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Skriven 2010-10-19 21:28:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Recent meals
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Turnip and pea soup with chicken and pork broth:

I had been saving roasting pan drippings and frying pan deglazings
as well boiling up bird carcasses and ham bones and accumulated
something like 3 litres of concentrated stock: about 1 part bacon, 2
parts each ham and pork and 3 parts each chicken and turkey. I can
only guess what all the seasonings were after mixing them together
but the bacon would have been sprinkled with coriander and black
pepper, the ham had a mustard powder rub, the pork roast had a
garlic slices stuffed into slits and a sage and savory rub, the
turkey and the chicken both had poultry seasoning and a little
cayenne. There might have been more but memory fails me. In any
event the stock was incredible. I boiled diced yellow turnip in it
for about 5 minutes, added an equal amount of slivered snow peas and
chicken meat picked from the bones and simmered maybe 2 minutes
more. Very nice outcome. For once I actually enjoyed rutabagas.

Chicken livers two ways:

They were on both special and markdown ($2.69/kg less 30%) so I got
a large package. The first night I sliced some in half and stir
fried them with sweet red peppers, snow peas and onion and smothered
in a sauce I started making in college from fast food packets: soy
sauce, mustard and ketchup. The next night I made a pate with the
rest of them seasoned with black pepper, mustard and Dave's pork
spice mix and served it on rye toast with chopped hard boiled eggs,
diced onion and gherkins. Both were winners. There's two more
packages in the freezer waiting for inspiration.

Spinach dip and lavash:

I made the standard spinach dip with chopped boiled spinach, mayo
and sour cream seasoned with lemon juice, pepper, cayenne and a
commercial spice packet. The spice mix was Cheese, Chives and Bacon
dip mix from Victorian Epicure, a company out of B.C, which markets
via sales reps doing home parties (like Tupperware etc.) My cleaning
lady is flogging the stuff. It's OK but I only bought some as she's
a friend. The lavash was half price at Loblaws because it was on
it's "best before" day. Now really, just how does lavash go stale?!?

Cheers

YK Jim


... Even the cockroaches were, "whatevs".

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