The food thread

OK, sometimes I'll put some of the pineapple
I know you are joking but even the thought makes me.

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^ texture and softness too...

I make beef ribs in the sous vide, sort of like braised except I don't put wine/sherry/brandy in it.... Our newest vacuum machine is a small chamber, so we can use liquids now (I used to freeze the tomatos so I could use the vacuum machine). We kept the edge machine for larger cuts of meat that are dry vacuumed.

48 hours at 140F.

The texture is incredible... you don't need a knife to cut it yet it is not fibrous.

Mostly, that's the balance I want... tender yet not fibrous. I've found that the lower the temp and the longer the time the closer I'm into the delicate balance.

BTW, the vacuum machine was on sale during Christmas, now they've dropped the price even further... I might get a 2nd one as backup...

https://anovaculinary.com/products/anova-precision-chamber-vacuum-sealer
 
Wait... we call it Canadian Pizza.
Let me help you with the correction my dear friend. A Hawai'ian pizza was invented by a demented Canadian named Sam who ran out of ingredients to make a proper pizza and decided to improvise. The rest is an awful history that others delight in bringing to light to ridicule the pizza makers of Canada.
A Canadian pizza is pepperoni and mushroom. Again I have no idea where that came from. I know no one who has ever said, let's order a Canadian.
Same with Canadian bacon. Only you 'Maricaners' call it that. Here it is back bacon. Any guess why?
 
^ It's actually pretty tasty.

At some point, you gotta stop calling them "pizza", just as the tarts made in Catalunya and Provence are not called "pizza" even though the basic cooking technique, sans fromage, is pretty much the same.

I do like the pineapple, Canadian bacon, green peppers and black olive "Hawai'ian Tarte". With a light dusting of shredded mozzarella. And hot pepper seeds.

BTW, try a tarte with sobrasada and onions. Or portugee sausage, onions and bell peppers. Or fresh longaniza...
 
How long did that take to cook?

A picture without a recipe is evil and mean.

Have you tried using New Mexico dried peppers? We get them ground, they add a really good touch without being too hot... for heat, I'll add a little bit of chipotles en adobo... that combination gives you the pepper flavor with smokiness and heat. Add a bit of cumin and we're happy.

Or just take a can of black beans, plain black beans, don't drain the liquid. Add three big tablespoons of cumin, some onion and garlic powder, mix it all together and microwave, covered, for five minutes. Instant Cuban Beans....
 
Speaking of the peppers, they were stuffed with a hamburger, rice and Shiitake mushroom filling, baked for 20 minutes, then broiled with aged cheddar.
The hamburger was brisket, brisket fat, kidney and heart.
 

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Have you made your own hamburgers from Choice grade rib eye? Grind it yourself, add just a little bit of salt and pepper.

Being freshly ground you can cook them a bit more than rare. The resulting burgers are fantastic.

IMHO, adding anything but good meat into a burger turns it into a sausage.

My family's butcher shops sold two kinds of freshly ground burgers: 100% beef burgers and beef with ground garlic, parsley and eggs. I preferred the latter. But that one was made in small batches as it was never no more than two hours old.