That vid is funny !

Ordered out for my company, (nice host, huh? )
Chicken Rollatini (stuffed w/ Fontina Cheese, Arugula and Prosciutto di Parma) w/ Penne Ala Vodka and a Fennel Salad.
Delicious

I WANNA MAKE ALL THIS STUFF TMRW!!! YUM!!!

Especially the sundried tomato dip. AND THE ICE CREAM! I heart my food processor.

Lemon pepper shrimp and falafel.

(I did take a pic of the falafel since I didn't think my balls were photogenic.)

^^Electro, you dont de vein your shrimp?

@Gypsy: Sometimes it doesn't matter. If the shrimp are harvested from a farm, before they are sold they are kept in isolation to clear their bowels.(accomplished by holding the live fish in a tank for long enough that their digestive systems empty themselves)

1 sentence cribbed from wikipedia.

^^Didnt know that, but Im still freakish about shrimps....I know the really little ones dont have anything in them, but I dont like those little ones. Thanks for the info.

Thanks, guys. I'm forever disgusted by shrimp now. I had no idea. If I return to eating meat, that's one thing I ain't eating ever again.

What did you think animals didn't shit?

I refuse to believe hot girls shit.. Sup Gia?.

Agreed Static, but the whole Anal Lab Marina concept really did it.

Gia, I'm not sure what part of that you find disgusting but it isn't true of all shrimp you might be served. Gypsy noticed SPR's shrimp hadn't been de-veined in a visible way and I was trying to explain it.

Same deal with canned sardines. If you get the ones which aren't eviscerated the same technique is used to clean their guts out so they can be eaten.

Who doesn't love to eat guts?...

Gia try some drunken shrimp

Maybe some day I can take Gia to a very romantic dinner. A dinner with Hot Pockets and the quarter drink, on the breezy beach with the sunset, and with the candlelight and the Sweet Pea burning oil.

can someone please make this raw cake? it looks to die for!

It looks very Panzeresque, I must say.

Gia, if I had posted such an alarming food porn photo, I would be subjected to (at least) a week's worth of barbs.

Therefore, I shall launch the first salvo.

Ahem.

Gia, are those "crumbs" the result of raw-cake Brownian Motion or is your home infected by cake-loving army ants?

Let me get to the heart of the matter...What the fuck is it ?

No cooking tonite, friends coming over again and ordering out, I dont want the mess of 8 peoples plates and shit in my house.
Ordering from Francesco's again, they loved it last time and I thought I'd get it again.

Gonna make this tmrw.

Beet Stacked Salad with Creamy Orange/Almond Dressing YUM!!!

That looks tasty.

I wasn't feeling very inspired and just cooked some multigrain bow tie pasta and some rather nondescript tomato sauce.

Also a very simple spinach and carrot salad with lots of balsamic vinegar.

I'm satisfied.

Swiss Bliss Salad...OMG YESSSS

^ That does look and sound great. I wish I could eat cucumber but it gives me errrrr......panzeritis something awful and I go around burping it for days.

3/14/09:
Basic Pizza Dough (coupled with past frozen homemade pizza sauce, turkey pepperoni, pickled goat's head peppers, fresh chives, and black olives)
New Potato and Snow Pea Salad in a mustardy vinaigrette
Risotto Con Asparagi
Chicken Artichoke Pasta Sauce

3/21-22, 24/09:
Potato, White Bean and Dill Soup
Roasted Red Bell Pepper Mustard with Cumin
Texas-Style Chili (a two-day operation involving boiling a fatty, boney hunk of pork with serranos, thai chiles, onions, and garlic, letting it cool in the sealed pot overnight, scooping off the fat and bones the next day, then adding beans, chili powder, tomato paste, canned diced tomatoes, etc. then boiling it way down; the result is a thick chili where the shredded meat is one with the sauce)

3/28-29/09:
Fireside Split Pea Soup
Grand Central Baking’s Quickled Kraut
Caramelized Onion and Coarse-Grain Mustard Mashed Potatoes
2 Fried Chickens

4/4/09:
Smoked Salmon Chowder
Sautéed Broccoli with Olive Oil and Garlic
Homemade Noodles (easy with a motorized Atlas pasta machine)
Swedish Meatballs

4/11/09:
Besaw’s Vegetable Bisque (onion, carrot, broccoli, garlic, tomato, potato, leek, homemade broth, cream, zucchini, all blitzed with the immersion blender, than passed through a food mill)
Hand-cut, peel-on, double-fried French Fries
and cheap hot dogs using the above homemade kraut and mustard

ostrich burger with old cheddar and salsa on a 9-grain bun from the bakery around the way. Off the fucking chizzle...

Marinated chicken breasts grilled to perfection, mixed vegetables, herb and garlic mashed potatoes and texas toast.

Fucking awesome.

What the fuck is Texas toast?

this is texas toast

Thick toast.

Turkey enchilada with vine-ripened tomatoes....

Sole filet with local butter and parsley. My first attempt at fish. I'm giving it a solid B+...

4/18/09:
Caldo Xochitl (Avocado Soup)
Artichokes with Lemon and Dill (Turkey)
Papas Chorreadas (Potatoes Bogota-style)
Arroz Con Pollo Cubano

4/25/09:
Chicken and Andouille Smoked Sausage Gumbo
Cauliflower and Broccoli Salad
Shrimp Etouffee

5/2/09:
Sopa de Pollo y Fideo
Salsa Roja
Arroz Rojo
Frijoles Sencillos
Taco Seasoning Blend for Ground Beef

5/9/09:
Spinach and Oyster Bisque
Prosciutto-Almond-Orange Asparagus
Mashed Potatoes
Half-Homemade Gravy (equal parts frozen gravy packet + homemade gravy)
Roasted Turkey Breast

5/16/09:
Tomato Bisque
Orzo Pasta with Feta and Dill
Golden Cauliflower
Chimichurri Sauce (for boneless New York Steaks)
Halibut with Golden Sauce (Saffron, Turmeric, Lemon, Cilantro)

4 Philly Cheese Steak Hot Pockets

This year the Victoria Day (May two-four) long weekend is a week early. It's also the weekend I generally do my last charcoal barbecue of the year and switch over to propane. Tonight I'm cooking up one cut of each animal (chicken, pork, beef, lamb, crab, trout) while my wife takes care of the vegetables. I'm also grilling up a special steak for my dog who just turned eleven months old.

So to Grizz, Conquistador, Patty, Lance, Brandon, JimB (Canadian by proxy lol) and any other Canucks I'm forgetting, happy fucking May Two Fer Weekend!

Why do you switch from charcoal to propane?

Cheers, Handful. Fucking hate that so much is closed tomorrow, though




Oh yeah: Turkey burger on wholewheat bun.
And a couple of stoneground flatbreads with some baba ghanouj.

bbqing
fake itallian sausages, corn on the cob and appleslices with bbq sauce
and fresh lemonade with mint in it

1 steak, medium rare
green salad
1 mango
water

Feeling lazy tonite, and it's pretty cheap..

I couldn't find a pic. Check the date, I got nothing to do with the uploaded vid.

hummus + pita + beer + ummmm

I just bought some steak and a couple of 2lb lobsters to grill after this six pack is gone. It's going to be really interesting to see how our dog reacts to his first live lobster.

Venison burger....

Thai red curry - trying to use turkey instead of beef.
rice noodles.
green salad.
wine.

Chicken breast with a side of black bean soup. I buy that pre-made organic soup from Happy Planet, which is good for bachelor losers like me. Every time I see some shit labeled something like Happy Planet, I assumed its parent company is something like a tobacco company or Halliburton....

5/24/09:
Basic Pizza Dough
Pizza Sauce
Risotto with Dried Porcini
Slow Roasted Chipotle Salmon

5/30/09:
Artichokes with Mayonnaise Mustard Dip
Bread Soup (using homemade bread from the night before)

6/6-7/09:
Chicken Mulligatawny Soup
Rasedar Kumbi Aloo (Potatoes and Mushrooms)
Chana Dal (Yellow Split Peas)
Tandoori Cornish Game Hens (using a powder that was a gift; disappointing)

6/13/09:
Santa Fe Chicken and White Bean Soup
Mother’s Old-Fashioned Potato Salad with Cooked Dressing
Hamburgers (homemade burgers are at about three-to-five times better than fast food burgers because they aren't cooked well-done to a cinder to avoid lawsuits; I'll take my chances and enjoy a juicy burger...)

6/20/09:
Pisto Manchego (Spanish Ratatouille)
Spanish Rice with Shrimp
Vincent Price’s Roast Pork Castilian Style (yes, THAT Vincent Price...)

6/27/09:
Chicken Tomatillo Soup
Arroz Verde al Poblano (Green Poblano Rice) [Bayless recipe]
Frijoles Borrachos (Drunken Pintos with Cilantro and Bacon) [Bayless recipe]
Fish Tacos [a lower-fat prep recommended by the "Oregonian"...not as good as my standard recipe involving deep-fried, dark beer-battered fish...]

7/3-4/09:
Roasted Red-Pepper Butter with Thyme and Smoked Paprika (for corn on the cob...quite good)
Salada de Tomate (Brazilian Tomato Salad)
Brazilian Garlic Rice [meh; now I have excess pepitas in the freezer]
Brazilian Seafood Stew [highest rating]
Brazilian Stroganoff [weird, not as good as Russian Stroganoff]

7/11-12/09:
Cool and Creamy Macaroni Salad [Cook's Illustrated, using the same ingredients as their perfect tuna salad]
Spicy Eggplant [a new favorite eggplant recipe at http://www.jamaicans.com/cooking/vegetables/spicy-eggplant.shtml , very umani, and mushroom-like]
Special Jamaican Jerk Marinade (for baked boneless "country" pork ribs)

7/18-19/09:

Maryanne's Tian of Basil {sliced zucchini, basil, tomatoes, Kasseri cheese, baked]
Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes [yet another Cook's Illustrated recipe, but adapted to my reality]
Jerked Pork Gravy [the prior week's pork cooking produced 1.5 C of juice, and 3 T of fat. This matched the Magic Gravey Ratio of 2 T fat, 2 T flour, 1 C broth which influenced this day's cooking]
Pollo in Fricassea con le Mandorle (Fricasseed Chicken with Almonds) [Hazen] ($5)
Seared Line-caught Sockeye Salmon Fillets with Lemon-Caper Sauce ($18)