/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I think I'll participate in this round! Just got done catering a huge event this last weekend... I could use a little de-stress burger...
>>5564778
People are stoopid Pye.

Anyway couldn't participate last month because of work, so anxious to see how this one goes.

When I make pesto I cook the pasta til it's like a little less than al dente, take the canned pesto and put it in a pan with like 1/3 cup chicken or veggie stock, and a few tbs of butter and heat it up, then add the pasta and cook it in the pan for a few minutes.

Coats the pasta really well and adds a little more dimension to canned pesto...

I always use those curly cavatappi noodles cause they make me happy :D

Hey anon, sorry about your dad.

Filet doesn't have much flavor because of the lack of fat, but it's super tender, you can marinate it if you'd like or just do a thick spice rub.

I've not marinaded tenderloin but I usually do a marinade that's about 1/2-3/4 cup olive oil, about 2 tbs soy sauce, 2 tbs worchestshire, 3 garlic cloves, lots of cracked black pepper, and the juice of one lemon.

Not sure how accurate those measurements are because I've never measured but it makes yummy steak if you're grilling.

I hope your dad enjoys his steaks and time with you.

>>5441061
I do mine with oregano, bay leaves, black pepper, few cloves of garlic and a seasoning called Sazon Goya you can get in the mexican food aisle at your market for like a buck a box.

The smoked hamhocks really add a ton of flavor.

Also you should use the water from the beans to cook the rice, makes the rice a nice pretty brown color and flavor.

>>5440131
>http://feedingamerica.org/need-help.aspx
Seconding this, before I got my current job I was only sporadically getting money through private cooking and dinner parties and often found myself broke, and food banks can have some good stuff sometimes.

Shit last time I went there like 6 months ago they had giant bags of beans and rice and even a bunch of junk food.

ALSO seconding/thirding/etc beans and rice. You can get a bag of dry beans for a buck, a huge bag of rice for 5 bucks, and 2 ham hocks for 2.50. Cook it up in the crock pot and you have rice and beans for 5 days. The rice will last you through like 5 bags of beans.

Congratulations!!

Pye you made some of my favorite dishes :)

Thank you all so much for the fun learning experience and the incredible recipes that have no piled up for me to try, and thanks to Bubble and Borneo for putting this together :)

>>5430261
I'm gonna see if I can find these.. I love vegetable chips particularly yam or sweet potato and beetroot... But making them is a pain in the ass sometimes.

Also adding to this list frozen grapes/blueberries, granny smith apples, goat cheese on a baguette or on garlicky crackers with a slice of hard salami, hard boiled eggs, those steamer bags of edamame with some garlic powder, red grapefruit with cottage cheese, and that canned corn beef hash that looks and smells like dog food but tastes like crack...

Fresh baked bread with some honey butter :)

>>5428015
You made an apple swan you fucker, I love it!

Everything looks truly incredible John, well done!

>>5427401
Good! :D

Pye looks incredible!!! Yum yum yum yum! You have consistently put out the dishes that I love the absolute most, and I feel so lucky to have seen you cook!

I really hope John posts, I can't wait to see what in the hell he's going to put together...

Very exciting! Congrats to whoever wins!

>>5425156
Okie dokie smokie

>>5425125
Not sure how it was a dig, or when I've ever been anymore than polite, I was trying to say that we both made a similar dish and him telling me I gave up is pretty silly, so you can take your conspiracy theories/projection elsewhere.

>>5425047
Ah gotcha, I gave up because I used asparagus instead of potatoes and marinaded rather than made a sauce.

Makes perfect sense!

>>5422353
I'm definitely excited to see what the hell you're going to come up with... It's gotta be interesting...
>>5423091
Also Pye I'm sorry about your oven :(

>>5421618
The originality score is pretty stupid, especially for this round of "signature dishes". I did warn everything though that I wasn't just going to make up some random crazy super frilly dish, I actually made the only thing I would consider my signature...
>>5421891
NO PLEASE

>>5420658
If that was directed at me (assuming so since I'm the only one who has posted), thank you! Appeal is what matters to me most!

>>5420431
I don't actually marinade any steaks but skirt/flank. I think they lend themselves well to big flavors because they're such flavorful pieces of meat on their own and they have a lot of surface area or some shit I DUNNO

>>5420371
and close up of steak.

Well, I'm alive.

This is the closest thing I have to my signature dish. I have been making this for several years and it's what my momma always asks me to make.

I think it really defines me as a cook, simple but with really great flavors. I didn't want to make a "signature dish" that I never actually make or that didn't really define me.

Anyway, this is a grilled skirt steak marinaded in olive oil, soy sauce, Worcestershire, garlic, black pepper, and lemon juice. The olive oil chars on the hot grill creating a really tasty complex flavor. The side is grilled asparagus tossed in the steak marinade.

It's simple, it's not frilly, it's meat and flame and earth, and it's definitely very me.

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful experience, I feel very lucky to have seen the amazing dishes everyone has made and enjoyed the company.

Thanks all :)

>>5419270
I'm glad to see you're ok!

I'll be posting tonight, it's thundering and raining but I'll be out on the grill if it kills me... I won't have time the rest of the week, so if I don't post tonight I got electrocuted!

>>5418003
I don't know but I really hope he's alright. Hopefully he's just very busy.

I'd be willing to give him my spot if that was allowed...

>>5417803
I can't wait for the day that 2000 in my bank is low. I'm ok with just not getting overdrawn.

>>5417752
But.. but... I use the gallon bags cuz I'm a wasteful asshole and I dun wanna do dishes...