We are right now in a “small” Jiaohe City (蛟河市) in Jilin Province in China. To around here millions of Koreans fled during WWII and had here a huge Korean Minority with Korean schools, Korean shops, etc. You didn’t need to speak Chinese until you went to basically highschool.
I just fuckin’ love short ribs. Braised 2.5 hours in some Carmenere and beef stock with onion, garlic, and thyme and served on top of some pan fried asparagus.
I made home made pork broth then the plan was to cook egg noodles in the pork broth with some ham, the egg noodles just sucked up all the pork broth though.
I made baguettes for the Grey Cup and they turned out great. I misplaced the recipe, I’ll have to find it and make these again.
It was a two day process and ingredients were. 3 1/2 flour, 1 TSP instant yeast, 2 TSP salt, 1 tbsp honey.
It was hard to get a good picture, sorry it’s not that amazing of a photo 😅 thoughts on how to better photograph a smashburger are welcome if something comes to mind
I use the pizza dough recipe found here, but note that it makes very fluffy dough. I cut the amount of yeast in half and it’s still more than fluffy enough. (I also only have bread flour but it’s Fine™)
Got a dish at Restaurant La Buche in Québec City called La Boulette À Mamie — beef patty, mashed potatoes, caramelized onions, sautéed peas and maple bacon, red wine meat gravy (wish I showed it better but it’s on the potatoes back there😆). I’d like to recreate something like this back home. Smelled and tasted as good as it looks on the plate, no filters necessary;)
Until I had fresh heirlooms. Now I like to try and grow any kind and they're generally all great. Didn't plant any this year though, these were from a neighbor's generous bounty :)
A Wild Thyme:
- About 1.5 kg wild Venison mince - best if you have harvested your self or if it is pest control from kiwi conservation area.
- some 2 onions, diced
- 3, 4 or 5 cloves of garlic (maybe more) - If you have access to wild garlic all the better.
- Carrots - yeah about that many looks about right, best harvested from your own garden.
- Bay Laurel leaves - just a couple from in the garden.
- A sprig of wild Thyme - not too much (may require a trip to Gibbston in the Queenstown Lakes).
- Wild kawakawa - a good 4 or 6 leaves. Take one of the kids out to the local state forest park to harvest these.
- Fresh water from an alpine stream (or just the tap).
- Mead, I used Rewarewa mead (honey wine) to add a but of that special flavour.
- 50 odd grams of home made butter, fresh from the cow - or corner store
It tastes so good! I've kept a sourdough starter around for like 3 years now and made a few things but never a proper sourdough bread, had some vacation time recently and decided to eat that frog. It turned out so well! Just wanted to share my happy, hope y'all are doing ok
This turned out amazing.
I used fresh broccoli, not frozen, which was nice because it had a nice little crunch to it. Using frozen I think it would've felt to mushy. Some crispy bacon would be such a great addition. The recipe I used is at the link below.
Made this crispy fried sandwich the other day. Pick your protein, I used tofu because I had it haha. Bottom up: bread, Aoli, tomatoes, Alberta lettuce, breaded and fried protein, sriacha, bread.
Pan-fried 1kg turkey breast chunks, set aside.
In the same pan, cooked shallots, garlic, fresh ginger, fresh turmeric, lemongrass, galangal, coriander seeds, lime leaves.
Stirred in 50g panang curry paste and 500ml coconut milk.