The Official What's Cooking Thread [Food Porn]

[TimG]

Smoked chicken thighs, mexican black beans, some grilled bread and corn.. darn tasty!

[NASH]

Looking tasty gents! Keep on grillin

[NASH]

Beef - looks awful, tastes awful

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[erslar00]

Beef - looks awful, tastes awful

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All right Nash.. that second photo... those are some badass grill marks... holy shit!!

[homebrewcrew]

They almost look like they are painted on.

[mr x]

Food.

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[bluenose]

I have to say you guys are awesome... gotta stop looking at these pics because I get some righteous food jealousy

[mr x]

Did you get my pm blue?

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[Becky]

I made Jimmy some cupcakes (because I'm nice like that sometimes...only sometimes), they're Chocolate Beer Batter cupcakes with Cream Cheese Maple Bacon Icing! Pretty much the ultimate man's cupcake!

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Ingredients:
(Cupcakes)
- 1 cup Guinness
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 2 cups flour
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract

(Maple-Glazed Bacon)
- 3 strips bacon
- 1/3 cup maple syrup

(Frosting)
- 8oz block cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp candied bacon drippings

Directions:

(1) Preheat oven to 350. Line two muffin tins with cupcake liners and set aside.
(2) In a pot or large sauce pan, simmer the beer and butter on medium until butter is completely melted.
(3) Add cocoa powder and chocolate chips and stir until your mixture smooth. Take off heat and set aside to cool.
(4) In a large bowl, stir eggs and yogurt together until smooth. Slowly add chocolate mixture and vanilla.
(5) Add dry ingredients and stir until well combined.
(6) Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
(7) Turn oven up to 375, and line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil.
(8) Lay your bacon strips across a baking rack and place the rack on the foil-lined baking sheet.
(9) Using a pastry brush, brush each strip of bacon with a layer of maple syrup.
(10) Bake for 10 minutes, basting strips again about half way into that time.
(11) Flip your strips over, baste, and bake for another 10 minutes.
(12) Baste your bacon one last time, and stick them back in the oven for another 5 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
(13) While your cupcakes and bacon strips are cooling, start making your frosting. In a large bowl, beat together butter and cream cheese until smooth and well-incorporated.
(14) Add powdered sugar, maple syrup and bacon grease. Mix until smooth.
(15) Spoon frosting into a piping bag, and frost each cupcake.
(16) Slice one piece of bacon into 1-inch strips and press one piece into each frosted cupcake.
(17) Crumble the rest of the candied bacon and sprinkle them on top of the cupcakes.
(18) Enjoy immediately, with a big glass of milk.

[NASH]

I thought you were gonna cut that mofo?!!!

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[Becky]

I thought you were gonna cut that mofo?!!!

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Well, I thought about it. But he DOES make me beer...sooo...I decided not to.

[NASH]

I thought you were gonna cut that mofo?!!!

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Well, I thought about it. But he DOES make me beer...sooo...I decided not to.

The cupcakes look awesome!

[RubberToe]

Jimmy, she's a keeper!

[Jimmy]

Jimmy, she's a keeper!

Yes, I've got her trained well

[canuck]

Made some Pad Thai for the wife tonight.

[mr x]

Chow.

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[homebrewcrew]

cupcakes look awsome. Gotta love the bacon

[NASH]

Veggies and Pad Thai are looking excellent guys



mmm bacon....

Maple cinnamon cured with a shit-ton of pepper and hickory smoke...

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Beer-brined apple-wood-smoked cajun bird, holy fucking spicy batman...

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Bison ribeyes....

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Holy cured and smoked mackerel batman....

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Red velvet cheesecake...

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[mr x]

Cheesecake is wild looking. Where's that at?

[LeafMan66_67]

Awesome looking food! Greg - when using curing salt (#1 from Brothers) in the dry cure for bacon, how much per pound of meat do you use?

[NASH]

Cheesecake is wild looking. Where's that at?

We ate it in a pub but Cheesecakeman made it @ home


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[NASH]

Awesome looking food! Greg - when using curing salt (#1 from Brothers) in the dry cure for bacon, how much per pound of meat do you use?

1 teaspoon per 5 lbs of meat. The stuff is potent! I'll post up a basic cure mix that makes it easy to use.

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[LeafMan66_67]

Awesome looking food! Greg - when using curing salt (#1 from Brothers) in the dry cure for bacon, how much per pound of meat do you use?

1 teaspoon per 5 lbs of meat. The stuff is potent! I'll post up a basic cure mix that makes it easy to use.

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Thanks - that's what I used; I just see some conflicting amounts on the internet. My slab of pork belly has been curing since Monday night so it should be ready for the smoker today or tomorrow.

[mr x]

Awesome looking food! Greg - when using curing salt (#1 from Brothers) in the dry cure for bacon, how much per pound of meat do you use?

1 teaspoon per 5 lbs of meat. The stuff is potent! I'll post up a basic cure mix that makes it easy to use.

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Straighten me out on this. The salt you gave me from Brothers was which type? And are you ordering that bison from the valley...

[NASH]

Awesome looking food! Greg - when using curing salt (#1 from Brothers) in the dry cure for bacon, how much per pound of meat do you use?

1 teaspoon per 5 lbs of meat. The stuff is potent! I'll post up a basic cure mix that makes it easy to use.

Transmitted from the hop-phone.

Straighten me out on this. The salt you gave me from Brothers was which type? And are you ordering that bison from the valley...

It's all the same stuff, Brother's only use the one type

I got the Bison in from out west