What did you cook today?

Grilled pork steaks with bananas and sweet peppers in the panini, broke it up in a mixing bowl, added hot peppers, onions, garlic salt and some honey mustard, let it rest 30min, then stuffed flour tortillas and toasted them in the panini again. Slightly sweet, meaty and makes you break a sweat. Right now I'm trying to keep my mind off the leftovers and save them for tomorrow

 

I cooked me a mess of vittles.

 

This sounds amazing. I like those make you sweat meals. Have you snuck the leftovers yet? I forgot to mention that the chowder is better if you let it sit in the fridge overnight. I don't always make that step!

 

I'm cooking a ham for the first time in my life today, started the simmering process not too long ago. It should be done around 2-3pm, with the cool down it will be ready just in time for supper.

 

Oh cool! Let us know how it turns out (with any tips). I've only baked hams. Now you're making me want to try this. Maybe this winter. Did you put any spices or herbs in the water? I'd probably add cloves and juniper berries. I saw a recipe that added a litre of cider. That sounds interesting.

This is a video with the water method. Too bad he didn't go a little further and show the cooling off (and slicing and eating!), it ends kind of abruptly. Supposed to take several hours just for the cooling!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snc5AqXku_M

 

OMG, I want some of that right now! Beautiful chowder Lucy. See what happens? I turn you on to the coconut clam chowder and you out do my ass with a full-blown seafood chowder! :chef:

 

Naw, I just threw in a bit more seafood. I love your coconut milk idea, I may never make dairy chowder again! I still have to try your and Heat's kimchi recipes. So much cooking to do, so little time!

 

What kind of hot peppers? Sounds really good

 

They call them Japanese peppers, just standard dried hot red peppers...someone gets me a sack of them whenever I need them. I take a pair of shears and cut them into slivers when I use them. Have another friend who every once in a while brings me fresh habaneros and peppers he grows from seeds he brought from Vietnam. Look forward to those.

 

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Bringing seeds from Vietnam, ha ha, thats just a little ironic in that chili peppers are a new-world food! Amazing how India, Asia and Africa adopted the chili so easily into their traditional cooking as well as hybridizing their own type.

 

It turned out great! In the water I put a diced onion, 5 garlic cloves, a sliced carrot, peppercorns, cloves and a bit of star anise for some nice flavor, and let that 9-pounder of a ham simmer on low-medium heat for the next 7-8 hours. My mom said it takes 6 hours to cook a 7-pound ham, so I gauged cooking time accordingly and it turned out just right. My only wish would have been a bigger pot (the ham barely fit in it), I would have had more leftover cooking juice. That stuff is awesome to use as a base to make a sauce or a soup, or to cook potatoes or rice, you wanna keep it!

 

tonights plan is to make chicken fingers

i only use breast fillets ..i will soak them in an egg then roll them in cajun fish crisp and fry in oil on the stovetop

 

More cat food.

 

Sadly there are still places in the world in which that statement is taken literally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kMI7WhG28


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i used to work at a chinese place

they would use turkey because it was cheaper...most people didnt even notice

 

I'm sure this would be delicious with fish too! I can definetely picture myself breading like that some white fish (such as haddock or cod) in fillets or bites and fry them. Hummm homemade fried fish...

For lunch I made an omelette using yesterday's ham and some grated cheddar for toppings, and tonight my western chowder (fresh kernel corn, green and red lentils, red kidney beans, barley, wild rice, onion, carrot and jalapeno pepper) was on the menu!

 

Nothing. Just salad and cottage cheese

 

Then you can tell us the truth; Dog is on the menu


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What is the difference between eating chickens, cows, pigs, or cats?