Bear Down Wildcats

My Dad gave me his old charcoal smoker and a friend of mine brought me a dry rub and some barbecue sauce from Kansas City, so I'm making baby backs, calabacitas, and garlic toast. The ribs have been smoking over mesquite since 3:00 this afternoon and are almost ready to sauce.

I haven't been this excited about a meal for a while.

How was it?

It probably would have been absolutely perfect if I had pulled the ribs off about 20 minutes earlier, but it was damn good. I had the leftovers for breakfast this morning.

Been putting my instant pot to use recently. Last two weeks I made five pounds of ribs, dahl, and last night... bolognese. All have turned out quite awesome. Sure as hell beats hovering over a burner for hours with my mouth watering into the dish.

Snagged a nice beef tenderloin on sale, butchered it (thank you YouTube), and then me and the fam feasted on Filet Mignon tonight.

Kind of crazy that I’ve got 8 more filets just waiting to get grilled, all for the price of three store bought filets and 15 minutes of butchering.

Going to make a stew later in the week with the parts that couldn’t get cut into steaks. Good eating on these cold Indiana winter nights...

Microwave chimis.

Hebrew National hotdogs
Stagg chili
Tillamook shredded cheddar farmhouse style cut
Onions
Fritos original

Delicious slop on a plate.

Blueberries, carrot juice and EmergenC to kill my fucking cold.

Chicken enchiladas mmm

Seared a couple of fat well-seasoned pork chops in the cast iron pan with bacon fat and finished in the oven. Paired with a good salad. Perfect.

left over spaghetti with toast.

i'm a simple fellow.

Mmmmmm. Leftover spaghetti on toast.

Longhorned wrote:Mmmmmm. Leftover spaghetti on toast.

That’s a damn good meal

It's a leftover spaghetti and garlic toast kind of night for me too.

On this most American of all days....

Hot wings with blue cheese dressing
Pea soup
PBJ sandwich for dessert.
Coors original stub nose bottle

Burgers with American cheese, coleslaw and smoked beans

Spinach, yukon gold potato, and goat cheese quiche with homemade crust. One of my favorites.

Also, if you haven't had the Costco brand goat cheese you're missing out. It isn't very strong but for a dish like this it's perfect. Or spread on some crackers with a little tart jam and some black pepper

A cold plate: orange peppers; snap peas; roasted golden beats; Castelvetrano olives; hummus; Asiago cheese; sardines; tomato; basil; pepitas; Willamette valley Pinot

Leftover smorgasbord.

dovecanyoncat wrote:A cold plate: orange peppers; snap peas; roasted golden beats; Castelvetrano olives; hummus; Asiago cheese; sardines; tomato; basil; pepitas; Willamette valley Pinot

Thumbs up for that. I made some giardiniera last weekend and will have some cold plate stuff this weekend

scumdevils86 wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:A cold plate: orange peppers; snap peas; roasted golden beats; Castelvetrano olives; hummus; Asiago cheese; sardines; tomato; basil; pepitas; Willamette valley Pinot

Thumbs up for that. I made some giardiniera last weekend and will have some cold plate stuff this weekend

Yum. Throw in some caponata, burrata, flatbread and .... damn, good stuff!

A real western weeknight dinner: flank steak, Ranch Beans, salad, and bread from Time Market.

Lived in Tucson 14+ years now and I've never been inside Time Market

Longhorned wrote:A real western weeknight dinner: flank steak, Ranch Beans, salad, and bread from Time Market.

Flank steak, hanger steak, tri-tip, all soo underrated. Mmmmm

ASUHATER! wrote:Lived in Tucson 14+ years now and I've never been inside Time Market

Then you haven't lived in Tucson.

Next you are gonna try telling us that you've never been to Rincon Market either.

Edit I was gonna come back and claim you haven't lived in Tucson until you've been to the butcher in Grande Ave, but I can't find it listed anymore, so either I'm remembering the locale wrong or its gone. Anyway I was reminded about the UofA Meat Sciences store - they used to have superb meat for really good prices - anybody been there lately? Is it still running?

Edit again: I'm sure the butcher I remember was on Grande sorta close by Pat's Chili Dogs, but I don't find it listed anywhere so it must be closed. Too bad.

Oh I have, I just haven't been in there for some reason.

Is there a Best meal I ever had thread? I kinda sorta think I saw one while combing through the General Discussion threads.

dovecanyoncat wrote:Is there a Best meal I ever had thread? I kinda sorta think I saw one while combing through the General Discussion threads.

http://www.beardownwildcats.com/viewtop ... 19#p369419" target="_blank

scumdevils86 wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:Is there a Best meal I ever had thread? I kinda sorta think I saw one while combing through the General Discussion threads.

http://www.beardownwildcats.com/viewtop ... 19#p369419" target="_blank

Nailed it! Thanks Scum.

Lunch. Grilled artichokes and curried chicken.

Hey dove...for more specificity there is a lunch thread too!

Thanks! I'll forever be a rookie here.

I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

ASUCatFan wrote:I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

Which one? I've had a couple so far and they're all good.

ASUCatFan wrote:I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

That's why I'm going to stock up on a few lasagne from Roma, or some of their other heatables.

Olympia Provisions bratwurst

Longhorned wrote:

ASUCatFan wrote:I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

That's why I'm going to stock up on a few lasagne from Roma, or some of their other heatables.

The vodka sauce is good. Manicotti was one of my favorites.

It's always good to have 2-3 things from there in the freezer in case you don't feel like cooking.

Brisket sandwich, kale salad, and best of all, an ear of remarkably good early sweet corn.

dovecanyoncat wrote:Brisket sandwich, kale salad, and best of all, an ear of remarkably good early sweet corn.

Early or late? Hard to determine.

Longhorned wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:Brisket sandwich, kale salad, and best of all, an ear of remarkably good early sweet corn.

Early or late? Hard to determine.

Good point, but I won't quibble when it squeaks and pops sweetly in your mouth one can easily imagine winter is over.

ASUHATER! wrote:

ASUCatFan wrote:I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

Which one? I've had a couple so far and they're all good.

Beef. It's good, it's a classic, and I have leftovers for tomorrow.

ASUCatFan wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:

ASUCatFan wrote:I picked up a lasagna from Roma. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking.

Which one? I've had a couple so far and they're all good.

Beef. It's good, it's a classic, and I have leftovers for tomorrow.

The last one I had was a white sauce chicken and mushroom one and it was really good, and I don't even like mushrooms.

Rocco’s pizza - finally had it tonight. Damn good pizza. Got the thin crust, of course. A proper grid-cut, real Chicago pizza. None of that doughy, radial-cut pizza that every other place forces you to try to eat by way of limp, triangle-shaped slices.

Thanks to you all for that brilliant rec. Falora is of course the best I’ve had, but Rocco’s all the way for what you can take home.

https://abc7chicago.com/buffet-brawl-fi ... s/5160115/" target="_blank

Made serious eats halal cart-style chicken and rice with white sauce.

Picked up from Roma Imports:

- sausage lasagne
- pastitsio
- moussaka

My freezer is now activated with promise.

And tonight I had their beef ravioli. I swear it's full of beef marrow. So good.

Marrow mmmmmm

Still never had marrow. I hear it's great schmeared on toast

Anyone here a fan of sweetbreads? Aside from Hannibal Lector devotees that is.

ASUHATER! wrote:Still never had marrow. I hear it's great schmeared on toast

It is. And it's just as easy as toasting the bread: Just put the marrow bones in the oven for a few minutes. Marrow may be tied with any food vying for Best Food in the Universe. There's a reason why our ancestors sucked on bones.