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What's cooking?

Discussion in 'Food and Drink' started by Jim, Feb 25, 2014.

  1. Jim

    Jim Old Curmudgeon Founding Member

    Happy Saint Patricks day people!
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    Simple family gathering..hash in the morning!
     
  2. eightysixCJ

    eightysixCJ Founding Member

    Nice James! Post St. Pat's Day sale on cabbage; 15-pounds of kraut, caraway/juniper berry and caraway/apple.

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    Tom
     
  3. Jim

    Jim Old Curmudgeon Founding Member

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    I was lucky enough to get the ham bone from Easter dinner... Ham stock most likely for pea soup.
     
  4. eightysixCJ

    eightysixCJ Founding Member

    Nice!
     
  5. Jim

    Jim Old Curmudgeon Founding Member

  6. Lucretia

    Lucretia Founding Member

    That's almost enough to make me eat corned beef!
     
  7. Lucretia

    Lucretia Founding Member

    It's that time of year when the weeds are overtaking the yard, so today before going out to fight the good fight, got a chicken ready to go in the oven, made some aioli, and got salad fixings ready. Came back in ready to drop, stuck the chicken in the oven while washing away the funk, and then fell on the bird like ravenous beasts. The mass quantities of wine were for medicinal purposes.


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  8. larrybard

    larrybard Founding Member

    Lucretia, Skin looks nice and crisp (as I like it). And I'll bet the meat was juicy, not dried out. Certainly from appearances I much prefer yours to the one I made two days ago. If you don't mind me asking: What temperature(s) (and time(s)) did you roast at? Thanks.
     
  9. Lucretia

    Lucretia Founding Member

    Larry, I was really happy with how this one came out. I haven't had great success with roast chicken. Did some research before cooking and ended up with 400 degrees in the convection oven for 50 minutes, then basting with pan juices (i.e. chicken fat!) and cook until desired temperature. I admit, I like my chicken more done than many. The breast was in the mid-160's when I pulled it out. But it was still juicy--and no bloody joints (I don't care if the chicken is done at a lower temperature--I don't want to see blood.) Just salt and pepper (applied a couple hours before cooking. Next time I want to try putting it on the night before.) It's loosely based on Thomas Keller's roast chicken recipe, but he cooks his at 450 and also trusses the bird. A lot of people said this smoked up their houses, so I tried the lower temp with convection and it worked well. The house smelled like chicken but no smoke alarms went off.

    I also used an air-chilled chicken. The skin on them seems a lot thinner and less watery than the water-chilled type and might cook better.
     
  10. larrybard

    larrybard Founding Member

    Lucretia, thanks much. I too loosely follow Keller's recipe, but after about 20 minutes at 450 I reduce the temperature to 400. And sometimes I truss (though Kenji says not to bother), but sometimes I'm too lazy. I'm a bit jealous that you have a convection oven. A few years ago I cooked a large thanksgiving turkey in my ex-sister-in-law's convection oven and it came out perfectly. When I redo my kitchen in a couple of years I intend to get a convection oven. I'm confident that if I did the research I'd find how to adapt convection oven recipes to conventional oven cooking, but suspect the only major difference may be the cooking times (rather than needing to change the temperatures). In any case, maybe next time I'll try roasting my chicken at 400. I use 150 (at breast) as a target internal limit, though 145 for about 10 minutes is apparently acceptable.
     
  11. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    I may not have any new knives, but I did pick up a few new skills IMG_20180429_162328667.jpg IMG_20180429_162435780.jpg
    Dinner was delicious
     
  12. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    Glad I did, it's a bit tough figuring out how dry or wet they need to be from dough stage... But by the third or fourth time I had it down. I have a kitchaide mixer but find it way easier to do just do it by hand (less to clean up) a cup of flower, a few eggs and some salt and oil and I have three or four meals for myself. Plus the dough is good for a lot of things. Ravioli, tortellini, heck with a minor twist or two also does perogi. I never run out of sauces or fillers to make with that stuff all from learning on little noodle in the kitchen Screenshot_20180430-205545_edit_1525136160516.jpg
     
  13. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    For breakfast, some potatoes scones, sausage and pancakes
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    And dinner last night was some jerk chicken over rice.
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  14. Jim

    Jim Old Curmudgeon Founding Member

  15. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    It's become a regular weekday dinner now.

    Had some leftover potatoes tonight so I made some gnocchi
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  16. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    I bought a Gordon ramsey book that went along with one of his shows, so there is video to go with each recipe lol, helped me learn a bunch of new stuff, was a great pick up
     
  17. James

    James smarter then your average duck Founding Member Gold Contributor

    $3.86 dollars of happiness right here IMG_20180508_195402874.jpg
     

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