Posted on 01/24/2018 6:52:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630
We’ve got some family issues – brother in hospital – and I won’t be able to do much on the thread this week. But here’s a link to a very beautiful ‘nachos’ preparation, from Almazan Kitchen. While we don't make them in this same elaborate way - or out in the forest! - Nachos (or Tacos) are among our favorite fast, go-to weeknight dinners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldjquhxwIEo
-JT
Speaking of preppers and food...do you know what you get if you binge watch The Great British Baking Show and Zumbo’s Just Deserts followed by Jericho? War dreams with people throwing croissants like grenades and death match bake-offs. Freaky.
The Cross Creek Cookery Book and Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings both have recipes for cooking outside in a Dutch oven using wood and coal. It’s a very beautiful and romantic view of outdoor cooking and well worth having on the shelf. They were written in the 40s when she lived in north Florida. I’ve visited her home which is now a museum. She was a superb cook.
I don’t have much to contribute this week because I don’t like Mexican food and am waiting for this trend to pass so we can get back to European and Asian food!
Prayers for continued healing.
He may have made that bowl - there’s a beautiful carved cutting board that he made. And he sells that big knife, for a VERY pretty price.
I a set on Lodge but need a much smaller one - there are just 2 of us and I have been into my Aim Small Cook Small program for a couple of years now. a meals worthy plus one for leftovers is my goal. I’ve seen the one I want just waiting for sprig to order it.
Sounds delicious - love the potato idea.
They make those knives themselves, available through their facebook page.
Another great twist. I love jicama and will eat it just with a little lime juice. As far as fire cooking, I remember a party we had where we wrapped bananas in foil, they were split and had nuts and peanut butter in them, and some honey. I had one with no peanut butter. Peanut butter is in my blue cheese and olive icky basket.
ooo i like the death match bake offs!
FoodTV can have a whole new line up of reality shows!
i’ll check them out, thank you.
I love the way you say it’s a romantic view of outdoor cooking, lol! So there’s no mention of dealing with the ashes all over your clothes, smoke in your eyes, or accidentally dropping the food in the dirt?
Go ahead and talk about Asian and European cooking. I’ll be right there with you. I think the topic was cooking over fire, but that never stopped us from veering off on tangents :-).
I was wrong, I guess the topic was nachos. Cooking over fire was just suggested and I ran with that one.
I’ve always wanted a walk in fireplace. You know, those huge ones that you see on old black-and-white TV shows? And then would have to have all the little hanging and cooking implements, To hang the cast-iron pots from.
I got a little baby large 2 quart pot and lid at the lodge outlet store last time I went. It’s so cute and little, and light. It’s much better for two people than my big heavy Dutch ovens.
It was about 20 bucks, and I noticed it’s not much more than that on Amazon. It wasn’t a second, so I guess it’s OK I spent that much. I like deals though.
Prayers for your brother! Hope you got him home safe and sound.
Neat, it’s on Amazon. Sounds like it’s a combination of cookbook along with personal stories about early life in Florida. And to top it off, southern cooking! That’s something I’ve been trying to learn since moving to Tennessee.
I don’t see any mention of outdoor cooking in the write up or the reviews. Is this the right one?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0684818787/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MTN48747TP0QG4E015WW&dpPl=1&dpID=51tNrj4rgAL
or this one?
https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Cookery-Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings/dp/0848833414
Or maybe they’re the same, just one is paperback and one is hard back!
The book does talk about mosquitoes on camping trips. There’s a wonderful scene in Cross Creek (good movie, too!) where she prepares rolls in her Dutch oven while traveling the bayous in her small boat - the rise coming from the heat of the setting sun.
Cross Creek Cookery is a brilliant book of Florida Cracker food as well as traditional southern cooking/soul food. Swamp cabbage, alligator, stone crab, brunswick stew, etc., biscuits, cornpone. It also has some Midwest recipes from her mother’s home. I use it for reading more than cooking because I don’t have a cow named Dora like Marjorie did. But I highly recommend it for reference and education and just great armchair reading.
Cross Creek is about the four seasons of the Florida backwoods. The chapter called Our Daily Bread has the most sensuous descriptions of food in all of American literature.
If you like reading fine American literature and can get used, cheap copies, I’d say go for it.
We lived with my aunt until I was six or seven, and one of my best memories is the occasional Brunswick Stew Week. I don’t know how long it took her or how much she made, but it was delicious and the house smelled SO good.
Wow. Just wow. It’s beautiful and so is its view.
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