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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #345 on: June 26, 2011, 05:06:05 pm »
We've eaten nothing but seafood since June 7 so it's time for some bloody beef on the grill.  Or I could just put the steaks in the sun, turn them after 15 minutes and in another 15 they'll be perfect.  Damn it's hot here.

Get a nice clean piece of polished granite and lay it in the sun all day.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #346 on: June 26, 2011, 05:50:52 pm »
We've eaten nothing but seafood since June 7 so it's time for some bloody beef on the grill.  Or I could just put the steaks in the sun, turn them after 15 minutes and in another 15 they'll be perfect.  Damn it's hot here.

Get a nice clean piece of polished granite and lay it in the sun all day.

polished BLACK granite. Once in highschool we built solar cookers and the teacher described mine as very scary and a potential weapon. Go figure.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #347 on: June 26, 2011, 08:54:20 pm »
Have you ever made ice at above freezing temperatures, with a mirror, at night?

Can!
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #348 on: June 26, 2011, 09:22:52 pm »
Have you ever made ice at above freezing temperatures, with a mirror, at night?

Can!

does it involve ammonia based fertilizer?
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #349 on: June 26, 2011, 09:36:17 pm »
Have you ever made ice at above freezing temperatures, with a mirror, at night?

Can!

does it involve ammonia based fertilizer?

No. just water and a parabolic mirror pointed towards the night sky
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #350 on: June 26, 2011, 11:53:57 pm »
Have you ever made ice at above freezing temperatures, with a mirror, at night?

Can!

does it involve ammonia based fertilizer?

No. just water and a parabolic mirror pointed towards the night sky

Nope, love to see it.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #351 on: July 04, 2011, 09:08:20 am »


home-made corn tortillas - finally got the technique down! - filled with some BGE hickory-smoked chicken which had been shredded and then reheated in a skillet with some Mole sauce. Topped them with pan-charred (seared?) onion dice and cilantro. On the side is some rice and beans with a simple mixture of more mole sauce and a bit of lemon juice (ran out of lime) and orange juice. Tasty tasty.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #352 on: July 04, 2011, 10:36:20 am »
That looks pretty good man. Can you even get decent Tex Mex in France without making it yourself? Do you have a press?



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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #353 on: July 04, 2011, 12:22:39 pm »
That looks pretty good man. Can you even get decent Tex Mex in France without making it yourself? Do you have a press?





I have thought about getting a tortilla press but I get nice round tortillas with a 2 gallon zip lock bag cut open and my big 12 inch skillet.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #354 on: July 04, 2011, 01:41:55 pm »
My tortilladora is not nearly as nice as that one, but it works well just the same. There's a spice shop that sells the nicer ones in Paris, as well as masa harina flour and a bunch of types of dried chilis. You can find tex-mex and it can get pretty good, but you're gonna pay for it. 3-4 euros per taco. So yeah, I make my own when I can.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #355 on: July 04, 2011, 05:14:20 pm »
Did you make your own mole sauce or do they sell that where you are?
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #356 on: July 04, 2011, 06:55:05 pm »


home-made corn tortillas - finally got the technique down! - filled with some BGE hickory-smoked chicken which had been shredded and then reheated in a skillet with some Mole sauce. Topped them with pan-charred (seared?) onion dice and cilantro. On the side is some rice and beans with a simple mixture of more mole sauce and a bit of lemon juice (ran out of lime) and orange juice. Tasty tasty.

Nice looking tortillas, Phil!  I used leftover smoked pork shoulder in some enchiladas today.  I brewed a double decocted dampfbier today, so I didn't have time to make the tortillas.  But they were still dynamite.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #357 on: July 04, 2011, 07:51:10 pm »
Had garden fresh salad greens and tomato slathered in Balsamic (real) Dressing
and some Great Spanish rice with some taco meat on da side. good stuff good stuff
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #358 on: July 04, 2011, 11:27:51 pm »
Did you make your own mole sauce or do they sell that where you are?

I make my own - the chile shop I mentioned above sells these kits that come from the UK, with all the dried chiles and chocolatepowder and whatnot. It's a LOT of work but it makes a lot of mole.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
« Reply #359 on: July 05, 2011, 09:58:09 am »
Recently went to a highly regarded (but not that expensive) Thai restaurant in Las Vegas called Lotus of Siam.  I did some 'homework' before hand and pretty much knew what I was going to order.

Had the Nam Kao Tod (crispy rice mixed with minced sour sausage, green onion, fresh chili, ginger, peanuts, and lime juice), Nam Prik Ong (red chili dip, a combination of ground pork, tomato, dried spices; served with vegetables and fried pork rinds for dipping), Tom Kah Kai (soup of sliced chicken with coconut milk, straw mushroom, galanga, lemongrass and a touch of lime juice, and finished with chili oil), and Crispy Duck Chu-Chee (crispy duck on top of a Thai red curry sauce base).

One of the best meals I've ever had.  I ordered the Nam Kao Tod at '3 of 10' on their spice/heat rating and it was almost perfect but I got brave and said I wanted a '4' on the Tom Kah Kai.  I was in tears but it hurt so good I couldn't stop...just bring more tissues please.  The red chili dip atop a fried pork rind has to be one of the more tastier bites in the history of man (this dish was featured on an episode of 'Best Thing I Ever Ate', part of my 'homework').

If you're ever in LV I highly recommend (but it's off-strip, and doesn't look like much from the outside).  I started the meal with a Monk's Cafe sour ale which was nice but the bartender gushed it, seemed obvious he wasn't accustomed to pouring that beer.  I tried to warn him as he started to pour but it was too late.  I also learned, apparently duck has a bunch of tryptophans because I was yawning at the poker table the rest of the night and just couldn't shake it.
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