Spiced pork with bourbon reduction

Pan roasted corn relish with tomatoes

Roasted potatoes with herbes de provence

Salad

Soft, silky eggplant with cheese overload. :-)

Rub eggplant halves with oil. Sprinkle with salt. Roast with round side under in 200°C oven for 25-30 minutes. Take out of the oven, cut the flesh (a little bit like you do with duckbreast, not sure how to say this in english) Add tomato stuffing on top. Then cheese and grill for another 15 minutes or when cheese is melted enough.

For the tomato stuffing:

Gently fry some garlic with chilipowder in some butter. Add can of tomato. Crush. Simmer for 20 minutes. Add oregano, capers and some panko to thicken it up. Finally mix with some roasted pinenuts and fresh basil. Put this mixture on top of the roasted eggplant. Add cheese, I had provolone from France. And grated very mature Tomme.

Before serving maybe some more fresh basil.

This was just that I wanted. An overload in flavours and an overload in cheese.

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Green chili -- made with (our own) pork, chilis that I roasted, tomatillos, cilantro, jalapeños.

Very different than red chili, but we ate it all the time in El Paso.

Mise en place dehydrator salt and vinegar cucumber chips. Slices of cucumber on bamboo cutting board. Bowl of coarse sea salt. Bowl of mixture olive oil and cider vinegar.

Chili powder is the dried, pulverized fruit of one or more varieties of chili pepper, sometimes with the addition of other spices. It is used as a spice to add pungency or piquancy and flavor to dishes. Chili powder is used in many different cuisines in all over worldwide. Health benefits of chili powder comes with multi vitamins and increase blood circulation.

It's o.k. but not as nice as some good old fashioned New Mexico Red

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Don't actually do this because they will stick!

Chili Spice Mix

Rad Chili powder is a generally utilized flavor as a part of different soups, stews, and - obviously - chilis. It can additionally be utilized as a part of marinades or dry rubs for meats and fused into burgers. #Patco Rad #Chilipowder is really a decently sound flavoring, with noteworthy measures of numerous advantageous supplements.

The rub, before its deployment.

Slices of cucumber on stainless steel grid of food dehydrator. Mixture of granulated sugar, chili powder and paprika powder sprinkled on top. White board. Foreground focus.

Slices of cucumber on stainless steel grid of food dehydrator. Mixture of granulated sugar, chili powder and paprika powder sprinkled on top. White board. Foreground focus.

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A tomato sauce I like

Slices of cucumber on baking paper. Bowl with mixture of granulated sugar, chili powder and paprika powder. Stainless steel grid of food dehydrator. Partially sliced cucumber in foreground. White cutting board.

mmm, homemade.

Slices of cucumber on baking paper. Mixture of granulated sugar, chili powder and paprika powder sprinkled on top. Stainless steel grid of food dehydrator in out of focus background.

I think I let the mango get overripe, as it was mostly kind of a stringy gooey bits inside by the time I got to preparing this dish. It didn't seem to negatively impact the taste that much though.

When it's cold, Matthew Ogle makes his specialty: beef chili con carne with green onion garnish.

2 Tbs. paprika

1/2 Tbs garlic powder

1 Tbs cumin

1 Tbs brown sugar

1 Tbs chili powder

1 Tbs black pepper

1 Tbs salt

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Now you get to see how I see the world! :)

Slices of cucumber on baking paper. Mixture of granulated sugar, chili powder and paprika powder sprinkled on top. Stainless steel grid of food dehydrator in out of focus background. Partially sliced cucumber and black bowl.