The Food Thread

Many thanks!

Ah, Chicago. "Can we find a way to fit more starch and cheese into this grilled cheese sandwich?"

But there's no pork products, therefore, it's not 100% Chicago.

Has kraft mac and cheese in pantry, and has bread and cheese and a skillet........ never made grilled cheese before, but I think it is about time I tried.

Do it! And send me pictures!

Okay, I don't know whether this should go here or in the barbecue thread, but I made the best grilled pork last night.  I butterflied a pork loin, rubbed it with your standard barbecue blend of spices, and grilled it flat, so it only took about 20 minutes total to be cooked to absolute tender perfection.  But then, to make a nice dinner into a genius dinner, I took a tip from one of Bill and Cheryl Jamison's cookbooks and served the pork with a compound butter with pecans, Worcestershire sauce, and homemade hot sauce in it.  HOLY JUMPIN'!  Buttered pork?  Is the greatest thing in the history of the world.

So, as I threatened in my introduction here's my contribution to the food thread, presenting saturday's dinner.

Before I get started I apologize for the quality of the photos.
The camera on my phone is very shitty and the stupid, sexy, sophisticated light in my kitchen is out of order at the moment.
Apparently, it takes more than one Telly to change a light bulb.
I promise to do better, already got the digicam charged and will sort out that lighting problem in my kitchen ...eventually.
Also, my plates are ugly as sin, I know, I know...but they just won't break no matter how I mishandle them.

So, without further ado, here's a tasty chicken recipe that has no offical name that I'm aware of:

First, peel 3 pounds of potatoes, quarter or slice them, depending if you're more in a Game of Thrones or Hannibal mood, then
put them in boiling water for about 10 mins.

Meanwhile, make a marinade with olive oil, garlic, rosemary, thyme and powdered bell pepper, salt and pepper.
Use a pastry brush to cover four chicken legs with the marinade, then spice them up as desired.
(I use pre-made spice-mix for chicken, which is probably terrible but it's fast and tastes good)

Put the potatoes in a big casserole dish and mix with the rest of the marinade. Put the chicken on top of the potatoes
and off it goes into the pre-heated oven at 200°C/400°F or your local, non union equivalent for 40 minutes.

This gives you more than enough time to slice the vegetables and make some snarky comments, or even initiate a pun thread.

The vegetables in this are pretty interchangeable, I went for zucchini, spring onions/escallion (don't know the preferred english word) and bell pepper
(I used grilled bell pepper because it gives some extra taste but fresh is totally fine, maybe even better, health-wise).
Other vegetables work too, red or white onions, broccoli and carrots (thin sliced) come to mind.
I wouldn't recommend kale, but I don't think that can stop Scrawler.

So, after 40 minutes, take the chicken legs off the potatoes and mix them with the vegetables.
Put the chicken back on top and stuff it back into the oven for another 20 minutes.

And that's it, you've got yourself a tasty, satisfiyng dish that, thanks to the veggies, isn't totally unhealthy.

Let me know if you liked it and want more 'Cooking with Telly' or if I should get the hell out of your forum.

In any case, always remember: Who loves ya, Baby?

EDIT: Seems I didn't need to worry about the photos, there's no room for attachments here at the moment

2nd EDIT: Images now up via tinypic.

Sounds totally delicious.

Spring onions are also called green onions or scallions. We knew what you meant.

Assume that salt will come off while cooking and be generous with it. Or, salt separate from the marinade so that you get a feel for how much is going in there. When it's in a marinade, it's hard to tell what's going in or not.

The mind boggles.

Considering its Victorian origins, I imagine this sandwich was invented to teach children to identify when they were being cheated.

Is it real?! I imagine comedy writers around the world sighing and hanging their heads, realizing they could never write a joke this funny.

Also the wiki page List of Sandwiches is pretty great - my favorite is the Fairy Bread from New Zealand/Australia:

In non-bread-related news, I made totchos for dinner last night. That's tater tot nachos.

Unfortunately I overestimated how many tots I had left, should have saved the whole bag, but we'd eaten half of them the night before. So I diced an actual potato really finely, lightly coated them in canola oil and then mixed that in with the existing tots. Smooshed it together on a cookie sheet and baked a little while, till it started to get crispy. Then I topped it with pulled pork, black beans, salsa and cheese and put it back in the oven a few minutes. Sour cream [really seasoned nonfat greek yogurt] on the side. 'Twas yummy.

Did it just come out really well or did you do something special with the recipe this time?