In The Kitchen With Randy

Randy has a YouTube cooking channel!  He will be posting cooking videos at   https://www.youtube.com/@inthekitchenwithrandy/featured.  Randy like to prepare foods from scratch so this will be a lot of fun for him. 

His first video is how to prepare a Wagyu Beef Brisket Deckle appetizer. This is amazing!

Spanish Bean Soup

Jackie: Randy made Spanish Bean Soup today. He put some garbanzo beans to soak with a beef short rib.

While that was soaking he chopped some ham into small cubes and added the ham to the pot.

Next he chopped salt pork into small bits and sautéed them. 

Since salt pork contains a lot of fat, it ends up cooking in a froth of its own fat. 

Got to drain that fat off!

Randy used a little of the pork fat to cook the chopped onions.

Next he took some chorizo and formed it into small balls.

When he cooked the chorizo it enough of it's own fat so it didn't need any salt pork fat to brown up.

He added all these good things to the soup and seasoned it with a little salt and pepper. 

Then he simmered the whole thing for a long while to mix the flavors together. 

And that makes some wonderful Spanish Bean Soup!

Wagyu Sirloin Steak with BMS 8-9

Jackie: Tonight Randy started with a piece of Wagyu Sirloin Steak with BMS of 8-9. 

He started by wrapping it in bacon (always a good idea!).

Then he seasoned it with a bit of salt and black pepper and put it in a hot carbon steel pan, taking care to cook the bacon sides before searing the ends. 

When it was well seared he put it in a 350 oven with a pat of butter for 15 minutes. Then he took it out and let it rest for another 10 minutes. To serve it he poured that wonderfully Wagyu-flavored butter onto a plate and plated this beautiful sirloin. It tasted as great as it looked!

Porchetta Version 2

Jackie : Randy decide he wanted to try another version of Porchetta - lucky me!  He started with a beautiful piece of pork, opened up and seasoned.

He added a layer of of thinly sliced Prosciutto - always good!

Next he crumbed and browned some fresh sausage. 

He decided the sausage should be even finer so he gave it a pass through the Cuisinart, then spread the sausage over the Prosciutto which was over the pork - this is going to be so good!

Then he topped all this with freshly ground parmesan cheese. 

He rolled it up to make sure all that goodness stayed inside. 

And tied it neatly to keep everything in place.

A bit of oil to make it brown nicely and hold the spices.

What spices? These spices!

Sometime later he took it out of the oven - I can't wait to eat this!!

Sliced and ready to enjoy!

Jackie: Sunday we got some green tomatoes from our friends who have a Farmer's Market in Brownwood. Randy loves fried green tomatoes so he knew what to do with them.

There are probably several ways to cook these. Randy's involved butter, bacon grease, and duck fat. This is going to be good!

Sometimes cooking seems like alchemy to me - in Randy's hands it turns this:

into this:

For the accompanying hamburger he made a bacon weave.

More alchemy.

The result was a wonderful meal, far elevated from a simple hamburger with tomatoes. I do love the way he cooks!

Jackie: This Thanksgiving's entree was a brined turkey breast, sliced and layered with prosciutto and dressing, then rolled up, tied up, and baked until perfectly done and still juicy. 

So very, very good. 

Randy also made a French Apple Pie. Just like every Thanksgiving at home, I ate myself senseless. I am so very thankful for so much, including today!

Apple Cinnamon Soufflé Pancake

 Jackie: A new pancake: Apple Cinnamon Soufflé. This particular batch made two super-sized pancakes. No complaints from me about that!

It looked amazing and tasted even better. Randy wants to practice these - I second that motion!

Fluffy Cinnamon Pancakes

Jackie: Randy make pancakes again, different flavor. I watched the process thinking maybe I can replicate it.  It went like this:

Mix wet ingredients.

Whip wet ingredients.

Add Randy's special pancake dry ingredient mix. 

Whip again.

Grease pan with bacon grease (soooo good!).

Check pan temperature.

Pour a pancake.

Add cinnamon chips.

Flip

Watch it rise.

Add butter.

Eat.  Repeat as soon as possible.