Anniversary dinner#4

Smoked Pulled-pork enchiladas smothered in a home-made red sauce. Stuffed with fresh grated cheese and sliced sweet baby-bell peppers. Topped with crème and sriracha with a touch of cilantro.

Lastnight: sausage gnocchi bake. Very tasty!

Here is my most recent great find. A 60” American Range unit. Double oven, 6 burner, griddle top and broiler below. This will be an excellent addition to my shop kitchen build. The lady bought it new and only used it to can on. Griddle and oven have never been used. $500 out the door.

Cooked a one skillet hash with some of last seasons deer sausage. I smoked the sausage Thursday night and made the rest of the dish lastnight. Simple as simple gets, but fresh ingredients almost always equal a win at the dinner table. Just wish the veggies would have been home grown…next year.

Another taco night lastnight. Tacos de carne deshebrada. My boy only has a few teeth, so he got the “deconstructed version” He had all the fixings and ate it all. It amazes me how much a toddler can put down!

Last nights cook: 100% scratch made chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes and sweetcorn. I’m not sure why gravy packets are a thing…homemade is just as easy to make with three ingredients. Kansas-raised beef.

Happy Sunday everyone, put that homemade bacon to good use with an eggs Benedict. The base is a potato cake with an avocado spread, creme, and grape tomatoes, the mrs. even plated this one. Bloody Mary’s are in the works as I type.

Philly cheese steak bake. KS raised beef T bone, rather than traditional ribeye. Cut against the grain, the t bone works just as well.

Marinated turkey breast panini on rye sourdough. Sliced pear, cranberry sauce, avocado, & pepperjack . Sides are a simple salad, dressed with croutons, grated cheddar cheese and 1000 island and the potato is a russet, prepared in the fondant style.

Sourdough pancakes. These are banana. Breakfast perfection.

Steaks and sprouts today.

First time out turkey hunting in years! Not sure why I stopped going.

A few days late but I’ve been out of town. 2 butts.

The final result (from earlier grill prep post)
A beautifully smoke-roasted spatchcock chicken. Processed this one myself, locally raised.

From lastnight: Par-boiled then smashed cheesy-baked potatoes, sweetcorn, whitetail sausage from my brothers buck last year and antelope steaks from a buck that I harvested last year. Delish.

Well so much for keeping it simple lol. I had half a package of manicotti shells from an appetizer I made for NYE, smoked shotgun shells, and some burger that I had cooked and froze to use up. I made a simple Alfredo sauce and added in the burger, quartered and roasted Brussels sprouts and some garlic to the sauce. Stuffed the shells and baked them. If I did it again I’d make 2x the sauce to really drown the shells in it and thin that portion of the sauce out a bit, the sauce for stuffing was the perfect consistency. I used the larger sprouts for the side and of course I added garlic bread to my continual carb load lol. I’ve never seemed to have a problem with carbs, but I don’t eat large portions. What you see on the plate is all I ate for supper.

Taco night! Kansas raised beef tacos with all the fixings and a sriracha-lime aioli. Mmm mmm!

Credit to the Mrs. for this one. Breakfast bagels this morning. A fried egg from our ducks, homemade bacon, pears, apples, caramelized onion, pepper Jack and a honey-fig jam. It was excellent.

Reverse-sear t bones on the big green egg. Roasted green beans in a honey lemon “sauce”, pasta, and a side salad.