Hi Again! I’m JWo, AK’s husband, posting this Iron Chef recipe from Cafe Beignet in New Orleans. I know right? Very meta. Also: your jealousy — I can feel it.

If this is your first Iron Chef post (it’s my second, so don’t feel too out of it), Danielle from elleinadspir created an idea that her husband would name an ingredient each week. Then, we cook with it! Last week was Balsamic Vinegar (my recipe, Danielle’s linkup). This week: BEER.

Now, my wife… she does not like the beer. She’s more a marg type of girl. So I had to sneak this secret ingredient in — how would someone do such a thing? By hiding the beer in a slow cooker OF COURSE. The best part? She loved these tacos, even after hearing it was beer’d.

I call this thing: BBBBQ Pork. the extra B is for beer. The other extra B is a typo

Ingredients

* 1 lb pork tenderloin (BBQ seasoning if you can find)
* 1 Onion
* 1 Shiner Bock (or other dark beer)
* 1 Can rotel (tomatoes and green chiles)
* 1 Can Pinto Beans

Method

* Slice onion, layer into slow cooker
* Add pork tenderloin on top of onions
* Add 2/3 of the beer. Reserve other 1/3 for another use
* pour rotel over tenderloin
* Heat on high for 4 hours (or low for all the day)

On to the Pics!

[caption id="attachment_9067" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Before. Anticipation!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9069" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Tada!"][/caption]

This BBBBQ Pork is available on We Eatt for Sharing.

Hi Tipsy people! I’m Jesse, AK’s husband. My friends and I once tossed around a plan to have a real life Iron Chef competition. Like full-scale japanese iron chef, where we have to cook 5 dishes in 1 hour with 1 special ingredient. The trouble was: way too darn expensive. Cost Prohibitive to the nth degree.

So, flash forward another lifetime, and Danielle suggested we do an iron chef competition, but just 1 dish. I die.

So anyway, the secret ingredient: Balsamic Vinegar.

Balsamic vinegar can be tossed with strawberries to bring out there flavor, so I combined it (in syrup form) with home made ice cream. what WHAT!

Ingredients

• 2 cups Whole Milk
• 1 cup Heavy Cream
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Strawberries
• Balsamic Vinegar

Method

• Make sure your ice cream maker is prepared (mine takes 4 hours to fully freeze).
• Combine whole milk, cream, sugar and vanilla in a bowl, whisk. Dice 6 strawberries and add to bowl; add mixture to ice cream maker and start.
• Pour 1/4 to 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar to a small saucepan. Heat on medium heat for 30 minutes until the vinegar is a very heavy syrup.
• Slice more strawberries and add to a bowl of your ice cream. Drizzle balsamic vinegar over the strawberries.

[caption id="attachment_9012" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Cast of Ingredients"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9013" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Stir Stir Stir"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9009" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Balsamic Vinegar when we start"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9008" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="30 minutes later. So syruppyyyy"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9011" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Your ice cream. It's ready!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_9010" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Deliciousness"][/caption]

This recipe is also on We Eatt for your sharing pleasure.