What's Cooking?

[BilletHead]

     Bonus points for Mitch!  But Man she sure can cook! Ha If I go to singing that song I get this weird look and "What are you trying to tell me?"

BilletHead

[bs1827]

The cool weather lately has really turned my taste buds onto some of the fall classics. Nothing like coming home to slow cooker pot roast after work.

[BilletHead]

    Mrs. BilletHead said after this meal "You Wok Baby"

So after making the Holy Wok I just had to get me another one less "holy" and learn to cook with it. Another cheapie from Wally World 17.95 special carbon steel. Did the break in (season) and today decided to cook with it. Had a fridge full of goose meat. Did five pounds of jerky yesterday and decided after finding a recipe to do General Tso's goose today to use up more of the meat. After a fruitless hunt this morning for more geese we did a run to the store for ingredients. With this done the Mrs. (My sous chief) did some white rice and put it in the fridge to cool so that I could attempt to fry rice. So as I did the fried rice she worked up the goose and ingredients for the Tso's. Fried rice did not look so good but tasted fine. Too gooey, going to have to work on my rice making. Then heated the oil hot and began to fry the goose chunks,

Again cooking the goose meat where it was still pink in the center. Tender enough knife not needed you could bite the chunks on half. I had to try some before the sauce was introduced :). After dumping all the oil but a table spoon full chopped green onions and tai chilies were dumped in and stir fried up quickly. A bit of the dust from hell was introduced too. Then the sauce dumped in and thickened, then the meat.

Then plated up on the ugly fried rice. This was very good and enough leftovers fro another day this week,

BilletHead

[MOPanfisher]

Went pretty basic tonight.  Some venison loin on the grill, and taters in the cast iron skillet.  Seasoning, garlic olive oil, and the Paula Deenes House seasoning mix of sal, pepper and garlic powder.  Meat was dead rare in 5he middle, actually could have been just a touch more done.  Taters some garlic olive oil same seasoning mix and at the end a little butter.  Cant give it 5 stars  since there was no gravy but right tasty anyhow.

[rps]

Rice:

Use the Royal Basmati rice that comes in large burlap bags from Sams.

Saute the rice in butter or oil with any extras you want (shallots, carrots, mushrooms, etc.) until the grains begin to turn opaque. Add salt and pepper. Add water 1.5 times the volume of rice. (1 cup rice = 1.5 cups water) You can substitute broth if you want. Bring the liquid to the boil. Cover and reduce heat as low as possible. Cook 15 minutes. Turn off heat and let sit 15 to 20 minutes more. Fluff and serve.

For fried rice, chill well in the refrigerator before frying.

I promise, this is rice so good my Asian and Filipino friends look for my hidden rice cooker.

[BilletHead]

   Thanks RPS,

Don't even pretend to be a cook but have fun trying! I will copy and try this next time,

BilletHead

[tho1mas]

BillitHead - I think it is the difference between a good old country cook and a chef.

[joeD]

There is no reason for a sane home cook to buy a "burlap" bag full of rice. Burlap doesn't make it better or more authentic. WTF do you want with 50lbs or more of rice?

The preferred rice of Southeast Asia is jasmine, not basmati. And they absolutely use rice cookers. Where do you think rice cookers came from, Germany?

("My Asian and Filipino friends...") Funny.  What do your "white American middle class" friends think?  Does it matter?  

Just joking. HA ha ha. Hey, as long as it's farm to table, fresh,  natural, organic, humanely raised or gardened, respectfully butchered and lovingly cooked and presented, and the waste disposed of in an earth friendly way, what is not to love? Who knew cooking a meal would become a moral and physical skill to be publicly displayed in order to achieve a life affirming superiority over others less enlightened.

Apparently, cooking a meal is no longer about nourishment. 

[ness]

My mamma said if you can't say nothing good then don't say nothing at all.

 

 

[MOPanfisher]

Joe I have tried drinking (sometimes heavily) but still only understand a small part of most of your posts.  But my edjumikation may be lacking.  Most of my pudgy hillbilly friends will eat just about anything especially if boiling oil or flames are involved, and a little Cajun seasoning.