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Evo said:Liquid smoke is usually used to flavor things like dips & meatloaf, things that wouldn't normally get any smoky flavor.
It is really good in marinade too.
Evo said:Liquid smoke is usually used to flavor things like dips & meatloaf, things that wouldn't normally get any smoky flavor.
Fishing With HoagyThe Grand Cascapedia River, on the Atlantic coast of Canada, boasts some of the best sport fishing in the world. Its salmon stocks are in great shape and people pay big money for permits to fish there. Hoagy Bix Carmichael, son of the singer-songwriter of the same name, fell in love with the Cascapedia River. Carmichael took producer Bob Carty fly fishing and talked about the river's unusual history and of concerns for its future.
Good for you, Woolie! I do all the browning outside on a side burner on our propane grill because to achieve a respectable degree of carmelization, you will generate a great deal of smoke. My wife made just such a meal for us on Saturday while I was deer hunting, with cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, onions, and turnip. If you have a camping stove that uses white gas (unleaded gasoline, actually, also sold as Coleman fuel), that's another good way to do the cooking outside, although you can set your pot on a glowing bed of wood coals or charcoal to do your browning. Play with that recipe a bit, and make BIG batches. The left-overs get better the second, third, and fourth days. They might be wicked on the fifth day too, but they never last that long, so I can't vouch for it.wolram said:I cooked a beef brisket joint today, using Turbos method of browning it in a pan and then boiling it with vegies , it was delicious and tender too, next time i do it though i will wear asbestos gloves and a face mask, and open all the doors and windows.
Gaaaaahhhh...tomatoes aren't allowed anywhere near good clam chowder! That's the southerner's version (Manhattan is south of Maine). :yuck: Might as well toss some clam juice in a Bloody Mary.wolram said:Do most people use milk or tomatoes in clam chowder? i think i would prefer tomatoes, as i have never been fond of mixing dairy products with meat or fish, except for stilton cheese on steak.
Moonbear said:Gaaaaahhhh...tomatoes aren't allowed anywhere near good clam chowder! That's the southerner's version (Manhattan is south of Maine). :yuck: Might as well toss some clam juice in a Bloody Mary.
New England clam chowder is made with cream and butter and so thick you can stand a spoon up in it.
You're still "from away." There's a joke in a book of Maine humor by Jim Brunell titled "Over to home and from away" in which a transplanted couple has a baby that is born in Maine. She takes him to the local general store, showing him off and saying "he was born in Maine, and he's a real Mainer". An old fellow playing checkers near the wood stove says "just 'cuz the cat had her kittens in the oven, that don't make 'em biscuits."Moonbear said:Turbo, what's the current "local" view of someone moving to Maine if their grandfather was from there? Are they too far removed and still "from away" or is that close enough to return and be accepted as a native Mainiac?
Yeah, thumbprint cookies. I have a good recipe for those.turbo-1 said:I don't have the recipe, but when I was a kid my mother used to make some really tasty cookies for the holidays. I think her basic recipe was a lemon-flavored sugar-cookie and after she had cut them out and laid them out on the cookie sheet, she would use the back of a measuring spoon to make a depression in the center of each and spoon a dollop of home-made crabapple jelly into each depression. Baking them kind of glazed the jelly, so they weren't sticky/gooey. I liked them best when they were still a bit warm from the oven, but they tasted great cold, too, especially with a glass of milk. If you like to experiment in the kitchen, you might try to make something like this.
Mmmmmm, sounds yummy!turbo-1 said:I am stuffed from our Thanksgiving dinner. Smoked (fresh, locally raised) turkey (smoked breast-down with strips of bacon covering her back), squash, mashed potato, coleslaw made with with bread-and-butter pickles, New England baked beans, flaky biscuits, home-made cranberry sauce, and more. Killer meal!
turbo-1 said:Time for an easy do-it-yourself recipe. My wife made this a couple of days ago, and I finished the left-overs this morning. MMMMM!
Next time you're at the market, buy some soft flour tortillas the diameter of your round casserole dish or cake pan.
Saute some chopped onions, bell peppers and jalapenos with a little salt and pepper in a cast iron frying pan with butter or olive oil. When they've started to carmelize, stir in some hamburg and brown that, as well. Then stir in a can or two of black beans (drained). Lightly oil your casserole or cake pan and put in a tortilla. Cover with a layer of the browned hamburg/bean mix, put in another tortilla and repeat until your pan is full. Top it off with a layer of shredded Monterey Jack and bake in a preheated oven at 350 deg or so until the cheese starts to brown. Presto - a great black bean casserole. The more adventurous of you might want to experiment with adding some more spice to the mix, or if you have folks to feed that don't like things real hot, you can serve this with salsa on the side. I like our green tomato salsa with mine - just for the flavor of the salsa - the casserole was already spicy enough on its own.
I'll PM you with my mailing address. Once you try this one, you'll gladly send me $10. And it is REALLY good and it's falling-off-a-log easy to make, as Moonbear said. I'm glad my wife likes spicy foods - no matter which one of us is doing the cooking we're pretty liberal with the jalapenos and habaneros.radou said:Turbo, this recipes are worth gold, don't give them away just like that. I'd think about charging for them.
Joke aside, this sounds really good.
turbo-1 said:Time for an easy do-it-yourself recipe. My wife made this a couple of days ago, and I finished the left-overs this morning. MMMMM!
Next time you're at the market, buy some soft flour tortillas the diameter of your round casserole dish or cake pan.
Saute some chopped onions, bell peppers and jalapenos with a little salt and pepper in a cast iron frying pan with butter or olive oil. When they've started to carmelize, stir in some hamburg and brown that, as well. Then stir in a can or two of black beans (drained). Lightly oil your casserole or cake pan and put in a tortilla. Cover with a layer of the browned hamburg/bean mix, put in another tortilla and repeat until your pan is full. Top it off with a layer of shredded Monterey Jack and bake in a preheated oven at 350 deg or so until the cheese starts to brown. Presto - a great black bean casserole. The more adventurous of you might want to experiment with adding some more spice to the mix, or if you have folks to feed that don't like things real hot, you can serve this with salsa on the side. I like our green tomato salsa with mine - just for the flavor of the salsa - the casserole was already spicy enough on its own.
Sounds like a multilayer quesadilla - one could use chopped or shredded chicken in place of hamburger.turbo-1 said:Time for an easy do-it-yourself recipe. My wife made this a couple of days ago, and I finished the left-overs this morning. MMMMM!
Next time you're at the market, buy some soft flour tortillas the diameter of your round casserole dish or cake pan.
Saute some chopped onions, bell peppers and jalapenos with a little salt and pepper in a cast iron frying pan with butter or olive oil. When they've started to carmelize, stir in some hamburg and brown that, as well. Then stir in a can or two of black beans (drained). Lightly oil your casserole or cake pan and put in a tortilla. Cover with a layer of the browned hamburg/bean mix, put in another tortilla and repeat until your pan is full. Top it off with a layer of shredded Monterey Jack and bake in a preheated oven at 350 deg or so until the cheese starts to brown. Presto - a great black bean casserole. The more adventurous of you might want to experiment with adding some more spice to the mix, or if you have folks to feed that don't like things real hot, you can serve this with salsa on the side. I like our green tomato salsa with mine - just for the flavor of the salsa - the casserole was already spicy enough on its own.
Yep, or even make a vegetarian version. :yuck: I had green tomato/jalapeno salsa with mine, and my wife topped hers with shredded lettuce and sour cream. Stuff like this is pretty versatile, and you can use what you've got on hand. Sometimes, our favorite dishes develop out of something thrown together. A couple of nights ago when I was busy with something else, my wife started shredding carrots and cabbage and other vegetables, so I thought she was going to make a cole-slaw of some sort to go with the thin strips of blade steak marinading in the refrigerator. Instead, she browned the vegetables in the big cast iron frying pan then simmered them in dry red wine while browning steak strips in olive oil with a little fresh-ground ginger. It started smelling pretty good in here, so I stopped what I was doing and warmed some basmati rice we had steamed the night before and set the table while she combined the meat and vegetables. That stuff was quite tasty served on a bed of rice.Astronuc said:Sounds like a multilayer quesadilla - one could use chopped or shredded chicken in place of hamburger.
Are you sitting down? I also do the dishes.hypatia said:wow! You set the table? I think we should clone you.
Astronuc said:Sounds like a multilayer quesadilla - one could use chopped or shredded chicken in place of hamburger.
Oh Moonbear, that's terrible! Do you have any REAL coca cola? The cola syrup is good for releaving nausea. I won't tell you what I eat when I'm sick, it'll just make you sicker, but it works for me.Moonbear said:All my plans to sit around the house eating away have gone totally awry! I'm sick. :yuck: Anyone have a good recipe for water? I can't even get that to stay down. I'm going to brave some chicken broth though, in the hopes that some nutrients get absorbed before it comes back up, because the only thing worse than being sick is being sick and hungry and not able to eat.
Evo said:Oh Moonbear, that's terrible! Do you have any REAL coca cola? The cola syrup is good for releaving nausea. I won't tell you what I eat when I'm sick, it'll just make you sicker, but it works for me.