What are you eating/cooking?

[ACamp1900]

My wife's obsession with Stove Top Stuffing got me thinking about my fav low budget meals/dishes from childhood:

Aside from a couple of Hamburger Helper's that I would still grub this one will always have a special place in my heart... though for our version my parents always used thousand island instead of Catalina and kidney beans instead of black beans:

Taco Frito Salad Recipe - Food.com

I am now resolved to make this next week.

 

[Ndaccountant]

My wife's obsession with Stove Top Stuffing got me thinking about my fav low budget meals/dishes from childhood:

Aside from a couple of Hamburger Helper's that I would still grub this one will always have a special place in my heart... though for our version my parents always used thousand island instead of Catalina and kidney beans instead of black beans:

Taco Frito Salad Recipe - Food.com

I am now resolved to make this next week.

My mom would take baked beans and mix with BBQ sauce and browned ground beef and combine in a bowl. Top it with halved biscuits and cheese and bake until the biscuits brown. It was glorious. Only one of my little ones like baked beans and my wife hates them, so when it is just the two of us for dinner or lunch I will make it.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I still love hamburger and baked beans (brown ground beef, drain grease, add Bush's, ground mustard, ketchup, and brown sugar).

I won't lie, I keep a package of instant mashed potatoes around at nearly all times. I love that stuff, especially when I doctor it up with nutmeg, grated cheese, and whatever I deglaze from my pan.

 

[ACamp1900]

Making this this weekend:

Easy Pho Soup Recipe - Pickled Plum Food And Drinks

Hyped.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Making this this weekend:

Easy Pho Soup Recipe - Pickled Plum Food And Drinks

Hyped.

Man I've been hankering for some pho

 

[ACamp1900]

Only soup that's good enough to justify having in the dead of a hot summer

 

[greyhammer90]

Making some oven pulled pork this weekend. Just got a really fancy new crockpot so I might use that instead of the oven. Haven't decided yet.

 

[woolybug25]

Making some oven pulled pork this weekend. Just got a really fancy new crockpot so I might use that instead of the oven. Haven't decided yet.

Pressure cooker?

 

[greyhammer90]

Pressure cooker?

No. Just a nice crockpot that can do browning and I can set the temperature on. Would still need to cook it for eightish hours.

 

[ACamp1900]

My wife has been making this really good shredded beef sandwich recipe... I'll have to get the details from her and share, made Machaca burritos for breakfast with the leftovers today...

 

[Irish Insanity]

Anyone have a good shredded chicken taco recipes? TIA

 

[ACamp1900]

We never do shredded but do chicken tacos reg enough, in fact making them either tonight or tomorrow...

I highly recommend this if you can find it, marinade for a day or so, grill and enjoy.

We do it with boneless breasts and then chop it up for tacos.

 

[ACamp1900]

Buddy of mine went crazy last night for a BBQ (turns out it was to announce he and his wife are pregnant)... this dude had:

thee racks of ribs, two tri tips (both done differently), two pork loins, three chickens, and a brisket, plus a ton of salads and fruit trays, ratatouille, succotash, beans...

He has two smokers and had both going at capacity. I was in awe.

 

[zelezo vlk]

My buddy bailed on me 5 minutes before we were supposed to get pho on Saturday. I had a pork belly sandwich with kimchi and ssam sauce instead

 

[Irish Insanity]

We never do shredded but do chicken tacos reg enough, in fact making them either tonight or tomorrow...

I highly recommend this if you can find it, marinade for a day or so, grill and enjoy.

We do it with boneless breasts and then chop it up for tacos.

I have like 6 boneless breasts in the fridge. My plan was either today or tomorrow. I've never had a good chicken taco. I planned on hitting the store on the way home, but I'm not sure we have any sauce like that.

 

[ACamp1900]

I have like 6 boneless breasts in the fridge. My plan was either today or tomorrow. I've never had a good chicken taco. I planned on hitting the store on the way home, but I'm not sure we have any sauce like that.

It's usually in the meat section out here, I'd def recommend looking for it... You'll have a good chicken taco with that.. also, stay away from shredded????

if you want to do your own find a good lime/citrus marinade...

something like:

Lime juice,
sugar,
cumin,
chili powder,
salt,
garlic powder


something like that... let it sit for a day or two.

 

[ACamp1900]

First recipe on google search had almost exactly what I thought:

The Best Grilled Chicken Tacos Marinade - Creme De La Crumb

just add some oil, Italian seasoning and make the sugar brown....

 

[ACamp1900]

Not going to lie tho... that Chef Marito is above and beyond and ready to go. That's been our go-to for chicken marinades for a good year now. Have a few pounds of chicken breasts marinading in that currently.

 

[ACamp1900]

My buddy bailed on me 5 minutes before we were supposed to get pho on Saturday. I had a pork belly sandwich with kimchi and ssam sauce instead

Dude. You still won.

That sounds amazing...

 

[zelezo vlk]

Dude. You still won.

That sounds amazing...

It was good, and for once there was plenty of pork belly on the sandwich, but I've been craving pho for a long time.

 

[ACamp1900]

It was good, and for once there was plenty of pork belly on the sandwich, but I've been craving pho for a long time.

None of the good Vietnamese joints around me do those amazing sandwiches...

My in laws live in EL Paso and there is this Pho joint that makes them... just food heaven... one of those sandwiches with some Sriracha and a nice bowl of Pho... dude...

 

[zelezo vlk]

Ah well I didn't go to a Vietnamese place to get the pork belly. I don't go to restaurants by myself

 

[ACamp1900]

Ah well I didn't go to a Vietnamese place to get the pork belly. I don't go to restaurants by myself

I figured it wasn't a Pho joint just by how you described it, I figured Korean(their sandwiches are stupid good too) ...

so you made it at home??????

 

[zelezo vlk]

I figured it wasn't a Pho joint just by how you described it, I figured Korean(their sandwiches are stupid good too) ...

so you made it at home??????

Nah, I actually had to go into work on Saturday for an hour. I realized afterwards that I needed to get lunch anyways, so I walked to the Whole Foods right nextdoor, sat in their draft shack and ordered the pork belly sandwich. Basically I got paid to get lunch on Saturday.

 

[Irish Insanity]

So here's where I'm at, I'll be saving the lime recipe for grilled chicken later this week. I went with 1 can chipotle in adobo, 1 can crushed tomatoes, a tsp salt, a tsp cumin, a tsp sugar, a tsp garlic powder, 2 cloves garlic crushed, and a cup of water. All in a pan. Put 4 boneless skinless in with it to simmer for 45 mins. After that I'll shred the chicken and run the sauce thru the blender. Then put it all back together. Off to the side is 2 boneless skinless cooking with generic taco seasoning because I assume the other will be to spicy for the youngest.

 

[ACamp1900]

Okay, so butter....

how do you all go about storing it?

 

[zelezo vlk]

Okay, so butter....

how do you all go about storing it?

I know people who will keep a stick in a butter dish, and I gotta admit, it's pretty convenient. I just keep my stuff in the fridge, but I don't bother clarifying it or anything.

Last night I took half a loaf of ciabatta, sliced it open, baked it fairly crisp, slathered it in some cheap pizza sauce, added some fresh mozzarella, then baked it more. When that was done, I added some heavily seasoned ground sausage and had a poor man's pizza.

 

[ACamp1900]

wiz, you mentioned beans in the grilling thread... what's your go to??

 

[zelezo vlk]

Finished off that ciabatta last night with the rest of the pizza sauce and mozzarella. Tonight I'm gonna finish off the sausage with grits.

 

[wizards8507]

wiz, you mentioned beans in the grilling thread... what's your go to??

Busch's Boston Recipe if I'm grilling and lazy. But we have a few made-in-America clay beanpots that we'll use for the old family recipe for indoor gatherings. This recipe is pretty close, but I sub out some of the brown sugar for maple syrup and I use double the salt pork. And definitely don't dice the salt pork or it gets lost. You need to be able to pick it out.

https://www.thespruce.com/baked-bean-pot-beans-3051233