Bear Down Wildcats

You ever have one of those dinners where you don't cook anything, and you just pick up a crusty loaf of bread, and a big old thing of butter, and sausage, and a couple of cheeses? And make some kind of salad to go with it, and there's a big cornucopia filled with fruit? And it's all laid out on your coffee table, and you sit on your couch with a full bottle of wine or several beers, watching something on the Netflix or the Amazon, and gorging yourself, wondering why you ever bother cook when you can just do this?

... or maybe I just want to hear what you had for diviner tonight, every night.

We had Sloppy Joes tonight.

I made Kraft Macoroni and Cheese.

The kids think I'm an amazing cook.

Alieberman wrote:I made Kraft Macoroni and Cheese.

The kids think I'm an amazing cook.

When my kids were little they were so used to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese that when I made them real mac and cheese like my mom used to make they hated it.

I thought sloppy joes went the way of the bologna sandwich (which needs a comeback). Kraft macaroni and cheese for the kids is cheating. Almost as much as chocolate cake for breakfast. "Dad is great..."

Sloppy Joes are also popular at Casa de Lieberman

Just had some frozen pork gyoza from sprouts I pan fried with a rice wine vinegar/soy sauce/sesame oil/garlic/ginger dipping sauce

Alieberman wrote:Sloppy Joes are also popular at Casa de Lieberman

If I had to pick one restaurant in Tucson....

ASUHATER! wrote:Just had some frozen pork gyoza from sprouts I pan fried with a rice wine vinegar/soy sauce/sesame oil/garlic/ginger dipping sauce

Ever tried those dim sum-like frozen steamed buns they sell in Asian markets? I'm curious.

Longhorned wrote:I thought sloppy joes went the way of the bologna sandwich (which needs a comeback)

Poached egg sandwiches. Not fancy, but fast.

Longhorned wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:Just had some frozen pork gyoza from sprouts I pan fried with a rice wine vinegar/soy sauce/sesame oil/garlic/ginger dipping sauce

Ever tried those dim sum-like frozen steamed buns they sell in Asian markets? I'm curious.

i haven't, but they sound good...wonder if they sell them at the grant/stone asian market here in tucson

chicken with sautéed onions over quinoa, with salad, chiabatta roll, and brownies.

timed right when i got home from work.

Okay, here's what I'm going for tonight. Total experiment, so it could fail.

It all takes place in a single cast iron pan. It's already been in progress for a couple of hours. I took two pounds of pork belly, removed the skin, scored it through the fat layers down to the red meat, and seasoned it with salt and pepper, rubbing the salt into the cuts. I put it in the pan, and put it in the oven at 300 degrees for a slow, low-temperature roast, rendering the fat and getting some good cracklings coming my way. I mixed up a pancake batter with no sugar or butter or oil in it. When the pork belly is crispy, succulent, soft, and unctuous, I'm gonna remove it from the pan, drain the rendered fat, and cook the pancakes in it, adding back the pork fat pancake by pancake. I'll stack the pancakes on the plates, and top the stacks with the pork bellies. Then I'll boil grade B maple syrup in the fatty pan, and pour the hot, fatty syrup over the pork bellies and pancakes. Grapefruit for dessert.

Gonna need a pic of that

Lunch called, Longhorned, and it wants its lunch back.

RedBaron Pizza

Longhorned wrote:You ever have one of those dinners where you don't cook anything, and you just pick up a crusty loaf of bread, and a big old thing of butter, and sausage, and a couple of cheeses? And make some kind of salad to go with it, and there's a big cornucopia filled with fruit? And it's all laid out on your coffee table, and you sit on your couch with a full bottle of wine or several beers, watching something on the Netflix or the Amazon, and gorging yourself, wondering why you ever bother cook when you can just do this?

You're not alone brother!

Sliced Summer sausage on saltines with cheddar chess sliced on top, assorted beers, dinner salad with ranch and tons of green/black olives, and some French bread with a little butter. No fruit. It's my, "the wife is coming home late so I don't have to put any effort into dinner", dinner. Now I'm a pretty damn good cook, but I love just putting this together and vegging to Netflix when I'm alone. It's my game day dinner often as well.

Burger (medium) with sautéed mushrooms and onions, champagne cheddar cheese, a fine wine aioli, avocado, and arugula on a pretzel bun. Cajun fries with a blue cheese dipping sauce. Sweet tea with three shots of bourbon.

TFCATFAN wrote:

Longhorned wrote:You ever have one of those dinners where you don't cook anything, and you just pick up a crusty loaf of bread, and a big old thing of butter, and sausage, and a couple of cheeses? And make some kind of salad to go with it, and there's a big cornucopia filled with fruit? And it's all laid out on your coffee table, and you sit on your couch with a full bottle of wine or several beers, watching something on the Netflix or the Amazon, and gorging yourself, wondering why you ever bother cook when you can just do this?

You're not alone brother!

Sliced Summer sausage on saltines with cheddar chess sliced on top, assorted beers, dinner salad with ranch and tons of green/black olives, and some French bread with a little butter. No fruit. It's my, "the wife is coming home late so I don't have to put any effort into dinner", dinner. Now I'm a pretty damn good cook, but I love just putting this together and vegging to Netflix when I'm alone. It's my game day dinner often as well.

Good stuff, T. Better than cooking. Give our love to the wife.

Chicat wrote:Burger (medium) with sautéed mushrooms and onions, champagne cheddar cheese, a fine wine aioli, avocado, and arugula on a pretzel bun. Cajun fries with a blue cheese dipping sauce. Sweet tea with three shots of bourbon.

Where the hell do you buy pretzel buns? I thought that was something you just got in restrunts.

Our local grocery store has pretzel buns both big (burger), small (slider), and oblong (both brat & hoagie).

America...

I have the things to make homemade spaghetti sauce and garlic bread (my spaghetti sauce is really, really good), grilled pork chops and corn on the cob with an amazing dry rub I've been tweaking recently or frozen store brand pizza.

The oven is heating as I type.

Grilled rib eyes
Roasted garlic Parmesan corn on the cob
Homemade mac n cheese with crab leg meat

So far, three Guinness.

First class

Ended up 6 Guinness and a couple shots of jameson with some friends. Good Friday.

I'm doing the pork chops this evening. The dry rub has been applied, the corn has been soaked, the potatoes have been brought to a boil and the grill has been lit. Should be a good meal.

Sausage & Peppers, homemade marinara gravy, salad.

Pork tenderloin on the grill with linguine and white wine sauce.

Brooklyn Pizza mushroom peperoni.

Monster hangover.

Chicken Alfredo and Tuscany Marinara with bread sticks.

Zero wrote:Brooklyn Pizza mushroom peperoni.

Monster hangover.

I'm due for one of those.

Charcoal grilled everything: chicken thighs and legs with olive oil and lemon, potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, and grilled watermelon.

My favorite way to grill a watermelon steak:

Cut a thick steak from a seedless watermelon, keep the rind on, and cut off the thin green skin so that it looks like a beefsteak with the fat around it. Rub with salt, pepper, red chili powder, and olive oil. Fire it on the grill. The surface will caramelize and take on the look of a charcoaled steak. Eat it with a fork and steak knife.

tonight was some leftover pasta salad and baked beans and chips and salsa...haha

I'd be thrilled with just chips and salsa for dinner. Or even just chips. I have a problem and can't really bring them in the house anymore.

Longhorned wrote:I'd be thrilled with just chips and salsa for dinner. Or even just chips. I have a problem and can't really bring them in the house anymore.

whipped?

ASUHATER! wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I'd be thrilled with just chips and salsa for dinner. Or even just chips. I have a problem and can't really bring them in the house anymore.

whipped?

Probably, but in this case whipped by my physician. I have a re-test for my triglycerides coming up, so she's going to know all about it. You see, I'm not even jealous of you eating a bowl of chips, because I'm too occupied by wondering how you don't eat the whole bag, and then another one, if you keep a backup. I can't stop eating store-bought tortilla chips. The ones that come in the brown paper bags with the rivets. The only way to stop is to keep them out of the house.

ASUHATER! wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I'd be thrilled with just chips and salsa for dinner. Or even just chips. I have a problem and can't really bring them in the house anymore.

whipped?

Just self control. I have the same problem, so I don't buy tortilla chips anymore. I really really like home made salsa. Which I don't make, but is available locally everywhere.

Grilled chicken, rice pilaf and roasted asparagus.

Having lasagna tonight.

Taco Bell and damn proud of it.

CalStateTempe wrote:Taco Bell and damn proud of it.

Aren't you 'sposed to be in the medical profession that cares about bodies and stuff?

Spaghetti al'amatriciana. Usually I make it with La Quercia guanciale, which I love, but now we got an artisanal butcher who makes a pancetta from this damn good pork belly. That and a salad. And probably more watermelon is next now.

What is that in English?

Longhorned wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Taco Bell and damn proud of it.

Aren't you 'sposed to be in the medical profession that cares about bodies and stuff?

doctors are the ones that drink heavily, smoke and eat terribly and then tell us not to because they know better haha.

azgreg wrote:What is that in English?

You go with a pork jowl or a pork belly. Make a spicy tomato sauce with the browned pork, rendering its fat. Cut an onion to release its onionness, but then remove the onion. Finish with a finishing olive oil. Pecorino romano is a must.

pizza and garlic knots

Beef Rouladen, red cabbage (rot Kraut)and German potato salad - back to my Austrian/Germanic roots courtesy of my wife

Longhorned wrote:You ever have one of those dinners where you don't cook anything, and you just pick up a crusty loaf of bread, and a big old thing of butter, and sausage, and a couple of cheeses? And make some kind of salad to go with it, and there's a big cornucopia filled with fruit? And it's all laid out on your coffee table, and you sit on your couch with a full bottle of wine or several beers, watching something on the Netflix or the Amazon, and gorging yourself, wondering why you ever bother cook when you can just do this?

Redux.

But I stopped at the butcher and got a freezer full of meat. If it stops raining someday, I'll grill it.