FOOD Just to make you hungry

Doc1

Doc1

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I like to cook and think I'm pretty darned good at it. Much of this is due to my New Orleans heritage. This was, in part, a secret of my dating success back in the day. I'd invite a woman over to my place for dinner - you could see the apprehension in her eyes - and absolutely blow her away with a culinary masterpiece :-) Understand that they're looking at a dude in jeans, a black t-shirt and a cutoff, on a Harley.

"You, er, are going to cook us dinner???" was the frequent, initial response. LOL I just knew they had visions of charcoaled steaks and open cans of green beans! It was great fun to turn their little world around at the dinner table... and later.

Well, I'm an old guy with a gut these days, but I still try to maintain the kitchen skills. Momma does the routine, day to day cooking, but I still sometimes whip up something really special.

Tonight it was a thick, heavy, homemade broccoli-cheddar soup, which started with a homemade roux (using real butter and flour), brocolli, chicken stock and secret ingedients. It also included lots of heavy whipping cream and chedder, as well as parmesan cheese. Your cardiologist would not approve! DW gave it a 10 on her personal 1-10 scale. She's originally from Arkansas, so our tastes differ a bit. When I rate a ten from her, I know I hit her sweet spot!

I only posted this to make you guys hungry! LOL

Best
Doc
 
M

Mary Contrary

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I just ate 2 slices of pizza from the corner store. I'm full now, but I love broccoli cheese soup. I wonder how it would taste with pieces of cooked steak in it?
 
West

West

Senior
Sounds great! Wish I could share that meal with you.

Most Sundays we've been BBQ depending on weather and what not. But have been doing it for years now.

Usually beef ribs with head country, burgers steaks and sometimes pork and or chicken. Cooked over Kingsford coals. And if the grandkids are around Nathan's hotdogs too.

Also usually have home cut potatoes rapped in tinfoil with butter, onions, green peppers, on the grill too.

I do the BBQ and getting better I must say. :D
 
Ku Commando

Ku Commando

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Doc1 said:
Tonight it was a thick, heavy, homemade broccoli-cheddar soup, which started with a homemade roux (using real butter and flour), brocolli, chicken stock and secret ingedients. It also included lots of heavy whipping cream and chedder, as well as parmesan cheese. Your cardiologist would not approve! DW gave it a 10 on her personal 1-10 scale. She's originally from Arkansas, so our tastes differ a bit. When I rate a ten from her, I know I hit her sweet spot!

I only posted this to make you guys hungry! LOL
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ShadowMan

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
I'm with you Bro!!

I think my DW married me because I DON'T need "taken care of" and have skills. The first time she came over to my flat she asked me "So who cleans your place?" My answer was "Me. I field day every Saturday morning." Then had to explain Field Day to her. You veterans know the term well, it's top to bottom, inspection ready cleaning. The next time she came over I made her dinner. The fact that I knew my way around a kitchen still impresses her to this day. Another time she dropped by I was ironing my navy uniforms. Putting military creases into the uniform shirts.....that impressed her. Well laundry services cost money! Her comment. "You're a keeper!" The final nail in my bachelor days was when she wanted to go to a Renaissance Fair in full regalia and I made my Medieval nobleman's costume fully bejeweled, slash and puff sleeves and a proper COD PIECE all from scratch! We bumped into the King of the Faire who congratulated me on my "Well met attire, Good Sir!" She was soooo pissed! This was my first Faire in costume.

As I've mentioned before, my mother held what she called Bachelor Survival Training. Her philosophy was that you shouldn't get married because you need someone to take care of you. We learned how to cook, bake, clean, mend, sew, darn, fold and iron clothes, how to budget, how to plan and prep and properly serve a meal. Both my younger brother and I had to teach our ex-wives how to cook and clean....they didn't have a clue one.

Nothing disgusts me more than a man or woman that doesn't know how to take care of themselves or pretends to not know how to do anything. Helplessness is NOT ATTRACTIVE and STUPID is just down right disgusting beyond belief.
 
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CaryC

CaryC

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Doc1 said:
I like to cook and think I'm pretty darned good at it. Much of this is due to my New Orleans heritage. This was, in part, a secret of my dating success back in the day. I'd invite a woman over to my place for dinner - you could see the apprehension in her eyes - and absolutely blow her away with a culinary masterpiece :-) Understand that they're looking at a dude in jeans, a black t-shirt and a cutoff, on a Harley.

"You, er, are going to cook us dinner???" was the frequent, initial response. LOL I just knew they had visions of charcoaled steaks and open cans of green beans! It was great fun to turn their little world around at the dinner table... and later.

Well, I'm an old guy with a gut these days, but I still try to maintain the kitchen skills. Momma does the routine, day to day cooking, but I still sometimes whip up something really special.

Tonight it was a thick, heavy, homemade broccoli-cheddar soup, which started with a homemade roux (using real butter and flour), brocolli, chicken stock and secret ingedients. It also included lots of heavy whipping cream and chedder, as well as parmesan cheese. Your cardiologist would not approve! DW gave it a 10 on her personal 1-10 scale. She's originally from Arkansas, so our tastes differ a bit. When I rate a ten from her, I know I hit her sweet spot!

I only posted this to make you guys hungry! LOL

Best
Doc
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I give SB a break from time to time. She is a great cook, my tummy will verify, but everyone needs a break from time to time. So I cook.

she has her choice of: Hamburgers, Pizza, Chicken, or Taco's.

And there is no clean up after. Win-win.
 
H

Homestyle

Veteran Member
Panera here is not that great. No flavor in anything I have ordered. I stopped ordering. I belong to a group of six that meet there once a month for a meeting. Panera is friendly but the food is not worth the price. I have always been disappointed in the taste.
 
Doc1

Doc1

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bev said:
Me too! Panera’s is very good. Also Jason’s Deli. I’d bet they’re not as good as Doc’s though.
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A real key to making exceptionally good cream soups is to start by incorporating a Creole roux. Do this by by frying white flour in butter - over a light-medium heat - with constant stirring until it is at least a medium brown. The darker you make it - again, without burning it - the more favorful it will be. Doing it right is time consuming because it has to be cooked slowly and stirred constantly without burning. You can concurrently simmer your garlic and onions (and certain spices) in the roux as you make it.

Actually, though I rarely do this, you can dramatically improve something simple like Campbell's or supermarket brand cream soups by making the roux first and then pouring in the canned soup and milk/cream. Needless to say, using heavy cream makes for a much richer soup than using milk. It's a crime against humanity to thin condensed cream soups with water - yech - instead of cream, or at least whole milk.

I encourage readers to try this and report your results here!

Best
Doc
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
vestige said:
But as the Coasters said so long ago:

But he sho can cook.
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only the dinosaurs here will remember it v so for completeness sake here ya go
Jimmy Soul - Get an ugly girl to marry you

Say man.
Hey baby.
I saw your wife the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, she's ugly.
Man, she's ugly but she sure can cook, baby.
Yeah? Alright...
 
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vestige

Deceased
I
Raggedyman said:
only the dinosaurs here will remember it v so for completeness sake here ya go
Jimmy Soul - Get an ugly girl to marry you

Say man.
Hey baby.
I saw your wife the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, she's ugly.
Man, she's ugly but she sure can cook, baby.
Yeah? Alright...
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I was thinking the Coasters did s version but I have been wrong before.

That wasn't that long ago as I recall.

Maybe 60 years or so.
 
Jeff B.

Jeff B.

Don’t let the Piss Ants get you down…
Doc,

Do you “toast” the flour in the pan before adding the butter?

Jeff B.
 
Jeff B.

Jeff B.

Don’t let the Piss Ants get you down…
My wife grew up for the most part in the Deep South. As such, me being born and raised on Long Island by Norwegian parents, our food experiences were different.

When we were “courting” I’d made some spaghetti sauce for a dinner we had planned. She decided to make “Garlic Bread” to add to the meal.

When she brought it out, I asked her what it was, and she said “garlic bread” and I started laughing. It was white bread toasted with butter and garlic salt. She later told me how horrified she was, also that if the spaghetti hadn’t been as good as it was she would have dumped me.

I soon demonstrated actual garlic bread with Italian bread, butter, garlic, herbs and grated Romano. She then understood what garlic bread was (to me).

She gotten better at cooking certain things that I like, but is in charge when it comes to the foods of the south. I handle the smoking, grilling and BBQ (and spaghetti sauce).

Jeff B.
 
Doc1

Doc1

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Jeff B. said:
Doc,

Do you “toast” the flour in the pan before adding the butter?

Jeff B.
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No, Jeff. Toasting the flour in the pan before adding butter (or other fat) is a much more recent twist to roux making. I do it the traditional way by melting the fat and then stirring in the flour. As I mentioned previously, you can add your diced onion and garlic at this point, too.

Best
Doc
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
had a shipmate aboard one of the tin cans I rode that happened to not only be from my hometown but grew up just a few streets over from me. William C Robbinson CS1 - Robbie. he was 6 or 7 yrs older than me so I hadn't known him back home. Robbie was a first class cook and a damn good one. his momma was a creole woman from 'nawluns and she'd definitely influenced his culinary skill set . . . being from the same hometown we were pretty tite and spent a lot of time together, both on the beach and aboard ship. when Robbie was watch captain I spent time in the galley when I could.

one of the things I picked up from Robbie was the art of making a proper roux . . . I can remember him telling me it had to be cooked until it smelled like parched peanuts" or it wasn't done enough . . . in Robbies words "it wouldn't have enough soul" .

unlike Doc Robbie made his Roux in the oven - flour and butter.
 
TheDoberman

TheDoberman

Veteran Member
Doc1 said:
"You, er, are going to cook us dinner???" was the frequent, initial response. LOL I just knew they had visions of charcoaled steaks and open cans of green beans! It was great fun to turn their little world around at the dinner table... and later.
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Haha, that was pretty funny!!
 
tiredude

tiredude

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sounds like you probably should have fried her some catfish too! (good job.....im the cook in the family)
 
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