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One of the most serendipitous "that ought to be good" lunches I've had in a while; mayo, roasted and frozen cherry tomatoes, a couple of slices of bacon and some brie layered on potato-flax seed bread and broiled. One piece made a quite substantial and tasty lunch! The center piece of brie sort of slid into the gap when I cut the toastie in half. Could have probably done with two pieces.
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Welcome from another Arkansan (Jonesboro, here). Never done any freeze-drying, but interested in trying it for herbs, etc. Would you share a bit about your equipment and set-up?
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An "old school" night tonight, because I was in the mood: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, steamed peas with butter. I like to do my meat loaf in a pie plate, thin, so there's a bigger ratio of crust to inside. And I was thinking about how good that would taste with some melted Brie in meat loaf sandwiches later on this week. Last night, it was carbonnades a la flamande. Usually a fail-safe for me, this one lacked something, and I'm not sure what. Could be because the liquor store has stopped carrying my go-to Green Flash Double Stout, and I went with a Belgian stout instead. I serve mine with grits instead of noodles, because I like it that way. Saturday night, it was choucroute garnie. Good, but I forgot to take pictures.
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And it at least appears you can order online without a membership. I don't know that the full range of goods are available via the website, though.
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Follow-up on igourmet.com: For anyone who's signed up for Ebates, there's 5 percent cash back on all orders of sale merchandise. Some duck confit leg quarters, some sausages, a pate and several different cheeses are on their way to me. Damn you, enablers.
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With you on the baseball field. Pitchers and catchers report in 36 days, btw. I do love my legumes, of all colors, though. Leave me a few limas, wouldja?
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Dinner via the IP tonight (no photos, because, well, I'm lazy). Choucroute garnie. Three pints of sauerkraut, the homemade variety, that have been languishing in my fridge for a while. Bratwurst, kielbasa, ham. Caraway and juniper berries. A bottle of cheap Riesling. Rye bread. Hard to beat.
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Dammit. I guess I am going to have to buy one of these things.
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I have, apparently, lost my ability to make biscuits. These TASTE good, but dammit, they won't rise for anything. And I used to make FINE biscuits; won a contest back in the dark ages when I was in 4H club in junior high school. It was a good breakfast, regardless; jamon iberico from Aldi (last package in the store, and unfortunately, I missed the pork belly), farm eggs, scrambled with a bit of cream, biscuits and pear preserves. Lots of good Brazilian coffee. If I could just make a biscuit again.
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@HungryChris, that may be the first meal of yours that has not caused me to think seriously about setting out for Connecticut...
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I love pretty much anything you can do with a potato. All that Irish background, I guess.
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Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2016 – 2017)
kayb replied to a topic in Pastry & Baking
In the trailer-trash vein, pretzel sticks dipped in melted white chocolate chips and rolled in crushed candy canes are pretty good. -
No pictures because the pork took forever to cook, but I took a pork tenderloin, seasoned it with hoisin and soy sauce and ginger, then peeled and cored a couple of pineapples and surrounded the pork, on a rack in a roasting pan, with the fruit, which also got a nice shot of soy sauce. Roasted at 400 degrees for-freakin'-ever to get to temperature, I guess because the pineapple was insulating the pork. Wonderfully tender and good. Served it with coconut rice and a cucumber salad in a dressing of rice vinegar, mirin, soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger and honey. There was a bit of pork and pineapple left, which is destined to show up in fried rice next week.
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I have a side-by-side fridge/freezer, as well as a second refrigerator in the storage room with an upper freezer, and a 7-cubic-foot chest freezer. The storage room fridge-freezer holds lots of square plastic tubs of stock (chicken and beef), as well as corn and peas frozen from last summer. The chest freezer holds my quarter-steer, along with some odds and ends of pork and a few whole chickens. The inside freezer held, until shortly before Christmas, lots of stuff that was old enough to draw Social Security, until I cleaned it out. It was glorious for about a week and half, and I've crammed it back full in all its little cracks and crevices now. I want a big honkin' upright freezer. I find it's easy to organize in those plastic tubs from WalMart that have all the holes in all sides, and the solid bottom. I do like what someone mentioned above, the magazine storage rack for storing zip-locs of stock or other liquids. Got to try that. Must have that freezer by next summer. Planning a larger garden.
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I, on the other hand, love it. Will happily use brown rice any time I can get away with it when white is called for. And as one who grew up eating rice with brown sugar and butter as a hot breakfast cereal, can I just say that brown rice is MUCH better in that application than white. In my book.
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But you LOVE me. I thought of you, actually, when I saw the butchering book. I bought the vegetarian book and the James Beard book, and may well go back and get the curry book.
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There is only one potential breakfast for a snow day when one's daughter is home from work: Pigs in blankets! The reason for Pillsbury crescent rolls in a tube to exist.
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Aaaannnndddd: The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Deborah Madison, $1.99 ebook. The New James Beard, $1.99 ebook. Curry, A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Lizzie Collingham, $1.99 ebook. Viniagrettes and Other Dressings, Michelle Anna Jordan, $2.99 ebook. The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing and Sausage-Making, Philip Hasheider, $2.99 ebook. A sampling from the email Amazon so helpfully sent me today. You're welcome. ( @IowaDee, I'm looking at you....)
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Re: raw oysters vs Rockefeller or other preps. If they ain't broke, why fix 'em?
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@Jacksoup, looks like it's going to be a gorgeous kitchen! And I particularly like how you've matched the kitchen to the cat. @gfweb, I NEVER want to see behind my stove, nor in the small crack between the stove and the cabinet. I shudder to think. Please keep pics coming!
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Adding rye to the list; had been thinking of that and forgot to list it. Will add maraschino liqueur and Cointreau, as well as Campari, I have both Peychaud's and Angostura bitters. Already planning to upgrade the brandy to cognac, as mentioned by you and @JoNorvelleWalker. Gonna be a pricy trip to the liquor store!
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It's not as juniper-heavy, and has a decided citrus-y aftertaste. Very light. Back in the dark ages, I used to escape down to Pass Christian, when it was a funky little fishing village. There was a harborfront bar that served a hellacious Mississippi Punch. Thanks for the link. I'll have to try my hand at making one. Will look into the Pierre Ferrand as well.
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Your Daily Sweets: What Are You Making and Baking? (2016 – 2017)
kayb replied to a topic in Pastry & Baking
Almost ashamed to post my poor efforts amid all these gorgeous confections -- but they DID taste good. Peanut butter fudge. Coconut macaroons. Both made and left at my daughter's house for late birthday/Christmas goodies, as they are her two favorites.- 489 replies
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A curse upon whoever it was (don't remember if it was this topic or another one) who posted the link to igourmet! I can tell that place is going to cost me significant money.
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I joined in 2009, when I was just starting to branch out and be a little more adventurous in cooking. I've loved it.