Calling All Cooks

[WarpGirl]

Are they in your garden Alelou?

[Alelou]

Oh yeah. This is the most damage I've ever gotten during the growing season before. Usually most of the eating occurs in early spring and late fall/winter, when they'll come right up to the front door if they think there's something edible.

[WarpGirl]

Well I can hardly see the point on exacting revenge on the poor creatures for following their instincts. After all, humans are the intruders. However, that's why hunting seasons are necessary, to prevent overpopluation as much as possible. Then the deer don't feel the need to barge in quite as often. Personally I love deer, I think they're some of the most gentle beautiful creatures on earth, (part of the reason venison Doesn't appeal to me if I know I'm eating it.) That and we don't raise them to slaughter, unlike cows, pigs, sheep, buffulo (in some parts of the country), even fish. But like I said mom loves it so I wanna give the recipy a try. When I get an oven.

[Distracted]

It's all done on top of the stove, WG, not in the oven. Shutting the lid of the pot steams it. It's much more tender than a baked roast.

[WarpGirl]

I read it wrong, sorry. Oh well I don't have the right pot either. I'm such an idiot sometimes.

[panyasan]

Hubs is making Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes). I love it


Recipe Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake)

Ingredients (serves 4)
3 cups of plain flour
1/2 potato, peeled, grated
5 eggs
2 cups water
3 green cabbage leaves, shredded
100g bean shoots, trimmed
6 green onions, sliced
100g button mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil

For the real thing: nori (Japanese seaweed), lot of white, thin nori.

If you prefer it differently: 6 rashers bacon, rind removed, halved

Sauce 2 tablespoons thick, sweet Japanese soy sauce
1/2 cup thick whole-egg mayonnaise

Method
Mix together flour, potato, 1 egg, a pinch of salt and enough water to form a batter the consistency of thickened cream. Add cabbage, bean shoots, green onions and mushrooms.

Heat a little oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium-low heat. Spoon one-quarter of mixture per pancake into frying pan. Cook for 10 minutes.

Make a hole in the middle of each pancake and crack an egg into the hole. Arrange nori/bacon over egg and cook a further 5 minutes.

Turn pancake over. Add lots of nori or cook for 10 to 15 minutes or until bacon is crisp and pancake is cooked through. Keep warm and repeat.

To make sauce: Combine soy sauce and mayonnaise. Serve pancakes with sauce.

[WarpGirl]

Mayonnaise! Seriously???????? I didn't know you could use mayo in Japanese food. I mean Morimoto uses all sorts of crazy things, but he's an Iron Chef he's supposed to.

[panyasan]

Trust me, mayo is the icing on the pan cake.

[WarpGirl]

I'm not sure I can find nori, where I am. We have a lot of pre-made Sushi, and asian food at the deli and seafood counters, but I'm not sure they stock the actual ingedients. I live in a very unsophisticated area of the USA, and anyway I'd have to leave out the onions. But it does sound good.

[Alelou]

Is the thick brown sauce definitely soy, not tonkatsu (something like Bull Dog)?

Also, I'm wondering what a trimmed sprout is? No bean? Or no stringy tip?

[EntAllat]

I had to do some major overhaul to a freezer a few days ago and cleared out some space by throwing most everything into a slow cooker with some left over belgian-style ale and then hoped for the best. It turned out great! Here's the "recipe", such as it is for those of you who'd like something that doesn't involve a lot of effort.

Ground venison
Lamb shank
Spicy sausage, removed from the casing.
Some other kind of sausage (I have no idea what brand it was; I only know it wasn't freezer burned.)
Two large russet potatoes
mini carrots
Half a white onion
1/2 tomato paste
whatever was left in the A1 steak sauce bottle (2 tablespoons, I guess)
some Worcestershire sauce (A tablespoon, maybe?)
ale, lager, beer, whatever - about a cup or so


Cut the onion and potatoes into big pieces and toss them and the carrots into the slow cooker first. Lamb shanks go down first, crumble the spicy sausage and ground meat over that and slice the other sausage and throw it in. (I had to defrost everything first.) Mix the tomato paste with the beer, the A1 and the Worcestershire. Pour that over everything. Put the lid on the cooker and set for 4 hours. (Or longer if you do this in the morning before you have to go to work.)

It turned out better than I expected. You can substitute other meats, but make sure at least one of them is spiced up like the sausage - otherwise it'd be a little too sweet. Just lay down the vegetables first, put the largest cut of down meat next, then put anything that's ground and spiced ontop and pour the "sauce" over that. The result works well with mashed potatoes, rice or wide noodles.

[Distracted]

Guess what? Today at Girl Scout leader outtdoor training I learned how to bake cornbread in a cardboard box (with a couple of sheets of heavy duty tinfoil, a pie pan, four empty tin cans, a lighter and about ten Matchlight charcoal briquets). Cool, huh? It went great with the chili we made over the campfire and the peach cobbler we made in the dutch oven. Yum.

[WarpGirl]

FUN! And I'm a bit jealous. Peach Cobbler is my favorite.

[Grrr]

JT didn't you post a peanut butter sauce recipe somewhere? I've gone threw this whole topic and can't find it. Can you post it again or link to it?

I think WarpGirl wanted a baked bean recipe a long time ago. I have only eaten canned vegetarian baked beans and they all have onions.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_i ... 0481123636

This recipe has bacon. If it is the one I was thinking of, I've actually eaten it years ago. It does call for onions but I think you could probably substitute garlic or maybe bell peppers?

Grrr

[Linda]

If anyone likes to cook with pears, I and my daughter just canned over 40 quarts of pears! If you come to my house, you can take home a quart. All the pears came from ONE TREE that lives in our yard. And there are still some pears left on the tree. Anyone have some pear recipes I can add to my collection?