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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
An Andouille sausage and chicken thigh gumbo with plenty of okra and as dark a roux as I had the nerve to attemp.

Oh Yes.....yes...yes!!!

Didn't take a picture because I was too lazy. Had a little pulled pork leftover from night before. Cooked up a burger topped it with the pulled pork and melted the cheese into the pulled pork. Put a little BBQ sauce and a couple of strips of bacon on it. Yum! This is my second time doing this with leftover pulled pork. I think I am going to do this every time I have pulled pork it's so good.

I smoked/grilled a Delmonico (New York) roast. It was brined for 24 hours and then dry rubbed with the best rub creation I have ever put together. Cooked for two hours starting at 180° and gradually increasing to 250°. It was pulled when the internal temp was 123°. Then it was wrapped in foil, then a towel, then placed in a soft sided insulated cooler and allowed to rest for two hours. It increased in temp to 137°. It was the juiciest, most tender, delicious piece of meat I have cooked in a long time.

To accompany this masterpiece, I made creamy polenta with Parmesan and white truffles. This was the best damned polenta I have ever made, or eaten. It was amazing. I cannot begin to tell how great it was.

Also some grilled zucchini and asparagus.

I only took pics of the meat. Who wants to see corn grits and veggies.

Noah,
Two questions:
(1) was it white asparagus?
(2) was it THAT spice rub?
--Bob

Bob, it was just regular asparagus. I used white truffle.

White asparagus is pretty much the same as green, but it doesn’t have the chlorophyll. So it’s white. And a little sweeter.

The rub is:
4 tbsp Jamaican Jerk
3 tbsp Garlic granules
3 tbsp Smoked sweet paprika
3 tbsp Onion granules
1.5 tsp steel cut black pepper
1.5 tsp coriander ground
1 tsp cumin ground
1/3 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/4 cup white sugar.

There is no salt in this rub, as the meat had been brined in the following:
1 gallon water
1 cup coarse sea salt
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
2 tbsp black peppercorn
2 tbsp rainbow peppercorn
1 tsp clove whole
2 pieces of star anise (whole five pointed pieces)
6 oz cider vinegar

Tried to replicate chili verde from Oscars. First attempt. Edible. But still needs some flavor.

Costco, for a limited time, sold some hamburger patties that were heavily mixed with bacon and cheese. They're about 1/2 pounders. Excellent with some coleslaw.

It snowed for 18 hours or so, yesterday. It was a good evening to have 10 Bean Soup with sausage, along with sourdough bread, fresh from the oven.

No pics (I forgot) but last night was Dr. Pepper braised short ribs. Tonight will be homemade Pasta e fagioli soup.

Found a baked bean recipe that looked good. Here it's getting ready to cook for 4 hours.

quote:

Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
An Andouille sausage and chicken thigh gumbo with plenty of okra and as dark a roux as I had the nerve to attemp.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Next time try using shrimp / crab meat / oysters with cajun seasonings. Cajun seasoning does not necessarly mean Hot Pepper that some non Cajun country folks believe. ............ drill sgt.

I used sausage and chicken because that's what I had on hand. There was plenty of Cajun seasoning in there, I garuntee. Plenty of Tabasco on top, too.

Wild caught sockeye on a bed bed of rice drizzled with garlic parm cream sauce, grilled asparagus on the side, and some asiago bread.

Sukiyaki

Meatloaf.

three pounds ground beef (homegrown steer)
one pound pork sausage (home grown piggy)
two packages Bear Creek "Cheddar Broccoli" soup mix
two packages shredded sharp cheddar cheese.

Mix ingredients with kitchen-aid.

Form loaf in 17 inch cast iron skillet

Bake at 350 for one hour twenty minutes.

Shrimp alfredo, yum.

Smoked sockeye salmon frittata and a sliced tomato salad with homemade blue cheese dressing.

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See that icon to the right of the envelope icon? Click that and this opens up where you can put the URL of your picture so it will post.

Weird ass dinner -- no pix.

Homemade black beans and rice with Cajun seasoning accompanied by an Ahi tuna filet quick pan fried in butter and lemon. Washed down with an Oktoberfest beer. WTH right? LOL