What Are You Eating?

Today...soft foods. Had wisdom teeth pulled this morning.

Recently, a few things:
Summer is lots of sandwiches on bread I make and salad from the garden.
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It also means grilling.
Al pastor tacos and elote sans cobb
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Sous vide and seared picanha with chimichurri- grilled potato salad and marinated cucumber
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Souvlaki chicken and roasted beet pitas with lebneh and zaatar and a chickpea salad
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Gary Knowels said:
Today...soft foods. Had wisdom teeth pulled this morning.

Recently, a few things:
Summer is lots of sandwiches on bread I make and salad from the garden.
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It also means grilling.
Al pastor tacos and elote sans cobb
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Sous vide and seared picanha with chimichurri- grilled potato salad and marinated cucumber
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Souvlaki chicken and roasted beet pitas with lebneh and zaatar and a chickpea salad
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You sure eat well
 
Gary Knowels said:
Life is too short to eat bad food and my wife and I enjoy cooking. We'd rather spend an hour cooking than watching TV. I'm also on summer break so have time to do more intricate things.
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I am impressed by the diversity
Where do all nice different recipes come from.
 
Dr. Magill said:
I am impressed by the diversity
Where do all nice different recipes come from.
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I lived in Seattle for 13 years, which provided me a lot of high quality diverse foods. I've taken the things I love to eat, but no longer have quick access to since moving to Tacoma and found recipes in different places. I have a couple dozen cookbooks that I pull things from plus some googling.

For al pastor, Rick Bayless has a great recipe that allows one to mimic cooking on a vertical spit using a standard grill.

For the pitas, I reverse engineered the recipes based on meals from a Lebanese spot called Cafe Munir.

The grilled potato salad was my invention. I like chimichurri with steak so I figured I'd dress potatoes with it instead of using it as a steak condiment.

I consume a lot of food media (TV, YouTube, podcasts, etc ) and steal ideas to apply to meals. We are close friends with a couple that cooks and eats similarly to us. The husband is a chef who has worked in Michelin starred restaurants and the wife is a great home cook. We have a text thread that is ongoing for years where we just send each other pictures, descriptions, and recipes of what we are cooking and eating. I steal ideas from them all the time too.
 
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Gary Knowels said:
Today...soft foods. Had wisdom teeth pulled this morning.

Recently, a few things:
Summer is lots of sandwiches on bread I make and salad from the garden.
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It also means grilling.
Al pastor tacos and elote sans cobb
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Sous vide and seared picanha with chimichurri- grilled potato salad and marinated cucumber
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Souvlaki chicken and roasted beet pitas with lebneh and zaatar and a chickpea salad
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All of that looks so amazing Gary!
 
Zak said:
Pork chops, bone in, breaded and pan fried then put in a 250F oven until they hit 160F.

I haven't cooked pork chops much and these turned out pretty well. I'd love to learn other people's go to pork chop recipes, they sure are cheap at Costco!
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Sous vide them for 1.5 hours at 145 degrees. I usually season them with salt, pepper and some garlic powder. Occasionally I will add a few rosemary sprigs. I then sear them in a cast iron pan with butter for a 1.5 minutes a side.
 
Last night my friend and I grilled up a feast at his house. Flank steak, chicken thighs, local lamb ribs, portabellas, onions/peppers/sausage, spicy charred bok choy on the grill. Plus a variety of salads and tapas. Lots of veggies from his urban garden. Plus a 17 year old single malt and many Pfriem Pilsners (a new beer for me and quite good).
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Had dinner with a buddy and our wives the other night…afterwards as we’re we’re heading back to my daughters place in Manhattan, he gifted us this tub of caviar, which my daughter loves…whipped some crème fraiche into the yolks…
 
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