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    Chinese Eats at Home (Part 2)

    in China: Cooking & Baking

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    For my wife and i today i cooked Razor clams in Black Bean sauce, Squid and Gai Lan in Oyster sauce, Pork Spring Rolls with dip. Very Cantonese, very full - i need to lie down....

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    Sorry about the blurry-ass pic, was in in hurry. It's that Chinese thing - have to eat it while it's hot!! :biggrin:

    Sweetbreads

    in Cooking

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    You are so lucky to get veal sweetbreads by the way ! They're illegal in the UK. .

    Lucky they're lamb sweatbreads then! :wink:

    As for chicken necks - forget about it! I'm Chinese, i'll eat ANYTHING! Duck necks are nicer BTW, much more meaty. The Chinese places would give stuff like that away by the bucket load when i was a kid - ahh, childhood memories.

    Maybe, we should start an offal thread - get some French food lovers in. We could literally turn a sow's ear into a silken purse!!

    Sweetbreads

    in Cooking

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    man, they'd make a great Halloween decoration for a party.  A big jar with a couple of those in some water, sealed up. 

    Honestly, I've never had them.  Its on my list of things to try.  Although I'd like to try them cooked by someone who knows what they're doing first, just so I know how to expect them to taste when done right.

    Do they end up being expensive?  I just got some chicken livers for a pate last weekend and they were really cheap for something that tasted so good when done right.

    You should have seen them before i'd trimmed and rinsed them! They have a neutral smell but are quite messy looking with a peculiar texture raw.

    I was surprised at how cheap they were, only £4.10, bargain! Especially as you only really see them on the menus of the more 'aspiring' restaurants.

    Sweetbreads

    in Cooking

    Posted

    I may need a few recipes - he managed to get so much, i bet my butcher is still giggling to himself now!! :biggrin: What to order next from him, eh??

    I heard that they should be poached first too. Sounds good Fibilou, a herb crust would go well i think with the soft texture. I'll cook some tomorrow maybe to accompany some breast of lamb. The rest will have to go in the freezer.

    Sweetbreads

    in Cooking

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    So, my butchers and i have had this thing for the past couple of weeks. It started when i innocently enough asked for some pigs trotters for a Xiao Long Bao recipe. He shook his head and said i'll have to come back later in the week as he'd have to order some in. In passing he asked if i wanted anything else, not thinking about it i said i'd always wanted to try pig cheeks.

    I go back to them a couple of days later and what do you know in addition to my trotters there's four pig cheeks to pick up too! Ok, this time as i leave i ask for some Osso Bucco as i know i've never seen them in his shop.

    The next week i'm back and good as gold he's managed to get two veal shins - he'll cut steaks out of one for me to take home straightaway and save one for me to pick up later - fantastic! Right, this time i'm really going to test him out - "got any, er, veal sweatbreads?". He laughs, he'll "see what he can do".

    I pop in every so often to pick up my 'normal' stuff - rib-eye steak and pork belly draft, and i laugh about how he still can't any veal swetbreads for me. I joke and say that i'd settle for lamb ones...

    Today, with a big grin on his face this is what he presents to me:

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    Help, does anybody have any good recipes for these? I've had throat sweatbreads before in a couple of restaurants and they were sublime. These look like gullett (how apt) ones and are much bigger than ones i've eaten before.

    Cherry blossoms (Sakura)

    in Japan: Cooking & Baking

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    Hi all, i am new to this forum and was just browsing through and couldn't help noticing this thread on Cherry Blossoms. Made me want to post these photos of a cherry blossom themed wedding banquet that my wife and i had for her brothers wedding in Fukuoka. It was a truly memorable meal, hope you enjoy the pics:

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    Chinese Eats at Home (Part 2)

    in China: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    Hi all, i've lurking here for a couple of months now and wanted to share with you my first attempt at Xiao Long Bao today:

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    I'm pretty chuffed with them, though they could obviously do with some refinement. I've enjoyed reading your posts and hope that you will enjoy some of my contributions. :biggrin:

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