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We just slice it into sticks and sprinkle with a little rice wine vingegar and some sea salt. Kids love it.
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Thanksgiving this year is going to be one of the defining moments of our year spent eating nothing but Iowa grown food. In July, my father-in-law told me matter-of-factly that we would be having dinner at a club here in Des Moines since there would be "nothing to eat" at our house. Since then, I've been carefully culling the best of the markets and our garden to make sure that we would have everything we need to, well, shove thanksgiving up his a**. Our fresh turkey is being raised on a farm northwest of town and my network of farmers have stowed various root vegetables for us to be delivered the we before the holiday. We'll have about 20 for dinner. Our dining room table seats 12 so we'll have a few diners scattered around the house. We always start with people going around the table telling what they are thankful for. This year, we'll sing the Johnny Appleseed prayer, a favorite of ours during this Iowa food year.
Here's the menu:
Soup cooked in a pumpkin with grilled polenta sticks.
Free-range turkey brined in a simple salt/sugar mixture and stuffed with sage and aromatic vegetables.
Sage dressing
Creamed onions
A variation of the famous green bean casserole: beans in a white sauce with carmelized onion topping.
Corn souffle
Sweet potatoes in a bourbon sauce
Carrot ring filled with buttered peas
Crudites, homemade bread and butter pickles, pickled beets, spiced apple rings.
Apple tart and pumpkin pie.
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Breaded pork tenderloin with grilled onions, mushrooms, hot and sweet peppers, pepper cheese and "bud sauce", a reduction of peppers simmered in Budweiser with a handful of spices.
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great food and great view, VERY VERY rarely do the two exist together.
True. We paid lots of money to eat atop the Eiffel Tower last year. The restaurant didn't revolve, but the view was spectacular. The food, however, was not.
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just FYI, as close as I can tell there are four RMs to the U.S. dollar, which means you spend between 60 cents to a dollar for an apple. Is that right Shiewie?
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Living out here in God's Country means I'll probably never get to Mix. But I read the Grimes piece in the Times last week and thought it sounded interesting. Nice piece, Mr. Shaw. It gave me a nice perspective on the food. This is meat and potatoes country, although there is a healthy number of very good bistros, a couple of very good places for sushi, plenty of Asian, etc. That being said, places like Mix and Trio, with their test tubes and petri dishes and postage stamp sized pizzas, seems a little odd to me. Amuse is something the presidential candidates do, it's not a small appetizer, at least in Iowa. So I feel a little cheated -- and a little baffled -- when I read about foams and cones and all these other trends. Your review gave me a little taste of what I was missing. Thanks much. It's the kind of writing that makes egullet great.
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Roasted squash soup
mashed potatoes with cheese and sour cream
fresh green beans en casserole
New York strip, broiled with garlic and butter
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Great lecture, great thread.
Holly, have you ever been to a Sonic? If so, what did you think?
I froze several batches of fries this summer after the first cooking and have found that they fry up frozen a second time adequately. (I think they are best after cooling for a couple of hours. My kids actually prefer these fries to McDonald's.
Thanks for your work on this subject.
EGullet ought to think about combining all these lessons into a book. it would be terrific and a good way to fund this wonderful site.
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Make a light simple syrup (four parts water to one part sugar) bring to a simmer and let pear halves simmer until warm but not cooked through. Place in jars, seal and give a hot water bath for about 20 minutes. Delicious all year long.
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SlKinsey,
Thanks for your reasonable post. You are right, there is no evidence that hormone levels in milk causes early menstruation. The fact is that we just don't know. One of the things that critics of rBGh gloss over is that hormones are naturally occuring in milking anyway. However, we don't know what the long-term effects will be from synthetic hormones. So, I don't want to take any chances. I'm not a zealot and I've eaten lots of things that aren't good for me in my life. But I figure if I have an option, no use taking a chance.
Jay
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We've got a new organic dairy in our area. Their milk is free of synthetic hormones (which, among other things, are thought to be the cause of the earlier menstruating among young girls). The milk also isn't homogonized and so the cream and milk are separate. This is especially apparent with the whole milk. When I forget to shake it up before serving, my little girl (4) always pushes it away because she says it's too sweet and "farmy" tasting.
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Category: 18 American-Style Light Lager - 27 Entries
Gold: Old Style Light , Pabst Brewing Co., San Antonio, TX
Silver: Miller Lite, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Bronze: Old Milwaukee Light, Pabst Brewing Co., San Antonio, TX
Category: 20 American-Style Lager - 21 Entries
Gold: Old Milwaukee Pabst Brewing Co., San Antonio, TX
Silver: Rainier, Pabst Brewing Co., San Antonio, TX
Bronze: Stegmaier Gold Medal, The Lion Brewery, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, PA
Geez, we always drank these beers when we were young because you could buy 5 cases for $20. And who would have thunk that Old Milwaukee is brewed in Texas.
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We have three Korean restaurants in Des Moines, but one has become mostly a Sushi joint, another seems almost embarrassed by its Korean menu and pushes mostly Chinese, and the other is just plain bad. Even the owners don't eat there.
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I don't know about squash. Corn was imported to the U.S. from central America. I haven't read either of those books but will look for them. And I don't question your motives for using a 50 cent word.
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Pork shoulder is also the main cut used in spam, or so the folks at Hormel would have us think.
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Actually, this is an interesting word to me because of research I've been doing on local foods. Save the sunflower, there isn't one main stream food product that we eat in the U.S. that didn't come here from another country. We eat morels in the spring, which are, if I understand the word correctly, autochthonous, but most everything else came from Europe. So did most of the weeds we fight in our gardens.
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autochthonous. Pronunciation, please.
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If nothing else, it should be a late-round word in the next National Spelling Bee.
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Damn. I guess I'll just have to say, "watch out for the dog shit."
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I'm going to use that word in a sentence. Maybe when the mail man drops off today's mail. "Watch out for the dog shit in the yard. It's not autochthonous but it could still stink up the central post office if you tracked it in."
egullet: making me a better person every day.
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My wife and I follow the Jason / Rachel formula, although she usually says to me: "Here's what I think we should do." (Translated: "Here's what we are going to do.") At some of our favorite Asian restaurants, where we know the owner, we just say, "we want a pork dish, a chicken dish, a noodle dish, two appetizers and a salad. Surprise us." And it is always good.
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What kind of food does the Inn do? And what makes the lodging so special? Geez, i have never been able to justify paying $400 a night to sleep in a room, no matter how nice. But here's to the folks who can afford it.
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If it will get me an invite to your next Pig Pickin' confab, then I'm going to begin extolling the virtues of Des Moines style barbecue: That would be a pork chop with ketchup on the side