The food thread

Probably taste it. I'm spoiled having the local Greek importer down the street, but my fave so far is Kostani 100% grass fed sheep feta from Macedonia. I have been told Dodoni Feta is widely available and pretty good. There are also some very affordable Bulgarian fetas that would be easy to try but are usually described as more salty. 100% goat fetas exist but are a bit eccentric.


Dodoni is available in UK so will hunt that out. I have located 6 month barrel aged hand cut feta, which intrigues me, but not enough to pay the postage of £12....yet.
 
Hot from the oven

I grew up on foccacia from the Liguria Bakery in San Francisco, the archetype of foccacia as I know it. This is not quite its equal, but I can't get there so it'll have to do. Paninis for dinner tonight and probably tomorrow too.

When I say "grew up on", my Italian-American father owned a delicatessen in SF when I was born. Sourdough, foccacia and salumi are in my blood. Or at least lining my arteries...
 

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Today for first breakfast I did a single pancake with cherries for the fruit inside, two strips of homemade bacon and tea.

Second breakfast will be mint tea with a ripe banana and an orange

I have noticed very little mention of fruit around here. I tend to add diced apple to a lot of dishes for a bit of sweetness and even thickens sauces.

Lunch gets to be a smoked roast beef sandwich with Roma tomato on home made bread, now that flour is back in my local grocery store.
 
I am definitely more of a "fruit for dessert" guy, but sometimes add fruit to savoury dishes. I like pork with apple, onion, and cabbage for example. When my daughter was very young I used to make her an orange chicken dish, basically sautee a boneless chicken thigh with a bit of onion and herbs, add some orange sections and orange juice, with a bit of soy sauce or wooster, and reduce the juice to a glaze on the chicken, She always quite liked that. I should make something like that for me.

Lately I have been consuming rum punch, does that count?