Something that might clog the arteries, it might give you a little heartburn, but you love it and it’s easy? Something you can throw together on a work night (or have your wife do it!).
Me? Hot Dog Manicotti:
Pack of Ball Park bun-length Angus beef dogs (you may like another)
Box of manicotti noodles
1 Can of Hormel Hot Chili with Beans (you may like another, even some homemade stuff)
1 small jar of Ragu
Package of shredded cheddar or Mexican mix cheese
Boil manicotti noodles. Place one hot dog in each one. Line up in an oven dish. Pour chili (with beans!) and Ragu all over it at the same time. Cover with cheese. Bake at 350 for ~ 35 minutes. Nom nom! :dance3:
Put pork roast in crockpot, cover with apple cider vinegar and throw in as many garlic cloves as you can stand. Cook until the pork shreds. Eat it on a bun with bbq sauce, in a tortilla with salsa verde and lime or just as a main meat dish. Next day reheat in a frying pan until a bit crisp for a dish of carnitas.
BTDT. Maybe dump one of those small cans of corn in as it nears finishing. We’ll use leftover taco meat for any HH we make. Well, maybe tuna every now and then with peas instead of corn.
“Tugboats”. Slice a hot dog or brat of your choice lengthwise. Add a couple scoops of leftover mashed potatoes from Sunday dinner. Top with cheese. Microwave until hot/cheese melted. My family ridicules me. I don’t care. I love me a tugboat.
Taco ring, 1lb of ground beef, 2 rolls of can crassants,
Lay out the crassants in a circle on a cookie dish, add the meat, cheese, black olives, roll it up, bake per instructions on the label, add lettuce.
ABNAK making that serious, gourmet Chili Mac!!! For those of you who don’t know, Chili Mac is one of the finest field meals ever served in the Army. It beats SOS hands down.
Something I’ve made several times since I got a Blackstone griddle is my own version of street tacos. I’ll throw some shaved beef on it with some seasoning and some chopped Hatch chiles. Heat up some tortillas and add some cilantro and onion. Takes less than 30 minutes. Cleaning the griddle isn’t even that bad.
Something very similar my friend and permanent E4 from the border (Bownsville Tx) taught me when I was in, stupid easy and wonderful tacos I usually make for hunting and fishing trips. Plus a video of Mat Best and Rocco Vargas making something very similar (I copied the text for the most part)
Pork roast/ shoulder
1 - head of garlic minced
1- can of beer (Coors Light or whatever)
1 - 2 Liter Dr. Pepper/ Coke
1/2- Stick of butter
1 - bottle BBQ sauce
Salt, garlic ( I dump in some taco seasoning)
*all the above goes in crockpot
Cabbage Coleslaw
Cilantro (pico de gallo)
Tortillas
I usually smoke the pork first for a few hours in my Traeger when at home, but just throw in a crockpot all day when I don’t have the grill/ smoker.
I get it, my uncle still makes Shit on a Shingle with Spam and Chicken thighs, it does mean that I have to take some tums after but damn if it isn’t tasty
I’ve been known to have a Spam/egg/cheese biscuit on the way to work before! Of course the Spam is sliced and cooked up in “Cock Sauce” (Sriracha with the rooster on the bottle) on the weekend then is frozen in a ziplock and I take out what I need the night before.
I would assume its just a flour, egg, milk, butter mix with heavy pepper and garlic and red onions are added. He’s not one for spices, but he uses a bakery sourdough loaf that is toasted on the grill after the chicken and spam so it picks up all that excess fat, he strips the chicken thighs off the bone after grilling them and cuts them into tiny chunks with the spam before plating, usually served with a can of french cut green beans and side of doritos. All these are hunting camp meals which just make me start to itch for fall
Aparently you not had your entire Crew eat Chili-Macand then you all settle inside the Tank for the evening.
About 2200 it sounds like the horn section of the Trans Siberia Orchestra.
If I’m doing dogs, I grill them up then chop them up and drop them in a can of Bush’s Country Style Baked Beans. It’s a lot less grease, a lot more flavor and a lot less being trapped in the bathroom.
