What did everyone cook today?
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calldoctoday tell me about these home fries, I’m intrigued.
Tex_77 Tex,
It’s pretty simple. Peel some russet potatoes. Cut them lengthwise apx. 1/2" wide. Soak them in ice cold water (cold water with ice cubes) for a little while. The water will turn cloudy. That is all the starch & you want to get that out of there to make em crispy. Rinse & soak in some more ice cold water. If the water is now clear, you are good. If the water is still a little cloudy, rinse em again in ice cold water (icy cold is the trick). Dry them either with sack clothes or naturally. Deep fry them up in a cast iron pot (Dutch oven) of fresh peanut oil until they are golden brown. Salt with sea salt over an expanded metal or screen drain. Watch em go, but don’t blink or you will not get to see them.
Oh, what you don’t fry you can freeze up in freezer bags. Just try to get all the air out as much as you can. Then you are ready for another batch without all the work. Cost to make a whole lot of them using 10 pounds of potatoes is $1.98 when the potatoes are on sale. They just seem to taste better! -
Smoked Chicken wings & quarters coming down today with a big pot of butter beans (Jackson wonders, the big ones) dried from last year’s garden. No such for this year as I was not too smart & decided to let the garden go fallow before the corona business hit. Oh, Persimmon bread for desert from some of last year’s persimmons pureed. For some odd reason we got no persimmons this winter, weird.
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I spoiled myself with a braised ‘airline’ cut chicken breast (boneless skin-on breast with attached wing drumette) and served over a bed of fresh pasta from Passatempo Taverna, Lions Mane Mushrooms, Cauliflower and Castoldi Farms Asparagus.
Joe Hell Now Joe, that looks GOOD! Everyone liked the looks of that chicken. If it tastes half as good as it looks, it is good!
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Catfish and cowtown coleslaw
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks
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Tex_77 You All are driving me wild tonight! Shoulda had some of those home fries & corn dodgers to go with them fish, though! It looks real good.
I don’t know if I can wait for them smoked wings & quarters though now looking at all this! -
I spoiled myself with a braised ‘airline’ cut chicken breast (boneless skin-on breast with attached wing drumette) and served over a bed of fresh pasta from Passatempo Taverna, Lions Mane Mushrooms, Cauliflower and Castoldi Farms Asparagus.
Joe Hell Looks and sounds pretty tasty and it even has mushrooms in it.
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Tex_77 You All are driving me wild tonight! Shoulda had some of those home fries & corn dodgers to go with them fish, though! It looks real good.
I don’t know if I can wait for them smoked wings & quarters though now looking at all this!calldoctoday i was going to fry some taters but got lazy because I was tired from working outside all day.
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Tex_77 Are those the product of your fishing outing? You can’t find good fresh catfish this far north. Looks like you need a glass of cold tea. Looking forward to my next trip to the South, until then your picture will have to suffice.
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YooperDog The mushrooms were fantastic! I’ve had dried lions mane but never fresh. A local grower will bring a selection of oyster mushrooms and now the lions mane to the meat shop and we trade goods. It works out well for both parties!
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Tex_77 Are those the product of your fishing outing? You can’t find good fresh catfish this far north. Looks like you need a glass of cold tea. Looking forward to my next trip to the South, until then your picture will have to suffice.
YooperDog These were from last year. I did wash it down with some sweet tea! Starting to get hot enough to start making sun tea.
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YooperDog The mushrooms were fantastic! I’ve had dried lions mane but never fresh. A local grower will bring a selection of oyster mushrooms and now the lions mane to the meat shop and we trade goods. It works out well for both parties!
Joe Hell I like bartering. We have a couple of local farmers up here that grow several varieties of mushrooms. Weather is finally changing up here, morel’s should be popping up soon.
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Joe Hell I like bartering. We have a couple of local farmers up here that grow several varieties of mushrooms. Weather is finally changing up here, morel’s should be popping up soon.
YooperDog Morels are coming off here but I haven’t had a chance to make a trip. It’s pretty competitive for picking around here and I suspect with many folks having extra spare time that it is pretty well picked over in accessible areas. Next week at the shop we start distributing produce for a local farm and we get the spoils. The only thing I need to go to the store for these days is TP…too bad that’s still impossible to find. Lol
Better Living Through BBQ!
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YooperDog These were from last year. I did wash it down with some sweet tea! Starting to get hot enough to start making sun tea.
Tex_77 It is supposed to start warming up here this week, not warm enough for sun tea though, but warm enough to hatch some bugs.
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YooperDog Morels are coming off here but I haven’t had a chance to make a trip. It’s pretty competitive for picking around here and I suspect with many folks having extra spare time that it is pretty well picked over in accessible areas. Next week at the shop we start distributing produce for a local farm and we get the spoils. The only thing I need to go to the store for these days is TP…too bad that’s still impossible to find. Lol
Joe Hell Where’s that old Sears and Roebucks catalog when you need it. LOL Shelves here are filling up slowly, might not have your favorite brand. Some cleaning supplies are scarce. Meat choices are shrinking but available. I drive now to my ‘local’ butcher 100+ miles away with more selections since he had a kill floor. Also, we have a small selection of farmers that market right from the farm.
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YooperDog Morels are coming off here but I haven’t had a chance to make a trip. It’s pretty competitive for picking around here and I suspect with many folks having extra spare time that it is pretty well picked over in accessible areas. Next week at the shop we start distributing produce for a local farm and we get the spoils. The only thing I need to go to the store for these days is TP…too bad that’s still impossible to find. Lol
Joe Hell Need to come to the West side for the T/P. We’ve got paper but Smart Food Service has little to no meat, but Safeway does at a premium. Glad I stocked up the freezer when they had the sale.
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Joe Hell Need to come to the West side for the T/P. We’ve got paper but Smart Food Service has little to no meat, but Safeway does at a premium. Glad I stocked up the freezer when they had the sale.
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I need to go on a Catfishing expedition & use up some of this cat bait in the freezer. Young man I sold my Jeep to puts fish traps out into the pond out in the woods & uses those small bream to catch huge cats down by the dam. I like em more pan size though. Need to put all my jug inventions & lines to work & catch up a mess. A mess of Crappie would be even better though. When my Dad was alive & I would fry them up, he would stand there & snack. They were like candy & could not even hardly get them to the table. Those were the days!
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