What can you expect in the Food Thread on PF?

[turbo]

The weather is supposed to be nice again tomorrow, so my wife and I are inviting my father down for a cook-out. I'm going to make some more marinated grilled shrimp, this time with 2-3 ghost peppers instead of 1. We're also going to have grilled stuffed chilies. Stuffed with cream cheese and bacon, and topped with Monterey Jack.

 

[Evo]

I'm watching in horror as a guest on the Paula Deen show is filling cupcakes with chocolate ganache, dipping the cakes in batter, then deep frying them. OMG. WHY?

Oh wait, you have to put powdered sugar on them then serve them with ice cream.

 

[rhody]

Enjoy the book!

Last minute thought... If it IS a smoked ghost, do you think the seeds would still be viable?

I doubt it, especially, if the smoking process included a fair amount of heat, I don't think the seeds could handle it. I can throw some in the mail to you, no problem, say the word, and they are yours.

Rhody...

 

[HeLiXe]

I'm watching in horror as a guest on the Paula Deen show is filling cupcakes with chocolate ganache, dipping the cakes in batter, then deep frying them. OMG. WHY?

Oh wait, you have to put powdered sugar on them then serve them with ice cream.

Did Paula put some butter on it after everything?

 

[Evo]

Evo child dropped by tonight as I was beginning to eat the last of my shephard's pie. She grabbed the plate and started eating and screaming at me for not inviting her over to eat. I have been commanded to make her a sheppard's pie of her own tomorrow. I will have to buy a foil casserole dish. My cookware seems to go to her place, but never comes back.

 

[turbo]

She cannot make something as simple as shepherd's pie? Why has she not starved to death already? Does she buy all of her food from take-out joints? At some point, you should practice tough love and insist that she spend time with you and learn to cook some basic dishes. The time together would be good for you both, and passing on the minimal skill-set to make a few comfort foods would be a bit of assurance to any guy that marries her.

When I was in college, I could not afford to eat out (except rarely), and if I did not know how to make pea soup, baked beans, biscuits, spaghetti, bread, real mac 'n cheese (expensive, because I loved real sharp aged cheddar), soups and stews, New England boiled dinners, etc, I would have been up a creek.

If I could stand the exposure to peoples' cosmetics, I could run a food-basics boot camp. Send the clueless here (for a price) and I'll send them back with some basic kitchen know-how. If they are hungry, they will learn how to cook with my help. If they want to take the easy way out, they can walk the ~6miles round-trip to the nearest store to buy junk food or sandwiches. An old friend of mine married an Italian guy (long dead), and it was a "mixed" marriage in that she is an Irish Catholic and her husband was Italian Catholic. She got her mother-in-law's blessing only after she spent about a month living with the mother-in-law and learning how to make her husband-to-be's favorite Italian dishes. Tough love.

 

[rhody]

I just made enchilada's and put bits of ghost in it, very good, just enough heat.
Two thumbs up !

Rhody...

 

[Evo]

She cannot make something as simple as shepherd's pie? Why has she not starved to death already? Does she buy all of her food from take-out joints? At some point, you should practice tough love and insist that she spend time with you and learn to cook some basic dishes. The time together would be good for you both, and passing on the minimal skill-set to make a few comfort foods would be a bit of assurance to any guy that marries her.

While she was living with me last year she decided to learn to cook. She got a couple of great cookbooks that taught everything form how to shop for fresh veggies and meat to boiling water, and she started cranking out the most delicious gourmet meals.

The problem is she doesn't have time. She *starts* work at 6am, goes to school full time, holds 2 part time jobs and a research position. She gets home usually around 10:30PM and then she can start doing homework. She's exhausted, she does get some time off during the week when she can get out of work, but it's usually spent running errands.

 

[rhody]

Evo expressed some concerns about the heat of ghost chili's awhile back.

As luck would have it, a friend IM'd me this: http://science.slashdot.org/story/1...lashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Reader"

Paul Bosland, professor of horticulture at New Mexico State University and director of the Chile Pepper Institute, says that chili peppers can indeed cause death — but most people's bodies would falter long before they reached that point. 'Theoretically, one could eat enough really hot chiles to kill you,' says Bosland adding that a research study in 1980 calculated that three pounds of the hottest peppers in the world — something like the Bhut Jolokia — eaten all at once could kill a 150-pound person.

Here is evidence from a link in the article above what Astronuc says is true, it addition, low hanging peppers are hotter than higher hanging ones.

One ASTA pungency unit is equivalent to about 15 SHUs. Out of tradition, the Scoville scale remains, so ASTA pungency units are multiplied by 15 and the results are given in SHUs. Yet even with precise tools, determining which strain of pepper is consistently the hottest is tricky. “The pungency in chili peppers is 50 percent genetic and 50 percent environmental,” DeWitt says. “Pods that grow lower down on the plant are hotter. Stress on the plants, if water is withheld perhaps, makes them hotter.”

Who would pay almost 600 bucks for this stuff, apparently some would, or they wouldn't be selling it.

For example, Blair’s Reserve 16 Million Crystals hot sauce claims an SHU of 16 million and retails for $595 a bottle.

Several university studies have suggested that capsaicin consumption can aid in weight loss and inhibit tumor growth. When it is applied topically, nerves can be overwhelmed and the skin goes numb. There’s even a capsaicin patch for joint pain. But the scientists at the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation have a more nefarious plan for the Bhut Jolokia--pepper-bomb hand grenades.

Rhody...

 

[WhoWee]

Evo expressed some concerns about the heat of ghost chili's awhile back.

As luck would have it, a friend IM'd me this: http://science.slashdot.org/story/1...lashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+Reader"

Here is evidence from a link in the article above what Astronuc says is true, it addition, low hanging peppers are hotter than higher hanging ones.

Who would pay almost 600 bucks for this stuff, apparently some would, or they wouldn't be selling it.

Rhody...

My doctor gave me a green light on ghosts - inquiry due to high blood pressure. He said I'd be better off eating just the peppers - rather than the stuff I normally put them on.

 

[turbo]

My doctor gave me a green light on ghosts - inquiry due to high blood pressure. He said I'd be better off eating just the peppers - rather than the stuff I normally put them on.

Peppers are good for you. Cream cheese, bacon, and Monterey jack (like my wife and I like to dress up jalapenoes) aren't so good for your health, if you indulge frequently.

I crunched down most of a ghost not long after I'd visited my doctor and he said that my BP was high. I measured my BP with a nice Panasonic BP meter that my wife bought, and it was 128 over 82. I can live with that.

 

[rhody]

My doctor gave me a green light on ghosts - inquiry due to high blood pressure. He said I'd be better off eating just the peppers - rather than the stuff I normally put them on.

Oh, God...

Unless your palate and sympathetic nervous system is conditioned for it, pleaseeeee be careful. I am building tolerance slowly. Putting small amounts in salsa, recipes, etc... and last weekend Patron in a frozen shot glass, works for me, although not highly recommended for the faint of heart. Turbo seems to have no problem with them, and I am happy for him. He is an exception, and not the norm. My BP is no problem 110/60, I must be some kind of freak I guess.

Rhody...

 

[WhoWee]

Peppers are good for you. Cream cheese, bacon, and Monterey jack (like my wife and I like to dress up jalapenoes) aren't so good for your health, if you indulge frequently.

I crunched down most of a ghost not long after I'd visited my doctor and he said that my BP was high. I measured my BP with a nice Panasonic BP meter that my wife bought, and it was 128 over 82. I can live with that.

My home monitor is fairly consistent at 142/105 - with 3 pills and roughly 1.25 gallons of water daily. Hot/spicy food doesn't seem to have any impact - salt is another issue altogether.

 

[Evo]

My home monitor is fairly consistent at 142/105 - with 3 pills and roughly 1.25 gallons of water daily. Hot/spicy food doesn't seem to have any impact - salt is another issue altogether.

Make sure you take your monitor to the doctor and have them check it against theirs, turns out my very expensive new monitor was way off, got my money back.

Perhaps your doctor should try you on a different med, I take one tablet daily and it reduces my non-medicated BP of 215/135 to usually 120/80 or 90. 142/105 with meds is not good.

 

[WhoWee]

Make sure you take your monitor to the doctor and have them check it against theirs, turns out my very expensive new monitor was way off, got my money back.

Perhaps your doctor should try you on a different med, I take one tablet daily and it reduces my non-medicated BP of 215/135 to usually 120/80 or 90. 142/105 with meds is not good.

My machine is typically very close to the doctor's readings. Unregulated, my readings are also quite ugly - especially when stressed.

 

[turbo]

After getting a high reading, my new doctor asked me to come back in a couple of weeks, and bring my wife's BP monitor, because I told him that the high reading was due to fragrance chemicals in his office, and that my BP at home was quite normal. That Panasonic EW3019 BP monitor was almost dead on against his old mercury-column sphygnomanometer (sp?). Within one point at the top and bottom numbers, measured a few seconds apart on separate upper-arms.

The readings in his office were both high (and agreed), though my BP the next day was 128 over 82. I can live with that.

 

[rhody]

I came home to find a surprise, don't remember ordering anything lately, so the box was a surprise. It seems that Turbo decided to send me some of his habanero relish and a Laconia T shirt. Thanks, I appreciate it, I can smell and see the garlic. We are buying some high end hot dogs, and I can't wait to try it. I sampled a bit, pretty hot, but a real nice flavor. I looked real close and didn't see any ghost bits, but that would be hard to tell if he used the not ripe ones, you didn't did you ?

On the subject of food again, our contractor friend who did our bamboo floors left three on the window sill to ripen. His mother in law comes over to his house, intending to make dinner while her son in law and daughter are at work. She is making chourico and peppers. Not knowing the window sill peppers were ghosts, were she takes the three peppers chops them up and cooks them along with regular peppers. Holy crap !

Her daughter told my wife over the phone, she became concerned when her fingers wouldn't stop burning . She had no idea what a ghost pepper is, long story short they ate the chourico and peppers, and got as expected mixed reviews, her son in law loves them, and others were amazed at the heat and backed off accordingly. Is their a moral to this story, mother in law takes it on herself to make a meal for her daughter and son in law and meets the devil or in this case devils ghost himself on the windowsill. I can't make this up folks, truly, I can't.

Rhody...

 

[turbo]

The T-shirt was one that my wife kept saying (get rid of that) and I used it for packinging. You can use it for polishing your bike or whatever. I apologize for the wimpy character of the chili relish - that's the best that I had this year.

 

[turbo]

Last night, I had hot dogs with the '11 habanero relish and hot mustard on them. I miss the heat of the earlier stuff, but at least this batch of relish is better than I could ever have made with the store-bought habanero chilies. I am SO glad that we have a place with a decent garden-spot. Next time I have a decent year for chilies, I'm going to have to make up a lot of relish. I have an unopened case of Ball half-pint jars and lids in the closet in the garage - wishful thinking, perhaps, but there's always next year. I have 6 of the small jars of this years' relish in the pantry. They won't carry me though to next year, but I'll find a way to get by. My wife got a deal on some bottles of "The Mex" hot sauce a while back, so I'll dig into them and find ways to substitute here and there.

 

[HeLiXe]

I had a chicken biscuit from chick fil a and I was totally impressed. It really tasted like someone made it fresh just for me...like an aunt or a granma<3

 

[Evo]

Made a super simple and yummy dish tonight. Cooked some rice, added a can of Hunts petite diced tomatoes and some cheese, stirred until the cheese melted. YUM!

 

[dlgoff]

I love poached eggs but can never get them right, so I bought one of these cheap vegetable steamers.

It works great and I'm having poached eggs with salsa. (no ghost peppers today though )

 

[lisab]

Ah...the heavenly pleasure of simple, oven-roasted chicken.

 

[lisab]

Leftover chicken is pretty good.

 

[Evo]

Leftover chicken is pretty good.

Mmmmmm, always.

 

[turbo]

Leftover chicken is pretty good.

My wife and I like chopping leftover chicken and stir-frying it in peanut oil to make fillings for wraps. Chop onions, peppers, etc, and get them just right, and get the vegetables out of the skilled, and dump in the chopped chicken. Mix the browned chicken with the vegetables and wrap the mix in soft tortillas, cover with marinara in a casserole dish and top with Mexican cheeses and bake. Those enchilada dishes don't last long around here.

 

[FlexGunship]

Flex doesn't cook, but his housekeeper is making him some chili tonight! Woo woo!

 

[WhoWee]

Flex doesn't cook, but his housekeeper is making him some chili tonight! Woo woo!

Not Woo woo - its Who Weeeee!

 

[WhoWee]

Has anyone eaten at BURGERFI? They're located around Ft. Lauderdale and Delray Beach, FL.

 

[FlexGunship]

Not Woo woo - its Who Weeeee!

I think I know what I mean.