Me too!!! And they have gotten very expensive and you still don’t know where the fish came from. Cullen Skink, smoked salmon with bagels, smoked trout spreads… be still my heart.
Looks great
I have an older model 30" Masterbuilt electric that I bought maybe 8-10 yrs ago. I was looking to upgrade to a Cookshack when this one dies but the damn thing is still going
Have a few packs of lamb ribs in the freezer but they are so darn fatty I avoid making them. Yours look really good
I like this kind of food. Extremely popular all round Europe and has different names but it’s simply “meat balls”, sometimes in (slightly) different shapes. There’s a similar minced meat dish called “Butterschnitzel” in Austria.
Your ribs in the other post look spectacular. I love smoked fish and am lucky that it’s normal food here, and is still affordable unlike some other things.
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A cold smoker awesome. I’m going to build one out of an old refrigerator and a pot belly stove. My dad made the best smoked steelhead. He cold smoke them. I remember him telling me never get the smoker over 80 degrees.
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This is the recipe that I used, but I omitted the cherry glaze stuff. Wanted to taste the smoke and meat for my first time out with this box:
https://barbecuebible.com/recipe/spice-smoked-lamb-ribs-with-cherry-barbecue-sauce/
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I had to be on the UES tonight and was freezing and tromping through the slushy snowy sidewalks hungry when i remembered the old pizza shop i would go to way back when i lived in the area ten plus years ago. They make the best garlic knots i have ever had, no exaggeration. Craptons of garlic and a soft pillowy interior. I wanted some with soup but their soup today had chicken stock so i took my knots to go and wafted garlicky waves of delicious across the entire subway car from my bag that was missing two by the time i got to the subway station.
I put together a quicky tomato soup and had that with the rest of my garlic knots. Good stuff.
Borrowed this photo from yelp, the place was crazy busy when i was there. (Don fillipo on lexington b/w 78 and 79th)
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Wow!!
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One of the notes that I have written to myself is, in the smoker vs. the charcoal grill/smoker, I should trim more of the fat. It didn’t renew as much as I have anticipated. However, since the fat was simply the first layer of the rib, it was easy to remove while eating. Downside of course, was the all that nice rub went away as well.
This is a very unfair photo for a low-carber to see before breakfast. I’m thinking of putting on a bib to catch the drool. 
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Hahaa, they’re legit worthy of dealing with the nightmare 6train subway to get there- and throwing any low carb regime out the window! (Fun fact: they’re accidentally vegan)
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The word that people keep using when talking about me is toxicity. Not my favorite word. With the demise of the fridge, I lost tons of food. But, until I have a replacement, I can’t replenish that food. So tonight, we did a combo of at-home/take-out.
I made Sahni’s Everyday Dal and some basmati rice. From the local Indian spot, we ordered some chicken wings and samosa. The wings were not great. Clearly they had been cooked off in advance. But, my focus was on the dal and rice.
Enough leftover for one more meal, and I will roast those wings to get the skin crispy.
Tomorrow night? Bahn mi. I will start the bread in the morning.
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Didn’t know you were purported to be toxic 
I could live on legumes or beans and rice without a problem.
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I got a new range today! The one I inherited when we bought our house last year was a complete POS - the oven cooked everything unevenly and the stovetop had weak burners that wouldn’t light half the time. Two of the burners repeatedly turned themselves off mid-cook during Thanksgiving prep, so I decided it was time for an upgrade. I have been thinking about induction, but that would have required an electrical upgrade, so I decided to stick with gas - I’ll consider induction when we do a full remodel (that’s a few years down the road for sure). Here’s the model: https://www.goedekers.com/GE-CGS995SELSS.html
Anyway, I broke it in with white bean chicken chili, a nice hearty stew for a warm day. The burners are terrific! I’ll test out the ovens tomorrow with some roasted vegetables and possibly a holiday treat for my husband to share with his coworkers.
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I hope that your new range makes your food and you happy!
I am doing what I can!
Tonight’s savory: Pappardelle with Chicken Livers and Rosemary. Great liver recipe. Although not so good it would convert someone. (I think only Banh Mi is capable of that.) I used half the amount of rosemary, but next time I will use the full amount. Pappardelle were dried and from Trader Joe’s (TJ’s). I used TJ’s pomegranate juice in place of sherry. Salt (salted pasta water + salted butter + 1/2 tsp kosher) was perfect for us, but normals will want more salt. I will cut the livers smaller next time like how the recipe instructs. I soaked the livers in milk, then dried them, even though the recipe didn’t say to. The optional parsley didn’t go with it, in my opinion (I kept it on the side.) Also, I will probably double all the sauce ingredients. I have an agreement with family to alternate less sauce (my preference) and more sauce (blasphemy) for pasta. Actually, liver haters will still happily eat the pasta. Then you can save their liver portions for pizza or sandwiches. Warning: cooking livers on high heat makes a lot of mess.
Previous savories:
Flour+Water’s Margherita. Followed recipe to the letter. I consider myself a Neapolitan-style person, but whatever type of crust this is, it was spectacular. My first time using 00 flour. The crust was crispy and chewy with small bubbles that provided great texture. Only issue is the dough takes up a lot of fridge space. Also, waiting 2 days for the dough to finish was hard when everyone wants pizza now.
English Muffin. We have no strong labels as far as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sometimes I’ll eat my last meal at 3, other times at 8. Didn’t take a pic of this “dinner”: muffin – split and toasted – with goat cheese, TJ’s everything spice, smoked salmon, capers, red onions, cucumbers.
Rare time-to-myself-in-the-late-afternoon meal. Asian pear, kimchi (store bought), I call that an omelet, avocado, spicy seafood miso soup, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip walnut pecan cookie, pie crust cookie w/ cinnamon sugar, iced coffee.
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Today’s sweet: Turtle Bars. Good, not great. Layers need more distinction. And I could write an essay on – health/stigma aside – why corn syrup is just not good. But the first time I try hard to respect the recipe. These were oddly better straight from the fridge than at room temp. I froze these earlier this month and thawed them today, maybe that made it better.
Previous sweets:
Pound Cake. Everything a pound cake should be. “I don’t eat plain cake.” Well, now you do.
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Bundt Cake. Wanted to love it. Love the idea of a doughnut cake. It was too moist. (2nd essay: “Stop with the moistness already”.) I found the flavor confusing, like the cake didn’t know what it wanted to be. This is the second time I made it, thinking I messed up the first time, but it’s just not my cup of tea.
Eclairs. Eclairs from 99% of bakeries are soggy and old-tasting, so homemade choux is good even when it’s not. I used a whipped cream dispenser for the cream puffs and the cream was too light. Next time I will whip the cream with a hand mixer.
Sugared Jam Cake. Somewhere in between a muffin, doughnut, and cake, it was everything I wanted the doughnut cake above to be. I used Bonne Maman wild blueberry preserves and fresh blackberries instead of making jam like in the recipe, and it was easily the weakest part of the cake. Can’t wait to make it again with fresh filling.
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Those are GORGEOUS English muffins, bmore! And the pizza looks amazing as well!
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Friday’s dinner was my Company’s Holiday party. The proverbial “artisan cheese” on display, because if I don’t have it, for some reason people complain. And it seemed to go over well this year! (Always a crapshoot)
Passed horsey deeorvies were Prosciutto-Melon Sailboats (meh. I should have known better…the melon was some crappy honeydew), Goat Cheese Arancini (very good), Coconut Chicken (didn’t try), Mini Crab Cakes (fair), and Lollipop Lamb Chops (very good and tender, but needed a “sear” on them…they seemed more baked than grilled).
For dinner, there was plated salad consisting of Boston lettuce, pistachios, dried cranberries, with a pom-citrus vinaigrette, and the buffet was:
- Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce (superb)
- Carved Tenderloin with Port Wine Bordelaise (superb)
- Grilled Salmon with Maple Cider Glaze (very good)
- Potato Gratin Gruyere (fair)
- Green Beans with Almonds (standard)
Dessert was mini pastries, coffee, tea. There was open bar during the cocktail hour; poured Cabernet Sauvignon or Sauvignon Blanc during dinner, and a short open bar after dinner, in case any one wanted an after dinner drink (HAH! Of course they did!).
After a slow start on Saturday, I Wegman’d. Picked up some local dry sea scallops and made scallops in saffron cream sauce, basmati rice, and steamed green beans (completely forgetting that I had green bean’d the night before). The sauce was a bit too neon yellow, as I had added more than just a pinch of saffron, so no pics. But it still tasted good.
Tonight will be chicken thighs. I’ve pulled out an old recipe called Mushroom Chicken Imperial (an old 1950s recipe from Good Housekeeping that was updated in the '80s), but I’m not sure I’m feeling it. Will have to see what I’m in the mood for later.
Today will be some baking for work. Along with Orange-Spiced Nuts, I’m hoping to make Pumpkin-Cranberry Bread, White Chocolate & Pistachio Cookies, and Snickerdoodle Bars. We’ll see how ambitious I’ll be.
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That is VERY ambitious indeed.
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