My setup: a big Creuset pot with lid, an immersion thermometer, a gas stovetop. A couple of pork loin chops sealed in a vacuum bag. Soak at 58 celsius (about 140-145 F) for an hour or so. Check every ten minutes(ish) to make sure that the temp is stable. Pat dry, coat with salt, pepper, …
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Open Thread: Evolutionary Hotheads
Late to the fair with this — anyone who cares has probably read the article already — but the Spousal Unit was tickled by James Gorman’s NYTimes article on “… Pleasure in Pain of Chilies“: Late summer is chili harvest time, when the entire state of New Mexico savors the perfume of roasting chilies, and …
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu
First, an update from Soonergrunt: Chest hurts a little bit, but the pain drugs are working very well. They took the drain out earlier this morning, and I passed right out and slept until a few minutes ago. I’m in a regular ward and I hope to go home on Saturday morning. I read the …
Thrifty! (Food Safety)
Just in time for the dinner hour, ABC News lets us know that America’s big factory farmers cherish the great Heartland American(tm) value of frugality: Millions of eggs from the Iowa farms at the heart of a massive salmonella recall are not destined for the garbage but for a table near you. The recalled eggs …
Food Bubbles & Starvation by Broker
I never got around to finishing what was intended to be a thoughtful commentary on this Harper’s article, but since John posted about this earlier, I’m going to give you all the link, at least. Frederick Kaufman, “The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it”: Agriculture, rooted as it is …
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition
Take it away, TaMara… Not my most original recipe, but a summer classic, for sure. LFern and her husband think collard greens are great, which is why I even grew them in my garden one year. I know some people like them, but if you don’t, you can easily substitute spinach in the recipe. I …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Tomatoes!
Getting a steady harvest from the planters these days. Clockwise from the top: Big Boy, Momotaro, Golden Honeybunch, Juliet, Rose de Berne, Cherokee Purple, with a striped Vintage Wine and one lonely Chocolate Cherry at the center-top. Neither my camera nor my photo-correction skills are good enough to represent these colors properly — the Chocolate …