Sunday Gravy with yeah right: A Focus on…Peperoncinis?!

Bon Jour!

Happy Sunday everyone! Slowly getting back into the routine. First full week of work since everything happened and it went fairly well. The replacement car thing is coming together. Still doing physical therapy once a week or whatever the fuck the attorneys are calling it.

Body pain is gradually improving. I can even sneeze without passing out/dying! Bonus.

But fuck reality let’s talk about food. 

We’re back to the viral food recipe bandwagon.

Once again; simple, easy, cheap? Fucking Score!

We may have the easiest one yet today. What you will also see today is the very FIRST (ever!) use of a Crockpot on Sunday Gravy!

I think.

I’ve owned one, actually I think I have owned two of the motherfuckers forever. Bachelors best friend and all that shit. I just personally don’t think they do a very good job.

I always found food cooked in the Crockpot came out bland, watery and basically boring as shit. And believe me I’ve tried many, many times with many, many recipes.

Today, I can safely say that this shit here is easily the most delicious thing I’ve ever had that came from being prepared in a Crockpot.

Truth!

Forget your preconceived ideas and roll with me on this one.

Shit was way too easy to make and very few opportunities for photos so I added an additional food feature because I’m just that fucking awesome.

What is our viral food dealie today?

Mississippi Pot Roast!

I guess it came from a cook in Mississippi because there sure isn’t anything in the ingredients or prep that would make you think “Goddamn! This tastes just like Mississippi!”

Not that we would actually want that but your notions of Mississippi may vary from mine.

Probably not by much though.

In truth the origin story is the recipe was created in the 1990s by Robin Chapman of Ripley, Mississippi. When you factor in that the ingredients are simply a package of dry au jus mix, a packet of dry ranch dressing mix, some butter, a few peperoncinis and a slab of cow ass I guess the whole Mississippi Pot Roast nomenclature makes a bit more sense.

The “viral” part this time took place on Pinterest.

Back in the 90’s!

Remember those quaint old days without the fucking plague of TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram fucking up the entire universe? Goddamn I miss those days.

We all even got along for the most part.

Your actual memories of the 90’s may vary.

Since I had to buy a whole goddamn jar of peperoncinis and I’m really not that big of a fan of the damn things, I remembered that there was another recipe out there that I had read about and had been meaning to try.

This will be more applicable to those of us in the Los Angeles/Long Beach area but there’s this famous old ass beer joint in Long Beach called Joe Jost’s. Hell we even had a small DFO get together with myself, Ballsy and Brick in attendance. I’ve been there a couple of times and I fucking love the place. They have these cold ass schooners of beer – the Shiner Bock is particularly delicious out of a schooner – and they also have fresh roasted peanuts that they roast on site, as well as Polish sausage sandwiches and pickled eggs.

They opened in 1924!

I fucking love their pickled eggs. They serve them doused with fresh black pepper and on a paper plate with some pretzels and a few pickled yellow peppers.

I found a site that had a couple of different knock-off versions of Joe Jost’s pickled eggs and I used the easier of the two recipes.

It’s simply some hard boiled eggs pickled in a jar with the juice from the pickled peppers along with a few of the peppers themselves. That’s it.

Granted yellow peppers are not “quite” the same as peperoncinis but they’re pretty fucking close in my book.

Yes, I’m fully aware that not everyone likes pickled eggs. This will be for the 3-4 people on the planet who do.

The rest of you can figure out something else to do with your peperoncinis. You can always save them to keep making this pot roast recipe that’s coming up! I read some crazy person’s review of it and she makes that fucker every Sunday!

Insane and probably not what the doctor ordered but you do you, Crazy Pot Roast Lady.

Let’s make some pickled eggs.

You’ll need some Mason or Ball or whatever pickling jars. These are not the full size ones but the smaller jars used to make jellies.

After some quick experimentation I discovered that 4 eggs and some peppers will fit in one jar.

Boil some eggs.

Then bust out our featured guest today.

Dump the boiled eggs in an ice bath.

After they’ve cooled, peel the eggs then get ’em in a jar with a few of the peppers and enough pickling juice to fill up the jar.

Yeah, that photo is a little bit of a horror show. In fact we discussed using these jars as a quick cut in a horror film because it definitely causes a little squeemish effect.

Set the jars aside at room temperature and let them do their damn thing.

Three days later we have…

Love the yellow shade that the eggs have taken on.

I cracked on some fresh black pepper and served with a pepper.

Sorry, no pretzels in the house. I like them just fine but not enough to buy an entire bag of them. Fuckers would just go stale sitting on top of the refrigerator.

These eggs were fucking fantastic. Just kick ass beer food.

I don’t care. I love the damn things.

Alright, enough experimentation let’s get to the main event.

To the post roast!

Holy shit is this easy.

Break out your crockery!

Again, this is the very first time I’ve featured a recipe that was prepared using a Crockpot. I ain’t proud but there really is no other way you can extract the amount of gravy from these dumb fucking ingredients. It has to be done slowly and this was the only way.

Slab of meat.

Jesus Christ that motherfucker got expensive. That’s a 3 lb slab so it’s 10 bucks per pound? Chuck roast used to be the cheap shit.

Man we are living in fucked up times indeed.

Next collect your 2 seasoning packets.

Chuck roast goes in the pot followed by the 2 packets of seasonings, five of the peperoncinis and a whole stick of unsalted butter cut into chunks.

No additional liquid dammit! That’s the key. You add additional stock or water or whatever and it’s going to get all wet and watery and gross.

Have some faith.

Set it and forget it.

That would be 8 hours on low for the visually impaired.

Fuck it, let’s serve this shit over mashed potatoes.

After the full eight hours in the crockery let’s finally get a peek.

Oh yeah, I chunked up a few carrots and added them in with about 1 and 1/2 hours of cooking time left

Plate that shit!

This shit was stupid.

Absolutely fucking insane. Completely and ridiculously delicious. Goddammit I may never do a regular pot roast again.

Those carrots?

Might be some of the best carrots I’ve ever had. Their texture was PERFECT.

Sure it’s got shitloads of sodium and sure it’s cooked in butter and its own fat but isn’t that kind of the point?

Fucking hell was this good.

Do it!

I give this my full endorsement. You got a Crockpot?

Make this.

Shit you may end up being like Crazy Pot Roast Lady up there and you make one of these motherfuckers every week. I wouldn’t judge your ass!

Finally, how about one of them eggs?

Check that shit out!

Look what we did with a little time and practically zero effort.

As I said, there’s a good reason some of these things go viral.

I hope you’ve been enjoying this viral roundup thing. It’s been pretty fun and very enlightening for myself.

I’ve got a couple more in the queue too.

Aren’t you lucky?

Today’s “fun” holidays include: National Paranormal Day, National Lemonade Day, National Chocolate Custard Day(!), National Raspberry Popover Day, National Wild Koala Day, National Public Radio Day, National Sun Day, National Write a Review Day, World Laughter Day, National Montana Day and National Pipe Organ Day.

Surely you can do something with THAT knowledge.

Be safe out there people. Always keep an eye out for dumb motherfuckers turning left directly in front of you. It happens really fucking fast.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Let’s do this party again next week alright?

Cool.

Until then…