Food Thread

Really early lunch:

Sandwich Grilled w/ butter:
Lamb, sliced shank meat
Swiss cheese
Mayo
Homemade bread

Dressing/Stuffing, baked:
½ Corn bread crumble
½ Cubed bread
Pork sausage, ground
Mushroom, sliced
Onion, diced
Celery, diced

Wok fried w/ Duck fat:
Homemade French fries – hand cut w/ Mandoline

Jus Gravy – for dipping
Au Jus; shoyu sauce; minced garlic; black pepper

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191107 Lamb Sandwich w Fries - IMG_0375 (002).webp
 
A Manhattan?! Who are you what’d you do with the guy that I was expecting to do beer pairings with breakfast cereal?

Maker’s Mark?
 
Bango Skank said:
A Manhattan?! Who are you what’d you do with the guy that I was expecting to do beer pairings with breakfast cereal?

Maker’s Mark?
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No, that's their house barrel aged Manhatten made with rye I believe. Amazing.

This place was amazing. Went back the next evening as well...
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3" (!!!) Smoked porkchop topped with pastrami pork belly. Utterly ridiculous but couldn't finish it in one sitting.
If you're in Pitt, try this place, link to menu in previous post.
 
JeffGu said:
Damn, that looks tasty...
It's no wonder I haven't been banned from here... @GregManning is too busy cooking to bother with a few heretics and troublemakers.
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@JeffGu Thanks for the heads-up !
For what I am being paid, I should clearly be spending more time monitoring the "heretics".

Sooooooooooooo ..........................
I just made some popcorn, served in wood.

These are Shaker style baskets made by my father in 1990, for serving popcorn in a set of 4 individual “eating” baskets.

Steps to make "Shaker style" woven baskets, using "swamp ash" (Fraxinus nigra); sometimes called Black ash:
remove bark from log
continuously soak log in water (stream, pond, etc)
hammer every square inch of every annual ring w/ a 3+ lb hammer, to loosen the annual ring of wood
split each annual ring into desired thickness (special homemade device)
cut strips to the desired width
smooth the strip surfaces
(everything is kept wet continuously)
weaving was done either free hand, or sometime using his own handmade plaster molds to set the starting shape.

Note: These are not commercial "Longaberger" baskets.

Similar shaker style baskets sell for many hundreds of dollars.
He gave most of his away.

1. The 2nd pic is of a basket that I make with his tutelage. (~ 1989 ?)
2. The 3rd is a Large debris work basket. (27” diam. X 19” H)

The shakers made baskets to actually use them; this one was routinely used by my father for garden weeds, fall leaves, grass clippings, etc. He moved it around on a very old wooden, flat-bottom wheel-borrow w/ a steel-spoked-wheel.

This one would hold a “County Fair” worth of pop corn !

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Beautiful. I'm guilty of applying the common "Basket Weaving 101" moniker to endeavors that aren't exactly rocket science, but I actually have a great interest in anthropology and find the subject of basket weaving very interesting. At around 26,000 or so years ago, early Homo Sapiens went through a major change in brain functionality/efficiency that isn't easily explained. There are lots of theories on what/why our ancestors suddenly started doing things they didn't find interesting earlier on, but I won't bore you with any of that. Among those things, though, are art forms... the cave paintings in France are the best known... but, weaving natural fibers into rope, string and baskets is another. It actually predates most forms of pottery, which is more durable and is a skill that various human cultures left an artistic imprint and style onto that helps us identify the origins of the pottery. It allows a better understanding of how the cultures traveled and interacted, and how they influenced each other.

I've often thought that weaving technology, if it were more durable, would have served the same purpose... because it's not only functional, it's also a fairly artistic endeavor. People can't help but throw some style and flair into even the most mundane things. Like cars. They serve a utilitarian purpose, but one look at a Lamborghini and you see function merge into form.

I have resisted the urge to actually try basket weaving... purely because I have the attention span of a raccoon, and the skill requires persistence, repetition and diligence. Unless somebody bottles that shit up and puts it on the shelves of the dollar stores, I'm not likely to display much of any of them.

We're still obsessed with pottery and woven baskets, after 26,000 years. There is something about them that appeals to our history; to our need to create useful and beautiful things and to merge function and form into something timeless in its simplicity and style.
 
JeffGu said:
Beautiful. I'm guilty of applying the common "Basket Weaving 101" moniker to endeavors that aren't exactly rocket science, but I actually have a great interest in anthropology and find the subject of basket weaving very interesting. .............................................

We're still obsessed with pottery and woven baskets, after 26,000 years. There is something about them that appeals to our history; to our need to create useful and beautiful things and to merge function and form into something timeless in its simplicity and style.
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FYI .................
I don’t want to derail this food thread, but my father was very artistic. He made many other baskets styles for different food, and other uses: very open weave baskets for draining whey when making cheese curds; bread baskets; vegetable garden collection baskets, etc, etc.
I used to travel a LOT; he once made a “mail basket” to hang on my door, so a neighbor could collect it there.

He was a “ceramist” (ceramic engineer); so, another hobby was throwing pottery. He made complete, matching dinner ware sets: Plates, bowls, cups, saucers, etc.

He was also a very accomplished wood carver.

I’m done bragging on the family. Chow (ciao) !
 
I love turkey; eat it year around.
So ......................... something different .............

Crawfish on Pasta - saute in wok (or other):
Crawfish tails – Louisiana (do not use Asian; I have never found good ones !)
Scallion white ends – discs
Garlic – minced
Ginger - minced
Butter – Lots !
Black pepper
Crushed red pepper flakes
Heavy whipping cream

Angel hair pasta – or other
Scallion green ends – discs for garnish
Parmesan – fine crumble to finish

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GregManning said:
I love turkey; eat it year around.
So ......................... something different .............

Crawfish on Pasta - saute in wok (or other):
Crawfish tails – Louisiana (do not use Asian; I have never found good ones !)
Scallion white ends – discs
Garlic – minced
Ginger - minced
Butter – Lots !
Black pepper
Crushed red pepper flakes
Heavy whipping cream

Angel hair pasta – or other
Scallion green ends – discs for garnish
Parmesan – fine crumble to finish

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Wow does that look good! I haven’t had a mess of mudbugs in a long way, and those look great!
 
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