machine goes wonky.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 16, 2024 05:56 PM (mH6SG)

243 My big fat greek wedding: Vegetarian? We'll have lamb.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:54 PM (QSrLX)

Don't forget the Windex.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, with a drawer full of pieces of flair at June 16, 2024 05:56 PM (hZc6Q)

244 Speaking of cheesesteak, daughter was telling me about a Pioneer Woman cheesesteak recipe using using queso blanco velveeta. I've used it for rotel dip and wasn't impressed but will give it a whirl for cheesesteaks.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 16, 2024 05:56 PM (xEhcB)

245 Top. Men. Recipe for disaster. Look it up.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:56 PM (QSrLX)

246 Don't forget the Windex.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, with a drawer full of pieces of flair at June 16, 2024 05:56 PM (hZc6Q)

That reminds me: Happy Father's Day!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 05:57 PM (QSrLX)

247 Yeah, no roast rat for me, thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:01 PM (RIvkX)

248 >>>I appreciate tongue too. But usually after a couple drinks and maybe dinner.

Posted by: Diogenes

>>We call that a proper date here in the states with dancing, dessert and a couple more evening cocktails.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 16, 2024 06:01 PM (dmXQN)

249 Thanks for the longer wandering Brandon clip.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 06:01 PM (QSrLX)

250 Was going to do brats and burgers tonight for Father's Day, but heat index is 100. Already showered coming in from lake so it's carryout pizza.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 16, 2024 06:02 PM (xEhcB)

251 I appreciate tongue too. But usually after a couple drinks and maybe dinner.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 16,

Tongue is great as an hors deuvre.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 16, 2024 06:02 PM (JLq/1)

252 No takers on cheesesteak making?
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM

===
I just got here. With, provolone and peppers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

253 Yeah, seven days of 90+ degree heat in store here in my AO. Not looking forward to that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 16, 2024 06:04 PM (mH6SG)

254 Brandon is elder abuse. Without the lurking notaries.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 06:04 PM (QSrLX)

255 My mom makes a braised pork tongue then slices it and stores in the fridge to snack on. Not bad, very tender since it's braised in soy sauce mixture with seasonings.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 16, 2024 06:04 PM (PZo5T)

256 > Was going to do brats and burgers tonight for Father's Day, but heat index is 100. Already showered coming in from lake so it's carryout pizza.
Posted by: olddog in mo
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It's 93 here with a heat index of 104. Burgers must persist. Or I'll go hungry.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 16, 2024 06:04 PM (Q4IgG)

257 252 No takers on cheesesteak making?
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM

===
I just got here. With, provolone and peppers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

Mine is now cheese-free, but I do caramelized onions, peppers, mushrooms and ketchup. It's one of the few items that need ketchup (might be my childhood of having true philly cheesesteaks talking)...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 16, 2024 06:05 PM (exHjb)

258 Ackshully, I don't think notaries lurk. I think they get roped into it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 06:05 PM (QSrLX)

259 Up thread linked a Dailytimewaster.blogspot.com that shows how to make cheesesteaks
https://tinyurl.com/4vrpmxz3

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 06:06 PM (yuI/n)

260 But relatives. Now there is a lineup waiting to happen.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 16, 2024 06:06 PM (QSrLX)

261 Hairnet or bicycle seat cover.

I don't want to know.

Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2024 06:07 PM (FhXTo)

262 253 Yeah, seven days of 90+ degree heat in store here in my AO. Not looking forward to that.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 16, 2024 06:04 PM (mH6SG)
----

Same here. Gonna stay inside with the A/C and clear out the basement, which is a maze.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:08 PM (FkUwd)

263 Have steaks in the Sous vide and will sear them on the grill. Making roasted carrots as a side and a cheesecake for dessert.
It's 93 here but the heat index is only 100...

Posted by: lin-duh at June 16, 2024 06:08 PM (PZo5T)

264 CBD, tell us what that top photo is!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:09 PM (FkUwd)

265 1. The microplastic hysteria is being used to explain the excess deaths which should properly be attributed to the vaxx.

2. Pic up top looks like some sort of hair net, shower cap device.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 16, 2024 06:09 PM (tT6L1)

266 When grannny cooked I was afraid to open the oven after half a cows head stared back at me. Live eels in the tub was fun though.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 16, 2024 06:10 PM (NwihF)

267 No takers on cheesesteak making?
Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 05:45 PM

===
I just got here. With, provolone and peppers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 16, 2024 06:03
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Provolone is good. But I like 'em with Cheese Whiz too.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 16, 2024 06:10 PM (xEhcB)

268 I enjoyed some brats stuffed with pepper jack cheese today for lunch. I served them on a brioche pretzel roll topped with a slice of provolone cheese.

The brats came from a place in Hermann, MO, so they had a very authentic German flavor to them. Quite tasty. And available in my local supermarket...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 16, 2024 06:12 PM (BpYfr)

269 I use the needle-nose pliers to open those bags with the plastic track that keeps it closed. Actually, I go get the other one out of the garage because I need two for my old lady hands.

I still have the wooden cutting board my youngest brother gave me as a wedding present. Wouldn't part with it for anything...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 16, 2024 06:13 PM (y7DxH)

270 I'm going with sous vide bag.

AKA a plastic bag.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2024 06:14 PM (LkLld)

271 We had burgers on the grill and Mexican corn cooked in the air fryer and spouse is now making himself a piece of barbequed chicken. I think he was just really hungry after giving the Father's Day message at church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 16, 2024 06:16 PM (XkYcA)

272 Should have called that sour dough roll an 8 inch taping knife

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 16, 2024 06:16 PM (fh8Ks)

273 I got sunny and 64 with a breeze coming out of the north.

Just walked down the beach for some ice cream. Strawberry. Mmmmmmmm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 06:17 PM (PavmY)

274 For the FWP thread, during which I slept right through, I went through it as I that very problem in my shed. I noticed that no one parroted the usual clutches and just winged it.

Posted by: Ciampino - kick some more Hamas butts at June 16, 2024 06:20 PM (qfLjt)

275 got sunny and 64 with a breeze coming out of the north.

Just walked down the beach for some ice cream. Strawberry. Mmmmmmmm.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Not liking you very much right now....🤨

Posted by: lin-duh at June 16, 2024 06:20 PM (PZo5T)

276 I thought everyone had a designated junk drawer in the kitchen?

Posted by: polynikes at June 16, 2024 06:22 PM (SHMXB)

277 The last few years of Mom's life, they got take-out from the nearby Luby's several times a week.
Previously, they ate there a lot inside. Knew all the tea girls by name.
Good basic food.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 16, 2024 06:22 PM (y7DxH)

278 Same here. Gonna stay inside with the A/C and clear out the basement, which is a maze.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:08 PM (FkUwd)

Hopefully it is not actually a labyrinth, because then you have to take the ball of string and fight the Minotaur.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 06:23 PM (D7oie)

279 188 Does pork go with shrimp? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: George Snufunupaplagas at June 16, 2024 05:30 PM (ArbhN)

It does. Siu mai dumplings are a notably successful dish combining pork and shrimp.

Posted by: Splunge at June 16, 2024 06:29 PM (hmKaK)

280 CBD, tell us what that top photo is!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:09 PM (FkUwd)

It is a cheap hotel shower cap that I use to cover my rising and fermenting sourdough!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2024 06:31 PM (d9fT1)

281 Is it a cheap shower cap from a cheap Texas hotel?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:32 PM (FkUwd)

282 278
Hopefully it is not actually a labyrinth, because then you have to take the ball of string and fight the Minotaur.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 16, 2024 06:23 PM (D7oie)
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Consider yourself lucky it's not a Maxotaur.

Posted by: Ciampino - sous vide a Minotaur? at June 16, 2024 06:33 PM (qfLjt)

283 What we need here is some common-sense shower cap control.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 16, 2024 06:37 PM (mH6SG)

284 That's the end of that.

So

Bomb Iran

Posted by: Braenyard at June 16, 2024 06:37 PM (Iynsv)

285 from a cheap Texas hotel?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 16, 2024 06:32 PM (FkUwd)

Aren't all Texas hotels cheap?

[I kid...I kid!]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2024 06:39 PM (d9fT1)

286 Someone left the bread out in the rain
And I don't think they cam make it
For it took so long to bake it
And they will never have that recipe again
AGAIN!

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 06:41 PM (fwDg9)

287 Anything blackened is good!
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 16, 2024 05:24 PM

Well, maybe not faces.

Posted by: Justin Castroux, Ralph Northam, & Mark Herring at June 16, 2024 06:41 PM (wpInm)

288 Posted without looking at the other comments first. My guess is that is pulled pork off a smoker with an oven bag used in lieu of foil. The oven bag holds the apple juice without spills. I find it much easier than foil.

Now off to see the other guesses...

Posted by: GR8RDave at June 16, 2024 06:43 PM (w9gSy)

289 [I kid...I kid!]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 16, 2024 06:39 PM

When did Ace issue the CoBs a sense of humor?

;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 16, 2024 06:45 PM (wpInm)

290 I just use the dough bucket and turn it upside down over the dough if I'm doing a boule.

Other shapes get different treatments.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 16, 2024 06:52 PM (/HDaX)

291 It can be scotch time

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 06:53 PM (fwDg9)

292 We eat whole fish and lobsters. Why flinch at g. pigs.
Poor people eat anything. In Jamaica they eat the land crabs.

Posted by: Jamaica at June 16, 2024 06:54 PM (IG7T0)

293 Poor people eat anything. In Jamaica they eat the land crabs.


That's because they spend all their money on ganja?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 16, 2024 06:56 PM (0XtpM)

294 I wouldn't eat it in THAT presentation. Cuy Nuggets maybe...

Posted by: GR8RDave at June 16, 2024 06:58 PM (w9gSy)

295 No more non-food animals cooked as dinner.
I’m going to stop reading the food thread if this happens again.

Posted by: Cowboy Wally at June 16, 2024 06:58 PM (wMS25)

296 WEASELS GUN THREAD HAS GONE LIVE

Posted by: Skip at June 16, 2024 07:01 PM (fwDg9)

297 We eat whole fish and lobsters.
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I'm not that sophisticated but if Biden's economy takes hold I may become a sophisticate.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 16, 2024 07:02 PM (Iynsv)

298 We do not eat Bidens with the head and claws still on the carcass. Now we do sell the head to our cousins who eat brains and eyeballs. But not us.

Posted by: Biden's Cannibals at June 16, 2024 07:41 PM (0Gnoc)

299 Late the thread as usual. We are having shrimp rissotto w/ mushrooms and our homegrown asparagus. Yum, Jules is an excellent cook.

Posted by: Farmer at June 16, 2024 09:30 PM (55Qr6)

300 Also late to the thread. Just had a great dessert: fresh picked garden strawberries (I love June!) over Hagen Daaz vanilla, smothered in my wife's homemade chocolate sauce.
I don't have anything really odd in my kitchen drawer. However, I do have several pairs of scissors, which I use a lot. Apart from opening packages, they're great for chopping herbs.

Posted by: Nemo at June 16, 2024 09:49 PM (S6ArX)

301 Late to yhe party tonight. Too light out to go to the hot tub neked, Fathers day calls from my spawn keeping me occupied. I am blessed with three well adjusted young adult progeny, who are in various stages of continuing the species. Love the grand kids as a fun foil to re emphasize th important things about lie that i drummed into their heads as I raised them. Dad seems smarrer now. They get it. Very satisfying. Those are my excuses and i'm sticking with them. now going to immerse in 103F relaxation with the better looking half so I will check back later. toodles.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 16, 2024 10:23 PM (hftn9)

302 Forgot how to edit. sorry for the poor typing.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 16, 2024 10:28 PM (hftn9)

303 I'm late again, because I was grilling up a storm in a haze of smoke, but I began thinking about sous vide and jerky. Is that crazy?

I want to sous vide a batch of jerky and finish it in the smoker.

But texture will be a big issue. Marinade and sugar, baby!

Texture.

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