I know! Major culinary breakthrough with the missus! [emoji2] This is where we get them... https://www.hessmeat.com/about Small town up near the Red River in Muenster, Texas. I stumbled across it one day when we were driving one of the fun cars out in the country. T
Pork belly kimchi fried rice, fried egg, and salt and pepper pork jowl Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My wife's homesick vibe continues...she has been wanting to make Zapiekanki for a long time. Yesterday I hit up a Polish Market down in SLC and brought home the fixings... Zapiekanki is sorta like a pizza made on a sliced open baguette. Traditionally the first layer of topping is sauteed chopped mushrooms, then a few slices of kielbasa, then some cheese (we used Gouda) and finally the key topping it all is Polish spicy ketchup and chives. Very yummy! Tasted just like our favorites from the Plac Nowy in the Kazimierz district of Krakow (its a dive-y "square" with cheap takeaway food offerings and about eleventy thousand pigeons that poop everywhere and like to watch you eat from close range...so, you know, its awesome...the kind of place with lines of drunken folks after midnight.). For dessert we had another of her favorite things, Paczki. These are essentially special occasion donuts filled with jelly (typically a rose petal marmalade or plum preserve). Good day for my wife (and therefore for me)! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login A pic of Plac Nowy: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Nobody wanted to hit the diner with me last night. So, I got a Philly cheesesteak for takeout. Tonight, plan on getting a calzone from a new place I found a few weeks ago. Haven't tried them yet. It was next door to the coffee shop I met someone at.
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Love paczki! They can be found down here on very rare occasions. Image Unavailable, Please Login Since the weather started cooling off, to the mid 90s, earlier in the week, I made tomato soup in the Mauviel. Tomatoes, salt, pepper and lots of garlic. Image Unavailable, Please Login Pupusas at a small Ecuadorian bodega. Loroco on right, "everything" pupusa on left. Very tasty! T
3 lbs?!? You in training for the Big Texan steak challenge, Kirk?!? [emoji6] Image Unavailable, Please Login T
Another Saturday, another fish fry in one of the small towns. Off roading in Southern OK a few weeks ago, and saw a sign for a volunteer fire dept fish fry in Ennville, OK. I have to say - and the wife agrees with me, so I may actually be right! - this was some of the best grub we have had @ a VFD fish fry. Every dish was homemade and "on point" to borrow one of Guy Fieri's phrases. Image Unavailable, Please Login Hushpuppies, slaw, beans, fish and a chicken & rice gumbo sort of deal. Not pictured, homemade peach ice cream. The old wooden ice cream churn looked like the one my grandma had as a kid. We ate with folks who turned out to be the local sheriff and his family. I was sorely tempted to ask if I could get one of these on the off-chance I might accidentally exceed the speed limits in the F-car in his fine county. Image Unavailable, Please Login T
that looks tasty, where we live there are only 2 "towns" within hundreds of miles that have VFDs (that have these fundraisers)...so we can't hit too many. The two around these parts are fried chicken at one, and pork ribs at the other. The fried chicken one is in Wilson, a pricey town up in Jackson Hole. The chicken and fixings are great, but there are literally ~5000 people there nowadays (mostly tourists that happen to be around that day, but also the summer richies that live up there) and thus the lines for food are measured in hours and we no longer go. Luckily the rib one has historically been less-tourist infested, but now it too has learned to advertise in the Jackson Hole paper...so we are unlikely to attempt fighting the crowds for that one going forward. Its too bad.
Happy Jewish new year. Chicken fricase stew w veggies in creamy wine sauce. Image Unavailable, Please Login
That's a shame they're so crowded. I would guess there were 150 folks in total at the one we went to last night...T
Been there!!! The ones there are absolutely coated/topped with chives! Can't see the rest of it. Cheers!
Clam & fresh garlic flat bread....I need a thin cracker like crust to my pizza...Pretty good. Cooked on the BBQ with a 1/2 steel plate. Had to pull quickly as the dough wanted to burn quick if not careful. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yet another BBQ down under..This time pork ribs marinated in good old American Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce.. love this stuff. And of course, Aussie snags. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Good friend of mine had this tragedy yesterday....cheap battery charger plugged into his souped up GTR on the bottom. Lost that plus his Bentley. 360 hopefully ok but a mess....keep them well insured guys!! I just went out and threw away the cheepo unit I bought at Harbor..F Image Unavailable, Please Login
Apologies in advance for the photo assault…my wife made dinner last night, so I just took pics along the way… Pear-Gorgonzola Ravioli in brown-butter-sage sauce. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
