What's on the menu Sunday, 3/7/2021 to Saturday, 3/13/2021?

While I was shopping I stopped at the deli and put together a chicken dinner for take away.
Crispy wings, jojo fries and corn, which I thought was mexi-corn at first - but it had a light buttery sauce with red peppers and finely chopped greens.
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Leftover orange chicken and rice tonight.

Cold smoking some fresh Colby cheese from Colby Wisconsin for something to do today.

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Longhorn is hard to find out here. I was spoiled growing up in NE Iowa. The little burg close to my home town had a cheese factory that made longhorn. They shipped the cheese to Wisconsin and aged it there with a Kraft stamp and Made in Wisconsin stamp. My dad would buy green horns and age it in our basement. When I got older and on my own, I did, too. It made the best Mac and cheese and grilled cheese sandwiches.

what wood do you use for smoke? I’d be afraid I’d melt the cheese in my Weber grill.
 
Vegetarian zucchini lasagne, could be vegan if you used nutritional yeast instead of the Parm I used. Could also be a raw foods dish, except I wanted the zucchini cooked a bit. Green and gold zucchini sliced on the mandolin, then grilled with some EVOO and S and P. "Cheese layer" is a macadamia nut cream. Tomato sauce is fresh tomatoes and some of our oven dried tomatoes. Pesto used basil and carrot tops. We'll be having some garlic bread with.
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Longhorn is hard to find out here. I was spoiled growing up in NE Iowa. The little burg close to my home town had a cheese factory that made longhorn. They shipped the cheese to Wisconsin and aged it there with a Kraft stamp and Made in Wisconsin stamp. My dad would buy green horns and age it in our basement. When I got older and on my own, I did, too. It made the best Mac and cheese and grilled cheese sandwiches.

what wood do you use for smoke? I’d be afraid I’d melt the cheese in my Weber grill.
I used apple wood. I put them in my smoker with a smoke tube. I never fired it up. It was 59* inside the smoker. I have an option to run the fan at 30% to keep the smoke moving. You could do this on a regular Weber charcoal grill with a tube I’d think.

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I forgot to mention I have a pellet smoker, so I had fruit wood pellets on hand for the pellet tube. 1.5 hours and then seal it up in a food vac and let it rest for at least 2 weeks in the fridge. I’m no expert - my first time. ;) :mrgreen:
We should have a separate thread on this at another section.

I do have a bag of alder pellets I just remembered I have.
 
Everything looks wonderful, as usual!

Med, that vegetarian lasagna sure makes a beautiful presentation. Sounds delicious, too!

John, that cauliflower "chicken" looks mouth-watering!

I'll copy the posts about smoking cheese into a separate thread.

Lee
 
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