Cigar Weekly

Sancho Panza · 05-02-2018, 05:06 PM

Homemade potato chips. Ham on Pumpernickel, with Mayo, Lettuce, & Sauerkraut.

Ice cold Coke-cola.

BigO · 05-06-2018, 06:06 AM

Applewood smoked spareribs and the fixings. Just started the fire.

grtrx · 05-12-2018, 02:02 PM

last night did not go well.... skatewing was soft and and never go crispy.... heat too low on stove

asparagus overcooked. No idea why I went with the recipe I use for my parents pan steam then oven roast.... ruined it to mush (my parents believe anything green should be cooked until mush). Potato gratin... too much milk, too deep of pan, cheese that didn't want to melt... tasted ok, used flour to thicken it up

Double rib pork chop tonight with chard and the leftover gratin

last night's wine was a 20111 Puiginy Montracet which was just amazing

BigO · 05-12-2018, 02:26 PM

Well, you managed to salvage something of the meal. Oftentimes, a great wine can make your guests forget about a botched effort.

I made Cajun white beans and rice out of a ham bone. Ribs right now are sinfully cheap right now (thank you Trump for pissing China and Russia off enough to get them to boycott American pork without an outright trade or shooting war...can you piss off the salmon and cod producers off next? We could use some reasonable seafood here.

). Two racks of spares this afternoon at $2 a lb and 5 slabs of baby backs at $1.74/lb cooling their heels in the fridge for the next couple of weeks. Paleo diet let's me eat all the dry ribs I want. Happy days.

Sancho Panza · 05-12-2018, 02:43 PM

Sausage Po-boy made with fresh NO made French Bread.

grtrx · 05-14-2018, 03:50 AM

garlic, bread crumbs, broccoli rabe and hot sausage with pasta... very good and very simple

BigO · 05-14-2018, 11:56 AM

Stuffed bell peppers tonight, if I ever get the motivation to make them.

grtrx · 05-14-2018, 08:48 PM

Shawarma, bought it pre marinated. Pretty good. I will be tasting cumin for a month.

BigO · 05-15-2018, 03:32 AM

Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike cumin?

BigO · 05-16-2018, 03:45 PM

Beef soft tacos made from marinated tri tip. No cumin.

05-06-2018, 06:06 AM	#442
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	Applewood smoked spareribs and the fixings. Just started the fire. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

05-12-2018, 02:02 PM	#443
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	last night did not go well.... skatewing was soft and and never go crispy.... heat too low on stove asparagus overcooked. No idea why I went with the recipe I use for my parents pan steam then oven roast.... ruined it to mush (my parents believe anything green should be cooked until mush). Potato gratin... too much milk, too deep of pan, cheese that didn't want to melt... tasted ok, used flour to thicken it up Double rib pork chop tonight with chard and the leftover gratin last night's wine was a 20111 Puiginy Montracet which was just amazing __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

05-12-2018, 02:26 PM	#444
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	Well, you managed to salvage something of the meal. Oftentimes, a great wine can make your guests forget about a botched effort. I made Cajun white beans and rice out of a ham bone. Ribs right now are sinfully cheap right now (thank you Trump for pissing China and Russia off enough to get them to boycott American pork without an outright trade or shooting war...can you piss off the salmon and cod producers off next? We could use some reasonable seafood here.). Two racks of spares this afternoon at $2 a lb and 5 slabs of baby backs at $1.74/lb cooling their heels in the fridge for the next couple of weeks. Paleo diet let's me eat all the dry ribs I want. Happy days. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

05-12-2018, 02:43 PM	#445
Sancho Panza Floridays Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: La Habaña, Cuba Posts: 19,755	Sausage Po-boy made with fresh NO made French Bread. __________________ For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863... William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust 1948

05-14-2018, 03:50 AM	#446
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	garlic, bread crumbs, broccoli rabe and hot sausage with pasta... very good and very simple __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

05-02-2018, 05:06 PM	#441
Sancho Panza Floridays Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: La Habaña, Cuba Posts: 19,755	Homemade potato chips. Ham on Pumpernickel, with Mayo, Lettuce, & Sauerkraut. Ice cold Coke-cola.

05-14-2018, 11:56 AM	#447
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	Stuffed bell peppers tonight, if I ever get the motivation to make them. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

05-14-2018, 08:48 PM	#448
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	Shawarma, bought it pre marinated. Pretty good. I will be tasting cumin for a month. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

05-15-2018, 03:32 AM	#449
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike cumin? __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

05-16-2018, 03:45 PM	#450
BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	Beef soft tacos made from marinated tri tip. No cumin. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.