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Food/Cooking

Been a while since I posted something in here, but I still cook all the time, just always to lazy to take pics and post about it. :flipoff:

For tonights dinner I popped a nice pork roast in the crock pot with some red potatoes, carrots, and onions. Added some montreal seasoning, a full coors light and topped it off with water.

When I got home it looked like this:

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I'm sure you've all done that a million times, now here's where I do it a little different. Scoop out all the goodies leaving just the juices behind, we're gonna make some of my famous mustard gravy:

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Then dump those good juices into a large pan:

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Add some pepper:

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A little bit of a high quality salt:

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This is some really good fried garlic I picked up at the local asain market:

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Now for the goodness, add half a bottle of inglehoffers stone ground mustard:

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Give it all a good stir:

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I don't think that's manly enough, let's add a little more liquid, this is a fantastic local brew here in Colorado, I added half, and drank the rest:

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Now we need to thicken it up a bit, take some land 'o lakes butter, I ended up using 3 tablespoons, then melt it in the microwave:

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Then add an equal part of flour:

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It should look about like this:

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With the gravy at a high boil slowly stir in the rue:

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Let the gravy thicken up:

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Then enjoy!

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I knew I was going to catch crap for that. I used to have a nice peppermill, but one day it broke and I have never replaced it. You guys have motivated me to do that today.

I love me some course grind pepper.
 
Alright, ordered the one you have EeePee. Wife just texted me, looks like I'll be cooking pork tenderloin tonight. I'll post up a build thread of the pork with my awesome raspberry balsamic reduction.
 
It got good reviews. Five settings. Either I'm an aggressive grinder or it tends to kinda throw pepper a little more than it should, but nothing beats fresh ground pepper. I don't even bother with pepper anymore unless I just ground it. It's like I can't put enough pepper packets of dust on something to even get a good hint of pepper.
 
Alright here's tonights dinner. For those of you that just want the reward without seeing how it's done, here you go, now skip the rest of the post.

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For those of you that care how it's done, here you go. Tonight is roasted pork tenderloin, with a raspberry balsamic reduction sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, and asparagus.

To make the Balsamic reduction I normally use 1 container of fresh raspberries, macerated in the pan, add a bottle of good balsamic, and a cup of sugar. Bring to a boil, simmer for about an hour, strain out all the seeds, and serve. However the store didn't have fresh raspberries tonight, so I used some raspberry preserves and didn't add the sugar. It didn't turn out as well, but here is how I made it.

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Add balsamic to the pan.

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Spoon in the preserves.

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Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer for about an hour until the volume is reduced to about half.

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Now peel some potatoes.

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Give them a course chop and toss them in a pot of water with salt, set to boil.

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The tenderloins should be opened, dried off and room temp.

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Rub them down with salt, pepper, and olive oil.

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Toss them into a very hot pan to get a good sear on them. It will smoke up your house, your wife will complain.

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Once they get a good sear on them.

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Toss them on a roasting pan and put them in the preheated oven at 350

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Balsamic reduction looks good, turn it down, just to keep warm.

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When done drain potatoes, and toss into mixer.

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Add butter

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Cheese

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Milk

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Salt and pepper

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Some delicious fried garlic

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Done

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Now we need a green side, grab some asparagus trime the ends, I trim mine a little more than most people, I just don't like the thick fibrous ends.

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Toss them in a pan with some hot olive oil and add salt, cook for a few minutes until tender. You could also add a few tablespoons of water to the pan and cover if you wanted to steam them a little.

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Once the pork hits 145 pull it out and let it rest for a few minutes. (yea I have modded my thermometer in true RCC fashion, the stupid watch battery would always be dead when I needed it so I soldered on a AA)

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After the pork rests for about 5 minutes, slice it open and look at that delicious juicy goodness.

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Plate it up.

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And enjoy.

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It doesn't take them long to clean up their plates.

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Beautiful!

The cutting board pile of pork is my favorite part.
 
woww I just woke up and I'm already hungry !!!:mrgreen:

(for the mash, I add the yellow of a egg, and salt butter, and I love add "nutmeg" -google trad-)
 
Mama wanted hamburgers tonight, and when mama wants hamburgers it doesn't matter if there's a foot of snow on the deck, you get out there shovel the snow and do work.

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While the grill is warming up cook up some bacon.

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Make some patties, 1/4lb for the kids 1/2lb for mom and dad.

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Salt, pepper, and a little curry.

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Mama got the fixin's ready.

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Cook 4 minutes on each side.

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Add some colby jack

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Plate it up

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Do work

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I'm thinking two half pound patties on a burger would be pretty sweet.
 
I went out to dinner with my family last night at a local Indian restaurant (Pondicheri) and had the Ghost Pepper Berkshire Pork Ribs with Onion Currie Fritters along with "a few" local IPAs. This is the second time I've had these and they are simply AMAZING! They are quite hot. The meat falls off the bones and melts in your mouth. If you are ever in Houston, I highly recommend this place! They have yet to disappoint.

I didnt snap a picture, but I'll see if I can find one on Yelp.
 
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