On the way home from school, my daughter picked up Tamale King : )

Tamales covered in chili, queso and onions

illegal? shithole country? bad hombre food? build the wall? children in cages? which one is your favorite one?

Made in Turkey, but is not made from real live llamas
And it's very similar to what we used to call Negrokisses. For some reason a couple of years ago that product changed its name.

Happy Valentines Day y'all!




i'm in love. he's a youtoube star and everything, but i think it could work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpK6vo4_sX4


i wish i was japanese.
Seriously, that dude has awesome technique concerning everything marine.

Oh Franz Joseph, couldn't you at least keep some of our coastal territory?
Tu Felix...


ps.
i slowly braised the pork heart in red wine - beef broth for about 2h.
thinly cut and roasted with cime di rapa, garlic, lemon cest and peperoncini
served with fresh Papardelle and pecorino

surprisingly,
this was the best selling dish so far this year:



'Blunznhendl' chicken stuffed with black pudding:

-roast blood sausage (when soft, add red wine)
let cool down, add grated apples, majoran, and white bread

- stuff it into the chicken ('subkultan' = between skin and flesh)
- salt it, add thyme, olive oil, and orange cest

cool it and let marinate for a day or two

heat the oven to 160C and put in for about 10 minutes, drop temperature to 120C and keep it in till it's nearly done (toothpick test). before serving, put it under the grill to get crispy skin and stuffing.

i serve it with grilled herb-polenta, kale and port wine sauce

also started to make ice cream.
bought an old vertical-one from the 70ies:




That's a big turd of plum-mezcal sorbeto.
Patisserie sucks - fussy idiots with their fancy micro spoons.

oh man, damn, all of that looks and sounds glorious. i can see you making huge progress over the years.

when you’re rich and famous and on tv i’ll point at your picture and tell others “i knew him when he used to jump the turnstile!” :D

deal. i'll tell them your the one who fell into the sauerkrauttopf.

like obélix

but seriously congrats, this is next level

Thanks man. It does tend towards crazy crazy, but i wouldn't know any other scheme to to rob the rich and let me pay my bills.
Hope you're doing fine aswell!

This is cool too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWLsUrE8nrA
it's so relaxing

The first crawfish of the season was such a treat! Ate them outside on our porch with two of our daughters and a friend. Each one of us knocking out about 5lbs : )

A Thousand Threads, I knew you were a cook but damn, that shit you posted was really indeed next level!

I start to relate to this topic, as, being so fucking bored here in Zürich especially on weekends, I started to learn how to cook. I'm only starting with basic stuff (now I'm a bit obsessed about Chinese cuisine, various kinds of stir fry etc.), to my surprise, it's a lot of fun.



Can you tell me in what restaurant you work, so that I can come and feast the next time I'm in Vienna?

chicken breasts and mixed veggies

Shrimp ravioli

isolation food #1



bergamot-chickenbreast with sauted cyster mushrooms, radish-corn-salat, and rice

- marinate chicken breasts with bergamot-cest, fenel seeds, olive oil, dijon, salt and crushed bay leaves. cool and rest for 24h min.


- put chickenbreast in the oven at 130C for about 15-20mins. after that take them out and heat up the oven to max.



-meanwhile saute the cyster mushrooms at medium heat untill they start to sweat, add butter, salt and garlic. deglaze with chicken broth. reduce for about as long as it takes you to...
- marinate the radish corn salad with bergamot-juice, olive oil, pepper, linseed and vinegar


- put chicken back in super hot oven until skin is super crispy and forms bubbles.

poor poor prisoner! :D

dammit man. that’s just too glorious. it’s the confluence of art & porn.

Xtianos y Moros! Homemade sofrito, ham hocks from Otto’s in PDX

^^looking good! have no idea what a PDX or Otto is, must be a thing though.

isolation food #2

so today i went to the butcher because I was out of bones for stocks. I didn't have much money with me because i forgot that he doesn't take cards. So i just ordered beef and pork bones and he says: "well boy, you need something to chew on, how many are you guys?" "Four", i say and he hands me four thick pieces of dry aged fillets. for free.

Since i basically only buy groceries in small shops and mostly know the people who run it, i'm kinda used to get some extra free stuff...
but something like this never happened to me.
Such a nice butcher.
Thinking about bringing him a cake next time i visit. or sauerkraut.

look at it:



I'm not really a steak guy, but here's what i did today...




Steak with herbs-orange crust, potato-celery gratin and fenel-gin salat



-cook up whipped cream together with thyme, rosmarin and salt (liquid should taste just a little bit too salty) . pour over thinly sliced potatos and celery - layer by layer, always press the vegetables a bit then next layer.
-put in oven at 150C for an hour

-meahnwhile take out the fillets and rub them in finely cut or grounded thyme, rosmarin, orange cest, corianderseeds, juniper, bay leaves

- marinate thinly cut fenel with roasted fenelseeds, fenel-green, shallots, orange-juice, gin (i usually use Pastis or something alike, but gin works surprisingly well too) and salt

-after about an hour, the gratin should be nicely tanned, reduce the oven to 80C
-roast meat over high heat and put in oven at 80C. Had mine in for about 40min... depends on the size of the pecker.
-take out. let rest for a bit. throw on the plate. dive in.

what a nice butcher.

:D

We’ve been grilling and eating most of our meals outside. The weather in Texas has been fabulous and it’s perfect for such outside activities.

This past weekend we boiled crawfish and shrimp, we boiled so many we had several pounds leftover. Tonight, my wife made us crawfish pistolettes and they were fantastic!!!

cheez-its with peanut butter (and a drizzle of honey)

which is the breakfast bowl version of these vending machine classics :D

A local tavern where our middle daughter plays in a weekly billiards league have been doing crawfish every Sunday as a fundraiser for their waitstaff. We consumed 30lbs

had what's called a lean pocket today on a friend's recommendation
the flavour was like pepperoni pizza, but it was absolutely awful man
tasted like dry bread with hot cheese in the middle but the cheese was tasteless so it was just dry bread that's hot in the middle


back to microwave ramen with me lol

lmao @ the “lean” premise

lean cheese + lean sausage lololol

it’s like 80s food

get the greasy version next time! way better. and find help for your friend with the eating disorder :D :D

srsly, fat is your friend

absolutely


I bought regular hot pockets when I went out the other day, so I'll be eating those from now on... lean pockets will be nice when I run out of other microwave food I guess lol


greasy version isnt great but at least it isn't... lean pockets haha

i know, the problem with the grease is bad grease

but you could take the lean back, and dunk them in olive oil, or butter, or a mix :D

oh hell yeah, just a massive olive oil bath w/ butter and spice up the lean pocket? could make it better
probably won't do it, wouldn't waste a tonne of olive oil on a lean pocket of all things but when I make the next one... I'll send an update

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confit

My partner made some bread today. It's delicious and requires no condiments of any kind.

oh, you’re one of the lucky ones who got flour. nice!

what did they make?

Just a homemade boule, very simple but perfectly done with a perfect crust. Flour was obtainable recently, and some more that was ordered online as a precaution also arrived today...

nice. i got 10lbs all-purpose this week, but can’t find bread flour yet. so i bought gluten to add to it. then i got left maybe 2lb white whole wheat and 300g rye.

it’s an internet shopping casino. part of me... is having fun with the game. the other part got stuck with 36 boxes of industrial mac& cheese and more sardines than one can shake a stick at. it’s okay, they both expire around 2024 or something.

my shipment of matzos arrived today, after a 3-week wait. matzos! finally a decent snack one can eat without feeling disgusting. ate so e with butter, with peanut butter and honey, and... with disgusting cheez whiz lolololololololo. was ok, cheezwhiz is not a complete crime. but anyway looking forward to eating them with sardines.

Muthafuckin' Miss Vickies, salt and vinegar.

who?

oh!

i ate smoked sardines on matzos. satisfaction at last!

then i ate industrial mac & cheese with broccoli and calabrese peppers

Grilled cheese and cowboy stew, yummm!