food Jeff's Flog- homemade pastrami

Jeff H · Feb 18, 2014

I was going to photo bomb the hippy thread, but since I'm trying to be on my best behavior, I might as well start my own thread.

It all starts with fresh buns right out of the oven.

Add some pickled peppers and a vinegar hot sauce. Also added some picklese (not photoed).

Pulled pork sammies.

Note to self: wedding ring will not fit as a cool thumb ring.

MeatHead1313 · Feb 18, 2014

That's some nice looking pulled pork sammies!

texas blues · Feb 19, 2014

jajajaja...

Nice going on the fresh buns.

That thumb rang is crackin' me up.

Scovie · Feb 19, 2014

View attachment 9532 = $1,000,000

Oh mann, this is going to be great!

HigherThisHeat · Feb 20, 2014

Nice buns

The thumb ring when posting bite pics is going to have to become a requirement around here

Jeff H · Feb 21, 2014

Ohhh, Look what Amazon delivered today.

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this stuff soon. Thanks for the idea Phil.

Don't know about the crawfish, maybe peeled tails, but there is a ton of other stuff I can boil.

I'm assuming this isn't all that spicy since it is commercially made. Might have to throw in some habs to kick it up a notch .

Jeff H · Feb 23, 2014

There will be some action in this thread today.

Spoiler pics.

JoynersHotPeppers · Feb 23, 2014

Bring it, left over day for me.

Jeff H · Feb 23, 2014

Back 6 weeks ago I started aging some tabascos that I had. Just straight peppers, 4% salt, a bit of water to cover and time.

6 weeks ago.

Today.

threw in a sweet onion and most of a head of garlic and a cup of white vinegar. Boiled for about 45 minutes then through the food mill to get all those pesky seeds out.

Damn that is a lot of seeds.

Brought to a boil again. All bottled up and ready to be eaten.

Next step, the tortillas. It starts like this.

On to the opened up paninni press.

To be continued.
But first a comment about the panini press. This thing is awesome and speeds up the tortilla making production 400% vs. the cast iron skillet.

Scovie · Feb 23, 2014

I love my Sandwich bot, but IMO it doesn't get quite hot enough for Tortillas. I like a Nuclear hot CI for tortillas, but I am diggin what you're up to here bro.

texas blues · Feb 23, 2014

So the torts are made with both corn masa and white flour?

Jeff H · Feb 23, 2014

texas blues said:
So the torts are made with both corn masa and white flour?

Yep, domestic compromise. The wife didn't like the taste of the all corn tortillas.

It took me 4-5 tries to get a recipe I liked. the dough behaves very much like corn dough still and presses really nicely without sticking to anything. IMHO, this dough is easier to work with than just corn. Try it.

1 cup corn flour- I’m using white corn
1 cup flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
1Tbsp Crisco or canola oil
1 Cup water + a little bit

Scoville DeVille said:
I love my Sandwich bot, but IMO it doesn't get quite hot enough for Tortillas. I like a Nuclear hot CI for tortillas, but I am diggin what you're up to here bro.

Couldn't use my CI skillet. It was busy.

texas blues · Feb 23, 2014

So nice so nice,

I usually make straight corn or whole wheat but your white corn/white flour sounds interesting.

In lieu of Crisco or lard I've been using olive oil.

Good stuff.

Looking forward to seeing what you got goin' on.

Jeff H · Feb 23, 2014

Tortillas cool on a towel.

Why on a towel you say? Because the cooling rack was busy for the same reason the CI skillet was busy. Some english muffins.

Nothing hot in dem english muffins, but they are the bomb with some spicy jelly.

Anyway, That was just some cooking so we had tortillas and english muffins for the week. All that cooking made me hungry so I took a couple of the tortillas, some left over shredded pork, and cheese and made me a gooder than hell quesidilla while the panini press was still hot.

Poured some of the freshly made tabasco hot sauce all over it. There was no picking this up to eat. fork only.

That is all I have time for tonight. Company coming over in a few. I did do some more cooking so there are more pics later.

JoynersHotPeppers · Feb 23, 2014

Looking good! Think I am doing BBQ rib biscuits for dinner hahahah

texas blues · Feb 23, 2014

Goodern' hell for true.

You made english muffins too?

Sweet!

I used to make those using used food cans for a mold.

Yours look outstanding!

HopsNBarley · Feb 23, 2014

Nice Jeff!
Ain't a whole lot better than homemade tortillas.
Never thought about making English Muffins but I'm gonna be all over that.
You got a recipe?

JayT · Feb 23, 2014

AWESOME! I love me some quesadillas. In fact, I have a steak and hab and cheese one in the oven as I type this! Good on ya for the homemade torts!

JoynersHotPeppers · Feb 23, 2014

I hereby mark today as THP quesadilla day!

Jeff H · Feb 24, 2014

Late night snack. Pressed chicken sandwich loaded with cheese and spicy sauerkraut.

Friday night is pizza night. Took these pics the other day but didn't get around to posting them.

Hot stuff only on the pizza on the right. Pickled japapeno and some of Joyners very good white hab powder I bought last year.

I really need to get a new pizza stone. My pizza peel is just hanging on the wall feeling lonely and neglected just waiting to be used, but my only pizza stone has been abused and has some oil soaked into it. Heating it up to almost 500 degrees smokes me out of the kitchen. Cookie sheets will have to do for now.

HopsNBarley said:
Nice Jeff!
Ain't a whole lot better than homemade tortillas.
Never thought about making English Muffins but I'm gonna be all over that.
You got a recipe?

Sure. Let me dig it up later tonight when I get home.