Made the empenadas last night using store bought pie crust.
Mixed chopped white and brown turkey meat with goat cheese, cranberry sauce, and slivers of yellow squash together. The filling was moist, not too wet in the mixing bowl. Filled the dough, crimped the edges tight and painted the tops with 1 beaten egg. Cooked in a 425 degree oven for 17 minutes until the pie crust was lightly brown.
Let them cool down enough to bite into them, and was treated to the driest piece of pie crust ever. The filling looked like a dry sponge with all of the air holes. The edges were tightly sealed and there was not seepage, so maybe the heat was too high and the moisture evaporated?
Drats! Waste of time and energy.
Missed this. I would suggest the oven was too hot, by like 50 degrees or so.
Do you have an oven thermometer? Or do you go by the temp settings on the oven? An oven thermometer is only like $7, but they're invaluable.
pretty excited to make dinner tonight. have pizza dough warming to room temp (made it wednesday, been in the fridge since), chicken marinating in jerk seasonings, made a sweet chili garlic sauce, pineapple pico made, and going to put it all together as a pizza topped with mozzarella. Will post pictures later.
alright LGP... this one is freaking spicy. holy cow, I was sweating from eating this (it's my normal really spicy food reaction) but I couldn't stay away.
Pizza dough is my own secret recipe.
Chili sauce:
2/3 cup of corn syrup, 4 fresno chilis, 2 cloves garlic, 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar, splash of sriracha... puree it all then cook until it thickens
Chicken is just marinated in store jerk sauce and grilled
Pineapple pico:
about half a pineapple, a red bell pepper, half a red onion, lemon juice and honey
That barbeque sauce is an intense experience. The sauces of my youth (ie visiting my father's parents in Salisbury, NC and getting barbeque) always had a slight tomato component. This was a serious commitment to vinegar. I made a quart, which is probably enough for 10 pounds of pork....but at least it will keep.
In a few weeks, I'm going to make some slaw with the sauce, which I suspect will be excellent.
Barring some kind of major fall, is there any chance the finale is not Gregory vs Mei? Will there be an episode where Gregory doesn't win something? His slip up during the Cheers quickfire aside, he has been in beast mode all season. Hard to not see him winning at this point.
Barring some kind of major fall, is there any chance the finale is not Gregory vs Mei? Will there be an episode where Gregory doesn't win something? His slip up during the Cheers quickfire aside, he has been in beast mode all season. Hard to not see him winning at this point.
I agree with everything you've said. Appears to be the first bona fide rock star since season six (Vegas).
Spoiler:
That said, Mei works for Mike Voltaggio at one of my favorite restaurants in town. This is the first time have had a Cheftestant's cooking before they were a cheftestant (we ate a ink. three years ago, and it was spectacular), so I'm rooting for her. But Gregory has been on fire; only way I see him faltering is some sort of friendly fire/self-inflicted wound situation.
This past week's result was richly deserved on the losing side. That guy is everything bad about modernist gastronomy; all empty technique and boring flavors. He kept harping on about how he didn't go to culinary school.... well, perhaps that would have helped a bit. When he said he didn't think chocolate cake was something you'd bring to a battlefield moments after presenting scallop noodles, I quite loudly screamed the word "TOOL" at my television. Mrs Tif just shook her head.
To me, he's no different than Wolverine Marcel - there's a reason that guy has never and never will have his own restaurant.
Also, Colicchio still isn't blogging about the show. He hasn't written a single post since he quite wrongly chastised a contestant in the New Orleans season about using tomatoes in a Vietnamese dish. I do not think that is coincidental.
Barring some kind of major fall, is there any chance the finale is not Gregory vs Mei? Will there be an episode where Gregory doesn't win something? His slip up during the Cheers quickfire aside, he has been in beast mode all season. Hard to not see him winning at this point.
Spoiler:
I think you have it covered. In fact, I will be disappointed if those two aren't in the finale.
Oven thermometer? Check. It is a combo conventional and convection and had Pacific Sales calibrate the oven twice for service. I figured the heat zapped the moisture. Going to try again, and drop the temp 50 degrees.
Attempted eggplant croquettes with a lemon tarragon aioli this weekend. It "worked", but the recipe called for the vegetable to be cooked right on the burner. We just baked it instead, which made i assume is what made the eggplant guts harder to mold.
Nah....just drizzle it on afterwards.
But, you really have to like vinegar.
If anyone hasn't tried pulled pork with vinegar sauce, I really encourage you to do so. It doesn't sound good at first blush, but trust me, the folks down there in NC know what they're doing. I like to toss some of the sauce with shredded cabbage to make vinegar slaw, and then put the slaw on a bun with the pulled pork (sprinkled with a little more vinegar).
I don't think I have ever commented in this thread but do enjoy lurking since I too like to cook it up, but my gosh... I would starve with the chef portions around here. I would need like 4 plates for myself. I guess I'm just a lazy American fatass. Lol.
No offense Tif. I wanted to tell you this like 150 pages ago.
