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Shroomgobbler
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Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP!
#5859621 - 07/14/06 08:35 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Don't get ripped off at the taco trucks buying delicious carnitas, make it yourself using your pressure cooker! The best news you'll hear all day is that it's consistently the most inexpensive piece of meat available.
So go to your grocery store & pick up some pork shoulder, 1.99lb is a decent price, I find it for 99 cents a pound all the time. It's the kind of meat no one knows what to do with it, except me . Other nicknames include, Pork shoulder butt, Boston butt or Country style spare ribs. Cut this up into big fat slices, like they feed dogs in cartoons, and pressure cook it for about an hour. When it comes out, put the steaming hot goodness in a bowl (it will be very tender and want to fall apart in your tongs, I use a strainer ) Now you simply add your favorite Mexican flavorings. Here's one that I like:
1 can chipotle peppers, chopped up (careful, these fuckers are spicy) 2 TBS tomato paste 3ish cloves of raw garlic, again chopped 1/2 a bunch of chopped cilantro
Mix it with a fork (hell or even a spoon, it will shred whether or not you want it to) & salt it to taste. Use this in tacos, burritos, sandwiches, plain w/ beans & rice, or whatever the hell you feel like.
Oh, you want BBQ? Then use your favorite BBQ sauce instead of all the Mexican stuff. Delicious, easy and a bargain.
If you're not a cultivator, there's a good chance you don't own a PC. Put it in a regular pot of water and simmer for 2 - 3 hours instead. Or a huge roasting pan and do it in the oven.
Mexican places make this stuff in huge batches & freeze it in individual bags, thawing a small amount at a time. I suggest doing the same on a day when you're bored, so later that week when you get hungry (read: munchies) all you have to do is microwave it up and make a burrito. Or put it on some chips w/ cheese & your other favorite stuff to have the best nachos you'll ever eat. To get that taqueria style semi-crisp, almost jerky like exterior, reheat it in a hot saute pan w/ oil (they use a griddle, like Denny's hash browns). Enjoy.
PS: Even if you make it bulk and freeze it, it probably won't last for more than 2 weeks .
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5861403 - 07/15/06 10:42 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Cooking with a PC fucken rocks!
I made some awsome chicken dumpling soup the other day with mine. So good. The broth was so flavorful and was made in half the time 
I'll post up some good PC recipes later.
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5862702 - 07/15/06 07:13 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm trying it out tonight. I put in just a pound of shoulder, equal parts stout and water, garlic, chili powder and salt.
Carnitas tacos and beer
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5863057 - 07/15/06 09:12 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I like to make a large pot of beans from time to time..
I did this the first time not that long ago. Beans cost 19 cents a pound in the bulk bin, smoked ham hock was $3, onion $1, tomatoes $4.
For under $10 you can make enough beans to last you a month.. Mine usualy last about 2 weeks. Theyre great on corn tortillas when your in a hurry or trying to use up leftover meat.
Try making a large roast some time, wrap the leftovers in some masa with a slice of cheese, wrap the tamalies in parchment paper and then suran wrap. Pop em in the freezer and youve got good food that can be microwaved when your hungry. Just put some salsa on top and youve got a meal.
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: GabbaDj]
#5863959 - 07/16/06 01:25 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have an 8QT aluminum PC. I know aluminum is not the best for cooking at all, and its mostly gonna be for sterilizing oyster substrate, but i might wanna cook in it someday. how safe is it to cook in aluminum?
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5867425 - 07/16/06 09:26 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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im thinking of doing this with a crock pot, those tend to keep a lot of flavor in... plus i think there would be residue left in the PC for actually using it for food...
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: AliceDee]
#5869419 - 07/17/06 02:11 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The carnitas was awesome! I wish I had made more
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Jfisher]
#5911321 - 07/29/06 07:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was under the impression I could use my Personal Computer to make gourmet food.. I was hoping you found some crazy software or something... heh
p.s. I wouldnt consider carnitas (or any taco truck / taco stand food for that matter) gourmet...
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: CptnGarden]
#5913389 - 07/29/06 10:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't know if it's safe or not. Aluminum does change the taste of some things when you cook in it. I put a stainless pot or bowl into pressure cooker and cook in that. Put some water and the little aluminum plate that keeps stuff off the bottom and then a bowl that fits in the cooker. I have an gallon stainess bowl, one of those that is shaped like a "U", it fits nicely in a 6 quart aluminum pot.
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Shroomgobbler
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: falcon]
#5914424 - 07/30/06 08:36 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Aluminum gets very heavy usage in restaraunts. Most of the stockpots, saute pans, sauce pans ect. I've worked with in foodservice have been aluminum, and I actually prefer it over stainless steel. Just don't use it for vinegar sauces or anything with a lot of acidity because it will change the flavor, and it'll be fine.
--- kotik -- Hah, good point . Replace 'gourmet' with 'delicious'
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5917594 - 07/31/06 02:19 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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how would it effect the flavor if there was vinegar? and what would it taste like?
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Shroomgobbler
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Ebb]
#5919139 - 07/31/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Remember when you were little and chewed on aluminum foil, and it tasted like... well, metal? Cooking acid in aluminum makes it taste like a teabag of powdered aluminum was floating around in your sauce. It tastes more wierd than gross.
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Re: Use your PC to eat gourmet & CHEAP! [Re: Shroomgobbler]
#5919367 - 07/31/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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so if one were to say, cook a cactus with a vinegar solution to further "bring out flavor" in the cactus, it would be a bad idea to use the aluminum PC?
damn.
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