Pan-Fried Chicken Poboy

Pan Fried Chicken

Ok OK .... When dem ol' southern church lady cooks tell you how they make their pan fried chicken ... LISTEN UP.

I wasn't in the mood for potatoes and gravy, but I went ahead and made the roux wit them pan drippins. It will keep in the fridge for weeks, so I can make chicken gravy any time I want - lickety split.

Skinless chicken thighs, soakin' up a lil' buttermilk/hot sauce/egg love.

Happiness Is A Full Cookie Jar

Hot out the oven ~ soft chewy peanut butter/oatmeal cookies

Carolina Chocolate Drops - WMSE Backyard BBQ 2010 (8 of 13)

Chili Cheese Coney Slaw Dogs

Damn tasty, I must admit ~ finished with celery salt & chased wit a cold beer.

Jimmy Martin ~ Ocean of Diamonds

Sunday Meatloaf Dinner

I Like Donuts

Ok Ok, so I'm driving down the street this morning and I see this sign that says: Chocolate Covered Cherry Cake Donuts....

A Proper Weekend Breakfast ~ Steak & Eggs

STKMR 2OM HF DWT COF/B

Oatmeal Pecan Cookies

I like cookies....

Free Curtis Kelly

Jambalaya Stuffed Deviled Eggs

Dusted wit a lil' cajun seasoning

Monte Cristo Sandwich ~ My Way

Honey wheat bread, provolone cheese and deli sliced honey ham ... drizzled with a lil' Steens cane syrup

Jambalaya/Fish Stick Wrap

A buddy of mine brought a box of fish sticks to my Super Bowl party (for his lil' daughter) ... and then had the audacity to leave them here when he left ... now, what am I gonna do with a box of 64 fish sticks, huh? Ain't got no cat, and sure as hell ain't gonna throw them away ... this seemed like a good way to use up a half dozen of them. (g)

Smoked Beef/White Cheddar Mini Chimis

Mini chimichangas filled with smoked/pulled beef chuck, aged white cheddar & deep fried

Nice and crispy ~ sided up with a compound green onion cream cheese and homemade salsa

Tasty lil' buggers, yeh

Superbowl Sunday Jambalaya

It's a beautiful mess, no?

Made with dat good Carolina Plantation rice and homemade chicken stock.

Big 16/20 bronzed shrimps, RT's homemade andouille sausage, Burgers Smokehouse bacon & pulled chicken thigh meat.

Shrimps peeled & deveined, then tossed wit a lil' EVOO & my house blend blacken seasoning.

Hot Sausage Poboy

Homemade sausage ~ hot & spicy cajun chaurice

Dressed traditional & sided up wit some Zapps and homemade 3-bean salad

A poboy done right ... a beautiful thing

Chuck Roll 101

I broke down a whole chuck roll a couple days ago (22# choice grade, aged) used about half of it to grind along with pork butt to make homemade sausage ... and cut the rest of it into chuckeye steaks, chuck roasts and ground some for making chili. Above pic shows a 14 oz. lipon chuckeye steak on the left and a 3# chuck roast on the right. Pot roast on the menu for early next week, ah garrontee!

The chuck roll and the rib roll (think prime rib roasts or ribeye steaks) sub-primals are right next to each other ... so where the ribeye ends, the chuckeye begins ... and that transition is gradient, meaning there ain't much different between the last cut ribeye steak (about $9/lb) and the first cut chuckeye steak (about $2/lb) you see above. KNOW your cuts of meat.

Makin' Homemade Sausage

My spice blend for making homemade Texas Hill Country Hot Links Sausage ~ made about 25# of it yesterday ... did it in 2 batches, and each of these bowls seasoned about a 12-13# batch. I use a 60/40 ratio pork butt to beef chuck roll for this sausage ~ stuffed in 28-32mm natural hog gut casings, each coil weighs about 2.5# ~ used good Penzeys spices. Made the sausage for a buddy of mine, who is catering a big Super Bowl party this weekend. We made a patty with the sausage left in the stuffer tube & fried it for a lil' QC taste test ... and it was excellent - just the right amount of heat.

Mediterranean Chicken Soup

Sub-zero temps and 4' snow drifts call for soup. Hearty homemade soup. So I hauled off and threw a big ol' stewin' hen in the pot & commenced to making some soup ~ mice en place determined it to be a Mediterranean inspired soup ... similar to one I used to make when I was Sous Chef at a Mediterranean Bistro in Kansas City. Savory & garlicky ~ secret is the homemade broth, with about 20 whole cloves of garlic!

Kaw-Cajun Loaded Chili Dawg

All beef dawg on a steamed bun w/mustard, pickles, onions, homemade chili, Tillamook cheddar, japs, Zapps, and a drizzle my homemade kaw-cajun spicy/garlicky sauce picante. That's just how I roll...

Lowcountry Shrimp & Grits

One of my favorite dishes from the lowcountry ~ shrimp & grits w/andouille sausage

Sided up with some mustard greens & garnished with bacon

The andouille sausage is homemade by my buddy RT ~ excellent andouille, smoky & spicy just like it's supposed to be ... all in a savory garlicky sauce kicked up wit a lil' Cajun Power