A thread for boxing fans who are also chefs/food lovers

had no idea what else he was asking for. Chef boyardee is just a pasta dish and I can't predict the kind he prefers for him. All I can do is take the order he wants and suggest a way I would personally improve it. In this case a simple step like adding mayo to cream it up is no major leap but makes a huge difference in texture. In a nut shell if someone wants creative food, don't ask for pre-made (canned) food. I should reiterate this in another way. I'm a simple kind of guy looking for simple ideas to make my simple day simply a little better. So the food suggestions are simply spectacularly devised to to feed the simple service man with simple needs and simple ambitions. Because you never know, if he's simply fed the right simple snacks, he might simply stratom.

Croz If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end. And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste. I like your recipes all the same so no offence here but that doesn't sound like mayonaise, and who decided what butter milk has to taste like?

Me and my wife are making bread pudding this weekend. :luvbed:

i love to eat mac and cheese. it's one of my guilty pleasures. i also like honey and milk in my oatmeal. yummy. I always call that a cheese dish. Do you eat it with mince?

]Your dealing pretty low level here my friend. First of all regarding pasta: How about cooked down tomatoes, olive oil and french thyme? You want to make it dinner? add some well cooked bacon, buy your baon with no nitrates and add a bit of the cooked off fat...just a bit. Now, if you want to take it farther? have a date coming over? buy a block of authentic parmesian (from parma) it will run you a bit but it lasts forever and you will get a lot of use...shave said Parma on the pasta...You know its good if you can hear the granules in the cheese when you are shaving it. Want a really good meat sauce? take the same basic variety above and buy a chuck roast, slow cook it...just leave it on the stove with some onion carrot and celery...maybe a touch of wine, and let it start to pull apart with the grain (what the cubans call Ropa Vieha sp?) just pull the meat apart and add to the sauce. If sausage is your thing...well most store bought is sh1t. Get a meat grinder, cook down a pork butt, take a square of pork fat (about 1 pound of meat to 1/4 pound fat) and grind the mixture, add fennel seed. garlic onions salt pepper... you can get sausage causings at most wholesale meat distribution places. And finally! wanna really impress your date? take that same basic sauce, now bare with me because it sounds crazy but it works! An old mafiosa godfather taught my dad this recipe and as a kid I knew only one thing, it was delicious! Buy some codfish, cook it down and let it shed, take it out of the water and wash it down add to that same root sauce. This is a light sauce that has great flavor...great for summer. So one root sauce, many variations. if you keep a container of it handy you can also make marinara (add vinegar) parmesian (use on chix breast egg plant) and even add fresh zuchini and portabello for a vegetarian dish (portabellos are meaty). Hope this helps had no idea what else he was asking for. Chef boyardee is just a pasta dish and I can't predict the kind he prefers for him. All I can do is take the order he wants and suggest a way I would personally improve it. In this case a simple step like adding mayo to cream it up is no major leap but makes a huge difference in texture. In a nut shell if someone wants creative food, don't ask for pre-made (canned) food.

Croz If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end. And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste. how long does that stay good for though? I'm not trying to make mayo on a weekly basis.

Croz If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end. And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste.

pasta? Add a good clump of mayo, wholegrain mustard and honey. Changes everything If your're on for cooking pasta seperately, after you boil it drain the water and leave it sitting in the hot pot. Throw in some natural butter, spices of your choice (I like black pepper) = you have now evolved pasta. Your dealing pretty low level here my friend. First of all regarding pasta: How about cooked down tomatoes, olive oil and french thyme? You want to make it dinner? add some well cooked bacon, buy your baon with no nitrates and add a bit of the cooked off fat...just a bit. Now, if you want to take it farther? have a date coming over? buy a block of authentic parmesian (from parma) it will run you a bit but it lasts forever and you will get a lot of use...shave said Parma on the pasta...You know its good if you can hear the granules in the cheese when you are shaving it. Want a really good meat sauce? take the same basic variety above and buy a chuck roast, slow cook it...just leave it on the stove with some onion carrot and celery...maybe a touch of wine, and let it start to pull apart with the grain (what the cubans call Ropa Vieha sp?) just pull the meat apart and add to the sauce. If sausage is your thing...well most store bought is sh1t. Get a meat grinder, cook down a pork butt, take a square of pork fat (about 1 pound of meat to 1/4 pound fat) and grind the mixture, add fennel seed. garlic onions salt pepper... you can get sausage causings at most wholesale meat distribution places. And finally! wanna really impress your date? take that same basic sauce, now bare with me because it sounds crazy but it works! An old mafiosa godfather taught my dad this recipe and as a kid I knew only one thing, it was delicious! Buy some codfish, cook it down and let it shed, take it out of the water and wash it down add to that same root sauce. This is a light sauce that has great flavor...great for summer. So one root sauce, many variations. if you keep a container of it handy you can also make marinara (add vinegar) parmesian (use on chix breast egg plant) and even add fresh zuchini and portabello for a vegetarian dish (portabellos are meaty). Hope this helps

Getting a lot of restaurants favoring my tweets but not sharing them. It's great seeing restaurants and chefs interested in my stuff but just faving a tweet doesn't share it/ Im a chef cooking is my third love what are the first two? Wife/Family? Boxing?

Im a chef cooking is my third love

I just cooked some sautéed bak Choy, with skillet seared steak. Probably my favorite post workout meal.

Very nice suggestions. ..I will try some of that thanks, appreciate it. Salted cracker cheese spread small slice of salmon on top of that slice of cheese on top of that you now love sushi

I've never seen such a unique variety of improvised methods to cook a steak. You must have been high as a ****ing kite when you made that list. :rofl: Nope. Just hungry. This is where my mind goes when I get hungry.

1. if it's a thick steak slice the middle and stuff the potatoes inside 2. Roast the potato, half it, chop the steak into tiny bits and put it on in the same way you'd eat a cracker. 3. Drill a whole in the potato, stuck parts of the steak in then deep fat dry it = stuffed potato 4. Put mashed potato on it and eat it like a sandwich 5. Use the oil from the steak and mix it together for steak stew 6. Cut the potatos into chips, put the chips into the steak, roll it up and eat it like a sandwich. 7. Deep fat fry the mashed potato and steak (cut the steak into small pieces) together 8. Use a cheese grate on the steak and spuds and grate them the same way you would cheese I've never seen such a unique variety of improvised methods to cook a steak. You must have been high as a ****ing kite when you made that list. :rofl:

1. if it's a thick steak slice the middle and stuff the potatoes inside 2. Roast the potato, half it, chop the steak into tiny bits and put it on in the same way you'd eat a cracker. 3. Drill a whole in the potato, stuck parts of the steak in then deep fat dry it = stuffed potato 4. Put mashed potato on it and eat it like a sandwich 5. Use the oil from the steak and mix it together for steak stew 6. Cut the potatos into chips, put the chips into the steak, roll it up and eat it like a sandwich. 7. Deep fat fry the mashed potato and steak (cut the steak into small pieces) together 8. Use a cheese grate on the steak and spuds and grate them the same way you would cheese I've never seen such a unique variety of improvised methods to cook a steak. You must of been high as a ****ing kite when you made that list. :rofl:

Make me some chef boyardine Chef boyardeez nuts in your mouth! :rofl:

1. if it's a thick steak slice the middle and stuff the potatoes inside 2. Roast the potato, half it, chop the steak into tiny bits and put it on in the same way you'd eat a cracker. 3. Drill a whole in the potato, stuck parts of the steak in then deep fat dry it = stuffed potato 4. Put mashed potato on it and eat it like a sandwich 5. Use the oil from the steak and mix it together for steak stew 6. Cut the potatos into chips, put the chips into the steak, roll it up and eat it like a sandwich. 7. Deep fat fry the mashed potato and steak (cut the steak into small pieces) together 8. Use a cheese grate on the steak and spuds and grate them the same way you would cheese Lol the insanity.

Very nice suggestions. ..I will try some of that

What do you do with steak and potatoes? 1. if it's a thick steak slice the middle and stuff the potatoes inside 2. Roast the potato, half it, chop the steak into tiny bits and put it on in the same way you'd eat a cracker. 3. Drill a whole in the potato, stuck parts of the steak in then deep fat dry it = stuffed potato 4. Put mashed potato on it and eat it like a sandwich 5. Use the oil from the steak and mix it together for steak stew 6. Cut the potatos into chips, put the chips into the steak, roll it up and eat it like a sandwich. 7. Deep fat fry the mashed potato and steak (cut the steak into small pieces) together 8. Use a cheese grate on the steak and spuds and grate them the same way you would cheese

name two ingredients and I got something for it What do you do with steak and potatoes?