Trials
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Puff balls grow all over the place but they have such a short life span it's not a matter of where you find them as when. Start watching the fields and ditches for them at the end of this month.
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What's for dinner?
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Kids are grown, some have kids themselves. Work long hours in the winter and some nights my wife is still at work, so I make dinner. I thought these might be interesting to try as you get everything you need for a meal, rather than digging around in the freezer and wondering what to make to go with it. Don't get me wrong, we eat well and healthy (my wife's a nurse and for some reason wants to keep me alive) but was just wondering about these types of things.
I get puffballs around my place all the time, but I find them bland. Good for in stews and soups, but you can only use so much. John, if you want I can bring some in when they come into season. I think we also have morels in my woods, but without an expert telling me that's what they are, I'm not going to tempt fate.
If you have morels you should sell them. I saw dried morels the other day with about 15 for $15, I spoke to someone that sells cultivated mushrooms and they told me you can’t cultivate morels, you have to forage them. Having said that, they are delicious. Had a nice dish in Quebec made with morels as the main ingredient and it was fantastic.
Have you been eating mould?
Trials
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Not me, I don't eat that stuff :| it's everybody else in the family. I only tried it to know for sure.
Have you ever seen "scrapple" didn't need to try much of that to know it's not for me
Blueberry season is on soon isn't it? I can take a ride up the mountain and check pretty soon I guess.
I don't eat those either but I don't mind picking a few for others to eat.
Have you ever seen "scrapple" didn't need to try much of that to know it's not for me
Blueberry season is on soon isn't it? I can take a ride up the mountain and check pretty soon I guess.
I don't eat those either but I don't mind picking a few for others to eat.
kwtoxman
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....... lol 
A small start for example (that I'd recommend) may be simply picking out 8 of your favorite meals to make in the next week, then searching and finding a recipe and cook that appeals to you for those 8 meals. Cut that down to 4 meals and pick up the groceries and ingredients for only those 4... because you'll have leftovers from many of those 4 meals that should last you the rest of the week (more or less). The next 4 recipes can be used for the next week with another grocery shopping visit. It's not a hefty schedule with weekly grocery shopping and picking 8 meals out every two weeks to research their recipes and cooks. Pick some backup meal options you enjoy for the freezer and cupboard and lots of food starts to become available.
Cheers
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kwtoxman
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This thread needs more meal pictures
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Sampler plate, this one with two types of crackers (Raincoast Cranberry and PC sea salt Pita crackers which contrast each other nicely), two types of cheese (herb & chive Boursin Gournay and St. Paulin mild semi soft french cow's milk... more contrasts) and roasted red pepper tapenade.
Instant pot Indian butter chicken served over jasmine rice with fresh cilantro.
More fresh vegetables from the garden. Fresh salad with Chinese greens, leek onion/stalk, and sliced martini cucumber picked fresh from the garden, plus salt, ground 4 peppercorn, roasted cashews (unsalted), hand grated grana padano, premium olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Have a great weekend.
Sampler plate, this one with two types of crackers (Raincoast Cranberry and PC sea salt Pita crackers which contrast each other nicely), two types of cheese (herb & chive Boursin Gournay and St. Paulin mild semi soft french cow's milk... more contrasts) and roasted red pepper tapenade.
Instant pot Indian butter chicken served over jasmine rice with fresh cilantro.
More fresh vegetables from the garden. Fresh salad with Chinese greens, leek onion/stalk, and sliced martini cucumber picked fresh from the garden, plus salt, ground 4 peppercorn, roasted cashews (unsalted), hand grated grana padano, premium olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Have a great weekend.
kwtoxman
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More meal pictures. Kalbi beef (often also called Galbi) from the Weber Summit grill; they came out great. Excellent sear marks, with oils pooling in spots on the meat and very tender
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Had to make this again, and this time with a twist, Instant pot potato pasta salad medley. Again, highly recommended. This dish has big eye appeal
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This potato pasta salad medley includes rotini pasta, fresh garden red potatoes, hard boiled eggs, carrots, celery, sweet red pepper, sweated garden onions (light saute) and garden dill. I mix in some white or apple cider vinegar from time to time when I plate it.
More chocolate. This one is a 2018 World Gold Medal winner at the International Chocolate Awards. It's amazing
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Had to make this again, and this time with a twist, Instant pot potato pasta salad medley. Again, highly recommended. This dish has big eye appeal
This potato pasta salad medley includes rotini pasta, fresh garden red potatoes, hard boiled eggs, carrots, celery, sweet red pepper, sweated garden onions (light saute) and garden dill. I mix in some white or apple cider vinegar from time to time when I plate it.
More chocolate. This one is a 2018 World Gold Medal winner at the International Chocolate Awards. It's amazing
That's the way we used to prepare Puffballs as well. Actually most of the morels I have seen are just our in my woods. Near the base of trees where there's been lots of stuff rotting.
Yeah, Joe, that's their selling point "you keep buying too much lettuce?" Depending oh the price, I imagine I can let a fair bit of lettuce go bad vs the extra cost of their service.
Thanks for flicking that fly off my back (second emoji). We're out in the bush so going to restaurants is not a common occurrence, unless we plan it ahead. We've got two freezers full of food (one just for venison) so there's always lots of food around, and we always cook too much as we're used to cooking for the four kids as well, and can't seem to cut back on the recipes. I was just wondering what these services were like....... ?↗. Make at home fresh box meals are definitely a step in the right direction compared to the expense of (and often less healthy) eating out. But it's always best overall and best value to simply buy groceries, then cook and eat at home. There's a cost premium with box prepared food options without the economies of scale of the Canadian grocers. Doing it all yourself, you can choose your meals which means you should like and enjoy them all. Do you have a good grill? You can do very simple cooks with little to no preparation that are very good (tasty) and good value.
A small start for example (that I'd recommend) may be simply picking out 8 of your favorite meals to make in the next week, then searching and finding a recipe and cook that appeals to you for those 8 meals. Cut that down to 4 meals and pick up the groceries and ingredients for only those 4... because you'll have leftovers from many of those 4 meals that should last you the rest of the week (more or less). The next 4 recipes can be used for the next week with another grocery shopping visit. It's not a hefty schedule with weekly grocery shopping and picking 8 meals out every two weeks to research their recipes and cooks. Pick some backup meal options you enjoy for the freezer and cupboard and lots of food starts to become available.
Cheers
Robbo
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@Lyndsay we tried a couple of different services (first order was 50% off) so it wasn’t too expensive and we got good value for the food. Quality was excellent and we tried a few dishes that we would not ordinarily cook and/or eat.
We tried a three-meal box from ‘hello fresh’. It was the best of the two services. They also provided two additional recipe cards so if we wanted, we could go and buy the ingredients for any of those 5 meals and replicate them on our own.
The other service was ‘chefs plate’. The Thai Basil Katsu Pork dish was the better of the two meals in their box.
We haven’t bought from either service again (not worth it at full price) but really enjoyed the experience.
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We tried a three-meal box from ‘hello fresh’. It was the best of the two services. They also provided two additional recipe cards so if we wanted, we could go and buy the ingredients for any of those 5 meals and replicate them on our own.
The other service was ‘chefs plate’. The Thai Basil Katsu Pork dish was the better of the two meals in their box.
We haven’t bought from either service again (not worth it at full price) but really enjoyed the experience.
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Thanks, Robbo. I have a $45 off first order from makegoodfood that I thought I might try, but I figured it might not be worth it for full price. I will post a review if I go for it. L
Check out redflagdeals as there’s a bunch of these that keep coming up with promos. If you timed it right you could string a bunch together from different suppliers and do it all pretty cheaply.
A customer of mine used to pack for them. IIRC they got ~50¢ a package. Eventually they found a business which provided employment for 'disadvantaged' folk ... "Can you match 15¢/pack?" ... "um, no". I wonder who subsidizes that business?
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