[Thirsty_Monk]

T monk you need to cook for me! LOL.


Best part you are somewhat close. I can't get Cappo out of PA.

Hmmm..... Even kids complain when I cook my spagety delight.
But for sure we could have some beer at my house.
How far do you live from me?

[Pawtucket Patriot]

Hey guys.  It's been a while since I've chimed in, so I thought I'd post some photos of what I was up to in the kitchen yesterday.

Potato sopes with goat cheese, salsa verde, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime


Puerco verde tacos with homemade tortillas, refried beans with crumbled cotija cheese, and a vienna lager to wash it down

[bluesman]

Hey guys.  It's been a while since I've chimed in, so I thought I'd post some photos of what I was up to in the kitchen yesterday.

Potato sopes with goat cheese, salsa verde, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime


Puerco verde tacos with homemade tortillas, refried beans with crumbled cotija cheese, and a vienna lager to wash it down

Looks and sounds tasty. I haven't tried these yet. Looks like a nice appetizer.

[boulderbrewer]

T monk you need to cook for me! LOL.


Best part you are somewhat close. I can't get Cappo out of PA.

Hmmm..... Even kids complain when I cook my spagety delight.
But for sure we could have some beer at my house.
How far do you live from me?

I'm almost 200 miles from ya.

[nicneufeld]

Mexican looks nice!  Homemade tortillas seem like they'd take a bit of practice to get right...I'd probably burn them trying.  I delegate making mandarin pancakes to my wife for the same reason.

I came home with bounteous loot from the ethnic markets I visited...from the Korean/Japanese market, kimchi, a really tasty ssamjang, some well-priced korean sushi rice, a korean pear, sesame oil, and a few other things, and I went all out at the Indian/Pakistani market, getting tremedous deals on various spices...kalonji, dried round red chilis, black cardamom, huge amount of other things, and stuff like chickpea flour, toor dal, ghee, and basmati rice.  Oh and some fresh baked breads...a bit of melted butter and a healthy sprinkle of kalonji makes these quite tasty.

Making a soup with the dal tonight.  Had Korean BBQ last night, which was good.  Kimchi was better after I made a foil boat and "barbequed" it along with the bulgogi, but its still an acquired taste that right now is passing dislike and only approaching ambivalence.  No soju, sadly, the liquor store was out of stock, so an IPA stood in the gap.

[capozzoli]

Oh man the Mexican sure does look great. I love sopes.

Whats the recipe for the sopes dough. Potato?

Greek tonight.



A stew of braised octopus, tomatoes, cured green olives, peppers, potatoes, garlic,  onions, herbs and spices. Served on a mound of rice.

[beerocd]

Dude, I've loved everything you've posted.....until now...


C'mon, you're just doing that to piss off the inlaws.

[capozzoli]

No man, good stuff. You dont like octopus? Oh man it is delicious. Have you never been to Croatia? They love it there.

I wanted to make it out on the grill but ran out of time. Grilled octopus is unbelievably delicious.

[beerocd]

No man, good stuff. You dont like octopus? Oh man it is delicious. Have you never been to Croatia? They love it there.

I wanted to make it out on the grill but ran out of time. Grilled octopus is unbelievably delicious.

Got quite a bit  of family there...
Let's just say it's not quite picture perfect, I dunno what to tell you. It's ugly. Probably tastes phenominal! Yeah, I'll eat octopus here and there. Not really a staple here.

When I was 9, I was swimming in the Adriatic with my cousin and she was hungry. She dunked under, came up with a sea urchin, flipped it on it's back on a large rock and smashed it with another rock she found underwater. That was her lunch - I went hungry.

[capozzoli]

Oh man I love raw sea urchin.

The Adriatic is beautiful isnt it. I am amazed how absolutely clear the water is. I thought it was considered one of the most poluted seas in the world. You would never know it to look at it.

Sometime I make a Cippino mixed seafood in maranara. I love adding calamari and octopus clams mussels. Ill have to do one soon.

[Pawtucket Patriot]

Oh man the Mexican sure does look great. I love sopes.

Whats the recipe for the sopes dough. Potato?

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/ricks-crispy-potato-sopes-with-goat-cheese-and-herb-salad

I found the recipe by doing a Google search for "potato sopes," NOT by perusing marthastewart.com.   

[capozzoli]

I love Martha Stewart, she is cool cause she is a cast iron b****....that really knows how to put an hurderv' assortment together.

Im gonna make some sopes with lengua soon. I got empenadas on deck too. Need some anato seeds.

[nicneufeld]

I'm going to be immature about this:

Gross dude!  I would pass on the octupi for purely aesthetic reasons.  If I'm starving, there are plenty of sea creatures in the queue that I'll be eating before I get around to anything that looks like that!

In other news I made sushi rolls for the first time:



Wife refused to eat them because of the fishy stink of the nori.  Two rolls of...wait for it...marinated spam and pineapple, and two rolls "Korean BBQ" made with leftover bool gogi, scallions, and ssamjang.  I realize that even when I make it myself, I don't really like sushi.  Granted, this was fully cooked non-fish sushi, but still.  I think next time I get a hankering for nigorizake I'll just fry up a tonkatsu cutlet and call it a day!

[beerocd]

This isn't ethnic, it's SPAM!

spam and pineapple,

[bluesman]

    

It's aliiiivvvvve!!!!