Archive for the 'Poker Food' Category

Chili Nachos

Ingredients:
Leftover chili – warm
Tortilla chips
Cheese – pepper jack and your favorite, grated or chopped (about 1/2 lb total, more if you like)
Green onions – chopped
Got Chili?
You made the chili just the way you like it, and everyone raved, and now you’ve got some left over. The heavy lifting is done, you’ve already got the spices [...]

Stuffing Balls

Ingredients:
Leftover bread stuffing
Filling of your choice
Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula
Just Like Meatballs, Only… Not
What do you do with leftover stuffing? It was so good, and yet… you can only eat so much stuffing. Roscoe’s answer: liven it up!

Put Something In The Middle, And Roll It Into A Ball
Flatten out some bread stuffing, like you’re making a [...]

Roscoe’s Turkey Kielbasa Gumbo

Ingredients:
Leftover turkey and carcass
Celery – 2 stalks, chopped; 2 stalks for stock
Carrots – 2, for stock
Red onion – 1 sliced; 1 chopped for stock
Okra – 1/2 to a pound, chopped
Red pepper – 1, chopped
Worcestershire, Cholula
Garlic
salt and pepper, cayenne, etc.
Red wine
Beer
Red wine vinegar
Vegetable oil and flour – for roux
Green onion – chopped, for garnish
A Thanksgiving Tradition
You [...]

Roscoe’s Bourbon Sweet Potato Casserole

Ingredients:
Sweet potatoes – sliced thin (figure one potato for 2 people)
Red onion – sliced thin (1 for every couple of potatoes)
Garlic – chopped (1 clove per potato)
Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula
Salt and pepper
Bourbon
Honey
Hot pepper jelly
Orange zest
Grated Cheese

What Do You Do With A Sweet Potato?
Your sister asks you to bring a sweet potato dish to Thanksgiving dinner. [...]

Roscoe’s Fried Baloney Sandwich

Ingredients:
1 lb baloney (garlic or reg)
1 red onion, sliced
garlic
American cheese – 2 slices per sandwich
Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula
Rye bread, mustard, pickle
Baloney Gets A Bad Rap
Yeah, it’s out of style. Supposed to bad for you, too much fat. Doesn’t cost very much, so how can it be good. It’s just not… cool.
But It Sure Is Good
There’s [...]

Roscoe’s Apple Cherry Bourbon Tart

Ingredients:
6 apples – skinned and diced (whatever kind you like, or mix ‘em, Roscoe used MacIntosh)
Dried cherries – a handful
Brown sugar – 2 tablespoons
Cinnamon – a couple shakes
Lemon juice
Jelly or preserves – a couple spoonfuls
Bourbon – a couple glugs
Yes, Roscoe Bakes
He’s done it before, notably the Bourbon Dried Fruit Tart. Notice a pattern here? Roscoe [...]

Roscoe’s Grilled Tomatillo Pepper Sauce

Ingredients:
Tomatillos – 8-10
Peppers – any kind you like, 3-4
Red onion – 3-4 small ones
Garlic – 6-8 cloves, chopped
Balsamic vinegar – a splash or two
Honey – 1/4 cup
Salt, pepper, Cholula
Red or white wine – a couple glugs
Got Sauce?
We’re not talking tomato sauce here, the kind you put over spaghetti. And we’re not even talking some kind [...]

White Bean and Italian Sausage Soup

Ingredients:
Italian Sausage – 2 lbs., casing removed
White beans – 1 bag dried; Navy or cannellini (as long as they’re white)
Stock – 8-10 cups, make your own or canned, beef or chicken
Celery – 2 stalks, chopped
Red pepper – chopped
Red onion – chopped or sliced
2-3 carrots – chopped
White wine
Worcestershire, Cholula, seasonings: salt, pepper, oregano, basil
A Meal In [...]