The Food Thread

Cliffy6745

Gonna have to take a look through this Super Bowl foodstuff.  Going to a party with family and friends who are all Eagles, so I have offered to make a bunch of stuff, but I don't think they want my dirty Giants hands anywhere on their party.  Though I may just do those hot dog and bacon guys.

Cliffy6745

The wife's Italian family would likely disown her, but doing a pasta tonight dish I do a bunch.  Pasta with a super easy avocado sauce.  The avocado serves as a nice creamy base.  Throw some garlic in a food processor and run it, toss in an avocado, salt, pepper, and some fresh lemon juice.  Pour in some olive oil as you go until it's the consistency you want and mix with the pasta.  So good.

rgambs

Cliffy6745 said:

The wife's Italian family would likely disown her, but doing a pasta tonight dish I do a bunch.  Pasta with a super easy avocado sauce.  The avocado serves as a nice creamy base.  Throw some garlic in a food processor and run it, toss in an avocado, salt, pepper, and some fresh lemon juice.  Pour in some olive oil as you go until it's the consistency you want and mix with the pasta.  So good.

Sounds delicious, that's similar to our butternut squash pasta.

F Me In The Brain

Hot sauce!

rgambs

What are we looking at here?  

F Me In The Brain

My first attempt at hot sauce making.  (From a kit, not scratch.  That will come soon enough, this kit was a gift to me.)

F Me In The Brain

Chili made yesterday to reheat today.....chicken nuggets chilling in the fridge.  Pigs in a blanket also chilling.  Going to fry up some tortilla chips.  Made a fresh batch of guac.  
Some ghost pepper cheese slices to go with Ritz.  
Beer time shortly. 
Cook up the shit in a few hours.

rgambs

F Me In The Brain said:

My first attempt at hot sauce making.  (From a kit, not scratch.  That will come soon enough, this kit was a gift to me.)

Awesome!  What kind of varieties do you have there?  I see some mustard and that black one, Asian?

H.Chinaski

Ate at Hometown BBQ, in Red Hook, Brooklyn today. Hands down best BBQ in NYC. The brisket, ribs, all the sides are amazing. Best mac n cheese around. Super legit and great service as well. 

http://hometownbarbque.com

F Me In The Brain

Red pepper
Carribean pepper
Amarilloe lemon pepper
Mole
Smoked citrus
Jalapeno lime
Will let them rest a few days and try them

rgambs

Damn, sounds like a nice variety!

Maybe we should think about doing a Ten Club hot sauce exchange thingy jiggy of some type.
I'm going big next year, my wife ate 2 jars of the Scotch Bonnets mustard, the gallons of Carolina Reaper BBQ sauce we made have become quarts, and I've gone through 3 bottles of Louisiana style.  Next year is going to be somewhere around 10 or more gallons of sauces all together if the pepper crop does well.  
A kit seems like a good idea, simplify things.  Recipes are hard because you seemingly never have the amount of peppers the recipe calls for.  Scaling the recipes up and down is too mathy for me and I end up just winging it.

F Me In The Brain

Gallons!  Wowzer.
Food was excellent yesterday - I am sure everyone here had some good stuff







The pile of empty beer cans was impressive as well

rgambs

Yum!  Jealous

HesCalledDyer

This girl that lives up the street from me made vegan cheese dip for our friend's Super Bowl party yesterday.  She said you boil potatoes and carrots until soft, put in a blender with a little bit of water, olive oil, nutritional yeast, spices and blend on high speed.  She added some Frank's Red Hot for some buffalo flavor.

Honest to god if she had not said a word about it being vegan, I would have never known.  It was as good as any nacho cheese sauce I've ever had.

hedonist

I hope you're all enjoying some kickass leftovers.

F Me In The Brain

In addition to the crazy pizza thread lunch, we ordered a few Sammies from Angelo's.
Called the PFD (Philly Food Dude)
Fresh chicken cutlet
Fress Mozz
Prosciutto
Flash fried artichokes
Arugala pesto balsamic glaze
On a Sarcone's seeded

Holy wow.  Cut a few of them into small pieces and every single person loved it.

Thoughts_Arrive

Spent $500 last night at a Michelin starred restaurant. Was amazing. 

Cliffy6745

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Spent $500 last night at a Michelin starred restaurant. Was amazing. 

We did a really nice Michelin started starred restaurant in Florence last year. It was an awesome experience and delicious but I gotta say, the main thing I remember about it is how much I paid. There are a good 3 or so other dinners from that trip that I remember in more detail. 

Cliffy6745

The wife’s due date is Valentine’s Day, though that’s likely not happening , but regardless we’re celebrating tonight with our annual tradition

Cheese to start. A Brie and blue, pasteurized this year so nothing amazing

Lobsters with a baked potato and some green beans.

a nice California Chardonnay, with myself obviously drinking the bulk of it, though I’m sure the bride will sneak a small glass 

Fuck yeah.

oftenreading

Cliffy6745 said:

The wife’s due date is Valentine’s Day, though that’s likely not happening , but regardless we’re celebrating tonight with our annual tradition

Cheese to start. A Brie and blue, pasteurized this year so nothing amazing

Lobsters with a baked potato and some green beans.

a nice California Chardonnay, with myself obviously drinking the bulk of it, though I’m sure the bride will sneak a small glass 

Fuck yeah.

All the best to you two, tonight and in what’s to come.