What's that you're eating?

Lunch today at "Al the Wop's" a dive bar located in Locke, CA along the Sacramento River south of Sacramento:

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A "BLAT" (Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado & Tomato) Sandwich with a Small Salad (Ranch Dressing on the Side) w/a Fat Tire Ale:

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Catching up . . .

1) A glass of Sapporo with Beef Dolsot Bibimbap at my local Korean restaurant

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2) A Maui Waui with an Avocado Club Sandwich on the 18th hole at the Wente Grill in Livermore:

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3) Wine tasting at the Steven Kent winery in Livermore after lunch at the Wente Grill:

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4) Soybeans & Homemade Soy Milk:

I use soymilk to make fruit smoothies. Costco (where I usually buy it) didn't have any when I went there a week ago. So, I decided to try making some myself.

Bought 24# of soy beans & made 3 quarts of soy milk w/about 1# of then. So, I can make a total of about 72 qts/18 gals of soymilk with what I bought.

Only soy beans & water were used but it's an involved & time consuming multi-stage process requiring the soaking, boiling, blending, cooking & filtering the beans. However, the cost was about 75 cents/qt, which is about 3-5x's less than store bought. So, I think that it's worth the effort.

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Thought I'd post a failure. I just recently got my pellet grill so I've been trying it recipes. I picked one to smoke a chuck roast (poor man's brisket).

On the website it has a video and a typed out recipe with a billion ads. The video specified that you should use a 4lb chuck roast, the written recipe did not. Sadly, I didn't watch the video first.

This thing has great smoke flavor, but was far too dry. Lesson learned.
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carnifex knifeworks said:
Thought I'd post a failure. I just recently got my pellet grill so I've been trying it recipes. I picked one to smoke a chuck roast (poor man's brisket).

On the website it has a video and a typed out recipe with a billion ads. The video specified that you should use a 4lb chuck roast, the written recipe did not. Sadly, I didn't watch the video first.

This thing has great smoke flavor, but was far too dry. Lesson learned.
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That's a bummer. I've gotten to the point where I'd rather just buy a cookbook these days. Dealing with recipes online is internet cancer.
 
trevitrace said:
You don't want to hear someone's entire life story before even getting to the ingredient list?
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Seriously. Another peeve of mine is diving into the prep and cooking instructions before even listing the ingredients. You have to wade through so much bullshit before even getting to the most important part - the damned ingredients!
 
Pàdruig said:
Seriously. Another peeve of mine is diving into the prep and cooking instructions before even listing the ingredients. You have to wade through so much bullshit before even getting to the most important part - the damned ingredients!
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But if you don't watch the whole 30 minute video, you'll never learn the one simple trick to cook it right and develop 6-pack abs, cure your diabetes, hangovers, hang nails, athlete's foot, make a million dollars, date supermodels...

Man... you're missing out!
 
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I am no chef but I am not a bad cook. I usually only need to glance at ingredients and their ratios and have a rough idea of some of the prep steps. That takes a minute or two and maybe a glance now and then after the fact. I don't like wasting time and online recipes try their damnedest to waste as much of it as they can.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
Thought I'd post a failure. I just recently got my pellet grill so I've been trying it recipes. I picked one to smoke a chuck roast (poor man's brisket).

On the website it has a video and a typed out recipe with a billion ads. The video specified that you should use a 4lb chuck roast, the written recipe did not. Sadly, I didn't watch the video first.

This thing has great smoke flavor, but was far too dry. Lesson learned.
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How long did you cook and at what temp?

Dude, when I first started....I thought I was going to kick ass and make a 10 pound brisket

Sigh it was pretty much 8 pounds of jerky lol
 
Yeah I screwed up my first brisket (actually 2nd, but first one in the smoker). Pulled it too early cuz I thought it should've been done and thought maybe the thermometer wasn't working right. Tasted good but very tough. Luckily I was able to somewhat salvage it by throwing it in the oven for a while. So much better but still not great.
 
yoko said:
How long did you cook and at what temp?

Dude, when I first started....I thought I was going to kick ass and make a 10 pound brisket

Sigh it was pretty much 8 pounds of jerky lol
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225 until internal temp reached 170 (which is too high). Then wrapped it and let it cook until internal temp was 190, then let it rest before cutting.

I should have wrapped it at internal temp 145.
 
sgt1372 said:
Catching up . . .

1) A glass of Sapporo with Beef Dolsot Bibimbap at my local Korean restaurant

HBhgYXo.jpg


2) A Maui Waui with an Avocado Club Sandwich on the 18th hole at the Wente Grill in Livermore:

l2pm841.jpg


3) Wine tasting at the Steven Kent winery in Livermore after lunch at the Wente Grill:

JLKveTQ.jpg


4) Soybeans & Homemade Soy Milk:

I use soymilk to make fruit smoothies. Costco (where I usually buy it) didn't have any when I went there a week ago. So, I decided to try making some myself.

Bought 24# of soy beans & made 3 quarts of soy milk w/about 1# of then. So, I can make a total of about 72 qts/18 gals of soymilk with what I bought.

Only soy beans & water were used but it's an involved & time consuming multi-stage process requiring the soaking, boiling, blending, cooking & filtering the beans. However, the cost was about 75 cents/qt, which is about 3-5x's less than store bought. So, I think that it's worth the effort.

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That looks like a pretty sweet retirement :) Beautiful course!
 
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