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[yankeesince59]

If you haven't, tried Jamon Iberrico Bellota, the ham fed only acorns

Thanx, I'll check up on it. And yes, what swine eat has a direct impact of the flavor...we sometimes trap wild pigs down here and if they are like 40-50 or less and are female, we will feed the out for a couple of months on old bread or corn...then split 'em and grill/smoke 'em. Damn good eating.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Thanx, I'll check up on it. And yes, what swine eat has a direct impact of the flavor...we sometimes trap wild pigs down here and if they are like 40-50 or less and are female, we will feed the out for a couple of months on old bread or corn...then split 'em and grill/smoke 'em. Damn good eating.

Sometimes Costco has it if you go to one in a good neighborhood. Its about 20 bucks for 4 oz.

Just let it get to room temperature, so the fat melts a little. serve with manchego or some figs.

 

[Lanny]

Nah, I think they are just seasonal with their mall stores.

Trader joes has them or you can just buy Comice Pears at the store and then let them soften.

I really prefer Bosc pears which I pair with some apple and cheese when I have a snifter of really nice Cognac.

 

[riverman]

Thanx, I'll check up on it. And yes, what swine eat has a direct impact of the flavor...we sometimes trap wild pigs down here and if they are like 40-50 or less and are female, we will feed the out for a couple of months on old bread or corn...then split 'em and grill/smoke 'em. Damn good eating.

If you want really good meat..mix some hard molasses in with the corn or fermented silage.....molasses makes dairy cows have really delicious milk as well...we mixed it into all the feed and put a mineral molasses block out for game to lick on all year.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

was at a party with a bunch of shared foods.

Deviled Eggs
Jalapeno poppers baked and wrapped with bacon
Bacon wrapped shrimp
Hummus and veggies
Chips and Salsa

Nothing too big.

Filipino Egg rolls (lumpia) is always good. You can buy frozen in most grocery stores and fry them up. The sauce is just ketchup and pineapple juice cooked together to dip it in.

Love swedish style meatballs. Just buy a big bag of frozen meatballs at costco or Trader Joes. Cookin in BBQ sauce, Sweet and Sour Sauce or gravy like they do at Ikea. Keep in a slow cooker with a box of toothpicks next to it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Build your own taco bar is also pretty easy to do.

 

[Lanny]

My mother used to sprinkle brown sugar on pineapple chunks and then wrap them with portions of bacon strips which she would secure with a toothpick. You then broil them in the oven until the bacon is cooked. Pretty damned tasty. She did something similar with chicken liver replacing the pineapple and omitting the brown sugar. Not bad for a savory dish.

 

[riverman]

Hot buttered garlic bread! Lasagna!

 

[riverman]

Build your own taco bar is also pretty easy to do.

We hired our favorite gourmet taco place in Eugene to cater our son's wedding reception...was a big hit...laid out all the choices and you could go with tostada, taco, whatever you wanted to build...warm chips..guac...all the good stuff..great party food

 

[Lanny]

Hot buttered garlic bread! Lasagna!

Yes, yes, yes, of course this requires a rather full bodied red. We usually drink Cabernet Sauvignon with our red sauced Italian food. If you prefer an Italian red, I'd go with Barbe

We hired our favorite gourmet taco place in Eugene to cater our son's wedding reception...was a big hit...laid out all the choices and you could go with tostada, taco, whatever you wanted to build...warm chips..guac...all the good stuff..great party food

Love tostadas. Also love some fresh corn chips with guacamole, salsa and bean dip. You need all three so you can switch around so you don't get tired of just one kind. An ice cold coke or an ice cold Dos Equis ambar is great for washing it down (just for medicinal purposes, you understand).

 

[yankeesince59]

Sometimes Costco has it if you go to one in a good neighborhood. Its about 20 bucks for 4 oz.

Just let it get to room temperature, so the fat melts a little. serve with manchego or some figs.

Thanx...4 oz would only piss me off and there's not a Costco within 100 miles of me. I wonder if they can ship that? Since it's cured I assume no refrigeration is needed?

...what about this much larger portion?;

https://www.tienda.com/products/jam...MIltHM0Ofn5QIV4SCtBh3GhAVpEAQYAiABEgL7gPD_BwE

 

[Lanny]

Thanx...4 oz would only piss me off and there's not a Costco within 100 miles of me. I wonder if they can ship that? Since it's cured I assume no refrigeration is needed?

...what about this much larger portion?;

https://www.tienda.com/products/jam...MIltHM0Ofn5QIV4SCtBh3GhAVpEAQYAiABEgL7gPD_BwE

Bacon is cured and they keep that cold.

 

[yankeesince59]

Bacon is cured and they keep that cold.

I assume that it is air cured for years and more than likely vacuum packed it would be OK at room temperature for quite some time Until delivery)...but once it's open, yeah, I'm sure it would need to be refrigerated.

I've bought vacuum packed cured bone in slices of country right off the shelf.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Thanx...4 oz would only piss me off and there's not a Costco within 100 miles of me. I wonder if they can ship that? Since it's cured I assume no refrigeration is needed?

...what about this much larger portion?;

https://www.tienda.com/products/jam...MIltHM0Ofn5QIV4SCtBh3GhAVpEAQYAiABEgL7gPD_BwE

High end grocery stores would have it too

Thank link isnt the Bellota ham

 

[Lanny]

I assume that it is air cured for years and more than likely vacuum packed it would be OK at room temperature for quite some time Until delivery)...but once it's open, yeah, I'm sure it would need to be refrigerated.

I've bought vacuum packed cured bone in slices of country right off the shelf.

Loaded with salt. You might have bought it online but I've never seen vacuum packed cured bacon in a store. Of course I've only lived in four states, two on the West coast, one on the East coast and one right in the middle of the country. Also, you might be older and more experienced, I'm only in my early 70s.

 

[yankeesince59]

Loaded with salt. You might have bought it online but I've never seen vacuum packed cured bacon in a store. Of course I've only lived in four states, two on the West coast, one on the East coast and one right in the middle of the country. Also, you might be older and more experienced, I'm only in my early 70s.

Not cured bacon, cured country ham, and yes, country ham is very much cured with salt but I usually let mine sit in water for a little bit.

As far as age, between the 2 of us, you're still the "elder statesman".

 

[yankeesince59]

High end grocery stores would have it too

Thank link isnt the Bellota ham

Wouldn't be surprised if the bigger Sam's club might have it...the one in Albany has a huge deli section...I've bought small portions of Prosciutto there before.

 

[Lanny]

Not cured bacon, cured country ham, and yes, country ham is very much cured with salt but I usually let mine sit in water for a little bit.

As far as age, between the 2 of us, you're still the "elder statesman".

Ham you say. Yeah, I think most if not all is dry cured. At least the good ones are. Boeing once took a payment on a 747 from Poland in the form of Polish hams.
Which reminds me of the best party food I ever had. My mom once took a nice ham and coated it with cloves, brown sugar and baked it until it had a nice glaze. Then she stuck pineapple chunks on the ham with toothpicks. She then baked it some more. Now she stuck on maraschino cherries and sweet pickled slices of crab apple and baked a little more. Lastly she stuck on some chunks of sweet pickled watermelon rind. She served it buffet style on a platter with a knife and serving utensil. Serve that with some cocktail sized rye bread and various spreads maybe some cheese and you're in heaven. She did that for me that my roommate and I had in which a Tektronix Division manager, who has a street on the Tektronix campus named after him, attended among a bunch of others. The ham was a huge hit. My future wife was there and we had some weed smoking out in the carport. My wife to be complained and said she didn't want to attend any parties I had where weed was smoked. That was the end of my weed smoking days.

 

[yankeesince59]

Ham you say. Yeah, I think most if not all is dry cured. At least the good ones are. Boeing once took a payment on a 747 from Poland in the form of Polish hams.
Which reminds me of the best party food I ever had. My mom once took a nice ham and coated it with cloves, brown sugar and baked it until it had a nice glaze. Then she stuck pineapple chunks on the ham with toothpicks. She then baked it some more. Now she stuck on maraschino cherries and sweet pickled slices of crab apple and baked a little more. Lastly she stuck on some chunks of sweet pickled watermelon rind. She served it buffet style on a platter with a knife and serving utensil. Serve that with some cocktail sized rye bread and various spreads maybe some cheese and you're in heaven. She did that for me that my roommate and I had in which a Tektronix Division manager, who has a street on the Tektronix campus named after him, attended among a bunch of others. The ham was a huge hit. My future wife was there and we had some weed smoking out in the carport. My wife to be complained and said she didn't want to attend any parties I had where weed was smoked. That was the end of my weed smoking days.

Yeah, my Mom used to do hams that way when I was a kid...of course, me and my Brother fought over the cherries instead of the ham. Go figure.

 

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[andalusian]

I once tutored a guy in electronics. I refused payment so he insisted that he take me out to lunch. We went to some place accross the street from PCC Sylvania. Now he became obsessed on buying me some hummus. Took one bite and couldn't eat any more. I like all kinds of dip but not hummus.
The pulled pork sounds pretty good though, especially with some Buster's BBQ sauce and a hamburger bun. Side should be french fries washed down with either iced tea and lemon or an ice cold beer.

To be fair, you could not get really good Humus in the US until very recently. The Humus they have in the middle east is a delicacy. If you go to some Lebanese, Israeli or Egyptian restaurants you might be able to get good Humus in the US.

Ya Hala on 8005 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215 had good Humus last time I was there (around July 2018)

 

[Lanny]

To be fair, you could not get really good Humus in the US until very recently. The Humus they have in the middle east is a delicacy. If you go to some Lebanese, Israeli or Egyptian restaurants you might be able to get good Humus in the US.

Ya Hala on 8005 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215 had good Humus last time I was there (around July 2018)

I contend that there's no such thing as good humus.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I contend that there's no such thing as good humus.

Go to Shalom Y'All.

lifechanging Hummus.

 

[Lanny]

Go to Shalom Y'All.

lifechanging Hummus.

I could tout to you some excellent squid and do you think you'd like it? The good part is it would involve some beer drinking.
By the way, the way I learned to eat oysters on the half shell was by drinking some beers first.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I could tout to you some excellent squid and do you think you'd like it? The good part is it would involve some beer drinking.
By the way, the way I learned to eat oysters on the half shell was by drinking some beers first.

I dont like drinking when I'm eating tbh

 

[crandc]

My mother definitely did not make ham!

I just made a batch of hummus today while watching the hearings. Garbanzos had soaked overnight. Multitasker.

 

[MARIS61]

I bet they sell one every minute.

 

[riverman]

I dont like drinking when I'm eating tbh

hard to chew with a straw in your mouth?

 

[MarAzul]

I could tout to you some excellent squid and do you think you'd like it? The good part is it would involve some beer drinking.
By the way, the way I learned to eat oysters on the half shell was by drinking some beers first.

Geez man!
Good squid is to be is easy to like. Oysters on the half shell are delicacy done properly. A sip of Glenfiddich in the sniffter, then the oyster, followed by a healthy drag on the snifter.
Adding Horseradish and lemon to the shell before you begin the routine. Several in a rapid succession adds to the pleasure.

 

[MarAzul]

I dont like drinking when I'm eating tbh

Right! Well there are several delicacies that just don't eat well without a bit of drink.
Like raw oysters on the half shell.
Then Haggis comes to mind. I never did get the hang that one.