What's "Cooking" in Tiki Central?

Aww man, SoCal has all the fun.

What's up w/Jim Croce?
My high school prom, which I did not attend was titled: Time in a Bottle.

On 2010-09-08 15:45, amybean wrote:
Aww man, SoCal has all the fun.

What's up w/Jim Croce?
My high school prom, which I did not attend was titled: Time in a Bottle.

Big Bad Leroy Brown!

Sorry we can't really talk about that other stuff,you are welcome to come over too Amy..........
But if you do? can you bring a couple of Scuba Tank's with pressurized masks & built-in-com's, Limpet mines, water proof digital camera
candy cigarettes, a few pairs of pre 1965 RayBans, Suntan oil SPF18 or higher, Black Bettie Page wig,
How about an aquatic themed mix CD? also we might need a cadaver, male,heavy set,around 40.

Thanks, ATP! You are a consummate host.

Is it BYOC?

Is this the food thread? :) I got lost there for a moment, especially when the ball gag popped up! :o

While you all were having this crazy fun discussion, I made Gai Yang, Thai BBQ chicken for dinner.

Now, back to ATP's want list, need any uranium or plutonium maybe? :D

WestADad
Rocking meal! I could do one more list?
Just shaking up the thread a bit, but the food is what it is all about!

On 2010-09-08 18:20, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
WestADad
Rocking meal! I could do one more list?
Just shaking up the thread a bit, but the food is what it is all about!

Hell yeah, more lists, I'm enjoying it immensely so keep shaking it up!

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this party needs some chickens?

On 2010-09-08 18:31, amybean wrote:
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this party needs some chickens?

YES! YES! add about a hundred to your list! do they have any Lime Green ones?
Oh there some right in the front....Excellent!

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-09-08 18:43 ]

On 2010-09-08 18:25, WestADad wrote:

On 2010-09-08 18:20, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
WestADad
Rocking meal! I could do one more list?
Just shaking up the thread a bit, but the food is what it is all about!

Hell yeah, more lists, I'm enjoying it immensely so keep shaking it up!

OK WestADad,we will plan this one down the line when you can get to the west coast

when you can come,we will need a Rooftop on a 50 story plus building large enough to land a Glider, a cool digital countdown watch,
a Baseball bat with a bunch of nails pounded into it, leather jackets, one eye patch, GUNS!GUNS!GUNS!, Mix CD with Showtunes,
3 week supply of bubble gum, roll of aluminum foil, box of Snowballs and a Dingo.

See you then Buddy!

Chris, I'm cookin' too! I stole this from Tasco's post last week; Kielbasa sausage with peppers, water chestnuts, and sweet & sour sauce over rice. Dessert was poached pears with Amaretto ice cream

Mike taking it back home,Yea!
Time to get in the kitchen....

Movie Night...
Touch of Evil

For Dinner Omelettes....

Mrs. ATP had the classic "Denver Omelette" (Smoked Ham,Green Peppers,Onions,Mushrooms & Chedder cheese) with Ranch Potato's
And Sourdough Toast.

For me "Omelette au Jambon et Fromage" a French classic of (Smoked Ham,Onions,Mushrooms,Herbs & Jarlsberg Swiss cheese)

mmmmm..Good movie and good food. I finally got a chance to cook! Stupid camera battery died so I have no pics (until I heat up the leftovers) but I made a curry coconut chicken dish with water chestnuts, diced jalapenos, and pinapple served with toasted pine nut cous cous and the first glass of cider of the season. Now find time this week for smoked salmon omelets with apple cider cured bacon.

You are such a tease!

On 2010-09-08 19:20, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
when you can come,we will need....... a Dingo.

See you then Buddy!

Now that's funny right there!

Nice omelette's too!

http://www.westadad.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: WestADad 2010-09-09 05:44 ]

A dingo took my baby!

Erk, sounds delicious! I think WalMart is trying to tell me I need to cook more Thai and Indian food; the WalMart across from my work is very convenient but frustrating as they seem to lack even the most basic cooking supplies, Yet they carry 4 brands of coconut milk. FOUR!!! We have about 5% combined Asian/Indian in our population and we need FOUR BRANDS OF COCOUNT MILK?! I just don't get it :lol:

Good lookin' omeletes ATP, but I'm not sure I could eat anything called "fromage", sounds like something rotten. Speaking of rotten, I pitched out my last batch of olives. They were doing a 10 day water bath but they seem to be fermenting. I'm sure that's a good thing for fromage but probably not for olives!

Tonight it's Guerro Enchiladas (guerro is a slightly derrogatory Spanish term for caucasian :D ) Shredded white chicken, sour cream, flour tortillas, Ortega chiles, green encilada sauce and PEPPER JACK CHEESE!!!

While they were baking, we heard a POP! in the oven and a error code showed up on the display. The short story is that we'll be out of a stove and oven for the next week :( How did you survive ATP? Guess I'll see what I can cook in the grill this week. Dutch oven brownies? :lol:

Boy, all that "party planning" has made me h0ngry!

I marinated the chicken overnight in Indian spices mixed into some plain yogurt, and grilled it this morning.
After I got home this evening, a fresh pack of spring roll wrappers slid out of the cupboard, and a plan was hatched...

Tandoori chicken and roasted eggplant (with cilantro, chopped Romaine and rice noodles) spring rolls with spicy peanut cardamom dippin' sauce.

Actually the dippin sauce has:

peanut butter (thin with water)
Sriracha sauce
soy sauce
hot chili oil
cardamom
garam masala
clove

MDM what sort of pop?? Everyone ok?

Mighty fine lookin enchiladas, btw.

Great looking dinner Amy

Yep, no smoke nor fire - kinda boring :D Some component must have fried (electric stove).

That looks really tasty amybean. I have yet to master the art of preparing eggplant. It was the one menu item I simply could not cook right when I worked at a restaurant and haven't tried it since. Always comes out too rubbery.

Outstanding you two!!!!

Mike that is the exact way my sister use to make her Enchiladas!
We had takeout or BBQ when we could, (Had all our gaslines rerouted,it took about 8 weeks!)

Amy Indian/Thai fusion = Excellent!!!

Last night my beautiful wife needed a low carbohydrate dinner for a medical test today so I took a cue from ATP and made omelets - Bacon, tomatoes, sauted onions, muenster and provolone cheeses. Cooked on the side burner of the BBQ

NEWSFLASH - Giant Cephalopod Seen Swimming South! It's the Kraken Cuba Libre! Pretty good to my untrained palate :D

Tonight DiGiorno pizza on the grill, got a little toasty on the bottom :lol:

Man,TC withdrawals last couple of days! welcome back everybody.
Way to make due MDM! amazing when you have to do without something you take for granted,all these years?

Garlic bread comes out pretty good on the BBQ.

Spaghetti al Pesto Omelette

"Spaghetti al Pesto Omelette"

You can do that???!!! I've never seen that before but it looks good. Fritata di pasta, hmmm...

One time, on a whim, a friend made an omelette with a batch of leftover spaghetti with seafood. It was the best thing ever! Great way to cut your prep time down :wink:

Kind of like quesadillas- pretty much anything goes inside.

On 2010-09-12 10:10, amybean wrote:
Spaghetti al Pesto Omelette

Wow! Looks great!

Thats a new one for me! Amy

I can't beat Amy's omelette, that looks fantastic!

I got a few more beans from the garden and roasted a chicken on the grille.

Sidenote: Glad to see you all again also, was a long couple of days without TC. I went to Hobby Lobby and looked at supplies for making some lamps over winter.

Green Beans & BACON!!! HellaCool......
we are doing the BBQ Chicken tonight also....

Watching "Madmen"...

Fired up the BBQ tonight for BBQ Chicken,Foil wrapped BBQ Corn cooked in Butter & Rosemary,Ginger & Garlic Rice & Mixed Salad.

YUM!!!

Now that's a spread. I like the idea of rosemary in the corn!

We made chicken and dumplings in the crockpot (4 more days 'til oven repair). It really wasn't picture worthy; white chicken, white potatoes, and white dumplings - we didn't have any other veggies in the fridge.

Here's a question for you guys - what percentage of your fresh veggies do you get eating before they get thrown out? We're not very good at it, seems like we throw out about 60% because they go bad before we get around to cooking them. Lately I've been bringing the veggies home from the store and just throwing them away instead of putting them in the fridge. Cuts out the middleman :lol:

Yea,there is always a half head of lettuce or a Bell pepper gone to "science experiment" status in the crisper drawer!
It helps that I grow alot of my Veggies & Herbs though.

Sometimes I like to save time, and chuck 'em just after I check out..

That's a good idea Amy, just leave them in the store parking lot and not waste the gas bringing them home :lol:

ATP, the Imperial Valley and neighboring Yuma Valley grow 90% of America's winter produce. I would plant a garden if the damned rabbits weren't as thick as bugs on a bumper! (Do ferrets eat rabbits?)

Wild ones do, MDM! but there are other very dangerous Ferrets like.....

You have your highly trained British Combat Ferrets,Here seen during Hand to Paw combat training

The very rare Serial Killer Ferret

The Mexican Chupacabra Ferret, I think this is what was in those old Quiznos ads.

The Nocturnal Vampire Ferret

And a close relative the Beer Drinking Otter, who is only dangerous when it drives.

And now back to the Food Porn.......

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2010-09-13 03:30 ]

I think one of those serial killer ferrets lives behind my neighbors garage. Late at night I can hear him cutting wood and the wail of his ferret victims.

Round is a shape but, so are these.

These were so freakin good. This will be a regular BBQ event.




Sorry ATP, must have been the booze :wink:

pizza pizza~~~!!!

Those pizzas look awesome! Especially the one's without meat :wink:
Tonga Tom: [about the pizzas Mr. NoNaMe just made] These cook up into funny shapes and all?
Mr. NoNaMe: Well no... unless round is funny.

Hey, I found a ferret!

I will have the Pepperoni Pizza please!

On 2010-09-14 10:21, Tonga Tom wrote:
Those pizzas look awesome! Especially the one's without meat :wink:
Tonga Tom: [about the pizzas Mr. NoNaMe just made] These cook up into funny shapes and all?
Mr. NoNaMe: Well no... unless round is funny.

Hey, I found a ferret!

As long as it does not look like any of the ones above (Killer Ferrets),I think you are safe!

Erik, that one pizza is shaped like Tahiti - was that intentional? :lol:
Tom, I'll eat the one with MEAT for you!

Were all going to Erik's "Mr. NoNaMe" for Pizza tonight! pick you all up in the Tiki Bus in about an Hour!
Hey did someone call Erik to let him know we are on the way!

Well, another batch of olives crashed and burned :(

"Spanish Gypsy Olives - Just a blush of Purple - 10 day water bath, saltwater brine, limes cubes (I didn't have any lemon), cumin seeds, oregano, garlic, vinegar, olive oil. Ready in 2 weeks."

The 2 weeks was up so I cracked them open and tried a couple. They are too bitter! Uncured olives are VERY bitter, seems that I tasted them after their 10 day water bath and the bitterness was gone. Now they have a good flavor but they are just a little too bitter. I can't tell if it's from the lime peel or if it's the natural bitterness of the olives.

Then to add insult to injury, I either got food poisoning after eating them or coincidentally got the flu. I followed the recipe fully and was very careful to keep everything clean. The two other people who sampled the olives last night didn't get sick so who knows?

So far the only successful batch was the lye-cured ones that taste like canned black olices. They are OK but black olives are about the most bland olives ever created.

Hey we had a store bought frozen pizza cooked on a pizza stone for extra crispyness for dinner.
Unphotogenic.

You are headed to a pizza party? On a Tiki Bus?? WOW!