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cdcastillo

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I haven't decided on it yet, but for the mid afternoon coctail I'm drinking a recipe I adapted from a bar:

- Mezcal Montelobos: 2 measures
- Jamaica flower sweetened concentrate: 1 measure
- Cranberry juice: 2 measures
- Lime juice: 1 measure
- Seltzer: 1 measure

It is drank on the rocks.
 
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anika200

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Fresh crab claws, and apricot, drizzled with olive oil and seasoned with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Sounds fantastic, apricots just came into season here so hopefully I can pick some up this weekend. On the other hand crab claws are never in season but we do have Maryland blue crab, yum.

Tonights meal is Salmon Miso Curry which is a coconut milk based curry with miso, onions, Oyster mushrooms, herbs etc and served over rice...
 
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Sounds fantastic, apricots just came into season here so hopefully I can pick some up this weekend. On the other hand crab claws are never in season but we do have Maryland blue crab, yum.

Apricots, peaces, nectarines, and mangoes all go very well with the sort of salad I described, along with cherry tomatoes, and, occasionally, some diced cucumber.

I usually add sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil. Occasionally, I will also add a dash of sherry vinegar, or balsamic vinegar, but the salad looks fantastic, tastes wonderfully fresh and tart, and is gloriously healthy.
 
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Dinner this evening was kedgeree.

Naturally smoked haddock, basmati rice, free range organic boiled eggs, sautéed onions, curry powder, some coriander seeds, saffron, peas, lots and lots of butter, a little olive oil, and a few tablespoons of double cream.
 
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Naturally but if you were here you would use smoked trout or salmon or perch and Carolina Long grain rice. I can't wait to try this dish/recipe, never noticed it on the Downton Abbey.

The recipe I (mostly) used came from the Hairy Bikers, courtesy of the BBC, although the suggestion of coriander seeds, saffron, and lots of chopped parsley came form another recipe for kedgeree.

Actually, my use of the adverb "naturally" was meant to describe how the fish was smoked, in that it was smoked naturally.

But yes, it is true that when describing smoked fish, we would normally use haddock. Sometimes, coley.
 
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OK this is totally crazy, I knew what you meant, naturally. I am still at a loss though as to how to smoke a fish naturally. :)

Trust me, I don't do it; I buy it from the fishmonger's stall in the market, where they sell what they catch, and smoke it themselves.

I think it means no industrial dyes or anything of the sort when smoking the fish. The colour of this piece of haddock was a pale gold, rather than the burnt orange one sometimes sees on more industrial products.

However, the meal was delicious, looked stunning, and the aroma pervading the kitchen is divine.
 

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"Naturally smoked" has very loose legal definition in the US and EU. It simply means smoked over a wooden fire. The wood is up for choosing as neither the FDA nor the EU make specific mention of what must be used unless there is a defined wood type on the label.

Liquid smoke, which is used in the EU and US, is smoke captured from a natural smoking fire, purified, refined and filtered to remove carcinogens you'd otherwise consume in a naturally smoked product. This can sometimes be injected in minute amounts into fish that would otherwise be exposed to dry heat at a lower temperature and packed with salt and be sold as "smoked fish" both in the EU and US. As for haddock and other fish color, it depends on what they'd been eating, mislabeling, exposure to chemicals in the ocean, etc. I've landed maybe a thousand fish in my life time. There's zero consistency between fish whether you catch it in the wild or buy it at a fish mongers. Buy 20 whole haddocks or salmon, fillet them, not one has the same shade or meat texture as the other.

They taste the same. The latter is technically healthier as you're not consuming byproducts from woods that can otherwise build up and harm you.
 

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Not dinner but scrambled four eggs with 4 oz of smoked turkey breast chopped into chunks, 4 ounces of various semi soft cheeses, two whole jalapenos sliced up, a small tomato from the garden and two slices of whole grain bread from the bakers, toasted.

Nice quad espresso with steamed milk in a half hour after I shower and get ready for work. Might pick out a light suit considering the weather.
 

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Not dinner but scrambled four eggs with 4 oz of smoked turkey breast chopped into chunks, 4 ounces of various semi soft cheeses, two whole jalapenos sliced up, a small tomato from the garden and two slices of whole grain bread from the bakers, toasted.

Nice quad espresso with steamed milk in a half hour after I shower and get ready for work. Might pick out a light suit considering the weather.

And what, pray tell, were the semi soft cheeses?

Please introduce them to us........
 
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yaxomoxay

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Baby back ribs tonight.
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That looks disgustingly mouth watering - I am salivating just studying that picture.

What do you plan to serve with it?

(picture is not mine, but it resembles very close what is usually the end result).
Kids will probably get some fries on the side, adults will get beans and brown rice. I am thinking of the possibility of preparing some oven-baked bacon.
 
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