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I have lots of food porn to catch up on

For the Bears' season opener we went to the neighbor's house. I volunteered to take appetizers.



Mushroom caps stuffed with cornbread, breakfast sausage, onion and sweet peppers and Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs). Those are jalapeños stuffed with a mix of cream cheese, co-jack cheese, breakfast sausage and chopped onion for those who haven't been keeping up with the food glossary.



Cheesy Loaded Garlic Bread. Garlic bread spread with crumbled italian sausage, sliced tomatoes, green and yellow peppers and sweet onions and then smoked until the veggies are softened and then covered in cheese and smoked some more to melt the cheese.

There wasn't anything left!

During the week a friend on the BBQ Brethren forum posted a picture of some gumbo and I had a craving for Gumbo after that so i made some. I used a recipe from Emeril for chicken and sausage gumbo (no seafood for Amy). I realized that i really do live in the north when I had to go to four sores before i found some file powder!



I served it with some dirty rice. The picture looks darker than it really was, but it sure tasted good!

Finally, it was nice an cool here for the weekend so I went out and played with fire.



Spare ribs.



and a big pot of beans for last night's dinner and



Turkey chest, mashed sweet taters and baby green beans for tonight.



I think I'm caught up.

Rick, what a site for stilton! Yum!

MBW1024, I'll meet you there!

cat wrote:Rick, what a site for stilton! Yum!

MBW1024, I'll meet you there!

And the Market Porter Pub, a freehouse with a great selection of artisanal ales, is across the street. The Wheatsheaf, a good Fullers pub, is next door. Also The Royal Oak, a great Harvey's pub, is nearby. Closer to the Thames is The George as well as The Anchor (ancient pubs) followed by The Founders Arms, a very clean new Youngs pub. Cheese and beer! That's the start of our jet lag day death march.

Cheers, RickG

RickG wrote:

cat wrote:Rick, what a site for stilton! Yum!

MBW1024, I'll meet you there!

And the Market Porter Pub, a freehouse with a great selection of artisanal ales, is across the street. The Wheatsheaf, a good Fullers pub, is next door. Also The Royal Oak, a great Harvey's pub, is nearby. Closer to the Thames is The George as well as The Anchor (ancient pubs) followed by The Founders Arms, a very clean new Youngs pub. Cheese and beer! That's the start of our jet lag day death march.

Cheers, RickG

Sounds good. I will meet you both there! Bruce in London in December!

Ron - that garlic bread looks awesome!

Did you do that on the WSM?

augie wrote:Ron - that garlic bread looks awesome!

Did you do that on the WSM?

I didn't, but only because I had enough other stuff to cook that I fired up the big cooker. It would work well in the WSM.

Actually, The official (well, original if not official) method for cheesy bread used a WSM. The inventor put the garlic bread on the lower rack, topped it with some sausage and roasted peppers, and then put a block of cheese on the top rack above the bread and let the cheese melt through the rack onto the bread. The cheese picks up a lot of smoke flavor this way.

Ron when will you be at the zoo this weekend I'm headed down to Chicago on friday for my Sat. flight to STJ. Don't know if you can have onlookers Friday night or not.
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We'll probably get there at around noon on Friday. Friday night is social night for the teams. Once we are set up and do the early meat prep we don't have much else to do other than visit and sip adult beverages until around midnight when we start cooking. Here;s the schedule for Friday. I'll post the whole schedule in the other thread.

I'll PM you my cell number. Our team name is "Get Your Wild Game On".

Friday

# 9:00 am Official contestants begin entering Zoo and setting up (Approximately 30 contestants this year!)
# 4:00 Zoo closes and is cleared
# 4:30 Zoo reopens for Zoo B Que $10 entry grants you 2 drink tickets plus a night of fun! $20 grants you 2 drink tickets, and a wristband Voting Ballot for the peoples choice awards. With you wristband, you have the opportunity to go to each of the BBQ contestants to sample their Steak entry for the Peoples Choice Competition. YUM!!!!!!!!!1 (Unfortunately, the $20 wristbands are limited to 100 guests, so if you want to participate, you will have to buy one.)
# 6:00 to 7:00 CEO Grill-Off
# 7:30 Twang Dragons play
# 10:30 Event closes for the evening.

Ron - that gumbo looks GREAT - chicken/sausage is actually my preference over seafood gumbo. Next time you need file, let me know and I'll send you some

nothintolose

p.s. the rest of your pics look great as well!

So tonight I cooked all of Liamsaunt's recipes (thanks Liamsaunt) and they were delicious!!! SO's brother caught some Tuna in the Gulf and was kind enough to share.

Here is the Sesame Tuna with Sticky Coconut Rice and Black Bean Mango Salsa

With Wasabi Paste also - note the boring Corel white plates



Here is her Seared Pepper Tuna with Deviled Shallot Butter (SO can't have sesame seeds due to diverticulitis)


Everything turned out GREAT! I am totally loving this cooking thing!!!

nothintolose

looks good. what is deviled about the butter?

Marybeth, the recipe has hot sauce and red pepper flakes (and lemon juice) added to the butter. I'm glad you liked the recipes, Elizabeth! Your tuna looks perfectly cooked.

That looks great, Elizabeth! Is it wrong to want tuna for breakfast? I'm hungry.

I wouldn't mind tuna for breakfast...

Mary Beth - I cooked EVERYTHING following Liamsaunt's recipes to the "T". She even said how long to cook it for on each side if I wanted it rare (which I did otherwise I would have just opened a can of tuna fish ).

I can't thank all of you guys (that have shared recipes with me) enough and/or posted food porn because you have inspired me to want to learn how to cook!