favorite food thread

[Kacie_bride]

Let's post some of our favorite dishes!!!!

http://riverbarge.theacademyhost.com/images/cajuns/crawfish.jpg

My all time favorite-boiled crawfish

[SerendipityCrafts]

never tried those ....

I posted this somewhere before but here it is again. This recipe won me a Jenair oven and $500 of beef from a fancy dancy beef restaurant one year and a kitchenaid blender another year.

I posted the recipe to recipezaar.com; my favourite food website (http://www.recipezaar.com/67491) & I have five 5 star reviews so far :)

"Prize Winning Marinade for Beef" Recipe #67491
posted Jul 25, 2003

3¼ hours 15 min prep
1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup soy sauce
4-5 cloves garlic, crushed
40 whole peppercorns, crushed
1 sirloin tip roast or blade roast or round roast or prime rib roast or london broil beef
1 pint sour cream

Using a food processor- Crush peppercorns until fine.
Add garlic to processor and crush.
Add soy sauce, worchestershire sauce and lemon juice and blend.
Pour mixture into giant zip lock freezer bag and add the meat to be marinated (even the cheapest cuts of beef will taste like prime rib!).
Seal bag.
Refrigerate for 48 hours (turn bag every time you open the fridge door).
Reserve the marinade for later use.
Barbeque the meat as you would normally however, I prefer to cook the meat very VERY slowly using an indirect cooking method- only ONE side of the barbeque is lit and turned down to low.
The meat is placed on the one side of the barbeque which is off, over a pan of water, which sits on the barbeque rocks.
Note: total barbeque time depends on the size of beef roast.
Relax while your dinner cooks.
Put marinade on the stove and bring to a boil.
Add just enough marinade to some sour cream, to make a sauce to drizzle over the cooked meat.
Sit back and enjoy the compliments.

[brewsells]

That sounds so yummy, Elizabeth. i am going to try it for sure!!

My fav food is steamed crab.

[BriansBride07]

My favorite is Lasagna

[Kacie_bride]

never tried those ....




Oh, they are soooo good! That would be one thing I would really miss if I lived in an area that didn't have mud bugs.

[septemberbride06]

Oh, they are soooo good! That would be one thing I would really miss if I lived in an area that didn't have mud bugs.

what is a mud bug????!!!!:snide:

[SerendipityCrafts]

Oh, they are soooo good! That would be one thing I would really miss if I lived in an area that didn't have mud bugs.

What do they taste like? Any type of seafood? Crab? Lobster?

How do you eat them? they look rather small ...

[Kacie_bride]

what is a mud bug????!!!!

a crawfish or crayfish

http://www.bayoudog.com/i/articleimages/mudbug_madness_crawfish.jpg

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/aquacult/images/crawfish.jpe

http://oceanography.tamu.edu/News/crawfish%20boil/Crawfish%20Pot.png.sm.png (http://oceanography.tamu.edu/News/crawfish%20boil/Crawfish%20Pot.jpg)

http://www.killthebird.com/blog/images/mar/crawfish.jpg

[septemberbride06]

a crawfish or crayfish

http://www.bayoudog.com/i/articleimages/mudbug_madness_crawfish.jpg

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/aquacult/images/crawfish.jpe

http://oceanography.tamu.edu/News/crawfish%20boil/Crawfish%20Pot.png.sm.png (http://oceanography.tamu.edu/News/crawfish%20boil/Crawfish%20Pot.jpg)

http://www.killthebird.com/blog/images/mar/crawfish.jpg



oh, duh!!! sorry.

[Kacie_bride]

What do they taste like? Any type of seafood? Crab? Lobster?

How do you eat them? they look rather small ...

Step 1
Gently twist the head apart from the tail and set the head aside.

Step 2
Peel away 2 to 3 segments of shell from the tail to expose more meat.
Step 3
Pinch the bottom end of the tail while carefully pulling the meat out of the shell.
Step 4
For an extra mouthful of flavor, gently suck the seasoned juices out of the head, or insert a finger into the cavity and scoop out the golden “fat”.

http://www.zatarain.com/images/zat_noc_boil_howpeel.gif

[Kacie_bride]

It's hard to describe the taste. They are like shrimp, but the texture is different. They are defiantely way more spicey than shrimp. They also don't taste as fishy as shrimp.

[septemberbride06]

My favorite is Poppyseed Chicken. My mom taught me how to make it, it is AWESOME!!!!
I do not have any pictures, but I will try to post the recipe up here sometime.

You know what?? we should all start a recipe book with recipes from everyone. or have it set up to where someone cooks someone's recipe a different night of the week. (Like a chain recipe thing)
Sorry, I did not explain it very well, do you guys know what I mean???

:whoa:

[cowboysbride]

Step 1
Gently twist the head apart from the tail and set the head aside.

Step 2
Peel away 2 to 3 segments of shell from the tail to expose more meat.
Step 3
Pinch the bottom end of the tail while carefully pulling the meat out of the shell.
Step 4
For an extra mouthful of flavor, gently suck the seasoned juices out of the head, or insert a finger into the cavity and scoop out the golden “fat”.

http://www.zatarain.com/images/zat_noc_boil_howpeel.gif


BAARRRRRRRRRRFFFFF...:purplex:you had me until "for an extra mouthful of flavor....suck the seasoned juices out of the head":buck:

[Kacie_bride]

BAARRRRRRRRRRFFFFF...:purplex:you had me until "for an extra mouthful of flavor....suck the seasoned juices out of the head":buck:

Hahaha. It's not really that bad. The head just has all the seasonings. You have never had crawfish?

[cowboysbride]

Nope never...are those the same things that we find in the creek beds here hiding under rocks? We call 'em crawdads...???

[cowboysbride]

But now that I think about it...I could prolly do it...My aunt's ex boyfriend used to castrate the steers instead of banding them (banding is so much better for all involved) and we breaded, fried and ate that!

[hummingbird521]

But now that I think about it...I could prolly do it...My aunt's ex boyfriend used to castrate the steers instead of banding them (banding is so much better for all involved) and we breaded, fried and ate that!

Now it is my turn to hurl. oh gross, that just sounds bad.

[BriansBride07]

Crawdads whatever you want to call them are the best. I have them everytime we go to the local Asian Buffet YUMMMY im with you Kacie they are one of my Favorite

[cowboysbride]

Crawdads whatever you want to call them are the best. I have them everytime we go to the local Asian Buffet YUMMMY im with you Kacie they are one of my Favorite

I would prolly eat them lol it's the biting off the heads and sucking juices thing that grosses me out LMAO! I'll have to look at the China Garden buffet next time I go....never thought about them being there!

[cowboysbride]

Now it is my turn to hurl. oh gross, that just sounds bad.


Oh those are sooooooo good! Pig (Mt. Oysters) are good too!

[hummingbird521]

Oh those are sooooooo good! Pig (Mt. Oysters) are good too!

Ok, all this talk about sucking heads and eating balls is getting to me. when is my DH going to be home. :) :bbredface:

[BriansBride07]

The asian buffet we go to they call them baby lobsters but we have always called them crawdads some of the other resterants call them crawdads or crawfish. all the same to me,

[cowboysbride]

Ok, all this talk about sucking heads and eating balls is getting to me. when is my DH going to be home. :) :bbredface:


SNORT!:laugh: ...don't get too rough on the "young fella"

[Jenn060306]

I'm pretty boring. My favourite food is pasta. Pretty much any way. I don't eat much meat and i don't eat any fish. yuck! lol.

You can find small crayfish here in the lakes and stuff. Prarie oysters are popular out west too. not so much here.

[BriansBride07]

:rofl: he's in for it when he gets home tonight look out

Ok, all this talk about sucking heads and eating balls is getting to me. when is my DH going to be home. :) :bbredface:

[hummingbird521]

SNORT!:laugh: ...don't get too rough on the "young fella"

LMAO, he's in training.

[SerendipityCrafts]

BAARRRRRRRRRRFFFFF...:purplex:you had me until "for an extra mouthful of flavor....suck the seasoned juices out of the head":buck:

lol ditto here. Reminds me of my Mom ... she eats that green & red **** that is in the body of a lobster. No thank you!

I have seen crawfish here but if you saw the creek that they came out of or the size of them, you wouldn't eat them.

How about some cod tongue and cheek anyone?

[Jenn060306]

lol ditto here. Reminds me of my Mom ... she eats that green & red **** that is in the body of a lobster. No thank you!

I have seen crawfish here but if you saw the creek that they came out of or the size of them, you wouldn't eat them.

How about some cod tongue and cheek anyone?


yuck.... there is somthing wrong imo with eating the eggs of another animal/fish/creature.... When i read your post it reminded me of Iron Chef when they scrape out all the guts of the lobster or whatever bizzar critter they are serving up.
I have a love hate relationship with Iron Chef.... it's fun to watch cooking like its a sport. But gross cause..... yeah. I think i have a weak stomic for food and meat prep.

[cowboysbride]

I love Iron Chef but even me (who eats bull balls) has to turn it sometimes!

[rainbowtreat]

Ok call me boring as well as my favorite food is chicken. You can gix it just about any way and I love it. I will take a nice steak now and then or a nice piece of fish but give me chicken and I am in heaven.

[BriansBride07]

How about some cod tongue and cheek anyone?

K couldn't let this one go call me weird gross or whatever but I was around my grandfather alot growing up so i've had some pretty weird food. Actually its not so bad. Fish eggs not so bad with a little marg. as for the tongue gotta love it had cow tongue before YUMMY fry it up like a steak and peel off the tallow and chow down. All it is, is mind over what your eating. I will try anything once.

[nic1124]

:hungry: Some of you people eat some wierd food! LMAO! I am mostly Italian but my favorite food is mexican. Enchiladas are my favorite.

[Kacie_bride]

I would prolly eat them lol it's the biting off the heads and sucking juices thing that grosses me out LMAO! I'll have to look at the China Garden buffet next time I go....never thought about them being there!

No, you don't bite the heads off. You pull it off. The shell is not for eating. The ones we eat do not come from ditches or creeks. They are farmed.

[cowboysbride]

No, you don't bite the heads off. You pull it off. The shell is not for eating. The ones we eat do not come from ditches or creeks. They are farmed.

Oh Kacie I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend...the only place I have seen them is in creeks...I assumed the ones that you posted were way to large and healthy looking to be from a creek! I think they sound yummy...I was just funning! I know better than to eat the shell:winktongue: !

[brewsells]

I was just funning! I know better than to eat the shell:winktongue: !

That reminds me of when I was a kid, my folks fixed shrimp. We were all sitting down eating when they asked me what the heck was crunching. Yeah, that was me eating the shell and all! LOL

I love most of the "weird" foods you all are talking about. You name it, I have tried it for the most part.

[cowboysbride]

First time I ever had the shrimp at the Asian restaurant (the white ones with the legs and shells still on) I popped the whole thing in my mouth!

[Kacie_bride]

Oh Kacie I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend...the only place I have seen them is in creeks...I assumed the ones that you posted were way to large and healthy looking to be from a creek! I think they sound yummy...I was just funning! I know better than to eat the shell:winktongue: !

Oh goodness Ellen I didn't take any offense to your post at all!!!! :) I know the idea of eating them gets to people! It is just really really common around here. We live about an hour drive from the Louisiana border so we lots and lots of things that make people cringe. We eat gator, crawfish, frog legs, and lots of other seafood/cajun food. Some people around where I live are actually more like the Louisiana culture than the Texan culture. We also have a lot of Mexican influence, so we eat really weird things. Some people eat cow head. I haven't gone there, but not to say that I wouldn't try it.