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My 'secret' chili ingredient is green chilies. I spent a year in Las Cruces, NM which is very close to Hatch, NM, the green chili mecca. They are very addictive.

The NM chilies range in heat from mild (Big Jim varieties) to hot (Barkers) and very hot (Marilyn Monroes).

My Dad lives there now, so he brings them up for me when they come, or they ship them to me. Seriously, I'm addicted. It's not the heat, it's the flavor. I can eat them in all ranges of heat, but I prefer the mid-range heat of the Barkers.

The Big Jim varieties are mild though, and have great flavor, if you don't like the heat. That's generally what is packed in cans, along with a Californian variety called Anaheim. Also very good.

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Btw, I've tried the Trader Joe's brand, and they are better than most canned varieties.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
Rum is delicious cooked into various things. Ditto for wine.

As far as the baked beans and marinades and beer can chicken and shit, that falls into my category of "doesn't really taste like bourbon/beer and you wouldn't miss it if it was gone". That "Jack Daniels Grill" bullshit at Applebee's or whichever chain does that has no whiskey flavor in any of the stuff they make with it and it's all just about branding.

I have done the onions and brats in beer before and personally I thought they would be better in water or chicken stock or something but of course YMMV. It's not bad if you do it in Bud Light or something like that, but I did it once with a hoppy, dark beer and I found the onions to be inedible.
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The Jack Daniel's Sauce at Fridays is basically onions and molasses; There's not even JD in it. Its fucking delicious though.
 
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On the occasion that I would find myself at a Fridays, the only thing I could order was the Jack Daniels burger because of that sauce... I'd ask for extra too.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
I have done the onions and brats in beer before and personally I thought they would be better in water or chicken stock or something but of course YMMV. It's not bad if you do it in Bud Light or something like that, but I did it once with a hoppy, dark beer and I found the onions to be inedible.
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We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I love the beer flavor with brats, and I personally think hoppier beers work better for this although I can understand why others might disagree. Not sure which beer you used but most darker beers would have a maltier, sweeter taste to them which I think would work better with the onions.
 
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I think it was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale type beer, not like a porter or a stout. I can't remember exactly but it turned the onions quite brown.
 
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Newcastle Brown is a great cooking beer.

Cut up some onions and garlic, and toss them in a bag with a cup of beer. Take some brats, pierce em a few times with a fork and toss em in. Let em marinade overnight. Good stuff.
 
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I need some recipe website recommendations.

I find myself going to allrecipes.com, simplyrecipes.com, food.com, etc and always getting the same types of boring things suggested to me. I like more advanced recipes than the normal things that you find on these sites, but since I do most of the cooking for my family and I don't get home until around 6, I would like to target things that I can prepare in under an hour.

Any suggestions? I have found that I am going back to purchasing cookbooks which doesn't seem like the most economical solution to my problem, but cookbooks do give me consistently better recipes.
 
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I like to look up Alton's recipes on foodnetwork.com and then look up similar ones at other sites like epicurious. Alton's cooking techniques are great but overall low on flavor or flare so I'll prepare with Alton and season with another recipe.
 
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Really the best way to go about making things is to read half a dozen recipes and then take the things you like from each of them. The internet makes this super easy to do.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
Really the best way to go about making things is to read half a dozen recipes and then take the things you like from each of them. The internet makes this super easy to do.
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Yeah, this is what I usually do. The user reviews often have a lot of great tips on refining and tweaking them as well.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
Really the best way to go about making things is to read half a dozen recipes and then take the things you like from each of them. The internet makes this super easy to do.
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Take an internet recipe + add more garlic = win

Everything is better with more garlic
 
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Roasted garlic might work with a caprese salad. I honestly didn't think of it. Good butter substitute for toast and such.
 
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Fuck. I think I'm going to have to do roast garlic and brie tomorrow night. Thanks for making me think of it, asshole.
 
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In my various trips to Chicago, I never made it there. Dude was pretty young. I'd imagine the restaurant will stay open?
 
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