What's for dinner ?

[MaC]

No, no, no.....a good burger, a good sausage, a good pie, they all meld the tastes, the textures, the seasonings. They are a dish in themselves and ought to be appreciated as such. It's not a comparison.

Rare pigeon is fine for something cooked in jus, in wine, but not for a good mix. It needs cooked, it most definitely must not be pink inside. Same with venison. Backstrap perhaps; shoulder? no. Both minced and mixed properly and well balanced make a brilliant burger.

Here we have a plethora of meats, we have an embarassment of riches of meats. Himself gets everything from duck to vension (4 kinds), from pigeon to goose, from grouse to pheasant and squirrel, and that's all year long. All locally caught, all alive one moment and dead the next.

He really likes the venison lorne sausage, he loves the pigeon breast and venison burgers. He is more than happy with venison steaks or fine slices flash cooked, but burgers and sausages, those are a treat .....and he has all his teeth, he doesn't need to have easy chew.

 

[Jaggededge]

OMG. It gets worse. From swigging posh babycham in a cup to mince, sausage and burgers.

 

[MaC]

OMG. It gets worse. From swigging posh babycham in a cup to mince, sausage and burgers.

Oi ! I'm a good vegetarian
I just cook the dinners my husband likes....it was goose today.

 

[E. By Gum]

Rare meat? Cooking was invented for a reason. Parasites and bacteria, well two reasons.

 

[noddy]

Never tried steak tartare. I don't think I'd have any trouble eating it. Though saying so makes me wonder. Just that it doesn't sound like it would taste of much except worcestershire sauce, onions and whatever else it is garnished with. Bit like snails. They taste of garlic butter.

If I understand it right, it is made of chopped steak not just ground beef.

 

[MaC]

It's just raw hamburger.

Used to be that you bashed a bit of meat into pulp using a big cleaver and used that. Actually easier than cleaning out the mincer.

I don't know many folks who are happy to eat that though; the family meateaters are inclined to like their dead animal really 'cooked'.
I know one neighbour who was so unhappy at finding his meat pinkish that he put his dinner in the microwave to finish the job.

 

[Saint-Just]

Ideally a proper steak tartare should be cut, not minced.

 

[MaC]

Big bread board, big cleaver.....like this lady does, around 7.54 on this video

 

[noddy]

Just started grilling the veg for a great big ratatouille - might sling in a handful of dried olives.

Got a bit of pickling to do and some soda bread to make.

But, I have found an OK Chilean cab to make the task go with a swing, which I will put in a carafe in a minute and have a puttering beer while it breathes. Radio 3 has a Verdi on from this afternoon, but it doesn't sound all that good. Maybe half a puff and some Hawkwind will improve the ambience.

 

[Nice65]

Half a puff generally does improve the ambience, but Verdi may be an exception. Can definitely say I wouldn’t recommend the noodlings of some of the jazz I’ve listened to and deeply enjoyed were it not for that.

 

[bushwacker]

Just started grilling the veg for a great big ratatouille - might sling in a handful of dried olives.

Got a bit of pickling to do and some soda bread to make.

But, I have found an OK Chilean cab to make the task go with a swing, which I will put in a carafe in a minute and have a puttering beer while it breathes. Radio 3 has a Verdi on from this afternoon, but it doesn't sound all that good. Maybe half a puff and some Hawkwind will improve the ambience.

I'd need a full carafe and more than half a puff of an enourmous bong before appreciating the Sun Ra's nuits de la fondation maegre
Jazz at a very acute angle

 

[MaC]

Veggie lasagne with a mixed leaf salad, and peach and raspberry sorbet for pudding.

 

[E. By Gum]

Tin of salmon, plus beans and bread unless I do some rice for a change. The salmon is my effort of having oily fish once a week.

 

[noddy]

Smoked mackerel is good I miss those little packets of fish you could get in Sainsbury. You just don't get them here, unless you can find a good european deli, and I haven't found one yet.

 

[MaC]

I bought a can of this stuff for Himself. He occasionally takes the notion for bacon grill, or spam fritters. I reckon he eats healthily enough 99.9% of the time, he can have his treat.




Apparently it's Danish, made in Jutland and it's full of salmon.......I need to find the anti-histamines before he gets this stuff though.

 

[5teep]

Luncheon fish??? never heard of that.

 

[5teep]

Today was Stew from the freezer. Tomorrow might be ribs, might be stir fry.

 

[MaC]

Luncheon fish??? never heard of that.

I hadn't either, but it's like fish luncheon meat....so I reckon if he wants fishy fritters......
Danish, and there's a whole range of stuff like that from the company too.

 

[noddy]

Everything You Need to Know about Swedish Surströmming

A very detailed guide to opening, eating, and surviving surströmming, the stinky Swedish delicacy made from fermented Baltic herring.

www.scandinaviastandard.com

 

[MaC]

I like sauerkraut; I reckon thon Swedish fishy stuff must be a fishy equivalent to the sauerkraut.

 

[Nice65]

I bought a can of this stuff for Himself. He occasionally takes the notion for bacon grill, or spam fritters. I reckon he eats healthily enough 99.9% of the time, he can have his treat.




Apparently it's Danish, made in Jutland and it's full of salmon.......I need to find the anti-histamines before he gets this stuff though.

That looks like cod roe, but isn’t. I used to like tinned cod roe fried up with loads of salt and vinegar on toast.

Today my dinner has been sinful. I didn’t get in until 7.30, Mimi having dined out (back of the car). Knackered and hungry I chucked 2 burgers and a load of chips in a hot oven, made a cup of tea and scoffed the lot. And ice cream.

Fresh tomato salad tomorrow, promise.

 

[Nice65]

I like sauerkraut; I reckon thon Swedish fishy stuff must be a fishy equivalent to the sauerkraut.

No it isn’t. It’s bloody disgusting stuff. I read about someone who opened a tin in a tent, had to throw all his gear away.

I’d rather eat those seagulls you lot up there like so much. 🤮

 

[Renton]

Tescos finest Steak Pie with red wine gravy, buttered new potatoes and steamed veg - not bad for an easy Sunday tea after a day of clearing and tidying.

 

[Stew]

Today was Stew from the freezer. Tomorrow might be ribs, might be stir fry.

Wasn’t me!

 

[Stew]

First roast dinner for oh so long today!

The smell of roasting chicken is soooooooo good!