Gravy's Cooking Thread

Khane said:

Hrmm no baja sauce recipe and I haven't seen it for sale in years. Creamy jalapeno sauce is not the same, at all.

0/Stuft, for shame, etc!!!

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The two best sauces Taco Bell ever had were 4-Alarm sauce, and the avocado lime that they used to use on the steak tacos. 4-Alarm I don't think got a nationwide release though. When I worked there back in high school I think we were a test bed store, and at one point we got a trial run of three different tacos that were fancier than the regular taco supreme.

Fire & ice, The Works, and the Santa Fe.

Fire and ice- meat, lettuce, cheese, sour cream, 4 alarm, tomato

Works - meat, lettuce, three cheese, sour cream, guacamole, tomato

Santa Fe - meat, lettuce, three cheese, Santa Fe / Baja sauce, and Santa Fe salsa which was basically a pico de gallo of black beans and corn

Four alarm was a Cayenne cream sauce. When we had it in the store we used to put it on everything if you were making your own food. It was honestly the best, but the Santa Fe sauce was really good too, and I believe renamed to Baja.

All of them were great, but the best part was being able to use things like the black bean corn salsa, the four alarm sauce, etc on your own concoctions whenever you were working. We came up with a hell of a lot of really tasty stuff.

Late 90s Taco Bell was the Pinnacle of fast food perfection.

Khane said:

Dr.Retarded try the chik fil a Avocado Lime Ranch to scratch that itch. They sell it at local grocers here and it's pretty good.

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Thanks, I'll check it out.

The Taco Bell one I've tried to replicate, but there's just something off. Might be the combo of the old steak meat from the 90s early 00s. They just really knocked that one out of the park for such a simple combination, at least to me.

Sludig got to use some of your 150 lb of potatoes with this nice recipe. We make something pretty similar if I'm doing fish or just roasted chicken or whatever, that's nice and easy and compliments pretty much anything.

Sludig said:

Ended up a lot 190lbs, and 10-15 out so of various onions.


Quite a few chunky 1.5 to 2lb red potatoes and gold

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That's awesome. Let us know what you end up doing with them. No bullshit.

Lanx said:

speaking of potatoes got this thing cuz...

well, theres not really a reason

ppl said it creates a nice smooth velet texture

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Rule 137 of the internet:

If it's on Amazon, Lanx already ordered it

Sludig said:

So far imitation taco bell spicy tater taco's. Huge pot ofd italian sausage and kale potato soup, couple rounds of shepherds pie. Going to just fry some more with a recipie to try and make blooming onions out of the little pearl onions in the deep fryer.

ALso started trading w/ a few neighbors/coworkers kinda thing.,

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This looks like a pretty good technique to try for a steak.

Lanx said:

Used tiny grill with the basket, it's great. I put the wire basket over the regular grate and this way the meat just sticks to the basket instead of the hibachi grill grate so it's easier to flip

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Just chicken thighs right? Kind of hard to tell from the photo. I guess that was just kind of a yakitory deal?

I ran out of bed b&b log charcoal but I had suggested. It lasted a good long time but I haven't been able to find it since then. I've been to Academy in a while though so they might have a bag. That stuff burned longer and hotter than anything else I've bought so far.