Uitsmijter. My own bread…
Uitsmijter. My own bread, my own ham, local free range eggs, Kerrygold butter, Tellicherry black pepper, sel gris.
Month: April 2020
No-knead bread baked in a cast iron Scotch bowl
No-knead bread baked in a cast iron Scotch bowl. I like it.
And the sequel, Strut very happily sleeping beside me on his fou
And the sequel, Strut very happily sleeping beside me on his four layers of sleeping bag older than I on his Kevlar wrapped five inches of memory foam orthopedic dog bed. Rough life being a dog in...
Here are my cast iron bowls…
Here are my cast iron bowls, Southern, Scotch ... Diameter runs 9 1/2 to 12 inch, height 5 to 8. The thickness of the wall on the heaviest is significant: maybe an inch? Chris
Ham’s out of the smoker and resting
Ham's out of the smoker and resting. Smells heavenly. Maybe, just maybe, doing this on a fasting dat was not the smartest idea!
Right now smoking a whole picnic ham…
Right now smoking a whole picnic ham, bone-in. When it gets out, it gets to rest up, then I trim the bone out, which, with the smoked hocks, goes into the pot to make split pea soup. Some of the rest...
I love cooking egg dishes
I love cooking egg dishes. I started cooking eggs when I was 11, so I've had a lot of practice and I know tons of them. I love the finickiness of eggs - egg yolk, protein-based egg white and egg...
A favorite breakfast of mine
A favorite breakfast of mine: Dutch ryebread crumbled into buttermilk. It's a very old school farmers' breakfast from Twenthe, the tiny piece of the Netherlands I'm from.
French scrambled eggs and homemade bread for brunch this Sunday
French scrambled eggs and homemade bread for brunch this Sunday. Scrambling eggs this way, for 15 eggs, takes 20 minutes of heat control but I think it is worth it.
Picnic ham, bone-in
Picnic ham, bone-in. Two weeks wet brined, soaked in water to get salt off of it (I love salt but as I'll be cooking with this I want finer control over the saltiness). Then dried to get a pellicle....