contest BEGIN! Seafood Sandwich Throwdown

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Ladies and chidren's.
 
I give you.
 
TB's Tex-Mex Crab & Shrimp Bao.
 
Dinero on the can.
 

 
Into the sauce pan went garlic, butter, minced xalapa, Ro-Tel, and a little flour to make a roux.
 

 
Toss in some heavy cream. I never use milk, that's for wimps. Then throw in about 18 handfuls of shredded cheddar scheeze. Then the shrimps and crabbage.
 

 
The bao. King Arthur AP flour, yeast, sugar, salt, butter, xalapa, heavy cream, and shredded cheddar scheeze.
Bao is usually made with rice flour and steamed. Not it Texas. Just like we like to be liking our tortilla's made from wheat rather than corn, so it goes with the bao.
 

 
Proof it and punch it down. Stuff it with some of the now chilled crab and shrimp queso and let it proof again.
 

 
In n' out of the oven @350f for 40 minutes and brushed with butter.
 

 
Trip on this 'thang!
 

 
Final plate up and pics to come.
 
Nobody could possibly guess what I'm making....
 

 
I'd have more prep pictures if it didn't take 20 damn minutes to upload each photo....... :confused:
 
It could have something to do with where I am! :P
 
That's a pretty nice picture tho PK2. Can you change the resolution on your camera to make the pics upload a little faster?
 
Let's see.....what shall I name this abomination...... :think:
 
How about......The Sand-Sailor's Sammy:
 
Okay. First, this was NOT easy. As you might expect, I'm limited to what I have on hand.....and what's available in the DFAC. The nearest Kroger is about 7000 miles away!
 
Ingredients:
 
- 3 small lobster tails
- Fried shrimp
- Onion
- Yellow and red bell pepper
- Mayo
- Garlic and sea salt
- Mixed pepper
- Chipotle peppers in adobo
- Lemon juice
- BIOHAZARD habanero powder
- Cayenne powder
- Hot dog buns (or a reasonable facsimile!)
 
Prep:
 
I shelled and chopped the lobster (with my Gerber tactical knife!), chopped the veggies, and added them to a bowl. Then, I combined the mayo, Biohazard, garlic, salt, pepper, and lemon juice.....then tossed in the lobster and vegetables.
 
Pushing that aside, I made a chipotle aioli by combining the mayo, diced chipotles, a squeeze of lemon, and the cayenne powder.
 
I then assembled this triple-decker, "po-roll" starting with 3 halves of bun, aioli, shrimp, a splash of sriracha, and lobster mixture.........
 
.....toss it in a Styrofoam box,  pretty it up, add some garnish, and.................
 
TADA!!!
 

 
Believe it or not......and given the circumstances......this was pretty darn good.
 

 
Not my BEST entry for sure....but not too shabby for a combat zone! :cool:
 
P.S. This would have been a lot more fun with beer. :drunk:
 
Peace Out.
 
HabbyHeat81 did a pretty good job of cooking under less than ideal conditions when making a pizza while camping.  But I think Pauly just took the top spot!
 
AWESOME Sammy, Sailor!  :clap:
 
The Northwoods Classic
 
This sandwich is a play on my favorite meal ever, a shore lunch while walleye fishing. We usually head out in the morning, catch our limit of fish, then go to an island for a traditional shore lunch, which is fried potatoes and onions, fresh walleye, and baked beans all cooked over an open fire. A nice swim is a must after a shore lunch, then it's back in the boat to catch another limit of fish to bring home. The frying pan I use has cooked countless shore lunches in my family for over forty years.
 
Now back to the sandwich. It's Canadian walleye, breaded and fried over an open fire on bannock, with homemade jalapeno tartar sauce, lettuce, and fresh ripe jalapeno rings. Bannock is Ojibwe fry bread. It's kind of like a cross between naan bread and a baking powder biscuit. You haven't lived until you've had a moose burger on bannock! Take a bite of the Northwoods Classic and you will hear loons calling, fish jumping, and native drumming off in the distance. True story.
 
The fish
 
Canadian walleye caught a couple weeks ago, breaded and fried over an open fire.
Corn flake crumbs
Flour
Jalapeno powder
Egg
Beer
Oil
 
 
Bannock
 
Flour
Baking powder
Lard
Salt
Water
 
Pan fried over an open fire.
 
Jalapeno tartar sauce
 
Mayo
Minced Vidalia onion
Minced red ripe jalapenos
Jalapeno powder
Sweet relish
Lemon juice
Salt and pepper
 
Taters
 
Red potatoes
Vidalia onions
Fresh Jalapeno peppers
Fresh Jimmy Nardello peppers
 
Pan fried over an open fire.
 

 
 
 
fried catfish sandwich with moruga slaw
 
ingredients
 
catfish (not in pic flour to coat the fish)
upper left plate slaw ingredients (not in pic are the salt sugar and cider vinegar)
upper right miracle whip and homemade moruga mango hot sauce with Italian parsley and key limes
hoagie to stuff it into
 
djinn
 

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whip with scorpion and mango sauce, slaw and catfish before and after
 

finished
 
sorry didn't realize they all went together fixed that part!
 

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djinn, please read post #1 and follow the link to the 5 rules.
 
Refresher course...

Throwdowns are online cooking competitions hosted by thehotpepper.com that occur the first Friday of every month and run until Sunday (unless otherwise stated). Winners are chosen by member votes in a 2-day poll.

Follow these 5 simple rules to enter, and have fun. These rules pertain to all Throwdowns, unless stated otherwise in the actual TD.

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b) A list of all ingredients used.
c) Detailed preparation steps, cooking methods, times, and temps. Measurements and weights are not required, but are appreciated.

2. Your entry must include a hot pepper ingredient.

3. You must also post two presentation pictures (MAX) in the same post as your entry post. It is recommended you take one plating pic (untouched entry), and one that shows the insides (a steak cut open, a burger cut in half, etc.). Any additional pictures in the official entry post will be removed. You may post them in non-official posts, as in, presentation and teaser posts.

4. In order to prove that you made this meal for this TD we ask that you post a Proof of Life. PoL = a monetary amount stated at the beginning of the competition that must be shown in one of your pictures with coins or bills, in your country's tender. May or may not be converted. It must be a picture that shows the ingredients used, so, it may be your teaser, or one of your final pics, but change by itself or with just one ingredient does not count.

5. You must post one entry before the stated deadline.

Please follow all of the rules or you may be disqualified. If you do not post the PoL, or you do not make the deadline, you are automatically disqualified.
 
Paulkey you still in that bunker? 
Didn't you know Y2K wasn't a real thing? It didn't happen, bro.
 
:)
 
Looks great! Way to kick ass without a Kroger!
 
BTW, photobucket sucks, and now I've resubmitted my final post with Flikr.
 
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