Blue Gartr Meal Time: Bacon optional? Bacon required.

[Tokitoki]

I love mushrooms. I haven't minded eggplant. Squash I'm not fond of. One dish I used to make weekly while in FL was just rice and beans. Garbanzo, kidney, and a can of hoppin Johns with the tomato and jalapenos. Mix some salsa and I was good.

We did the veggie burger one night last week. I was fine with it. Of course I'd rather have a great chuck medium burger, but I wasn't like, man this sucks. She bought some stuff to make chili this week so I'm excited.

Can do Black Bean burgers. Make them yourself. I've made them before and made them a little spicy. Were not meat levels of good, but better than frozen veggie burgers.

[Zetanio]

Amy's Organic Spicy Chili. Shit is ridiculously delicious. No meat.

[Kalmado]

I won't go completely meatless because I love meat and I don't share my wife's reasoning (poor treatment of animals bred for food purposes). But I don't mind having seafood alfredo instead of chicken. I've done the frozen tilapia from the supermarket sous vide style and was crazy delicious. I don't mind veggie omolettes or just an egg sandwich. She's encouraged me to buy w/e I want for dinner and we'll just cook separately. I think I'm going to pick up a t-bone because they are $4.49/lb at the moment.

[Zetanio]

yeah there's a glut of porterhouse/tbones. I can get em for 6 bucks a lb right now. Gonna fill my fridge up.

[Kalmado]

That t-bone Babish(sp?) was crazy. That's too thick for my liking. I'd def be doing sous vide and super heating the large cast iron skillet (Emeril branded!) for what, 30 seconds on each side?

[Zetanio]

too thick?

Fam. Sous vide makes thick steaks the best steaks.

Depends on how hot the skillet is. If it's a REALLY thick steak? 1 full minute maybe 90 seconds a side. Otherwise, 45 seconds tops.

[dasva]

Oh man I'm so excite food fam. Never been able to get good ramen in my town because well no experience making it myself and no ramen places that I could find. But just had one open a couple of months ago and another one within the last year but was this kind of hole in the wall so never knew. Tried one out this weekend was pretty great

[Zetanio]

Tonkatsu on top and a tokyo style chicken on the bottom?

[dasva]

I wish they had Tonkatsu though they are expanding menu so maybe one day. Top is pork belly chashu. Bottom supposed to be chicken karage but yeah as you can see doesn't like they coated it enough and looks more pan fried than deep fried. I mean still tasted great but that's probably what I get for coming late when it looked to be mostly run by white teens instead of the actual Japanese people we saw earlier in the day lol.

Side note one of the girls there was a vegan and wasn't annoying about it lol.

[Zetanio]

I meant the broth fam.

[Yuri-G]

^ a good ramen shop is a cause for celebration indeed. altho I am a heathen and detest the fatty-style broth. clear broth onry

[Tokitoki]

I won't go completely meatless because I love meat and I don't share my wife's reasoning (poor treatment of animals bred for food purposes). But I don't mind having seafood alfredo instead of chicken. I've done the frozen tilapia from the supermarket sous vide style and was crazy delicious. I don't mind veggie omolettes or just an egg sandwich. She's encouraged me to buy w/e I want for dinner and we'll just cook separately. I think I'm going to pick up a t-bone because they are $4.49/lb at the moment.

I usually just avoid tilapia and farm raised fish in general. Not sure if what you got was frozen, wild caught or was farm raised. The farms they raise them on seem super gross. Feel like I'd be eating fish shit with my fish.

[Kalmado]

I usually just avoid tilapia and farm raised fish in general. Not sure if what you got was frozen, wild caught or was farm raised. The farms they raise them on seem super gross. Feel like I'd be eating fish shit with my fish.

Prob farm raised but a lot of the frozen fish at Meijer is starting to really advertise WILD CAUGHT!!!!!

I made tuna mac last night using Wild Planet Skipjack Wild Tuna (Light Tuna). 2 cans and 2 boxes of Annie's with onion and green pepper. I "cheese" (four cheese blend) sort of overpowered the dish and I couldn't say one way or the other if I could tell a difference between that and say Starkist or Chicken of the Sea. It was good though.

[dasva]

I meant the broth fam.

Both are chicken and pork bottom is Shoyu and top hard to say exactly. Only tried a little since that was what the other person order but it was similar to Tonkatsu but kind of tasted like they added something to make it even creamier/fattier. They named it after the shop itself so guessing it's their own not completely traditional broth

[Zetanio]

They literally added fat :D That looks awesome.

As I always do when leaving my yearly physical.



Two slices of square pepperoni from Prince St Pizza.

[dasva]

They literally added fat :D That looks awesome.

As I always do when leaving my yearly physical.



Two slices of square pepperoni from Prince St Pizza.

And I'm ok with that even with the pork belly on top of that too lol. Was delicious

Oh man curly pepperoni and tons of it? Sign me the fuck up.

[Kalmado]

For ya'll that will do some fried foods at home, what would be your go to breading recipe for say pollock, tilapia, or cod? I'd be cooking it in the air fryer.

[Zetanio]

https://www.mccormick.com/zatarains/...soned-fish-fri

[Zetanio]

https://www.amazon.com/Zatarains-Sea.../dp/B0016PO12G

[Kalmado]

We did panko with pollock yesterday in a cast iron skillet in olive oil. While it was good, the panko was a little salty and it was very heavy. Lemon helped cut the salt but next time for sure in the air fryer.

Anyone ever try coconut flour or similar? Just curious how it is received.