What's For Dinner Tonight?

hillstrubl

Founding Member
After a grocery store Rotisserie chicken, I always make stock with ALL the older veggies in your fridge (and some fresh basil from the garden). I also always use leeks and a lemon or 2 in stock.

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after 6 hours of simmering, pour through a sieve and refrigerate.

The next day I added all the leftover chicken, a chopped kohlrabi, a chopped turnip, chopped carrots/celery/white onion, prob too many cloves of garlic, heavy pinches of oregano, sage, thyme and a few sprigs of fresh rosemary, a heaping tablespoon of turmeric, a few glugs of olive oil, several heavy pinches of salt and both white and black pepper, and a cup of barley. Simmered for 3+ hours. Epic (if if the color could be improved a bit).

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FlyersFan76

Well-known member
I wish I took pictures but I made bacon wrapped onion rings, seasoned potatoes unwrapped right on the grill and Traeger Sweet Lips BBQ sauce on strip strip steak.

I didn't have enough time to properly defrost the steaks prior to cooking so I went this route. At first I honestly thought the "recipe" was a joke but it worked.

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hillstrubl

Founding Member
Smoked a brisket for a backyard BBQ yesterday. Sadly I have no pics of it being served, but a tiny container is all that remained from the original 5lbs.

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spiced rubbed it (small handfuls of: paprika, cumin, tumeric, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, kosher salt, white pepper, black pepper) then added a few oz of apple cider vinegar to the bag. I let it sit for a day and a half in the fridge. "Baked" it at 250 degrees for 6 hours in the oven, then another 30 min on each side rubbed in my favorite commercial mustard based BBQ sauce on the grill on very low. Sliced perpendicular to the grain. It was absolutely incredible.

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chris snell

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Me and some buddies finished up a big trip to southern Utah last week. On the first night, we got a late start from Salt Lake and by the time we got to Ephraim, UT, the only game in town was McDonald's. It looked like there were maybe three people working there and they had at least two dozen cars in the drive-thru, so we bailed and continued south to Salina for a midnight dinner at Denny's.

Normally, a dinner at Denny's would not be memorable but it was the start of a trip and all of the amigos were finally together again, and thus, it was wonderful. I ordered a patty melt, having not eaten one in at least 29 years. It was sublime.

Ever since the trip, I've been dreaming of that meal, so I decided to replicate it tonight. I made homemade fries in the air fryer and browned some onions and cooked up some great PA beef patties. I layered it all together and browned them in Kerrygold butter.

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Frobisher

Well-known member
Talk to me about the air fryer. Those fries look legit.
Besides the espresso machine, the air fryer is my most-used appliance when I'm in charge of dinner. It's remarkable how perfectly "fried" it makes everything. It even makes a rotisserie chicken better the way it crisps it up so well. You'll never go back to oil frying.
 
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