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This is a thread for the discussion of food. From favourite recipes, outlets and breeds, to whether you care where it comes from, organic v intensive farmed etc.
Essentially, if it's to do with food, this is the thread!
The inspiration came, bizarrely from Frazzled's thread about boycotting Haggis. Now I know Haggis isn't exactly high cuisine, but I feel it embodies a food philosophy I am trying to live to, namely Snout To Tail eating. As the name kind of suggests, this is where you eat every last edible bit of the body, and at least use the non-edible bits to help create stocks etc for recipes. Totally lefty view here, but I think it's highly respectful to the dead animal that it's entirely consumed.
Ultimately, I'd love to own a stake in a small holding so I can have my meat reared from birth for me, and get a freezer full of tasty meat every time an animal is sent to slaughter. I'm not squeamish about my food, and would happily eat Pigs Trotters, Ears, Tongue, Kidneys etc. It's all meat, and it's all good as far as I'm concerned.
So how much does the source of your food matter? Not looking to preach to anyone, as I'd hope you could see the appeal in Snout To Tail without being beaten over the head with it. It's not easy to live up to. I've been trying for some time, and am still nowhere near achieving it!
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Well originally only reason the cuisine of many countries was centered around many spices, such as Indian and Italian, was to hide the taste of bad quality meat. So as such today the quality of meat in those recipies doesn't need to be too high. Whereas a british sunday roast benefits from good quality meat for example.
Btw pigs trotters usually come with hairs still attached, which personally I don't find that appetizing.
I LOVE the Snout to Tail philosophy! My family makes menudo, which is basically cow stomach, and its delicious. I don't care where my food comes from, as long as its delicious, interestingly enough most of that is from organic foods. I am a pretty good cook and can prepare anything from our families old, authentic Mexican food recipes to European foods to desserts. After sampling the quality of Mexican food in Britain, I think that I would make a killing by opening my own restaurant.
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Personally at the moment i have a thing for brownies probably due to an insanely easy recipe i stumbled apon recently
1 and 1/2 cups of self raising flour
1 and 1/2 cups of cocoa powder (higher quality the better)
2 and 1/2 cups of caster sugar (white for sweet brownies, light brown for rich brownies although i like a 50/50 mix of the two)
250 grams of butter (melted and cooled)
5 large eggs
and a pinch of salt
First preheat your oven to 180 degree's C/350 degree's farenheit/gas mark 4 and line the base of a two inch deep baking tray with baking parchment. After this combine the melted and cooled butter with the sugar in a large bowl and sieve together the flour and cocoa powder in another bowl (adding the salt to this bowl also), add in your eggs and combine thoroughly before pouring in the flour/cocoa mix and stirring to insure there are no lumps and the mix is blended completely.
Pour the mix into your tray until it is 3/4 full and bake for around 20-30 minutes (keep looking in on it to see when its done), when you remove it from the oven it should have a solid crust yet the centre should wobble slightly if the top is tapped.
Leave to cool completely before slicing and storing, although the brownies tend to get better with age in my experience.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:This is a thread for the discussion of food. From favourite recipes, outlets and breeds, to whether you care where it comes from, organic v intensive farmed etc.
Essentially, if it's to do with food, this is the thread!
The inspiration came, bizarrely from Frazzled's thread about boycotting Haggis. Now I know Haggis isn't exactly high cuisine, but I feel it embodies a food philosophy I am trying to live to, namely Snout To Tail eating. As the name kind of suggests, this is where you eat every last edible bit of the body, and at least use the non-edible bits to help create stocks etc for recipes. Totally lefty view here, but I think it's highly respectful to the dead animal that it's entirely consumed.
Frazzled associated with Snout to Tail eating. Yes. I have achieved internet Nirvana.
I will have to have a discussion of Texas or Louisiana food, which would be what is called fusion nowdays if California turkeys made it.
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Its a mix of French, North American Indian, patois ex-slave, and US Southern. Lots of rice dishes in the Southern part and generaly can be seasoned extremely spicy. More North is more traditional Us Southern-lots of fried stuff. The sourthern portion are masters of pastry and more seafoods.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So if Texas is generally Tex-Mex, what is Louisiana grub about?
Texas is also a mix of German and East European actually-especially deserts.
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I love Indian food, especially beef vindaloo. I can't see why people can't stand it when it's so spicy and full of flavour.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Cheese Elemental wrote:I love Indian food, especially beef vindaloo. I can't see why people can't stand it when it's so spicy and full of flavour.
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Indian food is the best in the world, IMO. Eating their curry is like eating distilled awesome with a sprinkling of Chuck Norris.
And that mango-yoghurt-drink thing, can't remember what it's called, but it's heavenly. Divinely inspired!
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Cheese Elemental wrote:Indian food is the best in the world, IMO. Eating their curry is like eating distilled awesome with a sprinkling of Chuck Norris.
And that mango-yoghurt-drink thing, can't remember what it's called, but it's heavenly. Divinely inspired!
lassi, it's pakistani not indian. As are many curries most people call indian, indian food involves a lot less meat. Saying that, pakistan was part of india when they were first created.
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Lassi! Thank you. Yes, I know it's Pakistani, but yes, Pakistan was part of India, so I consider it Indian.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Also, a quick question. Watching a report on BBC Morning News, and they are covering the boom in Pear Cider sales (up from £3.4m in two years to a colossal £43m!) and how it is benefitting British fruit farmers.
Not only is their greater demand for their produce, but no longer are 'outgrade' fruits a problem. What's an outgrade? Why, it's a piece of fruit or a Vegetable with a less than perfect appearance! Which the Supermarkets would refuse. This. Is. Stupid. It's a Carrott. As long as it tastes like Carrott, it's all good.
But which do you think came first? Fussy Supermarkets or fussy Customers? I mean, we live in a world where we struggle to feed everyone with available crops, so surely it's pretty immoral to reject otherwise good food because it looks a little groovy?
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Well... right now I feel like having some mouse... "I vote for the fox in this here race of wits and wiliness, and snow evasion... what kind of arctic mouse is freaking gray... seriously though, and why is that fox red... evolution is a lie!!!"
That is an epic thought... why are there no white mice... hmmm, not so epic really, not so epic at all .
I have also been eating a lot of home-grown tomatoes... here is a diagram for more information.
I find that oddly appetizing .
Wow... and I thought soylent green was out there... GMO apple people, like crazy talking apples, that scream while you eat them... disturbing.
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I've never met a Pakistani, all the Middle-Easterners around here (there are a lot of them) seem to be Syrian or Arabic.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:That be different. That be rotten!
I meaning food of a non-accepted-standard shape or appearance. If it tastes like it should, chop it up, stick it in the pot!
That reminded me of this:
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Food is food. No matter what it looks like on the plate, it's all gonna look pretty similar the next morning I'm sure you'll agree.
And back to Snout To Tail eating. Does anyone on Dakka run a small holding or perhaps even a farm? How do you literally get the most out of your animals?
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In seriousness, I don't know about the pear thing. I can't imagine it is down to public demand as I know many people who are not fussy like that. And if they bunged them in the supermarket at a discount price I imagine a lot of people would buy them.
Which I think it how Sainsbury's at least do their budget range veggies.
One of these days I'm going to buy a home farming type book thing, and turn our largish back garden into a cornucopia of spuds, carrots and stuff! Sadly not quite big enough to keep Chickens, which would be awesome!
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Well, I used to shoot rabbit and wood pigeon. My father is a chef so I'd take them down to him, he'd head n tail em, gut em and use those parts for stock, lungs n gizzards n such went to the foxes though. Rabbit would be quartered and stewed, pigeons roasted whole.
One of my favourite ever dishes is stuffed lambs hearts, braised in an onion gravy (you do need to spend a long time picking off the valves to the heart though, those are ropey). I also love kidneys and liver.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Which I think it how Sainsbury's at least do their budget range veggies.
One of these days I'm going to buy a home farming type book thing, and turn our largish back garden into a cornucopia of spuds, carrots and stuff! Sadly not quite big enough to keep Chickens, which would be awesome!
MDG i find this to be an excuse
In italy you have people with TINY back gardens (3foot by 6 foot) that still manage to keep a pig, some rabbits and some chickens that are all happy
make a roost for the chickens yourself and set it up in the garden for gods sake man how much space do you have?
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