What did you cook or eat today (September 2020)?

[Burt Blank]

I've never heard of making it yourself?

Corned Beef/ Salt Beef is a Jewish staple. I make it here in the winter with the same cut of "young" beef I use for pasticada. I add salt peter for color to my brine.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu24Zyq6hJ8&t=5s

 

[caseydog]

Burt, somehow I can't imagine you eating anything with salt peter in it.

CD

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Preparing chickpeas soup with diced pancetta and chilli pepper for lunch

 

[CraigC]

Care to share? I've never heard of making it yourself? I never even asked my butcger friend how to do it? Does it involve injecting ?

Russ

Most commercial corned beef here uses beef brisket. We used beef knuckle for this one. It is a brine.

 

[Windigo]

A light lunch. Sushi from the local supermarket deli. Salmon/crab/cucumber.

 

[Burt Blank]

Burt, somehow I can't imagine you eating anything with salt peter in it.

CD

Dog mate. Nitrates, under their popular name of saltpeter, have been used in meat products, fish and cheese for many centuries. They have been used to prevent blowing of hard cheeses by the action of gas-forming bacteria. The main reason for their inclusion in hams and sausages was their ability to fix the red color of meat, although at the same time they exerted valuable antimicrobial activity against Clostridium botulinum.

 

[Burt Blank]

Pizza tonight, I have just made the dough. Pictures tomorrow.

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Chickpeas soup ready

 

[Yorky]

Trying out a new bun today. They are too small. And chicken eggs are significantly inferior to duck eggs when it comes to bleeding.

Pork burger.

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• Yorky
• 2 Sep 2020

 

[Burt Blank]

Yorky mate, how long has you been on the quest for the Holy Grail Burger ?

 

[Yorky]

Yorky mate, how long has you been on the quest for the Holy Grail Burger ?

Longer than you may think. My first decent burger was in Leeds (Wimpy Bar, Hyde Park Corner) around 1966. My second decent burger was in Texas somewhere near Galveston around 1993. I'm still awaiting the third.

 

[Morning Glory]

Chickpeas soup ready

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That is a very thick soup!

 

[MypinchofItaly]

That is a very thick soup!

I was wrong writing, it's not a proper soup, only stewed chickpeas

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Nice meal, but wow, your basil looks worse than mine, and mine barely survived the heat of August. Oregano looks good.

CD

This is my second harvest of the basil, and first of the oregano...I had plucked the leaves off to make a pesto, and not all of them had grown back when I decided to use it for the sauce. This is my first season with it. Do you transplant in the winter, or does it not get cold enough in Dallas for you to worry?

 

[Windigo]

Cauliflower with bechamel sauce ( homemade ofc) , sauteed potatoes and merquez sausage.