I Cooked It And Ate It.

Post pics of your dinner here. Just a general food thread. I'll start.
 
Jambalaya and white beans!
 
Start with a pound of bacon.
 

 
Add smoked sausage and brown it up. Then remove the bacon and sausage from the pot and reserve in a bowl.
 

 
Brown some pork in the bacon grease
 

 
Once the pork is brown, return the sausage and bacon to the pot and add celery, onions, peppers, and garlic. Sweat them all down until the veggies are tender.
 
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Add water and rice - 2:1 ratio - Here I have 4 cups of water to 2 cups of rice. Also add 1 chicken boullion cube for each cup of water. Water and boullion first, then once the boullion is dissolved and incorporated, add the rice and mix well. Don't forget the salt. Salt it like you would normally salt rice.
 

 

 
Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, then turn off the fire and let it steam covered for about 20-30 minutes. Then uncover, fluff, and serve!
 

 
 

 

[Phil]

Cool thread, Phil. I hope to dip in to this one soon!

 
I made this one for us non-gourmet types. Just cook and eat! Dive right in!

 

[texas blues]

 
I made this one for us non-gourmet types. Just cook and eat! Dive right in!

 
That be the way we like to be liking it.
 
Foo foo ain't so bad though.
 
We like to be liking that too!

 

[Phil]

7 qt is even better....
 
http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-L10DO3-Seasoned-Spiral-Handle/dp/B004FWNTVG/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1377571035&sr=8-23&keywords=lodge+7+qt+cast+iron

 
That be the way we like to be liking it.
 
Foo foo ain't so bad though.
 
We like to be liking that too!

 
I got nothing against foo foo..... I'm just not creative enough to do it myself. I just cook and eat. Besides, most of the time I'm cookin' all day, I'm dronk by the time it's ready and I'm all like "pshhhhh....fug it."

 

[frydad4]

"pshhhhh....fug it."

 
....and then throw it on a banana leaf, and it's suddenly foo. Boom!!!!!!!!

 

[texas blues]

 
....and then throw it on a tortilla and it's suddenly foo. Boom!!!!!!!!

 
FIFY.
 
Story of my life.

 

[Phil]

 
....and then throw it on a banana leaf, and it's suddenly foo. Boom!!!!!!!!

 
We don't stumble upon too many banana leaves 'round these parts.

 

[JayT]

FD lives in Cuba North

 

[Logrus9]

See post #18 by THP... white beans on the side with  no rice. Traditional cajun serving method. I know most people are used to beans and rice together. Down here when you buy a jambalaya plate [fundraisers sell them all the time] the white beans are served by themselves with no rice.

 
  Now I feel twice as dumb.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Phil, in order to have a TB-like successful topic you need a good name. Like Dumbed-Down Dinner, or something. Then it will have a cool nickname, like Triple D. As of now, in the first post, you don't say you don't want any foo foo. Just sayin'!

 

[Phil]

Phil, in order to have a TB-like successful topic you need a good name. Like Dumbed-Down Dinner, or something. Then it will have a cool nickname, like Triple D. As of now, in the first post, you don't say you don't want any foo foo. Just sayin'!

 
I hear ya. One of these days I'll come up with something brilliant. And foo foo is allowed... and so is plain Jane dinner. I don't do foo foo simply because of my lack of abaility. But others are more than welcome to post foo foo, because it does look good!

 

[frydad4]

Dinner time was great. 
Had sum over last night, and we threw down Miami Style. 
I went to a latin butcher and bought a whole sirloin, the whole 15 pound thing.
And the guy cuts it however you want. 
The problem is, even though I speak spanish pretty well for a honkey, this guy behind the counter couldn't understand me.
Stupid him.
I ended up using lots of hand gestures and high pitched "eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh" sounds while simultaneously showing him my thumb and index fingers pinched about a half an inch apart, while cocking my head slightly to the left and squinting with one eye. 
I think he mistakenly thought I was hitting on him, but It worked. 
I got an assortment of fine sirloin, a mix of palomilla steaks and pinchos (shishkebobs). 
It wasn't until I had post-church leftovers today that I realized how good the meal was. So I'm sharing what I had for lunch. It was good.
(sum, if your shots from last night turned out, you could throw em in here, if not, it's cool)
 
Palomilla steak with grilled onions. 
Grilled Green Tomato (touch of olive oil, cayenne, salt, pepper...that's it, and it's amazing)
Black beans and rice, topped with raw onion
Turnip Greens doused (DOUSED) in pepper vinegar. Get the fuck away when I'm eating that, I can get ornery if someone gets too close to my food!
Busch light to get the day going.
 
Have a nice Labor Day weekend, friends.
 

 

[Scovie]

I hope you let him down easy (using your hand gestures of course).

What a fantastically great southern/Cuban style meal. Paula Deen would be jealous. Doh!

I miss you guys.

 

[Booma]

A couple of this weeks foods. plain and simple, fried slap ya mama prawns and scallops, snags in a roll with cheech mango, Cheech garlic wings with rice and mi goreng
 

 

 

 

[Phil]

That looks like three meals for me, Booma. Good stuff!

 

[Husker21]

Post pics of your dinner here. Just a general food thread. I'll start.
 
Jambalaya and white beans!
 
Start with a pound of bacon.
 

 
Add smoked sausage and brown it up. Then remove the bacon and sausage from the pot and reserve in a bowl.
 

 
Brown some pork in the bacon grease
 

 
Once the pork is brown, return the sausage and bacon to the pot and add celery, onions, peppers, and garlic. Sweat them all down until the veggies are tender.
 
-

 
Add water and rice - 2:1 ratio - Here I have 4 cups of water to 2 cups of rice. Also add 1 chicken boullion cube for each cup of water. Water and boullion first, then once the boullion is dissolved and incorporated, add the rice and mix well. Don't forget the salt. Salt it like you would normally salt rice.
 

 

 
Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, then turn off the fire and let it steam covered for about 20-30 minutes. Then uncover, fluff, and serve!
 

 
 

 
I will be making this soon!  
 
Love the cast iron.  I was going to buy that same dutch oven or the 5 qt enamel pot.  I went with the enamel because my La Crusette is getting beat to hell.  I might have to grab one of these dutch ovens sooner than later.    

 

[Phil]

 love the iron. does a super job of holding heat

 

[Phil]

GUMBO TIME!!!!!!
 
Step 1: Boil those leg quarters I smoked last night to make a good, smokey chicken stock

 

[Phil]

Step 2: Cook dat roux!
 

 

[Scovie]

Keep stirring.




and stirring....

 

[Phil]

Keep stirring.




and stirring....

 
 
....Until it's a good caramel color, then add chopped trinity and sweat down. The add smokey broth made earlier, pork tasso, and andouille sausage