Mikes looked good, so I had to make my chicken potpie, with celery seed crust.
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The perfect thing for these cooler temps.
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Mikes looked good, so I had to make my chicken potpie, with celery seed crust.
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The perfect thing for these cooler temps.
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Quick and easy and tasty....
Canadian Thanksgiving weekend so on with the grub!
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Dessert was pumpkin pie and French macarons.
Cheers gents.
I love Thanksgiving but didn't the price of Turkeys shoot up this year.
We have Apple pie, I didn't try Pumpkin pie till I came to Canada. Nasty, tastes like soap to me so you can have my piece Mike.
I’ll give you the texture of pumpkin pie is not like a fruit pie, but don’t get the soap flavour. Pumpkin is an acquired taste. I don’t like any squash dishes typically but having grown up on it, I do like the pie, warm with whip cream.
Turkey prices, definitely up this year. Ours was a smaller bird as it was just three of us at the table this year
Lots to give thanks for, despite crazy times we are still in..
Holidays ain't the same...without punkin pie.
And the fun to be had with punkin chunkin
A new local pizza joint that actually makes a very European style thin crust was tonight’s menu.
Triple meat for me,
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And a mushroom onion potato pie with ricotta cheese for the missez.
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Washed down with brio, and a scoop of cherry gelato fir dessert!
So very tasty crisp and still chewy, not heavy and doughy at all.
Cheers and happy Friday men.
Making this up tonight. Dinner in a box, and so tasty once the sausage is browned up and tossed in.
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Cedar key clams in red sauce over linguine with green bean almondine and bruschetta appetizer....and of course a glass of burgundy.
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Man, that was good!
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Bacon wrapped, beef medallions. Seasoned with McCormick, Worcestershire pub burger.
Skewered and put on the barbie for a Med/Med Rare.
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Plated with baked potato, w/butter and garlic salt. Broccoli w/ramp butter.
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Do they fry in motor oil?
I wondered that myself.
Christmas dinner in the A Christmas Story tradition.
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Chinese turkey, aka Hong Kong style barbecued whole duck. Wonton soup on the side.
Courtesy of Yummy House, a traditional style Chinese restaurant.
Xmas dinner was roast goose and dressing baked separately, not in the bird. Gravy of course. Crawfish chowder, homemade coconut milk bread, salad with greens picked right before the freeze, green beans sauteed with onions, sesame oil, baby portobellos, broccoli with cheese sauce, proseco, and chardonnay, tawny port and bakery cake brought by SIL for desert. It was a full day of prep and cook, today a full day of cleanup.
This time I removed the wishbone before cooking and that made carving much easier. I scored. herbed and roasted following Gordon Ramsay's recipe. Sorry, no pics but when you have seen one roast goose you have seen them all. I was going to sous vide but wiser heads told me that was a recipe for disaster, with goose or farm raised duck and I am glad I stuck with the normal method.
For a guy raised in the south of the US what else would it be on New Year's Day?
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Black eyed peas and hog jowl bacon.
Shepherd's pie made.with ground goat.
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Saturdays are feed the wife nights, some toasted bread with garlic rosemary shrooms, and a cheese fondue with toasted bread broccoli and some meat.
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Beef Stew and fresh Baked Parm/ Kalamata olive Sourdough
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A rare treat here in New Orleans, fresh caught rainbow trout, smothered under crawfish and ro-tels served on a bed of grits, with okra from last year's garden. I never knew about this, but LDFW stocks several lakes across South Louisiana every winter, when the water gets cold enough for the trout. They don't survive the summer, of course, so they stock with adult fish rather than smaller fry. I didn't know you are supposed to use corn on a hook to catch these fish, but apparently they don't know that anything else is good to eat until they have lived free and wild for a couple of weeks. They will apparently attack a rooster tail but corn is king. Once I got tipped off and given some corn by someone leaving, it was fish on, almost immediately. We catch trout all the time, but speckled trout, a different fish, found in salt or brackish water. Rainbows are something we only see in the grocery. So me and the wife really enjoyed our trout dinner, and we will be ready with corn on hook, next year. Actually I figure on going back to the park and getting my limit Monday morning, and picking in a few hatchery channel cats won't be a bad thing. They taste better than wild ones.
So, went fishing in Joe Brown Park again this morning, didn't catch ANY trout this time, but got a couple of nice hatchery channel cats. Those hatchery cats are so friggin good! Yeah I like wild catfish but these guys are incredible. I didn't do nothing fancy, just cut up the filets in handy size portions, dusted with Slap Ya Mama, battered, and deep fried them. Wife did a cole slaw the other day and so we had it, and I opened up a can of porky beans, Campbells this time, instead of my usual favorite brand, Showboat. Beverage was a homebrewed imperial oat stout aged over a year, and it was delightful, too. Wife presented me with a perfect Old Fashioned, for after dinner cocktail.
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Did you finish it off with a good cigar?Quote:
Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors
Actually, no. It didn't seem a good fit and I didn't feel the urge. I like a stogie after a more hearty meal, usually, though I do make exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johntoad57
I will say that to me, a cigar and an Old Fashioned go together pretty well. This might sound strange to many, but I never really liked drinking straight whiskey with a cigar. The alcohol fumes somehow clash with the smoke. Certain cocktails work, for me, and a nice glass of Tawny Port is great, alongside a cigar. So yeah on the strength of the after dinner cocktail, I could have enjoyed a smoke, I suppose.
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Here's the first dozen. I had to wait for the Mrs to shuck the second dozen. Oysters Rockefeller, first time I have made this. Came out pretty darn good. Wine was $2.49 at Walmart and actually was not awful at all. This time, I DID have a cigar, one of my home rolled Imperfectos.
Outstanding!
Double Venison burger from the Kings Estate.
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Cooked medium rare.
That’s a deer looking burger Mark!
Cheers..
.....:D :beer2:
Easter tradition for a friend is cold Easter pizza. So she shared a slab graciously.
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Massive taste, all spicy capicola, cheese and crust around the edge.
Served cold the mouth feel, buttery and flaky.
Never had anything like it, but enjoyed it quite a bit and will be sniffing for the recipe.
Cheers men..
Felt the need to make something a little lighter tonight after all the good eats over the weekend.
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My attempt at beef stir fry over chow mein noodles.
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One pan dinner, in three stages, with a sauce made from equal parts bbq sauce, maple syrop, and half that of soya sauce.
and I wasn’t hungry an hr later,,, wife said I did a pretty good job.
:tu
It's CHEESEBURGER SATURDAY!
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Homemade coconut/turbinado bread with sesame seeds, 21 oz patties <EDIT I meant 12oz not 21oz> of home ground chuck, home grown romaine lettuce, home grown Boxcar Willie tomatoes, home grown 1015 onion, home grown jalapenos, home brewed grapefruit imperial stout aged two years in bottle. Didn't make the cheese, though.
I have to say, not a bad meal. Both burgers for me. Wife is on diet, eating kale, chia seeds, watercress, an an occasional lettuce leaf. She has lost 133 lbs as of today. When I can afford to lose 133 lbs maybe I will go on a diet, too.
^^^^^^^^ Were those Burgers cooked in a cast iron skillet...I hope so !
Where's the beef.!!
Where else? Other than outside on a pecan wood fire, that is. My burger and steak skillet is a 15" Lodge, nicely seasoned. I have a glass lid for it, and I made a 12" round steel panini/bacon smasher downer for it that almost perfectly fills the bottom. It really helps to get a fine sear, and speeds up cooking. The one I made is 1/8" steel but I have a piece of 1/4" that is going to be smasher mk II.Quote:
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Big bread!Quote:
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They look like Krabby Patties...
That's a good thing by the way.
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Dieting wife wanted me to cook something with the ground chicken she bought. All stuff from garden... 1015 onion and tops, new potatoes, jalapeño, red quadrati di asti bell pepper, celery, and herbs.
I did sneak in a tiny bit of sausage. Don't tell on me.
Day before yesterday. Alligator pasta, covered with ground chicken in red gravy. No, the pasta is not made from alligator. The pasta is shaped like tiny little alligators.
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I had no food in the house. Didn’t do any shopping. I scrounged around and came up with a handful of cherry tomatoes, some aged Gouda cheese, and eggs. So I seared the tomatoes with a pinch of red pepper flakes until blistered, added a pinch of sugar, and let the tomatoes break down into a sauce. I put in a good pinch of Spanish smoked paprika and immediately took it off the heat. I made the omelette and added some grated Gouda just before I folded it. The whole plate was delicious. Not bad.
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