What's cookin', good lookin'? Part II

[IrisAlthea]

I actually mix them with lime Perrier and Key West lemon juice. I used to drink Russian vodka. Now I'm having to tolerate NATO vodka.

Produced in Latvia and have broken ties to russian subcontractors.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/07/1085053999/stolichnaya-vodka-stoli-ukraine-russia?t=1650861197304

 

[seela]

I didn’t have dinner yesterday due to opera and poor planning on my part. I was starving by brunch time today and yes, definitely overdid it. I had the sense of ditching one of the sausages off my plate before digging in, but it was still tons of food.

But overdoing it is kind of another May Day tradition. Usually the brunch takes place in a park but I decided to just stay in this year and not freeze my butt off.

Leftovers galore!

 

[seela]

Pike, poached leek, fennel salad, dill oil.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Grilled halloumi, grilled portabello mushrooms, grilled aubergines, salad made with grilked zucchini, grilled tomato, tzatziki, sauce made with yoghurt and ajvar and porkchops.
Feeding a little hord of teenagers.

 

[Orchidea73]

I’m going to prepare some rise salad.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Oven pancake with pacetta and lingonberry jam here today. View attachment 2149339View attachment 2149340

 

[twister947]

I may never eat at Subway again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/the-irresistible-sandwiches-of-allantico-vinaio

 

[Orchidea73]

I had pork ribs, roasted potatoes and a beer.

 

[conservative1]

Hamburger steaks with onion gravy, skillet potatoes & fried green tomatoes.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I may never eat at Subway again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/the-irresistible-sandwiches-of-allantico-vinaio

That article is pure porn!

I ordered La Paradiso, tripling down on my favorite nut: thin coins of pistachio were spangled, like leopard spots, throughout floppy folds of mortadella that had been layered with an oily, pesto-like “pistachio cream” and stretchy stracciatella (made from mozzarella curds mixed with cream) dusted in crushed pistachio, stacked between enormous rectangles of freshly baked schiacciata, a focaccia-adjacent Tuscan bread.

I love most anything with nuts and mortadella is summer in a cold cut to me.
I want to go to Florence now! Like NOW!

 

[Wonderer67]

Made salmon with asparagus spears that came right out of the garden. Damn good.

 

[seela]

Made salmon with asparagus spears that came right out of the garden. Damn good.

This sounds excellent! I’m really looking forward to finally getting domestic asparagus. Soon!

 

[gracie920101]

Last night, beef stew with sour cream biscuits. Leftover biscuits for breakfast today. No gravy. That was last Sunday.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Breakfast was way to early and quick but lunch was great.
Liver paté, mushrooms, radishes, Saint Julien walnut cheese, watermelon and bread.

 

[Mrtenant]

Lettuce wraps with sauteed shredded ginger pork loin with fresh serrano slices

 

[IrisAlthea]

Locally grown aspagus (aspagi?)!View attachment 2150713

 

[seela]

Locally grown aspagus (aspagi?)!View attachment 2150713

Locally grown is so much better than imported, the difference is significant.

It’s so expensive here because it’s not a common vegetable to be cultivated here for climate etc reasons, but definitely worth the money. It’s a little sad, though, that after I started buying local, I no longer really want to buy imported, so the past few years I’ve had a lot less asparagus than before.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Locally grown is so much better than imported, the difference is significant.

It’s so expensive here because it’s not a common vegetable to be cultivated here for climate etc reasons, but definitely worth the money. It’s a little sad, though, that after I started buying local, I no longer really want to buy imported, so the past few years I’ve had a lot less asparagus than before.

It’s fairly recent that it is grown commercially here. It has developed over the last years.
You’ll find corn, hops and wine too in the fields.
Don’t know if it is climate, grants, changing food culture. Probably some combination.

 

[seela]

It’s fairly recent that it is grown commercially here. It has developed over the last years.
You’ll find corn, hops and wine too in the fields.
Don’t know if it is climate, grants, changing food culture. Probably some combination.

Same here. Corn and asparagus are newcomers here and are expensive but you can find it in stores sometimes. Not that often, though, because the production volumes are tiny.

I haven’t seen wine here, but hops, sure. Actually it’s still legally mandated here that every house grows a certain number of hops. The act is from 1743 and has cool parts about when you can let your pigs loose in an oak woods etc. Still in force for historical reasons. See here in Swedish, chapter 7. That Swedish is wild though!

 

[IrisAlthea]

Same here. Corn and asparagus are newcomers here and are expensive but you can find it in stores sometimes. Not that often, though, because the production volumes are tiny.

I haven’t seen wine here, but hops, sure. Actually it’s still legally mandated here that every house grows a certain number of hops. The act is from 1743 and has cool parts about when you can let your pigs loose in an oak woods etc. Still in force for historical reasons. See here in Swedish, chapter 7. That Swedish is wild though!

Wild and poetic! Now I wish I had studied Finnish law.
Do you think I can come work as a länsman and uphold these laws and collect the fines?

I’m a bit worried about this though:

Til vallgång skola qvinfolk brukas, ther thet ske kan, och ej gossar, vid tijo dalers bot.

Will they make me heard because I am a woman? I feel like my hearding quota is filled already.

 

[seela]

Wild and poetic! Now I wish I had studied Finnish law.
Do you think I can come work as a länsman and uphold these laws and collect the fines?

I’m a bit worried about this though:


Will they make me heard because I am a woman? I feel like my hearding quota is filled already.

Don’t worry, we can do the mandatory womanly cattle herding together. We’ll make a picnic out of it, it’ll be fun. We can bring asparagus!

This is one of my favorite passages from the act, it’s so poetic: Tå kiäle ur jorden är, skola svin ringade vara, at the ej måge rota up gräsmarken, och vare Brofogde skyldig, at hafva noga acht ther å.

But remember, this is your legislation as well, we were the same country then. Maybe it’s still in force there as well for some historical quirky reasons? Maybe you can collect the fines there as a side job.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Don’t worry, we can do the mandatory womanly cattle herding together. We’ll make a picnic out of it, it’ll be fun. We can bring asparagus!

Well, when you put it like that I’m all for it.

But remember, this is your legislation as well, we were the same country then. Maybe it’s still in force there as well for some historical quirky reasons? Maybe you can collect the fines there as a side job.

Yup, the minute I posted, I thought ”Oh, wait, what?!”
Some of it is still in force here too.
Wiki tells me that this is part of the course Rättshistoria, but if so I’ve forgotten it.

 

[gracie920101]

It’s fairly recent that it is grown commercially here. It has developed over the last years.
You’ll find corn, hops and wine too in the fields.
Don’t know if it is climate, grants, changing food culture. Probably some combination.

If you have wine in the fields, I want to move there as in:

Ahhh! I love stepping out in the morning and picking some fresh sun-warmed wine right from the field.

So grapes, maybe? Or have I missed something in my foodie education from you guys?

 

[IrisAlthea]

If you have wine in the fields, I want to move there as in:

Ahhh! I love stepping out in the morning and picking some fresh sun-warmed wine right from the field.

So grapes, maybe? Or have I missed something in my foodie education from you guys?

Haha, that should perhaps be vines. And yes, grapes but the end product is wine.

This got way to complicated. Sadly no full wine bottles ready to pick.

 

[MeekMe]

I’m counting calories and discovering I have a pretty good diet on the regular. It seems I should stick to mostly Japanese and Korean food because every time I make western style food it fucks up my calorie budget.

Tonight was hot pot with chicken meatballs, Shirataki, cabbage, carrot, mushroom and onion. I got to have a full cup of rice instead of my usual 1/2.