me make food

oh lots of good fud to be had this weekend

I ground up some of my cayenne peppers for a blackening seasoning.
They are awesome and I have a bunch of them. Should last me till I can grow more next year.

^old^

Theresa suggested we repaint our kitchen a few Fridays back. Then we both brainstormed other things we could do in the kitchen to improve it. I want to start replacing counters and cabinets, but she had the great idea of putting up tile back splashes. As you can prob see in the pic above our back splashes were toast. Stained with oily spots and years worth of meal prep. Theresa did most of the major cleaning with TSP while I smoked bacon and did other errands. Our kitchen was cluttered and we have eaten out or ordered in a lot. I so need a week of really good home cooked meals soon.

The colors are pretty cool, kinda reminds me of Arby’s. I need one of those gallon pumpers of horsey sauce The tile came out awesome. Took a lot more of it than we thought it would. Put the chalkboard paint on the cupboards. Some shelves are going up tonight above the stove and Theresa is almost done with the grout work. With this and the porch step project it has drained us. So close to being done. I was going to wait till it was all done to post, but figured what the heck. Close enough. My MMF vids should be a bit nicer now too.

So I am enjoying my BBQ during weekday lunches and still have some brisket left. Decided to do ribs and another chicken. Learned my smoker a bit more. I kept the temp around 240 most of the time. The smoke flavor is not too strong so I think I need to kick that up a bunch.

So I kinda wrestled with this bring your own bag stuff, but I absolutely love these bags for a few reasons.

they are biger than the plastic ones
they stand on their own
and most importantly the handles. Know how a plastic bag handle will turn into a thin piece of floss and cut into your fingers when it is filled with heavy stuff, not with these. And paper bags with the glued on handle will never earn my trust.

We hit sams with then too and it ruled not having to use a cut up display box to carry stuff out.

Smoked beef tongue at super saver
(cuz smoking makes it more betterer apparently;) )

Sweet and spicy food day at work

Bacon wrapped water chestnuts
these are really good

There is more stuff coming at lunch too.

We love this meal. I tried to make this vid really quick with not too much blabbing. Just over 5 mins, still a little blabby.

Orig post with pictures

So yeah seafood, mmmmmmmmmmmmm….. I did some research and they say with scallops go with U10 dry. If they are wet that means they are in a preservative liquid. Ewwwwwww….. The midwest seafood guy said they were U10, dry so I was happy. He said try coating the top and bottom with sugar and fry in oil. That is his favorite way. I might try that sometime, but I was gonna go with salt and pepper in clarified butter.

I added some shredded garlic which burned right away, but it did not seem to mater cuz they were really good. I did not really know how long to cook them, but was warned they can go rubbery so they might of been a little underdone, but they were awesome.

I bacon wrapped some prawns which were sautéed in garlic filled clarified butter, they ruled as well. I ended up peeling the bacon off though. It was too thick and not done enough.

I absolutely love my microplane grater. It is such a well made gadget I would not know how to make it better besides having the grip permanently molded on.

In the vid below I say it was etched by lasers. I was wrong. The blades are made with a chemical process. As you can see from their about us page. I still think the stainless is either laser cut or stamped before sharpening though.

Microplane® tools’ tiny razor-like edges are formed by a totally different process called photo-etching in which holes are dissolved with a chemical, leaving edges that finely slice instead of tearing or shredding.