What did you cook or eat today (February 2025)

vernplum said:
Does boiling the sausage in beer impart much beer flavour? What kind of beer do you use? I've never tried that and I would have thought that the beer wouldn't be able to penetrate the skin (plus it would be a waste of beer which.. I just can't...).

But an (h)air-fried brat with a beer to wash it down - that's a thing round here. :)
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I use the same beer that I drink and you do get a bit of flavor. The casing expands as it heats up so the pores get larger. And yes, having it with beer is a thing too! 😋
 
vernplum said:
Does boiling the sausage in beer impart much beer flavour?
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I’ve never been able to detect a whole lot, but it’s a very popular way to prepare them here, especially in the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc) - we used to go to tailgate parties with massive pans/barrel halves filled with beer brats.

Usually, the recommended beer is the cheap stuff. You don’t want a really hoppy beer or a strongly flavored beer, you want something mild.
 
Spaghetti all'Assassina (with some roasted veg [bell pepper, eggplant] underneath). First time making it and it was OK. My wife said 'where's the sauce? It's so dry'.

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vernplum said:
Spaghetti all'Assassina (with some roasted veg [bell pepper, eggplant] underneath). First time making it and it was OK. My wife said 'where's the sauce? It's so dry'.

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Looks lovely to me, maybe she just needed a larger glass of wine to go with? 😂
 
badjak said:
Yesterday:.
I decided to experiment using my aubergine a la nonna in an omelette.
Maybe sacrilege, but it worked.
And yes, I like my omelette with some colour, the inside was just set.
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I imagine it’s delicious but I can help but think the Omelette doesn’t look very well 😜
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We're tripping over then at the moment and for some reason hubby came home with 2 more commercial ones at the weekend. So we have 3 commercial cucumbers, a packet of qukes, and then there are 4 more huge cucumbers in the fridge fresh off the vine today along with another couple of weeks supply growing...
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I get that way in the summer sometimes with tomatoes. Well not last year because we didn't have the bumper crop we have had in other years...but anyway, I get stuck in a routine of buying tomatoes during winter and spring, and then right when the first summer wave is ready to harvest I have store-bought ones on the counter I need to use. But I am sure you will figure out a way to make use of them!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We're tripping over then at the moment and for some reason hubby came home with 2 more commercial ones at the weekend. So we have 3 commercial cucumbers, a packet of qukes, and then there are 4 more huge cucumbers in the fridge fresh off the vine today along with another couple of weeks supply growing...
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Weve had about 4 cuces from our plant as well. Nothing like picking as needed.

Russ
 
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