What's cookin?
Thanksgiving is a few days away and the food preparation is on here at the ranch.
Any goodies in the plans for anyone else?
Here is the one I am going to give a test run today, Wosret you should probably just skip to the next recipe ;)
Bacon Wrapped Smokies baked in a Brown Sugar sauce
I hear they are to die for and based on the ingredients, I have no reason to doubt their claims, but I need to recruit some smiling faces to help me pull off this event. So my strategy is to tempt them with food and bribe them with liquor. 8-)
Any takers? :D
Any goodies in the plans for anyone else?
Here is the one I am going to give a test run today, Wosret you should probably just skip to the next recipe ;)
Bacon Wrapped Smokies baked in a Brown Sugar sauce
I hear they are to die for and based on the ingredients, I have no reason to doubt their claims, but I need to recruit some smiling faces to help me pull off this event. So my strategy is to tempt them with food and bribe them with liquor. 8-)
Any takers? :D
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Were I to come across the dietary abomination of bacon wrapped sausage in barbecue sauce at the buffet I would certainly eat several of them.
The colors alone should entice the dippers.
They don't kill the pigs regardless and then decide what to do with all of the dead, soon to rot meat. The process begins on the other end, with things like insinuating suggestions that we wrap smoked wienery type things with baconish slabs of dead swine flesh. Having read the suggestion we imagine how good that would be in a bath of brown, spicy sauce. We drool. Then we drive to the meat market (stimulating the drilling of oil wells) where we stare at the butcher, like dogs in the kitchen who KNOW we are eating better food than they are getting. The butcher eventually gets the message: "Bacon?" We shake our heads eagerly. "Wienery type things?" We stand up and bark. "I see." the butcher says. He calls up a connection on the Red Phone and yells, "KIll the pig!" To us he says, "go away and wait." Days later a text message pops up on your phone (intercepted by the dog who goes nuts): Bcn n wnry thngs r w8tng 4 u.
It is literally true that your decision to fry bacon tomorrow will not result in a pig being killed today. However, you are part of a composite pattern of consumption which does result in pigs being slaughtered far enough in advance that you can buy a package of bacon and cook it.
The lead time before a pig can be turned into bacon is almost a year. (The boar impregnates the sow, the sow delivers a litter almost 4 months later; it may take up to 7 or 8 months to get a hog up to the ideal weight for sale and processing. Food crops like wheat, corn, beans, etc. also require roughly a year's lead time. It takes additional time to process food and ship in out to the local retail store.
Everybody -- farmer, processors, wholesalers, distributors, retail stores -- all want to know when you are going to buy bacon, and how much you are going to buy. No one can afford to assume that you (and everybody else) will eat every slice of bacon that is produced. A considerable effort goes into estimating probable food sales, so that over production does not occur. (Overproduction cuts profits.)
Agriculture is a very risky business, and so is food processing. There is a long supply chain between a pig in the barn yard and your frying pan. The goal of the supply chain is to achieve a steady flow of food at the highest level of profit possible. If farmers raise too many pigs, they lose money. If Hormel can not sell all of its ham and bacon, it loses money. If a retailer can't sell all of the turkeys in the freezer by New Years, he has to sell the rest at a loss. To avoid those loses, they try to tie your batch of fried bacon to killing a pig (only for millions of people, not for you alone).
GOOD!!!
Especially since I just made about 2 kgs of Beef Jerky. (not all too common in Austria)
I'm quite happy with the Merlot/Black Pepper and the Garlic/Teriyaki Jerky.
Meow!
GREG
It's all pretty traditional stuff, though the folks are religious so no alcohol will be at the proceedings.
EDIT: This was the recipe used two years ago for the vegans, minus the cheese. Plenty of coconut milk on hand as well for both cooking and breakfast. Make some additional stuffing too so that it's not cooked in the turkey, plus the bread on hand, and there's plenty for non-meat folk.
I can live with that, as it means more for me. :D
Meow!
GREG
I came looking for recipes to steal and I find arguments about killing pigs.
If you are religious then the bible says that the animals are for your use, eat em up. If you are not religious then there is no sin to commit, eat em up.
I had a typical English breakfast for lunch yesterday. Bacon, sausage, baked beans, eggs, mushrooms, fried tomatoes and toast.
AHHHHhhh. :D
Welcome to PF. :D
Quoting Sir2u
If you aren't religious you can still have an ethical system based upon empathy and compassion, which would result in you becoming a vegetarian/vegan/pescetarian out of respect for the animals.
Drunken Cranberries
1 1/2 cups simple sugar syrup
2 sticks cinnamon
Zest from 1 large orange
1 cup fresh cranberries
1 1/2 cups white rum
In a large saucepan, combine simple syrup, cinnamon, and orange zest. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; add cranberries. Cook until cranberries just begin to pop and skins begin to split, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
2. Strain liquid into a large container. Discard cinnamon and orange zest; add cranberries to liquid, along with rum. If cranberries are not fully submerged in liquid, add equal parts simple syrup and rum until they are completely covered. Let cool completely.
3. Cover, and transfer to refrigerator until chilled, at least 2 hours and up to 3 weeks.
Consume responsibly! ;)
What an absurd false dichotomy. Perhaps you are trolling, though.
Just to be fair...
... I sort of imagine Tiff started this thread to more or less share recipes and discuss interesting dishes to eat. I have great doubts that it was meant to be a soapbox platform for an ethics rant-o-thon over the virtues or vices of Vegetarian vs. Vegan vs. Meat Eaters .
Perhaps you can accuse one of trolling, but indeed there could be the accusation of hijacking or derailing this thread on your account.
How about you discussing some good vegetarian dishes and share some good vegetarian recipes rather than claim a 'moral high ground' and make simply smug dismissals?
In respect to Tiff...
... cut it.
Meow!
GREG
Would a wolf or a tiger have compassion for me, even a wild hog would kill a person to eat without a worry. Does having a greater ability to reason automatically make it an obligation to develop compassion and empathy?
Quoting Thorongil
Let's see you prove it is false then, or are you just being aggravating. 8-)
Having a greater sense of reason means that we humans can look at the ecosystem and realize how much of a pyramid scheme it is, realize how much an organism suffers simply because it wasn't able to fight back. To say that we should just follow nature because that's what nature is, is the naturalistic fallacy.
Here's a close approximate recipe to the yams we make every year.
Close in the sense that ours is simpler -- more butter, and only add brown sugar. ;)
Yes, I agree that we can. But the question is still "should we?"
Did nature make us aware of these facts so that we should create rules about eating animal? Or did nature give us knowledge of how to survive even at the cost of other species?
Quoting darthbarracuda
I have not heard of any good ways to refute the ideas of naturalistic thinking, have you heard any conclusive rebuttals. Personally I do not believe that just because something happens in nature it must be good or even that just because something does not happen naturally it must be bad. Both can be used to manipulate others in so many ways.
What I do believe is that mankind has no business judging what happens in nature as either good or bad. The world is as it is and mans' pompous attitudes make him think he is allowed to judge something over which he has no control.
I have made some of her recipes, they work, but if I remember correctly she uses a lot of exotic ingredients. It is fascinating how my conception of Martha has changed over the years. She kinda morphs along, she changes peoples lives for the better.
It's not an order. It's just an appeal to show a sign of respect to the OP.
Ask Tiff if this is what she had in mind when starting this thread or not. I'm not exacerbating this, as much as I'm trying to make an appeal to get things back to the original intention of the OP. Hells bells, how the fuck should I know what your intentions are unless you state them? No need to be all huffy and defensive.
I'd be happy to see some vegetarian or vegan suggestions of stuff to make and try out.
anyway...
Meow!
GREG
Thank you for the peace keeping~
Teriyaki Glazed Roasted Brussel Sprouts
It's called Jarlsberg Cheese Dip and contains three ingredients, can be made in advance and broiled in small batches as desired. This is another crowd pleaser and a reason to chat with the chefs. :-*
Still planning to make my Turducken terrine, Smokies as the appetizer! Should work out well, I need the bacon to wrap the terrine. Cranberry dipping sauce and perhaps a cranberry vinaigrette for the cold Turducken (served over a leafy green salad mix), Not sure about wine here, something light, a sparkling wine.
4 cups raw broccoli
2 cups halved, seedless grapes
2 cups chopped celery
1 cup chopped green onion
Dressing:
1 cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp vinegar
0.25 cup sugar
Serve cold, add sliced almonds before consuming. It is very good and fairly easy to make!
Happy Thanksgiving!
My sister made her pie crust with pig-lard she rendered herself. This resulted in the richest pecan pie I've ever tasted.
It was a good day.