contest Vote! Oktoberfest Throwdown 2010

[geeme]

Very creative, LunchBox! And I love the inclusion of Shiner beer. That city makes some amazing food.

SL - Hot looking links, and I love the deep red in those peter peppers. Don't screw up so much you forget to post!

LogChief - you just teasin' today, or is cookin' on its way????

I just found the hard way that either my oven is running 50F hotter than the dial says (not), or there's an error in the recipe I found. The outcome was definitely not "golden." Will be starting part of this from scratch...... no pics before tomorrow.

 

[PerkoXxX]

Beer battered "bum burners" and Down under beer chili

Ingredients:
Beer
Jalapenos Peppers
crab meat
red onion
green bell pepper
cream cheese
flour
avocado
salsa
lettuce
mayonnaise

ground beef
onion
tomatoes
tomato paste
Red chili
Jalapenos
Habanero sauce, "Hot Stuff"
salt
pepper
paprika
Garlic
pita bread
kidney beans
Beer

Cooking method:
Put beef, onion and garlic into a pot and cook until lightly brown. put in tomatoes, tomato paste, Red chili, Jalapenos, Habanero sauce, "Hot Stuff", salt, pepper, Beer and paprika. cook for 1hr then put in kidney beans. serve with pita bread.

Cut jalapenos lengthways in half. put in saucepan and cover with cold water, simmer, drain and repeat. combine crab, onion and bell pepper in a small bowl. stuff into the jalapenos and compress them together. put flour in bowl. Gradually whisk in beer. Let stand 30 minutes. dip jalapenos in flour and then into batter. deep fry until golden brown. mix salsa, avocado and mayonnaise and put over the top of the cooked jalapenos. serve on lettuce leaf.


Beer

Final Pic:

Beer battered "Bum burners" as appetizer
Down under beer chili as entree

 

[geeme]

Looks amazing Perko! What is the assembly on the bum burners - crab meat inside, beer batter and everything else outside?

 

[PerkoXxX]

there is crab meat, red onion and green capsicum/bell pepper inside.
the outside is salsa, avocado and mayonnaise

 

[frydad4]

Just a teaser.

SoFlo doin it right this time. Busted out the fryer.
Mayhem ensued and several people almost got tragically wounded from hot oil.
Pics to come later. Enjoy.

 

[SumOfMyBits]

Oh No! A SoFlo Posse back-to-back teaser posting...

Double rainbow! What does this MEAN?

beer batter in the werks

 

[geeme]

I'm very confused - Pabst, Busch Light, Jim Beam, and Warsteiner Dunkel???? How can you possibly put PBR and BL in the same pic with Warsteiner?!? Such a travesty!


But other than that, lookin' good!

 

[frydad4]

I'm very confused - Pabst, Busch Light, Jim Beam, and Warsteiner Dunkel???? How can you possibly put PBR and BL in the same pic with Warsteiner?!? Such a travesty!

Yea, I would totally agree IF IT WAS DUNKEL...but, It's Warsteiner Oktoberfest, which EVERYONE knows goes fantestically with PBR and BEAM and Busch light.

There are no travesties in South Florida. Busch light is the blue jeans of the culinary world. It goes well with everything.

Even Mickey is smiling in the background, probably because he is the guardian of the PBR tap.

 

[SeeYouJimmy]

That's a nice looking bowl of red you've got there Perko.

 

[geeme]

Yea, I would totally agree IF IT WAS DUNKEL...but, It's Warsteiner Oktoberfest, which EVERYONE knows goes fantestically with PBR and BEAM and Busch light.

Interesting. The label looks just like the Dunkel label, from what I can see. (Got a 6-pack in the fridge, you know....)
Guess I'm not EVERYONE, just THE ONE, THE ONLY, FANDIDDELYASTIC ME!

Even Mickey is laughing in the background.... at the idea of Busch Lite and PBR pairing with Warsteiner.....


{Aw gee, FD4, you're my hero... you should know that by now!

 

[SumOfMyBits]

Sum's German Pretzel App and McStein Monte Cristo

We're all footballed out over here at the Frydad homestead, but we did manage to do some damage in the awesome foods arena.

Up first for the appetizer is the freshly made pretzel with a Oktoberfest splashed habanero sauced deli mustard. The pretzel dough is a simple all-purpose flour, brown sugar, butter, and fast-acting yeast bathed in baking soda solution. Baked on a well buttered sheet pan at 350F, there is nothing better. Espescially topped with an unhealthy supply of Kosher salt.

Main course is a food coma inducing McStein Monte Cristo. A Kaiser roll cut in half. The stack consists of such a magnitude of awesomeness that it needs to be broken down to the assemblage to be really, fully grasped and appreciated. First the bottom half of the roll is topped liberally with habanero mayonnaise. A layer of Munster cheese is then added before a row of thinly sliced folded corned beef is added. Another layer of Munster and another row of thinky sliced folded corned beef before another healthy spreading of habanero mayonnaise is applied. Then it's topped with sauerkrut and another slab of Munster cheese. The top of the bun is coated with the habanero mayonnaise before applied as the cap, and the entire assemblage is speared together with two bamboo skewers. Awesome? Hold on...

I almost forgot to mention that somewhere in there an entire beer bratwurst was sliced and inserted in this madness.

A beer batter is made with a cup of flour, a cup of Oktoberfest beer, one egg, garlic powder, salt, black pepper and a two handed SoFlo Posse gang-gesture in the air. Bath the sandwich in this and carefully dump into a deep vat of hot oil until golden brown.

Topped with a dusting of powdered sugar and a dollop of red jalapeno jelly on the side.

Nothing better than this!

 

[wheebz]

well damnit someone else made a pretzel too!!!!!

How many people are going to be cooking with beer that they brewed themselves though, huh? HUH!!!?????

 

[geeme]

We're all footballed out over here at the Frydad homestead, but we did manage to do some damage in the awesome foods arena.

Nothing better than this!

"Damage" is right - my arteries just closed up, looking at that! How-deeee-do!

 

[JoeyK]

I call this "from Lichensiedichen with love"

Naga Tempura prawns with chilli lime dipping sauce

1kg raw, peeled prawns – tails still on
Vegetable oil for deep frying

Tempura batter
1 cup plain flour
½ cup cornflour
1 tsp baking powder
1 stubby of german beer
½ tsp salt
Small pinch of naga powder
1 egg
Handful of ice

Dipping sauce (mix ingredients)
¼ cup sweet chilli sauce
2 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp fish sauce
2 tbsp water
Small handful of coriander, chopped

Heat oil in a small saucepan.
Sift together dry ingredients of batter. Make a well in centre of flour mixture, add ice, beer and crack egg into mix. Stir with a chopstick, making sure not to over mix – the lumps are important.

Drag prawns through the batter and drop into oil – do a max of 5-6 prawns at a time. Fry until golden. Drain on kitchen paper, serve with dipping sauce.


Munchen Moules Marniere – Joeyk style

1kg fresh muscles
Half Spanish onion, chopped
1 red chilli, chopped
1 green chilli, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Small handful of parsley and coriander, chopped
1 tbsp Peanut oil
1 Stubby of german beer
Bread for soaking up sauce

Clean and de-beard muscles.

Heat oil in large saucepan and fry onion, chilli and garlic. Add muscles and stir to coat. Add bottle of beer, stir and then cover with lid. Steam muscles for 3 minutes – shaking saucepan regularly. Remove lid and stir muscles ensuring that muscles are open. Add fresh herbs, stir for another minute. Serve with bread to soak up juices.

 

[JayT]

Some great looking stuff so far. Mine is probably going to be a little out of the box. Here's a teaser.

 

[paulky_2000]

These all look amazing so far.....but Sum has me mezmerized with the 'Cristo...

Y'all better bring it HARD!!

By the way....I simply have no time this weekend to cook. I REALLY won't be entering. Besides, even if I changed my mind...I have no German beer in the house and the liquor stores are closed on Sundays.

Ich werde Ihnen das nächste Mal, THP!

 

[Deathtosnails]

The goods

Popper stuffed chicken leg.
De-boned chicken legs stuffed with a mozerella and bacon stuffed jalapenos served on crispy potato strips with a double smoked ham, swiss mushroom,cream and Schofferhofer Hefewiezen sauce.

Pork belly with a potato and pumpkin croquette.

Pork belly slow cooked in a Weihenstepahner Dunkel, birds eye, caramelised onion and apple cider vinegar stock, reduced to a sauce and served on a swiss cheese stuffed potato and pumpkin bread crumbed croquette.

 

[geeme]

JoeyK!!!! Woooo-hoo! I love mussels - almost did them myself - and the prawns look fantastic!
(Are you sure that's not April's entry?!?)




And DTS!!!! Way to step up the competition!!! Can I come over for dinner?

 

[matt up north]

I will be in this one. Just going to be a long day and night, Hope that I make it under the gun because there are some fine looking dishes up that I would love to go up against. Just gotta get home from work in time to allow for three hours of cooking!

 

[frydad4]

Ignacio Foccacia and the Bratwurst Brigade

I tried real hard to kill myself on this one.
Started off with an appetizer of a freshly baked Queso Foccacia, topped with olive oil and several types of cheese. Made a Jalapeno-Oktoberfest-Ranchero reduction to top it all off.
The flavor of the beer really brought the sauce to a new level. It was so good I named it Ignacio (you can call it nacho, for short).

Took some brats, impaled them with with a chopstick, rolled 'em in some corn starch and then suggestively dipped them into a beer-cornmeal batter. I used canned cream corn to add a dimension or two. There is diced fresh jalapeno, cayenne, and raw onion in the batter as well. As far as beer batters go, this one is the manliest.
Once the brats have been fully coated with man-batter, I tossed them into the hot oil for the angriest 3-5 minutes ever. The oil crisped up the cornbrats with a fury seldom seen in the frydad home.

I don't remember what happened after this because my arteries were still recovering from Sum's delicious Monte Cristo.

On an unrelated note, PETA has been sending me hate mail and has threatened to hold a demonstration outside my house if I keep entering throwdowns. Bastards!


FD