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  • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

    Originally posted by SusieMisajon View Post
    Yep, that's the same thing.
    Thanks,

    I have just made a large pot of Brussels pate. Sounds posh but it's only pork liver. You can probably make than better than me whilst standing on your head If you want me to post how I prepare it, then it will be my pleasure..

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    • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

      Originally posted by Barry View Post
      Thanks,

      I have just made a large pot of Brussels pate. Sounds posh but it's only pork liver. You can probably make than better than me whilst standing on your head If you want me to post how I prepare it, then it will be my pleasure..
      Is it...grind up equal parts of pork liver and pork throat, add some salt and pepper and hot papperflakes, maybe garlic, then stuff it into a small canning jar with a bayleaf and a splash of armagnac and can it for an hour and a half at ten pounds pressure (or three hours boiling water bath, if you are French), and eat with pain de campagne and vinegary pickles, red wine optional?
      http://thissmallfrenchtown.blogspot.com/
      http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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        We don't get cans here but I get lock down seal proof jars, put boiling water into them and then drain. The contents will stay fresh for ages in the fridge.

        As for the recipe Susie. Mine is not as grand as yours. I just get pork liver and chuck it into the blender with some garlic, white bread, dash of brandy. Add pepper and salt. Then I pop it into the microvave. I let it cook properly in the fridge overnight.

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        • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

          Once, when I was really, really poor...I was a client at the foodbank and they were giving me way too much stuff that the kids wouldn't eat (cassoulet, kraut, lentils and sausage by the ton). So I asked them if it was ok if I bought a pig and fed it what we didn't eat, and then we'd eat the pig when it got fat.

          They said it was ok with them, so I went to see our local vet and asked him to help me find a piglet...two days later, Denise-the-pig showed up. Denise was a boy pig, but I named him after Denise, my ex MIL (we don't usually name the animals that we eat, but this time I made an exception).

          Denise got very fat very quickly...not only with the extra foodbank stuff, but with all the leftovers from the shops and from friends that I managed to get for him. He did die young, however (six months and one hundred kilos later)...he'd taken to chasing and eating the chickens alive, and when he ate Keoni's pet chicken, and when I found him licking the baby goat's belly before biting the poor thing...well, he had to go.

          We all went along with him to the abbatoire to see him off, they let us get up to the point where his shoulders were rinsed and wetted in preparation for the electrocution. Then we walked over to the church and lit a candle for him and all the chickens he'd eaten.

          A few days later, we went back to the slaughterhouse and picked up what was left of him, and I learned to make paté and bacon and blood pudding.
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          http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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          • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

            Fantastic stuff Susie.

            I went back to Paris to study but not being rich, I had to work as well. Les Halles is a big market there and I got myself 2 night jobs. One was in the abbatoire (so I can give you a running commentary on what happened to your pig.)
            When I finished there at near midnight, I went to work as plongeur which is another name for a dishwasher. The cafe/restaurant was called Au Chien qui Fume and is quite famous.
            I have one son and three girls. Two are now doctors, one is a teacher and the youngest girl has the concentration of a fruit fly. However, throughout UNI, I have tried to make sure that they didn't have to work nights as I did.

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              I've always wondered how the mostly young and idealistic Mormon Missionaries that sometimes come to call manage to believe that they can go back home and do it all at the same time....work, school, marriage, babies...

              I tell my kids to take full advantage of the time with their parents and their school years, as having to go and do it without a good foundation can be difficult. Thank goodness for the French socialized education system, as well.

              And thnk goodness for Marcel-the-French-farmer and his Mother, Alice (R.I.P.), who taught me how to make delicious bacon. One side of which has been hanging in my stairwell for six weeks and some of which has been sliced thnly and fried this evening for our supper. Home-canned pork and beans (as good as Heinz or Campbell's, if I do say so myself), sunny-side-up fried eggs, and grainy wholewheat and rye bread from the bread machine went with the bacon. Milk to drink. Crockpot bread pudding and custard for afters.
              http://thissmallfrenchtown.blogspot.com/
              http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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              • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                Spam fried rice. With carrots and ginger, and I promise only one tablespoon of aminos.

                Milk for DS, and an after dinner cup of hot rooibos tea for me.

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                • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                  Escargots de mer

                  Called here Winkles and also Kewins.

                  My family and friends here in England will not eat these.

                  I went down to the market and bought 2 pounds. This may seem a lot for one but most of it is the shell.
                  They are live when bought and I put them into a large Turin pan with salty water for about an hour.
                  Throw the water out and add fresh, then bring to the boil. I simmer for about half an hour.

                  Pour them into a large bowl and provide yourself with a safety pin to get them out of their shells. They go down well with baguette and white wine.

                  They are very salty, so lots of wine is called for.

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                  • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                    Chicken Enchiladas! (Trying to get back into that Texas spirit, I guess) Haven't made them in months and months, but J keeps begging for them, so I caved.

                    Last night- Grilled Oysters, Swordfish, Steak and a strawberry pineapple dump cake thing. No, I didn't cook. Got an invite at the last minute to someone's house and then was listening to fascinating tales of a neighbor who lived in a geosphere dome on a mountain.

                    Can't think of anything creative this time

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                    • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                      A mix of chicken types (garlic and I can't spell the other one) plate lunch from Mahalo Inn with a cup of Mountain Dew.

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                      • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                        A Chippy Meal

                        I did a lot of cooking today for some mates. So tonight I'm going to the chippy.
                        Not sure that you have Chippies there ? but they are a bit like take-aways in Hawaii. They are much more down to earth and cheap. Don't offer the range of food which I was offered on Oahu.

                        Still, fish, chips (you call them fries) and mushy peas is all I want.

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                        • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                          and malt vinegar
                          http://thissmallfrenchtown.blogspot.com/
                          http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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                          • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                            Originally posted by SusieMisajon View Post
                            and malt vinegar
                            This link is to make Susie's mouth water: The best UK Chippies.

                            http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle3204370.ece

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                            • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                              Mmmmmmm!!!
                              http://thissmallfrenchtown.blogspot.com/
                              http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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                              • Re: What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

                                there's a lot of food porn going on in here! does anyone think that Susie & Barry should just get a room?

                                I tell ya - I'm starting to get very jealous over those two!
                                "Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
                                – Sydney J. Harris

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