Shit I've Cooked Lately

[South Austin 52519]

What’s not pretty about meatballs topped with melted cheese?

[Texzilla58 4738]

That salad belongs in a fucking bowl, thus allowing plate of meatballs to be doubled.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

That salad belongs in a fucking bowl, thus allowing plate of meatballs to be doubled.

This guy fucks.

[Party_Taco 3742]

That salad belongs in a fucking bowl, thus allowing plate of meatballs to be doubled.

I mean, you’re not wrong… but I’m coming off a VERY indulgent week and am tapering down.

[Texzilla58 4738]

I’m talking about my serving. You depriving yourself of your magic meatballs is your problem.

[South Austin 52519]

Seared scallops with wild mushroom risotto.

[Frank The Tank 1497]

 

A pretty simple roast chicken but it was very good. Roasted over a bed of carrots and onions served with shallot green beans and potatoes with crispy onions. Classic family meal for a reason. 

[elfenix 34310]

Shrimp quesadillas with chili crisp and fermented salsa.

[horn4life 3762]

I think we have a winner for The Florida game cookoff!  I used to like to try and cook whatever the other team's mascot is.  Buffalo Burgers for Colorado oh so long ago was fun, but a baby gator is probably pretty good if done right. And would be fun for gameday!  Thanks for the link on this purchase.

Edited June 24, 2023 by horn4life

[locodos 5387]

17 minutes ago, horn4life said:

I think we have a winner for The Florida game cookoff!  I used to like to try and cook whatever the other team's mascot is.  Buffalo Burgers for Colorado oh so long ago was fun, but a baby gator is probably pretty good if done right. And would be fun for gameday!  Thanks for the link on this purchase.

I've never had Gator that tasted even remotely decent.  It looks interesting, but I think the joke will be on you trying to eat all that...  Maybe make it into a smoked gator dip, but otherwise no thankyou.

 

[South Austin 52519]

I had fried gator tenders in St. Martinville a long time ago that were overall very good. They sort of taste like chicken, until you get to a bite every now and then (usually the tail meat) that makes you say, “okay, that’s not chicken.”

Edited June 25, 2023 by South Austin
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[Underdog 28711]

Had it once during Pecan St. Festival don't recall it being too bad if a bit chewy. 

[Texzilla58 4738]

Reptiles aren’t made for eating unless you’re at Great Depression levels of poverty. I’ve had gator. Frog legs , rattlesnake, turtle, tortoise, and they all suck balls. Doesn’t taste like chicken. Tastes like swamp.

[conVINCEd 21469]

Gator sucks at mainstream restaurants, but I would be willing to give it another chance if I found myself in Bumfuck Bayou, Louisiana, where I needed a translator to communicate with the locals.  Those fuckers probably know how to cook a gator.

[Brisketexan 105155]

Reptiles aren’t made for eating unless you’re at Great Depression levels of poverty. I’ve had gator. Frog legs , rattlesnake, turtle, tortoise, and they all suck balls. Doesn’t taste like chicken. Tastes like swamp.

WTF? Turtle soup at Commanders is one of the single greatest dishes in the world. I’ve loved frog legs since I was a kid (they don’t taste like chicken, they taste like frog). Rattlesnake is definitely on the dry side, I like to smoke it and eat it like jerky. And I love fried gator, done right.
Then again, I like stuff with flavor.

[dcbc 14487]

9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Turtle soup at Commanders is one of the single greatest dishes in the world.

Quoted for truth.

[Underdog 28711]

1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

Reptiles aren’t made for eating unless you’re at Great Depression levels of poverty. I’ve had gator. Frog legs , rattlesnake, turtle, tortoise, and they all suck balls. Doesn’t taste like chicken. Tastes like swamp.

Bitch, please.  You’ve obviously never had iguana while in Tijuana. 

[FartingMonk 3608]

Could have taken the burger off a little earlier but overall great 

[Texzilla58 4738]

WTF? Turtle soup at Commanders is one of the single greatest dishes in the world. I’ve loved frog legs since I was a kid (they don’t taste like chicken, they taste like frog). Rattlesnake is definitely on the dry side, I like to smoke it and eat it like jerky. And I love fried gator, done right.
Then again, I like stuff with flavor.

I’ve had the turtle soup at Commanders. I’ve had terrapin soup in in Maryland. I’ve had snapping turtle at deer camp. Had a tortoise XO sauce in Taipei. Had snake cooked on charcoal after it was skinned alive at a Hong Kong market. Had gator sauce piquant in Breaux Bridge, Lafayette, and Church Point LA, and fried and barbecued all over. I’ve had camel hump, donkey, grubs, sea cucumber and don’t like eating any of it either. So more of it for you.

[Mo Horn 8849]

3 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

I’ve had the turtle soup at Commanders. I’ve had terrapin soup in in Maryland. I’ve had snapping turtle at deer camp. Had a tortoise XO sauce in Taipei. Had snake cooked on charcoal after it was skinned alive at a Hong Kong market. Had gator sauce piquant in Breaux Bridge, Lafayette, and Church Point LA, and fried and barbecued all over. I’ve had camel hump, donkey, grubs, sea cucumber and don’t like eating any of it either. So more of it for you.

Have you had cuy (guinea pig) in Peru? Very good. 

[Underdog 28711]

Junior's SIL & BIL travel quite a bit and he's an adventurous eater showed us a pic of guinea pig he had at some travel locale that was still intact head and all. 

[Texzilla58 4738]

Have you had cuy (guinea pig) in Peru? Very good. 

I’ve had nutria various ways in Louisiana. I was polite but it was stringy and had that swampy essence. I liked it best barbecued; they were braised and then put in the grill. I’ve also had beaver which was not good. It’s like a big Guinea pig I guess. If not farmed like in peru but wild. I guess if you’re a Guinea pig rancher in Peru they have different grades. Here’s a prissonngrade, here’s a wagyu one.

[BearCountry11 1234]

Never thought a simple chopped chicken, bacon, ranch sando would go as hard as this one did. But here we are.

The side of salt and vinneys may have made it into the sandwich at some point.

[Anastasis 23475]

Some app action out of the pizza oven.

Crushed tomatoes, garlic, calabriasian peppers, green bell peppers, oregano, feta, olive oil, and them topped with halloumi cheese. On second trial, needs more feta base, basically fully layered over the zoom. 

 

 

 

[South Austin 52519]

Braised beef hind shank over Boursin mashed potatoes.

[Post Oak 20245]

Had a sirloin roast with some roasted Parm potatoes.  

My plating sucks 

[Party_Taco 3742]

So, I decided to not fuck around today and went extra hard on the noach…

Gentlemen, I present to you Smoked Brisket Pastrami Nachos with Serrano queso, grilled onions and chili avocados:

[Texzilla58 4738]

These would have been true greatness with a mere change to individual composed nachos vs stacked. Where did you get the pastrami?

[South Austin 52519]

7 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

So, I decided to not fuck around today and went extra hard on the noach…

Gentlemen, I present to you Smoked Brisket Pastrami Nachos with Serrano queso, grilled onions and chili avocados:

[Underdog 28711]

8 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

So, I decided to not fuck around today and went extra hard on the noach…

Gentlemen, I present to you Smoked Brisket Pastrami Nachos with Serrano queso, grilled onions and chili avocados:

Username doesn’t check out. 

[Party_Taco 3742]

These would have been true greatness with a mere change to individual composed nachos vs stacked. Where did you get the pastrami?

Pieous in Belterra

Feel you on the traditional approach, but this was a volume play as I was starving and didn’t want to take a fucking platter upstairs

[Mo Horn 8849]

Just a simple seafood linguini

[Texzilla58 4738]

That’s some fuckin rockin garlic bread

[Mo Horn 8849]

1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

That’s some fuckin rockin garlic bread

Plenty of olive oil, under the broiler, rub it with garlic.

[Anastasis 23475]

Seafood Orzo.

 

 

 

[CoachTex 2628]

Campsite cooking.  Wind was so bad, had to wrap foil around the griddle to get the temperature up. Simple shrimp taco with slaw, chipotle ranch, cado,  queso fresco, Jalapeños, and serranos from the garden. 

 

[horn4life 3762]

We did decent on Trout in Port O'Conner a couple weeks ago and this was the outcome, but somehow I forgot to take pics of the trout almondine 

Just deep fried mix of cornbread and flower with some slaw and dukes tarter sauce

Panko pan fried with clarified butter, dirty rice, and zucchini, homemade Remoulade and tarter

Blackened in butter/evoo mixture with the sauce mix

Blackened trout with crab cakes.

Amazing how great freshly caught fish is, using clarified butter, or a cheat of butter and oil oil to raise the burning point makes such a big difference when pan frying. 

[Anastasis 23475]

Big “hell yeah” to some blackened trout. 

[CoachTex 2628]

Day 2 cooking at the campsite. Bacon Jack and serrano burger. 

[Texzilla58 4738]

I would like trout if it didn’t taste like trout. Great efforting on all those dishes.

[Mo Horn 8849]

Migas con chorizo 

[Brisketexan 105155]

Migas con chorizo 

My man.

[Mo Horn 8849]

Sadly, I can't find a chorizo here in the KC area I really like. We even went to a Mexican market for this one. It was good, but not what I've gotten in Mexico, or from chorizo San Manuel in Edinburgh, which is what I grew up on. Might have to break down and just have some shipped.  

[Victor Lazlo 1777]

 

Fourth of July homemade biscuits with sausage gravy. ‘Merica

[ERhine 1894]

We were planning on making BBQ shrimp but then checked the crab traps where we’re staying and threw some crab in:






Tuna ceviche:

[Rip76 4943]

Smothered Ribeyes.

 

[elfenix 34310]

On 7/4/2023 at 11:18 AM, Mo Horn said:

Sadly, I can't find a chorizo here in the KC area I really like. We even went to a Mexican market for this one. It was good, but not what I've gotten in Mexico, or from chorizo San Manuel in Edinburgh, which is what I grew up on. Might have to break down and just have some shipped.  

 

[locodos 5387]

Made some Jollof rice that ended up borderline too hot.   I think I got a hot batch of habaneros, anyway, It tastes good but have been eating it pretty slowly because of the heat.  Full under eye sweat after 3 bites.

The other day I decided I needed to dilute it down a bit.  I fried up an egg and diced ham, and put it on the rice with a dollop of Sour Cream.  This might be cultural sacrilege, but it's tasty as hell.

[South Austin 52519]

On 7/4/2023 at 8:12 PM, ERhine said:

Tuna ceviche:

The shrimp/crab combo looks excellent, but I have to comment on the ceviche.  I had never made it myself until about two years ago.  It's incredibly easy, damn tasty, and an easy way to impress guests.  I usually use snapper, but I got some fresh tuna on my last trip to Rosemary Beach and used it for ceviche.  Good stuff. 

[BurntOrange&White 39934]

On 5/30/2023 at 11:54 PM, elfenix said:

Did someone say kettle smoking?

(Ribs were a snack while the brisket finished)





 

What is the recipe for that side dish?