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2 hours ago, Duvel said:
“When you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
Or more precisely: when you’ve got a new toy, you want to play. I recently aquired an air fryer, and today was the day to apply it to one of my favourite food challenges: Gyros. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with what I can do, but there is always this feeling it could be easier, it could be better.
So: pork collar, thinly sliced into 1/4 inch slices and marinated in the Duvel Gyros marinade … and then reassembled, vacuumed for 24h and cooked SV for 4h@58oC. It yielded a brick looking like this …
Put into the Ninja air fryer at highest (“air crisp” setting) for a few minutes, roasted sides sliced off, back into the Ninja for a few minutes, sides sliced off and once more back into the Ninja - you get the idea. It yielded quite decent Gyros. Full of roasted flavor, yet tender and juicy meat ...
It served as a base for a Greek dinner …
With freshly made pita …
Greek salad …
And some lamb filets for 1/3 of the family which is not genetically primed to enjoy pork products …
Croquettes for the same part of the family, but ultimately enjoyed by all. My Ninja has two cooking zones 🤭
Yum !
Was it good ? Oh yes …
It it less work than making a skewer and running it through the rotisserie ? Yes, but by a margin …
So - no complaints 🤗
I'm sure "it could be easier!" Could it be better? I'll never know, but that looks pretty damn tasty.
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Worked well together. What a time to be alive!
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Scotch egg, Negronis posing in the back.
Turkey breast with all kinds of trimmings. Christmas is coming!
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https://ladyandpups.com/2018/10/11/how-to-make-perfectly-butterflied-and-crispy-skillet-chicken
You'd get almost the same thing as your roast chicken, possibly with crispier skin.
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A good curry with good chips ( not crisps!)
I'm a disgrace to the race.
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Works do last night, at Nottingham Forest Football Grounds venue. I didn't expect much, but actually pretty good.
Smoked trout.
Goat's cheese with caramelised onions tart.
Lamb with some fancy potato fondant thing.
Cheese.
Surprisingly good for a sports arena meal. Someone trying hard, but not in full control. For instance, no Port available even behind the bar for the cheese board. Not to damn with faint praise- these dishes were very good.
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1 hour ago, liuzhou said:
My stand-by when I can't think what I want. 海鲜炒饭配额外的虾 (hǎi xiān chǎo fàn pèi é wài de xiā), seafood fried rice with extra shrimp. Contains clams, squid, scallops and shrimp besides carrot Chinese chives and rice.
Take away, right? Lovely. My nearest options are fish and chips ( three very good options) and a "Chinese" ( well established and doing well in rural Nottinghamshire, so I'm happy for them. Not as happy for me, but really don't cry for me.)
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2 hours ago, Duvel said:
Not sure if that’s only available in Germany …
The McRöstis arrival coincided with the Glühwein season, so after a few of the latter I took one for the team and purchased the former …
What can I say 😜
You loved it, didn't you? 🤣
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On 6/15/2023 at 5:50 AM, liuzhou said:
KFC just sent every cell phone in the city this ad for their latest breakfast choice. They are turning into a noodle shack.
葱油拌面 (cōng yóu bàn miàn), literally 'scallion oil mix noodles' although together the last two characters refer to noodles with soy sauce. ¥14 ($1.95 USD) is a steep price for this dish. The same (better?) dish can be had yards away for half that.
Oof! That egg!
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Spoiler alert!
One of the many extraordinary things about the Boiling Point movie is that it's filmed in just one shot, so that the tension builds throughout. The ending is a relief.
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My error, Reacher is still a few days away.
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I will miss her. I've been here a long time, and every contribution from her was enjoyable.
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Just watched the movie for the first time in preparation for the series. However I think I'll take a break from neurotic kitchen life and watch Jack Reacher before proceeding!
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Woah, just finished! Without too many spoilers, I'd just say both realistic and intense.
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Just watching the movie now. After watching The Bear season two. I do hope the food hygiene inspectors are really that pernickety!
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Our Christmases are epic. For the first time we are going to rent a place away rather than have me or my sisters host, and for the first time we will have my niece's parents in law along. 16 of us, I think, for seven days in a cottage in Bude, Cornwall.
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I think it's typically Wensleydale!
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Grommet. Just associated with cheese.
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18 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:
You know what they say – none of us get out of this alive. So this started out as an obituary and instead became an ode to friendship. I began with the intent of writing an epistle – instead it turned into a series of rabbit holes.
@Anna N died on Tuesday the 10th.
I will not be sharing her medical information here – you will notice she never posted on “How are you Doing” thread – and she assured me if I did, she would haunt me for the rest of my days. Not that I’m afraid of her dead or alive – but hey – I respected her wishes in life and will continue to do so in death. Those of you that she was willing to let me share with know who you are and can PM me if you wish. The only thing she would be willing to let me suggest to everyone is that you quit smoking now!
Anna and I have been fast friends since 2006. We tell people we met online. eG’ers will appreciate that it involved Dawn Power Dissolver.
“I think a bit of a backstory on how Kerry and I met is entirely appropriate as it involves eG.
I had been a member for some time when Kerry joined in 2005. I was on a topic about dishwashing detergents and bemoaning the fact that Dawn Power Dissolver was not available in Canada. Kerry PM’d me and offered to get some next time she made a trip to Buffalo. At the time, I knew nothing about her and assumed with the name Kerry that she was male. I was astounded that anyone could be so generous to a stranger and suspected some nefarious motive to find out where I lived and carry out unspeakable crimes on my person or property. (I have since learned that many eG members are incredibly generous with time, knowledge and even ingredients and equipment.)
I relented and gave my address. Kerry showed up at my door one day with said detergent. She didn’t look overly dangerous or criminal so I allowed her into my home. We talked for the next 3 hours non-stop and the rest, as they say, is history.”
Anna was eG staff when we met – she did a lot of editing and such in the background for Fatguy and was always a voice of reason (not to say she wasn’t opinionated – just not inclined to share that opinion as often as perhaps she might have). She was recipe testing for a lot of authors and also editing for them when they allowed it. It frustrated the crap out of her when they wouldn't take her suggestions for edits I must admit.
We started the Ladies who Lunch in 2010 to talk about the lunches we had while out and about on our Wednesday afternoon adventures. Lots of amusing stories tucked in there. The ‘cowy’ cheese is one of my favourites. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/132193-the-ladies-who-lunch-part-1/
One of our favourite places to go when we were lunching ladies was Winners. One particular day Anna and I were waiting in line behind two ladies at the counter – one turned to the other and said sadly “I lost my husband last year” – Anna muttered under her breath “careless” and the two of us split a gut for the next 30 minutes straight – then again for the rest of the afternoon whenever we looked at each other. We always laughed a lot!
Early days we organized the first of the Chocolate and Confectionery workshops – Anna was the detail person – could not have done it without her - https://forums.egullet.org/topic/123427-reporteg-chocolate-and-confectionery-conference/
The second workshop at Niagara was where we both met @Alleguede - we quickly knocked the big honking chip off his shoulder and became friends. Anna called him her sibling, a difficult sibling, but a sibling none the less. I think that means they both considered me their parent?
And the first time I managed to drag her off to the PMCA with me -https://forums.egullet.org/topic/144850-working-our-way-to-lancaster-pa-–-what-to-eat-in-amish-country/page/2/
She had a chocolate phase thanks to me – here’s one of her topics on that -https://forums.egullet.org/topic/120233-mistakes-in-the-chocolatecandy-lab/
Our first unofficial blog together was actually a blog apart - ‘Long Distance Cooking Buddies share their food’ since we couldn’t be the Ladies who Lunch for a few weeks. At the tail end of the blog Anna and her hubby came up to Manitoulin and stayed at the cabin out on Frier Point https://forums.egullet.org/topic/133763-long-distance-cooking-buddies-share-their-food/
That was June – in September it was just Anna and I – child left behind at home for school. On the drives up to Manitoulin we would play word games and solve the problems of the world as only two women can – and laugh! Oh yeah - and decide how we would entertain our 'fans' on eG when we arrived. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/134999-sharing-a-kitchen-in-an-ingredient-desert/
We spent a lot of time laughing! And eventually drinking –
https://forums.egullet.org/topic/139736-help-for-a-couple-of-cocktail-novices-part-1/
Then there were the Big Green Egg eggfests – where Anna and I got into some serious competitive cooking then baking – this was our first eggfest when I bought the large egg and we made the chicken tikka masala that Anna had tested for Monica Bhide – we learned a lot about timing and quantities that we perfected for future fests - https://forums.egullet.org/topic/134923-nieggara-fest-2010/#comment-1761568
And the Ice Wine Festivals where true friends freeze their asses off together - https://forums.egullet.org/topic/136666-report-on-the-niagara-ice-wine-festival/
Anna started a boatload of topics over the years – starting in 2002 here is a link to the list of them – you can see the breadth of her curiosity and interests - I must confess to often being the one who said – “you gotta start a topic” – sometimes because we were annoyed, other times intrigued -
https://forums.egullet.org/profile/6903-anna-n/content/page/11/?type=forums_topic
Through all these years Anna has been my wordsmith – when we needed a title for a topic, when I needed copy for my EZtemper ads, when I needed a CV, a letter, basically anything with words that needed a clean and dust – I’d send it off to her and she would send it back polished. I swear that woman could polish a turd and make it shine!
She was always on the other end of a text when I needed information or a recipe during my travels or when I was still able to find time to cook at work. And of course we talked (and laughed) on the phone on my way into, and home from, work every day. Even those drives to and from Dunnville very early in the morning. No trouble at all gabbing through the hour up and the hour back. This I am missing a lot.
So when you come back up the rabbit hole – I’d love you to share your favourite memory of Anna cause I know I’m not the only life she touched here on eG. And if you go down that rabbit hole of her topics – let us know which one you enjoyed most.
A wonderful tribute. I'm sad to see this, and so sorry for your personal loss.
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On 10/7/2023 at 3:29 PM, KennethT said:
My curry leaf tree is sprouting a new tree! I'm debating whether to prune it....
How did you grow this? I've been thinking about just trying rooting powder on some fresh stalks from the Indian market.
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9 hours ago, BonVivant said:
last couple of days there's been a lot of heavy rainfall that couples with thunder and lightning the whole time...
Last night it rained so very hard and literally non stop, all night, lightning lit up the sky and thunder rattled the windows until morning. I hardly slept a wink.
The food looks so beautiful.
I miss that kind of rain. You've made me nostalgic. I might have to perversely go back to Kerala mid-monsoon!
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8 hours ago, weinoo said:
AS the kids say, IYKYK:
Not pictured, yet consumed: pickled herring filets, bagels, tomato, red onion, butter.
IDK.
I mean, it looks good an' all...
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Saturday lunch.
Pork chop, pan-fried purple sprouting broccoli, chilli and garlic oil.
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Friday night: Pork chop, mushroom and cream sauce, steamed long stem broccoli and beans. Made by the missus.
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Dinner 2023
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Oooh...!