The food thread

Mark,

The lessons cost more than my smoker! I did look at a number of online bits about smoking and smokers. The one I bought was recommended by three different sites! It does work nicely for an electric smoker and as an electric there is the advantage of easy control of temperature for we lazy folks.

As to wood for smoking I have a few thousand board feet of sugar maple, much less hickory but mesquite doesn't really grow around here.

If for some reason the smoker limits me, I can always build one in my shop!

Thanks,

ES

Hi Ed, here are a couple pages from the "workbook" which accompanies Aaron Franklin's Masterclass video lessons. Fairly detailed, but on video he gets VERY detailed!

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Found a good one !

~ 1/3 # 85 % fat hamburger
~ 1/2 diced bell pepper
~ 1/2 diced yellow onion
~ 1 diced stick of celery
~ 1 can diced tomatoes
~ 2 cans pinto beans
~ 1 pkg. McCormick Mild 30% less sodium Chili Seasoning

Simmer for ~ 3 hr.

My Wife compares it favorably with Grandma's Chili Powder Version !
 

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All this staying at home with enough food had a downside. So I bought a $250 treadmill! Very nice to do a short walk whenever I feel like it, several times a day. No need to get dressed or even look presentable. Is it possible after being cooped up for a few months I could end up weighing less?
 
In 1981, the newspaper Izvestia published material on "victims of a mysterious disease." Apparently, the epicenter at that time was Spain. The publication reported 89 dead. Soviet journalists claimed that the spread of the virus began with an American air base near the city of Torrejon de Ardoz.
At first glance, this publication may seem fake. However, the 1981 pneumonia outbreak in Torrejón de Ardoz is mentioned in scientific publications. This case is confirmed by an article from the archive of the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Коронавирус нашли в советской газете (фото) - Hi-Tech Mail.ru

No pneumonia ! No way !

It was olive oil, poisoned from bandits who wanted to raise the profit with cheap ingredients, it was overheated anilin getting poison. Really bad stuff.

Thats all. No mystery, no virus, no bs.
A friend of mine here also consumed from that stuff, he was really sick and survived just with luck.

So please calm down and stick on food or how to prepare it.
Thanks a lot!
 
Talking of olive oil, I will prepare my Sunday supper:
Seafood (various non-fishy stuff)
Olive oil (a lot)
Chili pepper
Garlic (I will slice mine)
Some salt

Cook it in an oven for 10-15 minutes at 200 C.
Eat it with a sallad and bread (baguette). Let the bread soak up the oil and stuff it in your mouth ...:yummy:

Got a small bottle of wine to go with it.😀




(Wasn't there other stories about olive oil made from mineral oil in Italy or Austria a few years ago. And you can, it I get it right get a sort of chemical induced pneumonia, not by bacteria but by chemicals)
 
Even met that with my Felder table/panel saw. (It cost more than my car!)

Not in the same class, I was jonesing a Robland X31 that just popped up in the local classifieds for a decent price. I need to move before that's a smart idea, which of course is all in flux.

We've been finding flash frozen and packaged Steelhead trout to be pretty good--it's fatter than a lot of other fish so seems to come back better. Fresh still obviously is king, but such are the times.
 
Not in the same class, I was jonesing a Robland X31 that just popped up in the local classifieds for a decent price. I need to move before that's a smart idea, which of course is all in.

My Felder is an Americanized version, eight foot crosscut sled and it will take a dado blade. I have the Felder dado blade that uses four sided carbide inserts. Two blades sets cover all the allowable widths. With a three phase ten horsey motor one really wants the blade to be sharp. Over the blade cover and dust collector built in.

My jointer is a rebuilt Boice Crane. Solid cast iron and takes standard blades as most of the current models are actually copies!

I do have a Powermatic wood shaper that is in need of overhaul, so I just use a router table insert.

Of course I have a few drill presses, mortiser, power miter box, not to be confused with my chop saw, bandsaws, scroll saw, planner, CNC router etc.
 
I'm a humble hobbiest, although I'd love to have a smaller CNC mill as well. You understandably are working through larger volumes of sheets goods. Surprised you guys have (unless it's evolved over the years) so much for doing solid wood.

Jointers haven't changed in a good hundred years. You can put an insert cutter head in a 1920's machine for all it matters. I have a humble 1940's era Delta Rockwell 6" -- sturdy but the short bed has its limitations.

But, back to food. 🙂
 
Indeed. Maybe Spaghetti Bolognese, since I don't think we've discussed it.

Ragù Alla Bolognese #1

This version of ragù was published in 1982 by the Bologna chapter of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, the closest thing to an authority in the matters of Italian cuisine.

300 grams beef (skirt or flank steak, preferably), coarsely ground or chopped
150 g pancetta, ground or minced
50 g carrot, minced
50 g celery, minced
50 g onion, minced
300 g tomato puree or peeled chopped tomatoes
½ cup dry white wine
½ cup whole milk
A little broth
Olive oil or butter
Salt and pepper

It's a very different dish, the way the Italians do it. Tomatoes are optional. Meat is just diced. Bacon or Pork compulsory. And they prefer Tagliatelle pasta which is the flatter noodles. In fact, most people just throw in what is around. Celery and Carrots and Onion is the base, and makes a sort of vegetable stock. Long cooking too: "Piano, Piano!"

I often do a big batch of it, with a bit of nutmeg to my taste. My eyes were opened by this excellent read, "In search of Ragu" at this very foodie site.

In Search of Ragu
 
After a 6 years gluten/celiac break and having felt the gut health had improved so much I recently took the chance on baking bread made from dinkel wheat (spelt), a several thousand years old ancient wheat species, and yeah.. seems I have been able to reverse something that is alleged to be a life long handicap, leaky gut is the mother of a whole host of terrible autoimmune diseases.

Tried also organic rye bread from the boutique, went well too, it's a great relief being able to enjoy bread again and hopefully can continue to do so.
 
Rye, barley and wheat contains gluten and are the 3 classic grains to stay away from for gluten intolerants, but to my surprise so does oat, its gluten is called avenine, the other 3 also have specific names for their glutens, and I have had problem with oat too and am not the only one, lots of speculations on whats going on in West, partly blamed on the food and too hygienic environment, but it seems to boil down to the gut microbiome becoming out of balance which is a precursor for many other health issues, there's tons of information out there I have gone through and there is so much to say about it.

The dinkel wheat has been dated back to some 8000 years so we have been exposed to gluten for a long time, the problem with modern bread baking is a lot of it isn't fermented (maybe hybridized grain species is another culprit..), I let the dough work on its own for 24 hours before baking, it gets a bit sour, lots enzymatic processes takes place and all the good nutrients gets released making it so much easier for the gut to handle, but if baking isn't ones habit I would look into more sourdough based bread and leave out as much of the other breads.
 
we didn't eat bread or sugar at all back in history.

??? Bread is at least 14,000 yr. old, leavened bread over 2000 yr. old. Sugar has been used in Asia since 4000 BC.

The most common source of leavening in antiquity was to retain a piece of dough (with sugar and water in) from the previous day to utilize as a form of sourdough starter.
 
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The last supper was a Passover Feast celebrating escape from slavery 1,000 years before. The noted item is unleavened bread as they were in such haste to leave they did not have time for the bread to rise.

That puts leavened bread at least 3,000 years old. Some sources put it at 8,000 years.

But the importance of Passover on those that avoid gluten is all the specialty holiday goods that are made without flour. Many use potato starch of other bits to replace the flower. So it is a good time and place to stock up on cakes and other sweets that are gluten free.
 
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