Foodies BS Thread.

Arguably the best french onion I've ever had.

And french onion is something I get pretty much EVERYwhere. Its a favorite of mine, and you can usually tell how good a kitchen is by how good or bad their french onion comes out.

This was...well, I think she might have been right. This is maybe even better than my tomato sausage soup.

 

Hey guys, I'm planning on making a roast in a crockpot for my class tomorrow. Anybody have any special recipes they'd like to share with me? I've never made any kind of roast, nor used a crock pot haha so help me out!

Many thanks in advance.

 

Here's my generic roast crock work:

Take a couple stalks of celery, and a couple carrots, about half an onion, a bunch of mushrooms, some garlic, fresh black pepper, and some salt.

Rough chop the veggies. Toss into crock. Add just enough stock/broth to cover the bottom, a bit over half a cup in mine. Add a bunch of garlic and pepper just cause I like those.

Take hunk of beast and lay it down on the bed of stuff. Apply seasonings to meat as you like...not much beyond salt and pepper for me, maybe some old bay or italian seasoning if that's your thing. If possible, make sure meat isn't touching walls of crock.

Additionally, you can add hunks of taters all around and eat them with. Totally optional.

Slap on the lid. Set to cook on low for 6, 8 or 10 hours.

Come home from work, open door, and get slapped in the face by the smell of a house full of roast. Drool all the way to the kitchen.

Take roast out of crock. Place it on a rack, cover loosely with foil. Let it sit at least five minutes. Use this time to make some veggies or something for a side.

Ta-da.

 

^^^good guide


In a pinch you can toss in baby carrots instead. ... and if you're reeeeeeeeeally in a pinch just get a bag (or two) of frozen stew/roast veggies and throw in instead of fresh.

I like a stalk of fresh rosemary thrown in for really good extra flavor

 

Get yourself a chuck roast and salt and pepper it real good. Then sear it in a hot pan, get a good crust on the outside. remove the roast then add carrots, onion and celery to the pan and caramelize them real good. Remove them and deglaze the pan with beef stock. Add all that to the crock pot with whatever else you want...... garlic, herbs, bay leaves, potatoes, peppercorns.... Let that go for about 3-5 hours, just until the meat is tender. Anymore than that and it will just get dry and chewy. That's my basic roast recipe. I like to add my veggies near the end so they don't turn to mush. Good luck!

 

Thanks for all the advice guys, I appreciate it! I'll post pics tomorrow once it's done.

 

The french onion soup looks good!!!!

 

....and...what else?





"How you get so big, eating food of this kind? Hmmm?"

 

Dinner the other night...... Surf and Turf, Turf... it was sirloin,shell steak, scallops, and barely sautéed spinach.

 

Anytime Pete

 

Yesterday's lunch made from the previous night's leftover bone in ribeye.

 

^^^That looks really good!!!

 

It was amazing, the pics don't do it justice on my phone.

 

Today's lunch:


I have never been a huge fan of meatballs, I love meat sauce, but not meatballs. Nonetheless I made Spaghetti with meat sauce last night and meatballs for my boys, which got me thinking about about meatball subs. I figured why couldn't I make a meat sauce sub? I made my homemade sauce a bit thicker than usual, put it on garlic bread french loaf, added pepperoni just because I can, then melted mozzarella on it. Holy hell it was awesome, a bit messy, but awesome! I wasn't going to take a pic at first, but after a couple of bites, I decided I had to share.

 

Seems like forever since I've been on this thread!! Everythings been looking great people!! I'm still getting some dental work done so my diet is still on the softer food side but at least its not just soups now!!

 

Salmon, sweet potatoes and bacon...

 

Keeping it simple tonight... Slab o' steak, cinnamon sweet potato, and raw sugar snap peas

 

All that food looks great, here's some grilled bacon wrapped Doves i cooked the other day,and man they were tasty, we had around 30 birds, which feed 4 of us with beans and slaw.

 

Is there a meal when you don't eat eggs? Hahaha

Tonight's menu: BBQ & alcohol. Nuff said...