Wonderful Thanksgiving Food

 

We had a fabulous meal today. My wife and I have some medical issues so cooking was a bit of a challenge. In order to perhaps get some sleep we actually started the turkey in  roasting pan with the lid on around midnight Wednesday at around 200 degrees.

At about 9 we took the lid off and cranked the oven to 325 and let the bird roast with no lid until around 12:30. It browned perfectly and by letting the lid on overnight and very slow roasting it we had the most moist flavorful turkey I have ever had.I also made smashed potatoes rather than mashed potatoes.

I coarsely chopped the potatoes and left the skins on. I cooked them in water with salt, black pepper, chicken bouillon cubes, chopped onions and ground Coriander. When soft I roughly smashed them and mixed them with butter and Sour Cream. Fabulous potatoes.

We also of course had all the other Thanksgiving meal trappings.

Awesome day.

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Weird But Fantastic!

 

I made something today that is strange but it wonderful. My wife the other day came across some cans of minced clams for a very low price so she bought me several cans.

I made a batch of clam fritters. I had some fritter batter left today when I got home from work and rather than heating up a deep fryer I just took the end and made what is essentially a clam pancake and just fried the rest all at one time.

As I turned it I saw on the stove a pan of the darkest richest pork gravy I have ever seen. My wife made it from a pork roast and had a roast pork sandwich.

I took the rest of it and put it over the clam pancake when it was done and this is one of the best things I have had in a while.

Sounds a little strange but pork goes with anything.

 

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A Cuisine from the Philippines

I spent a month and a half in the Philippines some years ago and learned to love almost every food I tried. I was in Manila for the entire time so the food I tried was limited to what was available in restaurants and from street vendors in the Makati section of Manila.

I came across a mention of a cuisine that I have not tried yet and it makes me want to hop a plane and go back just to try the food.

It is Ilonggo cuisine and my research has shown a number of things that I would just love I am sure.

There is a festival where the cuisine is going to be featured and I will likely not be able to get there in time.

2013 will be the 21st year of Dinagyang Food Festival, Information on the festival can be found here.

Some examples of Ilonggo cuisine can be found here.

Some day I hope to be able to visit during the festival.

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