Ribeyes on the grill and sweet taters on the side
What Are You Having For Dinner
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Greek chicken, steak fries, and greenbeans
Just sit for the 1st time today
Ate chicken and coleslaw..need a hot tea now
Ate chicken and coleslaw..need a hot tea now
I make chopped pork this way. I just cut it into strips, then chunks, then smaller chunks and so on until it looks like very course ground meat. I use a very sharp butcher knife.
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Maybe it's really not pork.
Spaghetti tonight...
Meat grinders have different plates that come with them so you can do a more coarse grind, or fine ground, ect.
Made another salad ... with small beef cubes and my usual gazillion chopped vegetables ... EVOO and Balsamic Vinegar.
Food processor!
Eating beef fajitas as I type! TV trays in the den tonight!!
Tonight was a weird one. I learned what "thin sliced chicken breasts" means. I had assumed that they were breasts that were maybe halved lengthwise. I figured they'd be a more even thickness so they would go on my Blackstone and cook evenly.
Well, "thin sliced chicken" would get it's a** whomped by a tortilla. The tortilla is thicker and stronger. This chicken was paper thin. What the heck? How do you cook something like that? I didn't even fire up the Blackstone after seeing what I had to work with.
Figuring this chicken would come out dry as a bone, I covered it fairly liberally with olive oil, sprinkled with salt and pepper, then rolled each slice into a little log. Then I put it into the air fryer. I had no idea what else to do with it. No idea how long I needed to cook it. The meat thermometer was of no use due to all the air space inside those little rolled chicken logs. So I cooked them for a while then pulled one out and sliced it in half to look and see how it was done. I repeated this cook-cut-look process several times until it was done all the way through. I had a bunch of little short stubby eggroll looking things when I was done. I did not hold out much hope for this dinner, so I made some quick instant mashed potatoes and steamed some broccoli for the sides. I didn't want to waste cooking effort on a lost cause.
It wasn't all that bad. The wife actually liked it quite a bit. I thought my chicken rolls were a bit on the dry side. But I've had worsely cooked chicken than this. So dinner gets a passing grade, but not honor society material. We'll digest for a while, then I may make some fruit smoothies to end tonight's feeding session on a high note. I do prefer cutting up and cooking real potatoes, but I will admit that the packaged instant Idahoan ones are not bad for what they are. For something you just boil two cups of water and dump in a package of dry stuff and stir - they could be a whole lot worse.
Well, "thin sliced chicken" would get it's a** whomped by a tortilla. The tortilla is thicker and stronger. This chicken was paper thin. What the heck? How do you cook something like that? I didn't even fire up the Blackstone after seeing what I had to work with.
Figuring this chicken would come out dry as a bone, I covered it fairly liberally with olive oil, sprinkled with salt and pepper, then rolled each slice into a little log. Then I put it into the air fryer. I had no idea what else to do with it. No idea how long I needed to cook it. The meat thermometer was of no use due to all the air space inside those little rolled chicken logs. So I cooked them for a while then pulled one out and sliced it in half to look and see how it was done. I repeated this cook-cut-look process several times until it was done all the way through. I had a bunch of little short stubby eggroll looking things when I was done. I did not hold out much hope for this dinner, so I made some quick instant mashed potatoes and steamed some broccoli for the sides. I didn't want to waste cooking effort on a lost cause.
It wasn't all that bad. The wife actually liked it quite a bit. I thought my chicken rolls were a bit on the dry side. But I've had worsely cooked chicken than this. So dinner gets a passing grade, but not honor society material. We'll digest for a while, then I may make some fruit smoothies to end tonight's feeding session on a high note. I do prefer cutting up and cooking real potatoes, but I will admit that the packaged instant Idahoan ones are not bad for what they are. For something you just boil two cups of water and dump in a package of dry stuff and stir - they could be a whole lot worse.
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BLT. On toast of course. Fortunately no blood work or doctor appointments in the next month. Sends my cholesterol and blood pressure wonky.
Had a big cup of tea, breathe easy tea.
Had a big cup of tea, breathe easy tea.
I was thinking after the fact that this thin sliced chicken would be good for chopping up on the Blackstone as it's cooking to make chicken cheese steaks. Although IMHO, cheese steaks are supposed to be made out of cows. The idea of something that flies, swims, or turns CO2 into O2 just doesn't sound right for a cheese steak.
Try covering it with Butter / your Choice of Spices, etc, and making a 'Foil Burrito' - a 'Tent-like Pouch', where the Sides are 'tented' in towards the Middle / a seam-rolled into it / down towards the [Meat] - But make Sure you leave a 'gap' for the [Meat] to Steam - Then roll the Ends, inward (like a burro) so the Butter / juices, etc, Don't leak out / start fires, etc..
I cook in Foil like this a Lot, and [whatever] you Cook this way comes out like, well.. Butter
and all the juices, inside, are Wonderful over yer 'Side' (Rice, Green Beans, Corn, Mashed-Potatoes, whatever) Usually, your cooking time will be like 10-12 mins, also - Fast.. And 'clean up' is carefully drain the 'pouch' / crumple it up, and Done.. Fwiw..
Last nite was Good 'ol Fashioned Red Beans n Rice, with Andouille..
...SO good, Especially 'leftovers' in the AM with a fried-egg plopped on Top / some Chipotle-sauce / a nice, fatty Bacon slice 'er two slopped-over.. 'Cowboy Breakfast', Love it..
..Did 'from-scratch' the BnR (..prefer Salvadorian 'Small Reds', ie:
jd
Met some old friends for Chinese
Chicken - cranberries - macaroni/cheddar
Cheesecake - sour cream - walnuts
Cheesecake - sour cream - walnuts
2 slices of Pepperidge farm 15 grain toast w/butter, and a hot chocolate.
Feeling under the weather for the past 2 days ... my pulled muscle and related issues.
Feeling under the weather for the past 2 days ... my pulled muscle and related issues.
We are going out to an Italian place. So I am betting pasta of some kind.
..Oh look, I had 'Bugs Bunny's 12 ga. shotgun-accident' for Breakfast! ..(With the side of Fries..)
Yep, BnR + Eggz for Bkfst is Reeeeally good..
jd
My dinner tonight
Mini tomatoes salad with green onion chopped and dressing
Chicken fried rice -- Mozzarella pieces of cheese - Mint jelly
Mini tomatoes salad with green onion chopped and dressing
Chicken fried rice -- Mozzarella pieces of cheese - Mint jelly
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Chicken fajitas
Well, reheated the last 2 slices of pizza from the other night.
Pretty anti-climatic!!
Pretty anti-climatic!!
Me too, but mine are leftovers! This is fajitas day three! First day beef, last night and tonight chicken!
Fried up some catfish, salad on the side.
Nothing... I am having nothing for dinner. It's my birthday today and I got absolutely mobbed with requests to go eat. I cannot eat 5 lunches in a day... one lunch and then ice cream later was the very best I could do and I still feel like I ate too much. 
Please no more food.
Please no more food.
Happy birthday RJ2019!
Thank you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Sounds like a GREAT DAY!!Nothing... I am having nothing for dinner. It's my birthday today and I got absolutely mobbed with requests to go eat. I cannot eat 5 lunches in a day... one lunch and then ice cream later was the very best I could do and I still feel like I ate too much.
I am picking up some authentic birria tacos, chips & elote dip and hazelnut churros. Dr. Pepper in the ice box to drink.
That is ground pork. To get the bigger crumbles, take an ordinary lump of ground pork and put it in a hot pan. Use a spatula to cut it into the size of crumble you want. The more you chop it up with the spatula while it's frying, the smaller the pieces will be. The trick is to let it brown a bit before you start chopping. Kind of flatten it into a pancake and the meat will hold together better.
If the pork is cold when it hits the pan, it will boil, not fry. Meat should not be fried straight out of the fridge.
Another option is to use fresh pork sausage. It is a courser grind.
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