The food thread

[Groove T]

Back from Holiday, have become a big belly, so i try to take more veggies and lesser carb, but not much success
Some duck breast, some Couscous and carrots

 

[Groove T]

Yesterday was the local market, so i grabbed a lot of different salads and found some nice lamb racks from lucky animals

 

[jackinnj]

found some nice lamb racks

lamb seems to marinate better than any other meat -- i use this simple Julia Child recipe from decades ago: crushed garlic, rosemary, lemon zest in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Place in non-reactive pan and cover with plastic wrap, place in fridge for 24 hours.

 

[SY]

I have become a huge fan of SA chardonnays -- the local has a really nice selection.

Try some of the Chenin Blancs (Steen) while you're at it.

 

[scott wurcer]

Boerewors is available in the US or at least in NYC and San Diego.
https://www.jontyjacobs.com/

The ones in the first picture looked uncooked, I forget the current state of the FDA's touchy rules about meat and cheese importation.

 

[Charles Darwin]

The ones in the first picture looked uncooked, I forget the current state of the FDA's touchy rules about meat and cheese importation.

They are raw but I would also assume that they are made locally in the USA.
The ones I buy here in the UK are made on the premises by zimbabwean butchers.

If you get a decent machine (i got a crap one off ebay) it is quite easy to make your own sausages.

 

[scott wurcer]

They are raw but I would also assume that they are made locally in the USA.
The ones I buy here in the UK are made on the premises by zimbabwean butchers.

If you get a decent machine (i got a crap one off ebay) it is quite easy to make your own sausages.

I just remembered my son does an annual sausage making party and he has all pro equipment. Now to find the best recipe.

 

[Charles Darwin]

You lucky man! ;-)

Given that the only way to find a good recipe is trial&error a sausage making party seems like a good idea.

 

[Mark Johnson]

For those who occasionally visit Silicon Valley (south part of San Francisco Bay Area), there's a German sausage maker in Los Altos who has won hundreds of awards and whose store is always mobbed. Dittmer's Wurst Haus

Sausages - Dittmer's Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus, Inc. | Los Altos, CA

It's on El Camino Real, 1 block from San Antonio Road. (Los Altos is the town between Mountain View (Google) and Palo Alto (Hewlett Packard)). Great sandwiches too. They offer "Thuringer" on their lunch meat menu.

If you find yourself in Los Altos it's worth a 15 minute detour to stop at Dittmer's, buy some sausages, and talk with Dittmer himself. Yes he DOES ride an enormous BMW motorcycle, how did you guess?

I'm not from Germany or Wisconsin so my opinion is not educated; but I love his stuff.

 

[hitsware]

And in Sacramento :

Morant Home

 

[lousymusician]

And in Sacramento :

Morant Home

A bit further south is Lockeford Sausage (they don't have their own web site):
Lockeford Meat & Sausage Services - Meat Shops - Lockeford, CA - Yelp
There's generally a line out the door.

Bill

 

[scott wurcer]

Sausages - Dittmer's Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus, Inc. | Los Altos, CA

We have one too just the northeast does not have enough demand for boerwors. Karl's is first rate on weekends you might see a whole family of ex-pats drive up in a big Mercedes all the men wearing lederhosen.

Meats | Karl's Sausage Kitchen and European Market

 

[Eldam]

If we want to avoid teflon cooking instrument, how would you cook fried eggs today ?


(avoiding the good black frying pan of Grand'Ma we never clean for omlett I mean)

I assume this question to be for my britain neighboors....

 

[tobydog]

If we want to avoid teflon cooking instrument, how would you cook fried eggs today ?


(avoiding the good black frying pan of Grand'Ma we never clean for omlett I mean)

I assume this question to be for my britain neighboors....

Sans Tefal?

 

[TheGimp]

Cast Iron and bacon grease, the original non-stick cooking pan.

 

[chrisb]

I've found some of the new textured ceramic coated pans and a light spray of coconut oil work fine. I think ours are Ozeri brand - wife bought them from the A-Z company .

Time now for the google-bugs to link to a dozen reports of how your frying pans and ceramic knives are killing you, or the carbon footprint from ordering on-line is killing the planet.

 

[DPH]

I don't heat my Teflon pans up to where it decomposes. My eggs and fish taste better that way, too.

Just remember that it's not a lifelong surface, so buy often.

 

[Eldam]

Cast Iron and bacon grease, the original non-stick cooking pan.

that's how i cook the omlett but for whole fried eggs it still stick too much but horrible quantity of grease, butter, bacon, whatever, no ?

(I'm not realy using bacon grease with fried eggs because health...but I like eggs!)

 

[Eldam]

I don't heat my Teflon pans up to where it decomposes. My eggs and fish taste better that way, too.

Just remember that it's not a lifelong surface, so buy often.

Well, we see despite teflon, it's not too good for health even not heated too much, there are "plastic" vapor exchanges with the food which is not good to make short for hormonal behavior... (as I read it at least !)

 

[Eldam]

I've found some of the new textured ceramic coated pans and a light spray of coconut oil work fine. I think ours are Ozeri brand - wife bought them from the A-Z company .

Time now for the google-bugs to link to a dozen reports of how your frying pans and ceramic knives are killing you, or the carbon footprint from ordering on-line is killing the planet.

I wasted some ceramic pans... but they were low qualities brand ! They finish rapidly to stick the food more than any other pans (don't burn your ceramics pans !

I assume cast iron to stay the best way ?

Stainless steel ?