contest BEGIN! Soup n Sammie Throwdown

[grantmichaels]

A watched pepper-pot ...

J/K

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

Hatch burger

lol, nope

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Hatch burger

 

[JayT]

A Hatch chile stew?

 

[Guatemalan Insanity Pepper]

A Hatch chile stew?

getting closer
#Hatchgate

 

[t0mato]

Whatever it is....it's sexy.

 

[t0mato]

Hatch gruel?

 

[JoynersHotPeppers]

I was joking but what ever it is I look forward to your ring sting.

 

[t0mato]

A sneak peak:

 

[Thegreenchilemonster]

getting closer
#Hatchgate

Green chile stew?

 

[grantmichaels]

Intriguing ...

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Borscht maybe

 

[Thegreenchilemonster]

I just got some pork, roasted hatch green chile, and some other ingredients together for a nice slow simmer in the crockpot. I'm liking the Monday end date on this one.

 

[grantmichaels]

Borscht maybe

Thought the same ...

Couldn't tell if beets or plums (or even apples) ...

 

[grantmichaels]

Cabbage soup's just chillin' ... literally ...

Let's get the Guyanese pepper-pot player introductions out of the way ...

Smoking-hot CI ...

Blood Orange EVOO from the folks nearby hogleg ... and butter.

Danielle ... she hates when I brown food, lol ...

Nice lookin' beef shorties ...

Add stew beef ...

Beyond browning, one of the key steps to pepper-pot is "steaming" the meat to de-fat it ...

Then I removed the shorties ...

This is what you are looking for ...

Drain ...

The discard ...

Coming up, building the pepper-pot ... and the second key

Cheers!

 

[t0mato]

f**k yeah!!!

 

[tctenten]

Damn. People are bringing it for this TD. Cannot wait to see all the finished dishes.

 

[Ozzy2001]

Soups simmering





All layered up in the oven now

 

[grantmichaels]

Building the pepper-pot ...

Halve onion, and pare off some orange skin ...

Some pith is okay, here, as they use dried full-thickness skin traditionally ...

Load up beef, pork, whole peppers (Bonnet beauties from FB), and onion pieces into pot ...

In case you were looking for seasoning on meat that I browned, it's not traditionally done ...

I'm using chicken broth, not stock (salt contribution) ...

And a bottle of straightforward, light-colored beer ...

You can't get much more basic, and citrusy than the all-amarillo hop monster that is Gumballhead, from Three Floyds, via D3 ... thanks, dude ...

The second key to Guyanese pepper-pot is casareep (pronounced kaz-REEP) ... made from cassava root ... it's molasses-like ...

Half in to start ...

There's twice as many recipes for pepper-pot as there are people
in Guyana, but two instances online used a little soy sauce, and many used hoofs, bones, and/or tomato paste ... so, umami ... I get it. I'm going with hardwood smoked barrel-aged soy sauce from BLiS ...

And Minor's soup base, to reinforce the beefiness ...

Everyone's gettin' happy ...

I think I'll have that orange, because the smells in here - ridiculoso!

Soups simmering





All layered up in the oven now

Still haven't figured it out ...

But cheese, ham, and CI - hael yes!

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Look at that pepper grinning at you!