What's cookin', good lookin'?

[DiskoTroop]

Home made gingerale is good too. I get these big loads of ginger ever couple of months and turn a lot of it into a simple syrup for later use. Oddly enough the house across the street is for sale.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Home made gingerale is good too. I get these big loads of ginger ever couple of months and turn a lot of it into a simple syrup for later use. Oddly enough the house across the street is for sale.

Oddly enough my favourite soda is ginger ale. Send me the address

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Ginger simple syrup would be good for cooking beets, too. I love them with ginger...

 

[DiskoTroop]

Oddly enough my favourite soda is ginger ale. Send me the address

It is fairly rural hence the PO box....

 

[Kalamain]

Today appear to be 'Kitchen Day' as I have been roped into making these...
Yeah... I did the beetroot... Its hard to find where the beetroot stains start and the blood ends!

At least I get to find a use for that mandolin I bought about 5 years ago and never used!

 

[DiskoTroop]

every kitchen should have a microplane and a mandolin!

 

[Endless_Night]

Ginger tea is also the bomb! Two or three coins of ginger per mug, boil the water then steep for twenty minutes. Honey to taste, no other sweetener does it justice... I wish I was your neighbor right about now

That sounds...really awesome. I see myself trying that this weekend.

Thanks. I will check it out. For reasons a little hard to explain I also have like 10 pounds of ginger root so and I am a kitchen dork so it will give something to do this cold and overcast day.

I can't speak for anyone else, but my curiosity is piqued.

< Yeah... I did the beetroot... Its hard to find where the beetroot stains start and the blood ends! >

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

That sounds...really awesome. I see myself trying that this weekend.

I think you will like

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Today appear to be 'Kitchen Day' as I have been roped into making these...
Yeah... I did the beetroot... Its hard to find where the beetroot stains start and the blood ends!

At least I get to find a use for that mandolin I bought about 5 years ago and never used!

You mean you make that scalloped root veggie casserole you posted without using your mandolin? Why? Unless yours isn't adjustable?

 

[Kalamain]

You mean you make that scalloped root veggie casserole you posted without using your mandolin? Why? Unless yours isn't adjustable?

I mainly just use a VERY sharp heavy bladed knife. *shrug*

 

[DiskoTroop]

The ginger root is explained the ridiculously spoiled nature of consumers. I have access to all of the foods that restaurants and grocery chain etc refuse because they might have a blemish or an approaching sell by date that has to assume you keep your milk in your car in august. It is absurd what is thrown into dumpsters and compactors. There is absolutely no need for hunger or food insecurity. I divert as much as I can to those who can use it and I almost never go to a grocery store. Rabid consumerism and market capitalism is all well and good but it is ridiculously wasteful in terms of environmental and social consciousness. Oops sorry for the rant. I have a perfectly good case of artichokes as well and some green beans and a couple of pounds of both red and green grapes.

 

[Kalamain]

I used to work on a wholesale fruit and veg store and I can vouch for what Diskotroop said.
Its scary what some people call 'bad'.

I would regularly bring home fruit and veg from the stall that was perfectly fine to eat but couldn't be sold because it 'looked' less than perfect. People nowadays just don't understand and I bet if any of them actually grew their own food they would end up starving!

It annoys me no end what people will refuse to eat for no good reason.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

The ginger root is explained the ridiculously spoiled nature of consumers. I have access to all of the foods that restaurants and grocery chain etc refuse because they might have a blemish or an approaching sell by date that has to assume you keep your milk in your car in august. It is absurd what is thrown into dumpsters and compactors. There is absolutely no need for hunger or food insecurity. I divert as much as I can to those who can use it and I almost never go to a grocery store. Rabid consumerism and market capitalism is all well and good but it is ridiculously wasteful in terms of environmental and social consciousness. Oops sorry for the rant. I have a perfectly good case of artichokes as well and some green beans and a couple of pounds of both red and green grapes.

Amen, brother! My friend works at a grocery store. If anything is taken out of refrigeration by a consumer and then not purchased, it must be thrown away. Not donated, not salvaged... destroyed. So if I walk in there and pick up two gallons of milk, walk directly to the cashier, then say... Oops, no money... they go directly into the trash So stupid!

 

[DiskoTroop]

and don't even get me started on the elitism and silliness that accompanies the pseudo "organic" 'natural" "pastured" or whatever marketing fad is currently popular. My local hipster store sells 25 dollar chickens and "organic" salmon that has been flown half way around the world while the volvo driving Stepford villagers act as if they are all green and clean. It is comical at best.

 

[Kalamain]

and don't even get me started on the elitism and silliness that accompanies the pseudo "organic" 'natural" "pastured" or whatever marketing fad is currently popular. My local hipster store sells 25 dollar chickens and "organic" salmon that has been flown half way around the world while the volvo driving Stepford villagers act as if they are all green and clean. It is comical at best.

Over here in the UK some of that 'organic' tag is redundant. The way that pesticides are regulated and the way animals are raised has been heavily legislated now.

And there are a lot of local growers around my area that simply grow that way anyway.

EDIT...

And nowadays I have become to jaded about the 'organic' tag that I think it just means "10% added to price"

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

and don't even get me started on the elitism and silliness that accompanies the pseudo "organic" 'natural" "pastured" or whatever marketing fad is currently popular. My local hipster store sells 25 dollar chickens and "organic" salmon that has been flown half way around the world while the volvo driving Stepford villagers act as if they are all green and clean. It is comical at best.

Ignorance is bliss!!

 

[IrisAlthea]

Carnitas with wheat tortillas, pico de gallo and a black bean salsa.

 

[Rhino7]

Beef ribs in the pressure cooker as I post. Hungry Hungry Hungry

 

[Kalamain]

Carnitas with wheat tortillas, pico de gallo and a black bean salsa.

Holy crap... I made Carnitas a couple months or so ago... That shit is GOOOOD!

I can still remember the taste.
*drools*

I may have to do that again soon!

Tomorrow I am doing a bacon joint in the slow cooker with a honey (and other things) marinade.

Serving with roasted veggies and boiled (minted) potatoes.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Holy crap... I made Carnitas a couple months or so ago... That shit is GOOOOD!

I can still remember the taste.
*drools*

I may have to do that again soon!

Tomorrow I am doing a bacon joint in the slow cooker with a honey (and other things) marinade.

Serving with roasted veggies and boiled (minted) potatoes.

Yes, carnitas are serious good eats...
I don't know that I have ever heard of a bacon joint. It might be a cut we don't have (I discovered all sorts of butchering methods in Spain resulting in cuts of meat not available in the US, wondering is this is the same?), or maybe we just call it something else. Can you describe it? I'm guessing it's pork

 

[Kalamain]

Yes, carnitas are serious good eats...
I don't know that I have ever heard of a bacon joint. It might be a cut we don't have (I discovered all sorts of butchering methods in Spain resulting in cuts of meat not available in the US, wondering is this is the same?), or maybe we just call it something else. Can you describe it? I'm guessing it's pork

Basically its an unsmoked, de-boned and rolled pork shoulder joint.

http://www.kilnford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gammon-joint-280x280.jpg

Mine has had its extra fat removed (There is only a small amount of fat on it)
I'll make up a very basic marinade for it and slow cook it for 8 hours.

My butcher doesn't salt them so I don't need to soak them to get the extra salts out.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Basically its an unsmoked, de-boned and rolled pork shoulder joint.

http://www.kilnford.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gammon-joint-280x280.jpg

Mine has had its extra fat removed (There is only a small amount of fat on it)
I'll make up a very basic marinade for it and slow cook it for 8 hours.

My butcher doesn't salt them so I don't need to soak them to get the extra salts out.

Ok, bone in and not rolled, we would call that a pork butt. I don't know I have seen them for sale prepared that way... I'm sure I could get my butcher to do it if I wanted. Pigs are magically delicious! Enjoy!
Did you take a snap of the finished product?

 

[Kalamain]

Ok, bone in and not rolled, we would call that a pork butt. I don't know I have seen them for sale prepared that way... I'm sure I could get my butcher to do it if I wanted. Pigs are magically delicious! Enjoy!
Did you take a snap of the finished product?

Its still cooking...
http://img153.imagevenue.com/loc369/th_852884910_20141124_181348_123_369lo.jpg

I'm dishing up in about 20 mins.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Its still cooking...
http://img153.imagevenue.com/loc369/th_852884910_20141124_181348_123_369lo.jpg

I'm dishing up in about 20 mins.

A thing of beauty!!

 

[respeito]

the carnitas i made on 11-2-2014.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/nsidemymind/65d18345-a600-467e-ae8c-bf741a044181_zpsebd7cc98.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/nsidemymind/ba923f7a-1eea-4f4f-b509-660fc0b86fe2_zpsb3a56760.jpg