Food 2: Chew Harder • Page 26

Matt and Alina the power couple of the food thread

Ken the king of the food thread

 

Hot Dog Summer sounds like Hot Dog Heaven

 

all dogs go to hot dog heaven

 

I think all I have to add is (since Matt took most of the pictures of food):



The inside of that filet. Incredible.



this was from Melt, same place as the blueberry cream popper things. Cheesesteak fries but the potatoes are perfectly crispy wedges.



And a better angle of the bed and breakfast waffles. So tasty and perfectly ripe peaches.



another angle of my rack.
These ribs were the only meal I finished from start to finish (minus fries). This is my comfort classic. Meat and green beans

 

elote salad is closest to being a crowd pleaser. We’re talking about Americans, some people who don’t eat onions, and other picky things.

I don’t get Fresno chilis around here. Never seen them in a store idk so that’s out.

also it’s gonna be 92 degrees outside.

 

Trying out some spots in Worcester

 

sounds like you should be bringing only hot dog dishes

not unique but some of my favorite bbq foods are:
watermelon feta mint salad
good scratch coleslaw

 

Double post but tonight was seafood night. Oysters, mussels, and tuna poke

 

The tradition of baking Cuban Bread with palmetto leaves at risk

Tampa's La Segunda Bakery which produces around 98% of the authentic Cuban Bread sold in the US for decades has been baking all of it's bread with palmetto leaves. For 30 years just one man has traveled the state of Florida collecting leaves for the bakery, that man is retiring soon. They're now worried that it's going to be hard to find someone to who is going to want that job, and they're hoping a government body will allow them to harvest leaves from public lands.

Why this is so important for Cuban Bread:

 

I guess it’s ‘bout time to start dealin’ palmetto leaves.

 

As the article points out it aint as easy as it seems. You can't just pick up leaves from the side of the road because you don't want to use leaves that have been exposed to car exhaust. You have to get the unexposed leaves deep in the backwoods with where the snakes and gators are. They need about 10,500 Palmetto fronds a week and a half a million a year.

Somebody needs to step up though to save Cuban Sandwiches.

 

Make some mango habanero wings tonight. They were okay but I overdid them on the last cook after i had tossed them in the sauce and it kind of dried off. I had one that was mega saucy and it was amazing so I may sauce them differently when I make the rest and leave them 'wet'.

I'm doing a wing competition with friends and we have to do our best version of a buffalo and whatever we want. So far I tried a tandori style wing and then this mango habanero... I don't think either one is good enough to enter yet.


The sauce was super easy: Mango, habaneros, garlic, onion, carrot, orange bell pepper, salt, apple cider vinegar and white vinegar and lime. Blend and taste and adjust.

 

I always thought a tikka masala wing sauce would be great.

 

what’s the secret to warming a bunch of corn tortillas? if i’m doing six or so i’ll throw them on a dry skillet, but any more and it feels like a pain. once i tried throwing a bunch in a steamer basket and they came out way too tender and crumbly. maybe i just steamed them for too long

 

You could toast them on a sheet tray in a hot oven and then wrap them to keep them warm and pliable.

 

if you have a flat griddle or something like that you can toast multiple at a time and then keep them wrapped in a towel to stay warm. i've also heard of wrapping a big stack in foil and putting in the oven to warm up.

i need to figure this out too though because later this summer i volunteered to do taco night for a group of like 15-16 adults plus kids

 

sounds like a good excuse to invest in a griddle ha.

we’re gonna do a taco party for 10. definitely doing the serious eats carnitas. undecided on what else. the carnitas are the best cause you can do 95% of the work the day before.

 

Well the Hotdog Safari and Craft Beer Festival was a bust.

I mean I can't be too upset since tickets were only 5 dollars and it was like 5 minutes from my apartment but I do feel very misled.

I don't know what a "Hotdog Safari" is meant to be, but what we went to was certainly not a hotdog safari. There were two trucks doing sausages and one truck doing bad hotdogs.

I mean look at this "Chicago Dog"



Just insulting to my hometown. And the hotdog was legitimately awful.

And there was also a barbecue place that didn't have hotdogs at all but I got this:



Fries with cotija, white bbq sauce, regular bbq sauce, cilantro, and brisket. I counted the fries. There were 12 in total and I paid 14 dollars. Which means each of those fries cost me more than a dollar.

You also had to pay 10 dollars for drink tickets, so I paid 40 dollars for four cans of beer.

 

I have no idea why that last gif has a bitcoin symbol in it.

 

Is now a bad time to pitch my beavercoin and beaver NFTs (risque pictures of my beaver tail?

 

My partner of 10 years, apropos of nothing, has finally decided that she wants to cook things.

I love her, but she has the palate of someone the same age as our relationship.

So the things she found that she wants to cook are Crack Barrel hashbrown casserole and teriyaki chicken.

And since she wants to do it all on her own she's baking chicken in store bought teriyaki sauce and making hashbrown casserole with frozen store bought hashbrowns.

I am very proud of her. And will do my best not to be an obnoxious backseat chef.