Kicking back in Manitoulin

[Kerry Beal]

9 hours ago, curls said:

@Kerry Beal glad you are done at the hospital for the day!  Looks like the dinner Anna made reheated very well.

 

What are your planned caramel experiments / what solutions are you aiming for? Nice looking mold from Chef Rubber -- is it the same size as Jin's mold?

I believe it is the same mold.

[Smithy]

 

14 hours ago, Anna N said:

 

 Chicken thighs cooked in the Cuisinart steam oven and a salad of tomato, onion and parsley with a tahini dressing.  I mellowed out the onion in salted water for half an hour and I used @shain's recipe for making the tahini dressing (see the recipe for shakshuka).

 I left everything ready for Kerry when she finally makes it home.   

 

 

If anything convinces me to find/make the space for a CSO, it will be pictures like this.

[Kerry Beal]

 

my boring breakfast - toast, cheddar, hero apricot spread

[Anna N]

Toasted ciabatta bun (Ace Bakery), caramelized onion cheddar and a tomato, onion & preserved lemon salad with more tahini dressing. This is the first time I have ever eaten preserved lemons though I have made many batches before. I am a bit anal and they always seemed off in either looks or smell. These look lovely and smell like lemons. I might easily become a huge fan. 

 

[Tri2Cook]

4 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

my boring breakfast - toast, cheddar, hero apricot spread

Doesn't look boring to me. I've been a fan of cheese and jam or jelly on toasted items for many years. Gouda with gooseberry jam is a personal favorite.

[Kim Shook]

@Kerry Beal - you can send those caramels to me.  I adore super chewy ones - Storck Riesens are just about perfect for me.  I have a hard time finding them chewy enough for my taste.

[Kerry Beal]

@Kim Shook - they have been repurposed. 

 

 

 

I brought up some Honey Roasted Pecans that I found in the bargain bin at Fortino's. Figured they would make good turtle feet. 

 

 

A fair number of broken nuts in the container - so they are making Pecairns!

 

Later today I shall adorn them with milk chocolate. 

 

Our attempts to build Canuckshooks were an abject failure - they kept falling over!

Edited July 2, 2017 by Kerry Beal
to correct the spelling of pecairns so it is spelled correctly (log)

[Porthos]

Kerry, those look so good I want to lick my screen!

[rotuts]

I Love Turtles !

 

what kind of chocolate on the top ?

 

OK  milk it is.

 

not dark ?

 

 

back in the day when See's was only on thee W Coast

 

I could  eat their turtles faster than they could make them.

[Anna N]

 

 You probably think we do nothing but grocery shop up here and you'd probably be close to right but when you're performing experiments you have to keep the lab fully stocked.   And if you were going to buy stuff to make caramel you know you're going to get tempted by things that don't make very good caramel. 

 

I frequently hear people complain about strawberries in January but how about pomegranates in July? Yep they were in the store today.

 

 The pork tenderloin you see in the above photographs is now swimming in a little Sous Vide bath with the Joule  and will be finished on the LGE (Little Green Egg) in the pouring rain. 

[rotuts]

 

 

when you're performing experiments you have to keep the lab fully stocked.

 

 

what are those 4 cans on the upper R  ?

 

 

and what'sL to it

 

if it not too much trouble

 

what's the item int eh white tray in the middle ?

 

 

[caroled]

The 2 yellow cans with the cows on label appear to be evaporated milk...and that's all I've got!

[Anna N]

 

 

Kerry's GMO turtles and structurally unsound pecairns. 

[Anna N]

5 minutes ago, caroled said:

The 2 yellow cans with the cows on label appear to be evaporated milk...and that's all I've got!

 

14 minutes ago, rotuts said:

and what'sL to it

 

if it not too much trouble

 

what's the item int eh white tray in the middle ?

 

There is evaporated milk, condensed milk, horseradish and medjool dates?  

[Tri2Cook]

28 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 

The pork tenderloin you see in the above photographs is now swimming in a little Sous Vide bath with the Joule  and will be finished on the LGE (Little Green Egg) in the pouring rain. 

I'm cooking a boneless pork loin today. It's spent the past almost 48 hours in my Jamaican jerk marinade. My brain kept telling me to toss it in the sous vide tank, especially with all the dark clouds that have been floating through today, but I really wanted it to go in the smoker. So I'm risking it and hoping the rain stays away as forecasted. Doesn't look too promising at times though.

[rotuts]

MJ dates in a can ?

[Shelby]

I call the ice cream sandwiches!!!!!

 

I could eat that whole box right now.

[Kerry Beal]

1 minute ago, Shelby said:

I call the ice cream sandwiches!!!!!

 

I could eat that whole box right now.

One of the few things from the freezer that the rug rat will eat - she finds ice cream a bit of a challenge. She gets quite excited when she sees them come out of the freezer.

[Anna N]

6 minutes ago, rotuts said:

MJ dates in a can ?

Oops. They are not medjools!  Damn.  Packaging is the same.  Never mind they are perfectly good dates.

 

 

if this is not what you are referring to the cans behind the The condensed and evaporated milks are club soda and tonic water. 

[Shelby]

1 minute ago, Kerry Beal said:

One of the few things from the freezer that the rug rat will eat - she finds ice cream a bit of a challenge. She gets quite excited when she sees them come out of the freezer.

Oh.  Well.  I guess I'll share with her.  But, NO ONE else lol.

[Kerry Beal]

 

Left over chocolate goes to make bark with something akin to Montreal Steak spice.

 

 

[FauxPas]

3 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

I brought up some Honey Roasted Pecans that I found in the bargain bin at Fortino's. Figured they would make good turtle feet. 

 

Is it just Vancouver-based Purdys Chocolates that calls these type of candies Sweet Georgia Browns? 

[rotuts]

no worries

 

close enough 

 

it was the jar ( red toped ) next to 

 

some thing called Salsa.

 

Ill just stop right there  

 

jus saying.

 

best .  ive found to be polite

 

before one hits he Ice Cold  !  M.R..

 

hot and humid here.

[ElsieD]

7 minutes ago, rotuts said:

no worries

 

close enough 

 

it was the jar ( red toped ) next to 

 

some thing called Salsa.

 

Ill just stop right there  

 

jus saying.

 

best .  ive found to be polite

 

before one hits he Ice Cold  !  M.R..

 

hot and humid here.

 

Looks like horseradish.

[Anna N]

23 minutes ago, rotuts said:

no worries

 

close enough 

 

it was the jar ( red toped ) next to 

 

some thing called Salsa.

 

Ill just stop right there  

 

jus saying.

 

best .  ive found to be polite

 

before one hits he Ice Cold  !  M.R..

 

hot and humid here.

  That would be horseradish. Ask away.  My photos were rather poor.