Shuley

Nice!!!

It is clear you know what you are doing. Welcome to the family!

Looking good to me!!!

I love spatchcocking. Apparently we are going to do a "Friendsgiving" this year with the people we eat lunch with everyday at work and I volunteered to provide the turkey. I'm wondering if spatchcocking is appropriate for this occasion? yes, I'm the type to obsess over a meal for months. That's why I'm doing a rotisserie rib roast cook this weekend before I volunteer for Christmas dinner lol

Happy cooking!

Dang that looks good.

Those ribs look amazing. Now I want ribs lol.

I have used royal oak on many occasions and while it is not my preferred brand it has never rendered any of my cooks inedible. Try waiting a while after your grill is up to temp before putting any food on.

That is absolutely horrible. I am so sorry for your loss. I will keep you in my prayers.

That looks like an awesome dish! Wish I could taste some!

I'd take that anytime. My mouth is watering looking at that.

Thank you! I really don't think I will win. I've never won any of them, but now it's more about trying things I'm curious about. Lol. I'll have to check out your cook later on today!! I'm sure it is great. And I've never stuffed shrimp so I never even thought of that. However I liked eating these giant ones. They were almost like lobsters!

Thank you! I tend to suck in the challenges so we will see.

I'll have to look into those dishes! I love this kind of food but it's not really common in my area. Thanks for the kind words!

Yeah, this was one of those meals that was killer when it was fresh and just pretty good when reheated. I should have had more people over!

It actually didn't get close, but the pictures made it look that way. I learned that lesson when my mom and I made paella and it was spilling everywhere lol.

Thank you! It was definitely a labor of love but an interesting process. I'm always looking to learn.

Over on the guru there is a copycat challenge in which you are supposed to pick a cook and copy it. There were a few things I have been wanting to try, but DerHusker's paella has been something I have wanted to try for a while. My mom wanted to make paella last Christmas- but she isn't quite as into cooking as I am so she wanted to take lots of shortcuts- which made me so interested in what I could do taking DerHusker's recipe and only slightly altering it. I did have to make a few changes due to ingredient limitations. So I gathered my veggies and most other non protein ingredients. the rice is calsparra rice, by the way. Which is considered authentic in addition to Bomba rice. Then I began chopping i didn't dice my tomatoes and I used plum tomatoes because I remembered a technique from a Catalonian stew. You take the plum tomatoes, and use a box grater to remove the pulp from the skins, then that is cooked down with the onions for a while and thought that would apply nicely here. Then I got to working on my saffron broth. This was taken word for word from DerHusker. Crushed up saffron in a glass measuring cup then boiled with some white wine then I got to working on the proteins. First, some shrimp including some insanely HUGE shrimp. I couldn't get any prawns, so I thought these would sub nicely. I included a picture with my finger in for scale because they were definitely the largest shrimp I have ever seen i pulled off the shells, threw in a hunk of butter, seasoned and let them cook a bitadded water to cover and now let it cook for a while to make a shrimp stock after a while, I strained out the shellsThen I started prepping some of the other ingredients and started heating the paella pan I did the rest of the cooking from here on on my KK. I seasoned some bone in chicken thighs with smoked paprika, garlic powder, and salt and pepper and then put some color on them with some EVOO after they had cooked a while, I added in some of the linguisa to cook as well then I removed the chicken and linguist and Began to cook the onions and red peppers. then after a few minutes I added the tomato pulpafter that cooked down I added the rice in the shape of a cross then added my shrimp and saffron broths and stirred together then I added the linguisa and submerged the thighs shut the lid for about 15 minutes and got the shellfish ready. Pulled out the clams and mussles. Went back out to my KK and this is now what it looked like- most of all that flavorful liquid was absorbed then I added some peas and the clams. on go the mussels I closed the dome for a few minutes before adding some more ingredients the monster shrimp, regular shrimp and calamari after that cooked a while I added the lemons the clams and mussels were taking forever to cook so I ended up putting them directly on the grate and they opened within a minute so it kinda ruined the picture but by this time my mouth was watering uncontrollably but did I get the socarrat? YES!!! And it was delicious too my great surprise, even with all the expensive ingredients the most amazing part was the rice. This was an absolutely fabulous meal. So glad I tried it!

One of my friends learned this week that her 21 year old son has a tumor on his pelvis. It has been devastating to say the least. I decided to make her a couple of tri tips so she didn't have to worry about cooking meat for a few days. As it turns out it is one of her son's favorites as well! getting better but still not the best at trimming then seasoned them up then put on over some pecan wood for about two hours to pick up some smoke then seared. all really easy and hopefully will slightly brighten their day!

Dang that is awesome.

Glad you got it working again

I've never been able to find hanger steak in a store (only restaurants). I'd love to have a go at cooking it at kenji highly recommends it. Looks like you nailed it. Was it pretty tender?

Nice looking party spread and LOL I've had lots of friends take pictures of my KK. They can't believe it!!

So sad but I have been having so many issues with heartburn that are only getting worse despite medications and all the testing. I do have a hiatal (sp?) hernia so that's probably to blame. Anyway I asked what a good game day option would be that didn't cause heartburn and someone mentioned kabobs! I thought that sounded great. That along with the homemade sourdough bread I've been making. Served over some sushi rice. So nice and I got to sleep as well!!!