Check this tasty McMeal. So our crazy friend Missy made some sauce last weekend. She has been talking this sauce up for the past 6 months. It's a pork sauce, with hunks of various pig parts in the bottom and bones...gotta have the bones. When it's done right, it's a life-changing experience. She spent like $75 so I had high hopes...and my culinary school buddy is neighbors with her, and he tried it on Saturday night when she made it. He said "It's bomb". I trust his palate.
Missy informed us that we have a couple quarts coming our way. She packaged it all up on Sunday and put it in Chinese takeout 1 quart soup containers. Me and the wifey got two frozen solid logs. We have a pretty good selection of various late season peppers, tomatoes and basil in our garden, which I'm glad for.
So we decide to see what all this is about and bring home a loaf of sourdough Garlic Tuscan bread from Wegmans...my favorite eating bread. I defrosted the logs and dumped em into my Dutch oven and was kinda surprised. It neither looked or tasted like the pork sauce I am familiar with. The sauce was super smooth and thin, the pork was still together as meat hunks and the sauce just tasted juvenile. This needs some more time and love. Luckily my garden had my back, because the fucking store was closed by the time I realized I needed it. So I decided to treat the sauce like jarred sauce and Bubbles it up into something radically different and flavorful.
Started with a giant red pepper and a pair of onions that got diced up and sauteed. I also found 4 mid sized straggler heirloom tomatoes and gave those a few blips with my processor. I shredded a few small carrots, as I love the body they give to a tomato sauce.
I just started building with fresh ingredients: red pepper, 2 onions, carrots, puree heirloom tomato, some dry chardonnay, a whole head of garlic, a splash of heavy cream, garden fresh and dried basil. We then added the two pots together into my Dutchy and realized we would appreciate some meat with this masterpiece...so we whipped up a pound of meatbawls. Lucky I had everything on hand and created a 14 pack of fennel seed (my super secret meatball ingredient... shhh) balls....twice cooked like I learnt from Tyler Florence. Pan seared, put some sauce over top and then baked for an hour. Meanwhile, I kept the sauce bubbling with a cover the whole time, so I added about 3 hours of desperately needed maturing time. It came out fucking AWESOME. Her base with some Doctor love and some fresh ingredients and general cooking know how. Bam. Not even sure what all pics I have, but here goes.
I also made this brownie kit. When I was shopping for Mama's party, I grabbed this crazy thing from Wallie World. It's called Dunkin Hines EPIC S'mores Brownie Kit. Holy shit, fucking spend $5 and grab one. I'm intimately familiar with DH brownie boxes. This is not that. First, it doesn't look or smell anything like the normal box....and second, these brownies use BUTTER!!! That's new. Most brownies use oil and water. I mean, you can use whatever you want, but this is according to the package instructions. So I had a leftover package of chopped pecans and some leftover mini chocolate chips, so I tossed em into the batter. I love nuts in my brownies and chocolate never doesn't work with brownies so we'll go with that. So you make a graham cracker crust in the bottom of an 8x8 and then put the liquid brownie on top and then bake it. I always cook my brownies a little cooler and check em with a toothpick. I checked em....twice....still not done and I go and pick up a guitar...AND PROCEED TO GET SOAKED UP INTO THAT AND WAS OVER HERE SHREDDIN LIKE A BOSS AND I NEVER PUT ANOTHER TIMER ON. I fucked up my amazing brownies. But get this, even with all that, they were still amazing!!!! Like REALLY good. They easily went half an hour over if not 40 mins. You're supposed to put these marshmallows over the top for 5 mins in the oven, but I didn't want these things anywhere near more heat, so I never got to try it with the marshmallow and fudge topping. So we are gonna save that and try again from scratch...or just buy another EPIC kit and use double shmallows and fudgeys. I was pissed yo. Brownies with graham cracker crust is killer though. Haha. These were some denk fuckin browns. I wish I got to try em proper. Definitely check this out if you're into tasty treats.
Here's me all set up. Life is good.
This is what it looked like exactly as it went in the hotbox. About 60 mins away from being ruined. This is the best shot I got, seeing as I wasn't in the picture taking mood after 'The Incident'. Maybe y'all won't play guitar when the brownies have ten mins left and actually put em together right with the 'shmallows and other paraphernalia. I fucked up.
. Truth be told I don't like making salads but I do know how.
