LEGEND Food Porn

[Memento]

You're making me want octopus, clam, and lobster, Selassie. That looks so fucking good.

 

[…..]

True. And technically you're probably correct. The loin section was about a third of the steak. The label said T-bone but I have to wonder if the butcher really knew which end was which.

I love it when I find a grocery store with a mediocre butcher who cuts T-bones fat like that. It makes me feel like I won!

Of course, that can go both ways. Especially with tiny “London Broils” that should be labeled top round.

 

[…..]

Speaking of steaks…..

My freezer is full of chicken, pork chops, and ground beef right now. Im not paying 17-19 bucks a pound for steak anything.

Food Depot had t-bones on sale for $8.95 yesterday. I got excited until I went through it all and saw the bastids cut it all a half inch thick.

 

[snackdaddy]

I dunno. Maybe its the way I was raised. We never had steak because we couldn't afford it. But I prefer a juicy hamburger or loaded burrito over steaks. Heck, I like a nice big hamburger patty by itself instead of steak. My wife was raised differently. Steak and salad is all she wants. Some nights we'll make me a hamburger and her a steak.

 

[CGI_Ram]

I dunno. Maybe its the way I was raised. We never had steak because we couldn't afford it. But I prefer a juicy hamburger or loaded burrito over steaks. Heck, I like a nice big hamburger patty by itself instead of steak. My wife was raised differently. Steak and salad is all she wants. Some nights we'll make me a hamburger and her a steak.

I am with you there, snackdaddy.

I love steak, but never really had it until I was an adult. 5 kids… we ate a lot of hamburger growing up.

If I am a reincarnation of someone I came from south of the border. I can’t get enough Mexican food either.

 

[RamFan503]

I'm down in Miami for a Department of Education conference. Took the wife to a place on the intercoastal last night. Here in Miami... you can't get into a restaurant unless you have a reservation. It's not like that back in Orlando. I had to do a magic trick to get a reservation at this place. At the resort we've been staying at... there are no reservations available at any of their restaurants for 2 weeks. WTF.

Anyway. We had a great view with our table right on the water and we ate like cavemen.

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Appetizer.... there was some sliced octopus in that larger bowl by the bug. This whole thing was ravaged in about 2 - 3 minutes. Their horseradish was amazing too.

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I had a New England clam bake and the wife had Cioppino. The liquid/soup in these look similar.... but they were completely different. There was a big smoked sausage in mine that you can't see. They had to wheel us out to our car we were so full.

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[CGI_Ram]

Bacon wrapped jalepeno poppers… grilled these Sunday.

Jalepenos cut in half, stuffed with cream cheese and cheddar with spices… wrapped in bacon. I had to pin the hell out of them with toothpicks as goal is to completely wrap entire jalepeno.

Ate them on the deck, just minutes off the grill.

Oh yeah!

 

[Selassie I]

Bacon wrapped jalepeno poppers… grilled these Sunday.

Jalepenos cut in half, stuffed with cream cheese and cheddar with spices… wrapped in bacon. I had to pin the hell out of them with toothpicks as goal is to completely wrap entire jalepeno.

Ate them on the deck, just minutes off the grill.

Oh yeah!

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Those are called ABTs... Atomic Buffalo Turds. I make this a lot.

My mix is a little different. I use a cream cheese that has chives already in it and a Mexican cheese mix for the cheeses. But I also use chorizo sausage. I chop up the sausage in the food processor, then I mix in the cheeses real good into the sausage. I also save the jalapeño seeds and membranes that I scrape out of the inside of the peppers and mix that into this cheese/sausage mix (doing this makes them a little more spicy.

I stuff each halfed pepper with the mix.

Then I wrap them with a good quality bacon. The thick cut doesn't work well. If you wrap them with some care... no toothpicks are needed. I cook mine on an indirect heat so there is no need to turn them at all while they are cooking. The bacon will actually wrap tight around each pepper as it cooks. Not sure if you have a way to cook them indirectly on your grill though so you may still need the toothpicks... but I bet there's a way.

I leave mine on my egg for about 45 minutes at a temp of about 350 - 375.

 

[CGI_Ram]

If you wrap them with some care... no toothpicks are needed. I cook mine on an indirect heat so there is no need to turn them at all while they are cooking. The bacon will actually wrap tight around each pepper as it cooks. Not sure if you have a way to cook them indirectly on your grill though so you may still need the toothpicks... but I bet there's a way.

I leave mine on my egg for about 45 minutes at a temp of about 350 - 375.

Your recipe sounds really good.

I was considering a recipe with sausage, but knew my jalapenos were a little on the small side for stuffing... so decided to stick with just cheese and spices.

I probably didn't have to toothpick most of them. I was using thin slice bacon and it stuck pretty good to the jalapeno. My concern was cheese oozing out, and wasn't sure how much I'd have to handle them cooking... so pined them to be sure.

I cooked these indirect. Or at least I tried a setup to mimic that. I used a cast iron pan and placed a flipped over small cookie sheet on top to cook these on. Once enough of the bacon was "cooked", I knew the cheese would remain mostly inside them, I moved them to the top rack to finish. Cook time about 35 minutes in total.

The availability of jalapenos is poor right now where I live. We've had too much rain so the local grows of peppers hasn't been good. In fact, the first grocery store I went to... had ZERO jalapenos in stock. The town I live in only has 2 grocery stores... I got the last pack at the 2nd one. A whopping 7 jalapenos.

 

[Selassie I]

Your recipe sounds really good.

I was considering a recipe with sausage, but knew my jalapenos were a little on the small side for stuffing... so decided to stick with just cheese and spices.

I probably didn't have to toothpick most of them. I was using thin slice bacon and it stuck pretty good to the jalapeno. My concern was cheese oozing out, and wasn't sure how much I'd have to handle them cooking... so pined them to be sure.

I cooked these indirect. Or at least I tried a setup to mimic that. I used a cast iron pan and placed a flipped over small cookie sheet on top to cook these on. Once enough of the bacon was "cooked", I knew the cheese would remain mostly inside them, I moved them to the top rack to finish. Cook time about 35 minutes in total.

The availability of jalapenos is poor right now where I live. We've had too much rain so the local grows of peppers hasn't been good. In fact, the first grocery store I went to... had ZERO jalapenos in stock. The town I live in only has 2 grocery stores... I got the last pack at the 2nd one. A whopping 7 jalapenos.

Man... I'm not kidding when I say this. Every single time my wife or I go to the grocery store we buy 20 fresh jalapeños. I usually get about 12 fresh habaneros too.

I found that you don't have to use as much cheese as I originally thought when making these. I scrape off the excess cheese mixture with a knife to that it is even with the rim of the pepper. If there's more cheese than that... it will cook out of the ABT no matter what. I think adding a little sausage in the cheese mix helps with that too. They are great with just cheese though.

 

[RamFan503]

I realize this may be more comfort than porn but it was fantastic.

I brined thighs for a couple hours with my Chipotle Rub then dredged them in plain flour and fried them.

The real star though was the beets. I seared strips of smoked marbled pork butt (think home smoked bacon), precooked beets then sliced them, sauted the beets in the braised pork....smoky, sweet, salty goodness right there.

Add in a perfectly cooked globe artichoke.

Pretty damn good meal.

 

[Selassie I]

I realize this may be more comfort than porn but it was fantastic.

I brined thighs for a couple hours with my Chipotle Rub then dredged them in plain flour and fried them.

The real star though was the beets. I seared strips of smoked marbled pork butt (think home smoked bacon), precooked beets then sliced them, sauted the beets in the braised pork....smoky, sweet, salty goodness right there.

Add in a perfectly cooked globe artichoke.

Pretty damn good meal.
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Man... which did you take a bite of 1st?

Those beets look and sound amazing. T loves beets. He'd eat a whole jar of them in one sitting when he was a little shit. I gotta show him these.

 

[Dodgersrf]

I realize this may be more comfort than porn but it was fantastic.

I brined thighs for a couple hours with my Chipotle Rub then dredged them in plain flour and fried them.

The real star though was the beets. I seared strips of smoked marbled pork butt (think home smoked bacon), precooked beets then sliced them, sauted the beets in the braised pork....smoky, sweet, salty goodness right there.

Add in a perfectly cooked globe artichoke.

Pretty damn good meal.
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I love beets.
Those sound amazing

 

[RamFan503]

Man... which did you take a bite of 1st?

Those beets look and sound amazing. T loves beets. He'd eat a whole jar of them in one sitting when he was a little shit. I gotta show him these.

The beets of course. We used to grow shit tons of beets. I love them. The bloody aftermath can be a little unsettling though.

I love the greens too if they're fresh.

 

[dieterbrock]

I dont know which thread makes me drool more, this one or the boobies thread....

 

[Selassie I]

@ScotsRam

Hey... my friend from the UK brought this for me yesterday. He said this is a favorite in Scotland. Is this true?

And... what does it taste like? I'm thinking he could be trying to pull a fast one on me and get me to taste some nasty shit.

 

[Rynie]

@ScotsRam

Hey... my friend from the UK brought this for me yesterday. He said this is a favorite in Scotland. Is this true?

And... what does it taste like? I'm thinking he could be trying to pull a fast one on me and get me to taste some nasty shit.


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Apparently people go crazy over it. lmao.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuOc5MasCPU

 

[AvengerRam]

Try one of these instead (also from Scotland):

 

[Selassie I]

Apparently people go crazy over it. lmao.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuOc5MasCPU

Holy SHIT!

Looks like I need to drink it down as soon as I get home later. What the hell have I been missing For Christ Sakes!!!

This stuff must be like liquid crack or something.

 

[Rynie]

Holy SHIT!

Looks like I need to drink it down as soon as I get home later. What the hell have I been missing For Christ Sakes!!!

This stuff must be like liquid crack or something.

I've heard that's like THE DRINK over there.