Paul Bacino

Late night Dinner Bite: Morel Pizza

Recently Found a few of these..Pheasant back Mushrooms

This is so Reminiscence of my childhood and Foraging in Iowa. So I put together a : Loosemeat Sandwich w/ Pheasant Back Mushrooms

This time of the yr..Pond fishing gives up some serious bounty Crappie/Gills/Bass _ simple pan fry.

harrysnapperorgans -- that looks like one big chicken?

Fried Morels!! This is what I did for this batch I have cook shrooms..for yrs..swear..the best tonight.take one organic egg..add touch of water..Lawreys salt and gran garlic..beat...add shrooms...them I add AP flour to make a light batter......now here's what makes the difference....remove battered shrooms..and place on Silat mat and into frig one hr...this helps set batter...and the mushrooms exude their liquid..they fry awesome

Hop Asparagus: http://chopandbrew.com/lagniappe/hop-asparagus-cooking-hop-shoots/

Pan Fry carbon steel/ little butter/ fresh squeeze of lemon/ pink flake salt/ pepper My bed is just showing up and most of what I got last night was less 6" WE got about 10 small stocks. .I put in 3 yr root stock and I'm @ yr two.. so expect once we start warming to have some decent amount

I usually don't press any more.. But I kinda like the idea of taking a round piece of meat like a 1/2 pound meatball .. put the thing on the flat top and pressing that.. but that probably pre fry. I think I creates nice irregularity's ( Like little crusty fingers ) Paul

Bracciole in a Genevese Sauce Which for me the Sauce is like a Onion Sunday gravy. So I did this different..I wrapped a sausage in both round and sirloin cuts and braised these in a carmalized onion sauce with a spot of madeira and beef stock

RT After 1/2 bottle of zin/ not sure / I did.. I think it adds a bit of sweetness, along with the honey Paul

March Madness Pizza I play with a few recipe's this one had some white wine in it, 67% ( 7% white wine in the 67% ) hydrated AP flour/ 1/ 4 tSAF yeast/ 1t salt/ and a bit of honey-- this was bake in a slight amout of olive oil in the pan---so it kinda frys Toppings--Red Wattle Ham/bacon/mushroom/ romano Served with a Bedrock 2013 Old Vine ZIN-- which is Yummy

my Easter Dinner wasn't much, cuz we had to much other things going on But the Ham was a Heritage Red Wattle Ham complete with cracklings

Kinda Wierd!! But was really good Bean and Lentil Torta I cooked a flour Tortilla/ and topped it with homemade baked beans/ RG Project beans/ lentils.. that little Q'ness from the red beans added some nice sweetness the crust was crispy underneath

Seafoam Salad--Norm I like that idea Buona Pasqua

Meatless Friday (Jammin to a little Uriah Heep ) " Easy Living " Royal Corona Bean Soup

No.. I think he means.. sweet to dry / lighter to bolder / white to red http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_wine If so, then we have a few wine Boutiques , that do this. Personally I'm thinking its marketing, helps the novice / drinkers Cheers Paul

Nice box..of. Shrooms. Max

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yep.. BTW.. these were really good .. I'm glad I got a chance to eat them

So here is what I did. Boiled the Wild Gooseneck Barnacles/ cut the foot off and used a scissors to slice up the skin to the top Made a simple Parsley salad with lemon vinaigrette topped with cleaned Percebes ( they were slightly gritty --Nice tooth polish )

Just gottem.. What would you do? They are very briny, I'm thinking a pasta dish

Rotuts I don't do a meat sauce... But I do make meat filled shells Fry which meat you wish.. I usually use cow with a bit of garlic onion, mix in cheese a bit of bread crumbs and chopped spinach.. an egg or two mix add S/P and fill

The near perfect stuffed shell" Kinda like a cannoli 4 cheese and Rosamary bread with my Sunday gravy ( but on Sat ) FINISHED

RT This recipe: Best Ricotta you can get Mozzarella-- Can use fresh.. to much water thou Asiago Reggio above Ratio's is what I have Nut meg fresh grind salt /white pepper /sugar and Basil/ 2 eggs maruzze - is large shells MY home-made sauce