Most liked posts in thread: Soooooo Whatcha Eating?

Just finished a breast qtr. of fried HOT chicken, fried okra & spicy slaw.

It burned in a good way. (Let's hope only once!) :wink:

 

Taro flavored shaved ice with fresh strawberries and jack fruit at Vampire Penguin. Yum!

 

Say hello to what soon will be mapled peppers.

 

My soon-to-be 4 year old has been begging for something pumpkiny to eat lately. Also, I found out yesterday that I've finally met my last fitness goal that I set for myself close to 2 years ago!! So...how to celebrate? Homemade pumpkin donuts!

 

That Chicken....became this...



It also became the first post of my new project...http://myshortnorthlife.com/

 

Man, that bird doesn't have very good taste in beer......

 

I made the best gumbo I have ever made this past weekend. I cooked it with my best friend's wife for their family down in Port Arthur -- cajun country. I was nervous as chit since her mom, a serious coonass cook was coming to dinner.

She liked it!!!

I am an Italian from Philly who loves cajun food. I work hard to make it right. I even cure and smoke my own Tasso, because I can't buy it anywhere. It was nice to see real cajuns go for seconds of my gumbo -- leftover turkey and smoked sausage for the meats.

BTW, my best friend drove my MINI CopperS -- his first MINI experience -- and was giddy. He loved it.

CD

 

A week or so ago a friend brought me some fruit while I was laid up. In that box was a lot of bananas. Like 28 of them.

Been experimenting with some Banana bread. This one has black walnuts, 63% coco chocolate chips and a Chai Habanero spice mix.

The folks at the coffee shop give it a big thumbs up.

 

Been working on some recipe development for a client. He tasted my first batch. Gave me some feedback and commissioned me to keep working on the details.

Fresh batch of my latest creation. Chai habanero spiced banana bread with toasted black walnuts and extra dark chocolate.

 

Due to scheduling conflicts, we had our family Xmas dinner on Saturday. I had never had Beef Wellington, so I decided to make it for our family dinner. It was real good!

Here are some photos,





The recipes I looked at said to bake the wellington on a foil covered baking pan, so I did, the bottom of the wellington got wet from the meat juices, so next year, I'll bake it on a raised grill over the pan, to catch any juices.

 

Went to my favorite resteraunt tonight, my Kitchen, when my wife called me.

Glazed Ham, seasoned baby red potatoes, green beans and Pineapple casserole.

The dark carmilized tips on the Pineapple casserole are the best.


YUM YUM YUM

 

You cooked for the misses again!? That's nice.

 

We need a NO button for things like KFC hotdog in a chicken bun.

 

Haha! Funny you mention that...I had a big dialogue in my head as I pulled into the lot about where I should park. There were some spots in the paved area I could have taken, but they were next to beater cars. And only one or two cars parked in the little dirt patch. So I eased my Mini onto the dirt patch ever so gently...

Downside was that I had to clean all the dust off when I got home. But now he's all shiny again.

 

Supper is gonna be mighty fine, three kinds of meats and two bottles of Muscadine wine, A meatloaf, a ham, and chicken–n-dumplings’, fried okra, turnip greens and a tater casserole that sure is sumthing, cornbread and biscuits with plenty of butter and a Mississippi Mud Cake that will make your taste buds flutter!

YUM YUM!!!

(age test)

 

This, friends, is perfectly healthy offering from our favorite local restaurant, Campagna. Before you is a medium bacon wrapped filet with shrimp, spinach and mashed potatoes. The wine is a 2013 Red Horse Pinot, from California's central coast. Yes, it was absolutely scrumptious. The girls both had a great meal of Alaskan Halibut set stop their traditional risotto. Yumm.

 

Roasted kohlrabi, grilled pork loin and a mixed melange of veggies.

 

When I was a kid, the neighbors had a peach tree that was just on the other side of the fence from our house. One big branch hung over on our side of the fence. That tree had the biggest sweetest peaches I have ever tasted. Every year we looked forward to about a dozen of those tasty fruit, where the rest of the tree would have maybe forty peaches.
The old fart who lived next door realized that we were picking peaches off of his tree and didn't like it, even though the branch hung way over on our side of the fence. So one year, he sawed that branch off!

That tree never bore fruit again. Served him right, the miserable old poop!

 

Lamb and Asparagus with onions... [emoji2]