TOMATO POTATO. A real moment of inspiration lol. One for the “shitty food porn” files
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Nice, love rabbit
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O looks like he’s on Socarrat Patrol!!
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Last meal of 2022. Had a Goldbelly gift certificate and chose Oklahoma Joes over Russ & Daughters for breakfast. Supplemented with queso, jalapeño cornbread and some veggies. The BBQ was easy to reheat and delicious. Pork ribs were tremendous. Brisket was tasty but wish it wasn’t sliced so thinly. The burnt ends are a better choice. Paired with a 2018 Shea Pinot noir. Nice pairing.
Happy New Year friends. All the best in 2023.
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Heating up pies in the oven counts as home cooking? Flaky Apple Pie Co in Costa Mesa. Delicious. The crumb and flavor of the apple pie was spot on. As good as it gets. Only small quibble was wish there were more apples. The pecan pie was well balanced with more pecans than other versions and not overly sweet. The crusts on both pies were flaky as advertised and delightful. We will order from here again.
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So on the paella . I’m glad that we finally have a pan and got everything together and tried it for the first time. It’ll of course take a lot of effort to get it right and to dial in flavor combinations but it’s very exciting.
This rice works well, though i’m sure we’ll try Bomba soon as well. I found that for this 20 inch pan, 1 kilo of rice was too much. Though since we loaded it up with meat it worked out but i’ll reduce both next time. Water needed to be added multiple times to cook it through, likely partly because of the rice quantity . Not an issue except the first effort definitely lead to overcooked rice. Socarrat worked out very well but the main rice was too cooked. Need to anticipate next time and pull it off earlier because it does keep finishing in the pan.
Rabbit, chicken, beans, tomato combo works very well. For me it’s almost too rich with all the rabbit flavor. I’m not as into it as she is. On the day, while drinking it’s great! But leftovers? No, dont even want to keep revisiting. Hope to find a smaller bunny next time. Also really want to find that spanish low starch Garrofon beans. Snails, the only other traditional ingridient i probably can do without in this, so curious if a bit of dried mushroom would do the trick of providing more earthiness.
Fire control is tricky as expected so have to have plenty of wood of various thickness to bump up flame as needed. Lucky here in the sticks finding sticks is easy.
Anyway. It’s great fun. The 20 inch pan is perfect for about 2 families.
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Bomba is great stuff. It absorbs more water than others.
If you use snails you might want to finish them on rosemary.
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definitely used rosemary… the rice i had was spanish too just not bomba.
Keto-friendly “Italian” stuffed pepper.
Ground beef, Italian sausage, reggiano, mozzarella. I made keto bread crumbs (1g net carbs) from my keto bread.
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