r/52weeksofcooking

I didn’t want to do two Brazilian dishes so close together, but when I told my Brazilian wife about this prompt last week, she informed me that I HAD to make a Brazilian dish (as in, don’t even think of cooking something Argentinian).

Now here’s where I made a mistake… I decided to make my moqueca today and didn’t realize that if Brazil lost today’s game, they are out. Sooooo… RIP Brasil 😭 My house is extra quiet tonight and out of respect for the mourning, I just took a photo on the stovetop instead of plating it up nicely 😂

Smoked and sauced barbecued ribs versus Le Grande Aioli grilled shrimp lobster, tail fennel, spring, onions and eggplant, with a creamy garlic dip and a crisp white wine.

Smoked the ribs for 8 hours with bearded butchers, sweet barbecue rub wrap them after six with butter and spray them with a mixture of hot honey, apple cider, vinegar and rice wine vine vinegar. Finish them on a grill with barbecue sauce. So I could get the caramelized rib or candied rib, which the family loves.

La grande aioli is grilled lobster, tail and shrimp in their shells with grilled fennel, eggplant, and spring onion, served with creamy garlic dip and a crisp white wine.

What a great counterpoint and a great comparison between the two grilling cultures.

My tribute to mishearing the FIFA/ Airbnb commercial the first time I head it and being very confused

Top: Montreal Steamie

Middle: All-American Grilled Dog

Bottom: Sonoran Style-Inspired Dog

I live in the Seattle area and we are one of the hosts of this year’s World Cup. One of the matches was scheduled on the same weekend as our Pride festival, a major annual event here, so it was being referred to as the “Pride Match.” As luck would have it, the teams drawn to complete on that day were Iran and Egypt, two countries that criminalize homosexuality. Both countries whined about it to FIFA and tried to get anything Pride-related banned, but our organizing committee told them that wasn’t happening (sorry not sorry). Celebrations went forward as planned, and there were even people handing out rainbow flags to fans entering the stadium.

So just to rub it in a bit more, I made a super gay LGBTQ+ sandwich for this week’s theme.

L: Lettuce
G: Guacamole (okay, it’s just mashed avocado)
B: Bacon
T: Turkey (no tomato is going near any sandwich of mine)
Q: Queso (made from scratch, here’s pics)
+: can be either 1. the homemade sourdough bread, made by a registered gay (myself) with my nonbinary asexual sourdough starter named Carter, or 2. mayonnaise (insert Patrick Star “is mayonnaise a gender?” meme)

The sandwich was delicious, albeit enormous and difficult to eat.

Here’s some more pics.

I decided to go with a fusion dish for this week's theme, and what better than to combine my home country (Australia) with the country that knocked us out of the World Cup (Egypt).

https://www.themediterraneandish.com/hawawshi-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-37394

I used the above recipe as the basic premise of the dish, but tinkered to add an Australian twist. First, I changed the meat from beef to lamb - mainly because I think Australia is renowned for our lamb. I also kept the same spicing mixture, but added a classic Aussie combo of vegemite and cheese.

This tasted surprisingly cohesive, the vegemite added a subtle flavour that complements the spices and herbs used in the meat mixture. I think in hindsight, the cheese altered the texture so some additional moisture leaked out in the baking process.

As a bonus, I served some party pies and sausage rolls (a true Aussie classic delicacy).

We were inspired by Tartan Army drinking Boston dry.

The only thing that will grow in my apartment is mint 😭 So that's what I went with - made a fresh mint and cilantro chutney with some garlic and seasonings blended through it, along with these kebabs cooked in the oven and then finished in a pan.