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What's for today's meals? Eclectic Sunday for me.

Hayabusa Rider

Hayabusa Rider

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Since I had the weekend off I thought I'd do a few things.

I made some pastrami overnight in the smoker and just had a sandwich made out of that.

Then I took pork belly and sliced it yesterday and made a sauce for char siu (bbq pork) in which I marinated the pork overnight. I'll cook soon on indirect heat on the grill to be made into pork stir fry rice. I'll use my 18" wok on the outdoor turkey fryer burner so it's not steamed fry. There's not enough heat from any indoor burner I have.

I'm about to put 5 lbs of wings in the smoker. After a couple and a half hours I'll coat them in flour then use the outdoor wok setup to fry them crispy. I then put them in a big bowl and sauce them with a bbq/honey glaze and toss them around.

None of it goes together for one meal so it's going to be a grazing kind of thing.

What's everyone else doing?
 
Baked a chicken last night. Will use the leftovers for.... hm, maybe tacos, or I might stuff bell peppers. Or pasta sauce.
 
My mother wants a hot beef sandwich bought out. I'll get that for her, and probably get a gyro for myself.

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breakfast was Spam, eggs, and cheese with Valentina hot sauce. Looks like Yuengling lager, and maybe some potato chips will be lunch :^D
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
Just finished a plate of blackberry pancakes. Maybe some eggs and chorizo burros for lunch. Haven't figured out supper yet.
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Took me forever to figure out that what makes DIY breakfast burritos taste good is chorizo. +1 for chorizo!
 
No cooking today. We had the Sunday brunch buffett at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Plates full of crawfish etouffe, baked salmon, mahi, catfish, bacon, sausage, fried butterflied shrimp, chicken tender, smoked salmon, waffles and pancakes, and more. Now I'm relaxing and watching the Falcons and Saints game. For dinner we'll probably go out and eat spicy seafood tofu soup or something light like that.
 
Cup of steel cut oats for breakfast with almond milk
Half cup quinoa with 4 eggs for lunch
Salad for dinner.
Eating plain greek yogurt right now.

Cutting sucks.
 
I plan to go to the happy camper Buffet across town for lunch........then we are heading to the Chinese Buffett for dinner.....Sunday is seafood day......then around 11 PM we are going to head to the next town over and check out the 24 hour Buffet that is open all night....then around 6:00 AM we are heading over to Breakfast at Sam`s Breakfast Buffet......fresh omelets made to order...etc....
 
Part of this going onto the rotisserie in one minute 🙂

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Burgers tonight with home made pico de gallo.

Tomorrow's dinner is slow cooker pot roast with onion gravy. First time making it so I hope it turns out.
 
ponyo said:
No cooking today. We had the Sunday brunch buffett at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen. Plates full of crawfish etouffe, baked salmon, mahi, catfish, bacon, sausage, fried butterflied shrimp, chicken tender, smoked salmon, waffles and pancakes, and more. Now I'm relaxing and watching the Falcons and Saints game. For dinner we'll probably go out and eat spicy seafood tofu soup or something light like that.
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+1, I love crawfish etouffe myself.

Haven't had it in awhile.
 
I've just ruined pork fried rice.

Well, not ruined exactly but now I won't order it out anywhere.

If you are so inclined-

I substituted and used not quite 2 lbs of lean pork belly

After the pork was ready I let cool cut into pieces.

To a very hot wok I added:

3 tbsps oil until smoking.
3/4 cup chopped shallot

Stir fry until starting to brown.

3 tbsps dry sherry.

Let evaporate then added about a cup of frozen peas. Stir fried for a minute, no more.

Added 3 more tbsps oil. On my nuclear burner the wok was hot enough in about 30 seconds.

Added about 8 cups cooled and fluffed cooked white rice.

Stir fry at crazy heat.

After a few minutes of constant motion the rice started to smell toasty.

Add pork and stir fry about another minute to minute and an a half.

Turn off burner and add about 4 tbsps light soy or to taste.

Mix to cover rice evenly and serve.
 
Breakfast: Protein shake (spinach, banana, choc protein powder, almond milk) and buckwheat waffles.
Lunch: some kind of cheese pasta dish, grapes, steamed veggies.
Snack:Cliff protein bar.
Dinner:BBQ chicken, kale chips, sweet potato fries.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Well, not ruined exactly but now I won't order it out anywhere.
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Yeah, I've had that happen too 😀

It's hard because sometimes you want to go out, but when you do, you sit down, eat, pay for the meal, and you're disappointed that it's not as good as what you know it could be (what you make at home) and that you had to pay for a lesser experience. I typically go through 2-week phases of cooking a particular dish until I've perfected it (and by then my family is sick of it, haha), unless I figure out how to master it earlier. Which is great for me, because then I can make it whenever I want & it's usually at a cost savings to my wallet, but ticks my wife off because I already have crazy food allergies & we're limited in where we can go out on a dinner-date to, and I keep cutting the number of those places down :biggrin:
 
MongGrel said:
I expected as much on your return.

Way to sink to your normal levels off the bat.

Why would it be for one?

Were the wifes sunglasses she laid on it to begin with.
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Wow, didn't know those were woman's sunglasses.

Did you buy them where you got the pork loin?
 
Kaido said:
Yeah, I've had that happen too 😀

It's hard because sometimes you want to go out, but when you do, you sit down, eat, pay for the meal, and you're disappointed that it's not as good as what you know it could be (what you make at home) and that you had to pay for a lesser experience. I typically go through 2-week phases of cooking a particular dish until I've perfected it (and by then my family is sick of it, haha), unless I figure out how to master it earlier. Which is great for me, because then I can make it whenever I want & it's usually at a cost savings to my wallet, but ticks my wife off because I already have crazy food allergies & we're limited in where we can go out on a dinner-date to, and I keep cutting the number of those places down :biggrin:
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There's a couple cuisines I haven't gotten quite right and mainly I think due to availability of ingredients or equipment such as Indian and Thai. I do decently enough but many things I can't do at home as well. Not having a tandoor for example makes some things harder. Kaffir leaves? Forget it.

The nice thing is that my wife would rather have me cook than go out most of the time and me liking to cook and being a general homebody works for me 🙂
 
we have a bunch of fruit from the lower valley to can. We canned two batches of elberta peaches, so we ate some of those too. Made a batch of pear preserves so had several of those.
We have about 15 pounds of big tomatoes so naturally dinner was BLT's, heavy on the T.
 
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