barney's Cheap Eatin' Thread

[Bee]

I bought several corned beef briskets on sale last year. I gave each of the kids some and froze the rest. I thawed and fixed one for my wife and me for dinner today.

Carrots, taters and cabbage from the cellar, green tater onions from the garden and a pone of Gourdseed cornbread.

Have eaten that basically the same meal twice earlier in this week. It’s different and really good. I don’t see any vinegar on the table though. I think vinegar is a must have with cabbage and corned beef. Been Eatin Reuben’s for lunch off the same brisket. Good stuff at least once a year.

Your carrots look great . We sliced them thin and carmalized them in a little maple syrup so they had a little crispy sweet edge.

(Edit— was that really 2.67$. ??? In see it’s a year old by the package date. Froze it? Anyway ours was bigger I think, more like the one in Carnivores picture) and was maybe 6 times that at Kroger here. )

 

[barney]

Have eaten that basically the same meal twice earlier in this week. It’s different and really good. I don’t see any vinegar on the table though. I think vinegar is a must have with cabbage and corned beef. Been Eatin Reuben’s for lunch off the same brisket. Good stuff at least once a year.

Your carrots look great . We sliced them thin and carmalized them in a little maple syrup so they had a little crispy sweet edge.

(Edit— was that really 2.67$. ??? In see it’s a year old by the package date. Froze it? Anyway ours was bigger I think, more like the one in Carnivores picture) and was maybe 6 times that at Kroger here. )

Yep, those briskets were cheap! I think I bought 15 or 16 for 99 cents a pound.

 

[drakeshooter]

I did Reubens again myself but in the cast iron on the stove inside, a little nippy for the griddle outdoors. That Kroger corned beef was full of gristle and kinda tough. I’ll go back to deli pastrami next time when I feel like spending $13 a pound.

 

[Luther's Feist]

Funny how we musta all had the same type craving at the same time. One person posted about the brisket and 4 or 5 more of us was on the same thing

 

[Luther's Feist]

Yep, those briskets were cheap! I think I bought 15 or 16 for 99 cents a pound.

I ever catch em that cheap they have to do two things at the store. That's restock that section of the shelf and put the fire out behind me as I be burning the soles off my shoes to get to the register

 

[Nock]

 

[carnivore]

#metoo Barney but with my usual pork sausage again. Does anybody else load up their sausage with extra sage and red paper flakes?

Definitely a few shakes of cayenne, but use the sage sparingly.

 

[OLE RASPY]

Free Turkey. I guess it was free lol🙄 I hit a deer back in November in my truck. So I took it to southern ky collision here in Glasgow. There saying was hit a deer, get a Turkey. So when I picked my truck up, they gave me the Turkey. I had to ask though. Lol.
Put it on smoker earlier.
Also got a batch of deer jerky going. Pretty cheap I guess.

 

[Meatstick]

Asshole Holstein steer

 

[OLE RASPY]

Free Turkey. I guess it was free lol🙄 I hit a deer back in November in my truck. So I took it to southern ky collision here in Glasgow. There saying was hit a deer, get a Turkey. So when I picked my truck up, they gave me the Turkey. I had to ask though. Lol.
Put it on smoker earlier.
Also got a batch of deer jerky going. Pretty cheap I guess.
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It was good. Smoked that turk for 7 hrs.
Put calico beans on smoker(what wife called it. Looks like cowboy beans to me) stuffed jalapeños on smoker and Mexican street corn after the Turks was done. Never heard of it and I been to Mexico twice. Lol.
It was all good.

 

[JR in KY]

I Never, Ever buy Steak. Can't afford it and had much rather have 1/2 pound of ground chuck anyway.
I was in a SavALot store after a can of tomato juice and they had T Bones for $2.98 a pound. 1 day sale. So. I thought I would try one.
I got it a little too done (out of practice) but it was good.
Still rather had a Burger.

 

[barney]

The recipe I used tonight called for more sauce and cheese because it was a deep dish than I’d normally use or will ever use again, made it a bit soggy.

I made a batch of pizza dough for my better half and me a weekend pizza binge.


I like to let my crust get bubbly and active in the pan before topping it, but if it's topped heavily like we like pizza, it can deflate the warm soft dough in the middle.. delicious nonetheless, but not as it should be.

Well, I learned a little trick from an old Pizza Hut employee a while back. Let the dough proof and come alive, then put it in fridge for 30 minutes or longer to firm up before topping it. It was a duh moment for me. Works like a charm! I also learned about the fairy dust. Yep, those 2 tips took my pan pizzas to the next level!

 

[drakeshooter]

I Never, Ever buy Steak. Can't afford it and had much rather have 1/2 pound of ground chuck anyway.
I was in a SavALot store after a can of tomato juice and they had T Bones for $2.98 a pound. 1 day sale. So. I thought I would try one.
I got it a little too done (out of practice) but it was good.
Still rather had a Burger.

Remember me complaining that you guys get better Kroger sales than we do in the Murray area? Same shat with Sav-A-Lot too looks like, $3.99 here smh. Still a good deal but wonder why we get the shaft down here? From Mayfield, we lost ours.

 

[drakeshooter]

I made a batch of pizza dough for my better half and me a weekend pizza binge.


I like to let my crust get bubbly and active in the pan before topping it, but if it's topped heavily like we like pizza, it can deflate the warm soft dough in the middle.. delicious nonetheless, but not as it should be.

Well, I learned a little trick from an old Pizza Hut employee a while back. Let the dough proof and come alive, then put it in fridge for 30 minutes or longer to firm up before topping it. It was a duh moment for me. Works like a charm! I also learned about the fairy dust. Yep, those 2 tips took my pan pizzas to the next level!

So you put form it in the cast iron pan and set pan an all in fridge?

 

[barney]

So you put form it in the cast iron pan and set pan an all in fridge?

Yes, after the dough proofs in the pan back in the fridge to firm up and then sauce and top.