Food Thread - Inforoo Is Full Of Crab

And for anyone who has a gas stove (or any kind of grill), fire roasting your peppers - jalapeños, serranos, poblanos, habaneros, Anaheim peppers or hatch chilies - brings out some of the sugars and intensifies the flavor through caramelization. There are other ways to do this on baking sheets or under a broiler or salamander or whatever, and those methods are all fine. But this is how to fire roast on a stove top burner or grill.

Wash and dry your peppers.

1) Arrange them on the burner rack directly on the flames.

2) Turn on the burners.

3) Allow the skin to blister and blacken, and turn as necessary to ensure the entirety of the skin gets burned and black.

4) Take peppers off the fire as they are ready and put in a plastic ziplock bag, Tupperware or something you can seal for about 10 minutes. Note: if you use really shitty cheap plastic, it could melt. Most even average quality bags work.

5) Leave the roasted peppers in the bag to steam for about 10-12 minutes.

6) Empty bags of peppers into a bowl of ice water.

7) Scrape off the black skin. Using the steam and ice bath method, you can easily do this by rubbing the pepper under running water. 90% of the skin will slough off and you can use a knife to peel away the rest. A tip from me is to use latex gloves to do this if you are dealing with hotter peppers. Your hands and possibly other body parts will thank you later.

8) Cut the peppers lengthwise and use a small paring knife to scrape out the seeds and ribs. Ribs do add some heat but they also will add bitterness you don’t want. All you have to do is run the knife along the rib, and they will come right off.

9) Chop into desired size pieces and use, freeze or refrigerate for later.

You will be amazed how much better everything calling for peppers is when you fire roast them. Salsas, tacos, shrimp dishes, omelettes and what have you will have a much better depth of flavor. This method works for bell peppers too. You can even fire roast tomatoes and onions and all other seasoning fruits and vegetables for even better results. Some of the bigger ones are easier to do on a cookie sheet because of weight and volume. There are ample videos on the internet to show you how to oven roast.

One other thing. If you are playing with extreme peppers such as Ghost Peppers or Carolina Reapers, fire roast outside and wear breathing and eye protection.

Spend the extra coin and get an instapot instead. 

Also, Idk if you have lots of seasonings/spices but if you do I have a great recipe for taco seasoning. That package shit is easy but full of crap. 

I have the Juicing Bible. Haven't looked at it in awhile, but pretty important-sounding name, right?

Juicing is good for getting the nutrients out of veggies, but as far as fruit you might want to blend those that you can. The juice is mostly just going to be sugar, while the blended fruits you also get the fiber (yes, this is discussed in the movie Her.)

Made some green juice today which tasted healthy. Now simmering is some beef stew with carrots, parsnips, garlic, potatoes, mushrooms, yellow squash, holy trinity, Fresno Chile and various other spices. I hadn’t cooked it in a couple years and added a bunch of vegetables because they had them at the store. Gonna munch in a bit and then decide if I’m going to be lazy and watch night 3 of Disco Biscuits on YouTube or go out and see Robyn Hitchcock who I have never seen.

I also should have waited for a cold day.

I knew there was a reason I was waiting...oh wait, I lie nobody is buying superbowl food here. We boycotting. 

Never had Tacodeli. Not sure what that is. Sounds bad, though.

I found this:

Also that's so blurry. I know I'm not that drunk.

Yeah. In-N-Out fries are hot garbage, and even that is generous, because they get cold after two minutes.

Waffle fries are so sick, though.

Just ordered an "impossible burger". Will report back.

Read the ingredients. Sounds nasty.

Impossible burger was legit. Better than plenty of real burgers I've had.