What are you cooking today.

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
My wife and I grew up around family restauranteurs (Me-French cuisine and my wife-Italian). We've both been scratch cooks from our teen years on. Aside from a number of cook books around the house, we have our personal cookbook filling a catalog rack. My wife also writes recipes and cooking tips for The Examiner.
Here's our cookbook with over 2000 recipes. We're buying a triple rack since my wife has another 2,000 recipes waiting on placement in the book.

View attachment 1181493

Daaag!!! Do you know how many times a week I have pizza and hamburgers!? fml
:/
 
Well, you know those Dos Equis commercials? With the most interesting man in the world?

Let's start a petition to get Oddball to be that guy now. Because he is legitimately the most interesting man in the world ;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: HumanBean
Well, you know those Dos Equis commercials? With the most interesting man in the world?

Let's start a petition to get Oddball to be that guy now. Because he is legitimately the most interesting man in the world ;)

Lol,
"I don't usually get on internet forums, but when I do, it's on MonsterFishKeepers!" :D
 
Here's a gator recipe my mother got from a Chef at The Lemongrass Restaurant in Miami. We tried it a few years ago and remade it twice again since then (We just never ate it in front of Ruby):
gator1.JPG

gator2.JPG

Most folks fry gator which, IMO, makes the meat too chewy. May as well eat pencil erasers. I prefer to marinate and slow cook gator to tenderize it. After the main cooking is completed, you can always place the meat under the broiler of pass it quickly over the grill to caramelize the surface.
 
Here's a gator recipe my mother got from a Chef at The Lemongrass Restaurant in Miami. We tried it a few years ago and remade it twice again since then (We just never ate it in front of Ruby):
View attachment 1181497

View attachment 1181498
Oddball, you should make a sticky in the lounge of all those recipes. It's be a ton of work, but you could potentially find a way to fax recipes over to people. Or just find someone with one of those Neat scanners, and upload them all to your computer and post them in a sticky.

Would be an awesome resource
 
Here's a gator recipe my mother got from a Chef at The Lemongrass Restaurant in Miami. We tried it a few years ago and remade it twice again since then (We just never ate it in front of Ruby):
View attachment 1181497

View attachment 1181498
Thanks so much for that. I'm saving this and I'll see what I can do later.

On a side note, how was ruby contained? Or was she just too well fed to want to leave?
 
Oddball, you should make a sticky in the lounge of all those recipes. It's be a ton of work, but you could potentially find a way to fax recipes over to people. Or just find someone with one of those Neat scanners, and upload them all to your computer and post them in a sticky.

Would be an awesome resource

Perhaps I can do hobby-related seafood recipes. I have a ton I've gathered from the 66 countries I've visited. A lot of the recipes include fish we pay top dollar for placing in our aquariums. How about some smoked pacu, grilled IR shark, or marinated snakehead? And, don't forget the hot vegetable covered live eel (weather loach) soup.
 
Perhaps I can do hobby-related seafood recipes. I have a ton I've gathered from the 66 countries I've visited. A lot of the recipes include fish we pay top dollar for placing in our aquariums. How about some smoked pacu, grilled IR shark, or marinated snakehead? And, don't forget the hot vegetable covered live eel (weather loach) soup.
Might be a better idea.
This would allow people to do something with their big pacu, ID sharks, snakeheads, etc.
 
Thanks so much for that. I'm saving this and I'll see what I can do later.

On a side note, how was ruby contained? Or was she just too well fed to want to leave?

We had to install a concrete curb around the pond and a chainlink/turkey wire fence all around. To her credit, she never tried leaving her pond. In fact, the only time she ventured up the 30 foot embankment was whenever we showed up carrying a white bag. That meant she was going to get treats.

ruby7.jpg
 
MonsterFishKeepers.com