What can you expect in the Food Thread on PF?

[Evo]

I'm breaking up loafs of French bread, into cubes, and putting them into a stoneware bowl that has been used in my family for over 120 years. Yes its for the dressing on Thanksgiving. I use this giant bowl so seldom now, but it is a thing of beauty.
I've also promised to make fried apples and pumpkin custard.

That is so wonderful to have something like that in your family!

 

[HeLiXe]

All I want now is one glass of spring water and one chocolate covered strawberry.

 

[turbo]

All I want now is one glass of spring water and one chocolate covered strawberry.

Simple needs.

Tonight, my wife and I had comfort food. I fried some hot dogs and rolls in butter, dressed them with my home-made chili/garlic relish and Raye's hot mustard, and served them with my wife's home-made chili. Winter is here early, so we'll switch over to more chilies, casseroles, stews and soups as the cold weather takes over.

 

[HeLiXe]

All I want now is fried hot dogs and rolls in butter, dressed with turbo-1's home-made chili/garlic relish and Raye's hot mustard, and served with turbo-1's wife's home-made chili

 

[turbo]

All I want now is fried hot dogs and rolls in butter, dressed with turbo-1's home-made chili/garlic relish and Raye's hot mustard, and served with turbo-1's wife's home-made chili

Can you show up within the next couple of hours? I'm going to bed early tonight - lots to do tomorrow.

 

[Evo]

Hopefully doing these bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers tonight, Evo Child forgot the toothpicks yesterday.

This website is awesome, every recipe has a photo of each step. Thought I'd post it for people that want to see what the steps are when they make a recipe for the first time.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/07/bacon-wrapped_j/

 

[Astronuc]

I'm breaking up loafs of French bread, into cubes, and putting them into a stoneware bowl that has been used in my family for over 120 years. Yes its for the dressing on Thanksgiving. I use this giant bowl so seldom now, but it is a thing of beauty.
I've also promised to make fried apples and pumpkin custard.

I'd like to Pumpkin custard recipe.

 

[lisab]

Hopefully doing these bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers tonight, Evo Child forgot the toothpicks yesterday.

This website is awesome, every recipe has a photo of each step. Thought I'd post it for people that want to see what the steps are when they make a recipe for the first time.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/07/bacon-wrapped_j/

Those are great pix, they give excellent guidance! And her commentary made me laugh:

Oh, baby. Oh, oh, oh baby.

Wow that woman really, really likes jalapeno poppers .

 

[turbo]

Wow that woman really, really likes jalapeno poppers .

My wife and I make low-tech poppers. Fry bacon until it is nice and crispy. Slice jalapenos in half and decide your heat level. Clean out the placenta and seeds for mild, leave all the innards for hotter poppers. Crumble the bacon and mix it into cream cheese and stuff the pepper-halves with that mix, top with shredded Monterey Jack, and broil or grill until the cheese is a golden brown. Very simple and fast. Those poppers don't last - even people who say "I don't like hot food" will eat them. They are that good.

 

[Astronuc]

I've got try Nantancket cranberry pie.

I'm also contemplating mixed berry cobbler and maybe cherry-cranberry pie.

And rum & egg-nog.

 

[turbo]

And rum & egg-nog.

One of my aunts made a really sneaky rum-laced eggnog. Hers was spiced liberally, and she used very good rum with a subtle flavor, so the liquor hid in the mix.

She used cheap rum in her mince-meat pie, just for the flavor, since the alcohol was baked out. My father would try to push all the sweet-simple desserts onto us kids before she would bring out that pie, so he could get more for himself. Pretty crafty, and his baby sister was happy to play along.

 

[HeLiXe]

Can you show up within the next couple of hours? I'm going to bed early tonight - lots to do tomorrow.

Awww thanks turbo-1...if it weren't for the cops and other innocent drivers I could :biggrin"

And rum & egg-nog.

now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout
Jamaican overproof?

 

[hypatia]

For Astro... Pumpkin custard, serves 4. Easy to double to 8

3/4 cup pumpkin puree {I boil chunks of pie pumpkin and run them in a food processor}
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups evaporated milk(one 12-ounce can)
3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup (packed) light brown sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, eggs, milk, and vanilla. In another bowl, stir together the brown sugar, cornstarch, spices, and salt and sift into the pumpkin mixture. Stir the batter until combined well and pour into four 3/4-cup custard cups.
Place the cups in a 9 X 11-inch baking pan and add enough warm water to come halfway up the sides of the cups. Bake for 50 minutes, or until set and browned lightly. Transfer the custards to a wire rack to cool.

 

[nismaratwork]

I use a mixture of 10-Cane Rum (mild flavor) which is made from sugar, not the raw cane or molasses, and a good mid-aged rum... I find it let's you get the alcohol content up to acceptable levels without compromising the taste.

The other big thing: FRESH SPICES.

 

[Borek]

You could make a plain basic moist cake and use the boxed pudding mix you mention below, if you don't have lemon flavor, you could add a teaspoon of lemon extract, do you have lemon extract? Just don't add any milk.

Can be difficult - recipe says "Add the bag content to 1/2 cup of cold milk, mix well, add to two cups of hot milk, keep on the fire mixing till it thickens".

Lemon flavor, lemon extract - next time we will be shopping I have to spend some time browsing cake ingredients. But it is again a naming problem - I guess flavor is just a flavor, I think I know what will be equivalent. But what is an "extract"? Something that pretends to smell like lemon and is sour? Similar to juice you can squeeze from the lemon?

 

[Evo]

Can be difficult - recipe says "Add the bag content to 1/2 cup of cold milk, mix well, add to two cups of hot milk, keep on the fire mixing till it thickens".

You just add the dry bag contents to the cake.

No Betty Crocker in Poland, eh?

 

[Borek]

Found this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,196,141183-232205,00.html

Edit: in Poland Betty Crocker is called Winiary or Delecta.

 

[Evo]

Found this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,196,141183-232205,00.html

Edit: in Poland Betty Crocker is called Winiary or Delecta.

Try this one Borek, it sounds closer to the original.

http://www.kaboose.com/features/holiday/recipe.html?id=17

 

[Borek]

Thanks, I have added several things to our shopping list for this week.

 

[nismaratwork]

Can be difficult - recipe says "Add the bag content to 1/2 cup of cold milk, mix well, add to two cups of hot milk, keep on the fire mixing till it thickens".

Lemon flavor, lemon extract - next time we will be shopping I have to spend some time browsing cake ingredients. But it is again a naming problem - I guess flavor is just a flavor, I think I know what will be equivalent. But what is an "extract"? Something that pretends to smell like lemon and is sour? Similar to juice you can squeeze from the lemon?

You've asked some interesting questions about things like a pudding or extract. In the USA, an extract is an alcohol or other base which has steeped with the given product (vanilla, lemon, or any other), whereas "flavor" is artificial and meant to imitate a product. They are typically sold in small brown glass containers and are used sparingly in baking.

Example for lemon extract, so that you know exactly what we're dealing with here: http://www.ehow.com/how_4544207_lemon-extract-home.html

The pudding is precisely what you described; a cooked milk product thickened with starch and flavored. Boxed puddings have a very particular... um... chemistry which sometimes makes them better for baking than the homemade variety, which can separate, or weep water.

Here is a close-up of an instant-type vanilla pudding (it's the yellowish goo on top of the cake). Jell-O makes this, although I don't know if they sell in Poland. I did a bit of looking and found this recipe to imitate instant vanilla pudding.

Vanilla Pudding Mix
Ingredients:
3 cups nonfat dry milk
4 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract


Directions:
Mix all except the vanilla, and store in an airtight container. To prepare, mix 1/2 cup of mix to 2 cups milk. Heat and stir constantly while boiling. Cool, then add 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract.

 

[Borek]

frozen concentrated orange juice

Oops, that can be another problem. After some googling I know what it is, but I don't think I have ever seen one here. Most likely I will have to ignore "frozen" part.

 

[Evo]

Oops, that can be another problem. After some googling I know what it is, but I don't think I have ever seen one here. Most likely I will have to ignore "frozen" part.

It's very thick and strongly concentrated orange juice, regular juice won't work.

Perhaps, you could simmer and reduce the orange juice down to concentrate?

Wow, this was an extremely simple cake that could be whipped together in a few minutes. Most of the time is just waiting for the cake to cool.

 

[nismaratwork]

It's very thick and strongly concentrated orange juice, regular juice won't work.

Perhaps, you could simmer and reduce the orange juice down to concentrate?

Wow, this was an extremely simple cake that could be whipped together in a few minutes. Most of the time is just waiting for the cake to cool.

If you cook it, you'll end with a syrup that isn't much like concentrate... you need to just boil the water out, and it's a painfully slow process.

 

[DaveC426913]

Oops, that can be another problem. After some googling I know what it is, but I don't think I have ever seen one here. Most likely I will have to ignore "frozen" part.

You don't have frozen, concentrated orange juice where you live? Are you on Earth?

 

[nismaratwork]

You don't have frozen, concentrated orange juice where you live? Are you on Earth?

Especially given this: http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=5805

Poland, which is the world's largest apple juice concentrate supplier will have crops 50% smaller than in 2006, and the processing industry will receive no more than one third of the apples they used a year ago. As a result, the production can be 75% smaller comparing to 2006.

The end of the article mentions oranges as well... This is definitely in Poland.

Borek, OJ concentrate =

 

[HeLiXe]

I haven't seen this stuff since I was a child. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing LOL

 

[nismaratwork]

I haven't seen this stuff since I was a child. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing LOL

As a kid it's just a canned super-popsicle... not *****y orange juice!

 

[Borek]

The end of the article mentions oranges as well... This is definitely in Poland.

Not many places in Poland where oranges are grown. This was one of them:

http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plik:Stara_pomaranczarnia.jpg&filetimestamp=20100327134024

 

[HeLiXe]

As a kid it's just a canned super-popsicle... not *****y orange juice!

*counts the stars* B-L-O-...

I wonder if people drink it with Vodka

Another thing I loved from childhood is croquettes, I didn't know the word for them and when I asked my aunt for the soft hot dogs one day she looked at me quite confused.

 

[nismaratwork]

*counts the stars* B-L-O-...

I wonder if people drink it with Vodka

Another thing I loved from childhood is croquettes, I didn't know the word for them and when I asked my aunt for the soft hot dogs one day she looked at me quite confused.

Good memories there! I love croquettes too, but damn they are fatty... and worth it.


Borek: That's a beautiful picture... what a place to grow oranges! Still... juice concentrates are like Spam... they're everywhere. It may be you've walked right past them without recognizing them too, often they're stuffed together in one area of a freezer, and look like cans.