After 18 hours, I had to take it off the smoker because the charcoal was dying out. It's finishing in the oven now, but this is how it looked after smoking for most of the day:

You feeding a herd of Eskimos?

Steez, did switching affect the texture at all, or was it far enough along that it didn't matter?

^I'm not sure. I'll admit the final product was just a tiny bit dry, but I think that had more to do with the lack of fat on the meat rather than how I cooked it. Anyway, after adding a little BBQ sauce to it, it was perfect.

My personal mantra, BTW.

Looks good. No pics of it sliced?

Nah. After spending the whole day waiting for it to finish and then letting it rest for an hour, I forgot all about taking pics and just wanted to have dinner.

Rough day for Los Trumperos

^ Sounds like someone underestimated how much the American people hate Hillary Clinton.

Guilty as charged, but you gotta admit it looked the other way when I wrote that. Fucking amazing election. After game seven, this has been a crazy week. Hail to the Cheeto, brother.

They shoulda gone with a Biden. Oh well.

I honestly had no idea what was going to happen today. But I was at least somewhat encouraged by the fact that Trump had been able to fill arenas around the country whenever he held a rally whereas the only way Hillary Clinton could get people to show up was to put on a free Bruce Springsteen/Bon Jovi/Madonna/Katy Perry/Lady Gaga concert.

Since Bush/Gore almost every election does seem to come down to a few points in the popular vote. Might as well as flip a coin.

Who wants my copy of the plum book?

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

MSM and the pollsters are having crow.

Yet Michael Moore was dead right.

No one wants anything from YOU.

It's the 2012 edition. The new one comes out in weeks.

Back to basics
back to basics

Braised lamb shanks over white bean & veggie ragout. I knocked this one out of the park.

That looks deliciouss.

Well this is something I didn't need to discover. I made some tzatziki dip last night and since I had the deep fryer heated up for french fries, I decided to cut some pita bread up into triangles and see how it tasted fried and dipped in tzatziki. Amazing. Then at the grocery store today I saw some garlic naan bread so I bought that and just did the same thing with it. Beyond amazing.

I'm eating stew from a can that I shook vigorously before opening. Dinty Moore. Plastic fork.

Pumpkin pie. With actual pumpkin filling. But pre-made crust. Sorry!

I used to feed my cat organic canned pureed pumpkin from time to time when she had some bowel issues. It would turn her orange. She has since moved on from her bowel issues after I changed her cat food, but I still sometimes want to feed her canned pumpkin just to turn her orange again, like Tony the Tiger.

But delicious pie crust is easy, far easier than the filling. You need one frozen stick of butter cut into small cubes, one and a quarter cup of flour, a pinch of salt, and a bottle of vodka out of the freezer. Put the dry ingredients and the butter into a food processor and pulse, while you dribble the vodka in until it binds.

Surely it's not for lack of vodka.

Crow to serve the entire Marxist party.

Please don't politicize food threads.

Thank you.

Can I have a food fight in political threads. Thank you very much king of the forum universe!

I had leftover chicken and broccoli stir fry and instant red skin mashed taters. Instant taters can be tasty if you doctor them up with garlic, butter and bit of cream.

Lightly breaded gluten-free latkes- with sour cream. I really wanted to up the ante and make them from sweet potatoes, but the bf doesn't like sweet potatoes or squash. He's cooking Christmas dinner. Then, I'd like to make squash for myself. Anyone have good squash recipes?

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/gluten-free-potato-latkes-52999291

http://russianrevels.co.uk/borsch-pie

Wait. What????! Why am I just discovering this now? I WANT!

Do you ever use the white/light yellow sweet potatoes? I hate the orange ones myself, but the light colored ones taste more like a real potato except without all the starch/carbs. I like to make breakfast with them by dicing them up and frying them with some onions and dried rosemary.

I'm about to be doing some drunk cooking. I have everything prepped to make some Moroccan harira stew with lamb, but the only problem is, the lamb is still frozen so I'm drinking some wine while it continues to thaw. It'll have onions, garlic, red/green peppers, lentils, garbanzo beans, angel's hair pasta, chopped tomatoes, cubed lamb and tons of middle eastern spices in it. I'll prolly get to eat dinner at around 11pm.

^^ How did this come out, BTW?

It got postponed until after the weekend. The damn hunk of lamb hadn't thawed out by almost 11pm, so I ordered a pizza. Hopefully all the veggies will stay good to use in the fridge until Monday.

Spiral sliced smoked ham with bacon & brown sugar glaze.

That looks so good I want to fuck it. It reminds me of those sword and sorcery movies from the 80s where guys sat around eating legs of lamb grunting salaciously while they planned their next gangrape. This shits that ham would cause would be a small price to pay.

I just noticed the reflection on the stainless steel in the background looks like Darth Vader holding a double lightsaber.

You ARE Luke's father right?

Post holiday poverty and laziness / another notch in my white trash belt: Playin garbage disposal. Cleaning out the fridge/freezer instead of take out food. For tonight, a dozen McNuggets from Thursday. I wish I could get 6 for a dollar or 2, but when I'm real hungry, it is hard to resist the 20 for $5 deal. Also, I finally cracked open a gallon of Arizona Arnold Palmer that I got for my mom before she died.

I'm 50/50 if I should use the bacon I still have leftover from Xmas morning. I kinda wanna test how it will do in my breakfast sandwich maker, and I have 3 english muffins & a couple of eggs to consume in the next 2 days.

How long does shit last in a freezer? I found some sausage that was stuffed w/ peppers & onion and some beef kabobs dated May 2015. They wrapped in butcher paper and in a ziploc. My guess would be the kabobs are dead but sausage may still be good. Defrosting them and a mystery package of meat.

Have 3 bottles of wine in the fridge, 2 pinot grigio and one cabernet sauvignon, so attempts at Chicken Francaise and Veal Stew w/ Polenta are on deck to get rid of them. If I find any chicken broth around here, it might be rice instead of polenta.

Just trust your senses and use good judgement with regard to whether or not it's ok to still cook older/frozen meat. If it looks ok, smells ok and isn't slimy, then you're most likely good to go. It's ridiculous how many people throw out food the day after it reaches its Sell By date. Also ultra-pasteurized milk is something that seems to stay fresh way past its expiration date.

I'm super sick of cooking, leftovers and doing dishes, so tonight it'll be either frozen chicken strips or breaded cod and french fries in the deep fryer.

Later I need to give GrubHub a call to complain about the Chinese food I ordered on Christmas that I was charged for but which never showed up. That's the second time in the past month that something like this has happened with Grub Hub.

I reheated a to go box of approximately 3/4 of an unfinished portion of something called "Ferraro's Spaghetti" from a local family owned greasy spoon. Perhaps this has a proper name, you cosmopolitan types tell me: It is ordinary spaghetti in a garlic butter sauce with cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, and chicken chunks in the mix. To me this is very fine. Washed down with the usual Orloff.

I always sniff milk before pouring. I agree that I've had plenty that was good past the expiration date, but I've also had a couple sour early.

I'm not so worried about the old freezer meat getting slimy and making me sick, I'm wondering about freezer burn and it being shitty. Now, anything I put in the freezer that I'm not planning on eating w/i a week or 2, I vacuum seal.

I was very happy that the giant, 2y/o can of Swiss Miss in the cabinet was still powdery & fluffy. I was worried that I would be scraping tablespoons out of it, like I used to do w/ iced tea when I was a kid.

Sounds like Pasta & Table Scraps to me.

Yeah it is more or less overpriced bachelor food.

The other thing I've been trying to do is to use my juicer more with fruits and veggies before they go bad. If something's been in the fridge for a week, into the juicer it goes. And I also try to keep some satsuma mandarin oranges in the fridge for when I feel like making fresh OJ. They're seedless and sweeter than regular oranges. I'll just peel 5 or 6 and throw them into the juicer when I feel like having a fresh glass of OJ.

I have a half loaf of regular store brand wheat bread that is over three years old and has not grown mold or changed appearance. It took over two years to even get hard and stale. For approx. two years, it sat in its original packaging on top of my microwave and looked fresh and felt relatively fresh to the squeeze.
Sometime around two years ago I tossed a half a bag of grocery store flour tortillas up there too. Those fuckers also look the same as purchase day. No grey, no green, no black spots, nothing.

Modern food does not expire, only we do.

I don't trust food that doesn't go0 bad. Although sometimes food wont spoil just because of the right combination of salt, temperature and lack of humidity.

Longest lasting bread I can recall is Pepperidge Farm. It is all sealed up in cellophane inside the bag, and I figure it is loaded w/ preservatives.

One thing I'm glad about is the last time I bought Parmigiano Reggiano I just got a block instead of having them grate it. Been months in the fridge and only last week I had to shave some mold off before using it.