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Made an enormous batch of beans and ham hocks in the Dutch oven yesterday, in keeping with cooking damn near everything in it lately. The recipe called for cumin, and for some reason, that made me feel like getting even more spice into it, so when I reheated it today, I added some of my hot sauce from the garden habaneros as well as hot Madras curry powder. Worked well.

Also made cornbread in the skillet with bacon grease.
 
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It’s so good to be back.
I made probably the best pizza of my entire life. The crust recipe is from Americas Test Kitchen. It’s fabulous ( thin, crispy, and chewy)
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🤝 made chanterelle meatloaf, it was pretty good, but the pizza I made was likewise one of the tasties I've ever eaten. Bought reindeer meat and chopped up the chanterelles along with some Champignon mushrooms and bacon. Might sound unique but our biggest pizza chain sells reindeer meat pizza, and I wanted to give it a spin. Very Finnish take on a pizza. I rate it 5/5.

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Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
🤝 made chanterelle meatloaf, it was pretty good, but the pizza I made was likewise one of the tasties I've ever eaten. Bought reindeer meat and chopped up the chanterelles along with some Champignon mushrooms and bacon. Might sound unique but our biggest pizza chain sells reindeer meat pizza, and I wanted to give it a spin. Very Finnish take on a pizza. I rate it 5/5.

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Damn that's tight man, good work from one fellow reindeer enjoyer/consumer to another
 
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Last night I was doing laundry and gettin down on a blunt (as you do) and got hungry, so I made really lazy goulash. I had a couple packs of macaroni noodles and a pound of good ground beef, so I started with that and added lots of garlic and onions along with some other fun spices. A can of diced tomatoes I found in my pantry and two jars of pasta sauce I never ended up using for something else I was making earlier rounded it out along with some spring salad mix and leftover banana and roasted red peppers

Its absolutely great and the whole thing came together in about 45 minutes, perfect for weeknights if you're not trying to do anything extravagant. Big wad of sour cream and some hot sauce on top completed it.

I took a couple pics but they were blurry because I didn't notice some condensation from the pot lid got on my phone camera, so you'll just have to use your imaginations along with the following guide: it looks like noodles and beef with tomatoes and green veggies
 
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A dish that I saw on a Mexican restaurant menu as "Texas rice," but which isn't really real Texas rice. Spanish rice, grilled chicken chunks, grilled shrimp (I used blackening seasoning for both chicken and shrimp), sauteed green bell pepper, sauteed onion, and queso sauce. It's supposed to be a creamy dish but I used way too much queso so it turned into goop. In the restaurant it was a much more subtle amount and it was delicious (also included steak but I avoid two meats in the same dish, unless it's shrimp which I consider more of a side dish).
 
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Fried Chicken Sandwich - Marinate in fermented jalapeno puree and whole milk over night. Season flour with Gochugaru chile flakes, chipotle powder, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, and salt. Fried in peanut oil then fried russet potatoes. Mayo and iceberg lettuce, pickle on side. Haven't got to fry chicken in a while, peanut oil is the way to go.
 
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Lentil soup, which came out Lentil stew. Easy enough, had most things on hand for it.

Feel like it will be too soggy tomorrow to truly enjoy again, but tonight it hit the spot. Meaning the fiber hit me digestive system.

I wish I could do the food photoshoots like some of you god damn artists in here. No amount of lighting or MEGAPIXELS is making this lentil soup look less like great depression gruel served in the slop lines.
 
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Well, while the Keffall Alliance was sticking their dickholes in places they don't belong, I made a Greek fish soup to go with some chicken skewers. Literally, sizzle a roughly cut onion in 1/4 cup of olive oil (no colour) for 10 minutes, then stick in 2 stems of cubed celery, 1 cubed carrot, 1 cubed tomato, 5 cups of fish stock, a dash of fennel seeds if you have 'em, a splash of wine and lots of oregano for 30 minutes, then add some seasoned white fish fillets and 2 cubed potatoes for another 10 and finish with parsley, the zest and juice of a lemon and white pepper.
 
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Shmuel Sam Coinsniffer said:
🤝 made chanterelle meatloaf, it was pretty good, but the pizza I made was likewise one of the tasties I've ever eaten. Bought reindeer meat and chopped up the chanterelles along with some Champignon mushrooms and bacon. Might sound unique but our biggest pizza chain sells reindeer meat pizza, and I wanted to give it a spin. Very Finnish take on a pizza. I rate it 5/5.

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I use to eat reindeer since I lived in Finland. A friend's mother would give me smoked heart. It was actually good. And I miss cloudberries.
 
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AnOminous said:
in the Dutch oven yesterday, in keeping with cooking damn near everything in it lately
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with bacon grease
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Welcome home, fren. ❤️ We have only the comfiest home cooking here that will change your life.

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I had to use my stainless steel to properly cook a whole hell of a lot of beef stroganoff. If you're going to cook any at all, I recommend making a lot all at once, especially since it freezes so well in those quart freezer baggies. It's a very labor-intensive food that all ends up in one big pot at the end for the finishing cook, so it's less labor per serving the more of it you make. Please no matter what, DO NOT substitute the red wine at the deglazing steps with broth or water; I promise from the bottom of my heart that you'll lose more than half of the flavor's depth and complexity. I found that out the hard way when I was a kid and it's stuck with me since. You'll also need a lot more mushrooms than you'd probably think. People (including myself) almost always undershoot on the mushrooms no matter the dish. Please be careful with this dish if you're needing to watch your fat intake. You can sub quite a lot of the butter with olive oil with no detriment to the end product, but it's still a massive amount of fat needed for cooking everything before it all goes into the pot. Last tip; try serving your stroganoff over plain mashed waxy potatoes in stead of egg noodles.

ETA one more tip I forgot: Substituting the sour cream for plain, fat free Greek "yogurt" is completely viable and tastes the same without the added fat on top of the already horrifying amounts of grease.
 
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I talked about some spice mixes I bought on a sale before, and well, fuck. I bought a fuckload of them lol!

So, naturally, I've been much more liberal about trying new combinations as of late. Had some chicken breasts, so I added coarse salt, some herbs, paprika, garlic and mint leaves, added a splash of red wine to the bowl, just enough to barely cover the cuts, and left it to marinate for some four hours. Came back, tossed some flour and shook the bowl to spread it, pan fried them with butter on my skillet. Got them just right and the seasonings were on point, best chicken I've ate in quite a while!
 
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Got done with the first batch of food prep for the month. Made 8 low carb burger buns, pressed a dozen beef burger patties that are currently being frozen, and about 110 ping-pong ball size meatballs. Likely going to make some more of the buns tomorrow since since egg whites are getting close to their date while portioning out the other batch of ground round between taco Tuesdays and I'm thinking some kinda beef kafta.
 
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