OT: Recipe Roulette

[C40_guy]

Okay, here goes...need some help.

We used a half package of bacon for Shalane Flanagan's recipe Stuffed Chicken Wrapped in Bacon. (Run Fast, Eat Slow cookbook, wonderful!)

Now I've got a half package of bacon left.

What to do with it? Need a dinner recipe for two, three if you're local and the suggestion is good enough...but you'll have to eat in the garage.

Also have fresh ground beef and boneless chicken thighs in the fridge.

Frozen wild shrimp in the freezer.

Plenty of eggs (yea that's a fall back...)

(God help me if my rabbi is on this forum! )

[fmradio516]

Carbonara!

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by C40_guy

Need a dinner recipe for two, three if you're local and the suggestion is good enough...but you'll have to eat in the garage.

Now this is funny!

Assuming you have a card table in the garage and i can look at bikes, and bring my dog, i'm so bored i would absolutely take you up on that offer if i were local!

we do a version of chicken francaise with proscuitto that is excellent, but i think bacon could sub in for that in a pinch and really adds another dimension to the dish.

home made pizza with bacon on top comes to mind too.

[jtakeda]

Originally Posted by fmradio516

Carbonara!

+1


comfort food, not exactly healthy but you can whip one up in 30 mins.

[rccardr]

Coq au Vin. Made a batch yesterday with thighs and it was a big hit, served over rice with a green salad made with apples, pistachios and blue cheese.

[dsimon]

BLT's bruh.......

[fmradio516]

Also if you dont want carbonara, make penne a la vodka instead. I have an INCREDIBLE recipe(from italy) for this. Let me know if you want it.

[chrismoustache]

+1 for carbonara!

When I make pizza, I cut bacon into 3/4" pieces, cook it up, pull the bacon and drain, then cook down a bunch of tomatoes in the drippings with a ton of red pepper flakes and use this as the sauce.

[Ken Robb]

You guys are making me hungry! Let's have the recipes please.

[benb]

I'm going to make homemade French onion soup later this afternoon. I've only done it once before.. not hard, just time consuming.

I made my own custom/homemade pasta sauce the other night. Olive oil/onions/garlic/tomatoes/red wine, it came out great. We had that with Rotini + breaded chicken cutlets + roasted butternut squash.

We had bison burgers one night this week as well. Not that fun to cook them outside in the 40F + rain but they were tasty.

We had scallops one night.

Carbonara is a good idea.

We have yet to order any takeout/delivery. We just keep getting groceries delivered online. Getting a delivery slot is only slightly easier than getting sports or concert tickets but we keep managing.

We can cook, if we're stuck at home it is the logical choice, it's the safest for my wife & son who have Celiac. As long as we take the time it's better than anything except really expensive restaurants.

I almost always do all the dishes at home, I'm getting hammered there though.

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by benb

We can cook, if we're stuck at home it is the logical choice, it's the safest for my wife & son who have Celiac.

Wife and daughter here. Shopping at WF recently, the only pasta still available was GF. But even the frozen GF pizzas were gone!

Side note...does your wife know about the GF bakery Twist in Millis? My wife cried the first time she went there, said "You mean I can eat *everything*?"

Originally Posted by benb

I almost always do all the dishes at home, I'm getting hammered there though.

PUT DOWN THE WINE GLASS until the dishes are done!

[benb]

LOL.. I just meant I'm doing way more dishes than usual.

I haven't been drinking.

Yes.. we know about Twist.. my wife recruited them into creating their Burlington location after visiting Millis. The Burlington location is a tenant of the company she works for.

[Ken Robb]

[QUOTE=benb;2687157]I'm going to make homemade French onion soup later this afternoon. I've only done it once before.. not hard, just time consuming.

Let us know how you do the soup and if it was worth the effort. Leslie and I LOVE onion soup.

[tuxbailey]

Originally Posted by fmradio516

Also if you dont want carbonara, make penne a la vodka instead. I have an INCREDIBLE recipe(from italy) for this. Let me know if you want it.

I don't mind if you share. I have a handle of Costco vodka in my house.

[jtakeda]

Originally Posted by dsimon

BLT's bruh.......

Dude. Tomatoes are so out of season that’s just a waste of all the other ingredients