contest Vote! Oktoberfest Throwdown 2010

[logchief]

Holy Moly, I should have posted last night, I am Humbled (kinda) . That's some great lookin, very creative grits and damn tough competition, can't wait to see what else shows up.
everybody, it's certainly gonna be a difficult vote.

I stayed traditional, my three favorite dishes when I was a foreign exchange student in Germany (god damn, that was a long time ago ). So here we go

Currywurst

Brats on the grill with a traditional currywurst sauce of tomatos, onion, garlic, red wine vinegar, curry,sugar, Paulaner Oktoberfest Marzen and AJ's Carribbean Red Puree.

Zigeuner Schnitzel mit Kartoffelpuffer

Thinly pounded cutlets, lightly floured and suateed. For the sauce, degaze the pan with onion, red and orange bells, datil sweets, trinidad perfume peppers, garlic, hungarian paprika, beef broth, Paulander Oktoberfest Marzen, AJ's Congo Black Puree and sour cream.

The Best Part

And the whole enchilada

(shoulda doubled checked this pic, it sucks)

And on a side note thanks AJ for the great purees, their wonderful to cook with.

 

[logchief]

FD4 those ARE some manly lookin corn doggies, gotta try those.

 

[geeme]

FD4 - that's some cornbrat beauty!



But thinkin'..... where's WickMo????

 

[geeme]

Logchief - that's a whole lot of awesomeness going on there!

 

[wheebz]

well holy hell im not even close to stacking up against some of these entries but ill try my best


Home Made Bavarian Pretzel with Red Savina Cheese Sauce, Potato and Bacon Pancakes, Marinated Leg of Lamb with an Altbier and Black Raspberry Reduction

So I realized that I literally had no one dollar bills in my house, so I counted it all out in pennies

Teaser Shot minus some ingredients i added on the fly

Beer shot, both of which I brewed myself, one is a German Altbier made with 2 row Pilsner, Munich, Vienna, and 80L Crystal Malts, the other is a Weizenbock, which if you have never had one, its reminiscent of a hefeweizen but comes in around 9.7% ABV.

Cheese Sauce for dipping the pretzel
Flour
Weizenbock
parmesian
sharp cheddar
sliced up red savina's

Heres the Pretzel.
flour
marjoram
bhut powder
Weizenbock substituted for water, who needs water anyways
and because im a baller, the bakers yeast was substituted with a bavarian lager yeast, so its definitely beer infused

It was then brushed with garlic, grapeseed oil, and an egg, and dusted with Parmesian Cheese

I was gonna make a bunch of small pretzels, but I figured this is a throwdown, MAKE A GIANT PRETZEL!!!

Leg of Lamb

Lamb was prepped yesterday with the marinade and sat over night
Home Made dijon mustard
honey
rosemary
lime juice
balslamic vinegar brought back from italy from my next door neighbor, which is freakin incredible\
slice of red savina in the marinade in the bottom of the baking pan

It was then cooked for 20 minutes at 400 to crisp the outside, then reduced to 350 for 30 minutes until an internal temp of 130

Sauce for the Lamb

home made sweet and smokey ketchup, black raspberry puree, and my Altbier

Asparagus, because well we all love asparagus

simmered in previously described balsamic vinegar, butter, cocoa chili powder, and shaved vienna orange peels

Potato Pandcakes

these things were the biggest pain in the ass, and I will never do them again, regardless of the fact that it was quite possibly the best potato product I have ever eaten

Boiled and mashed taters
10 strips of bacon, thats right, 10
4 eggs
1/2 cup flour
applewood smoked sea salt
cracked black pepper

Formed into patties, and deep fried in the grease I got off of the bacon, mmmmmm healthy

And the final shot, being served with a big tall glass of 10% homebrewed Altbier served at a delectable 50 degrees

 

[geeme]

Wheebz - not fallin' for the fake modesty - that looks wonderful!

 

[logchief]

Nice weebz, I thought about pennies, but I too much in the process to count that high.

 

[wheebz]

heres a shot of how long this pretzel was

 

[frydad4]

Nice wbz!!

Bonus points for using homebrew. Sum and I FOUND 22 c-kegs and a co2 tank at an abandoned, demolished concession stand and haven't had to bottle since. Kegging is the only way to go. When I drilled the tap in my kitchen that features PBR currently, I included quick disconnects so I can have traditional kegs OR homebrew on tap. Someday we'll cook with it. Beer doesn't last long around here, but we have a shit-ton of mead (good mead, too!).

great entry!


Wicked's probably tromping around the everglades somewhere wrestling alligators.

 

[wheebz]

well i brew usually once a week, so I have a lot of beer sitting around

 

[JayT]

Nice work Wheebz.

I guess we'll call this Jay T's Bhut-n-Beer Pumpkin Soup and Oktoberfest Braised Oxtail Ragu

Here's some pics of the process:

I bought a growler of Lancaster Brewing Company's Oktoberfest so I don't have a bottle. If I did this is what it would look like

 

[JayT]

Jay T's Bhut-n-Beer Pumpkin Soup and Oktoberfest Braised Oxtail Ragu

Ingredients:

For the soup, pumpkin, Oktoberfest, cream, chicken stock, onion, bhut jolokia, allspice, nutmeg, chipotle powder, crumbled bacon and toasted pumpkin seeds for garnish

The beer: Lancaster Brewing Company's Oktoberfest (with floating hab for heat)

The Ox-tail Ragu:

3lbs ox-tail meat
celery
onion
red bell pepper
carrots
mushrooms
fatalii
Oktoberfest
beef broth
flour, bacon drippings, and oil for roux
pasta squares
grated parmesan cheese
cilantro
chipotle powder

This takes about five hours of simmering after the initial browning of the meat, but in the end it is well worth the wait.

 

[frydad4]

Damn JT, Great job!
Awesome presentation.
PAPOs showed up for this one, thats for sure!
How come wheebz brews 5 gallons (at least) every week, and you have to buy growlers from a brewpub????

 

[JayT]

Thanks and that is a VERY GOOD QUESTION!

 

[LunchBox]

After looking at all these amazing meals...I feel like a dork.

 

[geeme]

After looking at all these amazing meals...I feel like a dork.

No feelings like that allowed - your teaser looks fantastic. NOW BRING IT!!!!

 

[frydad4]

cmon LB, let it rip!!!

 

[WickedMojo]

Great looking stuff by everyone, that popper stuffed chicken leg looks awesome DTS, and the SoFlo Posse got some fantastic looking artery cloggin' goodness as always hrmm let me see what i got in the fridge I might just have some time to get in on this...

 

[geeme]

Nice to see you in the game, WickMo! Now where are you hiding Pi????

 

[texas blues]

Note to self:

Use the term man-batter in a sentence at least once a day.