Virtual Banquet Thread

[arf777]

A cartoonishly huge chicken breast in a white whine lemon sauce- ingredients include yellow heirloom tomatoes, garlic, herb de provence, fresh dill, butter.



This will likely be my last French haute cuisine dish for some time. I have been making so much Parisienne and Lyonnaise food, I have put on 20 pounds. Gotta lose weight.
Switching to Italian and Provencal summer cuisines. Much lighter. And finally got my smoker assembled - starting to smoke meats as soon as some gasket I ordered for it gets here. But no more complex fatty sauces for a while.

 

[Belgianvapor]

Not enough sweets and desserts, gotta take action, here some of my latest creations :

Melo cakes while they are being born :-)


cherry and chocolate cupcakes


apple cake

 

[grokit]

^ I gained 10 lbs just viewing those photos

 

[Belgianvapor]

^ I gained 10 lbs just viewing those photos

only 10? we're gonna add some more

we'll start off healthy with some strawberry's on top


main course : the stuff your pie hole special


and a whipped cream and fruit filled sponge cake broken leg for dessert

 

[momofthegoons]

A little late and past the season... but... Eggnog Cake

 

[MinnBobber]

only 10? we're gonna add some more

we'll start off healthy with some strawberry's on top.....


main course : the stuff your pie hole special

so what is this strawberry treat, what's under neath the berries? Are you in Belgium?
Does this happen to be available in your neighboring Amsterdam as I'm going there next week?
Thanks

 

[Buildozer]

Chicken breast stuffed w/ broccoli and pepper jack, w/ some green beans..

 

[arf777]

First batch of bacon from the new smoker. Madeira and sage cured then apple and cherry smoked.





And I am going back on my not cooking any more heavy French cuisine, cuz I both have this bacon to use and got a hold of a couple ounces of black trumpets. Coming this week - pork tenderloin in bacon fat and black trumpets.

 

[arf777]

Pork tenderloin with black trumpets and the bacon I made yesterday in sherry, garlic and horseradish. A little more cooked than I like, couldn't hear my damn kitchen timer go off. Need a new one.

 

[arf777]

This is a little odd. Scallops with grits instead of shrimp with grits. Could not find ANY fresh shrimp in my part of MD (isn't that sad? Chesapeake Bay is all fucked up), but found some beautiful scallops. So fuck it.

Made with my homemade bacon, sauternes, garlic, Old Bay, and lots of cheddar in the grits.

BTW - New batch of bacon curing for smoking tomorrow, this time in a madeira-maple cure. And about to rub a small pork shoulder for the smoker tomorrow as well.

 

[arf777]

Damnit, damnit, damnit. Overcooked the new batch of bacon. Still getting to know the smoker (only 2nd time using it). The shoulder is turning out fine, but at the higher temp the bacon overcooked. $60 of pork and curing materials.
Still tastes good, but it's a fully-cooked, cured pork belly rather than bacon per se. Fuck.

LATER...
At least the shoulder turned out properly.

 

[arf777]

So did madeira-maple dry bacon mark III. Much better than mk II. Have wet-cure madeira bacon mk I in the brine for another day.

Also, made my homemade BBQ sauce for the 1st time in years. Made from the homemade bacon fat, balsamic vinegar, organic tomatoes, onions, a shitload of ginger, tarragon, cumin, sage, horseradish, ancho chiles.

 

[HugieLewis]

Smoking meat is serious business round these parts.

 

[arf777]

Got a hold of some decent shrimp, so I made shrimp and grits. Homemade bacon, andouille, white whine, garlic, lemon, dill, old bay, butter, little bit o the freshly-made bbq sauce. Grits full of butter and gruyere.

 

[Radio]

Wouldn't mind some noodle box

 

[arf777]

Wet-cured madeira bacon, apple and cherry smoked.

 

[Buildozer]

Some more dank paper plate food.. Last night's late-night feast...
Ribs and spicy sausage..

Those were some meaty ribs..
** I just noticed that rib on the right barley even has anything on it LOL.. I think robbed it just before I took the picture

 

[StickyShisha2]

 

[Radio]

Roiasted bananas

 

[crawdad]

 

[SD_haze]

It gets better with every word!

Bacon Chocolate Guinness Challah Bread Pudding

http://bacontoday.com/bacon-chocolate-guinness-challah-bread-pudding/

 

[Herr_Dampf]

About a pound each of choclate and brown powder sugar and 2/3rds of a pound ... butter.

 

[Radio]

spicy bbq chickpea burgers!

 

[arf777]

First beef from the smoker- a brisket in the rub from an award-winning carpacio from a restaurant I was sous at. If it was a little fattier could've made pastrami from it. Just a little too lean. Rub includes black pepper, garlic, herbs de provence, and tarragon. Smoked in mesquite.

 

[Blueberryyumyum]

A munchie channel i found on youtube