Koolickle Test Update

I just know these motherfuckers aren’t going to get any more red. It’s been over 3 weeks and I have a feeling that a brine change is in order.

BBQ Pulled Pork Pancakes

BBQ Pulled Pork Pancakes
By MF Grocery

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Tonight Sarah and I decided to have homemade buttermilk pancakes for dinner. She went the old school route topping her’s with maple syrup and butter. I however chose a different path by topping two pancakes with delicious bbq pulled pork.

Here is a shot of the winning pancake. I mean, look at the smoke ring!

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And runner up, maple syrup dude.

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Pizzaburger

I can’t take credit for this idea, as it was concocted and made real by my friends Josh and Dustin. A party was planned, and the food item that became its centerpiece is still talked about today. It was the pizzaburger: two Totino’s pizzas, a pack of cheese slices and a lot of ground beef. I feel lucky to have taken part in demolishing it, but after the jump are some pictures so you can live vicariously through our gastronomical dreams.

First, the meat. If I remember correctly it was in the 5-6 pound range. Not easy to handle on the grill.

This is Josh. Look how happy a person can be when their seemingly impossible dream comes to fruition. We almost lost the patty in pieces when it was flipped (with a cutting board).

Once flipped, around a dozen cheese slices were peeled from the plastic and set on top of the burger to melt.

I don’t have any action shots of the creation of the actual burger, but it was pretty simple. We baked two Totino’s four meat pizzas (pepperoni, bacon, sausage) and placed one on the serving tray. With the cheeseburger placed on top, it was crowned like a king with the second pizza. Dustin looks relieved and ridiculously hungry.

Not Just for Guacamole

If you don’t have an ice cream maker may I suggest you to stop reading this boring post and take your ass to the store and purchase one.

I’ve been buying avocados recently in hopes of one day making some ice cream with them. Everytime I bring some home they either sit around too long or my dog jumps onto our kitchen table and eats them (she has grown fond of eating bags of flour, too). Anyway, I finally got around to attempt Alton Brown’s recipe over the weekend.

Based on recipe feedback on the foodtv site I decided to add a few extra ounces of avocado for flavor, 1/4 cup of honey and 2 oz. pistachios to the mix. It just wasn’t enough. The ice cream turned out a little bland but it was easily solved by drizzling extra honey and sprinkling more crushed pistachios on top.

I may have to take this recipe to the next level and make a mini taco salad shell from a deep-fried flour tortilla, add ice cream, drizzle it with honey, add more pistachios and dust it with cinnamon.

The Koolickle Test

Next Tuesday I get to test out my Koolickles. My sister-in-law’s boyfriend decided to make a batch after we bullshitted about these and they turned out ok (I think he may have fucked around with them too much). So in order to set shit straight, I threw together a batch of red a few weeks ago.

I was going to follow the recipe from this article but thought the pickles would be too sweet so I poured half of the pickle juice out of the jar of Claussen’s while trying to keep as much of the garlic and shit as possible. Then made a double strength batch of Kool-Aid (1 quart of water, 1 cup of sugar and a packet of red). I topped off the pickle jar with the Kool-Aid mixture, shook it up a bit and left in the refrigerator to sit for 3 weeks.

Well, these shits are not bright red yet and I’m afraid they are going to have to marinate a little bit longer, maybe another month. If these turn out good I’m going to do a gallon of some purple ones.