Bear’s Kitchen: a T&T foodie thread

lokie

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Tonight... Dinner of champions.

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Fried pies?

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Laughing Grass

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Fried pies?

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hawaiian pizza pops. Those pies look way better!
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
At Walmart the other day, I found this exceptional piece of salmon. Some of it is gonna go down my 3.14152hole raw, as the sashimi knife suggests. The bulk however is gonna get lightly poached sous vide, and scarfed down with Hollandaise.

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On the ScienceAlert front, an organism that not only survives but thrives in that Defcon1 salsa roja from that awesome taco place El Superior.

I’ve either averted the great biocatastrophe of the century, or trashed the cure for baldness. I choose to believe the former.

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curious2garden

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At Walmart the other day, I found this exceptional piece of salmon. Some of it is gonna go down my 3.14152hole raw, as the sashimi knife suggests. The bulk however is gonna get lightly poached sous vide, and scarfed down with Hollandaise.

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On the ScienceAlert front, an organism that not only survives but thrives in that Defcon1 salsa roja from that awesome taco place El Superior.

I’ve either averted the great biocatastrophe of the century, or trashed the cure for baldness. I choose to believe the former.

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I wouldn't eat that. Matter of fact I'd probably put that through an autoclave before it ate me.
 

.The Outdoorsman.

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Béarnaise, and its basic form Hollandaise, was something I took on as a teen in my parents’ house. Getting it to work with thin war-manufacture aluminum pots (purchased in ‘50s Austria) on an electric cooktop took a coupla iterations, but with Julia Child’s “ The Way to Cook” it was only a matter of time.

I'm good at the basic recipe, but hand-whisking often led to a sauce that was very tasty but a bit thin. Soupy. Overwhisking such a sauce did not improve it.

Recently I came into two game-changing technologies:
1) the stick (immersion) blender. I bought the Hamilton Beach cheapie at the ‘Mart, and it has risen to every challenge.
2) Sous vide cooking, as delivered by my Instant Pot Duo-Crisp.

Recipe:

2 egg yolks, separated
1/2 cup white wine vinegar
about 2 Tbs finely chopped shallot
1 Tbs dried tarragon
2 sticks (1/2 pound) butter; I used salted

Combine vinegar, tarragon and shallot in a small saucepan. Simmer covered until liquid is reduced to ~ 1 Tbs.

Place result in a 1-pint Ball or Mason jar with 2 egg yolks (I use jumbo eggs) and cook sous vide: 140 degrees for 75 minutes. This gives yolks of just the right sticky texture.

Melt 2 sticks of butter in a second jar while doing the above.

Pour butter into egg/shallot jar, then stick blend them together.

Done!

Reheat is perfect on the sous vide, 135 to 140 degrees. My latest portion “broke” on reheat, but a minute’s whisking with a fork reunited the sauce.
Chef at culinary school had a few restaraunts taught me a good classic bearnaise. Spell check i am very not french. Although i know a bit. Thanks junior high
 

Laughing Grass

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curious2garden

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That looks like candy.



One of my guilty pleasures

Ouch those carbs. Sigh... I love pizzas and calzones and all that other stuff.

That is going to be lunch today at my fav sushi digs; an added bonus I always get to finish off what the daughter doesn't eat; her eyes are much much bigger than her stomach
Enjoy :)
 
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