What’s for dinner?

[Ward Chillington]

haven't been on the forum for a while, thought I would share more wings
BBQ'd with salt pepper and garlic
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tossed in home made Buffalo sauce (melted butter, franks, Worcester, vinegar, and garlic powder
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Served with potato salad, and a Van Full of Weirdos
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Elevating Pub Grub to new levels..attaboy @Craigerrr

 

[Sunfire96]

Some weeks instead of buying chicken breasts ($$$) I'll buy the whole chicken. I broke down and deboned the whole thing and all usable meat went into the Dutch oven for a huge batch of chicken salad (dinner tonight and lunches this week) and the bones and carcass into the kettle for stock. Doesn't always make sense every week when some of our dinner plans require ground meat or chicken breasts specifically, but for $10 of organic grown meat I'll get a lot of options this week. Same price as a pack of 2 chicken breasts around here lately

 

[Donoroto]

Some weeks instead of buying chicken breasts ($$$) I'll buy the whole chicken. I broke down and deboned the whole thing and all usable meat went into the Dutch oven for a huge batch of chicken salad (dinner tonight and lunches this week) and the bones and carcass into the kettle for stock. Doesn't always make sense every week when some of our dinner plans require ground meat or chicken breasts specifically, but for $10 of organic grown meat I'll get a lot of options this week. Same price as a pack of 2 chicken breasts around here lately
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We do something similar with a $5 Costco rotisserie chicken: for the two of us, legs, wings and thighs make a meal, breasts another, and the rest a healthy batch of chicken soup. Three decent meals for less than a big mac.

 

[Ward Chillington]

We do something similar with a $5 Costco rotisserie chicken: for the two of us, legs, wings and thighs make a meal, breasts another, and the rest a healthy batch of chicken soup. Three decent meals for less than a big mac.

oh yeah with the chicken soup. Wifey uses 3 carcasses for the best chicken stock that we freeze and put in anything that calls for it. Wait a minute...stock...broth...soup?

 

[Herm brews]

Pork fried rice using leftover smoked pork back ribs from the weekend, with a heap of snow peas from our garden.

 

[Donoroto]

Pork fried rice using leftover smoked pork back ribs from the weekend, with a heap of snow peas from our garden.

Leftover ribs? What’s that??

 

[Herm brews]

Leftover ribs? What’s that??

It was a big rack, far too much for the 2 of us to eat in one sitting. You might say the leftover ribs were planned as the base for another meal. For tonight, it was a toss up between fried rice or tacos - this time tacos lost.

 

[Josh Hughes]

I usually am low-carb during the week. Last night the cupboard was pretty bare as healthy as this sounds. I ate half a can of spam that I put in the air fryer.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Next time, maybe I’ll sprinkle a little parsley on it dress the plate up so I can take a picture hahaha

 

[Donoroto]

Ya know, pan-fried spam ain’t half bad.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Not at all.

 

[Craigerrr]

monster burger!
local store made burger, 1/2 pound with cheese and bacon mixed in.
So you could say I put cheese and bacon on my chees and bacon!

 

[Zambi]

I also buy whole chickens and then cut to pieces if needs be..
1 small chicken lasts about 3-4 meals for me snd my boys (sherlock and bibi, my jack russel and jack russel cross).

Tonight was Thai style though

 

[Craigerrr]

Grilled top sirloin, grilled asparagus just picked yesterday, and a baked potato with butter salt and pepper

 

[Sunfire96]

Haddock with Jamaican pepper cream sauce and lemon paprika asparagus

 

[Tim Bulin]

Tocino pork belly on the smoker right now, going to make some fried rice on the side I think.

 

[Sunfire96]

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Tocino pork belly on the smoker right now, going to make some fried rice on the side I think.

Is it possible to cook pork belly without a grill/smoker? My wive loves it and the grocery store butcher finally stocks it, but I'm in an apartment with a stove, oven, air fryer, and electric Hamilton Beach countertop "grill"

 

[Tim Bulin]

Is it possible to cook pork belly without a grill/smoker? My wive loves it and the grocery store butcher finally stocks it, but I'm in an apartment with a stove, oven, air fryer, and electric Hamilton Beach countertop "grill"

Sure, a skillet works just fine. Tocino is just wet cured bacon. We used to slice up pork belly and fry it up with eggs for breakfast when I was a kid, we just called it side pork.

I had some Tocino flavored SPAM at the spam museum, wanted to try the real thing so I just googled how to make it from scratch. Recipe actually says to fry it, I just thought it would be good on the pellet grill(it was).

 

[jschein]

Is it possible to cook pork belly without a grill/smoker? My wive loves it and the grocery store butcher finally stocks it, but I'm in an apartment with a stove, oven, air fryer, and electric Hamilton Beach countertop "grill"

You can do it in the oven , about 200 to 250F, low and slow. You want the fat to render slowly not pour out of the meat. The meat should be about 200 to 205F when done.
I have made burnt ends in the oven before but not an air fryer.
But.. the smoker is great if you have one.

Here is some bacon I made on Saturday, it took about 5 hours @180F, should be about 3 hours @225F. You’ll see there isn’t much fat dripping on the tray.
Some crumbles for salad as requested by my wife.

 

[Craigerrr]

Lunch actually, turkey, salami, lettuce, tomato on my daughters cheddar jalapeño sour dough! Soooo good!