Here we go a waffling…

Here we go a waffling…

Does anyone else remember that dorky holiday special??

Now that I got that stuck in your head we can move on to the food! We got a fancy new piece of equipment!  Ok so it’s not super fancy but it’s still pretty awesome. We purchased this baby at a thrift store for $7! Pretty excited to play with it.. so that’s what we are doing today! 

Aren’t you excited?? 

Our fist waffling mix we made up is a jalapeno cheddar cornmeal mix! We wanted something cheesy and spicy to pile some of Jake’s famous pulled pork on to!

These got smothered in cheese and topped with what we are calling BBQ Syrup. A Maple Syrup infused with Jake’s homemade BBQ sauce.

After topping with cheese we put this beautiful platter of yumminess into the oven to get its melt on!

Topped with more bbq syrup, chopped onions and cilantro!

While the BBQ waffles were in the oven we made some pan roasted pineapple salsa verde for our next waffle.

We blended this in the food processor with some of my famous salsa verde or as Jess calls is green crack!

Now that we finished that let’s move on to more waffles! Im sure we are getting predictable and I know by now you all know how much we love tacos, so naturally… taco waffles had to happen!

First we started cooking some sausage and poblanos with onions added beaten eggs to make a scramble.

For these we just went with a standard waffle mix for these. Nothing too crazy. We made 2 different waffle tacos.

1. Breakfast of champions with andouille sausage, eggs, cheese and potatoes.

The 2nd is A Pizzaffle! A pizza waffle! Pretty much the same as the above on just with pepperoni and mozzarella!

We also just because we had some really good freshly made flour tortillas made up some Austin style tacos.

Our last dish we decided to make are a brunch appetizer I serve to my clients. Mini pancakes on a stick!

Obviously these were yummy!

Until next time! Do you have any waffle recipes you want to share?!

Return of the Mac or Perhaps the Mac Attacks!

Hey everyone!! It’s macaroni and cheese day!! As you probably have figured out by now we are obsessed with things like bacon, cheese, nachos and the like….

So let’s keep this theme going. We choose to do a macaroni and cheese day. Taking a few of our favorite things and squishing them together into something awesome. Pure awesomeness really.   Grilled cheese has not been addressed yet in our blog. I know we all have heard about some of the amazing grilled cheese food trucks out there across the country, even in Chicago there is a restaurant/bar devoted solely to booze and grilled cheese! Genius!! The one here is pretty darn good too. These creative chef’s take something already awesome and stuff even more awesomeness into the sandwiches and are making a killing! So we decided to take a stab at making some of our favorite versions and try and create our own.

We started by making a huge pot of cheese sauce and cooking up some pasta. We went with tri-color spirals just for some fun and pizzazz.

Jake has a serious addiction to chili dogs and cheese so our first creation involved Jake’s super good pork and beer chili, sliced hot dogs, cheese AND macaroni and cheese. We opted for some pretty plain white grocery store shelf bread so that we could focus on the ingredients. Buttered both sides with real butter and got to grilling! I not being a chili dog fan have to say that this was a whole lot of deliciousness.  It was so oozy and gooey it’s hard not love it!

The 2nd one we made was what we will call the Mac Attack we stuffed this one with nothing but cheese and our homemade macaroni and cheese! Simple, delicious and messy!! We make some pretty killer cheese sauce!

The 3rd and last one was another simple one. We took the Mac Attack and I know you were worried it wasn’t going to happen but… BACON! Absolutely tasty!!

So because as if those 3 sandwiches weren’t enough to clog your arteries we were feeling a little wild…so what happens when we get bored with food?? We make nachos!!!!

MACARONI AND CHEESE NACHOS!!!!!

Yeah that’s right… you read that correctly…. we took tortilla chips and layered them with macaroni and cheese, Jake’s chili, bacon, hot dogs, and more cheese….and then probably even more cheese….

SO GOOD!!!!

Oh yeah we put Mac and cheese on biscuits too 😋😋😋👏👏👏🙌
I strongly suggest you get into your kitchens right now and whip up some mac n cheese and get creative! We want to hear about what you make! Please share! 😀

An Homage to the Dirty South….

So for a Yankee I have a really strange obsession with Mexican and Southern foods. I think I was always supposed to be a Texan. It’s the best of  both worlds. Peaches, biscuits, fried  chicken, tacos, tortillas..!!!

Inspiration for this taco wasn’t hard to find. As hatch Chile season is coming to an end here it was an easy pick!

If you’ve never tried these you are missing out on some amazing flavor!! There’s really nothing like them. The season this year was short but so sweet!

What goes well with green chiles other than everything? Fried chicken! Panko crusted chicken nuggets!

Of course we deep fried the chicken..

What else should we put in this brunch/breakfast tacos??

Hatch green chile sausage gravy gravy!!!

We had hashbrowns leftover from the cheeseburger gravy and biscuits so we tossed some of those in the bottom of the tortilla, flour of course.

Topped with cheese and more chiles and biscuit crumbles!!

We are calling this the Southerner! Enjoy!!!! It’s like the best of the culinary worlds combined!

What do you think?