Just when I thought Santa had forgotten me...
When my Mom died, I needed a new one so I adopted a friends Mom. She has recently moved to an assisted living place and while doing the house clearing, they found something under the bed. Mom says to daughter - do you think Cal might like those?
hehe, did I ever adopt the right Mom. Dust is the only thing that has ever touched them.
When my Mom died, I needed a new one so I adopted a friends Mom. She has recently moved to an assisted living place and while doing the house clearing, they found something under the bed. Mom says to daughter - do you think Cal might like those?
hehe, did I ever adopt the right Mom. Dust is the only thing that has ever touched them.
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Nice score Cal. I've never gotten on well with the enamelled frying pan other than on an old range I once had, but the casseroles I love for everything from stew to apple crumble!
My big oval brown one did many things for 30yr. and actually started to pit on the inside, I donated it to a community kitchen. I remember a goat cassoulet that made my whole apartment smell like a barnyard.
Did you raise and butcher the goat in your apartment? ;-)
Or may be it was the other ingredients. I cook goat regularly since it is excellent meat and kind of essential for curry goat but the meat doesn't smell any more or different than beef.
The goat was not sourced through regular channels the equivalent of mutton (possibly a little over the top).
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Excellent cookware. IMO cast iron cooks better then anything. We got a well used le creuset Dutch oven from my mother in law...it was a wedding gift she had gotten over fifty years ago. Well it got dropped on a tile floor and cracked. My wife contacted the company to order a similar replacement and a brand new very expensive Dutch oven showed up in the mail unsolicited and free of charge...now that's a lifetime warranty.
I have exactly one of those! In the late 1960's my dad's plant, a grey-iron foundry, made some small fry-pans and had them enameled with ceramic frit -- everyone told him that he should give up the casting business and go into cookware.
Here's a dessert cookie out of "Treasured Polish Recipes" -- very basic -- "Bezy" == 4 egg whites (left over from crusciki) 2 cups confectioners sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and the juice of half a lemon -- bake 30 min @ 300F on parchment paper, you may never ever make a better, more delicate cookie:
Here's a dessert cookie out of "Treasured Polish Recipes" -- very basic -- "Bezy" == 4 egg whites (left over from crusciki) 2 cups confectioners sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and the juice of half a lemon -- bake 30 min @ 300F on parchment paper, you may never ever make a better, more delicate cookie:
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I had 2 Kuwaiti interns working with me in the late 1970's -- they were resident in a swanky hotel off Park Avenue. They cooked goat over an open fire in their hotel room for me and 'mamselle! True story, ask my wife when we meet up!
That would explain it, mutton is bit smelly compared to lamb too.
I have no idea of the age of the goat meat I buy but I would suspect them to be juvenile at the time they are butchered.
Flavour-wise I'd say the goat I get here is halfway between beef and venison but costs the same as pork. ;-)
Gotta have a word with my local butcher because they only seem to sell it cubed for jamaican or indian curries but I think I should really try a leg roast.
Find a Hallal meat shop, I got mine from a Pakistani grocer. Quite something, a flatbed shows up once a week simply covered with goat carcasses, don't ask don't tell.
They are almost all Hallal around here, I know only one english butcher who sells goat around here.
One stall in the markets here sometimes sells half a goat for ridiculously little money but it's still too big for my oven or charcoal grill. Gotta empty that freezer sometime...
One stall in the markets here sometimes sells half a goat for ridiculously little money but it's still too big for my oven or charcoal grill. Gotta empty that freezer sometime...
Here in the UK and Ireland Roast Turkey is still obligatory! I made the mistake of over-eating, laid down for 15mins and got a bad attack of reflux! Own fault!
When back in Ireland in October I met an old friend in the Turkey Business. He was in a dreadful state as he had suffered a massive change of heart re his means of livelihood.
He told me that because of this he was releasing 50.000 turkeys back into the wild ..... just as soon as they had unfrozen.
When back in Ireland in October I met an old friend in the Turkey Business. He was in a dreadful state as he had suffered a massive change of heart re his means of livelihood.
He told me that because of this he was releasing 50.000 turkeys back into the wild ..... just as soon as they had unfrozen.
Full turkey dinner last night and I used 2 of my new Dutch ovens. Speaking of ovens, I used all 3 and found it so nice as they were at different temps. Mind you I'm not too keen on the lowest one. Bending over like that is getting harder every year. 🙂
Happy New year to all!
I'm taking it easy tonight. Just slow-roasting some beef and pork and the traditional (to me)homemade potato salad with rollmops, apple, beetroot, pickled gherkins and equally homemade mayonnaise.
I'm taking it easy tonight. Just slow-roasting some beef and pork and the traditional (to me)homemade potato salad with rollmops, apple, beetroot, pickled gherkins and equally homemade mayonnaise.
I put some left-over pork shoulder in the slow-cooker with garlic, onion, dried mushrooms, bay leaf, pre-cooked thick bacon and kielbasa -- one cup of red wine.
NYE supper just me and the wife. Caviar with toast points and homemade blini, yes we like them thoroughly browned. Grated onion, hard boiled egg, sour cream. Oysters with mignionette sauce. Nova lox, capers, cucumbers. Veuve Clicquot vintage rose champagne. Ghirardelli chocolate. You know, the usual.
