Cooking fun foods

Hines · April 6, 2024, 11:02am

I’m quite hesitant to suggest that your library is actually in need of this cookbook by Stefan Gates, published by the BBC. I got a copy for Herself and she has yet to use a recipe. But it is an interesting read.

And hey, it’s only $8.99 at Amazon in the USA and you didn’t spend all your Mik allowance, did you?

There are some quite usable recipes in the book, before it starts to delve into ancient and unusual recipes and then goes completely off piste.

I did specifically look to see if balut and walrus recipes were included in the book. No such luck; however, I did find some regional recipes that may be of interest…

Australian carpetbagger steak.
whole roasted pineapple (with rum and coriander)
frog legs
rhinoceros soup (surprisingly made from the rhinoceros hornbill, a small Indian bird often seen plucking ticks off of rhinos)
Elvis Presley’s famous peanut butter and banana sandwich
truffled turkey terducken

The famous English chef Heston Blumenthal described the book as “Brilliant. Deranged, but brilliant.”

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Devon_Sinsley · April 6, 2024, 1:36pm

Might have to pick up a copy

Rooster · April 13, 2024, 11:40pm

Nothing special just pics I had on my phone that I took the past couple of weeks. If I decide to make dinner for my (6’4 275lb 24yr old) baby boy I will take a pic and send it to him while he is at work. Then proceed to ask him when he is moving out? ( Dumb… I know right he ain’t leaving if he’s coming home to a hot meal>)
While he was at college I would bulk cook and then freeze fro easy meal through the week. Not so much anymore. I was just at Tractor Supply looking at feeding bags and I found a nice leather one that might fit? However if it doesn’t then I (ME) have to clean up what hits the floor !

Hines · April 14, 2024, 1:46am

Best dad ever!

Nothing say fine dining, like snags off the barbie! Especially when you have a chance to give the wine a chance to breathe.

Devon_Sinsley · May 16, 2024, 9:32pm

So was thinking of and missing my poor southern friend Dan H and decided to have a crayfish boil. Nothing says the South like a crawfish boil.

He is only my “poor southern friend” because he is stuck in Alabama. I am sure solitary confinement in a federal maximum security prison would be more entertaining. . . . Love you buddy

Devon_Sinsley · May 17, 2024, 12:33am

Jealous. About to serve it up with corn bread.

Hines · May 17, 2024, 12:50am

Is this the new kitchen?

Backsplash

Pete_Lassen · May 17, 2024, 1:33am

Good eye he sent it to me and I didn’t pay any attention, just looked at everything I can’t eat right now!

Devon_Sinsley · May 17, 2024, 1:34am

Pictures soon. Almost done. Need to grout the tile backsplash and make a couple cabinet doors and we can put a fork in the kitchen remodeling.

Devon_Sinsley · May 17, 2024, 1:38am

Oh and by the way. It was delicious. Now I have a food coma going on.

WaverlySouthern · May 17, 2024, 2:37am

I hope you got more mudbugs than that . If you don’t have at least 2 - 8 foot tables piled 2 feet high with mudbugs, you ain’t having a crawfish boil. You’re just sampling them

WaverlySouthern · May 17, 2024, 2:43am

Well, at least a federal prison would have that elektrik stuff, and an indoor outhouse and wash tub

Hines · May 17, 2024, 2:48am

Ha!
I thought that was a cup of sun dried tomatoes and thought Devon left the main ingredient out!

I think our equivalent fresh water are yabbies and salt water are Moreton Bay Bugs. Yum!

Are yours seasonal?

WaverlySouthern · May 17, 2024, 2:56am

Yep, generally late spring to about end of August. We get them by the 50 lb sack and I typically won’t go to the trouble of cooking them for less than 2 sacks.

Hines · May 17, 2024, 4:25am

Wow Dan!

Surprisingly a lot of our seafood goes to Japan and the stuff left behind sell for Japanese prices here as well. We buy in bits and bobs.

I’m just imagining 100lbs of shelling at one go! If it’s anything like lobster, I imagine your fingers must be orange for weeks.

Rooster · May 17, 2024, 10:17am

Come on now Devon quit cheating around that outlet and carry that tile line across!!

Rooster · May 17, 2024, 11:20pm

https://store.historicmillandcamping.com/products/seasonal?product_id=148

JRad · May 18, 2024, 12:10am

I have a bag of that in my cupboard, but sadly no iron skillet. I gave Burnt Cabins Grist Mill gift boxes for Christmas last year to all of my family and one for us

Devon_Sinsley · May 18, 2024, 12:52pm

You will have to see a wider shot. The backsplash on both walls is only two tiles high. The only place it goes higher is behind the stove. That’s why it doesn’t carry on. Not because of the outlet. We considered doing from counter to cabinet and having the whole wall tile but thought it would be too much.

Devon_Sinsley · May 18, 2024, 12:58pm

So Dan and Bill we will call this a mini boil. There is only two of us. And the wife prefers shrimp to mud bugs. As for locally sourced not in N Idaho. We have them and some pretty decent size in the Spokane River. But a lot of work as they are sparse compared to the South. So we have to buy them and they are not cheap. 6.29 a pound and come precooked and frozen. Sucks but it’s what I can get.

As for the cornbread, I did cheap out and bought pre-made. I have made skillet cornbread from scratch. But I was lazy