TR on the pickles?

Best fried chicken chain ever is Pollo Campero. Sooooo good. Before they opened up in the states people would bring it back from Central America to feast with family when they got to the states. ****ing planes always smelled of fried chicken.

yeah I agree Pollo Campero is the nuts. was lucky enough to have one 4 miles away when I was in college, but didn't discover it till last semester of senior year. they always try to speak Spanish with me as well.

it's a weird thing most of you will never experience when this happens. they express more disappointment than surprise, like they think I actually can speak Spanish but choose not to because we're in USA#1 and I'm ashamed to be from CentralAmerica#84.





pickles: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2...l-pickles.html

I'm doing the refrigerator method with no jar processing. waiting a week is really hard when I have to stare at them every time I open the fridge. good thing I'll be out of town tomorrow-Sunday.

Zomg chocolate cherry bread pudding.
That's something I'm definetely going to try out before long.

Alright that's it, not opening this thread till I'm done cutting. Then I'll make all of the good desserts at once and possibly die from nomz overload.

nuggetz: that's awesome about the pickles. I've wanted to make my own for a while but never got around to it so I hope yours come out awesome. I've bought the pickles from Potbelly's before and imo the best part is the lil pieces of olive they have floating around in there. If I were pickling I'd probably be really tempted to toss a bunch of stuff like that in there.

Just want to give two thumbs up to these pretzel rolls:





Nom nom nom

man. i can't get behind the pretzel roll craze. but i haven't tried it. just seems bad.

I made some crock pot beef stew. Not amazing not bad. Solid 26/37.

Ingredients:
4 lbs stew meat
5 red potatoes
4-6 carrots
1 onion
I FORGOT THE CELERY
4 cloves garlic
salt
pepper
worcestershire sauce
port wine
2-3 bay leaves
4 cups chicken broth



If I did a redo, I'd sub out the chicken broth for beef broth or bouillon cubes and use less in general, I'd obv put some damn celery in it, and I'd work in tomatoes ala emoken's post in the crock pot thread (which should get merged here).

Prep:

In a medium hot pan, sear the beef in a little canola oil. I didn't quite sear it cuz my pan blows. It was more just browned a bit. searing would be better. In the future, I'd also consider marinating the meat in the wine and garlic prior to searing and adding to the pot.



Add meat to the crock pot. Salt and pepper as you see fit. I use a lot of both.



Clean veggies and potatoes.

chop the onion
peel and slice the carrots
mince the garlic
cut potatoes into quarters or eights. I did a little of both.

Add everything else to the crock pot. Add spices as you see fit. I use a lot of salt. Mix it up. Pour in the worcestershire sauce and wine. Go easy on the wine. I used too much. You could also use beer or even red wine vinegar.





Cook
Cook on low for 10-12 hours. I did it on high for an hour and then low for 9. I think it coulda used another hour or two but I didn't have time.



Pretty good. Broth a bit too watery. In the future I'll probably make this in a dutch oven so I can monitor it along the way. If I want to do the crock pot thing I'll just make a pot roast.

Coating meat with flour before browning will help thicken.

Roast Beef

I followed this to pretty much a T. I also used a bottom rump roast. I only seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic. Light olive oil coating.

Came out fan****ingtastic.

From Chaos & Pain's summer stewroids extravaganza.

Easiest thing to make ever imo. Per serving (19 ounces) it's ~500cals, 46g protein and super, super duper tasty.



Easiest thing to make in the world imo (I double this fyi):

1 lb browned stew meat
1/6 bag Beef Flavored 15 Bean Soup (I used cajun flavored as couldn't find beef flavored)
1 can Progresso Beef Barley Soup
1 can Progresso Lentil and Andoulle Soup

Soak beans overnight in water. Drain the water after soaking.
Brown the meat in a pan with a bit of oil, seasoning liberally with mojo, chipotle, curry, and adobo (I used curry, cayenne and chili powder).
Dump meat and drippings into crock put with everything else.
Slow cook.

GOAT Chili



3lb ground beef (I used 88%)
1 can crushed tomatoes
1 can chilis in adobo sauce (7oz)
1 jar salsa

2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp pepper
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp chili powder
1 tbsp garlic powder

Empty all in crock pot, stir, cook on low for 8 hours.

gg.

in so i can find this thread. Alot of interesting ideas

Chicken Thigh Stew:

You'll need a dutch oven or similar type of pot.

Ingredients:
Chicken Thighs (3-4lbs). I use boneless skinless but whatever would work
canola oil
1 onion
4-6 stalks of celery
1-2 cups of mushrooms
4 cups chicken stock
4 cloves of garlic
salt
pepper
sage
thyme
rosemary
ginger



Preheat the oven to 400.

Put the dutch oven on the stove top over medium/high heat. Place a little oil in it and brown the chicken thighs, each side. ~3 mins per side. Don't over crowd the pot so do it in batches. Keep the done chicken on a plate to the side. Something with a little depth is good to catch all the juices.



To save time I chop veggies while the chicken is cooking.

Mince the garlic.
Zest the ginger.

When the chicken is done, use a wooden spoon to scrape up any bits on the bottom. Dump the onion, celery, and mushrooms into the dutch oven. Stir every so often. Cook until the onions start turning translucent. ~5-7 mins.


Turn off the burner. Place the chicken in the dutch oven and stir up a bit. Add salt, pepper, garlic, and ginger.

Pour in enough chicken stock to just about cover everything. Put the rest of the herbs on top. Amount is up to you. I like more thyme and sage than rosemary. This is all up to you. Cilantro and some coconut milk would also be pretty good.

Cover the dutch oven. Place in oven on a middle rack. Cook for 60 mins.

I made this last week

Last night, I made chicken thighs with it in the crockpot over night. I think they might have turned out better.

I've been using 5# of meat (including bone weight), 2 11oz cans chipotles in adobo sauce, some water to thin, cumin, pepper, adobo seasoning and ancho powder.

Def want to try chicken thighs without adobo sauce first but I think with would be awfully good.

Has anyone tried this? I'd really like to but without any measurements of the ingredients I don't think I can pull it off.

It is essentially a thai green curry, so you can probably look up a full recipe. Delicious combination of flavors though.

Nice recipes bro.

Open your eyes, cook it. Its easy bro!

How important is the olive oil?

How well does it keep in the fridge?

I've been eating chicken most days. Mostly just trying it in a pan. I was thinking recently might be better to cook up 4-5 lbs at the same time (oven would work nicely) and could just have it in fridge and heat up instead of defrosting/cooking chicken every day.
I was thinking same thing when i saw it

I never had one until this thanksgiving. One of those + thanksgiving ham + chedder cheese wrapped in aluminimum foil and it the oven is AMAZINNGGGGGGGGGGGG

any ideas on calories/serving?

Looked all through my subscribeds thinking i'd posted in it to keep spot and then found it here

pics bad now im curious

Pics can't be found.

You can make a dry rub for meat. If you use a dry rub, you don't need a liquid to keep it moist. I cook with a dry rub almost exclusively (search for dry chimichurri).

A lot of times, I put foil on a cookie sheet, put a bunch of breasts on it, throw on the rub, bake. Put meal sized amounts in baggies in the fridge, and some in the freezer. Easy game.

The chili is pretty much only the cals from the meat. The rest of that is going be <100cals total.

Chipotles in adobo sauce is amazing. I went about 6-8 weeks throwing pork shoulder, chicken thighs, a beef roast, whatever, in the crock pot with 2 cans of adobo/5# + cumin, pepper and some water. It makes amazing pulled meat.

Sundays are my cooking day - I just cook a ****load of meat, buy frozen veg bags, and I have a 5 min meal every other day. If you have good tasting food it's easier for compliance. Get a rice cooker and make some quinoa to add to it as well. 8oz chicken + bag of frozen broccoli = like 400 cals and like 40+ g protein. I'm too tired to look this up officially.