Everyday Misc Cooking Photos w/ details

[David Chang]

halfway into making this shakshuka, i realized the tomatoes took off all the seasoning on the carbon steel pan. time to invest in some cazuelas…

[Poochie]

You need to quit your day job and open a restaurant. All your food looks delicious and has perfect eye appeal.  

[Poochie]

10 hours ago, MacKenzie said:

It was a miserable day, cloudy with strong cold north west winds but that doesn't stop a KK rotisserie cook. 

Your chicken plate looks delicious, MacKenzie! The KK makes the most perfect chicken I've ever eaten. 

[MacKenzie]

@Poochie, thanks and I agree the KK does do a marvelous job on chicken, it is always nice and moist. 

[C6Bill]

Forgot to take pictures while cooking but did a quick reverse sear on an 8 Oz filet earlier today. The onion rings were air fried 

 

 

Edited April 10, 2022 by C6Bill

[Troble]

A very good friend of mine died last September, very tragically, on my birthday none the less. He was a big marvel and Avengers fan and we had a long conversation about the Avengers campus at California Adventures and the shawarma cart & Infinity Stone hand /drink holder they sold there. Since he didn’t have kids I promised to bring him home the shirt and drink holder. Unfortunately he didn’t make it to accept it but I went to Disneyland l/CA Adventures with my family last week and I bought the shirt & cup holder as promised. Made the chicken shawarma  meal tonight that he would’ve been here for. Some meals mean more than others and tonight was a special one…..

Edited April 11, 2022 by Troble

[Poochie]

Nice gesture, Troble! He's smiling down from heaven. 

[tekobo]

Thank you for sharing @Troble.  Good friends stay with you forever.  

[Cheesehead_Griller]

So sorry to hear about your loss. He would be proud of you for following through with your promise. A man of his word.  

[tony b]

Nicely done! A fitting tribute to a good friend gone. 👍

[Poochie]

Chicken breast and sparerib cook. Ribs were for the grandkids visiting and they gobbled them up. The chicken and broccoli was made with the breast meat with a side of a shrimp concoction I made.  All served on my limited collection imported china. 

[C6Bill]

That chicken is making me hungry 🤤 

[Tyrus]

Marinated herb pork loin with scallop potatoes and a rack of all maple wood. So I found a supplier that has all sorts of different wood and sells it by the cord or 1/3 as pictured here. He generally supplies wood for your wood stove use but has at times deliveries of apple or hickory come in and is willing to sell them at the same rate, beautiful. He has his wood stacked on racks so you knew exactly how much you were getting, I liked the presentation, so I made one to keep the wood off the ground. Maple has a nice middle of the road smoke, not to light and not to heavy, with a sweet impart to your food. It also burns well and gives a good coal bed and dries quickly if you bought green. This should be ready by the end of the summer, splitting into smaller pieces will only speed up the process. I've already cut up a few bags of maple chunks to toss into KK  or add to the smoke pot. In the Santa Maria, the offset or the KK a good smoke is what you need. 

[C6Bill]

Care to share details on the wood, i could use some for my pizza oven and the supplier i used closed the business down.

[Tyrus]

1 hour ago, C6Bill said:

Care to share details on the wood

Not at all. $85 for a third. I'll PM you with the particulars.

[Poochie]

$85 for a third of a rick?? You can get a full rick here for around $100.  Later in the season it'll be $85 a rick. Some of the sellers try to convince you that their wood is worth $250 a rick because they store it in a shed. And seasoned wood around here means salt and pepper on it because I've bought "seasoned" wood and had to wait a year for it to dry out. 

[Tyrus]

That's a third of a cord, 3 of the 8 ft by 4 ft racks with 18 inch pieces is a full cord 128 cu ft. $85 is good considering if you pick up a plastic wrapped bundle at the supermarket it's like $7 or more. Like I said, split it again and your wood dries much quicker. 

[David Chang]

1 hour ago, Tyrus said:

That's a third of a cord, 3 of the 8 ft by 4 ft racks with 18 inch pieces is a full cord 128 cu ft. $85 is good considering if you pick up a plastic wrapped bundle at the supermarket it's like $7 or more. Like I said, split it again and your wood dries much quicker. 

i pay $70 usd for a third of your third of lychee wood. 😅

[Tyrus]

1 hour ago, David Chang said:

lychee wood

Had to look that up David, I see it's a fruit tree that imparts a mild taste to meats. Generally, all your fruit and nut trees are expensive, in demand and harder to find. No lychee trees in my neighborhood sorry to say, you'll just have to stretch it out as best you can.  

[David Chang]

@tyrus it's the only choice i have if i want to walk in to a store to buy it. restaurants use it there to roast goose and duck. the wood is nice and dry, but it's impossible to split by hand due to the extreme knotting in the grain. i would love to have oak to burn.