The Grilling and Cooking Thread

[The 12th Commandment]

2 hours ago, twa said:

 

I use mustard seed,chili, onion and garlic powder along with the corriader

they about give corned beef away here at certain times of the yr

Exactly, and the points which are cheaper actually make better pastrami. Some potato salad, a pickle and some chips and I'm set.

 

 

Edited April 2, 2020 by KAOSkins

[skinsmarydu]

Boiled some eggs, Mom's tuna salad recipe on the menu for tonight...tuna, eggs, chopped dill pickles (not relish), mayo & a splash of spicy mustard. 

Why is there no fish emoji on android? 

[PleaseBlitz]

Beef stroganoff, phase 1. 

[PleaseBlitz]

Phase 2. 
 

 

[PleaseBlitz]

Finished product. 
 

 

[LadySkinsFan]

Yum, for both tuna salad and beef stroganoff!

[Mr. Sinister]

I had Ledo's... It was ok 

[LadySkinsFan]

I miss Ledo's. It's my favorite. Haven't found one here yet that I really like. I might have to order their pizza sauce. And find some smoked provolone.

Edited April 4, 2020 by LadySkinsFan

[TheGoodBits]

9 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said:

I had Ledo's... It was ok 

most overrated pizza in the world. People who like Ledos (including my wife) LOVE it. I’ve never understood. Every major pizza chain is better to me. 

[EmirOfShmo]

I finally decided to make a sourdough starter. Just finished the day 4 feeding & should be ready to make something with it starting tomorrow or the day after (whatever day of the week that is). I've made no-knead olive bread on my smoker (and oven) in the past. Pretty easy & really tasty. Going to try these: sourdough rolls for steak & cheese sammiches, sourdough pizza (pesto, tomato, cheese, basil), and sourdough rye everything bagels. 

Any bread makers with suggestions and/or recipes to try? 

 

[skinsmarydu]

Toasted with swiss cheese. 

I threw in onions, and of course seasoned salt, garlic powder & a buttload of ground pepper. 

 

Finished with Bugles. 😉

Edited April 4, 2020 by skinsmarydu

[China]

Just made this except I substituted Gojuchang for the Sambal, and used spaghetti noodles instead of ramen:

 

 

[EmirOfShmo]

Smoked mealoaf, Yoshida style (from Smokingpit.com) - used 1/2 ground beef 1/2 ground pork. About 5 degrees to go.

 

[Skinsfan1311]

Chicken & fried cheddar grits.

[skinsmarydu]

Tuna salad last night, & for lunch today...can't do it again. 🤔

Bean & bacon soup & a grilled cheese sammich. 🥣🥪

[China]

Inspired by PB's beef stroganoff, I made some venison stroganoff.  

[visionary]

We made some interesting food this week.  The staying at home has given us time to try making some new stuff. Tonight we made ground lamb, potatoes, rosemary, garlic... mainly this recipe here:  https://myheartbeets.com/rosemary-garlic-ground-lamb-potatoes/

 

A couple of nights ago we made mini pies with Bisquick, ground lamb, onions and shredded mozzarella.

 

And last night we made oatmeal, dried apricot, and blueberry-infused-craisin cookies.  (we used betty crocker oatmeal cookie mix and added the dried fruits)

 

We also made some bread the past week or so with varying results, some pretty normal and some with fruit.

Edited April 8, 2020 by visionary

[LadySkinsFan]

Sounds delicious, all of it!

[visionary]

Oh yeah, we also made rice pudding and bread pudding.  The rice pudding ended up a bit dry I think and the bread pudding was a bit soft (both tasted pretty good though).

[EmirOfShmo]

2 hours ago, visionary said:

And last night we made oatmeal, dried apricot, and blueberry-infused-craisin cookies.  (we used betty crocker oatmeal cookie mix and added the dried fruits)

 

I never - ever - ate oatmeal growing up. I blame my Dad because I don't think he liked it so he made sure we never, ever had to eat it. 

Anyway, I bought a box of cinnamon/apple instant whatever brand because I thought it would be healthy & cheap. Tried it - nope - tastes like ****. Cardboard ****. 

Found a recipe using 5 packs of this packaged cardboard crap to make cookies. Actually, pretty decent cookies with coffee in the morning. Shocked. 

[Skinsfan1311]

Fried cheddar grits, round two, prepped for tomorrow. Using leftovers. Cooked them in Mrs. Skinsfans ham stock, and added ground black pepper, a little salt, cooked crumbled bacon, 2 cups of cheddar cheese, minced garlic and scallions.

 

Gotta use up those leftovers!

Edited April 10, 2020 by Skinsfan1311

[EmirOfShmo]

On 4/4/2020 at 2:28 PM, EmirOfShmo said:

I finally decided to make a sourdough starter. Just finished the day 4 feeding & should be ready to make something with it starting tomorrow or the day after (whatever day of the week that is). I've made no-knead olive bread on my smoker (and oven) in the past. Pretty easy & really tasty. Going to try these: sourdough rolls for steak & cheese sammiches, sourdough pizza (pesto, tomato, cheese, basil), and sourdough rye everything bagels. 

Any bread makers with suggestions and/or recipes to try? 

 

I thought I had this figured out by day 4. Apparently, I missed the step where you're supposed to remove 1/2 of the starter everyday before feeding it that day. I ended up with a separation of the fluid (called 'liquor') from the starter. Essentially, it starved itself because the daily feeding of new flour wasn't enough to keep it nourished. I was going to start a new batch but realized that I'm just about out of bread flour (I use this when I don't have 00 flour to make pizza dough). Went to 2 grocery stores to restock. Yeah, every type of flour - gone. Even the yeast packets are out of stock. Sucks because now I can't make pizza dough.😞

[LadySkinsFan]

I made cheese grits this week, but nothing so elaborate. I just make them in a sauce pan, cook the grits and add cheese, mostly whatever I have. I have a bjt of grits left, may make them with parmesan cheese. I eat them with scrambled eggs.

 

 

3 hours ago, Skinsfan1311 said:

Fried cheddar grits, round two, prepped for tomorrow. Using leftovers. Cooked them in Mrs. Skinsfans ham stock, and added ground black pepper, a little salt, cooked crumbled bacon, 2 cups of cheddar cheese, minced garlic and scallions.

 

Gotta use up those leftovers!

 

 

[Skinsfan1311]

3 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

I thought I had this figured out by day 4. Apparently, I missed the step where you're supposed to remove 1/2 of the starter everyday before feeding it that day. I ended up with a separation of the fluid (called 'liquor') from the starter. Essentially, it starved itself because the daily feeding of new flour wasn't enough to keep it nourished. I was going to start a new batch but realized that I'm just about out of bread flour (I use this when I don't have 00 flour to make pizza dough). Went to 2 grocery stores to restock. Yeah, every type of flour - gone. Even the yeast packets are out of stock. Sucks because now I can't make pizza dough.😞

That sucks.

 

We can't find yeast, or cocoa powder, or bakers chocolate anywhere.  We have plenty of all-purpose,  and cake, flour, but no yeast...

[Skinsfan1311]

3 minutes ago, LadySkinsFan said:

I made cheese grits this week, but nothing so elaborate. I just make them in a sauce pan, cook the grits and add cheese, mostly whatever I have. I have a bjt of grits left, may make them with parmesan cheese. I eat them with scrambled eggs.

 

 

 

That's usually what I do, toss in anything that looks good.  I added more stuff, this time around because I have more time on my hands. That, and am trying to use up anything near the expiration dates.  

The grits will be out of date soon, we don't eat much cheese, and rarely eat bacon, so we need to use those things up.  

I mainly just cook grits is a saucepan with water, then eat them in a bowl, with butter & brown sugar, or maple syrup.   On the weekends, they're served on the plate, with butter, salt, pepper and a couple of fried eggs on top.