Good Food

[Friday]

That. Is. Awesome.

Totally laughed when I first saw it (Cook your own damn food) ... And then the brain cells finally rubbed together and caught a spark. Waaaaaait a minute. No. More. Fighting over the grill???? Mine! Done! I want one! And then I laughed again. Like I have friends to fight with over the grill, anymore. :rolleyes: Okay. In theory. If I ever have friends palling over to light things on fire with, again, I want one. :D

 

[Spock]

Red Devil is a flavorable hot sauce made in New Iberia, LA. I prefer it to tobasco as it's a little milder.

Sarg

I've been to the Tabasco compound, island, plant in Louisiana swampland. What a place full of history.

 

[dutchiedelta]

Friday, we're moving in with ODG :)

 

[Spock]

Friday, we're moving in with ODG :)

I'm jealous :( :cool:

 

[Friday]

He's got horses & a badass grill. Harem up! ;)

 

[dutchiedelta]

We can commute, Friday and me (she said with her eye on Spock's fridge).
Really, no problem.. :D

On the good food.
Bestie Germany and me went to Ikea yesterday.
Culture shock for her cos she hardly was outside her rural area ever.
Good food, grilled salmon and veggies.

Dessert of Princess cake a la Swedish.

Friday we're planning to go to Amsterdam.
Eat at a famous Chinese restaurant called Nam Kee.
Just have to negotiate the crowds, that's all.
A book and a movie has Nam Kee at center place.
Brill food there really.
Will take pics.

 

[Friday]

Someone ate my burrito.

There a taco-truck near my old house I go to once or twice a week. For $5 you can feed yourself stuffed, for $2 a normal-ish meal. Awesome amazing food. Paper thin tortillas around 50lbs (rough estimate) of everything but the kitchen sink burrito all wrapped in foil, doubled up little masa corn tortillas with carnitas & onion, radish, cillantro, lime... Blender made salsas on the quick. It's just a little bit o heaven, and honest food, in a silver bullet RV next to the donut shop. (I have suspicions about the fresh baked torta bread actually being donut batter, but honest aside from that).

I usually grab a few tacos, because a burrito will take me a couple days to eat. But tonight I bought a damn burrito, sat down to eat a quarter to a third of it... And it's gone. The empty foil is in my hand, my jeans need to lose a button, and I may have just wiped guacamole from cheek, but... I seriously don't remember eating it. Much less all of it.

Clearly. Someone ate my burrito.

 

[Sarg]

You keep eating that shit, you'll start speaking with a Spanish accent! Now a Navajo taco, piled high with ground beef and beans, some salad greens to try to make people think it's healthy, salsa, all wrapped in Navajo fry bread. You could survive for a week off one.

Sarg

 

[Friday]

Be vewy quwiet... I'm hunting wabbit...

Or not. Been toying around with the notion of raising meat rabbits if/when things settle down a bit, when it occurred to me that I haven't actually eaten rabbit in a million years. So that was tonight; braised bunny. Simple, subtle, Italian style with white whine & fresh herbs. Garlic mashed potatoes. Mushrooms. Lol... And in true Italian style... All leftovers are folding into another couple of meals. Got a stew or pot pie and a risotto portioned out. Hella good, Wabbit. Phew.

 

[atilla]

I raised rabbits for a while....doesn't take long to have enough to feed the whole neighborhood. They're easy to take care of too.

 

[OldDoorGunner]

We also raised rabbits off and on over the years as well......Last time I did it was years ago. I gave up, cost of rabbit feed, time, work......just got to be to damn expensive.....ended up loosing $$$ Wife and I talked about getting a few chickens and goats....But after looking at the cost, plus feed and work/time, was just not a good idea. Hell I just bought 50 bales of Alfalfa and 30 bales of Bermuda for the horses......That was $1,610.00 ($18.95 a bale) It's f*cking nuts.......

J R

 

[Friday]

Usually if I wake up starving, it's for something like a toasted ham & Swiss sandwich or PB&J or something.

Woke up today dying for lobster Thermidor all crispy ooey gooey lemony spicy seared. Oysters on the half. Shrimp Po'boys. Something. Anything with some goddamn soul to it. Finally figured out why... I don't drink often but when I do it's usually beer, wine, or tequila. Got absolutely smashed on scotch last night... And I haven't drunk whiskey regularly since I lived in the French Quarter. Oh. Creole. Right. This is why. Used to stumble my hungover ass down the street to the Desire or MamaTibs for breakfast.

If you have the ingredients on hand... This is a fast-ish thing to throw together. 10 or 15 minutes.

Friday's Shrimp Po'boys

- Holy Trinity (onions, bell pepper, celery) ... Chopped and thrown in a pan with some olive oil or bacon grease or butter. Whatever's handy. Get that sautéing.
- Crank up a cast iron skillet to demon f*cking hot
- Spice up your shrimp with some smoked paprika, garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil, bit of lemon maybe, and have some masa or corn flour on hand for in a tick
- Fwoomph your spiced shrimp into your hot skillet to sear it up good. Only takes a minute or three to cook through and char up a bit. Shake it about, but let it sit long enough to crisp up the edges.
- Sprinkle a handful of masa over the almost cooked shrimp to give it some tooth. Stir.
- Pour in the holy trinity from your other pan. Stir again.
- And if you happen to have some whiskey laying around still from last night, feel free to splash a little in and set it on fire. Shake. Turn off the burner.

If you're feeling fancy, spicy watercress on awesome pub roll with mayonnaise. Or, if you're like me, just get it on a hotdog bun and try not to burn your mouth.