Thread: just wanted to share tonight's dinner with you guys..

Looks good, str8fencer.
I regret I don't know more of our regional mushrooms. I pick Morels every spring but don't know other species well enough to eat with confidence.

Not much known about edible or recreational native mushrooms in this country. Most of them just seem to want to kill you for some reason.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Not much known about edible or recreational native mushrooms in this country. Most of them just seem to want to kill you for some reason.

Mick

Kind of like your snakes? Just wondering my good mate!

Off to bed after 'stirring the waters' so to speak!

Take care!

While eating a pretty boring chili from the work cafeteria tonight. I got a call saying "Bring a crowbar up to the ambulance garage because we have an ambulance ETA of 10 minutes and the doors are stuck shut."

A few seconds with the crowbar and they were open!

Chili didn't taste any different cold when I got back.

Came across a fresh turbot at the market and could not resist. It is something of a rare bird in my parts, and I use the words on purpose. The ancient greeks had access to all kinds of goodies, they basically ate everything, but they held the phesant to be the most delicious meal of them all. The turbot they called "the phesant of the sea". Anyways, here is my take: Turbot sous vide, with oysters, asparagus, aerated hollandaise and thrice baked potatoes.

Originally Posted by str8fencer

Came across a fresh turbot at the market and could not resist. It is something of a rare bird in my parts, and I use the words on purpose. The ancient greeks had access to all kinds of goodies, they basically ate everything, but they held the phesant to be the most delicious meal of them all. The turbot they called "the phesant of the sea". Anyways, here is my take: Turbot sous vide, with oysters, asparagus, aerated hollandaise and thrice baked potatoes.

Here in my mostly land locked state of IL, I have very little access to decent seafood. I envy your posts on fish. I didn't post any pics this week since there was nothing new, steak with bearnaise. It was requested by the wife for her birthday. But I have to say, there IS a big difference between prime and choice. These steaks were outstanding.

While not exactly 'land locked' here in the SE corner of Washington State USA 'fresh' fish is hard to come by and it costs you your first born if you want Halibut!

As far as beef goes, until you've tasted hand raised farm beef that's been carefully fed and finished, you've never actually tasted what is possible. I've tasted commercial 'prime' and it didn't hold a candle to my dad's hand raised steers.

With that said, dad used to say that he wished he could raise beef like his father did as granddad raised two year olds. But he had the farm to provide the hay and grain to feed with during the winter and of course the grass pasture during the spring, summer and fall; which dad didn't. Dad used to say that when they used to have beef steak you had two plates, one for the steak and the other for the potatoes, veggies etc as the steak took up the whole plate!

Damn what I wouldn't give to have dad here to raise just one more beef so my grand kids could know what Real Beef tasted like!

Amen Roy.
Grass fed beef, accept no substitute..

Originally Posted by cudarunner

While not exactly 'land locked' here in the SE corner of Washington State USA 'fresh' fish is hard to come by and it costs you your first born if you want Halibut!

As far as beef goes, until you've tasted hand raised farm beef that's been carefully fed and finished, you've never actually tasted what is possible. I've tasted commercial 'prime' and it didn't hold a candle to my dad's hand raised steers.

With that said, dad used to say that he wished he could raise beef like his father did as granddad raised two year olds. But he had the farm to provide the hay and grain to feed with during the winter and of course the grass pasture during the spring, summer and fall; which dad didn't. Dad used to say that when they used to have beef steak you had two plates, one for the steak and the other for the potatoes, veggies etc as the steak took up the whole plate!

Damn what I wouldn't give to have dad here to raise just one more beef so my grand kids could know what Real Beef tasted like!

I'll have to take your word on that. The best I get is prime at the store. And that is a treat in itself.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Amen Roy.
Grass fed beef, accept no substitute..

I'll take corn fed. The grass fed I've had has been lean and flavorless.