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| Posted: Tue Dec 1st, 2009 11:50 pm |
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pamc153PA Member
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Okay, folks, it's been awhile since we've discussed food, so I was wondering--anyone cook anything or eat anything lately, savory or sweet, that's worth salivating over? I myself just (almost) single-handedly finished off a pot of curried pumpkin soup I made the other day. And I did about a dozen different versions of turkey after Thanksgiving--soup, chili, hot turkey sandwiches, turkey croquettes. . .we had a pretty big turkey this year, lots of leftovers! Pam
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| Posted: Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 10:16 pm |
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TimK Member
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The Thanksgiving turkey my wife and brother fixed was one of the best I ever had (and I've experienced quite a few Thanksgivings). I'm not sure if brine is a noun or a verb, but my wife brined(?) a turkey overnight, and then my brother brought over his turkey fryer and deep fried the bird. AWESOMELY DELICIOUS!! The follow-up turkey tortellini soup on Sunday, with fresh baked bread was also quite tasty. I was very thankful. Pam - my wife makes a different soup every Sunday in the winter. She is now experimenting with Indian food, and have a feeling she would be very interested in your recipe for the curried pumpkin soup.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 11:30 pm |
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ole Member 
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Dang! You have me slavering.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 12:24 am |
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pamc153PA Member
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Tim, I always want to try brining, but when I actually get to roasting the turkey, I forget until it's too late. I've heard that it makes for a really tender turkey. I'll dig up the curried pumpkin soup recipe. It's really creamy, and has just the right heat to it. Throw on some green onions, or sour cream, or bacon bits (or all three!), add some homebaked bread--heaven! Pam
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 12:50 am |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer 
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(sigh) I'm the biggest bore with turkey leftovers, simply because to me just good old cold white meat, lots of salt, topped with homemade whole berry cranberry sauce is as close to heaven as I'll ever get. No recipe needed. But Pam, yesterday for lunch I had fried lebanon bologna on a toasted hoagie roll with melted swiss. Oh my...getting hungry again!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 01:10 am |
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Doc C Member 
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We shucked 5 dozen choptank sweets, oysters from our near by river, then made crab mac and cheese for my crew who came to the eastern shore for thanksgiving. A totally eastern shore feast. Doc C
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 02:08 pm |
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ole Member
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Lordy! No PBJ trolls here. I wouldn't know how to handle myself if I could stroll by the river and pick some oysters. I was doing well to gather apples for a really fine pie. But oysters? I'm overmatched. Ole
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 02:16 pm |
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TimK Member
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Doc - you're Thanksgiving sounds very romantic in a food sort of way. Something that is so foreign to this region that it should be considered an add to a bucket list. We have something called oysters here in the Rocky Mountains, but they are far from real oysters.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 02:58 pm |
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Doc C Member
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I'm not a so called "tree hugger" but think we here around the chesapeake bay need to do things which could help improve it rather than injure it. One way is for those who live on the water, including me, is to raise oysters in cages off of our docks which will be later harvested and placed in areas of the bay. Amazingly oysters filter literally ###gallons of water each day. The oysters we shucked were grown locally in a nearby river by a aquaculture company. Theres's nothing more tasety/salty than an oyster which was just plucked from the water. Tim by the way we had a tradional turkey for thanksgiving, did the oysters/crab mac & cheese on friday. I quess my motives for helping the bay are related to my love of the bounty we reap from her - crabs, oysters, rockfish, etc. and the desire to continue to enjoy this wealth. Doc C
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 05:35 pm |
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ole Member
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Guess we'd all like to live by the bay and do what it takes to keep the bay alive. Rocky Mountain Oysters aside,(fie TimK)There is nothing quite so fine as fresh picked. That goes for apples, tomatoes, rockfish and catfish and sunfish. And, poor me, clams and oysters. Doc C gets to pick clams and oysters. I get to pick corn and maters and taters. While I envy his oysters, I do have some advantages.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 05:49 pm |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
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Doc, you're cruel. Bringing back memories of summer vacations to the MD shore. Parents had a nice travel trailer and a lot right by the bay. Lazy nights of crab cakes and steamed clams. Yum....
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 10:08 pm |
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Fuller E Pluribus Unum 
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Somehow we ended up with 3 birds for Thanksgiving and I didn't have to cook any of them! Mom did the traditional oven cooked and my husband deep fried one that was covered in molasses/honey and then smoked a brined one on the grill with mesquite chips. The fried one was the most tender but the smoked one had the best flavor and amazing gravy drippings to go with it. Last year a friend invited us over to "harvest" our own turkey he had raised. Let's just say I'm a whimp and not the hunting type. I almost passed out actually. It was a lot of work cleaning that bird and getting it ready for the oven. It made me appreciate those from past and present that do it all the time. It was good for my kids to see that things don't just appear on the grocery shelf...they gotta start somewhere!!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 11:14 pm |
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pamc153PA Member
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Wait, wait--FRIED lebanon bologna, Joe?? How'd you do that? Pam
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 11:33 pm |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
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Pam, you never tried it?! Oh, you've GOT to. Just get a skillet hot and stick in the LB. When it forms a large bubble, turn it. Then eat. Try it and let me know what you think....
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 11:57 pm |
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pamc153PA Member
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I'll give it a try, but why am I thinking I'll like a couple dozen steamers with melted butter, better? Do you put mustard on it? Lebanon bologna needs good old yellow mustard. Pam
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2009 12:13 am |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
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Coarse ground if you have it. Great on a sandwich, but pat the grease off first or it'll soak right through the bread.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2009 02:25 am |
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Doc C Member
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The final hurrah for our bird - chopped up carcass in a big pot with veggies, herbs, water - boiled/simmered for 6 hours to make a stock, then used the stock to make beans and rice. A few jalapenos, hot sause, homemade cornbread - PRICELESS. Doc C
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2009 02:28 am |
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Doc C Member
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In Tulsa one of my favorite places is a Lebanese restaurant serving grilled bologna with babaganouche, taboule, etc.. Incredible Doc C
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2009 05:13 pm |
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pamc153PA Member
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Alittle off the topic of Lebanon bologna, has anyone ever eaten goose? I never have, but I've eaten duck--is it like that? And beside roasting, how do you make goose? Pam
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2009 05:26 pm |
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javal1 Grumpy Geezer
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Pam, I've had it once and found it, like duck, much too fatty. But as to how to cook it, try http://www.gooserecipes.net/ .
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