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First time trying filled pasta. Tortellini doesn’t look pretty but tasted damn good. Chances of getting laid tonight increased 1% to 15% based on my wife’s reaction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My wife decided it was time to wash the fabric liner of our son’s high chair. It was making a ton of noise in the dryer - kiddo was sleeping - so I pulled it out to air dry instead. Fast forward an hour and a half - kiddo wakes up and it’s time to feed him lunch. The high chair liner is nowhere to be found. I ask my wife......she had put it outside to dry quicker. ....it’s 25 degrees.

Can’t get enough Picanha these days. Always delivers a perfect cook! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Love the thigh but probably what I most look forward to when we cook a whole chicken is making a stock afterwards. So bones are high on my list for that reason.

I did around 275-300. I hadn’t smoked wings before but with the flash-fry afterwards the skin was really crispy, not tough. I’d say they were on maybe an hour? I was watching internal temp more than time - pulled off at 170 (we like our wings done a bit more)

Tried out some smoked then flash-fried wings tonight - might have found my new favorite way to do wings. We almost always fry them since I need a little crunch in my buffalo wings. Got this idea from Stiles Switch BBQ - unbelievable. All the smoky flavors you want and a nice, crispy exterior. Tossed in a little buffalo sauce (unnecessary) and devoured by the wife and I. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Doesn’t get much better. Amazing

Yeah I usually do a MAX of 4 min. The recipe actually said 5-10 min (which shocked me) so I went over my usual cook time.

1 lb shrimp 1/3 cup mustard 1/3 cup hot sauce (I used franks) 1 cup flour (maybe a bit more) 3 tbsp cornstarch 2 tbsp tonys 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp old bay 0.5 tsp black pepper 2 eggs Peel/devein shrimp and place in a large bowl. Add mustard, hot sauce, and eggs. Mix to combine and evenly coat the shrimp. Throw in spice mixture (tonys, garlic powder, black pepper, old bay) and stir. Cover bowl and let sit for about 20 min while you get a pot of oil hot (I used peanut). Bring oil to 350 - I did 365 to account for the drop in temp when shrimp are added. Put flour in a bowl and whisk in the cornstarch. I also added some garlic power and paprika. Remove shrimp from marinading bowl and to flour mixture. Toss to combine. Fry shrimp in oil for 4-5 min (this seemed too long and I thought the shrimp were overdone - family disagreed). I did mine in batches then placed them on a wire rack once cooked. Profit Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stumbled across a new fried shrimp recipe and wanted to give it a try. Result was very very good. Let sit in a “marinade/egg wash” of hot sauce, yellow mustard, tonys, and eggs for a bit then fried. Crispy, flakey, delicious. Left them in the oil for a bit too long but no complaints from the family. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve got some shitty news for you...

As 2020 comes to an end I found myself in a situation today that I felt was worth mentioning here. For context: I’ve been looking to hire on some sales directors at my company. This is an individual contributed role despite the director title and part of my interview process is a mock sales pitch. I send the finalists a template and prompt that they put together and deliver to me and the team. Basically we want to see them put in some effort and sell to us - not just read. I say this because these candidates usually put in time practicing and rehearsing - so not the type of interview we want to reschedule at the last second. Total dick move if that happens. This interview lasts 45 min - 60 min. Today, I had a guy going through the interview. My wife and I had come down with a cold over the weekend so I was already approaching every sneeze with caution going into today. Well - we got this interview kicked off and about 5 min into meeting I realize I’m going to need to run to the bathroom once we finish. The candidate then asks me a series of questions as a potential customer - RIGHT as I answer I cough. Not a big cough, but enough. I shit my pants. Sharted. The kind where your pants immediately feel wet. And we still have 45 min to go in this interview. My facial expression evidently told the candidate that something was wrong with my cough because he said “I’d offer you a glass of water if I could”. I manned up - did my best to answer any questions but that was the worst 45 min of my life. Finished the interview, cancelled my next meeting, and threw out my underwear/pants. There’s no saving them and tomorrow is trash day. The office chair might need to go too. Happy Monday. As a side note the individual I interviewed got his undergrad at Texas.....would be funny as hell if they are in here.

This thread inspired me. Made several quarts of stock from the leftover fried turkey carcass. Thanks to y’all, instead of doing the typical turkey noodle soup we opted for gumbo. Damn, the homemade stock really brings it home. Disappeared quickly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fun week of cooking. Tomahawks, lobster bisque (used the Watkins Bisque recipe), and fried turkey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chicken pot pie for dinner. The pie crust wasn’t spectacular but everything else was. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is more of a slow burn but I believe it qualifies. I do all the cooking in my house. My wife can follow a recipe if needed but it’s always best if we avoid that. Something she does do a lot of is provide unsolicited help in the kitchen. And usually it’s something I don’t want her to do. She never asks, she just does it. An example: last thanksgiving I was doing prime rib in the oven. I did the method where you cook it hot then let it sit in the over for a couple of hours. I killed the heat, announced to the room that nobody is to touch the oven, then went out back to tend to the turkey. Well, my wife must have not heard me because she noticed the oven was off and pulled the prime rib out. Trying to help, I get it, but don’t help me unless I ask. Other instances are more of an inconvenience - opening the smoker over and over to check on the meat (why? I don’t know), cutting into a steak before it’s had time to rest, adding dressing to a salad when I haven’t even started making dinner, etc. It’s always when I’m distracted or trying to finish up another portion of the meal. She’s trying to help but it drives me nuts and we have talked about it a bunch. She has been told to remain out of the kitchen unless I ask her to help. Well....last night a neighbor had given us a huge tomahawk ribeye. Beautiful steak. I decided to do reverse sear in the oven. The steak got to temp but I was a little late heating up the charcoal and they needed a few more min to get hot. Pulled the steak out of the oven, set it on the counter, then went to dump the charcoal. I come back inside and my wife is halfway through carving the steak. I cook steaks reverse sear all the time so I don’t know what compelled her to do this. It did not look pretty and, at least to me, was pretty obvious it wasn’t finished. I got pissed. But I’m the jerk because she was just trying to help. The steak wasn’t bad - just not very pretty to look at.

Your munchies look different than my munchies. I prefer yours.

Did Picanha again tonight. Our H-E-B (Leander) has them on the shelf now - love it! Reverse sear on PK. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ribeye from Bountiful Acres (Leander Farmers Market). Reverse sear to 125 degrees then seared. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

People who insist on trying every single beer on a long tap wall before making a selection (and the bartender who lets them).

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Looks like I need to go to costco soon. Nice work!

Damn that challah came out perfect. Everything looks amazing!

Picanha steak reverse sear on a PK grill. 10/10 would eat again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My wife must be trying to collect on my life insurance. I was installing a couple of dimmer switches earlier today and also needed to put in a new fan. I had the corresponding breaker switches off for the dimmers and was just wrapping up. I asked my wife to go flip off the breaker switch for the fan since she was heading to the garage. I guess I wasn’t specific enough....and this is partially my fault for still working on the dimmers while she was flipping a breaker. But she didn’t turn the fan off....she, instead, turned the breakers back to “on” and gave me a nice little jolt. Nothing serious but a good pop. She told me she thought I wanted them all “on”.