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Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
Mango and orange juices, mixed with about equal parts soda, and topped with a splash of homemade, flavored simple syrup...usually ginger, but sometimes chile/lime.
Infusing Liquors
I do rums of all kinds...10 Cane with blood orange zest, Appelton with chiles and/or ginger, Mount Gay with dried cherries, allspice and nutmeg. The best of all is Zaya (a very dark, deep rum) with split vanilla beans.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Our Thanksgiving is different. Instead of a traditional menu, each person gets to cook whatever he wants. This year, the six main and side dishes were: pork loin with Chipotle glaze (15-year-old cook), calzones with ham, bacon and cheese sauce (12-year-old cook), fried potatoes with pancetta, standing rib of pork, dirty rice with pork and alligator sausage (16-year-old cook) and cajun shrimp. Alas, there was no pork with the shrimp, but by that point, you could dredge them on your plate and get the effect of bacon-wrapping them.
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Healthy and Delicious: Fresh Corn Salad
Like salpice, I like a little more color, so I use edamame for green and roasted Hatch chiles for red, which gives a nice kick to the whole dish as well. I also prefer the corn roasted to boiled/blanched.
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
Mango and orange juices, mixed with about equal parts soda, and topped with a splash of homemade, flavored simple syrup...usually ginger, but sometimes chile/lime.
Infusing Liquors
I do rums of all kinds...10 Cane with blood orange zest, Appelton with chiles and/or ginger, Mount Gay with dried cherries, allspice and nutmeg. The best of all is Zaya (a very dark, deep rum) with split vanilla beans.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Our Thanksgiving is different. Instead of a traditional menu, each person gets to cook whatever he wants. This year, the six main and side dishes were: pork loin with Chipotle glaze (15-year-old cook), calzones with ham, bacon and cheese sauce (12-year-old cook), fried potatoes with pancetta, standing rib of pork, dirty rice with pork and alligator sausage (16-year-old cook) and cajun shrimp. Alas, there was no pork with the shrimp, but by that point, you could dredge them on your plate and get the effect of bacon-wrapping them.
'The New York Times' Doesn't Know What the Flying Spaghetti Monster Is
Clearly this is a heretical attempt to divide the Pastafarians. The true FSM sees with meatballs, not malted milk balls.
A dessert schism?
For those of you not yet touched by his noodley appendage, the FSM is fond of beer and blames global warming on a lack of pirates.
Best dish you've had at a restaurant
Roasted duck breast with a port wine/cherry sauce at Prairie in Chicago. Mind-bending.
Sample Thanksgiving Dinner Menus
We abandoned the traditional Thanksgiving menu after I caught myself telling my then five-year-old that "You can't have corn dogs for Thanksgiving." Now everyone draws from a hat and prepares a main dish, side dish or dessert. (Appetizers and drinks if the gathering is large enough to warrant specialization).
The rule is that you have to make it yourself. As a result, we have the whole family cooking together all day and it has become our favorite holiday tradition.
Last year's menu (with just our immediate family):
Turkey rouladen with andoullie/cornbread stuffing (Mine)
Baby-back ribs (15 year old)
Sweet potato fries (11 year old)
Arepas (Mom)
Creme Brulee (14 year old)
Other highlights over the years have included Jamaican jerk pork steaks, spinach custard timbales, trifle and, of course, corn dogs!
What's the craziest thing you ever ate?
Sea cucumber w/ soy sauce and garlic, and raw, frozen, salted pork fat, sliced thin and just thawed enough to melt in your mouth. On the same night.
The first was horrible (especially since I had to eat double for a squeamish friend). The second was surprisingly good...think butter and you're not far off.
Both were enabled by vast quantities of vodka and a desire not to create an international incident. That night we also had freshly-caught scallops from the Russian Pacific, served raw with nothing but a squeeze of lemon, which may be the best thing I have ever eaten.
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
When ordering our Godkids nonalcoholic drink I usually cringe since they are always so sugary sweet. And to be honest the kids don't really like them that much. I love ideas for good tasting alcohol free drinks we can both enjoy.
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
I make a drink I refer to as "Sparkle Juice". 2 oz sugar free grapefruit juice, 1 oz sugar free cranberry and sprite zero, over ice, drank with a straw. It's delicious.
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
Equal parts orange juice, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice. Shake together and pour over ice. Add a splash of clear soda if you like it fizzy.
I started making this concoction as a kid, when I didn't care for any of those juices separately. The combination is not-too-sweet and really refreshing!
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
A Porgy. Orange juice, pineapple juice and orgeat shaken together (add a little lime juice if you like it a bit less sweet). Pour over ice into a clear glass and add some homemade grenadine.
Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking
Fantastic - thanks for the ideas. I live with a (nondrinking) alcoholic, and it's nice to find some awesome drinks that don't have the alcohol in!
Infusing Liquors
@CE BAKES - wow, rose petals. that sounds so beautiful....
Infusing Liquors
One of the ways I keep my vanilla beans soft and pliable is to submerge them in vodka, bourbon or brandy. They stay fresh pratically forever and you have a deliciously scented alcohol to use for cooking or a specialty drink.
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Ooooh, those rums sound delicious.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Thank you for participating, and congratulations to our winners: Cookieeater. Winner has been notified by email and also appears on our Contest Winners page.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
New Year's Day pork and sauerkraut when my parents were still living. They hadn't had it before and we all needed some good luck.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
One of my best memories was at a summer pig roast. That was the best pig I have ever had.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Thankfully MANY fond pork memories. But one that stands out is my wife's late Uncle John's bbq pork spareribs. It seems like we waited FOREVER for them to be done. I was sure they would be dried out. But instead they were the most flavorful, tender and succulent ribs I ever tasted! Sadly, he would never share his secret recipe, and took it to the grave with him. They will remain legendary!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
my mom making homemade bbq pork
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Pork is king.
One of my first memories was of my mom, for reasons I cannot fathom, cutting the fat off the pork chops and sizzling them in a pan. My sisters and I would fight over them and there would never be any left for whatever it was mom was trying to cook.... go figure :)
Also the incredible 'poor soup' that I don't know why I still crave: Boiled salt pork with wax beans, salt and pepper...
Roast pork with it's crunchy fat layer studded with garlic is sheer heaven!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Ooooohhhhh! PORK!!!!! Is there any better smell than bacon frying up in a skillet or a ham, covered with a brown sugar glaze, baking in the oven?...or a real vinegar based bbq pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw on top?....ohhhhh!...Dear Lard, I would love to win this prize!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
My grandmother would make us BLT's on lazy Sunday afternoons.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
The first time that I had barbecue any where outside of Texas, and realized that pork could almost be prepared as well as beef.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Eating bacon-wrapped dates at a friends house for New Year's Eve. I make them all the time now.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
First bacon cheeseburger.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
My fondest memory is the pork chops that my dad would burn - i mean barbeque on the grill when I was little. It wasn't until I was in my 20's that I ever had an unburnt pork chop!! Yummy!!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Smelling frying bacon on Christmas morning.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
I'm pretty sure it was when I tried a Godfather's pizza years and years ago. They had a spicy italian sausage which was absolutely amazing!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
First time i had eggs and bacon i loved the taste.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
I love the smell of frying bacon
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Like salpice, I like a little more color, so I use edamame for green and roasted Hatch chiles for red, which gives a nice kick to the whole dish as well. I also prefer the corn roasted to boiled/blanched.