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I’ve been lazy and making spicy chicken sandwiches for dinner for the past couple of days.
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I cook one of these motherfuckers in my toaster oven as the packaging dictates, melt some margarine in a saucepan and mix some cajun seasoning into it while the fillets cook, toss the fully cooked fillet in said sauce, dress up a brioche burger bun with some Chick-Fil-A sauce, place the fillet between those bun halves, and serve with a side of fries.
What store sells that brand? It looks so much better than Tyson.
 
Decided to try Hoover Stew today. To celebrate the rising cost of groceries and the fact that I have a ton of pulled pork in the freezer.

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1 16oz box of elbow pasta
2 cans of tomatos, I used rotel
1 can of corn
1 can of canelli beans
meat (I used some smoked pulled pork I froze a few months ago, recipe called for chopped hotdogs)
1 diced onion
some choped garlic
a glug of broth

Boil water
Cook pasta for about half the time on the box
Drain pasta
drop some olive oil in the now empty pot, give the onion and garlic a quick cook
dump the beans, tomatos and corn into the pot,
let it get warm then add the half cooked pasta and whatever meat you want, splash your desired broth on, I used probably a cup
stir and bring to a simmer
salt and pepper to taste, its fucking bland without this


Its not bad, its probably the most generic tasting dish I have ever made. Had to really pepper it up. Still its fairly cheap and you probably already have all the ingredients on hand. If I do it again I would let the ingredients simmer in the pot before re adding the pasta, so the beans get more of a chance to absorb the flavor.
 
I used to use cream in my Alfredo, then I switched to just butter and whisking in pasta water to emulsify, then add the fresh grated cheese. You use less water in the pasta for the recipe to concentrate the starches. I was skeptical at first but it turned out delicious.
I'm sure that would be fine. It's more about the PR, and then whatever else you need to achieve the proper consistency. You could use cream cheese, mayo, eggs, sour cream, whatever, if you wanted.

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Decided to try Hoover Stew today. To celebrate the rising cost of groceries and the fact that I have a ton of pulled pork in the freezer.

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1 16oz box of elbow pasta
2 cans of tomatos, I used rotel
1 can of corn
1 can of canelli beans
meat (I used some smoked pulled pork I froze a few months ago, recipe called for chopped hotdogs)
1 diced onion
some choped garlic
a glug of broth

Boil water
Cook pasta for about half the time on the box
Drain pasta
drop some olive oil in the now empty pot, give the onion and garlic a quick cook
dump the beans, tomatos and corn into the pot,
let it get warm then add the half cooked pasta and whatever meat you want, splash your desired broth on, I used probably a cup
stir and bring to a simmer
salt and pepper to taste, its fucking bland without this


Its not bad, its probably the most generic tasting dish I have ever made. Had to really pepper it up. Still its fairly cheap and you probably already have all the ingredients on hand. If I do it again I would let the ingredients simmer in the pot before re adding the pasta, so the beans get more of a chance to absorb the flavor.
Cowboy stew
2 cans of baked beans
2 cans of ranch or chili beans
1 can of rotal
3 lbs of pork or beef ground cooked
1 large yellow onion
Cook meat with onion
Dump all of the cans and the meat in a large pot slow cook for about an hour with out lid
Corn bread works well or fritos
 
Cowboy stew
2 cans of baked beans
2 cans of ranch or chili beans
1 can of rotal
3 lbs of pork or beef ground cooked
1 large yellow onion
Cook meat with onion
Dump all of the cans and the meat in a large pot slow cook for about an hour with out lid
Corn bread works well or fritos
Kind of want to try this out sometime. Is there any really watery, thin liquid left at the end of the cook? If so, I'll use some kind of thickener like mashed beans or something so that it can be eaten out of a bread bowl without soaking through it.

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I cooked a big hunk of a brisket as a roast and it turned out to be almost better than tri-tip. It's probably blasphemous to turn brisket into a common potroast, but I just had to try it out and we got an entire brisket on sale.
 
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Kind of want to try this out sometime. Is there any really watery, thin liquid left at the end of the cook? If so, I'll use some kind of thickener like mashed beans or something so that it can be eaten out of a bread bowl without soaking through it.
I’ve made something very similar in the past. There’s enough beans in it already that will act as a natural thickener so you should be fine.
 
Kind of want to try this out sometime. Is there any really watery, thin liquid left at the end of the cook? If so, I'll use some kind of thickener like mashed beans or something so that it can be eaten out of a bread bowl without soaking through it.

ETA tread tax:
I cooked a big hunk of a brisket as a roast and it turned out to be almost better than tri-tip. It's probably blasphemous to turn brisket into a common potroast, but I just had to try it out and we got an entire brisket on sale.
It's like a cheap chili only sweeter it should be thick enough if not add a little tomato paste
I made a grilled pamwich turns out the best grilled cheese is made using a cooking spray insteed of butter because there no moisture
 
Gyudon made with ground beef instead of sliced steak. Tasty but hits different, kind of like the Japanese equivalent of chopped cheese vs a cheesesteak.


It's like a cheap chili only sweeter it should be thick enough if not add a little tomato paste
I made a grilled pamwich turns out the best grilled cheese is made using a cooking spray insteed of butter because there no moisture
Olive oil grilled cheese is fantastic.
 
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