What's cooking?

Dear Lord ladies!! Those dishes look outstanding! Either of you adopting? I'm house trained...

Well I was asked if "we" could do pizzas this weekend (sister-in-law, her husband is my hunting buddy) So I made enough dough for 10 pies, then got to thinking, Crap! I need a pizza peel... Always kinda made due, it was a PITA, but hey, its still pizza right? So this afternoon, I made a 16" x 16" peel. Sanded it all smooth, and gave it a coat of mineral oil/bee's wax. Pics tomorrow.

 

One of these days I'm going to make something worthy of posting for you guys!

 

This was some of todays pizza carnage.

 

Pierre, you could pass for a NY'er with those pies.

 

Do you do delivery to my area ?

 

Haven't had much beef for a while, so we're on a bloody flesh kick this week:



(yes, there was horseradish sauce.)

 

Lucretia, is that a rib roast? It looks perfect.

Everything looks so yummy! We were in town all day running between dentist and oral surgery so just had nasty Burger King

 

Had almost the whole duck skin left, except from the breast part, and made some cooking time crunchies to chew and go with a glass of wine.

 

Oxtail Russian Borscht! I've so much fun used my Butch Harner's nakiri for prepare cutting tasks.

 

That looks delicious Charles!
Nice scratching a too Chanop, great with a beer!

 

Thanks Huw, crispy duck and checkin skin definitely go well with a beer.

Autumn has officially arrived and the weather is getting cooler down here, so it is time for some winter hearty dish:

Braised beef cheek in tomato sauce.

 

That looks good

 

i'll take a bowl of that borscht

 

I have a spatchcocked chicken (with butter, basil, maldon, and pepper in the bag), in the water bath at 140. It'll go in the fridge in the morning, and then tomorrow evening will go into a blistering hot oven, to brown and crisp. I have a regular roast chicken down pretty damn well, but my wife always complains that it takes me too long before we eat, when I make a roast chicken, so I'm hoping that putting the time up in the beginning will save time in the end.

I love my PolyScience Creative, and my VacMaster260. I don't know how I lived without them. Going to do a vacuum infusion for a tonic syrup, over the weekend (hopefully it works as well as my iSi whipper, as nitrous carts kinda get expensive).

 

My culinary masterpiece of the day: banana pudding. I'm surprised I remember how to make it, it's been at least 15 years since the last time.

 

Braised short ribs with mushrooms leeks mirepoix, beef stock, thyme rosemary and a touch of tomato paste to round it all out.

 

so much for my dinner

 

What....I hear rotisserie cat is pretty good.

 

Topher is eating quite well these days

 

i left the room with 5 meatballs left he ate one... left one on the floor for later, which i found under my foot, and he pulled lick it to own it rules as when i sat down he made sure to lick all the meatballs before taking that one