Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Last night was baked ziti with hot Italian sausage and spinach.

Tonight is leftover turkey tetrazzini and baked ziti.

Bought a 10 pound turkey to smoke either Saturday or Sunday. Multiple requests for another smoked turkey after Thanksgiving dinner. Happy to do so.

 

Green chicken pozole for dinner tonight. Green because it is tomatillo based. A lot less work than pozole rojo but still takes a couple of hours and lots of dishes to clean.

 

Ever see the movie Chef? I love this scene.

 

Going to grill some thick, bone-in center cut pork loin chops.

 

He needs to get a Gator visor that he can throw.

 

The pork chops last night were a big hit. I gave them a light dusting of Nashville Hot Chicken spice. Since we had black beans, yellow rice and tostones as sides I wanted just a little heat.

Turkey is smoking low and slow on my KJ. And the rain is holding off.

 

Making alote de grano tonight with leftover turkey instead of chicken. It is a Michoacan dish that is like a corn porridge or soup. My wife saw the recipe in the NYT Cooking section but the recipe for the poblano rajas topping was all wrong. I am making them correctly.

 

I wanted to make a Brunswick stew with the leftover smoked turkey. I know that traditional Brunswick stew uses rabbit and squirrel and my wife would never go for that. Poor folks meat. Most folks make it now with chicken and pulled pork. I was thinking that the smoked turkey had the smokiness of pulled pork and the tooth of chicken. I was going to add a smoked sausage for the fat that was missing and some additional smoke. But I got overruled.

I love a good Brunswick stew.

 

Up north they call that a Yankee pot roast. I am guessing you can't call it that. LOL.

 

Cold and raw today and my wife asked me to make a chopped salad. Weird, but I made it.

 

Last night was a ground pork with green beans Thai style dish but not really Thai. I make this quite often and want to add fish sauce but I am vetoed.

Tonight I am making chicken tinga for tacos.

 

Today was some good news. Last night my Bosch 800 Series dishwasher threw the dreaded E:15 error code that says that water was leaking to the pan under the dishwasher. Usually that is a leaking hose or valve but sometimes is due to a bit of crud built up on the door seals. This morning the E:15 error was gone so probably not a leaking valve but maybe a leaking drain hose. I cleaned the crap out of the seals and ran a load and all was good. I hope that it is fixed. I recently had an O-ring on the upper basket spray arm go bad and got that replaced. Can't get the O-rings but had to buy the entire upper spray arm assembly. Not too expensive and way cheaper than a call to the repair guys.