What's for Dinner?

Couscous with roasted garlic, bell peppers, and garbanzo beans drizzled with evoo and topped with grated aged Asiago.
 
That sounds pretty damn good Serv....dig in!
 
Since I started running again, I've been having a tough time getting my diet right for my runs. I've messed around with carb and protein intake, increasing and decreasing both, trying to get it right.

So today, I kinda said the hell with it.

I had Cici's buffet for lunch. Everything sucked but the breadsticks, which were fantastic.

Post-run, I made a nice 3-egg omelette with bacon (duh), cheddar cheese, and onions. Very good, if I do say so myself. And I do. :)

I went over my calorie count (even my net) by about 800 calories today. But ya gotta do that once in a while. And I've been pretty good lately. Won't do it again until Sunday. Then I'll eat and drink about 6 days worth. lol.
 
I'm just now making dinner at 8:30 at night .... I'm going to have a salad since I'm eating so late. The fiance will have baked chicken, home made gravy, blueberry muffins and mashed tatoes.

I'm trying to be a bit more conscious of what I'm eating these days - especially since I'm trying to get back into super shape. Stopped smoking 15 days ago and I feel fantastic! It's helping to motivate me to get rid of a lot of the unhealthy things in my life and focus on the good things!
 
It's gonna be a terrible night with the way that Penn State is playing. Therefore dinner will consist of beer. For dessert...more beer.
 
Jambalaya. Pork ribs, chicken, sausage....spicy goodness. You know the drill.
 
Last night was grilled swordfish marinated in tequila, lime juice and jest, cinnamon, cumin,
garlic, sugar, plus salt and pepper.
 
Cooking country fried steak with saw mill gravy, mashed taters and roasted asparagus.

Yes, all from scratch. Yum!
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Nice, I never understood chicken fried steak until last year when i had some in hawaii, friggin amazing.

Tonite im making home made french fries (yes fried 3 times and done in peanut oil) a spinach salad with smoked pork chops in an apple butter butter molasses sauce. desert is creme brulee and turkish cofee.
 
Chicken fried steak in Hawaii? Seriously? Dude, let's be real here. ;)
 
Never done Brisket China, sorry. If you find a good recipe, pass it along, I would love to try it.

Making homemade meatballs tonight, with a Vodka sauce and steamed veggies. Somehow, my wife has tricked me into cooking the last two days, even though she is on Christmas break.

Don't tell her, but I don't mind so much.
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China said:
Anybody got a recipe for a good beef brisket?
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yeah I make brisket sometimes, the biggest key is the quality of the meat, if you have access to Wagyu get it, its fattier but when slow cooked its friggin amazing stuff.

first put on a rub, I like my recipe, 1 cup brown sugar, 5 tablespoons garlic powder, 2 tablespoons celery salt two table spoons black pepper ancho chilipowder cayenne pepper, paprika, uncle howards spice (google it) cinnamon, nutmeg, mustard powder, bay leaf, cumin, rosemary ,thyme and sage. apply liberally.

allow brisket to come to room temperature (this does make a difference)

Place tray or foil pack with wood chips on the grill and turn on all burners to high. Close lid and preheat 15-20 minutes until the wood chips are heavily smoking. If not using wood chips just preheat grill for 15 minutes on high. I use applewood and maple.

Turn the burners down to medium on half the grill. Turn the burners off on the other half of the grill. Scrape the grill clean with a wire brush, place the woods chips over the heated half of the grill and place the brisket fat side up over the cool part of the grill and close the lid. Try to keep the temperature about 275 degrees, adjust the heated burner as necessary. indirect heat is the key here you dont want burnt meat.

I do mine for 4-6 hours you can slightly lower heat for even more juicy brisket (240 or so) but then you better take 8-10 hours. Make sure that you rest it for 15 minutes after taking it out.

a good sweet BBQ sauce is the finish, slice across the grain (again very important) and then drench in sauce.

we use wagyu or hereford here for brisket they are fattier and last better on the smoker.
 
Thanks for the recipe. I have brisket from a local farm where we bought the whole animal an divied it up between several of us. I have found that the taste of the beef is much better than what you get from ordinary beef in the grocery store. Looks like I'll need to get a couple of those ingredients (as well as the wood chips) before I prepare this one.

I'll let you know how it turns out.
 
I went out to eat tonight.

Chilean Sea Bass. Ravioli stuffed with crab meat. Scallops wrapped in bacon with a sweet sauce. Mixed vegetables with shrimp. And other assortments.
 
China said:
Thanks for the recipe. I have brisket from a local farm where we bought the whole animal an divied it up between several of us. I have found that the taste of the beef is much better than what you get from ordinary beef in the grocery store. Looks like I'll need to get a couple of those ingredients (as well as the wood chips) before I prepare this one.

I'll let you know how it turns out.
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That is the best way to buy beef. about the wood chips, make sure you ask for untreated wood seems like common sense but I bought wood chips once and got home and noticed the wood smelled like chemical.

also about the rub, I use that for the depth of flavour but I know lots of poeple who go simple, with garlic powder, onoin powder and sugar, a rub can be almost anything that you like for flavour.

yeah let me know how it turns out, the keys are low and slow heat (indirect)
resting the meat, and having a good finsihing sauce.

hope it turns out well.

Burner- Chilean sea bass used to be my favourite fish, its amazing, but its also endangered and very few restaurants in canada will even serve it anymore. I do love scallops tho, I prefer them pan seared instead of bacon wrapped.
 
Gonna be Chili tonight. Both outside and in my bowl. Mad with some fresh Axis Deer meat taken a few weeks ago. :) Stoking up a fire and renting Inception from PPV.
 
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