What did I cook this weekend.....

[cpa4ny]

Lamb chops with fig / olive / shallots / toasted almonds salsa, with a side of spinach, roasted onions & bell pepper salad.

 

[podz]

back in the netherlands, the farmers around our town would give you a box of .22 ammo just to get out and shoot rabbits, we always had a lot of rabbit for dinner.

best is just panfried in lots of butter with some salt and pepper

I wish we were allowed to kill these damned city rabbits but, of course, they are protected and it is illegal. There's an entire army of them living in my yard (I have a really big yard) and they make my terriers crazy. My Russell stands on the back of the sofa looking out the window at them, trying to bark them to death. I think they set up camp under my car every time I'm home for more than 5 minutes.

So, I end up buying rabbit from the store when I want to eat it - which in the summer is quite often.

 

[stella_tigre]

We had a lot more bunnies in town than out here in the country. More predators. It was almost funny, watching 12 deer including 3 bucks just behind the house this evening, and I was more surprised to see a rabbit hopping out of the brush! Hadn't seen any in several weeks...

More on topic, for those with holiday feasts coming up, what is your planned menu and drink lists?

 

[mattmmille]

I had some oysters still left over from the weekend and a friend mentioned a recipe he heard of. I thought Id try it out. "Carpetbagger steak" top sirloin stuffed with oysters and basted in garlic butter... delicious.......

Heard of it, but never tried it. Oh my dayum, that looks good!!! And the steak looks perfectly cooked.

 

[podz]

More on topic, for those with holiday feasts coming up, what is your planned menu and drink lists?

Haven't decided yet. We've got a huge duck in the freezer, also 6 whole goose breasts. I'm leaning toward the duck, just to free up some space.

Probably will make the traditional christmas salad - rocket, goat cheese and pomegranate seeds.

As for wine, I normally snub my nose at Sicilian wines, but this stuff is awesome:

http://www.alko.fi/en/products/452207/

 

[applescrap]

We had a lot more bunnies in town than out here in the country. More predators. It was almost funny, watching 12 deer including 3 bucks just behind the house this evening, and I was more surprised to see a rabbit hopping out of the brush! Hadn't seen any in several weeks...

More on topic, for those with holiday feasts coming up, what is your planned menu and drink lists?

Drink try a real old fashioned

 

[slym2none]

My dad & his wife always cook Christmas dinner. No idea what it will be. No beer or wine.

If it isn't a turkey, I'm cooking one between Christmas & New Years. I haven't had turkey this year! I would do it for NYE, but I am house/dogsitting for some friends this NYE, and will basically be spending it alone. Probably order a pizza & get some beer.

 

[applescrap]

This drink is money...you could muddle thin orange slice and cherry. Or use raspberries?
Muddle sugar and bitters then add orange (raspberry) cherry stir add ice add whiskey ... top w soda water maybe

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[hunter_le five]

This drink is money...you could muddle thin orange slice and cherry. Or use raspberries?
Muddle sugar and bitters then add orange (raspberry) cherry stir add ice add whiskey ... top w soda water maybe

I drank the sh!t out of those back in college.

Then I got lazy, and became a neat drinker.

 

[slym2none]

Has anyone heard of an Old Fashioned? If only there was a way to get the recipe if I was looking for it...

 

[slym2none]

..aha! Found it! I just used Google.

*LOL*

 

[stella_tigre]

There's a lovely restaurant in Madison WI called The Old Fashioned, kids took us there and I had my first one, very nice. I like mine sour, not sweet. Grew up on Manhattens, so to speak, but OFs are easier on my poor old digestive system. Templeton rye with a couple of ice cubes still works though.

For us xmas eve is pork pernil, cornbread, rice, something vegetable. Kids like OFs maybe we should get the makings for those....Mead tasting before, but would wine or beer be better with dinner? Almond cake with berries for DD belated bday cake.

Xmas day, prime rib, homemade rolls, baked potatoes, homegrown roasted veggies. Gotta find a nice red wine for that! Apple and blueberry galettes with ice cream for dessert, maybe a nice sippable digestif.

What's your favorite go-to wine for roast beast?

 

[slym2none]

What's your favorite go-to wine for roast beast?

Beer.

 

[ChefRex]

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[chisena]

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Meat and bourbon to aid in the grilling process

 

[Kharnynb]

Christmas dinner list (pretty traditional finnish style)

Appetizers:
-cold smoke salmon, warm smoked salmon, gravlax.
-pickled herring 2 different styles.
-fish roe with onions and creme fraiche.
-homebaked karelian pies.

Mains:
-Whole ham roasted on the bone.
-potato, rutabaga and carrot casseroles(3 different casseroles).
- peas and plums for with the ham
- rossoli salad (cubed red root, apple, carrot, pickle and onion.)

Dessert:
homemade gingerbread icecream.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Everyone would enjoy it if they like chicken. I think it's the closest thing to chicken I've every had.

We always had it dredged in flour and fried (Same for squirrels), but I've had it in stews and baked at other places and it's just really good (Except when you bite down on some #6 .410 shot...)

I don't really like chicken, but rabbit is a completely different animal. The first time I had rabbit, i was told it was chicken, and it was the worst chicken ever. Speedies are delicious, especially when you know what you are eating.

We had a lot more bunnies in town than out here in the country. More predators. It was almost funny, watching 12 deer including 3 bucks just behind the house this evening, and I was more surprised to see a rabbit hopping out of the brush! Hadn't seen any in several weeks...

More on topic, for those with holiday feasts coming up, what is your planned menu and drink lists?

Fiancée cooked up a ham today, not sure for Christmas what we're eating, but hopefully something good! I'm planning a few bourbon barrel aged stouts with food.

 

[slym2none]

I often use beer or spirits when cooking. Sometimes they even end up in the food!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Christmas dinner list (pretty traditional finnish style)

Appetizers:
-cold smoke salmon, warm smoked salmon, gravlax.
-pickled herring 2 different styles.
-fish roe with onions and creme fraiche.
-homebaked karelian pies.

Mains:
-Whole ham roasted on the bone.
-potato, rutabaga and carrot casseroles(3 different casseroles).
- peas and plums for with the ham
- rossoli salad (cubed red root, apple, carrot, pickle and onion.)

Dessert:
homemade gingerbread icecream.

Your holiday menu could be used by the Finnish Tourism Dept. I'd show up with a fork & spoon just for the appetizers! I hope you post pics so I can drool over them.
Regards, GF.

 

[LakesideBrewing]

What's your favorite go-to wine for roast beast?

Barolo.

 

[ChefRex]

Christmas dinner list (pretty traditional finnish style)

Appetizers:
-cold smoke salmon, warm smoked salmon, gravlax.
-pickled herring 2 different styles.
-fish roe with onions and creme fraiche.
-homebaked karelian pies.

Mains:
-Whole ham roasted on the bone.
-potato, rutabaga and carrot casseroles(3 different casseroles).
- peas and plums for with the ham
- rossoli salad (cubed red root, apple, carrot, pickle and onion.)

Dessert:
homemade gingerbread icecream.

-homebaked karelian pies. Elaborate, I googled it and I was led to a breed of dog, you don't eat dog do you?

 

[vanishingpint]

My son and I bought a Masterbuilt/Butterball electric turkey fryer.We did a 14 lb turkey for Thanksgiving and two whole chickens at once last week.It does a great job and you can boil or steam in it also. Christmas day we're going to steam a whole duck for two hours; let it air dry for several hours then deep fry it to crisp the skin. Has anyone tried this method ? It sounds like it should work out really tasty.

 

[Kharnynb]

karelian pies contain no dog, unless our dog is shedding and near the baking

rye crust filled with a rice or potato filling(rice porridge is more common)

 

[Temptd2]

Christmas eve we typically do cracked fresh Dungeness crab, steamed/peeled/chilled shrimp with cocktail sauce, artichokes with lemon garlic aioli, garlic bread, champagne. This year, sadly, no fresh Dungeness crabs here - they're all full of the dang domoic acid from the algae bloom just offshore because our water is so unseasonably warm. So, instead, it will be the shrimp/cocktail sauce, King crab legs cut into chunks and made into a crab salad, the artichokes/sauce, and jalapeno cheese bread made into garlic bread, and we'll be taste-testing our Evil Twin lager-like ale which has been in the conditioning chamber for 3 weeks now. For dessert we are cheating - Blue Bunny Peanut Butter Panic ice cream, best damn ice cream I ever ate!

Christmas day, we'll have appetizers of whatever is left of the shrimp and crab and bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers and some nice Gloria Ferrer blanc de noir sparkling wine, then for dinner, rotisseried prime rib, twice-baked potatoes, more artichokes/sauce, Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cab, my sister is bringing a salad and a dessert.

 

[TexasDroughtBrewery]

Smoked pork shoulder.

 

[podz]

-homebaked karelian pies. Elaborate, I googled it and I was led to a breed of dog, you don't eat dog do you?

Wheat on the outside, rice on the inside. Spread butter and egg yolk mixture on top and eat warm.

 

[Kharnynb]

only cheap storebought karelian pies use wheat, real one are 100% rye flour

 

[Kharnynb]

forgot to take pictures of making of the gravlax, but here is the warm smoked salmon prepped today for christmas eve.

 

[ChefRex]

forgot to take pictures of making of the gravlax, but here is the warm smoked salmon prepped today for christmas eve.

What's the heat source on the grill?

 

[Gavin C]

forgot to take pictures of making of the gravlax, but here is the warm smoked salmon prepped today for christmas eve.

Amazingly delicious looking. I want to go to Finland for Xmas.