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Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2025 12:48 am
by CPJ 2.0
Should be on a hoagie, but bbq meatball sammich
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:23 pm
by bullsi1911
Think I finally nailed the sous vide with venison. Have a neck end of a blackstrap that I seasoned up with Meat Church Gospel, vac sealed, and threw in a 130degree sous vide bath for 3 hours. Pan seared in beef tallow, and got this

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Now I need to find more backstrap to thaw out
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:20 pm
by Diver43
bullsi1911 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:23 pm
Think I finally nailed the sous vide with venison. Have a neck end of a blackstrap that I seasoned up with Meat Church Gospel, vac sealed, and threw in a 130degree sous vide bath for 3 hours. Pan seared in beef tallow, and got this
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Now I need to find more backstrap to thaw out
Looks delicious
Think wife did ours at 135 but for longer. Amazing how a few degrees makes a difference.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:49 pm
by CPJ 2.0
Pizza a chicken nuggies. On a work trip, my choices are Casey’s convenience store food, or dollar general.
The motel restaurant closes at 5PM.
Which the pizza is excellent, so are the nuggies
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:52 pm
by GrapeApe
Home made spaghetti sauce with italian sausage, over whole wheat noodles
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 1:07 am
by bullsi1911
Varmintmist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:04 pm
Ok, this is pretty much as good as I have changed the recipe to:
Rum pork loin with pineapple
take a pork loin, make a pocket like you were going to split it like a book, but leave the ends.
Pour in about 3 tsp black strap rum (Cruzan) add 1/4 c brown sugar 3 tbs Dijon mustard and the std pork rub. (garlic pow, pepper and smoked paprika.
Set aside.
Make a bacon weave over as many strands of butchers string you need to equal bacon strips across. Lay the first layer of bacon on each butchers string. Place about 6 pineapple rings on the weave.
Place a ring of pineapple in the pork loin tear it so it is down in.
Place the loin on the weave so the open end faces the middle.
Tie it up and put in it the fridge to marinate.
I use a rotisserie with sassafras chunks on the grates set up as indirect heat. If you are on a regular grill, put the charcoal to the outside and put the smoke wood on the charcoal.
Make a glaze with 3 ish tbs of brn sugar, 3 tbs butter, 3 tbs rum, 3 tbs Dijon mustard, 3 tbs pineapple juice. Heat until syrup. Glaze after 1/2 hour then continue to glaze. At 160F pull it off.
Eat with a vinegar based bbq sauce.
The black strap rum is imperative. If you cant get it you can do bourbon and omit the pineapple, or try a GOOD dark rum, something better then Capt Mordor
Ok… I need to try that
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:17 am
by Chiro1989
CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:49 pm
Pizza a chicken nuggies. On a work trip, my choices are Casey’s convenience store food, or dollar general.
The motel restaurant closes at 5PM.
Which the pizza is excellent, so are the nuggies
Casey's bone in wings are not too bad either.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 3:01 pm
by Varmintmist
bullsi1911 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 1:07 am
Varmintmist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:04 pm
Ok, this is pretty much as good as I have changed the recipe to:
Rum pork loin with pineapple
take a pork loin, make a pocket like you were going to split it like a book, but leave the ends.
Pour in about 3 tsp black strap rum (Cruzan) add 1/4 c brown sugar 3 tbs Dijon mustard and the std pork rub. (garlic pow, pepper and smoked paprika.
Set aside.
Make a bacon weave over as many strands of butchers string you need to equal bacon strips across. Lay the first layer of bacon on each butchers string. Place about 6 pineapple rings on the weave.
Place a ring of pineapple in the pork loin tear it so it is down in.
Place the loin on the weave so the open end faces the middle.
Tie it up and put in it the fridge to marinate.
I use a rotisserie with sassafras chunks on the grates set up as indirect heat. If you are on a regular grill, put the charcoal to the outside and put the smoke wood on the charcoal.
Make a glaze with 3 ish tbs of brn sugar, 3 tbs butter, 3 tbs rum, 3 tbs Dijon mustard, 3 tbs pineapple juice. Heat until syrup. Glaze after 1/2 hour then continue to glaze. At 160F pull it off.
Eat with a vinegar based bbq sauce.
The black strap rum is imperative. If you cant get it you can do bourbon and omit the pineapple, or try a GOOD dark rum, something better then Capt Mordor
Ok… I need to try that
I am thinking the weave is a bit much. The glaze doesnt get to the pork. Going back to 3-4 strips tied on next time. It is real good as a mustard bourbon
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:51 pm
by CPJ 2.0
Chiro1989 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:17 am
CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:49 pm
Pizza a chicken nuggies. On a work trip, my choices are Casey’s convenience store food, or dollar general.
The motel restaurant closes at 5PM.
Which the pizza is excellent, so are the nuggies
Casey's bone in wings are not too bad either.
I think you’re confused.
By definition, wings have bones. And skin. “Boneless wings” are chicken nuggies.
There’s no debating this fact.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:20 pm
by Chiro1989
Their definition, not mine, no explanation is needed on my part, mostly for the staff to stay unconfused

Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:46 pm
by GrapeApe
CPJ 2.0 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:51 pm
I think you’re confused.
By definition, wings have bones. And skin. “Boneless wings” are chicken nuggies.
There’s no debating this fact.
Nuggies tossed in wing sauce are still pretty good though
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:51 pm
by GrapeApe

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Hot wings
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 9:58 pm
by Diver43

In the mini smoker
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:29 pm
by bullsi1911
Smoking a spiral sliced ham for Easter dinner

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Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:14 pm
by jbp-ohio
I had no idea what to have for lunch. It is cold and blustery today so I thought soup. Got in the freezer because I know there is vacuum packed vegetable soup. Dug to the bottom of the drawer and found a bag of chili from 1-4-24.....
Still tastes good!

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Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:48 pm
by PFD45
jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:14 pm
I had no idea what to have for lunch. It is cold and blustery today so I thought soup. Got in the freezer because I know there is vacuum packed vegetable soup. Dug to the bottom of the drawer and found a bag of chili from 1-4-24.....
Still tastes good!
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Nice!
Like finding a $20 in a coat you haven't worn in a while.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:53 pm
by jbp-ohio
PFD45 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:48 pm
jbp-ohio wrote: ↑Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:14 pm
I had no idea what to have for lunch. It is cold and blustery today so I thought soup. Got in the freezer because I know there is vacuum packed vegetable soup. Dug to the bottom of the drawer and found a bag of chili from 1-4-24.....
Still tastes good!
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Nice!
Like finding a $20 in a coat you haven't worn in a while.
Better than our old method. Want chili. Make whole crockpot of chili. Eat chili until we are sick of it. Throw away 1/3 of the chili.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 10:53 pm
by GrapeApe
I spent most of the afternoon putting my Blackstone together. Didn't have lunch, have neither put a gas tank on the griddle nor cleaned/started seasoning it yet, so I ordered pizza from Dominos
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:03 pm
by CPJ 2.0
Country style ribs and bake badayduh
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 2:52 am
by Chiro1989

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Wife smoked a beef shoulder and some pork chops on the pellet grill
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:02 am
by Japhy
Chiro
You got a good one!
She can run the grill and has a good selection of cast iron!
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:54 am
by rberg
Grandson and his girl fiend came over for their last meal here before their move to Texas, smoked pork ribs with macaroni salad and corn on the cob.
Backed a lemon cake with lemon frosting for desert.
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 12:15 pm
by Chiro1989
Japhy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:02 am
Chiro
You got a good one!
She can run the grill and has a good selection of cast iron!
Kind of embarrassed to say she has a better handling on the pellet grill than I do
Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:42 am
by GrapeApe
Got the Blackstone seasoned earlier today, so, of course, I had to try it this evening.
Sirloin cheesesteak with provolone and grilled onions & bell peppers.
Wasn't "great" but wasn't "bad" either.
I'm learning

Re: What’s for dinner? Cooking Thread!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 1:27 am
by shotgunshooter3
Chicago style hot dogs and a Yuengling on the road today.

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