Archive for the 'Poker Food' Category

Roscoe’s Hot Sauce

Ingredients: Peppers (all kinds, roasted) onions garlic Worcestershire wine red wine vinegar honey mustard spicey mustard rum (a couple glugs) salt and pepper A Big Bag of Peppers What do you do when someone gives you a big bag of peppers?Peppers of all kinds: red peppers, green peppers, cubanels, habaneros, jalapenos, and some you don’t [...]

Roscoe’s Chili Meat Sauce

Ingredients: 3 lbs ground beef (80/20 seems best here) 1 can tomatoes or tomato sauce (or puree) 1 medium red onion, diced fine 1 red bell pepper (or other sweet bell pepper) diced fine 1 cubanel pepper, diced fine 2 Jalepeno peppers, diced fine 1 fiery red peppers, diced fine (optional) Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula [...]

Roscoe’s Asian Cubed Steak Tacos

Ingredients (Makes 4 tacos): 1/2 lb Cubed Steak Corn tortillas spinach (chopped) Sun-dried tomatoes (chopped) 1/2 Cubanelle pepper (chopped) Pepper jack cheese Marinade: Salt and pepper Olive oil Cholula Chili Lime Soy sauce or Terryaki Vinegrette: Olive oil Pickle juice (or rice wine vinegar) Wasabi Lime Mustard (or any Asian style mustard) Three Cultures In [...]

Pitmaster’s Pizza Extravaganza

Pitmaster Does It On The Egg It’s a great big contraption that looks a lot like a diving bell. But you open it up and it’s a grill and smoker all in one. And it’s perfect for pizza. Use A Stone Slide the assembled pizza off your peel (that big wooden spatula thingy that you’ve [...]

Cooking For Men – There’s No Shame In Opening A Can

Roscoe’s First Rule: There Are No Rules Only guidelines. Yes, we say never cook with water, because water has no taste, therefore it can’t make your food taste good. So maybe we start with a little water (for pasta or rice) and add Worcestershire, Cholula, and a bouillon cube or two, kinda like that parable [...]

Roscoe’s Barbequed Spaghetti

Ingredients: Thin spaghetti (1 lb for a small party, 2 lbs for more) 1 red onion 1 red pepper garlic (5-6 cloves, chopped) olive oil, Worcester, Cholula, red wine, spices 4-5 Italian sausages, sliced (or whatever your favorite is) 3-4 handfuls smoked pulled turkey BBQ sauce Apple Cider Vinegar Bourbon Pineapple juice Brown Sugar Cholula [...]

Sun-Dried Tomato Burger

Ingredients: 1 1/4 lbs. ground meat (whatever is your favorite) Pepper Jack cheese Buns Sun-dried tomatoes (about a handful, chopped) Worcestershire, Cholula, olive oil Paprika Salt and papper Onion – Vidalia or red, sliced thin It’s Burger Time Summertime grilling means burgers. Juicy cheeseburgers come to mind, cheese being the most popular ad-on next to [...]

Roscoe’s Pepper Jack Cheese Corn Muffins

Ingredients: 1 box Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix 1 egg 1/3 cup milk 6 slices pepper jack cheese – chopped or shredded corn kernels from 2 cobs of corn honey Roscoe Doesn’t Bake That’s what we all thought, including Roscoe. But when you get a taste for corn muffins and you don’t want some dry imitation [...]