Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Get your cooking equipment ready and put on your chef's hat: here we are with this week's voyage into the uncharted seas of culinary adventure!
Now, the first step is to buy some Mexican chorizo because some friends of yours who live in Arizona told you about it once and you're curious as to what it tastes like. Especially if you live in an area where there isn't much call for Hispanic foods, your local supermarket may only have a choice of one brand. But that's okay! The important thing is that you have a choice of quality within that brand. If one kind of package lists the ingredients as "pork", and the other lists in detail a number of miscellaneous non-meat pig parts, pick the first one. Even if there's no actual difference, you'll feel better thinking of it as pork.
Take the chorizo, crumble it, and cook it until brown. The color will be darker and a bit redder than you're likely used to with cooked pork, because of the chile pepper in it. When fully cooked, taste, and find that although the taste is okay, the texture bothers you, because you're a little funny about texture; it doesn't quite seem yielding enough for cooked pork, and you're not sure why.
Knowing that you're not going to eat it like this, spend about ten minutes trying to figure out what to do with it, and then put it in a container with about half a jar of tomato sauce, stir together, and then let sit in the refrigerator for a day or two while you studiously avoid it. When it becomes unignorable, take the mixture out and taste again. Surprise! The miracle of food chemistry has transformed it into something halfway between a meaty tomato sauce and sloppy joes!
Wondering what the hell you're going to do with something like this, (since you don't have any rolls to put the mixture on for a sandwich), dump over cooked pasta of your choice, or put on frozen pizza before baking. The results will be strange, but full of the satisfaction of knowing you've cleared another culinary experiment out of your fridge.
Till next time!
Now, the first step is to buy some Mexican chorizo because some friends of yours who live in Arizona told you about it once and you're curious as to what it tastes like. Especially if you live in an area where there isn't much call for Hispanic foods, your local supermarket may only have a choice of one brand. But that's okay! The important thing is that you have a choice of quality within that brand. If one kind of package lists the ingredients as "pork", and the other lists in detail a number of miscellaneous non-meat pig parts, pick the first one. Even if there's no actual difference, you'll feel better thinking of it as pork.
Take the chorizo, crumble it, and cook it until brown. The color will be darker and a bit redder than you're likely used to with cooked pork, because of the chile pepper in it. When fully cooked, taste, and find that although the taste is okay, the texture bothers you, because you're a little funny about texture; it doesn't quite seem yielding enough for cooked pork, and you're not sure why.
Knowing that you're not going to eat it like this, spend about ten minutes trying to figure out what to do with it, and then put it in a container with about half a jar of tomato sauce, stir together, and then let sit in the refrigerator for a day or two while you studiously avoid it. When it becomes unignorable, take the mixture out and taste again. Surprise! The miracle of food chemistry has transformed it into something halfway between a meaty tomato sauce and sloppy joes!
Wondering what the hell you're going to do with something like this, (since you don't have any rolls to put the mixture on for a sandwich), dump over cooked pasta of your choice, or put on frozen pizza before baking. The results will be strange, but full of the satisfaction of knowing you've cleared another culinary experiment out of your fridge.
Till next time!
- Jacobus Loki
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Hmmmmm, chorizo!
- Kaiser Ometeotl I
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Manwich + hotdog == death.
Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
I don't have friends in Arizona...
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- Demon of Fides
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
I'm still trying to find out what the first ingredient is...
I am confusing, have a wiki article to help: Link-a-dink
Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Chorizo? It's a sort of spicy pork sausage.
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Thanks, gotcha.
I am confusing, have a wiki article to help: Link-a-dink
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
I recall it being tasty.
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Yummy stuff, but very fatty. Drain it well.
My wife has even been known to rinse it.
My wife has even been known to rinse it.
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
That's my issue with Bacon...So much grease it gives me acid reflux.
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Personally, I throw meat right between two sheets of paper towels straight out of the pan. That usually does the trick...
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There is something to be said for the Forman Grill.
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Damn you! I just spent the last half an hour finding, cooking and eating bacon. STOP MINDRAPING ME!
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- Jacobus Loki
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
BACON! Uhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
- Kaiser Ometeotl I
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THat's... just weird...
- Elliot Markham
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Heard some folks on the job from out of town who mentioned chorizos the other day. Thank you OP for expanding my culinary horizons.
And Your Niftiness, if regular bacon is too greasy then get Turkey bacon. Turkey is the other other white meat, the one that is generally healthy.
And Your Niftiness, if regular bacon is too greasy then get Turkey bacon. Turkey is the other other white meat, the one that is generally healthy.
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That's the kinda my gf.. err... fiance and I eat.
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
Ashkenatzan Beef "Bakken". Good flavor, but very heavily salted.
There is a joke that goes with this, but this is not the venue for it.
There is a joke that goes with this, but this is not the venue for it.
- Kaiser Ometeotl I
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
About salted beef?
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Ok, why not.
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So Silverberg goes to the grocery one day and says to the butcher, "How much is the ahhh, BACON?"
The skies grow dark, and it begins to thunder.
He looks up and says, "I was only asking.........."
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So Silverberg goes to the grocery one day and says to the butcher, "How much is the ahhh, BACON?"
The skies grow dark, and it begins to thunder.
He looks up and says, "I was only asking.........."
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Re: Culinary Experimentation: Sloppy Joes the Hard Way
...wow..... that's pretty bad.
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Told you it was the wrong place..................
- Kaiser Ometeotl I
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Not sure wrong place. I just pointed out that it was really bad. I did giggle.
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