Journal

2011 - Week 21 Cooking Results

Boers Beef Hamburgers (Black Angus or Black Angus X, combo of pasture grazing and corn finishing, beef is 85-90%)

This turned out pretty well, I think, the beef tasted pretty good.  I was certainly more satisfied with it, perhaps there is some justification with everyone and their grandmother switching to Black Angus.  I don't know if i my search is done though.  They told me the age their meat, which is good.  I'll keep looking.  But this was a positive finding.

Ground Goat Burgers

I've been buying from La Ventosa Ranch off and on for several times.  For this I thought that the strong taste of the goat meat could work well with the strong, but tasty flavor for the Milton Prairie Dawn and it really did.  It was a very good combination.  Is in describing how I thought this would taste, I tweeted, "You have this which is rarr and that which is rarr and you put em together and they are RARR!!".

Penne Alla Vodka (RC June/July 2011 Cook's Country)

This came together well.  A nice tasty simple recipe.  Rarely do the Cook's people fail to impress though.

Penna Alla Vodka

Deviled Chicken Thighs

The chicken was from Foxhollow Poultry Farm, which I failed to mention.  It made for a good quick meal, but proved without a doubt that I need a vent fan (in theory, there is a chimney, but I have my doubts that it works at all).  Simple, though I did have to adjust mustard a bit, because, well, I ran out of Dijon (though it took less then a day for me to replace it).  I supplemented some yellow mustard (maybe 1/4th of the mustard required)  It was a bit messy to eat (as thighs can be).

Fried Ham, Eggs and Cheese Sandwiches

What to do with leftover ham?  Besides the lunch sandwiches I had almost every day?  Fry it up and put eggs on it!  A favorite of mine.  I love ham, or at least good ham.

For Saturday I ended up making two pizzas for ourselves and the Mattas while they were our guests.  I did one with pepperoni and one with a nice pepperoni, Italian sausage, and smoked mozzarella.  Nathan helped out quite a bit by making the sauce and the putting things together.  It certainly made it go a lot faster.  It was  nice meal after a day at the zoo.  I did forget to take a picture of the less kid friendly pizza, but it still looked good.

The next morning I made a "small" breakfast with rhubarb compote, sliced strawberries, pancakes, bacon and sausages.  I was pretty happy with the way that the rhubarb compote turned out, and seeing that it was that wickedly easy to make, I will to be making more compote as time goes on.  We feasted and then headed over to the Science Center of Iowa.  We ate a late lunch at Gateway and they headed home and we did a little shopping and headed back to our house.  Good weekend.