The final Peach/Bourbon dish was a Peach Pie. Spouse is GF so she started with a premade crust from a local GF bakery. Fresh peaches topped with a crumble of oats, pecans, and br sugar. Amazing warm and with vanilla ice cream! #BBQmunity 🍜🍜
In between cooking and drinking this week, I was able to ride 176 of 326 miles of the Ohio to Erie Trail (Cincinnati to Cleveland). Hope to finished the rest in 2 weeks.
I recently got an electric box smoker which is delightfully low tech. Pork ribs basted with a Peach and Bourbon BBQ sauce (Bullet). Smoked over charred oak bourbon barrel wood. Also beans with Knob Creek Smoked Maple Bourbon. #BBQmunity 🍽️🍜
After Peach cocktails we had a Kale salad with grilled peaches, bacon, cherry tomatoes, and pistachios. The recipe called for a bacon dressing which we did, but we'd go with a simple shallot vinegarette next time. #BBQmunity 🍽️🍜
My #1 made us Peach Bourbon Smash Cocktails 🍸
- 2oz Bourbon (she used Makers)
- 1.5oz fresh Peach puree
- 1 oz Brown sugar syrup
- Splash of Ginger Beer
- Mint sprig
Pro Tip: Make syrup in the microwave. Super. Easy.
#BBQmunity 🍜🍽️
Cooking goal today is to feature foods with Peaches or Bourbon (or both and not necessarily Willett). Smoker prep involves cutting up charred oak barrel staves once used for aging Bourbon that I picked up years ago. #BBQmunity 🍽️🍜
Smoked a piece of Wild Sockeye Salmon with maple from a former neighbor's tree. Made a homemade rub and brushed with bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup. A final brush with Dijon and served with a Greek Taverna salad. Annoyed we were out of kalamata olives tho. #BBQmunity 🍽️🍜
Fortunate to be able to assemble a 500ish bottle wine cellar. Now Food & Wine Mag runs an article on "15 Great (Really) Box Wines". Yeah, so we're drinking box wine now - well this week anyway. The Bota Dry Rosé is a solid summer day on the back porch wine.
Calling this a "Caprese Burger". Bottom to top it's Ground Beef Sirloin, Quattro Fromagio Blend, Grilled Onions, Seared Prosciutto, Grilled Tomatoes and Charred Basil. Balsamic drizzle. No buns, knife and forks! 🍜🍽️ #BBQmunity
Home Smoked Pork Shoulder pulled and served over Caramelized Onion Mac & Cheese with 2 kinds of Farmer's Market pickles. (GF with Jovial pasta!). This post was leftovers, the full meal another time. 🍽️🍜
My SO made this amazing dish - GF fettuccine with EVOO, Dolin Rouge Vermouth, garlic and chix stock sauce. Blue Oyster mushrooms and red wine & garlic Berkshire pork sausage from Farmer's Mkt. Spinach too. I did some prep but she did the work AND made Basil and Gin Cocktails ❤️🍜🍽️
While I'm on the Chopped Cheese kick I'll present the "Southside Slopes" named for my daughter visiting from Pittsburgh. It's got some Suhey peppers from the Strip District and gets topped with Hash Browns, (and Bacon). 🍽️🍜
Why I don't eat out more: Read the menu for a new local restaurant and they have a grilled Branzino for $48. Last fall I believe I paid < $10 each for these. Really pretty easy to stuff and grill and still could afford cocktails with the good liquor. 🍽️🍜
Read in NYT about Bodega sandwiches & needed to make a Chopped Cheese! I did mine on ciabatta and my SO had hers on a GF bagel. Sirloin with lots of Sazon seasoning, grilled onions, mush & tomato, white Amer Chz, lettuce, pickles, Kewpie & ketchup. And tots. 🍽️🍜🍔
Made a cheese sauce to turn carnitas taco leftovers into nachos, also had Medieval hummus (incl nuts with chick peas), Zatar bread, charcuterie, and Aperol Spritz with blood orange juice. 🍽️🍜
Making Chefsteps Mole in the pressure cooker. Making Vegan for my visiting son so I swapped butter. Typically better if it sits a day or two. Full recipe on CS pay site. Numerous videos on Internet, but I don't think they show amounts for the *23* ingredients.🍽️🍜
Bit of a hodgepodge. Hash Browns on the flattop, leftover pork chop from last week, no sauce so +1 runny egg, all with a Spinach Arugula Apple Manchego salad w/vinaigrette. All tasty though! 🍽️🍜
For Mother's Day I made my sweetie a 10 pound pan of Gluten Free Lasagna. Beef, Hot Sausage, Mushrooms, Spinach, San Marzano tomatos, Red Wine, 4 kinds of cheese, a shit ton of spices. #Jovial GF noodles. #Leftovers 🍽️🍜
Berkshire Pork Chop with a Cabernet and Luxardo Cherry reduction sauce. Talk about local - raised about 10 miles away and ordered from Farmer's Market last season. Dee-licious. (Oh broccoli by Aldi and 2x baked taters from Giant Eagle. 🙂) 🍽️🍜
