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Maggie’s THE "NOM NOM NOM" THREAD

This one was kiss….

Deli Case for the Market Fresh Seafood Salad and fresh bagels from the bakery (Safeway).

If I’m making it at home, 1/2lb of med/small shrimp, 1/2 lb Krab or lump crab meat, 1/4 cup each diced celery and sweet onion, real mayonnaise to taste and your choice of seasoning to taste. I touched it up with some garlic powder and paprika
Sounds good, I like some seafood salad sandwiches. Maybe try your way and see how it turns out.
 
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Paella we had last night. Lobster tail, jumbo shrimp and slow roasted chicken.

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That time of year.

Eggnog and a good rye.
Not any of that 80 proof junk bottled in Canada.

Not to imply Canadian's can't make good rye whiskey, they just can't bottle and sell it in country.
 
Something about an eggnog and rye whiskey is very relaxing.

Don't like that? No problems maybe a Cointreau and hot chocolate instead.

Hot chocolate, mini marshmallows or whipped cream some of an orange chocolate ball or other solid chocolate and Cointreau, Grand Mariner also works.

This is one of our favorite winter nightcap's.
 
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Wife requested my steak and shrimp last night before the holiday craziness with the family. Salt 'n pepper ribeye, and garlic shrimp.



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This is from the pork butts out of the smoker on Saturday. Just getting around to processing it. Did two large butts, ate two meals out of it, and sealed and froze about 7.5lbs in the end. I'm happy with that. Doing a turkey tonight.



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Wagyu tenderloin… this was the tail end of 8#+ tenderloin #2 off the smoker tonight; big party for coworkers and neighbors.

And yes, you can get real Wagyu beef from herds here in Texas… One of the guys at dinner tonight helped start the herd and ranch that sells it here: https://heartbrandbeef.com/
 
Leftover Christmas turkey means some pot pie. Cut up some carrots, celery, red taters, and snap peas. Tossed them a round in a bowl with some spices and chopped up turkey. Put the pan in the pellet grill at 400 for about 30 minutes to soften the veggies some. Turned out delicious, always make two crust pot pie so there is plenty of crust to go around(crust not pictured)
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Second slice of some home made boboli pizza

- Sautée some garlic in olive oil, and cook some cubed chicken in the garlic
- Add a small can of tomato paste and about 1/2 cup of milk…yes, milk
- Stir it up while adding spices: italian spice blend, onion powder, cracked pepper, some crushed red pepper and hot shot to taste
— No need for added salt, the cheese you’re about to add has plenty…see below
- Grate in some parmesan-reggiano cheese as it cooks; we use well over 1/2 a pound for a large pizza
- Add in more crushed garlic as it cooks too…and just as it thickens up, I like to add in quite a bit of tarragon for a very aromatic sauce

While the sauce thickens, throw the boboli bread in the oven… 450F for ~6 minutes gets it crisp, but not too crisp

You have to stir the sauce constantly…almost like making risotto. I adjust the heat up and down as needed to melt the cheese as I grate it into the sauce. You can add more milk if it thickens too fast too.

Once the bread/pizza crust comes out of the oven, and the sauce is thick enough to spoon on, pile it on.

Add some cheese on top and toss it back into the oven long enough to melt the cheese; 2-3 minutes is usually plenty.

We usually put some sliced provolone on top, but tonight just sliced up some buffalo mozzarella…a little bland for my taste, but still damn good. The sauce flavors stood out a lot more this way too.
 
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Not sure what to call it?
Squash
Zucchini
Red taters
Yellow taters
Celery
Carrots
Purple onion
Gala apples
Apple pear
Small bit of beef, like stew meat but smaller cuts, more like chipped. Cooked the veggie mix in the oven for about 20 minutes. Sautéd the beef in real butter on stovetop. Topped the veggies with meat and let warm for about 5 minutes. Get a bowl and spoon.
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Had a couple extra pie crusts from the holiday baking season, found a good use…..

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Start by baking the crust as it dosen’t get much oven time later on.

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Brown a pound or so of your favorite breakfast sausage and add it to the crust.

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Make up a batch of corn meal mush, white corn meal was used. Slather it on top of the sausage as soon as it’s done before it starts to cool off and set up. A 4 serving batch is about right.

Set the pie aside to cool off and allow the mush to set up and become firm…..

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Next morning here. Add a little of your favorite cheese on top and give it a couple minutes under the broiler. Home smoked sharp cheddar was used here.

It’ll still need to be microwaved to get it throughly heated.

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Add a bit of white sausage gravy and you’re done….
 
Had a couple extra pie crusts from the holiday baking season, found a good use…..

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Start by baking the crust as it dosen’t get much oven time later on.

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Brown a pound or so of your favorite breakfast sausage and add it to the crust.

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Make up a batch of corn meal mush, white corn meal was used. Slather it on top of the sausage as soon as it’s done before it starts to cool off and set up. A 4 serving batch is about right.

Set the pie aside to cool off and allow the mush to set up and become firm…..

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Next morning here. Add a little of your favorite cheese on top and give it a couple minutes under the broiler. Home smoked sharp cheddar was used here.

It’ll still need to be microwaved to get it throughly heated.

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Add a bit of white sausage gravy and you’re done….
Damn you, I’m so hongry now. That looks good
 
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Home made hot chocolate, topped with real home made whipped cream really hits the spot on a cold wet night…

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…and the dessert is actually a kind of fruit cake that surprisingly doesn’t suck! Very old school nut-based cake recipe made at a bakery here in Tejas. Very dense, and actually pretty tasty…and I usually loathe fruit cakes.

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Piece of America's southern heritage.

Wife had bought 2 pkg's of huge chicken brests. Had a full pack of 4 and a single very large breast left.

Can't lie I like breast.

Anyway she carefully split one and then pounded them out thinner with the flat side of a mallet.

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Flour, egg / milk wash then flour again, a few spices in there.
Into a very hot cast iron skillet with crisco. You can see by the bubbles no screwing around on low heat.

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Fresh made mash potatoes and a
Country style gravey.
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You would be better off if you had some buttermilk to use but it's flooding streets and some people's little shit boxes stall and hard to drive around all of them so milk works.

If you don't use a cast iron skillet we need your address and please fill out the deportation paperwork so we don't send your ass to the wrong communist country.

My wife is a badass.
 
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