Whats your favorite

[Forvols]

Just wondering what most of your cooking methods are. I kind of lean towards fresh Italian, Mexican(texmex) and southern also do a fare amount of stir frying(make my own sauces from the cabinet) and yes smoking meat. Although all are kind of slanted to southern cooking which I grew up with. Trying to get away from heavy fried stuff (southern) but also still using fresh items and trying to get that southern splash on some dishes. And cleaning up some Italian and Mexican dishes but still got all the flavor. And smoking meat bbq, grilling. Side dishes, etc. But dang hard to beat a grilled trout, pork n beans, sliced onion and fried cornbread. We in the south are lucky. I don't know of much boil it till its tender and boiled tater recipes like from them Yankees. Guess that goes back to the England days when they boiled everything.

Ne way what you got? Not recipes but your choice most of the time.

 

[Kimber45]

My wife is the superior cook at our house by far. She won't touch the smoker but she'll run me outta the kitchen and even away from the grill lol. She uses a lot of olive oil for cooking, cooking fresh spinach and greens etc in olive oil and seasoning 4/5 times a week which I could eat every meal. My favorite is a spicy trout she cooks in an iron skillet. I think I could eat it twice a day from now on. She also loves cooking fresh vegetables, especially green beans. There's little to nothing she cooks that doesn't turn out great. I'll add too that the older I get, the less I enjoy pork..seems it always leaves me feeling cruddy after I eat it. I think I'll take the wife's advice and move back to smoking chicken, fish etc. Much healthier and doesn't seem to bog me down after eating it either.

 

[TAFKAP]

Just wondering what most of your cooking methods are. I kind of lean towards fresh Italian, Mexican(texmex) and southern also do a fare amount of stir frying(make my own sauces from the cabinet) and yes smoking meat. Although all are kind of slanted to southern cooking which I grew up with. Trying to get away from heavy fried stuff (southern) but also still using fresh items and trying to get that southern splash on some dishes. And cleaning up some Italian and Mexican dishes but still got all the flavor. And smoking meat bbq, grilling. Side dishes, etc. But dang hard to beat a grilled trout, pork n beans, sliced onion and fried cornbread. We in the south are lucky. I don't know of much boil it till its tender and boiled tater recipes like from them Yankees. Guess that goes back to the England days when they boiled everything.

Ne way what you got? Not recipes but your choice most of the time.

TAFKAP house is the exact same. Whenever I just throw something together, it's almost always going to be "continental" in flavor and style. We've tried doing some Asian stuff, but it's blatantly obvious that we're doing a white-people interpretation of what S/E Asian food should be.

 

[BamaProud]

One of my favorite is Cajun/Creole. Red Beans and Rice, Gumbo, Etouffee, Sauce piquante, shrimp/crawfish Creole. Now i'm hungry.

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

My wife is the superior cook at our house by far. She won't touch the smoker but she'll run me outta the kitchen and even away from the grill lol. She uses a lot of olive oil for cooking, cooking fresh spinach and greens etc in olive oil and seasoning 4/5 times a week which I could eat every meal. My favorite is a spicy trout she cooks in an iron skillet. I think I could eat it twice a day from now on. She also loves cooking fresh vegetables, especially green beans. There's little to nothing she cooks that doesn't turn out great. I'll add too that the older I get, the less I enjoy pork..seems it always leaves me feeling cruddy after I eat it. I think I'll take the wife's advice and move back to smoking chicken, fish etc. Much healthier and doesn't seem to bog me down after eating it either.

I have often wondered if pork made anybody else feel like that

 

[WTM]

lol im all over the place. i guess that comes from traveling the world via Uncle Sam's travel agency. our mainstay is beef, chcken, pork, fish and deer(which my wife doesnt like). i use a lot of Med style cooking(not the Med diet) and since my wife cant stand the thought of eating lamb i substitute when i cook. i made the mistake of telling her that it was lamb in the gyros, after she gobbled it up so ive substituted that with chicken shawarma. i also do italian, greek and a little spanish to cover the other side of the Med lol. a good pallea is hard to beat when i can get fresh shellfish. i have a well seasoned wok that i have had for 20 years and its saw a lot of American style oriental dishes.(if you have had authentic oriental food, you know its not the same) i also do a lot of grilling and smoking, jerk ribs are nice. ive been known to break out the cajun cookbook occassionally too but my wife doesnt like it.

some of my ideas come from you guys, lol, a month or so ago someone was talking about roast beef "debris" poboys and i just had to make them. my wife sure liked them so thanks.

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[jakeway]

I love cooking with cast iron especially dutch oven over a campfire. Mostly meats and burgoo, but a good scalloped potatoes and ham is hard to beat.

 

[moondawg]

Just depends on what I'm in the mood for. For the most part, it's really simple stuff, as I'm cooking for myself. I do a lot of grilled or pan fried (with just a little butter, no batter) chicken and fish. I find myself using a lot of Cajun or Italian type seasonings, along with some Mexican (mostly chipotle) seasonings.

During the winter, I will make more chili and gumbo.

I hate to say it, but I am burned out on Mexican...the family goes out for Mexican every Friday.