Food Thread - Inforoo Is Full Of Crab

I can't remember if I mentioned this last year, but I'm about to go pick up my wife's annual Christmas present from the office, a large honeybaked ham. Since there's only two of us and she doesn't really do sandwiches, anybody have recipe suggestions to use it up? I've already planned a quiche and at least one pasta dish, but I'm all ears otherwise

The gift cert has been pinned to the fridge for months

yes I have! 😔

made those but with laughing cow wedges instead of brie because it's what I had, turned out delicious

We have been in Panama City for a while. It’s not the greatest food town considering the great shit in southern Walton County (30-A) a half hour west and Pensacola a couple hours west. But they do have good ingredients available at seafood markets. They don’t have anything on the retail level of the OG seafood market, Joe Patti’s, but there’s tons of good shrimp, lobster, crab and many varieties of Gulf fish you can get if you’re willing to put in the work because of all the fishing fleets. We got some fantastic brown shrimp from a small market. So it was what do we do with them. I was left alone to go grocery shopping so mushrooms, garlic, lemon, white wine, a super lucky find of Calabrian chiles, capers, fresh dill, and fresh pasta. It was super easy and a 8.5/10. I didn’t have the usual spices so I improvised. Easy as fuck

Part 1 - shrimp were peeled and deveined and marinated in black pepper, smoked paprika, lemon juice and zest, sunflower oil from the Calabrian chili jar and some caper vinegar along with dill. 1 hour but you only needed 20 minutes.

Part 2 - sautéed off the mushrooms and used a tiny bit of rose on request to finish them. Salt, pepper, olive oil, butter. Set aside

Part 3 - Shrimp sautéed in olive oil, Calabrian sunflower oil and butter to keep the same profile. 2 minutes and then a little less on the other side. Removed.

Part 4 - garlic in along with 4 chopped Calabrian chilis, juice of 1 1/2 lemons, white wine and a little pasta water. Mushrooms back in and reduce. Finally shrimp back in with a generous amount of capers and toss with fresh pasta. Off heat two tbs butter whisked in. Top with more squeezed lemon and black pepper. Big amounts of torn, fresh dill to serve. I’m a very harsh critic of my own cooking but it was good. Better days 2 and 3 too. I was kind of proud but it was mostly that jar of chili peppers. I’ve only had them a couple times at Italian restaurants in dishes. But the heat from Calabrian’s is so nice. Like a 2.75 but back of throat pepper. My knock was that it was probably too bright of a dish. Super fresh, salty, sour, vibrant, but the mushrooms were the only relief on the sweet side. If you don’t use fat to counteract acid/brightness, and I’m semi-restricted, you have to utilize other tricks. I’m continuing to experiment.

After Easter I usually make like a cheesy ham potato bake and split pea with ham soup or ham and beans with cornbread. And I throw some in the left over mac and cheese.

seems like a decent cheesy ham bake recipe

10/10 ham with black eyed peas and also cheesy ham and taters. Can also literally blend it with some s&p, garlic powder, onion, relish, then mix in some mayo/mustard and have a deviled ham salad kinda thing.

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made some midweek sourdough cast iron pizzas.

i use the king arthur recipe for the crust. usually make it a day or so ahead, but it can be done day of if you give it enough time to rise. oil up the cast iron and let the dough finish rising in there while the oven preheats. sauce and toppings on, bake for about 10 minutes. add cheese and bake for another 12-15 minutes.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-pizza-crust-recipe

What you having? I got a late invite to go eat some crawfish across town, but I had to bail. Kid C is going grab some black pepper shrimp from Doson Noodle House. That’s shrimp and whatever vegetables Chef has sautéed off in black pepper sauce served over jasmine rice. One day I gotta get his recipe for the black pepper sauce. It’s not quite the thickness of a glaze, but it’s translucent and dark and good. He needs to hurry tf back with dinner.

so Derek Thompson did a podcast about this and it was pretty interesting. basically a couple of different studies have found that people who consume a half cup of ice cream regularly are less likely to get diabetes. the interesting part is that scientists have ignored or suppressed this finding because it just didn't agree to their priors. which is bad, but i understand the impulse, they don't want to put out there that this high sugar, high fat, dairy product is good for you because it just doesn't feel true. which raises interesting discussions about other scientific studies that maybe have findings ignored or at least not highlighted because they just don't "feel right".

but i digress. there are a lot of different reasons consuming some ice cream could result in lower risk for diabetes, despite it being a high sugar food. it could be a substitution thing, like people may eat less food at dinner, or less carbs at dinner, if they know they are going to eat some ice cream later. this has definitely been the case for me, i'm much more likely to just eat one portion of dinner if i have ice cream in the freezer.

or it could be that ice cream is genuinely "healthier" than other sweet options. ice cream is typically a pretty simple concoction, some ice creams have just a handful of ingredients. and there may be something about this that makes it healthier than say a piece of cake, or a cookie.

obviously the best conclusion that i was joking about in my quote above is that ice cream is just intrinsically healthy, but that seems really unlikely, or maybe i'm just susceptible to the same vibes that made the scientists on these studies say "nah".

The news was from around April 13th. Guardian did a piece on it as did The Atlantic. However from 2022, Catholichealthservices.org did put out a positive article on "The surprising benefits of ice cream." This has nothing to do with this April's research findings. The article has lots of pretty ice cream pictures, so I'm putting them below the points of the story.

1. Source of Vitamins - "Huge source" of Vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D and E. It also has some Vitamin K along with Niacin, Thiamin and Riboflavin (B3, B1, B2)

2. Provides Energy rich with carbohydrates, fats and proteins all needed to produce energy.

3. Source of Minerals - calcium and phosphorous and of course whatever else you get from the type of ice cream you are consuming

4. Stimulates the Brain - “Ice cream stimulates the thrombotonin, which is a hormone of happiness and helps in reducing the levels of stress in the body. Ice cream is made of milk, which contains L-triptophane, which is a natural tranquilizer and helps in relaxing the nervous system. It also helps prevent symptoms of insomnia.”









Source link: www.catholichealthservices.org/news/the-surprising-benefits-of-ice-cream/

sautéing onions in olive oil ain’t got no right smelling as good as it does