The food and drink forum blog thread.

[RAGER]

Pastry dough. Eggs, flour. Better yet just the yolks.

[RAGER]

Or butter. Depends.

[Pissy]

I can live with the $1 banquet being the go to incubator pot pie.  Thanks for the hard work.  How'd the wife like them?

[Muffin Man]

settle for no less. Might be good to have a case of those in the freezer.

[RAGER]

You know what I've never done?  Not even once?  Utilized Uber Eats or DoorDash or any third party delivery service.

[RAGER]

Lardo, a super killer sandwich shop here, has done a thing the last couple years called the Citizenwich where anybody can submit a sandwich idea and name a charity where proceeds will go. I'm brainstorming ideas for this currently. It'll be in the menu for the month of January.

I want it to be unique of course but not too much so that it's difficult to prepare en masse rendering it a non qualifier. I'll be sketching out some ideas today. It'd be cool if my sandwich made the cut. Lots of competition though so....

[Pissy]

Erik was just telling me about this.  Good luck!

[RAGER]

Thanks. Lotta competition.

Imma try to start a focaccia and ciabatta dough today for more testing of a couple others.

Here's a couple ideas that probably won't make the cut.

Banh mi variation.






Vietnamese baguette specifically, fried then braised pork belly (with garlic, shallots, lemongrass, coriander seed, chilis, fish sauce, shrimp paste and palm sugar), hard steamed egg, cukes, naem sausage, cilantro, kimchi'd shredduce, spicy garlic chilli mayo.


Torta








My house made chorizo


Chorizo, rancho beans, squash, pepper jack, puya guajillo chili sauce, pickled white onions, carrots, cilantro and shredduce for some cronch on bolillo

[Pissy]

Well, the ones that don't make the cut will be fun to eat. 

[RAGER]

You gotta get to the Mercado early if you're going on a Sunday. I got there at 8:30am and the place was jumpin. Everywhere I went I was standing in line or navigating through. Came away with some real queso Oaxaca, carnitas, chicharrones de carne and cemita de trigo. More sandwich recipe testing.

[RAGER]

Ok. Here's my sandwich submission.

Squash Buckler Torta
Refried charro beans, chorizo, fine strands of queso Oaxaca draped over, pork scraps, lime seasoned cilantro and shredduce, dried Mexican oregano, pickled white onion, pickled jalapeño, Tajin spiked crema applied with squeeze bottle, chili spiced squash schmear on the top bun of butter toasted cemita. Telera or bolillo would work too.
Non-profit: The Feral Cat Coalition




Chorizo ingredients

[Muffin Man]

boom there it is

[Pissy]

While I'm sure it's a legitimate charity with dedicated people, The Feral Cat Coalition sounds like a riot grrl band.  

The sandwich is pretty impressive.  

[RAGER]

It does haha!  I've had dealings with them for many years going back to the ex.

Don't know when we find out who won but I'll let ya know. On to other things now.

[Pissy]

Picked up this years venison the other say. I'd say this was about 70lbs worth.  $123 In butcher fees.  And I need to make the guy 5lbs of summer sausage. 

[mortlock]

Send some steaks my way. I will feature it in an episode.

[RAGER]

That's a fair deal.

[Pissy]

Ha.  With this package deal, there's one cut I haven't seen.  Backstraps.  I guess they're reserved for the hunter.  Not surprised.