Food 2: Chew Harder • Page 29

gonna need a pic of the post-oven jala-buff dip poppers

 

Can we get a round jala peno poppers for me and the boys?

 

Forgot to take photos but this weekend my girlfriend and I made bbq chicken in the crockpot, esquites, and twice baked green chile potatoes. Still dreaming about it two days later

 

I wish the chicken seared better but still ended up tasting pretty good. Some chicken seasoned with salt, pepper, poultry seasoning cooked in olive oil. Removed and added white wine, butter, then garlic to make a sauce before adding it back in. With steamed broccoli and cheddar

 

Made a pizza to use up the rest of our mortadella with garlic lemon cream sauce, shallot, artichokes, and parm. I love mortadella so much

 

I decided to enter my pumpkin bread into the OC Fair baking competition. Got to turn it in on Tuesday, but now I'm second guessing myself and wondering if I need to put a twist on it or if my original recipe is enough.

 

Good luck!

This looks perfect.

 

So i almost started a kitchen fire this weekend and am curious on the science for why this happened. I think I know why but holy shit, it was scary.

I marinated some shrimp in olive oil, red wine vineger spices like garlic, onion, etc and then it sat it in the fridge for like an hour or 2. I then heated a pan (dry) since the oil was in the marinade, and I didn't think it was that hot, but when I poured in the shrimp it absolutely exploded. I mean it was like a 1' high or more flame above the pan wicking up at the microwave and the cabinet. I immediately pulled it off the stove, and just stood with it flaming away from anything it could ignite. The stove was going crazy (gas) - that was even roaring up more so than usual, so I just waited till the pan was out, put it down and then turned the stove off and took a deep breath that I didn't burn my face off or or ignite anything around the stove.

I mean I know olive oil is flammable, but ive always heard it smokes for a minute before igniting. Was it the cold oil to instantly hot? I really didn't think the pan was that hot but it was a pan I don't typically use so maybe, but man, it was a literal fire that was just roaring for a good 10 seconds before it went out. My back up was to try put the flaming pan somewhere safe and get a bigger pan to smother it but I didn't have anywhere to set it down.

 

Maybe the water from the shrimp and the olive oil mixing?

 

You likely aerosolized any non-oil liquid by putting the marinade into a hot pan, which sprayed the oil into the air and caused it to ignite.

 

It was crazy, never had anything like it happen before but for a second I literally thought my kitchen was going up in flames. May not have been as bad as I'm making it out to be, but in the moment it shook me up.

 

@LightWithoutHeat and @imthesheriff are probably right. Water from the shrimp mixed with the oil, immediate heat caused the water to expand and oil from the pan splattered out onto the fire igniting the whole thing.

 

Kitchen fires are for sure scary.

 

Will one of you recreate this and try it

 

I just came around on pickles but fuck no

 

If those were fried pickles I’d fuck that thing up.

 

I’d eat it.

 

they have something very similar at spak brothers in pittsburgh and it’s one of the best things i’ve eaten

 

Spak brothers rules. There’s a bunch of places around Pittsburgh that make something like that and it’s an abomination.

 

made probably the best banana bread of my life today.
not sure if it was the extra banana, the butter actually being soft for mixing, or the extra 1/4 cup of brown sugar layered over the top, but this is it.





also made some tasty potato salad. subbed the recipes bell peppers for jalapeños, and added the family secret of a pinch or two of sugar.

 

then I picked up this chicken sandwich and bbq baked beans from one of the Animales BBQ, one of the best spots in town for a post-bike ride treat.



it was just a shredded chicken patty vs a cutlet or breast, but the nashville sauce was still great, and they have some of the best house pickles.

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/KQ5bUkk6iW0?feature=share

 

Sun-dried tomato, hummus, basil, and lemon pasta for dinner.

 

Hot dog summer in full swing: