Food

[geoffbot]

Dinner last night was chicken schwarma and haloumi wraps with roast veg and homemade chimichurri (parsley, coriander, lemon juice, vinegar, chilli). A lot of effort for a wrap, but well worth it - a flavour yum bomb.

Oh and lettuce - I had gone off it for about a year and replaced it with spinach, rocket etc, but there's a time and a place for baby gem. Glad to have it back.



Note the beautifully placed sriracha

[thewalrus]

No pictures - but made bison tacos last night. Organic tomatoes and salsa with kale, hot sauce, and some low fat sour cream. Pretty fantastic after an evening at the gym.

Bison is pretty awesome - one of my favorite meats, outside of high quality wild, Pacific, salmon. Super high in protein. Lean. And, at least the stuff I get around here, is all grass fed and free range. I'm not sure Bison can even survive in high-density feed lots. Definitely expensive though - about twice as much as lean ground beef here... and we're pretty much living in the epi-center of bison production.

[Raza]

No pictures - but made bison tacos last night. Organic tomatoes and salsa with kale, hot sauce, and some low fat sour cream. Pretty fantastic after an evening at the gym.

Bison is pretty awesome - one of my favorite meats, outside of high quality wild, Pacific, salmon. Super high in protein. Lean. And, at least the stuff I get around here, is all grass fed and free range. I'm not sure Bison can even survive in high-density feed lots. Definitely expensive though - about twice as much as lean ground beef here... and we're pretty much living in the epi-center of bison production.

Around the same here. Definitely a good meat.

[Henry Krinkle]

No pictures - but made bison tacos last night. Organic tomatoes and salsa with kale, hot sauce, and some low fat sour cream. Pretty fantastic after an evening at the gym.

Bison is pretty awesome - one of my favorite meats, outside of high quality wild, Pacific, salmon. Super high in protein. Lean. And, at least the stuff I get around here, is all grass fed and free range. I'm not sure Bison can even survive in high-density feed lots. Definitely expensive though - about twice as much as lean ground beef here... and we're pretty much living in the epi-center of bison production.

Not pictured here but spaghetti squash with oven roast tomato sauce and bison polpette.

I get mine from an acquaintance who has a bison farm. It was super expensive for a while as it was all going to Germany. They seem to have cooled on it a bit since the last mad cow scare from Alberta, so it is more affordable again.

[Henry Krinkle]

No pictures - but made bison tacos last night. Organic tomatoes and salsa with kale, hot sauce, and some low fat sour cream. Pretty fantastic after an evening at the gym.

Bison is pretty awesome - one of my favorite meats, outside of high quality wild, Pacific, salmon. Super high in protein. Lean. And, at least the stuff I get around here, is all grass fed and free range. I'm not sure Bison can even survive in high-density feed lots. Definitely expensive though - about twice as much as lean ground beef here... and we're pretty much living in the epi-center of bison production.

Around the same here. Definitely a good meat.

Bison cross rib roast makes an awesome smoked/corned/ pastrami type thing. Steamed and eaten fresh the leanness is not a drawback.

[Henry Krinkle]

Pretty excited! Just got a call from the AD! My Ankarsrum Assistent and the small truckload of accessories I ordered is here. Blending,mixing, pasta rolling mayhem is set to ensue.

[geoffbot]

Pics

[geoffbot]

Prawn curry

[Henry Krinkle]

Pics

On my way to get it now.

[Henry Krinkle]

This is about the same width as the largest of the KitchenAids, which is the one we have, but is about two inches shorter and two inches less deep. The capacity of the bowl is several times larger though. The motor is bigger than the KitchenAids and the variable speed controls are infinitely adjustable rather than stepped. While KitchenAid generally recommends low speed for a lot of the non- mixing tasks, the Assistent can plough through the toughest jobs at speed.



In this box: A cast grinder( KitchenAids is plastic) with four meat dies and four pasta extruders, a blender, a juicer, strainer, grater, mincer, cookie press, and more. Not shown; lasagne roller and a tagliatelle roller.




In action. While the capacity for dough is 11 pounds, this is less than one pound of pasta. It will take some getting used to. Everything is completely different to the KitchenAid.

Tomorrow: rolling the pasta and using the meat grinder.