What's cookin' boys?

[Sidekick]

Guess more pasta is in my future. Costco had the imported pasta from Italy again today. 6 half kilo bags for under $10 and it's really good. I should have been born Italian . Dang, the price of beef is skyrocketing. Fresh seafood was the best buy today.

 

[RCW]

This is tomorrow’s dinner. 3 Porterhouse from my beef guy from last spring.

In a bag with Curry marinade, along with some peppers and onions. Don’t typically do that with steaks, but was a request from the Mrs..

This year’s beef due to show up anytime.

 

[johnjk]

A little bit of homemade bacon to start the day

 

[Sidekick]

Made some chili and cornbread for lunch. Started by grinding and sieving some Wapsie Valley Corn.

Then put the ingredients in the breadmaker and watched it

Soaked the beans overnight and cooked them for an hour. Notice the scarlet runner beans from the garden that have awesome flavor.

Went down in the root cellar and got some of last years garden garlic and a Alisa Craig onion.

Got some Anaheim pepper from last years garden out of the freezer ( they are hotter then normal so not many)

And decided to make it healthy so used turkey instead of beef.

And the most flavorful pare it our home canned tomatoes and tomato puree.

A couple minutes later turkey chili that needs to simmer for about an hour more.

Shredded some 3 year old extra sharp cheddar and the corn bread was done at 11:57.

It was a very good batch that probably will last 3 more days.

 

[Sidekick]

Final picture that last post would not take. Really good for turkey chili. Added quite a bit of chili powder though to get the flavor right. Enjoying the garden year round.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Final picture that last post would not take. Really good for turkey chili. Added quite a bit of chili powder though to get the flavor right. Enjoying the garden year round.
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Show off! You need to start growing poblano peppers and dry them for anchos. Makes yummy, no powder, chili.

 

[Sidekick]

Show off! You need to start growing poblano peppers and dry them for anchos. Makes yummy, no powder, chili.

I grew some poblanos last year and they were sooooo hot that they all went in the compost pile. Us old people can't take hot anymore. We like the Anaheim flavor in chili best anymore. Even the Anaheims were very hot last year for some reason. I grow nadapenos and habanadas for flavor without heat now also 🫣.

 

[RCW]

Looks very good! Amazing!

 

[BBFarmer]

Final picture that last post would not take. Really good for turkey chili. Added quite a bit of chili powder though to get the flavor right. Enjoying the garden year round.
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You probably made the dang chili powder to, didn't ya? LOL

What a chef. That looks absolutely delicious sir.

 

[BBFarmer]

This weekends cooking escapade started off with a pretty good chicken parm

Until I realized, through the madness of my usual saturday morning grocery shopping, 100+ items, and having to check myself out because of useless individuals, I had forgotten the frickin mozzarella.

It was in the cart, I swear, but never made it home.

Although a good Italian always has some in stock, it was no where near enough for 8 servings. So now we got a sad chicken parm.


Then, yesterday for lunch some bacon wrapped hotdogs, caramelized onions, & some "fridge assembled" honey mustard


Followed up with two big ole "flats" of chicken spaghetti....Also premade 2 hashbrown casseroles for tomorrows nights church dinner meet up. Gotta bake when I get home today.

Also had a large banana pudding to pick on all weekend. I didn't make the whipped cream this time because we were low on eggs. But it did have our vanilla pudding in there, a s$%T ton of chipsahoy style cookies (instead of nilla wafers), and a bunch of nanners.

 

[Sidekick]

This weekends cooking escapade started off with a pretty good chicken parm
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Until I realized, through the madness of my usual saturday morning grocery shopping, 100+ items, and having to check myself out because of useless individuals, I had forgotten the frickin mozzarella.

It was in the cart, I swear, but never made it home.

Although a good Italian always has some in stock, it was no where near enough for 8 servings. So now we got a sad chicken parm.
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Then, yesterday for lunch some bacon wrapped hotdogs, caramelized onions, & some "fridge assembled" honey mustard
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Followed up with two big ole "flats" of chicken spaghetti....Also premade 2 hashbrown casseroles for tomorrows nights church dinner meet up. Gotta bake when I get home today.
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Also had a large banana pudding to pick on all weekend. I didn't make the whipped cream this time because we were low on eggs. But it did have our vanilla pudding in there, a s$%T ton of chipsahoy style cookies (instead of nilla wafers), and a bunch of nanners.
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That looks wonderful. You must be feeding a big crowd with all that.

 

[Sidekick]

You probably made the dang chili powder to, didn't ya? LOL

What a chef. That looks absolutely delicious sir.

Spices are not easy to get right. We have an Amish store a couple miles from us and they sell them in bulk. Fresher then most commercial stuff. I designed and built a hidden spice cabinet in my kitchen to hide them all in darkness.

 

[BBFarmer]

Spices are not easy to get right. We have an Amish store a couple miles from us and they sell them in bulk. Fresher then most commercial stuff. I designed and built a hidden spice cabinet in my kitchen to hide them all in darkness.
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Oh that's just genius.

I've got a similar hidden set up i'll have to take a pic of. Installation nowhere near as clean as yours though.

 

[BBFarmer]

Also premade 2 hashbrown casseroles for tomorrows nights church dinner meet up. Gotta bake when I get home today.

Follow up to the hashbrown casseroles. Been makin them 4 or 5 years now. Last nights kinda sucked. Never premaid one like that before and let it hang out in the fridge for a day. Wont do that again.

Didn't brown right, kinda rushing before we left, then the texture of the potatoes were off.

I mean it still had a decent taste and we did only bring back half of the 9x9 but definitely not as good as it normally is.

The one a few weeks ago was spot on

 

[RCW]

We’re fixin’ to make some tacos…..

 

[johnjk]

Nothing much here for dinner. Pan seared tuna, baked broccoli with garlic and some rice with a teriyaki sauce

 

[RCW]

The Mrs. has been expanding her Pie business in anticipation of retirement.

She has some orders pending. Will be at a local Farmers Market Monday evening that she’s been at since last fall.

This is a normal thing here anymore.

Many older folks like the 6 inch pies. Good for 1 or 2 people. Best sellers at the farmers market.

 

[RCW]

Roast chicken with asparagus. Got some rice and Italian Beans and Greens to go along with it.

 

[BX25D Rookie]

Hey RCW, what time do you want me to stop over for dinner?
I'm usually not a big fan of chicken, but that looks yummy.

We have been getting our beef from a brother of a neighbor. Someplace in the Hudson valley.
It's pretty nice beef.

Some years back we went in with a different neighbor and split 1/2 a cow.
The problem was, it apparently was an old dairy cow. Even the dogs wouldn't eat it.

I'm just kidding you, I'm having shrimp and clam strips tonight!

 

[BBFarmer]

This weekend started off with me breaking my dang double chocolate cookie cake. Tripped over a pup that wasn't supposed to be in the kitchen, let alone laying down right behind me. Slammed her down on the cutting board.

Ended up piecing it back together just in time to get to ice it in the dark. Winds got alittle heavy and took the power out for a few hours.

Power came on just in time to throw together some grilled cheese and tomato soup.


Yesterday started with a triple chocolate cake the girls will be taking tonight to a girls thing at the church. As I sit there somewhat resembling a stoner trying to precisely apply the choc chips, thinking why I put myself through these things lol

Then it was on to some chicken bacon gyros, homemade feta sauce, pickled red onions. We got a place in Jackson called Keifers, we were trying to copycat it. Cottage fries and all. Came out ok,