Swamp Cooking Thread

[EnochRoot]

I like to remove all the shell from the shrimp before cooking, but I add shrimp stock to the sauce. I prefer the only work to be nabbing the clams or mussels from their shells.

Put your shellfish in a couple inches of salted water to let them clean out the sand.
Sautee one diced onion, two diced shallots, four cloves of minced garlic, one bulb of sliced fennel in olive oil.
Stir in one tube of tomato paste for a minute. Then add 28 oz. can of chopped tomatoes.
Add four cups of seafood stock and two cups of dry white wine.
Let it simmer on low heat for 45 minutes.
Add the clams and/or mussels to the broth for 6 minutes. Throw out any that don't open.
Chop up 1.5 pounds of white flaky fish (I'm in New England, so we use cawd).
Add the fish, and 1 pound of scallops/shrimp.
Cook for another 5-7 minutes.
Enjoy!

note: I feel like some sort of pork might make this better.

If you're staying with an Italian seafood stew, then you'd add 1/3 lb of pancetta?

This would work. Or if I can find it, guanciale.

To answer another question, I season to taste. In this case, I added a bit of oregano and basil.

Could you just get a hambone and toss it in the sauce, and then remove it before serving?

Sure. I think all of these work. I'm just trying to figure out what they had in the stew in Venice that I didn't have in mine. Theirs was definitely fattier. And I have to believe that was pork. Will try a bunch of different options moving forward.

Seriously it was probably some type of bacon / pancetta stock. I mean the average life expectancy in Italy is what, 43?

[Jerloma]

Shrimp meat stock

Shrimp shells are shrimp bones.

So shrimp literally wear their bones as armor. That's pretty bad-ass.

[EnochRoot]

Shrimp meat stock

Shrimp shells are shrimp bones.

So shrimp literally wear their bones as armor. That's pretty bad-ass.

Take a few minutes to bone up on our master, the shrimp.

[rass]

Shrimp meat stock

Shrimp shells are shrimp bones.

So shrimp literally wear their bones as armor. That's pretty bad-ass.

Take a few minutes to bone up on our master, the shrimp.

Oh shiiiiiiiiiit!

[garyclark]

Our new favorite family salad recipe:


Chopped kale
Roasted cubes of butternut squash
Chopped beets
Roasted pumpkin seeds
Goat cheese crumbles

Dressing:
EVOO
White wine vinegar
Minced shallots
Dollop of dijon
Lemon juice
Honey

[sancarlos]

That salad sounds good!

Also,

[mister d]

A KA gift card is the christmas present I didn't return.

[P.D.X.]

roasted squash/potato chunks are under-used in salad. also, dates

[mister d]

Kinky.

[rass]

Beets make my poops red

[govmentchedda]

Berts and goat cheese are a fantastic combination. That salad sounds great.

[mister d]

[EnochRoot]

Shrimp meat stock

Shrimp shells are shrimp bones.

So shrimp literally wear their bones as armor. That's pretty bad-ass.

Take a few minutes to bone up on our master, the shrimp.

Oh shiiiiiiiiiit!

Ha! Seriously though. Punch like a gunshot.

[rass]

Finally got myself a mandoline veggie slicer

[+] spoiler

finally rid myself of that pesky fingertip

[govmentchedda]

They should really sell the glove with the mandoline.

[rass]

Had my first attempt been anything but a cucumber I would have been fine and used the safety thing

[govmentchedda]

Hope it was on a thin setting. I took a chunk of a fingertip off with mine and it hurt like a motherfucker for more days than it should have, but looking now, I can't even tell which finger it was

[mister d]

I took off a diagonal corner of my thumb with a serrated knife two days after the due date of my oldest and my wife was not very pleased as I sat on the floor bleeding.



(I instinctively(?) bit off the hanging piece of skin immediately which I think was the only reason it wasn’t a bigger deal once I got the bleeding stopped.)

[rass]

Slept with a maxipad taped around my finger.

[rass]

I spent a lot of my day typing and wiping and let me tell you that today was a struggle

[The Sybian]

I spent a lot of my day typing and wiping and let me tell you that today was a struggle

The struggle is real. Deep slice on my fingertip with a new knife. Been two weeks, still hasn’t fully closed. Annoying as fuck. I couldn’t get the bleeding to stop while cooking, almost went Top Chef style and rubber banded a latex glove finger like a condom. Took over an hour to stop heavy flowing.

[wlu_lax6]

Slept with a maxipad ... around my finger.

Must have been uncomfortable for the Mrs.

[mister d]

I spent a lot of my day typing and wiping and let me tell you that today was a struggle

The struggle is real. Deep slice on my fingertip with a new knife. Been two weeks, still hasn’t fully closed. Annoying as fuck. I couldn’t get the bleeding to stop while cooking, almost went Top Chef style and rubber banded a latex glove finger like a condom. Took over an hour to stop heavy flowing.

Kinda worried I’m next based on proximity and the rule of threes.

[cerranoredux]

I spent a lot of my day typing and wiping and let me tell you that today was a struggle

The struggle is real. Deep slice on my fingertip with a new knife. Been two weeks, still hasn’t fully closed. Annoying as fuck. I couldn’t get the bleeding to stop while cooking, almost went Top Chef style and rubber banded a latex glove finger like a condom. Took over an hour to stop heavy flowing.

Kinda worried I’m next based on proximity and the rule of threes.

You and me both.

[DaveInSeattle]

Finally got myself a mandoline veggie slicer

[+] spoiler

finally rid myself of that pesky fingertip

The only thing in a kitchen that scares me. Sometimes I think about getting one, but then remember that I'd have a 100% chance of slicing off my finger tip.

[A_B]

My wife sliced her finger very badly one christmas eve. really nothing to do unless we'd have gone to the ER, but we just wrapped it up and went in the day after christmas. now she cringes if we even see a mandolin being used on Food Network.

[elflaco2]

I spent a lot of my day typing and wiping and let me tell you that today was a struggle

The struggle is real. Deep slice on my fingertip with a new knife. Been two weeks, still hasn’t fully closed. Annoying as fuck. I couldn’t get the bleeding to stop while cooking, almost went Top Chef style and rubber banded a latex glove finger like a condom. Took over an hour to stop heavy flowing.

Kinda worried I’m next based on proximity and the rule of threes.

You and me both.

just keep it to your county and we're good.

[mister d]

Made carne guisada for the first time and its wonderful. Even the kids really liked it which made toning down the spice a little worth it rather than something I silently curse them for.

[rass]

Sorta weird that I made this tonight

https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/reci ... o-guisado/

[mister d]

And yet you thought I was going to "ruin (your) night" by showing up at ... Echo?

[rass]

And yet you thought I was going to "ruin (your) night" by showing up at ... Echo?

We were in Mo'town on Saturday.

And I knew there was no way you'd show up if other Swampers were there. I thought you were going to somehow shit on the song.

[A_B]

Fuck Mo Town.

[elflaco2]

And yet you thought I was going to "ruin (your) night" by showing up at ... Echo?

We like Echo

[mister d]

I only went once and it was just with a kid, but it felt ... open? Like the ceilings were high and the sound swirled?

[garyclark]

Any good lentil recipes out there?

[phxgators]

Any good lentil recipes out there?

Dal is my go-to for lentils
https://tasteasianfood.com/masoor-dal/

[garyclark]

Any good lentil recipes out there?

Dal is my go-to for lentils
https://tasteasianfood.com/masoor-dal/

Thanks. I'm going to try something with these.

[elflaco2]

Any good lentil recipes out there?

made a big pot two weeks ago
lentils + water, added potatoes (peeled? chunked)
while started in separate pan sofrito (onions, carrots) + ground beef (salt, pepper, paprika)

once water reduced, added beef mixture
small can of tomato sauce
couple of tomatos (chunks)

simmer about an hour total - salt to taste

[Rush2112]

made some French onion soup over the weekend. Man, amazing something so simple is so damn good.

[The Sybian]

Any good lentil recipes out there?

Dal is my go-to for lentils
https://tasteasianfood.com/masoor-dal/

Dal Makhani is the correct answer