Manitoulin — Life on the level

[Kerry Beal]

48 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

As does mine.  Is it a Frigedaire?

 

Yup!

[JoNorvelleWalker]

My old dishwasher made noise, leaked on the floor, took half as long as the Frigidaire, but it got the dishes clean.

 

[gfweb]

3 hours ago, IowaDee said:

They're creepy and they're kooky, 
Mysterious and spooky, 
They're altogether ooky, 
The Addams Family. 

Their house is a museum 
When people come to see 'em 
They really are a scream 
The Addams Family. 

[snap twice]
(Neat) 
[snap twice]
(Sweet) 
[snap twice]
(Petite
So get a witch's shawl on 
A broomstick you can crawl on 
We're gonna pay a call on 
The Addams Family.

 

And now you too can have an ear worm

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/theaddamsfamilylyrics.html

To this day I hear “a rooster you can crawl on”

never did make sense

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

Sitter dropped the kidlet back to us just after I made it home. Invited her to help us finish off the Brother's Perryman.

 

 

I've forgotten what the dish was called (maybe gyuodon) but it contained the perfect onsen tamago. 

[teonzo]

To get back on topic, the Addams Family had a lot of interesting recipes too. Time for some Addams experiments in Manitoulin!

 

 

 

Teo

 

[Kerry Beal]

7 minutes ago, teonzo said:

To get back on topic, the Addams Family had a lot of interesting recipes too. Time for some Addams experiments in Manitoulin!

 

 

 

Teo

 

I’d have to find dry ice

[Anna N]

Good morning. Another misty morning in Manitoulin. We are in for a cloudy day with some sunshine according to the forecast.

 

 

 

Breakfast was ham on toasted rye with Dijon mustard, a few cherries and of course black coffee.

 

Kerry has gone off to “grand rounds”, a phrase that always amuses me and puts me in mind of the Carry On Doctor series. From  Wikipedia: “A British advocate (Frankie Howerd) of mind over matter lands in a hospital where nobody minds and nothing matters.”

 

After rounds she will see patients in the Little Current Clinic until lunchtime when she will go over to the Manor, a long-term care facility.   In theory it should be a relatively civilized day after yesterday in the emergency room. 

 

 The major task I have set myself today is rather boring. I need more real estate! I am accustomed to my very large coffee table and here I am reduced to a small TV table and a side table. I spend a good part of my day picking things up off the floor because I’ve knocked them off one of these two surfaces. 

[Anna N]

 

While in Buffalo recently , Kerry picked up these chuck eye steaks at Wegmans. This is my very favourite cut of beef.  I have just vacuum sealed each of them and they are happily paddling about in a 56°C sous vide bath for the next 24 hours. There are no plans for them in the immediate future so they will end up in their fridge or freezer for the time being. 

 

Speaking of buffalo… Kira’s new caregiver (and the caregiver’s husband) raise bison and are also currently caring for some orphaned baby skunk.  More on both these topics I hope as we get to know this caregiver.  A little bison burger would not go amiss I think.   Even better, a couple of bison steaks might hit the spot especially after being SV’d.  Must explore that possibility.  

[rotuts]

Chuck-Eye Bison !

 

Yum-Yum 

[Anna N]

For some days before I even arrived in Manitoulin I have been hemming and hawing about two recipe books.

 

 Dorie Greenspan‘s, Everyday Dorie, is a puzzlement.  We, here on eG, are generally huge fans of Dorie but I can find only one recipe from this, her latest book, in the forum—This prepared by @blue_dolphin. Has Dorie lost her appeal? Or is it that Dorie is so well known for her sweets that  we don’t trust her with savouries? But that can’t be true either because many of us cooked from Around My French Table.  All that is just a long way of saying that I succumbed just now and bought her new book.  I am hoping to try a few recipes while we are up here. 

 

The other book is even more of a conundrum for me. It is Christopher Kimball‘s Milk Street Tuesday Nights. I am not a fan of Kimball but Kerry did remind me that when I first started to cook seriously, I devoured every issue of Cooks Illustrated that I could get my hands on. I learned a great deal from some of those magazines.  But like many others I found over the years the  magazines and the recipes became more and more repetitious and Kimball’s business model became more and more annoying.

 

So why am I looking at possibly buying this book? I would have to say because it encompasses recipes that have moved away from the strictly homey American food model. There is nothing wrong with blueberry buckle but I like to see what is  happening with food from other cultures. Finally Kimball seems to have acknowledged that there is the world beyond his fantasy farmland.  So I’m curious.  Anybody?  I have yet to lay out the money but the temptation is not going away.

 

 

[rotuts]

@Anna N

 

I completely agree with you re:  CK @ Test Kitchen

 

the business model was then and still might be an abomination.

 

I also learned a lot from the early days of Test Kitchen , as I find watching chef cook improves my own Technique

 

Jacque Pepin and all done the line.

 

I have a large number of the very early Test Kitchen Books

 

as way way back in time , Google and a pay system w Amazon that brought me these books

 

for ' price to me ' < 40 % cover '    not 40 % off

 

and I enjoyed reading them

 

there was some sort of Big Time Spat w the owners of TestKitchen and CK

 

that has been resolved , and I can't fine the dirt about it 

 

Milk Street has different PBS videos than Test Kitchen :  international , not so much Pork Chops V 37.

 

I get the MS magazine out of the library , and its fairly interesing

 

I have the two books as e-books , and have checked them out of the library

 

Id say you will enjoy the two books , as they have international flavo(u)r

 

sending  money to CK , sell

 

maybe , as you are an e-book person 

 

get those ?

 

the Milk Street magazine is quite nice

 

but dups out the books.

 

F.D.:  Im able to cap all the local PBS cooking shows into my iMac

 

I edit them to make them smaller , and have them all

 

I have HardDrives that are replicating like Rats.

 

P.S.:   I think the MilkStreet business model is a bit different then the older Test Kitchen.

 

it seem to rely more on " The Web " 

 

a subscription gets you everything and the MilkStreet Proper place

 

has ' Cooking School '  and various celebrity chefs invited to do the same there.

 

if you had all the magazines  , and I do not think there are e-zines 

 

there would be no dups on the two books

 

I do not know if all that is in the magazines are in the both books.

 

if it would not drive me crazy , based on History

 

Id really would enjoy a subscription to Milk Street magazine

 

on deep sale.

 

but my library system has it

 

so Im fine with that.

 

Edited July 2, 2019 by rotuts (log)

[blue_dolphin]

33 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Dorie Greenspan‘s, Everyday Dorie, is a puzzlement.  We, here on eG, are generally huge fans of Dorie but I can find only one recipe from this, her latest book, in the forum—This prepared by @blue_dolphin. Has Dorie lost her appeal?

 

I borrowed the ebook of Everyday Dorie from the library back in April but didn't to a ton of cooking from it before I had to return it, mostly because I had a big hand bandage at the time.  In addition to those salmon burgers, which I thought were a good way to use up scrap salmon but not my first recipe choice for a nice piece of fish, I also shared the Lower East Side Tart in this post.  I made the soy sauce-cured egg yolks that were to go on some sticky rice but forgot about them in the fridge so I never ate them.  I saved the recipe for the unfortunately named "Lemon Goop" that she serves over scallops and also recipes for corn chowder and pimento cheese.  

I think it's a very approachable, easy to cook from book but many of the recipes already exist, sometimes in more appealing versions, in other books in my collection. I don't need another recipe for Miso Salmon.  

I might borrow it again for another look but at the time, I decided not to invest.  

 

Edited to add that this statement:

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many of the recipes already exist, sometimes in more appealing versions, in other books in my collection

 hasn't necessarily stopped me from buying other books 🙃

Edited July 2, 2019 by blue_dolphin (log)

[Anna N]

48 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

I think it's a very approachable, easy to cook from book but many of the recipes already exist, sometimes in more appealing versions, in other books in my collection. I don't need another recipe for Miso Salmon.  

I might borrow it again for another look but at the time, I decided not to invest.  

 Thanks for your insight.

 I wonder if people like Dorie Greenspan feel compelled to keep churning out cookbooks to keep their names front and center? Somehow this doesn’t jibe with how I think about Dorie. 

 

 The cover photograph on the book must surely sell many copies.   The first recipe that intrigues me is the carrot and mustard rillettes (even though the title is an abominable misrepresentation  of the classical meaning of rillettes).   And goop surely lost any cachet it might ever have had the minute that Gwyneth Paltrow  began using it. 

 

Yet I’m enough of a Dorie fan to give her  an opportunity to prove she can still turn out some spectacular dishes. I have barely opened the book so it’s going to be a while before I decide to test any recipes. 

 

 

[Anna N]

 

 More grocery shopping.

 

 

 As you can see by the Crisco and the sugars Kerry is planning her usual bonanza of baking while we are here. 

 

 

 I will take responsibility for some of the things on this table but whole wheat  rigatoni?  There’s just no accounting for taste.😯

 

 

 Not sure about all the tortilla chips but I might be a responsible having mentioned that it would be fun to make some loaded nachos at some point.

 

 I hear that Kira is in love with the bison. I do hope she doesn’t name them or they’ll be no hope of bison steaks.

Now it is time for me to turn my attention to tonight’s dinner although I would much prefer to just sit here and read Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook. 

 

Edited July 2, 2019 by Anna N
To change the word all for the word or which makes much more sense (log)

[gfweb]

55 minutes ago, Anna N said:

 

 I wonder if people like Dorie Greenspan feel compelled to keep churning out cookbooks to keep their names front and center? Somehow this doesn’t jibe with how I think about Dorie. 

 

 

 

Might just be done for the money.

[suzilightning]

@Anna N

1.  WHY do you feel you need to own the books?  I borrowed both of the books you mentioned from the library.  Copied out maybe 2-6 recipes.  I  am a librarian of almost 40 years and unless I want to copy out 1/3 -1/2 of the recipes I do not buy the book.  Just my rule.  

2.  Bison!!!! YES, please.  We almost never buy ground meat any more UNLESS I know where it is from and how it is raised.  We DO buy bison however as one of John's triggers for iBS is fat and bison is so much lower.  You do have to be vigilant in cooking it and compensate for the lower fat content in different way.  

 

can't wait to see what you do with it!

[Anna N]

28 minutes ago, gfweb said:

 

Might just be done for the money.

You are probably right and I am guilty of seeing Dorie through rose coloured glasses.  But I am going to keep my illusions rather than surrender to the dark side. 

[Anna N]

3 minutes ago, suzilightning said:

@Anna N

1.  WHY do you feel you need to own the books?  I borrowed both of the books you mentioned from the library.  Copied out maybe 2-6 recipes.  I  am a librarian of almost 40 years and unless I want to copy out 1/3 -1/2 of the recipes I do not buy the book.  Just my rule.  

2.  Bison!!!! YES, please.  We almost never buy ground meat any more UNLESS I know where it is from and how it is raised.  We DO buy bison however as one of John's triggers for iBS is fat and bison is so much lower.  You do have to be vigilant in cooking it and compensate for the lower fat content in different way.  

 

can't wait to see what you do with it!

 It is not a matter of wanting to own the books for the sake of owning them but my ability to access the library is very limited. Even more so up here in Manitoulin where they have probably never even heard of Dorie Greenspan.  Most of my life I was a library patron but physical handicaps limit my ability to do some of the things that I used to do.  But I do thank you for the suggestion.   E-books are my friends. 

 

Well you are much more optimistic than I am regarding the bison. I don’t know yet if they’ve slaughtered any of them.  No idea if the meat is available to us. But I am as anxious as you are to find out.

[pastrygirl]

 

2 hours ago, Anna N said:

 Thanks for your insight.

 I wonder if people like Dorie Greenspan feel compelled to keep churning out cookbooks to keep their names front and center? Somehow this doesn’t jibe with how I think about Dorie.

 

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

 

Might just be done for the money

 

Maybe authors have multi-book deals with publishers the way recording artists have contracts to release x number of albums with x years?  Or 'publish or perish' is not just for academia. 

 

Edited July 2, 2019 by pastrygirl (log)

[Anna N]

2 minutes ago, pastrygirl said:

 

 

 

Maybe authors have multi-book deals with publishers the way recording artists have contracts to release x number of albums with x years?

 

 I know that some certainly do.  

[Darienne]

1 hour ago, Anna N said:

 It is not a matter of wanting to own the books for the sake of owning them but my ability to access the library is very limited. Even more so up here in Manitoulin where they have probably never even heard of Dorie Greenspan.  Most of my life I was a library patron but physical handicaps limit my ability to do some of the things that I used to do.  But I do thank you for the suggestion.   E-books are my friends. 

Our local and very small regional library has some kind of delivery service for folks who find it hard to get out.  Perhaps your local library at home has a similar service.

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, pastrygirl said:

 

 

 

Maybe authors have multi-book deals with publishers the way recording artists have contracts to release x number of albums with x years?  Or 'publish or perish' is not just for academia. 

 

 

 

I've read that Ina Garten does her TV stuff just to feed her book sales.  Which is fine with me.  And I don't begrudge Dorie her book income. We all have expenses.

[rotuts]

this is really about the LunchLadies 

 

having a bit of Vacation

 

but PBS, USA used to be a Public funded affair 

 

it might still be

 

of sortsw

 

but after Julia Child stopped filming in balk and White

 

the cooking shows became ' sponsored '

 

a very long time ago 

 

when I have cable briefly

 

Molto Mario , etc

 

I was able to cap them and then archive the,

 

FoodnetWork

 

for MortoMario

 

has more minutes / 30  than PBS back them

 

lets say 2003

 

now

 

the PBS cooking shows I cap

 

have more sponsors and less time Dans Le Wok

 

show feed the books

 

and sometimes not such a new book either

 

and then they travel to Events

 

I dont mind

 

my library system as all the bookd

 

and buys all the DVD's

[Kerry Beal]

 

Little Italy

 

 

Pork with peppers and vinegar.

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Rug rat had a good day with her new caregiver. 

 

 

Not a huge fan of the baby skunks.

 

 

Not the slightest bit afraid of the bison. They should fear her! Made a good friend with the dog.