I cooked some'en:Shrimp and chicken alfrato

JLOCKHART29

After I got the Small carrier made I did up some alfrato with shrimp and the left over chicken I did last night. Hear is the recipe for the alfrato sause.
1/3 c. butter
1/4 c. flour
3 c. milk
1 c. heavy cream
1 c. Parmesan
1/4 tsp. pepper

Melt butter, then add flour, cook until bubbly, approximately 1 minute, gradually add milk while stirring. Add cream all at once, cook over medium heat stirring well until thickened. Remove from heat and add Parmesan until melted then add pepper. Serve over pasta

Got it from Cooks.com and was pretty good. A little to thick and next time would cut flower in 1/2. Hear are the raws.


Sliced the chicken up and reheated it on the Egg.


Shrimp were just a little EVOO and Blackening season with plenty of presimmon wood for both the shrimp and chicken.


Some butter and flower for a "rue"


Added milk and 1/2 and 1/2 then cheese and meats.


Was late before I got supper done but it was really good.


Hay Village Idiot. Hear's the back 9. Just consider the cows a "hazard"! :laugh:


Don't forget the grounds keeper.


Also did a couple 2 1/2 lb rib roast for pulled pork. Had my butcher debone them for me as I wanted something that would come off fast. Started them at 11:00 and was at 195 by 5pm.


You can see how small they ended up by my ring for comparison.


Not much wasted hear.


Picked up a Coral Bark Maple from Home Depot yesterday for only $29. It was of course root bound but now that is in the ground it should come on. The almost floresent green leaves and coral bark are really nice in person. You can just see it to the right of the big right rock in the second pic.

WessB

It's sure nice to see somebody cookin instead of just bitchin...understand you had a great fest..and look forward to havin one with ya..somewhere down the road..

JLOCKHART29

Thanks Wess. Had a ball in OK. I will be back next year! Wish you could make it. Realgem said we would have a fun. Havent read any of the complaining post. Don't hardly have time to read the cooking ones! :laugh:

WessB

It'll happen when it's meant to.....best to ya..

Mr. Matt

Nice setup!

Di

The food and Jake look great as usual. Thanks for sharing the picture of the tree. I've never seen one before that I can recall. It's beautiful.

Village Idiot

Nice grub. You're one of the few that has creative cooks. Keep it up !!


Waaaaaaaaa, I miss the farm (except for hauling hay). When are you going to blacken some catfish you caught out of your stock tank? :laugh:

2Fategghead

Great post and cook and pic's. I hope to meet you sometime. It would be great to have you as a neighbor. We can ride a little and egg a little. I can't get my Harley riding friends to get an egg. I have planted the seed and they love the grub but I guess they don't have the patience to fool with it. Tim

BigA

nice cook, great pictures

Lawn Ranger

Hey J;

The new technique for dealing with root bound nursery stock is to remove all of the soil either manually, with air, or with water. This allows you to examine the root system and make any cuts necessary to remove girdling roots or roots that have been otherwise compromised by long periods in the containers. Poor transplanting practices throughout the stages of moving from 4 inch to 1 gallon, to 5 gallon, etc. is the number one cause of long term tree problems such as being buried too deeply. Here's a goot link http://www.rootflare.com/

Don't be afraid to do it, even if you've already planted it. We've been doing it for a while even in hot San Antonio. Just have good soil ready and "mud" the tree in after doing the corrective root pruning. It is absolutely amazing what you see with the soil removed. It's scary, as you can identify nearly every stage of bumping the plant to the next size.

Just thought I'd throw this out. Food looks great, BTW.

Mike

AZRP

Some good lookin chow there Dean. -RP

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

now if you can just get all the weekend warriors (not. not mark!) to stop putting giant mounds of mulch around their trees year after year after year...

don't know how many mounds of cedar mulch i see where the mound is two feet up the tree and the thing is being rotted out and girded. :ohmy:

ought to be a law i say!

Lawn Ranger

Don't get me started. One of the most stupid practices to come down the pike in quite a while. And, apparently it has universal appeal.

This probably should have been on the OT, but just wanted J to know. It's a really interesting new strategy.

Boilermaker Ben

stripstike wrote:

ought to be a law i say!

You'd have to be able to dish out more dough than all those chip-n-mulch lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Blasted corporate fat cats and their mulchy conspiracies to keep us dumping those wood chips around our trees. Every time one of those rotted out trees falls, they've got another source for more mulch. No way you'll get the law passed...Congress is in bed with "Big Mulch."

Even worse, I saw a bag last week that was labelled "from Venezuela"! Now they're outsourcing our mulch to foreign countries run by oppressive regimes! We must end this dependence on foreign mulch!

I'm getting out of hand here...time for more coffee.

Oh, and JLockhart: great darned post. Looks fantastic. I always look forward to your posts.

JLOCKHART29

Thanks! I always try and break the root bundle up SOME when they are like this but not as agressive as you mentioned. Will look at link from work tonight. Mole got in the garden and really messed my moss up last night!

Lawn Ranger

The link is more in relation to root flares than the new methods that I mentioned. However, they do go hand in hand in regards to poor nursey practices....something that most people never would think of since the nursery is the "professional".

Big George's BBQ

Great looking food Like the back 9