The CookingBites Spice Challenge - Spice of the Month (January 2018): Peppercorns

[CraigC]

I didn't cook this - it was included as a soup with the Hainanese chicken rice from the food cart this afternoon. Based upon winter melon, coriander leaf (and the root), white pepper and black pepper. It's called "วิธีทำน้ำซุปทานกับข้าวมันไก่". I cannot find an English translation.

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I love those clear broths. We make a pork meatball and glass noodle soup with a clear broth. It is really filling for being so light.

 

[Yorky]

What was the broth - was it chicken stock do you think?

I'm sure it was. I'll post the rest of the images tomorrow. I'm a little fishcaked presently and the Masters is about to start. And it's getting chilly.

 

[Morning Glory]

And it's getting chilly.

Yeh, yeh, yeh. Have you got your woolly hat and mitts on?

 

[Yorky]

Yeh, yeh, yeh. Have you got your woolly hat and mitts on?

The temperature dropped to 20 degC last night!

 

[Yorky]

What was the broth - was it chicken stock do you think?

Given that chicken is all that they sell, I guess it must be:

 

[Yorky]

Pepper steak

 

[epicuric]

. Red peppercorns are left to fully ripen on the vine. It is almost impossible to find true red peppercorns as they lose their colour when dried. Apparently they are now obtainable freeze dried but I have yet to find any and have never tasted them! Long peppers have has a warm musky aroma with a floral, spicy, peppery punch that builds slowly. I adore this pepper as it is so complex in flavour.

Try these. On the brown side of red, but really good - my 'go to' pepper

 

[Morning Glory]

@epicuric - struggling to read the pack: BoTree Kamput Pepper?

 

[Yorky]

@epicuric - struggling to read the pack: BoTree Kamput Pepper?

I'm not sure if you're using a computer or a handphone. If the former then <ctrl> + will usually enlarge the view, <ctrl> - to reduce it again. It is BoTree Kampot which sounds very Indonesian to me.

 

[Morning Glory]

I'm not sure if you're using a computer or a handphone. If the former then <ctrl> + will usually enlarge the view, <ctrl> - to reduce it again. It is BoTree Kampot which sounds very Indonesian to me.

Its my eyesight...

 

[Yorky]

I was wrong: "BoTree is a Kampot Pepper farm in Kampot, Cambodia".

 

[Morning Glory]

I was wrong: "BoTree is a Kampot Pepper farm in Kampot, Cambodia".

Cambodian Kampot red pepper then.

So where do you get this from @epicuric?

 

[epicuric]

They were exhibiting at the Good Food Show this year. We bought a pack of three - red, black and white. I think they sell on Amazon too.

 

[ElizabethB]

My first thought for the challenge was pepper crusted steak. @Yorky beat me to it. So I went with option #2 - Pepper Shrimp. I missed that @Yorky also had a recipe for pepper prawns.

Oh well - the pepper was ground and the shrimp ready for seasoning.

https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/pepper-shrimp.11900/

The picture is awful. My old kitchen has more shadows than light.

 

[Morning Glory]

The picture is awful. My old kitchen has more shadows than light.

Its not a bad photo. My top tip is to take the food to a daylight source - my kitchen is also dark. Most of my shots at home are taken in the bay window of the front room. I just rig up a board on top of a plant stand to place the dish on. Alternatively take the food into the open air (not direct sun) to photograph. Is your camera set to auto?