Gravy's Cooking Thread

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mkopec

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Ao-_sl said:
What plant am I thinking of that ends up with salmonella or something equally bad?
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Salmonella usually enters agricultural environments via animal feces. Animals can directly contaminate plants or surface water used for irrigation and pesticide or fertilizer diluent through contaminated feces.

The ability to colonize plants may be an effective survival and multiplication strategy for Salmonella as it provides a link between its excretion in the environment via animal feces and the recontamination of herbivorous and omnivorous hosts.

Interactions of Salmonella with animals and plants

So essentially it still needs an animal to shit on the plant that is infected with salmonella in the first place. Then the bacteria can invade the plant, even multiply only to be eaten by another animal to popegate the species lifecycle.
 
Abefroman

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You also really have to be more careful with organic food. A ton of farmers use turkey shit to fertilize their crops. Wash your produce!
 
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So Operation Fired Pork Tenderloin Sammich, aka Operation Fatass, aka Operation One-More-Belt-Notch was a success.A grand success. The only problem was that because I buy those 2 packs that everyone on the east coast buys, I have soooooo much. Going to freeze it and do it up in the oven, I think. Very, very tender stuff.
 
Lleauaric

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Doing Carnitas tonight.

I use a really dead simple recipe and it comes out awesome. No 11 tons of lard.

Homesick Texan Carnitas
Adapted, just barely, from The Homesick Texan Cookbook

3 pounds boneless pork shoulder or pork butt, cut into 2-inch cubes
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup lime juice (from about 2 to 3 limes)
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon Kosher salt, plus more to taste

Corn tortillas, for serving plus
Avocado slices, chopped cilantro and fixings of your choice (we love pickled jalapenos or onions, lime wedges and a bit of slaw)

Place the pork in a large Dutch oven or heavy pot. Add the orange juice, lime juice, garlic, cumin, salt and enough water to just barely cover the meat. Bring the pot to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Simmer uncovered for two hours. Don't touch the meat.

After two hours, increase the heat to medium-high and while occasionally stirring and turning the pieces, continue to cook for about 45 minutes, or until all of the liquid has evaporated, leaving only the rendered pork fat. Let it sizzle in this fat long enough to brown at the edges, turning pieces gently (they'll be eager to fall apart), only as needed.

When pork has browned on both sides, it's ready. Adjust seasonings to taste and serve on warmed tortillas with fixings.
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Mrs. Gravy

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^ Carnitas recipe reads deliciously.


I have about three pounds of pulled pork in my fridge right now or I would try that. I am about to attempt to insert a pic of smoker used for the creation of said meat. fingers crossed.
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Mrs. Gravy

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BrutulTM_sl said:
Is that yours? That's a hell of a smoker.
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No, it's my cousin's. There is more to it...built on the trailer, also has a very large grill, side burner (that doubles as a shelf when not using the burner) and storage case. He and a good friend (who I have known since he was a wee child) built it. They can cold smoke or hot smoke. They built it from a construction barrel of some type - in the ceiling of the smoker they put in a rotating rack. The grill was made from an old fuel oil system (to heat an old house). The photo I put here does not do it justice, I need to take better pics. They use it mostly for personal family things but also they do some fundraising events for local charities with whom they are connected.
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lurkingdirk_sl said:
That makes me slightly tingly.
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Yeah, it's a beautiful beast. I think that taking the photo so you can see the size (as it is currently parked next to a cattle trailer) gives some pretty good perspective as to its behemoth nature. They did a really great job in constructing it..great latches, good gauges etc. They are handy.
 
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Mrs. Gravy_sl said:
Yeah, it's a beautiful beast. I think that taking the photo so you can see the size (as it is currently parked next to a cattle trailer) gives some pretty good perspective as to its behemoth nature. They did a really great job in constructing it..great latches, good gauges etc. They are handy.
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Will they build me one? I promise to cook for them...
 
Rezz

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Knowing a good welder is key.

Fantastic looking piece of equipment, though.

Edit: Carnitas recipe is legit. Only change I would personally make would be to soak some guajillo chiles in it while it cooks, not a ton to make it spicy but enough to give it some tang. Maybe 4 whole chiles (the dried kind is probably the most often available) and just let them hang out in the marinade/cooking portion.
 
Erronius

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I just made myself a salad in a popcorn bowl.

I hate to think that I need portion control, but maybe I need portion control.
 
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Depends on what's in the salad. Is it a salad or a "salad".
 
Erronius

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Well, it was just lettuce and dressing today, but that's because I need to go buy groceries. Usually I'll throw other stuff in it, like peas or a can of kidney beans, cottage cheese or tuna or whatever else tickles my fancy.
 
Adebisi

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My sick cat is putting my in the poor house.

Anyone got a feline recipe?

Seriously though, I'm going to eat my stress this weekend. And by weekend I mean starting Thursday.
 
Szeth

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Barraco Bisi_sl said:
My sick cat is putting my in the poor house.

Anyone got a feline recipe?

Seriously though, I'm going to eat my stress this weekend. And by weekend I mean starting Thursday.
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I feel your pain. Ours had a fatty liver syndrome where he lost 8 pounds, so we had to feed it through a tube in it's neck four times a day. Thousands later and he's healthy and fat again. Little bastard.
 
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