The Food and Beverage Thread

[Cusefan]

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You are so Sophisticated, I had crappy tacos for dinner

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Thanks to Guy Fieri and his show, Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, my son and I just had the best damn hot dogs, fries, and Italian Beef in the Twin Cities.

If anyone is in the Twin Cities, look up The Wienery, and enjoy. The Italian Beef Combo (beef sauteed in garlic, topping a spicy italian sausauge, and then topped with cheese and giardiniera) is the finest sandwich I've ever eaten. My son had a bacon wrapped dog, and we shared their hand cut chili cheese fries.

Simply awesome!

[GSW]

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This was my dinner tonight -- I had some leftover pie crust so I used it to make a mushroom, onion, and goat cheese tart. Had it with a spinach salad w/ a mustardy vinaigrette and a Dogfish Head 90-Minute IPA.



This was me taking my own taco advice.. I rubbed some eye of round steak leftover from making pho the day before with toasted coriander and cumin, seared it, then sliced it thin. It was a tad under done, so I finished it w/ some onions, lime juice, and Tapatio to fill it with flavor. The cut of meat is pretty tough, but after the lime treatment and being sliced thin, it was good for taco meat.



This was a quick skillet blueberry/blackcurrant cobbler that I made when I realized my berries were about to go south. This is pre-cooking, but I finished it with a little whipped cream.. turned out surprisingly well for a 10-minute pie dough and a tiny skillet:

I hate you so much.

[VTPack919]

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Now I want tacos.

[Stumbleweed]

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Heh, to be clear, the tacos were a meal of their own on a different night... the goat cheese tart was its own meal. And the cobbler is unrelated haha, just random dessert since my berries were about to go south and I could make a quick pie crust.

And yeah, everyone can eat/cook like that, it's just a matter of effort and some basic skills. Learning to cook for myself was the best thing that I've ever done... saved so much money satisfying my own food cravings instead of paying someone else to do it. Most of your money at restaurants goes to the service/kitchen staff and their damn building rent, not the food.. spend the $15 yourself while investing an hour or so of your time and you'll have a nice meal for two (normally with leftovers for lunches the next day) far cheaper than you could ever get it at a restaurant.

Even if you're a ham-handed moron in the kitchen and have no skills, just putting in the time and effort (and the trial and error) instead of just resigning to the 'fact' that you can't cook will improve your skills a lot. Getting a good cookbook that has basic techniques such as knife skills, prep work, master sauces, cooking meats, etc. is a good idea also -- Jacque Pepin's "Complete Techniques" is more than anyone could ever need but covers almost all of that stuff, albeit in a bit of an intimidating manner for a beginner. I'm sure there are better books for beginners out there, but I LOVE LOVE that Pepin book and highly recommend it.. it's like $18.

I'll post more pics when I get home... made some nice tumeric-paprika pork chops that looked really nice on the plate. And some thick dark chocolate chip cookies last night.. heh.

[thegoat30]

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Thanks to Guy Fieri and his show, Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, my son and I just had the best damn hot dogs, fries, and Italian Beef in the Twin Cities.

If anyone is in the Twin Cities, look up The Wienery, and enjoy. The Italian Beef Combo (beef sauteed in garlic, topping a spicy italian sausauge, and then topped with cheese and giardiniera) is the finest sandwich I've ever eaten. My son had a bacon wrapped dog, and we shared their hand cut chili cheese fries.

Simply awesome!

That show is awesome. You are lucky to be in a city where some of the shoots took place. I seem to recall there was a pizza joint shoot in the Twin Cities as well.

I just watch the show and drool over all the food I'll never eat...

EDIT: Here is the other one I remembered.

Psycho Suzie's Motor Lounge
2519 Marshall St. NE
Minneapolis , MN 55418
Tel: (612) 788-9069
Website: www.psychosuzis.com

[JohnnytheSkin]

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That show is awesome. You are lucky to be in a city where some of the shoots took place. I seem to recall there was a pizza joint shoot in the Twin Cities as well.

I just watch the show and drool over all the food I'll never eat...

Thanks for the link...we'll have to try it out.

It is pretty cool that he's featured some locations in the Twin Cities. Others that I've seen are Donatelli's in a northeast suburb that we've tried, and there was a bar & grill that he visited in Saint Paul, The Nook, that had some mighty good looking burgers.

[Husker_OS]

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Deli sliced ham, deli sliced cheddar, and a drop of ranch on some Sara Lee. Put it on the foreman grill for about 6 minutes. So damn good.

[Salhus]

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And yeah, everyone can eat/cook like that, it's just a matter of effort and some basic skills. Learning to cook for myself was the best thing that I've ever done... saved so much money satisfying my own food cravings instead of paying someone else to do it. Most of your money at restaurants goes to the service/kitchen staff and their damn building rent, not the food.. spend the $15 yourself while investing an hour or so of your time and you'll have a nice meal for two (normally with leftovers for lunches the next day) far cheaper than you could ever get it at a restaurant.

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My exact thoughts.

Ever since I started cooking for myself I save so much money.

$15 for things to make a pot of chili that lasts almost a week

[TheMatrix31]

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Deli sliced ham, deli sliced cheddar, and a drop of ranch on some Sara Lee. Put it on the foreman grill for about 6 minutes. So damn good.

Perfect.

[wwharton]

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Heh, to be clear, the tacos were a meal of their own on a different night... the goat cheese tart was its own meal. And the cobbler is unrelated haha, just random dessert since my berries were about to go south and I could make a quick pie crust.

And yeah, everyone can eat/cook like that, it's just a matter of effort and some basic skills. Learning to cook for myself was the best thing that I've ever done... saved so much money satisfying my own food cravings instead of paying someone else to do it. Most of your money at restaurants goes to the service/kitchen staff and their damn building rent, not the food.. spend the $15 yourself while investing an hour or so of your time and you'll have a nice meal for two (normally with leftovers for lunches the next day) far cheaper than you could ever get it at a restaurant.

Even if you're a ham-handed moron in the kitchen and have no skills, just putting in the time and effort (and the trial and error) instead of just resigning to the 'fact' that you can't cook will improve your skills a lot. Getting a good cookbook that has basic techniques such as knife skills, prep work, master sauces, cooking meats, etc. is a good idea also -- Jacque Pepin's "Complete Techniques" is more than anyone could ever need but covers almost all of that stuff, albeit in a bit of an intimidating manner for a beginner. I'm sure there are better books for beginners out there, but I LOVE LOVE that Pepin book and highly recommend it.. it's like $18.

I'll post more pics when I get home... made some nice tumeric-paprika pork chops that looked really nice on the plate. And some thick dark chocolate chip cookies last night.. heh.

Couldn't agree more. I can't just whip up something like you but I've got a couple of staples and anything else I'm thinking about I'll do a search online and try it out. I need to do more though. I definitely need something to speed up the knife skills and make some sauces. I'll see if I can find that book.

[Stumbleweed]

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These were the porkchops I made the other night. Took one of them and the sides to a girl I'm feelin while she was working on homework and didn't get a chance to eat... it went over very well.

They were seasoned with turmeric, smoked (hot) Spanish paprika aka pimenton, salt/pepper, some leftover toasted cumin and coriander, and a bit of garlic powder then cooked them in a pan with some olive oil (~4 minutes per side). The couscous is just from a box, cooked in homemade chicken broth that was leftover -- it has an onion and orange bell pepper saute over it. Blanched the asparagus then re-heated it in a saute pan with a little butter. Good stuff... took me about an hour and cost about $10 for 3 porkchops and everything to go with it.

Nice look at the color the tumeric adds (the yellow):



With Dogfish Head 90-Minute Imperial IPA:



Dark chocolate chunk cookies I made the next night... they were almost better the 2nd day because they were surprisingly still moist and thick.. was very happy.. this was actually my first attempt at homemade chocolate chip cookies (I know, right? what's my problem?):



Small batch... only made 7 of them (thank god):

[Stumbleweed]

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Last night's mission was pierogi dough using potatoes. It was mad sticky, but I was able to finally work it out and get it rolled after sitting overnight. Anyway, I made some pierogies with potato, green onions, bacon, and cheese (used mozz since I didn't have anything more appropriate). Had 2 for a late breakfast this morning with a fried egg.. hell yeah, that's some eatin'.

I'll edit the pics into this post once I get them onto my computer.

[Husker_OS]

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I'm thinking a ham/cheddar wrap for lunch. Dinner probably some grilled Hebrew National hot dogs.

[Acid]

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Stumbleweed, what salary would you like to become my personal chef?