Friday, November 27

Leftover Turkey Casserole

Probably everyone in America has day old turkey sitting in their fridge right now, here's what I did with mine.

Chop about 2 cups turkey, 2 carrots, 1 turnip and 1 routabega into bite sized pieces. Saute veggies in olive oil along with shallots until browned and beginning to soften. Combine with turkey and add to casserole dish. Top with a layer of crushed corn tortilla chips.

Cook 2 strips of bacon. In the same pan, over low heat, add 2 T. butter and 3 T. flour, stirring until flour is incorporated. Slowly add 2 c. milk until smooth sauce forms. Add 3 dashes cayenne pepper and juice from 1/2 of a lime, bring to a boil, and simmer for 20 minutes. Pour sauce into dish and toss until evenly mixed.

Top with grated cheese (I used pepper jack) and bake 20 minutes covered and 10 uncovered until cheese is bubbly and brown. Gobble gobble!

Saturday, November 14

Tuesday, November 10

Accidental feast!

Monday, November 9

Saturday, November 7

Tuesday, October 20

Cook with ALL of your senses

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Smell
5. Touch
6. Balance and acceleration
7. Temperature
8. Kinesthetic sense
9. Pain
10. Other internal senses ie. Echolocation (sonar)

Saturday, October 17

Fun-Nacho!

Tuesday, September 22

Friday, September 18

Monday, September 7

Deviled egg with bacon on top!

Friday, August 21

Made my own bacon.

Friday, August 7

Bees make honey. people make, money..?

Sunday, August 2

Heirloom tomato time is here!

Saturday, July 11

Ribeye steak & sweet corn

Friday, July 10

Opinion & Analysis: The case for local food


"
Meat Wars...


In an article for The Hamilton Spectator, Howard Elliott illuminates the “many and diverse benefits to eating local,” including that “[l]ocally grown food can more easily be raised without chemicals and additives since it doesn’t need to be transported.” The issue of “food-supply security” is also crucial, suggests Elliott, as local food allows “more personal control [over] what we buy and eat.”
"

Wednesday, July 1



Bacon "pasta" & tofu "meatball". ? !

Thursday, June 25

Snack between softball practice and summer afternoon @ the pool.

Ham&cheez quesadillas, veggies&h2o, a little of your favorite dip.

Thursday, June 18

glutton or rebel chef?

Monday, May 25

Memorial bratwurst-with best company & mustard.
SKAGGSGGAKS

Saturday, May 23

Seal A Meal

A Canadian friend, Pascal, sent this to me. I am checking on U.S. import laws.

Sunday, May 17

Nirvana

Smells like bacon.

Wednesday, May 13

Sunday, May 10

whole fried chicken.
Plow 2 the end of the row.
SKAGGSGGAKS

Friday, May 8

Chive & Sage Flowers
SKAGGSGGAKS

Thursday, May 7

'Omg... it tastes like there is eggs in there.?'

spinach-feta, lorraine, roasted vegetable & cheddar. Big 10 inch Quiches!

Sippel's Pig

pork belly future...

Wednesday, May 6

Double Decker Taco

Marinated London Broil -
sweet corn-jalapeno-avocado-cilantro-crispy corn tortilla-soft flour tortilla-pepper jack cheese-hot sauce-black beans!



Saturday, May 2

SKAGGSGGAKS

Friday, May 1

sooo good.

lite lunch.

Thursday, April 30

rain on baby leaf lettuce. now that is OHIO LATE APRIL.

STAY TUNED!

Something Is Happening.

Sushi Types


  • Nigiri-sushi, slices of fish or other items on pads of rice
  • Maki-sushi, rolled sushi (including handrolls, temaki)
  • Chirashi-sushi, fish and other items served on top of a bowl of vinegared sushi rice
  • Oshi-sushi, squares or rectangles of pressed rice topped with vinegared or cooked fish, made in a wooden mold
  • Stuffed sushi, including chakin-zushi or fukusa-sushi, ingredients wrapped in a thin egg crêpe; and inari-sushi, with ingredients stuffed into a small pouch of fried bean curd (tofu)
  • Sashimi is sliced fish that is served with a bowl of regular boiled rice on the side

Monday, April 27

Lobster fight club.

Thursday, April 23

Deer, Chicken, Corn and poblano pepper


Deer, Chicken, and Corn
Originally uploaded by BganFilms
Marinade:
garlic
shallot
jalapeno
lemon juice
lemon zest
orange juice
orange zest
salt
pepper
gin
vermouth
juniper berries

soaked chicken breasts and venison tender loin in marinade

venison burgers:
ground deer
jalapeno
garlic
shallot
salt
pepper

corn:
um... nothing... it's corn.

poblano:
charred the skin

cook on grill

Wednesday, April 22

FWD:

I will now blog from my phone...
SKAGGSGGAKS

Sunday, April 19

Leftovers and Eggs for breakfast














3/4 red onion,
chopped
Caramelize, then add:
Cucumber and Tomato, sliced
Cook til tender, top with:
Roasted Potatoes and Turnips w/green peppers, onions, and garlic
Warm, for cohesion:
4 2 Silos, farm fresh eggs
Whisk, then add a dash of:
Dill and Red Pepper Powder
Cook on stove top then in 350 degree oven until eggs don't jiggle when shaken.

Sunday, April 12

Hot Pepper Tofu with Potato Carrot Crisps

Enormous blocks of tofu, fried in the wok with some onions and a habanero. Mango. Jalapenos.
Potato and carrot, shredded with jalapeno, parsley, mango, garlic, and some other stuff.
Amazing sauce: hiccup sauce (Thai hot sauce), Worcestershire, taco sauce.

Sunday, April 5

Another Bubble To Burst.

Since 1990, number of restaurants and bars increased in the U.S. to 537,000 from 361,000 a 49% increase, Population of United States grew 23% in that period???

Saturday, March 28

Pork Needs Our Help.


OLIVE OIL
GROUND PORK
PORK SHOULDER
DRIED CHILE:
ANAHEIM, JALAPENO, DEL AMARILLO
CORIANDER
CUMIN
BLACK PEPPER
SEA SALT
RAW SUGAR


YELLOW ONION
CARROT
ROASTED POTATOES
SWEET CORN
BEANS
LIME

Wednesday, March 25

Friday, March 20

Thursday, March 19

I Am Awake. Vernal Eve Haiku.


A Blend Of Black Teas.
Tomorrow is spring, day one.
Excited to plant!

The Thyme Has Come; Lettuce Rejoice!

Monday, March 16

ICE CREAM? No WHEY!



BEWARE. Lurking in the ice cream isle of your supermarket in the same containers as the REAL ice cream is "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT".- Nowhere on the carton does it have the words ICE CREAM..? Whey is the first ingredient, followed by skim milk and then sugar. Whey is a by-product (leftover) from the cheese making process. It is fit for human consumption, however, it is mostly fed to livestock (cows &pigs&chickens).

Sunday, March 15

Babies. It's Whats For Dinner?


Cooking With John does not condone these actions. Just reporting the facts...

Friday, March 13

Two Perennial Vegetables Indigenous to Ohio






















Perennial-a plant living for more than two years.
Indigenous-native.

Thursday, March 12

Don't get Ill, while you grill

In preparation for the grilling season, here's a little food safety advice courtesy of the USDA. I wonder if they sell stuffed animals?

Wednesday, March 11

Monday, March 9

Steak and Potatoes


steak pic
Originally uploaded by BganFilms
Marinated and baked steak with fried potato Latke and kumquat chutney.

Bottom round marinated in:
Soy
zested ginger
garlic
assorted hot peppers
for twenty-four hours.

Latkes
Shredded potato
garlic
jalapeno
salt
pepper
cumin
cayenne
fried in olive oil

Kumquat Chutney
40 kumquats chopped and de-seeded
sugar
apple cider vinegar
coriander

Saturday, March 7

Rock out with your stock out.

One from the vault. Just as we were coming out of the Thanksgiving side dish haze, we recycled some of the leftovers to make stock. A combination of the leftover turkey bones, a mire poix, and spices -- sauteed in turkey fat. As an added bonus, Croke describes a recent brush with the law.

Thursday, March 5

Tuesday, March 3

Name That Garden.

Victory gardens, war gardens or food gardens for defense..?

"Victory and defeat are of the same price."
Thomas Jefferson

“I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.”
Sam Houston

“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I vote for a UNITY GARDEN.

Sunday, March 1

U.S.D.A. Livestock Projections

We are consuming more meat but paying less as a percentage of our income. Know where your meat comes from?

LABELING CATEGORIES

The law expressly establishes four general categories of meat products.

Product of the United States - A covered commodity is eligible for designation as "Product of U.S." only if it is derived "exclusively from an animal that is exclusively born, raised and slaughtered in the United States."

Multiple countries of origin - A product is deemed to have multiple countries of origin if the animal from which it was derived was born and/or raised in a different country or countries and then slaughtered in the U.S. Covered commodities in this category would have to identify all the relevant countries.

Animals imported for immediate slaughter - Covered commodities from animals raised in another country but slaughtered in the U.S. would fall into this category.

Imported finished products to be sold at retail - Meat products imported from another country would be labeled as a product of that country.

The statute also has special provisions for ground products such as ground beef or ground pork. Specifically, the law allows ground products to declare on labels the countries of origin from which the product inputs came or, in the alternative, the label may declare the countries �that may be reasonably contained therein.� Thus, the regulation allows a ground beef label, for example, to list the countries that are or may be the sources of the ground beef inputs, so long as the processor has had in inventory an input from that country in the previous 60 days.


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Meet Your Meat

in 1960 we, in the U.S., ate about 28 pounds of chicken per person per year. Today we eat over 90 pounds.

Sugar Consumption In The U.S. 26 Pounds To 135 Lbs. Of Sugar Per Person Per Year!

Could higher taxes on foods with high sugar content help get our economy back on track at the same time reducing the obesity scourge???

Wednesday, February 4

The major players in the food aid game

"We must refute the false idea of reality that accepts as inevitable what is in fact a result
of present politics; in other words, of organized chaos.
Each and every one of us must support measures to save the living.
If only people are told what is happening, then the world's dark future, which now
seems to threaten everyone in it, may be changed.
But only if we take action.
Now is the time to act, now is the time to create, now is the time for us to live in a way
that will give life to others.”

– The Manifesto Against Hunger, 1981

Trillionaire

How Many People Can We Feed With A $1,000,000,000,000?

Sunday, February 1

Bakin' bread with Bacon

Recorded Summer of '08, our first podcast features an unorthodox take on the classic summer sandwich, the BLT. Nothing like crisp bacon stacked on toasted bread with some fresh-picked lettuce and tomatoes. That is, unless you happen to have a round of bacon rye bread in the house. This episode features a special guest: Founder of and chief baker at Le Petit Boulangerie, Daniel Reisenbach.

Salmagundi



Excerpt from The Seafarers: The Pirates
by Douglas Botting & the Editors of Time-Life Books

"A cook might include as the basis of his salmagundi any or all of the following: turtle meat, fish, pork, chicken, corned beef, ham, duck and pigeon. The meats would be roasted, chopped into chunks and marinated in spiced wine, then combined with cabbage, anchovies, pickled herring, mangoes, hard-boiled eggs, palm hearts, onions, olives, grapes and any other pickled vegetables that were available. The whole would then be highly seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper and mustard seed and doused with oil and vinegar - and served with drafts of beer and rum."

Wednesday, January 28

Chickens And Eggs

Which was first?

One idea:

First, we eat the chickens.


Then, we ate it's eggs.

Friday, January 23

Wednesday, January 21

BUY WISELY. COOK CAREFULLY. EAT IT ALL.

Saturday, January 17

Happy Birthday Ben Franklin, thanks for the stove


1706 Benjamin Franklin was born. American diplomat, publisher, inventor, etc. Among his inventions were the Franklin stove and bifocal eyeglasses. He also published 'Poor Richard's Almanac.'

Quotes:
  • An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
  • Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
  • Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
  • Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
  • An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  • Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
  • Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
  • Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
  • Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
  • He that can have patience can have what he will.
  • He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
  • He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
  • Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
  • Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
  • Well done is better than well said.
  • Fish and visitors smell in three days.
  • To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I heard he liked to hang out in coffee shops.?

check it out: http://www.foodreference.com/