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Made a bunch of confit yolks recently.
The seasoning: sesame oil, Korean chilli flakes, tamari.
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Made rye flour-based Flammkuchen with onions and Guanciale 😊
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Turbot cooking method please
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robirdstx posted a post in a topic,
A personal favorite: https://www.mitierracafe.com/
Loud, Crowded, and Fun! And not expensive! You may have to wait a bit for a table.
I love their Michoacan Special: Carnitas de Puerco. Baked Pork Tips marinated with Oranges and Spices. Served with Guacamole, Pico de Gallo, Refried Beans and Spanish Rice
Now I want to go back!
Photo of my meal from last year.
Frozen mussels, how to best use them
scubadoo97 posted a topic in Cooking,
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and a split plate of fried shrimp
Dinner was at Pisces, a small seafood focused restaurant. Bread with white bean dip
Sautéed calamari with arugula salad
Oyster spaghettini
Spinach risotto with local flounder
Sunset
Breakfast this morning was at the Captain's Table
Blueberry bread pudding
Bagel with smoked salmon
more later
A Night in Nanning
liuzhou posted a topic in China: Dining,
The trip to Nanning is about an hour and a half and passes through some nice karst scenery.
After booking into the hotel, I set off for my favourite Nanning eating destination. Zhongshan Night market is a well known spot and very popular with the locals. I had forgotten that it was a local holiday - the place is always busy, but that night it was exceptionally so.
It consists of one long street with hundreds of stalls and is basically a seafood market, although there are a few stalls selling alternatives.
Filled myself with seafood (and some of that blood sausage above), slept soundly and, next morning, flew to Ho Chi Minh City.
The rest of my trip can be seen here:
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JoNorvelleWalker posted a post in a topic,
The Norpro dished exactly the right amount for my 50 mm ravioli cutter. Thereby proving Bugialli correct. I was not pleased that the Norpro pinched my hand. I like Zeroll scoops much better.
The result plated with sage butter. (Store bought sage, as my poor dear sage plant is looking somewhat threadbare at the moment.) Enough thujone to sate the lust of the most degenerate absinthe fiend.
Humorously I neglected to add salt to the pasta water.
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kayb posted a post in a topic,
I have eaten doggoned nearly every kind of game there is. I have eaten possum. It's nasty. Almost as nasty as coon. I will stick to venison and elk.
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Peter the eater posted a post in a topic,
My batch looked like this:
I boiled them for ten minutes, add salt and then melted butter. They'd probably be even better with less time cooking but there has been stories of bacteria in the fronds. Better safe than sorry.
I recall a post from mid 2007 where someone in Ontario was thinking of pureeing fiddleheads for a catering job - along with pickerel I think - and I replied how I simply couldn't bring myself to liquefy such short lived beauties. Now I have a new answer . . . trim off the stem for the puree and keep the tight coils intact.
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Strawberry rhubarb crumble.
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The first Rhubarb Pie of the season.
Threatened harm to anyone that cut it before I got home from work.
We had Pie for dinner.
Cake Memories
heidih posted a topic in Food Traditions & Culture,
My first significant cake baking experience was at around age 10 when I was driven to make the Enchanted Castle cake from the Betty Crocker Boys & Girls Cookbook for my sister's birthday. Scroll past the bunny salad https://popgoesthepage.princeton.edu/tag/betty-crockers-new-boys-and-girls-cookbook/ I used a box mix and improvised on the decorating but it was essentially as shown. Suprisingly I was not pained when the first cut was made; just delighted that she and others were delighted.
The next wow cake was when my mom made a tunnel cake with dark cherry mousse for a dinner party. It seemed magical. This was in th 60's before they were a "thing". (see attached image of recipe from Good Housekeeping magazine found in mom's recipe binder)
I'd started baking in general and became the designated cake baker for the sweet my dad took to work for lunch. This was the era of bundt cakes and pudding cakes. I unearthed some of the recipe cards and came upon: the poppy seed cake from the olo can, carrot cake from Blue Ribbon Recipes, apple cake with orange juice, pistachio pudding cake, sauerkraut chocolte cake & mashed potato chocolate cake, Maid Heatter's Royal Viennese Walnut Torte- list goes on
One Christmas Austrian friends sent us a Sacher Torte complete in its adorable wooden box from the Hotel Sacher. Anticipation was high; disppointment was deep. Dry/boring! - though I did like the apricot jam under the chocolate glaze.
In the 80's a Vietnamese friend introduced me to the less sweet style of Asian cakes with light fruitiness and a whipped cream & crushed fruit filling.. Around that time I also became enamored of a roulade cake flavored with pandan from the big Chinese market (99 Ranch).
There was a big "cake lull" until I recently baked an olive oil cake with tangerine zest when the pantry was bare. In fact I think I'll make it again tomorrow
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