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    BigMike's Crock Pot Chicken Breasts in Mushroom and White Wine Gravy

    Hi everyone, long time no post. Well I relocated to Illinois and because of my eyesight failing so much I'm losing a step. I decided to get a crock pot, but one of the things I didn't like about crock pots if you wanted a lot of flavor you had to pre brown everything in another pan and move it...
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    Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

    Sure are a lot of versions of this recipe going around, hope you try mine. New to the Family Posts: 1628 Joined: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:16 pm Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:56 am Back in the 80s there was an Urban Legend (myth) being spread by secretaries I knew at IBM that a woman in Texas...
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    Mrs. Kennedy's Stuffed Meatloaf

    Getting into the WayBack Machine for this recipe. When I was in the Army I dated this girl and her folks had me over for Saturday night dinner so they could meet me. Mrs. Kennedy made this dish with flank steak but it's so good using meatloaf. Hope you try it out. Mis en Place 4 pounds...
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    Mike's Pasta Fajioli

    Heck we're expecting a really bad storm. So today I did up a 4 pound corned beef, ala BigMike's Baking Bag Corned Beef Dinner. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/173521/bigs-baking-bag-corned-beef-dinner Many times I've used the juice/broth in the baking bag as a soup base for extra flavor...
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    BigMike's Buttermilk Chicken Strips

    So good, use buttermilk to marinate the strips in. Mis en place 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast 1cup buttermilk 1 beaten egg 2tsp garlic powder 1tsp black pepper 1tsp paprika 1tsp cayenne powder 1 1/2cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup cornmeal 2tsp sugar 1tsp salt 1tsp pepper 1tsp dry...
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    Smoked Beef Chuck Roll

    Yeah wanted an slightly cheaper alternative to brisket. Found a number of threads on the FINDuck roll. Hit YouTube and searched on Yahoo too and found our local Sam's Club had them. And thanks to the good tips I ASKED and being the butcher didn't have to do much more than cut me a 9.5 pound...
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    Big's Beef Borstch

    Thank the ladies at my FIL's house for serving us borstch and getting me craving it. As usual I spend a lot of time looking up recipes online and watching videos on YouTube. Lots of Polish folks made some inspiring videos. Every area has it's own twist on what borstch is so mine might not be...
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    Big's Turkey en Mole

    Yeah this is the dish that got me started cooking seriously. Urban legend has it some nuns in old world Mexico were caught off guard when a big shot cardinal dropped in to stay with them. Being poor women they pretty much grabbed everything in the pantry, killed a chicken and whipped this dish...
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    Mike's GRILLED Eggplant Sandwiches

    Variation on a theme, my old boss made BAKED eggplant sandwiches that were slices of eggplant oiled, then a slice of provolone and mortadella (Italian baloney) that were then dunked in egg wash, bread crumbs and BAKED. Those are great but it's too hot to bake. So one night I got the idea of...
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    This Juicing Thing I Have Been Doing

    I know this should interest many of you. It's summer, it's hot, we want to have more energy, we're tired of carrying that extra weight, it's hard for us to "diet" (quote, unquote) and we want to make a change. Juicing isn't something new, I just got away from it. My joints hurt, my eyesight was...
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    Mike's Smoked Chicken Apple Salad

    A tip of the hat to all the high end delis that sell a smoked turkey or chicken salad. I wanted to fresh this up a bit. I also prefer using bone in and skin on breast portions because the skin and bone help keep the chicken moist no matter what cooking method you use, I do remove the skin and...
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    Coffee Making Epiphany !! Cleaning Your GRINDER !!

    I know that I've had these epiphanys in the past about how great my coffee suddenly tasted when I CLEANED MY ESPRESSO MACHINE with a commercial product. Did the rinse cycle after using something like CLEANCAFFE... WELL, how about this for a twist... When was the last time you cleaned your...
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    Smoked Salmon, Whitefish and Gravlax, Or What Has BigMike Been Doing ?? LOL

    You know I was having so much fun smoking meat my wife was feeling a little left out. So I took a couple of hours digging around looking for recipes online and on YouTube and we hit Sam's Club and then I went CRAZY... First off some smoked fish, super easy and the results are amazing. We always...
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    Carnitas: Smoked Pork Butt Mexican Style

    Hey folks, hope you all are well. I wanted to post this recipe and dedicate it to two old friends (sisters) I knew way back as my way of saying HELLO and I miss them. So Alice and Ann, this is for you. Been a while. I know if you came out here to the Casa and hung out with me and my wife it'd be...
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    Chicken Mattone, or Brick Chicken

    Interesting to see Tyler Florence (one of my favorite Food TV Network chefs) doing commercial spots for Applebee's chain. He's taken some clever and tasty dishes and commercialized them for mass consumption. One shown on one of the commercials is a variation on an old Sicilian dish called...
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    Singapore Street Noodles

    Been to PF Chang's with my wife on special occasions and she always orders this. You can make it with shrimp in it like PF CHang's does or just add two more vegetables to give the dish the extra flavor instead. Making your own curry powder fresh from scratch puts this in a whole 'nother Universe...
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    Calamata Olive/Walnut Whole Grain Bread

    I bake this bread in small cast iron skillets. It's wonderful... If you don't have a big table top mixer like my KitchenAid then do the recipe up in a huge bowl, at first mixing the ingredients with a large spatula, then working the dough with your fist as in the pizza recipe. Enjoy ...
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    Mike's Pastrami

    This is gonna be a fun thread, the weekend after Nan and I got married we went to Katz's Deli in NYC... It was wild even in mid afternoon there. They're famous for their corned beef and pastrami, fall apart tender. Also famous for that cute scene in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... you know the scene...
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    Mike's Bleu Cheese Dressing

    I saw an article on a great brisket house in the midwest. Looking at their menu I saw one thing that really got me, a simple wedge of iceberg lettuce with their house bleu cheese dressing and crumbled bacon over the top. WOW what a flavor combination. So I set out teaching myself how to make...
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