St. Patrick's Day - Food and Beverage throwdown and Fatty WIP

[crimsonfalcon07]

Okay, I'll be updating this thread throughout the day as I begin my culinary creation. In the meantime, I'd like to know what YOU are planning on doing for St. Patrick's Day cuisine. In fact, I'll sweeten the pot. Make an Irish-themed fatty of your own (basically, bacon lattice wrapped around pork breakfast sausage wrapped around filling, then slow-cooked over a smoker or in an oven or grill on low heat), or some other similarly epic concoction. Any cutting MUST be done with your favorite Becker knife, complete with beauty photos.

I'll do the judging, with invitations to Derek and Guyon to submit their votes as well, based on the tastiness factor, and the awesomeness of your Becker use. Winner will get custom wooden scales for their FPR Tweener. Only stipulation is that if you live overseas, you pay shipping... That gets expensive FAST.

I'm gonna open this up to everyone, not just Beckerheads, but Beckerheads will get preference in the judging. If a non-Beckerhead ties with a Beckerhead, Beckerhead gets preference.

Will run this for 2 weeks so's you can plan and get your ingredients. If you need a little guidance with regards to the fatty making, follow along here.

Chatting is fine, pictures of Beckers at work in the kitchen encouraged. This is DINNER cuisine, by the way. All the usual rules about being old enough, not an idiot, and knowing your local laws apply here as well.


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Okay, so, on to making my fatty.

Here's the main ingredients: BK10, 9 pounds of pork breakfast sausage, 4 pounds of center-cut bacon, and 3 pounds of turkey bacon (hey, trying to be "healthy" here, and I don't have any venison bacon, more's the pity).

I've also had the corned beef slow-cooking since 11:00 PM last night. Will be supremely tender when I finally cut it up with the 16 and layer it into the fatty.

More to come...

 

[LECTER]

I don't know if I can compete with those hi-res pics you took there Crimson.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

That's about as high-res as my phone is capable of right now. I managed to scuff the lense, and now it won't focus or take good pics. Really very annoying, and I have to wait til July til I can upgrade without paying a fortune.

 

[LECTER]

That's about as high-res as my phone is capable of right now. I managed to scuff the lense, and now it won't focus or take good pics. Really very annoying, and I have to wait til July til I can upgrade without paying a fortune.

I was just funnin' you bro!

 

[Bladite]

I was just funnin' you bro!

this with someone with a frog butt as an icon? oh my!

mmm, bacon, i should get on that sometime...

 

[LECTER]

this with someone with a frog butt as an icon?

That's only because I know you like frog butt.

Put on your glasses and read what it says in the avi!

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Avi? Doesn't look like a movie file to me. Is that german for jpg or something?

 

[RogueBowie]

Wish I saw this earlier! I already made a big fat open faced sandwich of diced bacon and pulled chicken sauteed then braised in a brown gravy with thyme made from the pan drippings of cooking the bacon and chicken all poured over spiced sweet potato fries on wheat toast and garnished with fresh diced tomato, kind of a play between french fries with brown gravy and an open faced chicken sandwich. Didn't think to take pics. It wouldn't have been my official entry as it's not dinner and not super Irish but I feel like it might not have been bad to throw into this thread just for the heck of it, as it is culinary related.

I am having corned beef and cabbage tomorrow actually but my grandma cooks it, she is second generation Irish American and wouldn't dream of letting me take over cooking the corned beer and cabbage (not that I could ever top her on that one).

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Well, you can always make something else Pics of Beckers with food are always to be desired.

 

[LECTER]

Avi? Doesn't look like a movie file to me. Is that german for jpg or something?

Avi = avatar

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Alrighty, continuing the fatty pics:

Bacon lattice (6 pounds):

Then you lay down a layer of pork breakfast sausage. This is a little over 9 pounds of pork sausage.

Spice rub comes next. Basil, oregano, garlic, white pepper, a dash of rosemary, sage:

Now it's time to fill it. Carved up some cabbage with the 16 and threw it in the corned beef water for flavoring:

Cut up the corned beef with the 16. Cut through like butter. Of course, it's been cooking for 10 hours, so it's TENDER now.

Threw down some bratwurst cooked in Guinness, hard boiled eggs, Irish Cheese (kerrygold with irish whiskey, and dubliner). Cheese and brats and eggs all cut with the BK16:

Cabbage laid on:

I forgot to take a pic with the onions and potatoes, so here's one of the "small" one.

Rolled it up:

Basted with a mixture of Jameson and brown sugar:

Now it's in the oven slow-cooking at 275 for several hours.

 

[clich]

well its not a fatty, but i made something for the whole family. Authentic Irish.......wait for it.....cheesesteak pizza ok not irish but its whats for dinner so here goes

dough

meat

onions and garlic

add meat

sauce and crust

finished

thickness

yum

 

[Guyon]

Now it's in the oven slow-cooking at 275 for several hours.

My arteries clogged a little bit just looking at this picture.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Looks great Clich!

@Guyon, it's called a fatty for a good reason. There's about 18 pounds of meat in this thing.

 

[ol_sc]

Even Ron Swanson would have a heart attack!

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Speaking of heart attacks: Out of the oven, onto the grill, with another baste with the Jameson and brown sugar. Here's it all done:

Triumphant chefs (also, it takes 2 to hold this thing).

Here's what it looks like inside:

Finished, with a side of colcannon.

 

[totallynotalex]

Are you still alive after that thing?! At first I thought I was in heaven but you lost me at the hardboiled eggs lol Damnit I'm hungy for some bacon.

 

[clich]

Mail me sum. Not ups tho.

 

[RogueBowie]

Even Ron Swanson would have a heart attack!

Yeah right, he would call this a 'salad'.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

We would normally do scotch eggs, but we decided last time that that was kinda unnecessary, considering the quantity of meat involved already.