The people who mailed me my smoked pheasant, quail and duck for Saturday’s tea threw in some peppered Country Pork Jowl for free.
Mmm. Jowl. Evidently I am to use it when stirring up some catfish stew.
Or perhaps, a nice JLT.
What kind of catalogs will I be getting in the mail now? Outhouse World?
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Is any of that kosher? I’m going with Italian Saturday.
Oh, no, you’re more the Garden and Gun sort.http://gardenandgun.com/Or beans. There are any number of beans that cook nicely with pork you otherwise wouldn’t know what to do with. Black Eyed Peas, pole beans, navy beans…Stewed catfish is nasty. Right up there with stewed okra.
Ditto Sherri on catfish. I despised it and it was the local delicacy where I lived in FL. Nothing but bones and a little skanky meat.
*shudder*
But… fried snoot is ok, peppered jowl is not? Is it because jowl is synonymous with wattle?
.75 – Wish I could be there but I am wiped.Sherri – Okay, maybe stewed catfish, but fried catfish is good.Becs – Oh, but one of the best meals I had was fried catfish on the bank of the Mississipi river. My grandpa fried it up right there. It was a very fresh bottom feeder.3 – Shuddering jowls. Lewis Black does that sometimes.Big Dot – Ooooooo. Good one! Hey, what the hell is this quince stuff I served at the tea party today? It was made in New Zealand. It was like hard Jello. How do you eat quince?
But did you like it?I didn’t know we exported it – it’s not a native thing.[Wiki: Plutarch reports that a Greek bride would nibble a quince to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber, “in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant”.]But quince paste is quite nice to have with cheese, particularly cheddar, I think. (Though I’ve never stocked it in my pantry.)By the way, it’s SO HOT here at the moment: 35 C in the shade outside my back door. That’s about 96 F to you.
Big Dot – Glad you are toasty. Big ice storm coming in tomorrow, they say.
What exactly IS an ice storm? We get shown pictures on the news of power lines and trees encased in ice, but do you get snow first or what? (In this part of the country we rarely even get a frost.)
Big Dot – it depends. Sometimes, the roads are covered with ice and then there is a decptive dusting of snow on top. But I think the worst year was 15 or so years ago when there was a deep snow, then a rain, which then froze as a crust on top of the snow. I know four people with broken arms from that. But technically that wasn’t an ice storm.Per wikipedia: “Ice storms occur when a layer of warm air is between two layers of cold air. Frozen precipitation melts while falling into the warm air layer, and then proceeds to refreeze in the cold layer above the ground. If the precipitate is partially melted, it will land on the ground as sleet. However, if the warm layer completely melts the precipitate, becoming rain, the liquid droplets will continue to fall, and pass through a thin layer of cold air just above the surface. This thin layer of air then cools the rain to a temperature below freezing (0 °C). However, the drops themselves do not freeze, a phenomenon called supercooling (or forming “supercooled drops”). When the supercooled drops strike ground below 0 °C or anything else below 0 °C (power lines, tree branches, air craft), they instantly freeze, forming a thin film of ice, hence freezing rain.”