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tongueriver

tongueriver

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OK, folks, there's a foot of snow in the Bighorns, so it's time to make that first pot of gumbo of the season. Get out that kitchen knife, whether it's a 14 inch
Sabatier or a 4 inch stockman, and prepare yer Holy Trinity. Make a chocolate roux in yer iron pot, add the Trinity, and when the time comes, yer home made stock and the meat, be it pork, dead birds or venison. Oh... don't ferget the Basmati rice and the file' powder at table. And thank the Lord fer yer blessings.
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Light Beer!!! Oh, the horror! ;)
 
Aii-eee, nuthin' better, cept fried Socalay(cajun for crappie) and sweet tater pie......300
 
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This is kind of a coincidence - we just had our 'first winter dinner' two nights ago, when our big storm hit out here. Veggie stew & homemade bread.

tongueriver - where you at?

thx - cpr
 
When I was growing up, the first frost meant it was oyster stew time. Not the thin stuff, but the thick stuff that's like the chunky soup comercials; thick enough to eat with a fork, but use a spoon to get every drop. Where every spoonfull has an oyster in it.

Also, living all these years with a better half that's a native born Texian, a big pot of chille gets cooked up when it gets cold.

Either one goes down well with a cold dark brew.:thumbup:

Although real winter means that was when dad made his hot buttered rum drinks. That was worth getting cold for.:thumbup::thumbup:
 
Since my wife grew up in Mexico, the first cold days will inevitably draw the question, "Want to have some pozole for dinner"? This is basically a pork stew with whole white hominy (the pozole) in it with ancho chiles and a whole other bunch of spices. It is similar to menudo but with pork as opposed to tripe. You then garnish it with sliced cabbage, some oregano and lime and eat away! Good stuff!
 
I LOVE pozole!!! And gumbo, and oyster chowder, and ...

Winter time is good eats!
 
Nice! I'm going to try my hand at gumbo once the weather turns. Harvested a bunch of sassafras leaves the other week for the file'. MAN it takes forever to grind that stuff w/ a mortar & pestle.
 
jackknife said:
Also, living all these years with a better half that's a native born Texian, a big pot of chille gets cooked up when it gets cold.

Either one goes down well with a cold dark brew.:thumbup:
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Must be some kind of universal timing mechanism.

My wife had me take her to the grocery to pick up all the fixings for her chili yesterday. Should be good eating this weekend. :thumbup:
 
Yessir, I am a WINTERFOOD kind of a guy. Pot roasts, cabbage with kielbasa, cornbread along with a bowl of smoked hamhocks and greens in potlikker, a big old pork butt smoking in the watersmoker out on the patio, and, yes, POSOLE! Good eatin'! Sorry about the light beer. I have drank a lot more than my share of the good stuff, including from Europe. I am on a meager pension, now, and I drink yard beer and use the savings to buy one more knife a year!
 
tongueriver said:
Yessir, I am a WINTERFOOD kind of a guy. Pot roasts, cabbage with kielbasa, cornbread along with a bowl of smoked hamhocks and greens in potlikker, a big old pork butt smoking in the watersmoker out on the patio, and, yes, POSOLE! Good eatin'! Sorry about the light beer. I have drank a lot more than my share of the good stuff, including from Europe. I am on a meager pension, now, and I drink yard beer and use the savings to buy one more knife a year!
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Sounds like a good plan, TR...One that'll work.

That said, when you're in the neighborhood I'll be proud to stand you to the finest beer we can find in these parts. (Lots of microbrews in the area around here and a couple of good pubs featuring fine beer from around the world.)
 
Beer, gumbo, sweet tater pie, stew, homemade bread, oyster stew, chili, hot buttered rum drinks, pozole, pot roast, cabbage with kielbasa, cornbread, smoked hamhocks, greens, smoked pork butt smoking ... you sons of b****es are killing me! :p

Seriously, we need to organize a folksy forum chow session! Afterwards we can pass a bottle, whittle up some toothpicks and listen to a jackknife yarn or two. :D
 
mnblade said:
Seriously, we need to organize a folksy forum chow session! Afterwards we can pass a bottle, whittle up some toothpicks and listen to a jackknife yarn or two. :D
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If we're not already snoring from overindulgence. :p
 
My wife made a chili last weekend she's famous (in my family) for. You better have a handkerchief in addition to a napkin, and you sweat and cry as well. And I wasn't even sad! :D

Seriously, you guys need to start posting WSS recipes for all this. I have no experience with Cajun and Mexican cooking, but I want to learn!
 
sodak said:
My wife made a chili last weekend she's famous (in my family) for. You better have a handkerchief in addition to a napkin, and you sweat and cry as well. And I wasn't even sad! :D

Seriously, you guys need to start posting WSS recipes for all this. I have no experience with Cajun and Mexican cooking, but I want to learn!
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Just to keep things manageable, please share recipes and such via PM and email. It'll be a big help. Thanks. :thumbup:
 
texasflyfisher said:
Since my wife grew up in Mexico, the first cold days will inevitably draw the question, "Want to have some pozole for dinner"? This is basically a pork stew with whole white hominy (the pozole) in it with ancho chiles and a whole other bunch of spices. It is similar to menudo but with pork as opposed to tripe. You then garnish it with sliced cabbage, some oregano and lime and eat away! Good stuff!
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Same thing with my wife. Her and her mother and sisters also get together to make the first batch of pork, beans, and jalapeno/cheese tamales. Manch those J/C ones are good with a tall glass of Sam Adams! That hot buttered rum drinks sound awesome Jackknife!
 
Blues said:
finest beer we can find in these parts. (Lots of microbrews in the area around here and a couple of good pubs featuring fine beer from around the world.)
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Really? Did folks back there get all sostiphicated :D now? If so, I'm really glad. One thing I've missed back there is good microbrews. I didn't really look the last time we were there.

Lots of great ol' timey sodas, and real "lightnin' water", (that's corn liquor to you city clickers), but in my time, no 'real' beer. :(

There was another tradition with one of my uncles - when the first snow falls, my aunt would make a big pot of chicken soup & dumplings; "the boys" would go out on the back porch & have a few sips of (really good, first mash) homemade hooch, then walk around the place in the falling snow and close up the pastures & grazing fields, and throw the first hay of the winter for the farm critters in the barn. An hour of small work in the first snow, with a little "fire in yer belly" as my uncle Claude would say, then homemade chicken soup by the woodstove in the kitchen - life doesn't get any better than that.

Alright. Now I'm ready for the snow. :thumbup:

thx - cpr
 
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