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We are doing shepherds pie today which is Irish I think.

Did a pantry and freezer clean out. Had some dried white beans and some andouille to use. Made the same sauce I would for jambalaya without the chicken and shrimp and sub the white beans in for rice.

I don’t know if it’s an actual thing, but it’s freaking yummy.

I'm making corned beef hash with poached eggs

We are doing shepherds pie today which is Irish I think.

It's certainly more Irish than corned beef and cabbage.

Our corned beef turned out fantastic. My Rueben was delicious, and my kid loved hers, as well. Have enough for 2-3 more meals.

I can't bring myself to eat corned beef. Idk why. The taste just puts me off.

Also made corned beef this week, because Giant Eagle had it on sale. I did what the ignorant h8ters on here would call the "boil in bag" method at 175° for 10 hours. I'm making Reubens on home-made caraway rye bread with Cleveland Kraut. The beef is perfectly tender and the rye came out great (I love my Zojirushi bread machine). Sweet potato fries on the side.

Every TikTok cooking video:

That is outstanding.

It's like an Olivia Tiedemann reel with fewer middle fingers.

Comments:
RECIPE PLEASE?

Anyone ever have Dave’s Hot Chicken before? There’s one opening up near me soon.

I flew into Syracuse and just had it Saturday. It was good, but go at least one step hotter than you think. I went medium and it was fairly tame. The chicken is crispy and juicy. They have crinkle fries, which I usually don’t like, but these were on the thin side and crispy, so I liked them.

Dave's is fine, but honestly, for the price, I would think there are much better options depending on where you are.

I know of no other hot chicken places nearby, honestly. Thanks for the tip on the heat scale - I'll do that.

A very random trip found myself in Springdale PA and holy Santa Claus poop everyone has to go try Tastefully Blessed BBQ. This place was top 3 meals I've ever eaten in my entire life. I had the sharpsburg smasher mainly because I wanted to try all the meats they had. It was insane good.

I made Patatas Bravas last night, which I had never actually heard of until I went looking for potato recipes yesterday. TBH I thought it was appropriate for Cinco de mayo, but it's technically tapas and therefore Spanish, not Mexican. Anyway...

The Delish recipe had you basically deep fry potato cubes in 3 cups of olive oil which.... olive oil's expensive so next time I'll probably just air fry. The paprika sauce though... very easy and I'll make that thing a staple in my culinary arsenal.

A very random trip found myself in Springdale PA and holy Santa Claus poop everyone has to go try Tastefully Blessed BBQ. This place was top 3 meals I've ever eaten in my entire life. I had the sharpsburg smasher mainly because I wanted to try all the meats they had. It was insane good.

Used to work at the power plant they are demolishing over there. Will have to check it out.

Little known fact, a Friend of Ronnie was until recently Mayor of Springdale. Will have to ask him about this place.

*ahem*

That's actually a good use for an edge vacuum sealer, too. If one were so motivated you could portion and package the rice with whatever veg and aromatics you wanted and make your own Bird's Eye situation.

Can you cook anything without a plastic bag?

Yeah. But I'm not talking about any of that right now.