FOOD: Frying Potatoes

I was looking for an excuse to cook up something in my cast-iron skillet, and I had some red potatoes, so I put 2 + 2 together & decided to fry up some sliced and shoestring potatoes.

I had some vegetable oil, enough to cover the skillet surface about 1/4 inch. I will try this again with bacon grease next time. The thin slices came out just like potatoe chips, and the thicker ones more like french fries. My potato peeler has a section where you can push through a frech fry shaped raw potato and it slices it into 3 shoestring potatoes. They cooked the fastest and were dee-lish.




These potatoes came out great. I love being able to cook up my own food without making a huge production out of it. It stank up the house a little bit, but it was worth it.

St. Patty's Day

St. Patrick's Day - enjoy!



I've had some trouble with putting links up onto this blog, so if you have a tech support issue, try this:

www.2stews.com/2010/03/guinness-irish-stew.html

Oh, and follow your dreams!!!

Donsta

Guide To Hamburger Styles

Here's some interesting reading for anyone into hamburgers & cheeseburgers. It's from http://aht.seriouseats.com/ which is the "A Hamburger Today" section of the SeriousEats website.

You know what they say, a hamburger a day...

Here's the article on hamburger & cheeseburger 'styles', of which there are many:

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/09/a-guide-to-glossary-of-regional-american-burger-cheeseburger-styles-and-cooking-methods.html?ref=se-bb2

Mmmmm, hamburgers....

Plus, now an article that tells me more about them.

Enjoy.

Labbatt's Porter, And Federal Meats Bacon/Cheddar Patties

We've all heard of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Combining peanut butter with chocolate, makes for a good candy.

http://www.hersheys.com/reeses/

Well, I found 2 other great tastes that go great together: Labbatt's Porter beer, and Bacon/Cheddar hamburger patties from Federal Meats. And of course, the hamburgers are grilled, with mesquite smoking chips.




There was recently a sale on the Labbatt's Porter at the local beverage center. Buy one 6-pack, get one free. This made it a tempting offer.










Federal Meats has lots of cool little specialties, and these bacon & cheddar hamburgers are great. The only thing I don't like is they only come frozen, so I'm going to try my own recipe made from fresh ingredients someday soon.

















I used Kingford Mesquite chips. I also grilled up some sausages at the time.

The only thing wrong with this taste combo is when you switch back to regular burgers & beer. You take a taste and say "What the hell is this? I gotta get the good stuff again."

Marinated Chicken Breast Cutlets

It's been awhile since I've done a BBQ post, so here's one of marinated chicken breast cutlets, marinated in a lemon/pepper marinade. This really dresses up an otherwise bland piece of meat.

I cooked them using the indirect method, with the hot lump charcoal on one side of my Weber Kettle Grill, and the meat on the other side. With the cover on, and with some maple chucks burning along with the charcoal, and with some oak smoking chips made from genuine Jack Daniels oak aging barrels, the smoke flavor was a great combo with the lemon/pepper marinade.

Mmmmmm MMMMMM ! ! !

DEEEELISH.

Plus, when I was lighting the charcoal, I threw in some leftover grease from the kitchen, from bacon and so on. This helped to get the coals sizzling away a bit faster I would guess. Plus it had a nice bacon smell. As Homer Simpson would say: "Mmmmm, bacon."

Smokin'.