The food thread

[TheGimp]

Pork butt was $1.69/lb on sale at Food City. It looks like it is time to make some Andouille again.

 

[nezbleu]

Very nice Mark, but what was on the stereo? 🙂

Being New Year's in Nova Scotia, we ate lobsters, a little potato salad, and washed it down with some nice Muscadet. Followed by fruit salad, mince Tarte, and pecan squares. Then fireworks.

 

[scott wurcer]

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.

Lots of oysters there, showing your age? 🙂

 

[Mark Johnson]

Believe it or not the local high end grocery store sells Blue Points for $1.49 each, shucked, if you place your order 3 days in advance. We felt it was such a bargain that Oyster Glut was called for. Two people, two dozen oysters, just right.

BTW the mignionette sauce was out of this world; recipe attached. In addition to the cracked black peppercorns, we also tossed in a pinch of white pepper to remind us of New Orleans. The reduction, plus shallots at the last minute, really intensified the flavor.

edit- use highest quality wine vinegar available; ours was Kimberley Cabernet Sauvignon link

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[scott wurcer]

Believe it or not the local high end grocery store sells Blue Points for $1.49 each, shucked, if you place your order 3 days in advance. We felt it was such a bargain that Oyster Glut was called for. Two people, two dozen oysters, just right.

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Looks good, I usually use Champagne vinegar (diehard Francophile). For a decadent change a few years ago my daughter and I tried Morimoto's oysters with yuzu and a paper thin slice of black truffle. Unfortunately my wife is anaphylactic to shellfish.

 

[TheGimp]

Well, it is a new year and I am craving Andouille.

Nothing local worth talking about so what is a country boy to do?

5 lb Pork butt - $1.69/Lb

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

 

[Cal Weldon]

We can't weeeeeee here. It freezes before it hits the ground. 😉

So New Years comes along and I was looking forward to what the family was going to request for a dish this year.

Nachos, yes you read that right, Nachos.

I hate them. 🙂

 

[DPH]

Pork butt was $1.69/lb on sale at Food City. It looks like it is time to make some Andouille again.

Carnitas is my favorite thing with pork butt. But at 1.69, who cares what you do? 🙂

I don't know where we got the tradition of doing Knockwurst, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut on NY day, but I'm_not_complaining. This year we did it on NYE since I flew home last night and my younger brother drove back this morning.

Hope everyone had a great holidays!

(Those oysters look tres yummy, gotta admit, and beautiful work as usual Groove)

 

[Cal Weldon]

Yes, it's nice to have Groove back.
And... there's always something interesting in Gimp's pics.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Since there's nothing to cook for the humans, how about something for my little buddy.
Two kinds of ground beef
Short grain brown rice
Turkey stock (low salt)

 

[TheGimp]

Little buddies have been eating table scraps for thousands of years (100,000 plus?), so why is big business food better for them than what we eat ourselves?

I was wrong, It is a 8.9# pork butt. All the better.

Tomorrow I will stuff it into casings and smoke it on the smoker. Should yield about 35 links.

 

[scott wurcer]

Little buddies have been eating table scraps for thousands of years (100,000 plus?), so why is big business food better for them than what we eat ourselves?

Unfortunately my little buddy's system did not like prime rib scraps and he decorated the floor with the results.

 

[TheGimp]

Well now, prime rib is a tad bit rich and I'm always careful to cut out as much fat as I can and only feed him a little at a time. Fortunately my little buddies like vegetables as well as meat, so I just give them a mixed meal.

 

[TheGimp]

That is some smoky spicy stuff.

 

[DPH]

When did you say dinner was, TheGimp? 😉

 

[TheGimp]

Dinner was a couple of links.

I'm hurting and heading for the tub. In addition to smoking the links today, I raked leaves, hauled down branches to the curb (125 yards plus), and cut and burned a large quantity of old rotted lumber. Today was the first day I really felt myself since I got sick on the 10th of December (Viral Bronchitis). What a way to spend a vacation.

I think it is a bit on the smokey side, but will do well as an addition to other dishes.

 

[DPH]

Jambalaya! Or some hybrid paella where the smokiness really plays part.

 

[TheGimp]

Yes, that is what I'm thinking Daniel.

The sausage is great but will lend itself to a dish better than by itself.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Great looking links Gimp.

 

[Groove T]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Gimp is an expert in sausages!
I don't have the tools for something like that, fortunately sometimes i get sometimes deer sausage from a hobby hunter.
Sylvester meal was very simple,but on NYD i had time to cook.
Tuna short time roasted each side, a mix of wasabi, soysauce, Balsamico modena, roasted sesam seed and coriander, then we had blue crabs done with curry and eggs, followed with a Tom Yam Gung Soup( no pic) and slices of a fantastic piece of meat, and some sweet fruits. The cucumber salad was also there...