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Southwest Spaghetti

• Spaghetti Pasta
• Staggs Chili
• Grilled Hamburger Patty
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese
  
  Grill the hamburger patty. Set aside.
  Cook pasta to al dente - about 9 mins
  Heat Staggs chili is a sauce pan
  
  Plating:
• Put the grilled hamburger patty onto a plate
• Top with cooked spaghetti pasta
• Add heated chili on top of spaghetti
• Sprinkle grated cheddar cheese

Love that Staggs: I order cases of the Silverado Beef, so anytime I want a quick and tasty meal I can just pop a bowl in the microwave. I cut up a little cooked sirloin and add that. Maybe the best chili I ever had. I always break out a roll of Ritz crackers to go with it.

"sous vide" is actually a cooking technique: Some meat goes in a sealed plastic bag and then is cooked at an exact stable temperature for several hours. Getting the temperature right usually requires a sous vide machine, which is a circulating hot water bath with a precise adjustable thermostatic controller. Theoretically, you could do it with a Ziplock bag and a pot of water on a hot plate. You'd just have to stir it for hours and keep adjusting the heat control.

I'm thinking of pasta with pesto sauce and Italian sausage. Or I could make a pepperoni and mushroom pizza. Gotta make some banana bread too.

Edit: Pizza it is.

Lamb chops, herb butter noodles, bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers. Killian's.

My daughter works at the largest supplier of this stuff and gets a discount. There will be four couples.

On Saturday I am being forced to go to a family and friend thing.
clams
oysters
dungeness crabs
geoduck

Oh, there are also them sausages - first boiled in beer and spice and then brazed. I suspect beer to drink.

Life is hell!

Smoked pork butt sliders on portabella caps, with NC Style Vinegar sauce, with a dash of Thorazine

Tat

Air Fryer Pork fingers, yeah I know they have cloven hooves, but chickens don't have real fingers either, but chicken fingers are generally recognized, though not anatomically correct/accurate. Aldi's sells precut 1 inch x 5-6 inch long pork strips and calls them Country Style Ribs, naturally boneless, analogous, no doubt, to boneless chicken wings!
What a world, what a world, fake food anatomy!
The pork "fingers" were seasoned with a dry rub, I like our local Dinosaur Bar-B-Que varieties, tonight was "Cajun Foreplay" Spice Rub, tomorrow maybe tomorrow will be "Big Acton" Spice Rub. Then swabbed with yogurt, to glue on the bread crumbs, (some prefur Mayo), lightly sprayed with Olyve Oil, and "fryed" for 10-15 mins at 390 or whatever works with your hot air blower.

I served them with a dipping sauce to add moistness. Today was Habanero BBQ Artichoke sauce, containing Dinosaur BBQ sauce "Wango Tango", an unfortunate reference to Ted Nudegent.
For a carb, I had papadam, thin crispy lentil tortillaoids from the Indian grocery. I mentioned my ridiculous attempts at DIY home papadam to the Indian lady at check out. She very knowingly laughed, and we agreed that there was a considerable learning curve for papadam. Tortillas are a slam dunk by comparison!
Some may consider pork with Indian food sacrilegious , but I figure it is at least more Kosher than Beef/God Curry!

Got to taper back into RR with topics that don't raise my blood pressure, for now anyway. I now have to go tiger avatar hunting!

There's a coincidence: I ordered a sirloin pork roast, but the market substituted pork loin chops. They always seem to substitute a much more expensive cut of essentially the same thing, when they run out. Oh well, tasty little buggers. Roasted the chops in my convection oven with steak and chop rub. Had some hot, and I'll cut the rest up (like your pork fingers) and freeze them for quick meals and sandwiches.

This my version of "prepping": Keeping a few pounds of pre-cooked chicken breasts, steak, roast pork, and ham in the freezer. Pork shoulder BBQ is good, too. I freeze it in little zip lock bags containing enough for two sandwiches. My dinner prep time is usually about 5 minutes.