Foodies BS Thread.

I can say with today's breakfast.....it was much better than yesterday's protein shake on the way out the door.


Hour-plus round trip to the doctor and 4 hour appointment/testing/consult for my wife & her doctor all went well. Very relieved. Confirmed & ruled out some stuff that had been concerning us.


So relieved, in fact.....that we both slept 12+ hours last night....catching up on the missed sleep over the past few days. I can't remember last time I slept so long or so well. Relief and answered prayers evidently added to the comfort that cool weather and a warm blanket provided. Good stuff, folks.





I still beat the sunrise on getting out of bed (which tells ya how early I crashed yesterday evening). Started stirring and dogs realized I was about to be oscar mike and went nutz to get downstairs and outside in hopes there would be squirrels to chase into the trees. Still too dark for that action, but coffee was made and by the second cup....I was able to go out and watch 'em get after the limb rats. Our oldest one still shows her puppy tendencies when she's on the chase. Their growling and yipping at the limb rats must have fired up my neighbor's dogs....could hear them waking up in her house.



Time came to finish that cup and call in the dogs and get some grub ready.



Nothing fancy. Nothing special. Just some buttery cheddar biscuits, Tennessee Pride Hot sausage (which I hit with yellow mustard) and eggs loaded with course pepper & American cheese.



Had the biscuits cut and & the pan just in time to her a deep voice from above & behind me......"Good morning.....what's cooking?". Said Darth Vader voice came from our 6'8" son, Teenage T-Rex. Startled the heck outa both me & the dogs. For a kid so tall....he can ninja up on an old dude with great stealth.
























































He went into feeding frenzy like a bull shark and rolled out his schedule for the day and asked about my cooking plans. I'd wanted to do Tex-Mex for dinner and gave him the menu rundown.


He stopped me just in time. I was about to put the dry pintos on to soak all day for the frijoles later on. His schedule clashes mightily with said Tex-Mex dinner plans.


Looks like there will be some mid-day burgers instead.....wife & I can reheat ours whenever it comes around to our dinnertime.


Tex-Mex will be tomorrow night, it seems.


Very grateful for such simple things to contemplate. Very grateful.

 

Sounds like some great news and an awesome way to start out the day. Good looking food makes it all the better.

 

https://youtu.be/p3FZIvUxUOA

 

what is this chili cole slaw you talk about??

 

It is Cole slaw mix, sour cream, mayo and chili powder. Season to taste. I don't like Cole slaw, but I'll eat the he'll out of this.

 

Found this in case anyone is looking for some Ring Of Fire.

https://puckerbuttpeppercompany.com/products/worlds-hottest-ramen

 

Beef and pork chili. Kinda blew it for pic purposes with the cilantro clumping.. but damn, it tasted good.

Broke in our Staub 6 quart pot.

 

Sounds good on a taco! couple of mexican places we go to have a jalapeno coleslaw which is really good.

 

I was out of jalapenos or my tacos would have had some. The wife doesn't really like them so mixing them in the slaw wouldn't work.

 

Breakfast this morning was enhanced bigtime with this thick cut cherrywood smoked bacon. Outside of a butcher shop slab, this is about the best I've tried.


Looking forward to using some Meat Massage on a batch for some pig candy.























Cheddar biscuits, cheesy eggs & hash browns......then the wife asked for some canned sweet rolls.
























Grabbed my plate and snuck out of the kitchen before the carnage ensued.

 

Tonight's dinner..........I'm delaying making my plate because the frenzy is real.........not wanting to get forked or knifed.










I'll go ahead and introduce the star of the show on our table tonight....the dry pintos....that were soaked quicklike and made into frijoles.


















Made a batch of mango-pineapple salsa.






Made a batch of Ro-Tel salsa....easiest thing you've ever made.








Also worked up a batch of guacamole which is one of my favorite things on the planet !!!















Beef taco meat........














Vegetarian taco "meat"....















Frijoles.....bad pic, sorry...........but may have been then best tasting thing I've cooked....PERIOD.









Table condiments............


















My tribe......and extended tribe........made their whole wheat vegetarian tacos.........double decker extra cheesy & meaty carnivore tacos..........and superkiller nachos.



I laid back and chilled and stayed well away from the carnage and grinned knowing two things: 1) we migrated from ENC and yet we love spicy Messican eats


2) If the wall is built tomorrow we will survive.









Snuck back in the kitchen after the second wave and made a plate..........did a double-decker like my boy does........and sampled the rest.














Finished off a third of it.....but had some of everything.


The guac & frijoles vanished from the plate.

 

Had breakfast for dinner. pancakes, bacon, potatoes O'Brien with scrambled eggs and cheese, with cinnamon sugar crescent rolls.

 

Got a recipe you'd like to share? Guac is one of my favorites also, but I'll be damned if I can find a good recipe.

 

Sure thing.

Scoop out the inside of 4 Haas avocados

Add 1/3 red onion, diced

Add 1/3 bunch of cilantro, chopped

Add jalapeños to taste

Add juice of 1-2 limes

S&P to taste

 

Wow those dutch ovens are not cheap.

 

Not at all.

 

Truffled Mac n cheese.

 

Leftovers made some great breakfast tacos.



Scrambled cheesy eggs, habanero salsa, cherrywood smoked bacon, cheddar jack in double-decker shells and a shot of street taco salsa verde.

 

https://youtu.be/8TLLtg6VeKQ