The food thread

Hehe. For those who don’t know, Ed and I have a special connection. He’s allowed to poke the bear and I’m allowed to close his account at a moment’s notice.

Isn’t that right Ed?
Ed?
Where’d you go?

I was kidding. Please come back. We need more piggy jokes and no better person I say.
Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination.

Piggy🐷
 
My dyslexic son, now 39 with 3 kids used to call baloney "pig-face" -- a characteristic of dyslexics is the invention of new words, aka "neo-logism" for those of us pedants who had too many years of latin.

this evening, just waxed some Hoisin sauce on 2 pork chops and roasted at 350F until they reached 165F, served with pierogi's sauteed in fried onion and green veg -- nice winter dinner when it's 15F outside.
 
First attempt at bread in the new house…….worked pretty good. 5 cups white bread flour,2 cups wheat flour, 1 cup oat flour.
 

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We have a dish called Churi, or Churma.
Roast flour on a thick griddle, with a little ghee, don't let it burn, keep stirring until cooked. A wok or Kadhai is the ideal dish, a flat griddle is not so handy for stirring.
Take off the heat, add a few crushed cardamom seeds, cover.
Can be stored up to a week.
 
Bob...no, it is a sweet, you can start as a simple snack for the kids to eat at home, as described above, with only a sprinkle of sugar.
It is also distributed after prayers in some places.

Another use is as an accompaniment to spicy food.
The more elaborate versions add dry fruits such as almonds, pistachios, dates, raisins and so on to make it a party grade dessert.
 
I will say it is a sweet dish, can be eaten for breakfast, or any time you have hunger pangs, which may be before dawn.
It is a lot healthier than cookies and other sweet snacks made commercially, the flour we use is coarser ground than baking flour. It is Roti / flatbread flour, not finer (refined) flour.

I forgot about the add sugar part in post #16,986, sorry about that.
You add just enough to make it interesting, not overloaded.
Though everybody has their comfort level about sugar.
Use crystal sugar, powder ruins the texture.
Crunchy while chewing, that is enough.
 
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Okay Bob, I'm going to have to ask you to stop posting here. I'm too GD busy for this but on my way back to the office I was thinking about you. Next thing I know I've made a couple stops and headed home. D**n you!

So, for anybody whose made these, you'll recognize it right away, for others, I show you later, it's really easy.

While I usually grind the meat and use my own Char Siu, this was spur of the moment so they are store bought. Just what I need, another one pot. 🙂 Completed pics in a few hours, still have other things to do.
 

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On the left:
2 lbs Meat
Handfull Julienne Black fungus
3 tbsp Sesame oil
Salt to taste

On the right:
1.5 lbs Shrimp cut in two

Add some meat and a piece of shrimp to the wrap, roll up the sides and pinch at the top.
Freeze individually before packaging.
The characteristic wrinkle won tons have happens when you cook them.
 

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