STUFFED! and Smoked

Kolaches this morning at work (thank you random team that the boss appreciated your work) and a team going-away lunch today at California Pizza Kitchen (yay Thai Chicken Pizza) have left me STUFFED.


Yesterday I found two links that I think will help me greatly on my quest to get a smoker this summer:

National Barbecue News (Forums)

and

Smoking Meat Forums

Random Web Links for 2008-02-22

• Recipe of the Day: Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Garlic - Bitten - Em made something similar to this a while back and they were actually quite good
• Easy Baba Au Rhum - Bitten - food that gets your drunk :-)
• Save Money with an Indoor One-Pot Herb Garden - I am going to try this in the spring
• Spaetzle for Breakfast - I gotta try this
• The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy - and Their Open Source Alternatives - good list of OS alternatives
• Quick Whole Wheat and Molasses Bread - Bitten - i need to try and make more bread

Random Web Links for 2008-02-13

• Cooks.com - Recipe - Chicken Wontons - recipe to try ... need a way to use leftover wonton wraps
• Consumer food labeling suits reinstated - you really can sue for anything :)
• Roasted Walnut Oil - I might just need to pick some of this up at some point
• Recipe of the Day: Falafel (Bitten) - recipe to try ... I need a deep fyer
• Best Wine Racks Kitchen-related design from our network - really cool wine rack design. I loves simple and uniquely designed storage setups like this
• Recipe of the Day: Ginger Beer - Bitten - we had some great homemade "real" ginger-soda up in Chicago which was great
• Recipe of the Day: Italian-Style Vegetable Pancakes - Bitten - like potato pancakes++
• Recipe of the Day: Potato Nik - Bitten - I always wanted to try latke, this is just one big one
• Happy World Nutella Day 2008! (Feb 5th) - they have holidays for everything

Random Web Links for 2008-01-31

• Spicy Chickpea Stew - recipe to try
• Miso Soup with Sweet Potato Dumplings Recipe - recipe to try
• Dried Apricot and Pistachio Scone - recipe to try
• A new reference source - great idea, now if only I had the time to validate its content
• Peppermint Marshmallows - I wanted to make these for Em during the holidays but never got around to them
• Smoked Salmon and Potato Breakfast Casserole - sounded yummy
• Homemade Bread: Cheap, Delicious, Healthy, and Easier Than You Think - hopefully
• Fresh Cranberry Scones - sounded like a great way to use up some left over cranberries, haven't tried yet
• Cranberry Hungarian Pastry - another interesting cranberry recipe
• Spanish Potato Omelet - great ingredients make good food, I need to try this one
• Rustic Pear and Apple Galette - mm fruit pizza

Links - Better-meat with-12-birds with bacon-wrapped potatoes

• Make good meat better? I will have to try this one next spring when we break out the grill again! (I have followed AB's suggestions on brining pork for some time now and it is a key component in one of my favorite dishes ... Grilled Stuffed Porkchops that I will sometime post as a recipe)
• Turducken is sooo last season. 3 different birds just won't cut it any more. Now we need 12! (I would love to try this, but man its crazy!)
• Dates? Check. Bacon? Check. Parmesan cheese? Double Check. Sounds right up Kooz's alley. Maybe I will find time around the holidays to make some of these.
• I found this one a couple months ago, but I still want to try it. Gives me hope that I still might someday get my Reese's Brick. :)
• Em had some interesting spiced mulled wine the other night at a friends house. I wonder what other kinds of goodies could be made.
• Could all of the world's problems be solved by potatoes? Maybe.
  

Interesting Links

• What is a triangle with no sides equal!? Don't worry, Subway has problems with their triangles too. I will admit, I have thought the exact same thing as the layer on the pepperjack cheese on my BMT.
• I wonder if this is where Alton Brown got his. "mixer-customizing subculture"? That is a whole level beyond any kitchen-nerd-ness I have achieved. So far.
• Chistopher Walken Cooking Videos. Need I say more?
• This would look great until it got full of crumbs. A simple design for a simple food.
• Say it ain't so! Em says that she heard that some were closing in STL too!