A ferwell week of meals


 
Michael Richards

Michael Richards

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My oldest daughter's boyfriend leaves for Army Boot Camp next Sunday. We really love him and it is going to be a big change to our family system when he leaves. So we need to feed him well the last week before he goes. We set a menu of all the meals he wants and I am going to do my best get deliver. He is requesting blackened fish, pulled pork, tinga chicken, pork nachos, empanadas, breakfast for dinner, and ramen. Last night was the night of grilling and smoking to set the foundation for the week.
It started with the fish for last nights dinner. We got skin on Whiting.
Here's the first batch.
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And here's the second batch.
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Served with tomato rice and homemade black beans.
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Then as soon as I got done cooking the fish the rotisserie and some more charcoal were added to spin these chicken.
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They cooked a little slower then normal, but turned out great it cruised at 400, I like the rotisserie to be a 450.
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Then I added fresh charcoal and a chunk of hickory wood across the lower grate and poured the hot coals from the slow and sear in top of it. The kettle zone defuse system went in and this pork shoulder went on.
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The shoulder cooked and I pulled the chickens.
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The pork cooked until earlier this morning and went into the cooler.
Out of the cooler and ready to to be pulled for tonight.
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Served with mac and cheese and corn on the cob, but I forgot to get photos.
Tomorrow night is Tinga.
 
Looks like some Great Cooks. He'll enjoy all of those I'm sure. Nothing like home cooking to get a good send off.
 
Everything is amazing Michael, are the coffee beans roasted or do you roast them yourself? If you do, I’d be interested in your method
 
ChuckO said:
Everything is amazing Michael, are the coffee beans roasted or do you roast them yourself? If you do, I’d be interested in your method
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Chuck,
Roasting Coffee (coffee/espresso in general) is my favorite hobby (cooking is number 2 hobby). Coffee Roasting is also something I totally have @Rich G to thank for. Rich introduced me to roasting. I started with an air popcorn popper until I was able to find a barely used Behmor on marketplace.
The Behmor really is an entry level roaster, but it's a great little machine. It can handle a full pound of coffee but I do half pound roast cycles and cool outside the machine with my homemade cooling device. My set up is below.
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I get to picking out different green coffee, learn to understanding the roast to get the most out of each green coffee, get to buy some of the best beans in the world at amazing prices and then get to make th3 coffee and esprosso ever for youself and those you love. I order from Sweet Marie's, Happy Mugs, and Cofffee Bean Corral. Let us know if you are ready to take the leap. There are a few of us coffee Roasters here.
 
Michael Richards said:
Chuck,
Roasting Coffee (coffee/espresso in general) is my favorite hobby (cooking is number 2 hobby). Coffee Roasting is also something I totally have @Rich G to thank for. Rich introduced me to roasting. I started with an air popcorn popper until I was able to find a barely used Behmor on marketplace.
The Behmor really is an entry level roaster, but it's a great little machine. It can handle a full pound of coffee but I do half pound roast cycles and cool outside the machine with my homemade cooling device. My set up is below.
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I get to picking out different green coffee, learn to understanding the roast to get the most out of each green coffee, get to buy some of the best beans in the world at amazing prices and then get to make th3 coffee and esprosso ever for youself and those you love. I order from Sweet Marie's, Happy Mugs, and Cofffee Bean Corral. Let us know if you are ready to take the leap. There are a few of us coffee Roasters here.
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Michael, what is happening in that picture? I am completely intrigued...is that a Shop-Vac?
 
@Tim Campbell, Ok I roast the coffee (a half pound) for 12 to 14 minutes and when it hits the desired roast level I stop the roaster and dump the beans into a colander (after the above picture my family upgraded me to a new metal colander with a father'sday gift). The colander is in a cardboard box with a circles cut out for the colander to sit in and for the shop vac hose. I dump the coffee, turn the shop vac on, drawing air over the beans through the colander, and it cools the beans to room temp in like 2/max 3 minutes. It is my homemade version of the cooling/dump tray on a commercial coffee roaster.
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Or a better cheaper version of a home cooling tray.
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Think of cooling coffee like pasta, you don't want your pasta to keep cooking once you remove it from the heat, its the same goal with coffee.
 
It's quite a coffee bar, it's more of a bar than I have at home for my bourbon and whatnot.....and in my head a bar means alcohol.
I gave up coffee about 4 years ago....I might have had 3 since then. I don't even miss it....I do believe I have only had really good coffee one or two times so that might be a big reason as well........
I see everyone in the morning lining up at the drive thru to get that must have fix.......seems silly to me, also drive thru coffee is not good coffee in my books. I am not trying to hate on coffee I am clearly far from educated in the coffee world.
 
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