Food

[Henry Krinkle]

You guys eat crawfish in Canada?

I eat them when I'm in Louisiana. At one time a government organization was studying turning crawfish into a cash crop, but it never took off. I wouldn't eat the ones that come out of our river.

[CanadianStraps]

Your presentation, photography, and in fact standard of food have declined, kc!

- I've never taken a good phot of anything, so I don't see how this is a disappointing performance in that regard.

- it's a mid day sandwich I ate at my desk while doing 6 other things. So don't harangue me on presentation!

- big swing and miss on quality. Aside from the soft ripened cheese from quebec, all other ingredients are artisan and basically from my backyard. Local bakery made the buns this morning, cold cuts are locally made and fantastic, I live in the mustard capital of the world and I could eat this small batch full grain made with local white wine with a spoon from the jar, and the pea shoots were cut this morning from a neighbours hydroponics.

I'd put this sandwich up against any other in terms of quality! Even if it's not the most beautiful.

[Seriously]

- I've never taken a good phot of anything, so I don't see how this is a disappointing performance in that regard.

- it's a mid day sandwich I ate at my desk while doing 6 other things. So don't harangue me on presentation!

- big swing and miss on quality. Aside from the soft ripened cheese from quebec, all other ingredients are artisan and basically from my backyard. Local bakery made the buns this morning, cold cuts are locally made and fantastic, I live in the mustard capital of the world and I could eat this small batch full grain made with local white wine with a spoon from the jar, and the pea shoots were cut this morning from a neighbours hydroponics.

I'd put this sandwich up against any other in terms of quality! Even if it's not the most beautiful.

Pic is just slightly OOF , the butty looks awesome, even I'd eat that

[Broker]

I eat them when I'm in Louisiana. At one time a government organization was studying turning crawfish into a cash crop, but it never took off. I wouldn't eat the ones that come out of our river.

Crawfish tails here are about $15/lb which is pretty hefty. You need at least a pound or 2 for a good meal.

[geoffbot]

- I've never taken a good phot of anything, so I don't see how this is a disappointing performance in that regard.

- it's a mid day sandwich I ate at my desk while doing 6 other things. So don't harangue me on presentation!

- big swing and miss on quality. Aside from the soft ripened cheese from quebec, all other ingredients are artisan and basically from my backyard. Local bakery made the buns this morning, cold cuts are locally made and fantastic, I live in the mustard capital of the world and I could eat this small batch full grain made with local white wine with a spoon from the jar, and the pea shoots were cut this morning from a neighbours hydroponics.

I'd put this sandwich up against any other in terms of quality! Even if it's not the most beautiful.

Okay I'll forgive you. You did used to take nicely staged shots though...

[Henry Krinkle]

The store where we buy our plantains has been screwing with us lately. Normally they sell the variety that are best cooked when the skin turns black but the last few times the plantains were best when barely yellow. They were indistinguishable from the normal kind and were not labelled as such. So, this batch is back to black but we assumed they were still the other kind. I couldn't mash or smash them. Oh, well, nothing to lose. Into the blender with a ripe-ish banana, an egg and some fufu. Fufu is casava and plantain flour. It instantly turned into batter. Added scotch bonnet, green, yellow and red peppers, green onion and roasted corn.



Jamaican chicken and waffles with scotch bonnet rum jelly. Before I hit on the waffle idea I was still rying to get to a consistency where I could fry plantain cakes so the batter was a bit stiff for waffles, I'll use less fufu next time as they were freaking delicious. The fried chicken was marinated in buttermilk with scotch bonnet, ginger, garlic, thyme and a hint of homemade Jamaican curry powder.

[Seriously]

Added scotch bonnet, ....

Heard some merrican on the telly the other day pronounce Scotch Bonnet as Scotch Bonnay ?!!??

Say it isn't so .....

I've not forgiven you guys for saying sodering yet

[geoffbot]

The store where we buy our plantains has been screwing with us lately. Normally they sell the variety that are best cooked when the skin turns black but the last few times the plantains were best when barely yellow. They were indistinguishable from the normal kind and were not labelled as such. So, this batch is back to black but we assumed they were still the other kind. I couldn't mash or smash them. Oh, well, nothing to lose. Into the blender with a ripe-ish banana, an egg and some fufu. Fufu is casava and plantain flour. It instantly turned into batter. Added scotch bonnet, green, yellow and red peppers, green onion and roasted corn.



Jamaican chicken and waffles with scotch bonnet rum jelly. Before I hit on the waffle idea I was still rying to get to a consistency where I could fry plantain cakes so the batter was a bit stiff for waffles, I'll use less fufu next time as they were freaking delicious. The fried chicken was marinated in buttermilk with scotch bonnet, ginger, garlic, thyme and a hint of homemade Jamaican curry powder.

That looks INSANELY good.

[Henry Krinkle]

Heard some merrican on the telly the other day pronounce Scotch Bonnet as Scotch Bonnay ?!!??

Say it isn't so .....

I've not forgiven you guys for saying sodering yet

Scotch Bonet? Wouldn't that be Lisa if she played Samuel L's daughter in Formula 51.


Well, not being 'merican I can't speak for them. As a Canuck I can safely say that we pronounce bonnet correctly.

[Henry Krinkle]

That looks INSANELY good.

Really good. The Scotch bonnet rum jelly is one of the best things we have ever made.