Recipes / Food - Drink

[montsnmags]

It's very basic, simple (chuck everything in, turn on appliance) but yesterday I slow-cooked (10 hours) a corned beef. Today, sandwiches (toasted sourdough, corned beef, cornichons). Likely tomorrow too. The day after. And corned beef salad...

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

It's very basic, simple (chuck everything in, turn on appliance) but yesterday I slow-cooked (10 hours) a corned beef. Today, sandwiches (toasted sourdough, corned beef, cornichons). Likely tomorrow too. The day after. And corned beef salad...

I had planned to buy a slow cooker when I was in the States, but forgot... I have several cookbooks of slow cooker recipes and a lot of them look really really tasty. The Japanese are reluctant to use electrical cooking devices that are left on when no one is at home to oversee them. Concerns about fires...
Most folks turn off all electrical devices before going to bed!


Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I had planned to buy a slow cooker when I was in the States, but forgot... I have several cookbooks of slow cooker recipes and a lot of them look really really tasty. The Japanese are reluctant to use electrical cooking devices that are left on when no one is at home to oversee them. Concerns about fires...
Most folks turn off all electrical devices before going to bed!


Stitchawl

do you need to have one sent to you?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I had planned to buy a slow cooker when I was in the States, but forgot... I have several cookbooks of slow cooker recipes and a lot of them look really really tasty. The Japanese are reluctant to use electrical cooking devices that are left on when no one is at home to oversee them. Concerns about fires...
Most folks turn off all electrical devices before going to bed!


Stitchawl

It's one of the benefits (turn it on before going to work), but I can see how that view would contra this benefit. I like them because they suit my style (slow ) and because I like what they do to meat (infuse it with so much flavour while bringing it to "melting" (in your mouth) point). I haven't done a veggie curry in it yet, though I love veggie curries too, so I should give it a go.

I have just finished mortar-and-and-pestling some Thai green curry paste while The Loved One clipped our Maggie-dog (the heat is getting to her). I discovered that (Megan) Washington's album (and, no doubt, those of others) is good to bash away to. I love mortar-and-pestling...smelling each ingredient add its aroma to the paste (well, not the gapi at first ). Thai green chicken curry tonight.

Cheers,
Marc

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

do you need to have one sent to you?

Thanks for the thought, but I could easily do that myself. I maintain two US forwarding accounts; one for regular mail on a monthly basis, and one just for packages as needed. With Amazon not shipping 50% of their goods to Japan, I use it often!(that one will re-pack several shipments into one, and fudges the value amounts on the customs declarations for me. It was a blessing when living in countries that tack on 50%-80% import duties on everything!)

In fact, I'm getting ready to have a new popcorn maker sent to me. I've used the "Whirley-Pop" pan for many, many years but the company seems to have cheapened the quality of the replacement one I have and I'm not satisfied with it. I'm going to order a heavy duty stainless steel model from another company. It's a shame as the old Whirley-Pops were great devices. I use it at least 4-5 times a week and this new one feels as if it will fall apart if I breath on it wrong!

Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I love mortar-and-pestling...smelling each ingredient add its aroma to the paste (well, not the gapi at first ).

It's the smell of a Thai outdoor local market!

Thai green chicken curry tonight.

That sounds good. I haven't had Thai green curry in almost two months. You've started me thinking!


Stitchawl

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

It's the smell of a Thai outdoor local market!

I haven't been to Thailand, though The Loved One wants to take me as he has been. I have been to Bali quite a few times if not for a while, and the wall of warm humidity that hits you when you step off the plane in Denpasar is soaked in aromas, some of which are food-related... one of my fonder memories of Bali, that arrival (almost a "coming home" feeling).

That sounds good. I haven't had Thai green curry in almost two months. You've started me thinking!

I'm the paste-man. I'll do any and all of the paste-making, and leave the Loved One to their inclusion in meals. He wants a red too, but we need to find some more chillies for that. Fresh veggies and such are in slightly short supply at the moment, with the floods and, locally, what I think is unnecessary panic-buying. The Noosa Farmers Markets shut early today as, according to my brother-out-law who has a stall there (his own products, and butter, fruit, veggies, and some local goat cheeses), it was swarmed this morning and everything sold out very quickly. High prices are coming apparently (at all our markets, as well as supermarkets), as old stock runs down. I'm not complaining (it would be contemptibly petty of me, against the suffering of others), but just observing.

Cheers,
Marc

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I haven't been to Thailand, though The Loved One wants to take me as he has been.

Let him take you! It's the second best place in the world for eating, after Singapore. We lived in Thailand for many years, and even today you can get a great dinner for less than $3! Every night the local sidewalks turn into restaurants as the vendors set out tables and chairs next to their carts, and on some streets you can walk for miles and never be more than 20 feet from a vendor's stall!

I have been to Bali quite a few times if not for a while, and the wall of warm humidity that hits you when you step off the plane in Denpasar is soaked in aromas, some of which are food-related... one of my fonder memories of Bali, that arrival (almost a "coming home" feeling).

I think Bali is the most beautiful country I've ever seen, and the eating there is great too. The variety of Muslim-influenced cooking is wonderful when combined with the exotic local spices of Indonesia. We always bring back fresh black peppercorns when we visit! They smell sooooo good!

Fresh veggies and such are in slightly short supply at the moment, with the floods

Not knowing much about the geography of Oz, are you in a flood area too? I thought Noosa was at least 100k north of Brisbane. I hope all is well for you!



Stitchawl

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I had planned to buy a slow cooker when I was in the States, but forgot... I have several cookbooks of slow cooker recipes and a lot of them look really really tasty. The Japanese are reluctant to use electrical cooking devices that are left on when no one is at home to oversee them. Concerns about fires...
Most folks turn off all electrical devices before going to bed!


Stitchawl

I have a *jumbo* size slow cooker, even though there are only two of us.

Like Marc I also do large silverside. The georgeous smells are torture.

When deep-freezing, I use lots of the lovely sauce.

Cheers

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Let him take you! It's the second best place in the world for eating, after Singapore. We lived in Thailand for many years, and even today you can get a great dinner for less than $3! Every night the local sidewalks turn into restaurants as the vendors set out tables and chairs next to their carts, and on some streets you can walk for miles and never be more than 20 feet from a vendor's stall!

I intend to let him! It sounds similar, but moreso, than Tuban-Kuta-Legian in Bali.

I think Bali is the most beautiful country I've ever seen, and the eating there is great too. The variety of Muslim-influenced cooking is wonderful when combined with the exotic local spices of Indonesia. We always bring back fresh black peppercorns when we visit! They smell sooooo good!

Ahh, you need to stop that right now. [stares wistfully into memory-space...]

Not knowing much about the geography of Oz, are you in a flood area too? I thought Noosa was at least 100k north of Brisbane. I hope all is well for you!

Technically, yes, but practically, no. Our local area got quite significant flooding, but being coastal and somewhat hilly, the floods come and go relatively quickly too. We are not unused to it (I shouldn't say "we" - we're up a hill and, relatively speaking, unaffected)...towns get isolated, roads get cut and wrecked a bit. There's more, but...

As you say, Brisbane, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Gympie (about 45 minutes drive), Rockhampton...all those and others are areas where the big, bad stuff happened or is happening. The effect it has tends to be fairly broad, as nothing can move around (transport routes everywhere cut and sometimes destroyed), and a lot of those regions are "food bowl" type regions too. Queensland is a very "fertile" part of Oz, hitting the tropics halfway up its height, and so a lot of produce has been destroyed or stalled. Prices Australia-wide on a lot of produce is likely to be affected (again, not complaining, just observing).

I won't go into the charity and volunteering that has been occurring (not just locally, but broadly across Oz), but it has been massive. It even flares an ember in this cold, cynical heart.

Originally Posted by nohmi2

I have a *jumbo* size slow cooker, even though there are only two of us.

Like Marc I also do large silverside. The georgeous smells are torture.
...

I notice that silverside recipes have lots of seemingly essential sames, but differences too. If you have a family recipe, I'd love a share. Mine was cribbed from multiple sources and was just malt vinegar, an onion studded with cloves, brown sugar, white peppercorns, and a chopped carrot, and then topped with water.

Cheers,
Marc

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by nohmi2

I have a *jumbo* size slow cooker, even though there are only two of us.
Like Marc I also do large silverside. The georgeous smells are torture.
When deep-freezing, I use lots of the lovely sauce.
Cheers

Have you any idea of what a cut of silverside would cost here? Say 600gm-800gm? (And that's only 2-3 dinners for two!) Plus, I'd have to special order it from the supermarket as it is just way too big to be something put in the regular meat cooler.

Half decent steak costs about $100 USD a pound... Good steak is double that, and Kobe beef 3+ times the cost!

We ate lunch at an Outback restaurant in the US. I had a Porterhouse cut that was 24oz (700gm) and cost $14 USD. In Japan the largest steak at Outback is 300gm and costs $28 USD.

This is why I've held off this long getting a slow cooker. The prices of meats, even the lesser cuts, in large amounts, is frightening!

Stitchawl

[nohmi2]

Firstly; let The Loved One take you to Thailand. I was there many years ago,
and came back with overweight luggage. Mine was napery.

Here's the recipe. If you have juice left over, freeze it and use it with other odds and ends for soups.

Spoiler:

CORNED SILVERSIDE

1.5 to 2kg of corned meat.......remove excess fat.

*Optional* Brisket, pickled pork, leg of hogget, mutton or 2 Oxtails (Don't knock it till you try it!)

3 Carrots - roughly chopped.
1 Leek sliced.
1 tblspn chopped parsley
2 cloves garlic crushed.
12 cloves - studded into pickled onion.
2 onions - roughly chopped
12 peppercorns
4 bayleaves
2 tblspns malt vinegar
2 tblspns raw brown sugar (I also use in coffee, so always have at hand)

Cover meat in cooker with cold water.
Add all other ingredients.
On High for one hour, then low for 5 - 6 Hours.

*OPT* Mustard sauce.

[GeoffC]

The aromas that are pouring off this thread are amazing .... even for a vegan like me .....

[bjones6416]

My nephew's wife is from Thailand, and they are there now for a visit with her parents. I think they are eating their way through Bangkok right about now. She wrote this on her blog yesterday:

We had a nice time walking the streets of Bangkok after dark. The streets are just packed with people, street vendors and food carts. I just love the hustle and bustle on the city streets after nightfall.

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

My nephew's wife is from Thailand, and they are there now for a visit with her parents. I think they are eating their way through Bangkok right about now. She wrote this on her blog yesterday:

The food vendors are also very persuasive.



Cheers