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forgot to mention about the smoke...... there will or may be a lot so hope you have a good vent, you could pre heat to a lower temp 400 or 450 may have less? this is partly why i do this on the barbque.
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I keep mine seasoned with olive oil. Same deal, wash with no soap, dry, immediately spread olive oil around the pan and heat it back up again for a little bit, let it cool and store.
I like the au jus idea, gonna have to give that a try for sure. Thanks!
For years I used to mix up my own seasoning for my steaks. One night I had MWH and his wife over for dinner and he told me to try McCormick Montreal Steak Seasoning. I was a little skeptical considering I am pretty much a steak snob, but I bit the bullet, swallowed my pride and gave it a try. That was a few years ago and I've been using it ever since.
As far as the seasoning of the skillet, it's all pretty easy. Just never wash with soap, always dry right away, always season with some sort of oil, spread the oil around with a paper towel like you're painting the pan with a single layer of oil, then heat the pan back up but don't burn off the oil, cool then store.
And like Baron said, heat the fucker up real good before you put the meat in it. The whole point of cooking in a skillet is the sear you get on the outside while still being able to cook a rare steak. The trick I have also found is to have a seasoned enough pan to where you can heat it up without the oil burning off. This will allow for the steak to hold on to a lot of the seasoning while still getting an awesome charred finish.
Montreal Steak Spice is common in Canada but not so much in the states at least a few years back. It's awesome & is really good on chicken wings too. They make a chicken spice too but it's not as good on wings as the steak spice IMO.
I buy it in bulk like this because I use it on a lot of things:
this isn't mine, but since some of you were talking about bloody marys, I had to share. it's from an irish pub in WI
And it's $5.
It looks ridiculous, but I guess if someone wants a bloody and a meal all in one...
A huge supreme nacho plate I made. For reference, the length of the plate was about 16"
Got this at a local pizza place the other day. Very tasty but I did get a mild case of heartburn the next day.
Tonight I made a White truffle oil mac n cheese with chopped onions, garlic and pepper.
First I took the chopped green pepper, onion and garlic and put it in a pan of melted butter.
After they got to light brown I added a little flour and whisked it. Followed by adding milk and whisking and leting it come to a boil
Obv, I already had the pasta cooked(whole wheat penne btw). I added white truffle oil and half of the cheese and mixed it all together. I used about 1/4 of a cup of white truffle oil.
I put them into a baking pan and added a top layer of mixed cheese. Inserted into the 375 degree pre heated oven for about 45 minutes, covered.
Took off the tin foi and let it bake for another 20. You don't have to bake it this long at all. i was ust waiting for my gf to get home.
It was pretty damn good. I just came p ith it with what we had here.
CHICKEN AND NOODLES (egg noodles)
I cook this once in a while and I love it. The thick noodles bring it out. I use the homestyle frozen egg noodles, not that cheap stuff in the spaghetti isle.
It's a nice comfort food imo that is just simple and hearty. Something even nice to have on a cold day (kind of like chili would be)
Ingredient List:
Carrots - Approx 4 cups
Celery - approx 3 cups or even more or less a whole head
Onion - 2 cups
Chicken broth: 2 - 3 32oz containers
Bay Leaves- 2 or 3
Basil - a couple of pinches
Egg Noodles (the real ones that are thick, not that thin boxed shit) The ones I use come frozen
Chicken Breasts- 4-5 average sized
Olive Oil
Noodles- See pic. about 2 24oz bags of frozen egg noodles
Sorry about the big pictures
take about 3 cups of chopped celery (you can use pretty much a whole head of celery if you wish) and approx 2 cups of chopped onions (depending on your preference)and sautee them in a pan with a little olive oil
while that is going, take a pot and put the chicken broth in it, along with a few bay leaves and a couple pinches of basil
once that starts heating up, add the chicken breasts. Continue boiling them until they are fully cooked. Remove the breasts and separate them in to small pieces. you should be able to easily pull them apart into small bite size chunks.
Now take the chicken, along with the carrots, celery, onions and put them into the broth. Let that cook for a few minutes until the carrots start to get cooked.
Now add the frozen egg noodles
Continue cooking everything in the pot until a good portion of the liquid is gone.
The idea is to not have it too liquidy like a soup; but you also don't want too overcook the noodles or they might get too soft, so keep an eye on them. If you still have too much liquid after everything appears to be close to done, you can always mix a little corn starch with a little hot water and add that to the pot. This will thicken everything up nicely after a few minutes.
serve and enjoy
Made this the other day. It is bacon wrapper stuff meatloaf!
General tso yall
Ciabatta wheat pizza , grabbed a loaf of Ciabatta, cut in half, unloaded some pastene pizza sauce on half with cabot reduced fat cheddar. Other side I pasted Carolina Gold BBQ sauce (the best BBQ sauce like EVERRRRRRRR) on the roll. Bought some pre cooked roasted chicken and mixed that with the gold BBQ as well added that and some of the cbot cheese and it was done in 10-15 mins
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God damnit I pan seared some wonderful salmon last night and forgot to take pics. Let me just state that salmon is the easiest thing in the world to make. Six minutes on a grill or pan.
Weiss what is your thoughts on Geno's? I was just listening to Bill Burr's podcast and he talked about going there and a place called Pat's I believe? They got cheese steaks at both cut them in half so they could try both places and he claimed that it's probably a daily pickem but on that day Pat's won.
Only people that go to Pat's and Geno's are tourists and locals when the bars are closed and there's not many other options. Pat's and Geno's is good when your sloshed, but there are much better places to go. You want a good late night cheese steak hit Jim's on South Street.
I always have had the (unpopular) view that Jim's on South Street was meh (too dry) and that Pat's is good
At the prompting of tournament professional Doug Lee, I am posting this here. It's Mac N' Cheese with a poached egg on top, and I sprinkled some spices on top. All ingredients were purchased from Trader Joes.
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And I will not apologize for not conforming to your food norms.
Perfectly charred NY Skillet Strip I'm about to go to town on...
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Bought this today at my local Deli.
Its amazing. You will enjoy.
Damn Vegas. I'm a medium rare guy and normally I am like to each his own but that seems like a waste of a nice steak, that is fucking charred.
PLOL what is the appeal of poached eggs? I used to make those for my gramma and thought they were just for old people that couldn't eat propers.
This is the point of cooking it in a skillet. You char the outside while still keeping the steak as rare as you like. This one came out a perfect medium/medium rare...
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This is a pic of a strip from Ruth's Chris. It's all about the char...
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So in Durango thy have a ton of Texan's that come live here for a few months at a time and they love their Texas BBQ. So there is a place called Serious-Texas-BBQ. They make this special BBQ sauce that is probably the best I've ever had. Best thing on the menu is the Texas Taco. Shredded beef, onions, cheese, jalepenos, and on top are cheesy potatoes. Great lil taco for 5$ and you sit with one hand taco, and the other hand the bottle of BBQ sauce. Pouring it on every single bite.
So so good...
6$ meal w/ Drink
Wish I knew you were there, would have made for a fun meet up and smoke out.
I was through there last week on my way back from the Grand Canyon. I stopped because I saw there were 13 dispensaries in Durango. The next morning I found out that its med only there, and they sent me to Teluride (the nearest place for rec from what they said).
I said fuck that and went up through the Mountains to Denver for a two day smoke out instead.
Day off today and bored while my girlfriend is out delivering flowers. She came home for lunch so I made one of her favorites. It is a really easy meal and always good, Stir Fry.
As I usually do weekly, I made 4 cups of rice. Some for this, and put the rest away for other meals down the road. Rice is a great food to cook a lot of and store it for the next few days.
I used:
1/2 bell pepper sliced
1/3 red onion sliced
1 clove garlic minced
1/2 can of pineapple chunks, also cut them in half
1/2 head of broccoli cut proportionate to other veg
1/2 jalepeno minced
1 carrot shaved
I used coconut oil as I usually do. Take a small spoon of it and let it melt in the pan.
Add all of the veggies except the garlic, wait a good 7-10 minutes to throw that in. It cooks quickly. I use med-high heat in a wok.
Generally cook the veggies for about twenty minutes. You can cook them longer, but we prefer them a little crispy still.
I add soy sauce twice, once at the beginning and once toward the end. I also add about two-three spoonfuls of teriyaki sauce and mix up the veggies as they cook.
Once you're done, add them on to the rice, and you have yourself a perfect Valentines Day panty dropper lunch for your girl, complete with bj and swallowed load.
Obv, I am no rookie and know how to please my girl. The heart just makes them want to grab your balls right there on the spot
Tonight I will be cooking a pasta Telefono for my girl(her number 1 favorite). Obv, pics and recipe to come
Whole Wheat Pasta Telefono tonight for V-Day.
Box of Whole wheat penne
Couple heads of broccoli chopped and steamed prior to mixing in sauce
four chicken tenderloins cooked in a pan and chopped.
Bottle of San Marsano Tomato Basil sauce
some half and half
little butter
fresh basil
fresh mazz cubed about 8oz or one ball.
Heat up the sauce and cook the chicken and steam the broccoli. Also cook the pasta to al dente
Once the pasta is done, put in drainer. Also add the fresh basil, broccoli and chicken. Hold off on the cheese. Keep the heat high and stir.
Once you drain the pasta add it to the sauce pan with all the goodies already mixed in it. Once the pasta is in there you add the cheese. You let it cook until the cheese is melted and when you're serving it the cheese looks like little telephone lines stretching from the pot to the plate. Shit is money...
Also obv had a salad. Arugula, sliced granny smith apples, peas, dried cranberry, and homemade lemon dressing
I can cook. Really starting to feel it in the kitchen
Anyone ever made Chicken Enchilada soup? Need a good recipe.