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Stood in line at a local butcher for almost an hour for a custom cut rack of baby back pork ribs. Dry rubbed, smoked over hickory, finished in the oven with butter.

Fell off the bone. Pretty amazing.

The difference between a mass produced product soaked in a brine for months vs a fresh cut is worth the wait in line.
 

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The difference between a mass produced product soaked in a brine for months vs a fresh cut is worth the wait in line.

I live in an area bordering amish country, so I go to the local Amish Market for fresh meats and in season veggies. Their steaks were probably mooing the previous day.

Next year I'm probably going to buy a half share in a pig and my buddy will buy the other half, the amish set aside a special pig for you, fatten that bad boy up, Slaughter it and deliver it completely butchered in paper wrapping. Comes to about $4 a pound for 75lbs of meat
 
I live in an area bordering amish country, so I go to the local Amish Market for fresh meats and in season veggies. Their steaks were probably mooing the previous day.

Next year I'm probably going to buy a half share in a pig and my buddy will buy the other half, the amish set aside a special pig for you, fatten that bad boy up, Slaughter it and deliver it completely butchered in paper wrapping. Comes to about $4 a pound for 75lbs of meat

If you can go in on a piece of cow/pig and have the deep freeze storage for doing so, this is definitely the way to go.
 
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Made Mississippi pot roast tonight. Just put a chuck roast in the crock pot and dump a packet of au jus mix and ranch mix over it, and I substituted the pepperoncini peppers with Jalapeños, gave it a smoky kind of taste. Let it cook on low for 10 hours, and baby was it tender. Had a salad with it because it was too hot to make mashed potatoes.
 
Last night would have been Christopher Lee's 99th birthday, Vincent Price's 110th, and the day before Peter Cushing would have been 108 (AND it was the 125th anniversary of Dracula's publication) so that called for a celebration. This is a flourless chocolate cake with caramel drizzle and a berry and mint garnish. My caramel wasn't quite thick enough, I took it off the heat too soon I think. I've totally ruined caramel in the past so I was being overly careful this time.
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*edit* Now that I'm eating the caramel out of the jar with a spoon I can say that I cooked it just fine, it just needed time to sit and thicken up .
 
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regarding meatloaf the key ingredients are

ground beef
the things that haven't gone bad yet but are rapidly approaching it

in other burning through old crap I've got some prepackaged deli-style ham on the range with a bunch of seasoning and shit
was rummaging in a top shelf for stuff to use
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>ramen seasoning pack
>gravy mix
>a teabag
>half of a white jade talisman
>an ephedrine pill
>whatever this coconut shit is

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I, uhh...
yeah.
 
burgers and star trek for america and the powmiyas of are armed forces
frozen wal mart 75/25 patties
frozen wal mart fries
rosemary and salt on the burger
small aldi brioche buns
jarred jalapenos
one of those fancy red pepper brioche spreads
some cheddar shreds

dank and realistic
 
My family had a barbecue because of dead soldier day. We made beef fajitas, drumsticks, ribs, sausage, those bacon wrapped jalapeño things, rice, beans, potato salad, and pico de gallo.

I only made the rice and pico de gallo because I'm a degenerate that likes burned meat so I'm not allowed near the grill.
 
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