Food Porn

[Olaf]

Last nights evening meal. A hamburger made from a side of beef that came from a free range organic young bull that I helped a friend and Slaughterman to deal with. I bought one half of the beast , at a very fair price , for my help during the slaughter and subsequent handling of it.
I posted about this event in the Home pig slaughter
thread recently.
The bun i made myself , using organic flour and yeast, topped with sesame and poppy seeds. Toppings are some extremely thinly sliced Swiss Sbrinz cheese

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onion ,tomato, lettuce ,gherkin. on the bun I sparingly added a little of the hallowed condiment trinity ;mayonnaise , Colemans mustard, and some tomato ketchup .
The chips in the background were made using some organic chipping potatoes from a friends cousins farm ( I now have 50kg of them in the cellar!) thick cut, 15mmx15mm . I deep fried them at 16o deg c once and then at 185 deg c twice with a few minutes rest between frying sessions.
Everything other than the condiments , cheese and frying oil was organic. I’m not one of these fussy eaters who needs everything to be organic, indeed, I don’t even deliberately buy organic products from the shops , because they are usually of poor quality and very expensive. However, here where I’m working in Germany at present , its very rural and virtually all of the farms that surround us are organic farms owned mostly by friends or locals we know. So, at present, most of what we cook and eat was produced and harvested within a few km of us, indeed, eating non organic food would involve a deliberate trip to a supermarket and cost more.
I have to say though, the quality of the ingredients are stunning and the end result was very tasty.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Olaf]

Some homemade meatballs using some of the mince from the afore mentioned hamburger, with onion garlic salt pepper thyme and Sbrinz cheese integrated in them ! I served them up in tomato and smoked paprika sauce over some homemade egg Pappardelle with a little garnish of basil from the garden and some more Sbrinz cheese.
This time everything other than the Sbrinz cheese wound up being local organic ingredients Even the 405 organic flourcame from a mill a few Villages away. It was all very tasty. It was so good I felt sorry for our dog and let her have a meatball too. She really liked it too.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Morkai]

Sunday was beef, today I made a Pear & Almond cake.

The pears are fried in butter and sugar until soft.

 

[TringSaint]

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Some homemade meatballs using some of the mince from the afore mentioned hamburger, with onion garlic salt pepper thyme and Sbrinz cheese integrated in them ! I served them up in tomato and smoked paprika sauce over some homemade egg Pappardelle with a little garnish of basil from the garden and some more Sbrinz cheese.
This time everything other than the Sbrinz cheese wound up being local organic ingredients Even the 405 organic flourcame from a mill a few Villages away. It was all very tasty. It was so good I felt sorry for our dog and let her have a meatball too. She really liked it too.
Kindest regards, Olaf

Looks amazing

 

[Olaf]

Oh i really like the look of that, nice. I’m not much of a cake eater normally, however, we went to a friend’s birthday gathering yesterday early evening and someone who is a professional baker had brought a pear and almond cake too, I ate a tiny bit and it was superb, she had topped it with caramel roasted almonds, and I think she had sneaked some salt crystals into the caramel, very tasty. However, it looked like an absolute pile of crap in comparison to your stunningly beautiful cake
Kindest regards, Olaf

Sunday was beef, today I made a Pear & Almond cake.

The pears are fried in butter and sugar until soft.

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[Morkai]

Oh i really like the look of that, nice. I’m not much of a cake eater normally, however, we went to a friend’s birthday gathering yesterday early evening and someone who is a professional baker had brought a pear and almond cake too, I ate a tiny bit and it was superb, she had topped it with caramel roasted almonds, and I think she had sneaked some salt crystals into the caramel, very tasty. However, it looked like an absolute pile of crap in comparison to your stunningly beautiful cake
Kindest regards, Olaf

Thank you,

I cant take all the credit though, I've just rewatched all the River Cottage DVDs and this is on it.

 

[Olaf]

Thank you,

I cant take all the credit though, I've just rewatched all the River Cottage DVDs and this is on it.

No, I think you can be proud of that one. Anyone can follow a recipe, but to get a good end result requires skill and reading between the lines a little
Kindest regards. Olaf

 

[Olaf]

Sunday was beef, today I made a Pear & Almond cake.

The pears are fried in butter and sugar until soft.

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By the way, I noticed just now that in the foreground of the picture there is evidence of a second pear and almond cake , obvious really given that the showcase cake is not cut into … I bet you proudly presented that cake to your household and never mentioned that you baked another cake which you secretly ate all by yourself in one go . You greedy Fatty

Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Morkai]

By the way, I noticed just now that in the foreground of the picture there is evidence of a second pear and almond cake , obvious really given that the showcase cake is not cut into … I bet you proudly presented that cake to your household and never mentioned that you baked another cake which you secretly ate all by yourself in one go . You greedy Fatty

Kindest regards, Olaf

The sliced one was mine and the other for a friend.

 

[Olaf]

The sliced one was mine and the other for a friend.

A lovely present to be given. I will have a Go at making one myself. Actually, I will also make two and then I can eat one myself

 

[Morkai]

A lovely present to be given. I will have a Go at making one myself. Actually, I will also make two and then I can eat one myself

Dont forget the clotted cream.

 

[Olaf]

Thank you,

I cant take all the credit though, I've just rewatched all the River Cottage DVDs and this is on it.

Right, thanks for that picture of your stunningly beautiful cake, you inspired me. I watched the River cottage YouTube link, then tried it out the other day. It was nice but I found it a bit too greasy for my liking. So, this morning I developed a different type of pear cake. I cut out the ground almonds and replaced them with some oats that I then milled into a course flour, replaced the wholemeal wheat flour with some 405 wheat flour and halved the eggs butter and sugar and doubled the amount of pears, added a bit of salt some milk and some mixed spices then used yeast as a raising agent. Glazed it at the end with a little home made honey and butter spiced glaze , then sprinkled a little milled oat flour on top. ‚Twas was very tasty.

Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Morkai]

Right, thanks for that picture of your stunningly beautiful cake, you inspired me. I watched the River cottage YouTube link, then tried it out the other day. It was nice but I found it a bit too greasy for my liking. So, this morning I developed a different type of pear cake. I cut out the ground almonds and replaced them with some oats that I then milled into a course flour, replaced the wholemeal wheat flour with some 405 wheat flour and halved the eggs butter and sugar and doubled the amount of pears, added a bit of salt some milk and some mixed spices then used yeast as a raising agent. Glazed it at the end with a little home made honey and butter spiced glaze , then sprinkled a little milled oat flour on top. ‚Twas was very tasty.

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Very nice.

I dont think you can have too many pears in that cake.

They melt in the mouth.

 

[Morkai]

Last nights fodder.

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[Phil fox man]

here are two recipes for sausages I've done yesterday.
1kg minced pheasant.
250g minced pork fat.
1/2 a grated onion.
1/2 a grated red onion.
4 cloves grated garlic.
1 TSP polish salt
1 TSP black pepper.
1 TSP mixed herbs.
2 tbl olive oil.

1 kg minced pheasant.
250 g minced pork fat.
1/2 grated onion.
1/2 grated red onion.
1 tube tomato puree.
large squirt tomato ketchup.
1 TSP mixed herbs.
1 TSP kosher salt.
1/4 TSP cayenne pepper.


mix up the ingredients and add a small amount of bread crumbs to stiffen the mix.leave in fridge overnight to let the spices infuse.
now make your sausage.

 

[Ali]

Veitnamese lemongrass sika stew.

Vietnamese Lemongrass Venison — Elevated Wild

Cozy and comforting, warm up with lemongrass braised venison.

elevatedwild.com

 

[Gameking]

Hare Ragu with Tagliatelle and Parmigiano

 

[RM100]

Stalker’s breakfast: heart, liver, kidneys on sourdough. Delish!!!

 

[Phil fox man]

Stalker’s breakfast: heart, liver, kidneys on sourdough. Delish!!!View attachment 335258

it's nice to see someone using the offal,I like heart and kidney.
phil.