OT WE 15 OCT 25 ~ Foodies
The cookers group meets tomorrow. We were given an online version of a cookbook
by Kellie with the title of Suburban Soapbox.
Turns out she is of polish heritage. My favorite food from that region is pierogi.
You know those little dumplings. I fell in love with them when my neighbor down
in Florida turned me on to his mothers' version. Potato, onion and cheese stuffing.
Have never made them before, so thought I'd give it a swing. Pretty simple to make.
Ingredients:
For the Pierogi dough:
▢ 4 cups all-purpose flour
▢ 1 teaspoon kosher salt
▢ 1 cup whole milk
▢ 2 eggs, lightly beaten
▢ 1/4 cup sour cream
For the Pierogi Filling
▢ 5 large russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
▢ 1 teaspoon kosher salt
▢ 3 tablespoons butter
▢ 3 large vidalia onions, diced
▢ 1 1/2 cups large curd cottage cheese
▢ 8 ounce cream cheese, room temperature
Instructions:
https://thesuburbansoapbox.com/best-potato-pierogi-recipe/
Then thought hey, let's go whole hog: Fried cabbage on the side!
Ingredients:
▢ 4 tbsp butter
▢ 2 tbsp olive oil
▢ 1 vidalia onion, thinly sliced
▢ 1 head cabbage, cored and chopped
▢ 1/2 tsp kosher salt
▢ 1/2 tsp pepper
▢ 1/4 cup sour cream
▢ 1 pound kielbasa
Instructions:
https://thesuburbansoapbox.com/the-very-best-fried-cabbage-recipe/
It is a pretty good resource and searchable if you know what to look for.
Anyway, that is where my head (or stomach) is today. Where is yours?
Comments
Top of the day
.
In geopolitical news this morning -
TAE site has crashed, Simplicius exposes NATO
hubris and Caitlin discusses the fallacy of the Israel
ceasefire.
Gleaned from Naked Cap.
What's on your radar?
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning...
Time to start digging sweet potatoes. We only have two beds, but I'll only dig one a day.
I have one more task on the new fire pit adding a couple of bricks below the air feed.
Haven't thought about diner, but will at some point. I've got some frozen BBQ I might pull out for tonight. We had steak last night. Eggs, sausage, and avocado is the breakfast menu which we eat later in the morning.
I like mustard on the side of cabbage/kielbasas which we also cook. Nice to use those homegrown cabbages.
We fry our cabbage but there's other ways to cook it...
The Grascals Boil Them Cabbage Down
(2 min)
Well, take care and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Picking and grinning
.
fun stuff
good luck with your harvests
only thing getting harvested here
today are brain cells and maybe
some fallen branches from the
3 day Nor'easter (finally passed).
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning, Cap'n!
I spent 4 days in Poland, give or take. Every meal was wonderful. I might try my hand at fried cabbage.
The last time I did some cooking class was in Thailand. There were ab couple of US caterers, and I was the only one who cracked an egg without having to dig out bits of broken shell from the wok.
Glad your rains have stopped. Maybe it will come our way.
Israel continues to bomb the non-human humans because they claim a dead hostage was not an Israeli. So, what if a hostage was a person who was from another country visiting Israel at the site of the attack/incursion? Aid is also blocked.
In other words, no good news except from you and your cooking class.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Lost the skill to crack an egg
.
has something to do with
failure of fingers. Kinda
a problem to get a decent
break for poaching or the
coddled approach. Don't
mind the shells so much as
the broken yolk.
Zionism is a social disease
gotta run out to get the ingredients
.
so will leave you with a song
later
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Cap.n. Thanks for the recipes, links and cookbook
tip. Adding to my personal online collections so I'll always have them available.
I know what you mean about fingerrs and eggs, or, in my case, hands and eggs. If I need the yolk whole I have taken to cracking them into a small sauce dish by giving them a sharp tap on the side with the blade of a paring knife and then pulling the halves outwards. Your mention of poached eggs made me go make one for breakfast since I hadn't eaten yet. I have a "magic" 2 minute poached egg, including the prep time:
Fill a pyrex cup with 1 cup water and stir in 1 teaspoon white vinegar. Add one egg. Nuke for 1 minute. decant to plate with a large slotted spoon. that's it - it's all ones; i cup, i teaspoon, i egg, 1 minute, et voila'. It does, of course, require a nuker.
Thanks for she caught the Katy, the song was something of a family favorite, my dad for unknown reasons would break into it at random moments on road trips. When Taj did it on Natch'l Blues that version bacame an immedite fave of my brother and I.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
love your poaching method
.
now, if only I could get the egg
out of the shell without smashing it
it would be great.
Thanks!
Zionism is a social disease
Maybe one of these techniques will help
I generally drop a few eggs a year from about waist height on the walk back from the coops to the house. The yolks usually remain intact, unless it's on the gravel driveway.
Nobody Believes But It REALLY WORKS! 30 Brilliant (+2 FREE) Egg Tricks Work Like CRAZY Magic!
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
those are some amazing hacks for eggs
.
would like very much to try them
if I can get my fingers to co-opperate.
Thanks!
Zionism is a social disease
Haven't had a hard freeze yet,
so we're still getting tomatoes to ripen. I've been covering the plants, and we have about 30 tomatoes left that will either ripen on the vine, will get fried up green, or be allowed to finish ripening on our east-facing kitchen windowsill. This fall is being strangely warm- we should have had a good freeze by now. We've barely had a frost, even though the leaves are nearly all done making their annual piles.
Lifelong foodies here, but we're ramping into a very light eating style. Part of it is to lose some weight, of course. But, truth be told, the primary motivator is to be more accustomed to limited rations for when the collapse occurs. We've already severely limited the use of expensive proteins, and we're getting ourselves ready for the now-inevitable dislocations to come. We aren't prepping, as such, just acknowledging that things are very likely to become very scarce very shortly. I'd rather reduce the shock of that occurrence by being at least somewhat ready for it.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
that is a smart approach
.
of course we enjoy the present bounties
but it is not a given - going forward
the way things are going in the here and now
Zionism is a social disease
Luckily my wife and both like beans and rice, especially
with a little chicken added. If only we could duplicate the Costa Rican or St. Maarten version it would be great.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
We got used to
going over to Restaurant Depot or Shamrock Foods and snagging 50lb bags of flour for sourdough. Next trip, we'll also snag 50lb bags of beans and rice, just in case. We haven't done that yet, but it is in the schedule.
The real problem around here is water, of course. Here in the high desert, there's essentially no surface water- what there is isn't sufficient to support the existing population for long. If there's no power to run the pumps from the aquifers 1000' down, there will be no water, pretty much immediately- few communities have significant above-ground storage to gravity-feed the water systems for more than a mere handful of days. We don't have room for storing much water in our little apartment, so that will be the real limiter.
I'm sure that Our Betters will have taken that into consideration as they gleefully plan for our futures. Right?
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
water is an issue in the high desert
.
when I lived in Prescott AZ, used to dream of
being back at sea level. A 5200 foot elevation
would evaporate the moisture on your skin in
no time. Fantasized about jumping into a lake.
Eventually had to leave for moister climes.
Now I dream of the mountains. Go figure.
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One really needs ample space to sore all of te free water
from the sky plus reusable indoor water. We have two large plastic trashcans in the back yard but could easily use more storage and more collection infrastructure. Right now we mostly cache reusable indoor water, but we're not in high desert either.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
My goal today
is to join a zoom continuing legal education class for free. I have to attend 15 hours per year, usually $65 per hour, so I get in as many free classes as I can find. I'd rather spend my $ on fun and frolic.
My pc will be tied up for an hour, but my lap top is feeling heavier as I age, er, progress.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Polish Food
Polish food is something I know a little about. My grandfather emigrated from Poland as did my grandmother’s parents. In fact, when they retired, they moved back. I have thought seriously of moving there as me and children can all claim dual citizenship. One of the reasons why is that the Zloty is worth 4X as much as the Dollar. I could live like a Polish Queen on my Social Security. But until that mess in Ukraine is over, there is no way I would even consider doing that.
My mother was not Polish but she had to learn to cook Polish. We ate a lot of Polish food growing up. Golabki (stuffed cabbage), Kielbasa (sausage), Pierogi (dumpling), and Paczki (doughnut) were common in my household. I remember my grandmother saying that they would use all the leftovers and put them into the perogie. Sometimes you didn’t know what you were going to bite into. They also used fruit in them with plum for some reason being the most common.
When I cook kielbasa and cabbage, I always add caraway seeds at the end. My recipe came from a book about Polish traditions and food. My Polish aunt also has several recipes in a published cookbook. I was supposed to be sent a copy, but I never got it. She was the manager at one of the Polish Century Clubs in Michigan.
Interesting roots
.
growing-up in MI there was a
neighborhood in the closest big
town (Jackson) that was Polish.
Used to get wonderful Golabkis
(called them galumpskis).
I guess every big town has their own
Polish neighborhood.
Just made the dough for the dumplings.
Next is to roll it out and cut it into circles.
Trying to spread-out the prep over time.
Thanks for the tip on the caraway. None of
my recipes mentioned it, but I knew there
was a spice in there somewhere.
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Have tried growing cabbage
a couple of times but the bugs get it first. And we like cabbage.
Will try growing again, maybe next year.
We are trying to master one or two veggies at a time. Have tomatoes down good. Onions are now easy. Potatoes, peppers, and green beans we've learned the hard way, but have mastered. Corn we are good at.
Cabbage , broccoli, spinach, watermelon, and head lettuce are still problematic.
Thanks for the OT and the recipes.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
A bacterium...
...Bacillus thuringiensis is available as Dipel kills the cabbage looper caterpillars responsible for most of the damage on cabbage.
I just dusted mine yesterday. Apply as soon as you see the yellow butterflies around you cabbage, broccoli, collards, and so on. Eco safe and effective.
Good luck!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for the tip
will pick some up and maybe try some late season cabbage.
It's still fairly mild out, and I can cover them through fall and winter.
Once grew some spinach all through winter, even snowed on, but didn't eat it. Looked tough.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Maybe will pare-down the cabbage today
.
coring and slicing takes time
which will be intruding into other
steps. Limited by the amount of
reefer space available. Cooking fool.
Zionism is a social disease
I've got some kimchi in the fridge
Homemade, does that count?
Last time we went over to tampa side we stopped at the lotte over there, and cabbage was onsale in large boxes. Ms. So couldn't pass up the bargain so she bought an entire box. She gave most of it away to the community and then made some kimchi with some of them. Then she gave some of that away to a few Korean-American pilots that live around here.
There is a new Hmart in Orlando, that was a big event recently. So the Asian style fruit and veggies are readily available there at reasonable prices.
I still have a couple of buchujeon Korean chive pancakes in the fridge. These are the last (i think) of the chive plants that grew so well in our old garden. Ms. So transplanted as many as she could to her friend's front yard garden. Her good friend was kind enough to let us harvest quite a few, many of which went to her church friends to eat recently.
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