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Here is a good one for you. I am cooking another standing rib roast. It is a two bone 6 lb. roast. I go to the varous sites for inspiration and not to my surprise, many are sqeamish about blood on their plate. I have two I live with, my wife prefers bloody rare, the rarer the better and my...

Some idiot suggested that beets only took 25 minutes to boil to completion. I am stuck up here at 8000 ft in colorado and as you know due to lack of air pressure things boil at a lower temperature. It can be one and a half to two hours for beets. Even at sea level at my house in texas it took...

I am not exactly sure where this belongs, so I will let the admin people move it wherever. It is about comparing hoch deuch vs. platt deuch [high vs. low german cooking]. Suffice it to say they are very different. The recipe my mother gave me many years ago for potato salad was nothing like...

This one belongs in the special diets category, but there is no category for it. When I look at recipes for various things, I keep bumping into my nemesis the chili pepper. Courtesy, of the USAF and south east asia. It is a case of I love the food but it does not like me. Sometimes, it is 3...

One thing I have noticed about many cooks/chefs, they make recipes that are needlessly busy and complex. Or else they put stuff in I would not on a bet. That said, the mexicans in south texas have a nifty and simple way of preparing whole (1015 sweet onions) on the grill or charcoal grill...

Last time I checked the Texas daily bag limit was 22 snow geese a day, with a possession limit of 40. [it has to do with their population exploding] A lot of people start to waste parts of the bird with that kind of abundance. This is a shame, many of the preparation suggestions made no mention...

I like flavor, but my brother in law whom my wife and I are taking care of, does not. He detests anything other than salt and pepper in his food. His brother is not much better. The meatloaf I am preparing tonight will have some nice things in it, but they will be diced bell pepper, diced...

This one even pleased my picky brother in law. He feels that anything other than salt and pepper is verboten. I picked up the rack of spare ribs at a gormet (spelling?) grocery. They were very lean, and only 99 cents a lb. Sooooo. when I go home I formulated a recipe for the marinade. The...

For health reasons, my wife prefers is I use a less calorific way of cooking fish. In this case the fish was nursery raised rainbow trout, nice and fresh. I ran into the same bugbear many other people do, the infamous fragmenting fish. Sooooo, I took a piece of foil too large for the fish...

Here we go again.... No goat [cabrito] category. Well.... this is goat. The champion spring kid in Durango Colorado last year weighed in at 137 lbs. These are boer goats, a breed bred for meat not milk. We went down to shiprock and bought a hindquarter each of mutton[good stuff], and the...

My wife and I are up here in Colorado tending to her brother. Today I decided to make a lamb stew using anasazi beans. The beans are related to pintos, but cook a little quicker and are creamier. If you want to know what they look like, you might try googling it and select images, or go to...

I marinaded the ribs in some common brand of Hawaiian stuff [Lawry's]. This time I cut the ribs apart. Hickory wood chips were soaked for 2 to 3 hours. Then put in a foil packet and poked holes in it. Put the packet right on the burner shield to smoke. The ribs were arranged on a rack above...

We eat much chicken. Poor retired teachers you know. Well I bought a free range one, we prefer those to the sticky chickies in the grocery store. I looked online at some suggestions and recipes and I did not like what I saw. Most people make this more complicated than it needs to be and also...

To my surprise I found little tubs of frozen turkey gizzards in the grocer's chest freezer. Well, since my wife and I like them and they are very hard to get, I snapped them up. I have friends who feed them to their pets, little do they know! What I will do is make a pot pie with them. It...

Today I had two smoked ham hocks in the freezer and thought they would be good in a pot of beans. Looking in the cupboard, I found a bag of anasazi beans, yum! The adobe milling company sells them. The anasazi beans are sort of like pinto beans, but cook up quicker and are creamier. For more...

I have noticed that people make the mistake of trusting their grocer, butcher. When it comes to beef heart how it is raised and handled after it is butchered is reflected in its taste. I have tasted beef heart that had a flavor like liver, I mean gamey liver. But also, I have had beef heart...

My wife bought some pistachios the other day. They are not salted, brother are they bland, but not stale. So, I think if someone could suggest a simple recipe it would be greatly appreciated. I have heard of things like cashew chicken, a friend likes that one. Perhaps some type of pound...

This is more a sort of recipe, nothing exact. The other thing, why is it that most of the websites that deal with cooking consider things like rabbit wild game. The one I am cooking today is a domestic rabbit. Lovers of wild game would generally consider it too bland in flavor. I have no...

This one is not normally listed in the usual glossaries. What is the difference between a bain-marie and a double boiler?

I am not sure exactly where this post goes, maybe the moderater could do what he does best. Well, anyway, I taught and I read and now I understand there are a bunch of people who do not like certain foods. Well, I don't like lima beans, so what; I think if it was prepared well, I could choke...

I was just looking into past posts on Brussels sprouts and along with other vegetables a lot people must not have been raised right. The general sentiment is hate the vegetable. Very strange! They need to taste it raw and come up with their own ideas. Some are good raw, some are not, but...

This was one of my mother's favorites. Whole herring are breaded and fried, then laid in a dish and pickling juice is poured over. Onion rings are prepared in the pickle juice. The dish is put in the fridge and chilled for a few days. I am sure someone on this forum can dredge up a good...

I just watch an episode of good eats on the idiot box. Alton Brown was showing how to make rollmops with rainbow trout. It made sense, because fresh herring is not available here in south Texas. It brought me back to my childhood in Connecticut. My mother, a German would buy jars of it and...

We had some yellow summer squash left over last night. My wife suggested I make mashed squash, like potatoes. I thought "ugh, like at the school cafeteria!" But, like a good husband, I didn't say a word and tried to show a little enthusiasm. She did, however, make a interesting suggestion...

Something I picked up years ago is a technique that allows you to dispense with much of the labor of basting and inspecting of the food while it is cooking. This time I used a bottled marinade [Lawry's Hawaiian] for a rack of baby back ribs. When I use the gas grill, I will use a foil pack of...