What's Cooking

[GoingMyWay]

I cooked the shrimp tacos last night and I'll post photos after I figure out why I can't send photos from my phone to my computer. [mad] [mad] [mad]

Oops, I missed the second part of your post.  How do you usually get the photos from your phone to your computer?  In the past I was just attaching the photos to draft emails and then opening the draft email on the computer.  Now I use Google Drive to do the transfer.

Did I hear Coors?  [scared] [scared] [scared] [scared]  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Super happy that there are multiple sources in Germany that import it, usually buy it at a small "American Food" store in the city.

Love Coors, but don't say no to Miller either ... Then there are stores that occasionally import from US micro breweries, so I sometimes snag a bottle there too ... But I don't "follow" that cult, sometimes its a good beer ...

This was prior to a Super Bowl

Kind regards,
Oliver

Is it expensive?  I try to buy it around $17.99 for a pack of 24 cans.  I've seen it as much as $21.99 for 24 when it's not on sale.

It's kind of funny as an American to think of Coors Light or any domestic American being imported into another country, but I guess it's no different than us importing Corona, Heineken, etc. from another country.

Those Guinness draft cans are quite effective at getting a nice pour and "texture"  to the brew.

Mmmmm, porters and stouts ........... my favorite.

I fear I will be taking the what's cooking thread in a different direction  [big grin]

Seth

I bought the Guinness Draft Bottles before St. Patrick's Day this year.  I prefer the cans.  I even bought the Guinness Pint Glasses from Amazon a couple of years ago so I could get more head at the top.

LOL start your own thread  !!  Maybe "What are We Drinking" - just kidding  [wink], food and drink pairings go well together so why not include them here  [big grin].

 

[six-point socket II]

Did I hear Coors?  [scared] [scared] [scared] [scared]  [big grin] [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Super happy that there are multiple sources in Germany that import it, usually buy it at a small "American Food" store in the city.

Love Coors, but don't say no to Miller either ... Then there are stores that occasionally import from US micro breweries, so I sometimes snag a bottle there too ... But I don't "follow" that cult, sometimes its a good beer ...

This was prior to a Super Bowl

Kind regards,
Oliver

Is it expensive?  I try to buy it around $17.99 for a pack of 24 cans.  I've seen it as much as $21.99 for 24 when it's not on sale.

It's kind of funny as an American to think of Coors Light or any domestic American being imported into another country, but I guess it's no different than us importing Corona, Heineken, etc. from another country.

Between the two of us, it's ridiculously expensive compared to what you pay. My source has 24/ 355ml cans currently for 39,95 Euro -> 45,XX USD (stock exchange rate). Same price for Bud Light, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller, Moosehead ...

But these imports cost, they need to re-label according to EU law ... And they are not imported in really large quantities, plus it's the real deal. Meaning it's the same product that you buy.

(I personally don't care about the cost, I've done other imports myself people would label me insane for, just to get certain products from the USA, that are Made in the USA.)

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Tinker]

Last night's dinner was Angus filets cooked about an hour at 275 then seared over direct heat with asparagus. The down side to this is I'm always let down when I spend money on steak at a restaurant and it isn't even close to as tender.

I am late to this thread, wich surprises me. I have said in the past the you can call me  anything. Just don't call me late for dinner. As I look [member=65062]DynaGlide[/member] post, I can see why his steaks are so tender while his orders at most restaurants are no where near as tender. DynaGlide has a good butcher, or a good meat source. Those steaks in the pic are "Prime beef". Really Prime.  You can see the marbling. I have yet, in the last 30years, or maybe even more, found a steak in  any restaurant that has been labeled as "Prime" and yet when I see it on the platter, does not measure up to what I had been taught way back in "the good old days" to be prime. I have not seen marbling like that in a restaurant, not even a few years before I started to admit to being 39. Today, as my departed butcher told me years ago, they have ways to "tenderize" beef mechanically. They can take a piece of nearly cutter grade and tenderize to make people believe they are eating prime beef. That beef in the pic (way back at the very beginning of this thread) really looks delicious. I am sure, as I get further along, some of my favorite BQ operators will come up with enough that will make my mouth water.
Tinker

 

[peter halle]

[member=550]Tinker[/member] the grades of beef for quality are determined at only one spot in the animal - the 13th rib.  What the grader is looking at is a ribeye.  If that area qualifies for grading as Prime, Choice, etc. then the entire carcass grades as such which means that it can happen that steaks from a Prime carcass found in other parts of the carcass can be called Prime although the marbling may not be extensive.

Peter

 

[DynaGlide]

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]

Thank you for sharing this largely unknown fact. I've found some great deals on prime grade beef labeled as choice.

[member=550]Tinker[/member] Thank you for the kind words. If you ever want to sample I'm in DC suburbs. In the meantime I post regularly on Instagram @matts.garage

 

[Tinker]

[member=550]Tinker[/member] the grades of beef for quality are determined at only one spot in the animal - the 13th rib.  What the grader is looking at is a ribeye.  If that area qualifies for grading as Prime, Choice, etc. then the entire carcass grades as such which means that it can happen that steaks from a Prime carcass found in other parts of the carcass can be called Prime although the marbling may not be extensive.

Peter

Thanks for that info [member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]. Way back when I was in college, (Rattclif Hicks School of Ag/Uconn), i took an elective in butchering and preparing meat for market. That was in the days before all the additives went into meat and other products for preservatives. Cattle were mostly grass fed. In class, when cutting up a carcase we would trim a cut and just nibble raw. Especially tender were cuts from the prime graded carcases. That was in 1950. That  is the reason I am only 39. ven when we were first married 52 years ago, we could still get prime cuts at our butcher. Of course, he and were drinking buddies and maby he would set aside special cuts for my wife. We had to keep her happy [unsure]
Tinker

 

[Tinker]

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]

Thank you for sharing this largely unknown fact. I've found some great deals on prime grade beef labeled as choice.

[member=550]Tinker[/member] Thank you for the kind words. If you ever want to sample I'm in DC suburbs. In the meantime I post regularly on Instagram @matts.garage

[member=65062]DynaGlide[/member]  Next time we visit  our daughter (Falls Church) I will just sniff the  air and I will follow the smoke.
Tinker

 

[peter halle]

While we are on the topic of beef, and in a post ala [member=550]Tinker[/member] (said respectfully), 2 years ago I was helping out with a project my wife had going on at work that involved menus, food, and food purveyors.  As part of this "adventure" I had an opportunity to be taken to the test and demo kitchen of Sysco (one of the largest food suppliers to restaurants here in NA if not the world).  I had private time to talk to their corporate chef about menu ideas and in front of my eyes he cooked anything I was interested in.  Now we aren't talking flow blown meals but rather what I thought might work for their menus.  It was a lot of fun although the project died and my wife no longer works there.

Two interesting tidbits told to me during that visit stick out in my mind prominently:

1.  Restaurants are supplied aged beef.  That could be 7 days to...  Supermarkets are supplied fresh beef.
2.  Sysco has requirements for farms supplying them that include restrictions on closeness to highways (air pollution contamination) and also power lines (bird poop).

Now do I believe all that?  Maybe.  It does make sense, but...

Peter

 

[six-point socket II]

Today's dessert straight from the backyard.

And now relaxing with a beer from Belgium.

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Tinker]

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]
quote>>> 2.  Sysco has requirements for farms supplying them that include restrictions on closeness to highways (air pollution contamination) and also power lines (bird poop).

 

[Cheese]

The beer and the Snap-on catalogue look relaxing Oliver.  [cool]

 

[Tinker]

When I was living on my uncle's farm during WWII, we sold milk, butter and sometimes cottage cheese (under the table) to a few neighbors. They came our house, brought their own bottles, we supplied the bottle caps.  We had friends in town who had milk delivered to their door.

When I went to Germany to visit my inlaws, I was surprised to find they had beer delivered to the door every two days. They had to go to the store to get milk.
Tinker

 

[GoingMyWay]

Saturday my wife made deep fried quail on watercress with Vietnamese chicken curry.

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Tonight's dinner was pork chops, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut all smothered in pork gravy.

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[PeterJJames13]

When I went to Germany to visit my inlaws, I was surprised to find they had beer delivered to the door every two days. They had to go to the store to get milk.
Tinker

Priorities, lol.

 

[Tinker]

I had absolutely no complaints

 

[GoingMyWay]

These are a bit of a cop out since it's not really made from scratch.  Wednesday night we had Kung Pao Chicken from Trader Joe's and yesterday for lunch I tried B&M Baked Beans and B&M Bread.  The Kung Pao Chicken is surprisingly good considering it's mass produced and comes frozen in a bag.

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Anyone else a fan of the B&M Beans and/or Canned Bread?  This is my first time trying either.  I thought it wasn't bad - the beans weren't too sweet.

 

[Tinker]

>>>Anyone else a fan of the B&M Beans and/or Canned Bread?  This is my first time trying either.  I thought it wasn't bad - the beans weren't too sweet. [wink] [wink]

 

[Cheese]

I rather like B&M beans. They have a nice, subtle molasses taste.

 

[GoingMyWay]

>>>Anyone else a fan of the B&M Beans and/or Canned Bread?  This is my first time trying either.  I thought it wasn't bad - the beans weren't too sweet. [wink] [wink]

 

[Tinker]

>>>Anyone else a fan of the B&M Beans and/or Canned Bread?  This is my first time trying either.  I thought it wasn't bad - the beans weren't too sweet. [wink] [wink]