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    Larb Laab Larp

    in Elsewhere in Asia/Pacific: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    I will try to pick some up this weekend. I have to say that I am on a Larb kick. It is so damn tasty and easy to make! Katie and I had it again last night as a quick meal before we picked up around my place for the holiday.

    Ill have to give that sausage a go sometime...how would it work in patty form? I dont have any good way to stuff em!

    Also the Thai style eggs sound tasty too. I feel a thai cooking kick coming on.

    Laab

    Ben

    Larb Laab Larp

    in Elsewhere in Asia/Pacific: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    Larb a-hoy! I made the beef Larb recipe that Mamster posted earlier here:

    Also, to my taste you can always improve a larb by adding thinly-sliced shallots rather than onion. Like most Thai salads, they key to great larb is seasoning it a lot--plenty of dressing, chiles, and rice powder. This is a really good larb neua recipe: http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/th...00/rec0054.html.

    I used some shallots I had growing in a pot out back, they were pretty tiny but that is another story. The only rice I had to make the ground rice with was arborio. It turned out pretty tasty, the rice smelled kinda like peanut butter when it was being toasted. I ground the rice up in my little baby cuisinart and it scared the hell out of sophie and vinnie...they are still a little angry at me for scaring them.

    I placed the cooked larb on a couple romaine lettuce leaves and dug right in. No time for pics since I was so hungry!!! :cool: I'll have to take some next time I make it since I will be making it again for sure!!! I think that my larb was a shade dry and could have used a touch more fish sauce and lime juice too. Overall though it was great and pretty simple to make, Katie loved it too. I think it will become a fairly common dish here. Thanks a bunch for the pro-larb stance that propelled me into home larb-making!

    Ben

    Home use tandoors

    in India: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    I think that tandoors can use either wood or gas. Most resturaunts use Gas due to its consistency, but traditional ones would probably use wood. The homeade one mentioned earlier used wood or charcoal I believe. The key to the tandoor's heat is not the fire though, it is the heat held in the earthen walls of the oven that is so intense. I believe there is alot of preheating involved when firing up the ol tandoor.

    Man, I totally want a tandoor, but I would probably burn my house down.

    Ben

    French Beer

    in Beer

    Posted

    I checked out my Culinaria- France book and found a couple mentions that might be worthwhile.

    One talked about French monks in northern France being into beermaking. The northern region is second in beer production to Alsace. The book also shows some beer labels:

    Amadeus

    Ambre des Flandres

    Biere du Desert

    Ch'ti

    Gavroche

    Goldenberg

    Grain d' Orge

    Gayant

    Jade

    JenLain

    L'atrebate

    Saint Landelin

    Sebourg

    Septante 5

    La Biere du Demon

    3 Monts

    Alsatian beer is a definately number 1 in france with seven of their breweries providing 54% of French beer. The oldest running brewery is the Schutzenberger (since 1740). Also Meteor is a family run brewery that still uses traditional methods, so you might want to check that out.

    Ben

    French Beer

    in Beer

    Posted

    I had a wonderfly crisp alsatian beer (lager I think) at Le Pichet here in Seattle. I am affraid I can be of no further help since I don't remember the name :sad:. Good luck!

    Ben

    Pudding Pop Experiment

    in Pastry & Baking

    Posted

    Kraft has Pudding Pop recipes right on the Jello brand website. To do a full search (I can't seem to link the results of my search properly), go to www.jello.com, click Recipes/Recipe Search, check Cookies/Candies/Other Desserts, then check Frozen Pops followed by Get Recipes. This yields 12 recipes. However, all of them seem to be variations on the "make the pudding, put into molds, insert stick, freeze" theme.

    <p align=center>21306w.jpg</p>Even the ones with Creamy in the title, are just that way because you add Cool Whip, not because of agitation during freezing. Since you have tested this technique, and realize that freezing them by this method has a tendancy to produce ice crystals and not the creamy texture you desire, I think it is still up to you to work out the Pudding Pop of your dreams.

    Perhaps once you do, you could get them to add your "Perfect Pudding Pops" to their online recipe files?

    Yeah, thanks for the lookup Rachel. This recipe is the one that I based my first pop round off of. It gave me the idea for using the easily available plastic spoons for pop holders.

    I have to say that their recipe is pretty weak. "Ya want puddin' pops? Take our damn puddin, and *#^&*!$ freeze it!" Totally weak. I hope that once I settle on a final recipe that they would take it!

    Thanks again!

    Ben

    Pudding Pop Experiment

    in Pastry & Baking

    Posted

    Has anyone contacted Kraft to see about availability?

    Good point.

    I have not personally contacted kraft to inquire about any of this but I have seen the result of other requests. Kraft basically says that the market is not there for pudding pops, which is why they pulled them in the first place.

    I wonder if they would hook a brutha up with the pop recipe though....probably for a fee.

    Anybody here got the kraft hookup?

    Ben

    Klink's Sausage Diary, Day 24

    in Cooking

    Posted · Edited by Schielke (log)

    Go Klink!

    A wonderful wrapup to a great project. But you never answered the biggest question of them all!!!!! When are you going to build your own smoking outhouse? It would be a glorious sight indeed.

    Ben

    Edit: Whoopsie doodle

    Cauliflower

    in Food Traditions & Culture

    Posted

    I thought you had adequate ventilation... Maybe we can give an eGullet Deep Frying demo in your kitchen.

    We can come up with several recipes to demo and savor and write about later...

    Would be a fun thing.. But I like Steve Klc, love all things deep fried... :smile: I may be the wrong person to trust on this one. :rolleyes:

    I would love to see that. How about a streaming web show with suvir and hot oil! hehehe

    Ben

    Cauliflower

    in Food Traditions & Culture

    Posted · Edited by Schielke (log)

    I was thinking it had a similar taste to the roasted caulflower Jim Dixon made popular on this site.

    I tried this recipe for the first time last night and it made a believer out of me! If you have not tried it, go and buy some cauliflower tonight. It couldnt be easier.

    Here is my result!

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    Sweet Potatoes

    in India: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    Suvir, I ran straight home today and made the crispy yam and peas recipe you sent. On my way I picked up a supply of dried mango powder and asafetida. I had a great time since I dont usually deep fry. I forgot how fun it can be. Wheeeee!

    I believe that it came out quite good even with my mistakes! Here are some pics for you to critique :cool: .

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    My yam chunks frying away! The first batch did not get as crispy as the following ones, but were still quite tasty.

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    This is after I had added the tomato puree, yams, peas, and water. Looks pretty tasty! how is the yam/pea/sauce ratio in this pic? I just guessed since I do not have a good way to weigh items to proportion them correctly.

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    All done and ready for a bite. This is where I took the liberty of messing with the recipe due to dire circumstances...and also screwing up. I was looking through my fridge for the plain yoghurt and realized that I had run out. I decided to substitute sour cream instead and it seemed to fit fairly well, but I could tell it would have been better with the yoghurt.

    Also, I forgot to put in my newly purchased dried mango powder. doh! Well it just means I have to make it again!

    I plan on making the other recipe you sent and the great one monica pm'ed me too!

    Again, many thanks for the great recipes you are so generous with!

    Ben

    Roasting Turkey

    in Cooking

    Posted

    There is a really great turkey/thanksgiving resource list going on over at Saute Wednesday.

    rentyourchef, I used the foodtv turkey calculator (listed in saute wednesday's link list) to calculate for 17 people (I counted 5 children as 3 people). The calculator defaults to 2 servings per person and leaves room for leftovers. A serving is not defined though.

    2 servings = 25.5 lbs

    Ben

    Mistral Cooking Class

    in Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Dining

    Posted

    All of those suggestions sound great! Once we have a few more people chime in I can contact William to talk about details and such. Naturally a truffle or foie gras class might cost a little more, so take that into account too. Although I might be partial to a truffle class since I have never had the chance to eat them before.

    If we do do a knife skills class, does everybody have sharp knives they can bring in? I know that there are a limited number of chefs knives available in the Mistral kitchen.

    I am also interested in learning more about sauteeing. I have yet to be able to come close to replicating william's perfectly crusted scallops or halibut in my own kitchen and believe it would be interesting to get right up there and try one myself with some guidence.

    Another possibility would to do a mixed menu kind of thing that highlights different dishes and techniques that we find interesting. Perhaps learning how to sautee a piece of fish or scallop then learning a foie gras technique for another dish and finally touching on something for dessert or the like.

    William, if you are reading this please let me know any thoughts you have on them if you have time.

    Thanks everybody! I cant wait until we get this hammered out!

    Ben

    Sweet Potatoes

    in India: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    Oh man! I love sweet potatoes and yams!  I would greatly appreciate these recipies in email format if you can manage it!!!!!  

    Thanks a bunch!

    Ben

    Do you really cook Ben? You look too clean cut too cook in those great pics..:rolleyes:

    Just kidding.. Being Tommy here.... Email me a note.. and I can attach the recipe and send it your way... :smile:

    Heh heh heh,

    Well when I cook I make a point not to bathe for a couple days before the process. I get pretty scruffy too. :raz:

    Thanks again! I need to get back into some more indian cooking!

    Ben

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