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Dinner 2017 (Part 1)

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Thanks for the Crepes

Thanks for the Crepes

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I had another good dinner tonight. I roasted up a Cornish game hen and made a sauce for it from sugar, cornstarch, MSG, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, Chinese five spice and plenty of red pepper flakes. This was served with Garden Stuffed Peppers from my ancient Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. Bell peppers are stuffed with a mixture of cooked baby lima beans, onions sauteed in butter, corn and a diced fresh tomato. Over the years I've added oregano in the veg stuffing mixture and added cheese on top in the last five minutes of baking to up and complete the protein from the beans. This time it was hoop cheese from right here in Ashe County North Carolina.

 

ETA a link about hoop cheese for those who may not have heard of it. 

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13 minutes ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

ETA a link about hoop cheese for those who may not have heard of it. 

 

 

That is one of the most uninformative Wikipedia pages ever. Here is a better link, which actually tells you something about the cheese.

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Thanks for the Crepes

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2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

That is one of the most uninformative Wikipedia pages ever. Here is a better link, which actually tells you something about the cheese.

 

I agree that both links are pretty uninformative. :) I have never encountered a hoop cheese that has not been colored orange, like cheddar (unless, of course, said cheddar is white). Annatto or achiote, in Spanish used not to be required to be disclosed in the list of cheese ingredients by our US government for some crazy reason? I find it on more and more ingredient list on cheeses these days, probably in recognition of rare allergies to it.

 

Cow's milk does not turn orange on its own, in my experience, and this is a rare American cheese. It is unmucked around with like "American cheese" that bears that name. Hoop cheese is many miles closer to mild cheddar than is your regular American cheese, even the good stuff that can be called that, as opposed to American pasteurized cheese product.

 

I quite like hoop cheese, but I must say I prefer a medium cheddar for most applications.

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7 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

I had another good dinner tonight. I roasted up a Cornish game hen and made a sauce for it from sugar, cornstarch, MSG, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, Chinese five spice and plenty of red pepper flakes. This was served with Garden Stuffed Peppers from my ancient Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. Bell peppers are stuffed with a mixture of cooked baby lima beans, onions sauteed in butter, corn and a diced fresh tomato. Over the years I've added oregano in the veg stuffing mixture and added cheese on top in the last five minutes of baking to up and complete the protein from the beans. This time it was hoop cheese from right here in Ashe County North Carolina.

 

ETA a link about hoop cheese for those who may not have heard of it. 

 

 

"Like" for the Cornish game hen part.

 

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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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A couple of recents.  Chicken teriyaki with the Serious Eats recipe for fried rice with green beans 

 

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And a chicken and biscuit stew.  

 

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We are supposed to get 15 inches of snow here today and my husband has influenza as he neglected to get his flu shot this year (not me!)  so I am thinking tonight's dinner will be more chicken, but in soup form with lots of ginger and garlic.

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On 1/5/2017 at 4:39 PM, Shelby said:

I'll trade you catfish for some of your mix ;) 

 

I'll be on the look-out for this.  

 

Thanks!

Big snow today. We were out early to get a few items. One of the things on the list was more fish fry mix. Maybe this will help you spot it.

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