Food Porn

This all started in January when my former business partner gave me a couple of venison ring bologna.  Here's a rogue's gallery of recent meals served around here at The Platz.  For the most part these are meals I grew-up with.

Ring baloney, fried taters and baked beans.  The beans are homemade and came from my strategic reserve stashed in one of the chest freezers.  This was a staple meal from my childhood - when the beans were Campbell canned beans...

Homemade meatloaf, mashed taters, mixed veggies and gravy.  Comfort food...

Tuna noodle casserole.  A special request of the missus.  This batch was topped with french-fried onion rings instead of potato chips.  Yummy....

California burger.  Toasted kaiser roll, 1/3 pound ground check patty, topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, sweet onion and mayo...

Roast turkey, homemade stuffing, mixed veggies and gravy.  Need to make this more than once a year...

Door County venison anointed with Penzeys English Prime Rib Rub, EVO, reverse seared on the Weber (medium rare), yam and romaine dressed with bleu cheese and crumbles.  Fit for a king.

And there is this.

Simple fare that I characterize as a Man Dinner that is prepared when your spouse is away visiting her elderly mom.

Half-pound of tenderloin of beef filet and a baked potato topped with sweet cream unsalted butter infused with savory spices and sour cream and chives.  

Pro Tip:  Give that spud a generous rub with bacon drippings before baking at 400F. Steak pan-seared rare in the same.

 

Edit to add:

And last evening the mock chicken leg made an appearance.....

(Scored a pack of fresh mock legs at Marchant's Meats in Sturgeon Bay)