so today's pickling did not happen, i went to lunch in thomaston and saw shreck the third instead. it was my favorite of the trio, very funny.
here is a recipe i had for breakfast the other morning:
smoked trout w. sliced tomato on a potato pancake
trout salad:
8oz. smoked trout (stonington seafood preferably)
4T heavy cream
2T chopped chive
ground black pepper to taste
flake trout fillets into a bowl.
whip heavy cream to soft peak, fold into trout.
mix in the chive and ground pepper to taste.
put this mixture atop sliced tomato and your prefered type of potato pancake.
(C) june 21, 2007
e premte, 22 qershor 2007
starting work tomorrow
so today is my last day before work starts tomorrow. this past week of exploring and experimenting has been fun, but i'm rady to start working already.
This is where I will be working. tomorrow is an afternoon shift 9-5 and then sunday will be my first night on the line and i cannot wait!!!
so today, my last day of known free time i will continue to learn about canning, preserving and pickling. yesterday i attempted my first official jam making with a raspberry lime jam and an apricot red chili jam. i think today i will move on to pickling. perhaps the folks at Stonewall Kitchens should be nervous, there's a new kid in town. actually i won't be selling any of these jarred creations, but anyone who comes to visit will get to test some and even those of you who don't make it up here might get a suprise in the mail if specific request are made, but i'm not making an promises.
ok well the whole day is a head of me, there are walkman's to count at the gym and various vegetables and fruits to be unknowingly pickled!
This is where I will be working. tomorrow is an afternoon shift 9-5 and then sunday will be my first night on the line and i cannot wait!!!
so today, my last day of known free time i will continue to learn about canning, preserving and pickling. yesterday i attempted my first official jam making with a raspberry lime jam and an apricot red chili jam. i think today i will move on to pickling. perhaps the folks at Stonewall Kitchens should be nervous, there's a new kid in town. actually i won't be selling any of these jarred creations, but anyone who comes to visit will get to test some and even those of you who don't make it up here might get a suprise in the mail if specific request are made, but i'm not making an promises.
ok well the whole day is a head of me, there are walkman's to count at the gym and various vegetables and fruits to be unknowingly pickled!
e enjte, 21 qershor 2007
it's fun to be at the YMCA
so i have now made 3 trips to the local ymca which i joined earlier this week. here are some observations i have made while doing my cardio:
3pm is muscle and tattoo hour, muscle tanks required.
i have seen 8 walkman's, 6 disc mans and 5 scrunchies.
every day at noon there is a woman who is on the eliptical drinking a urine like substance out of a 2 liter soda bottle with the lable removed. she wears a sweat band that looks like it has not been washed since 1986, the same year she purchased the walkman she uses.
i look forward to the characters i will meet at the Y.
i almost forgot, today there was a guy there for a personal training session wearing a denim button down, jeans and brown suede cowboy boots. this guy looked like some sort of a wandering cowboy who some how planned on working out in his riding clothing. i left before he broke a sweat.
3pm is muscle and tattoo hour, muscle tanks required.
i have seen 8 walkman's, 6 disc mans and 5 scrunchies.
every day at noon there is a woman who is on the eliptical drinking a urine like substance out of a 2 liter soda bottle with the lable removed. she wears a sweat band that looks like it has not been washed since 1986, the same year she purchased the walkman she uses.
i look forward to the characters i will meet at the Y.
i almost forgot, today there was a guy there for a personal training session wearing a denim button down, jeans and brown suede cowboy boots. this guy looked like some sort of a wandering cowboy who some how planned on working out in his riding clothing. i left before he broke a sweat.
some recent creations
last night i cooked my first official dinner party of my new life up here. here's the menu:
asian cravings already!
scallop and scallion pan fried dumplings with a radish and english cucumber sunomono (pickling)
a crispy brown rice cake w/ pickled ginger and scallion topped with baby carrots and snap peas in an orange honey glaze and a salmon payard with a miso and white wine reduction and fresh scallion tops
this was the first time i had made any of these items and all ingredients came from local sources!!
recipes:
scallop scallion dumplings: (makes 15 dumplings)
1/2 lb of scallops
1 egg whites
1/8 tsp chinese 5 spice powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp groun black pepper
1/4 c. sliced scallions (green part only)
waton wrappers
water
(copyright june 21, 2007)
place scallops in a food processor (cuisinart) with egg white, five spice powder, salt and pepper and pulse until a paste forms.
scrape into bowl and fold in scallions.
chill mixture in fridge for 1 hour to allow it to firm up.
place 1 tsp of filling into the center of the wanton skin. fold wanton however you want. just note that in order to seal the filling inside the wrapper the edges must be sealed with water. just to moisten the surface, do not make it too wet or the wrapper will tear.
these dumplings can be stored in a single layer of a pan or dish with rice flour or corn starch to prevent stickng (they will stick so do not leave more than an hour)
the dumplings can be cooked using a variety of methods including deep frying, pan frying, steaming and boiling. i pan friend them (heat 2 T oil in non stick skillet over med heat place dumplings in oil once desired browness is reached slow pour 1/4c of water into pan standing away as oil will splatter. cover pan immeadiately and allow dumplings to steam 2 min, remove top and allow extra liquid to evaporate and bottoms to recrisp.
boil in salted water until they float to surface and are cooked thru (2-3 minutes)
steam in steamer over med heat 3 minutes, until just firm to touch in center.
radish and english cucumber sunomono
sunomono just means a pickling.
slice vegetables however you want, i sliced the cucumbers very thinly andthe radishes into smaller wedges. placed them into an airtight container and added rice wine vinegar, tamari, the juice from the pickled ginger jar, sliced ginger, white balsamic vinegar and brown sugar. i let it pickle for 4 hours. i served this atop the dumplings with some of the pickling liquid as a sauce
asian cravings already!
scallop and scallion pan fried dumplings with a radish and english cucumber sunomono (pickling)
a crispy brown rice cake w/ pickled ginger and scallion topped with baby carrots and snap peas in an orange honey glaze and a salmon payard with a miso and white wine reduction and fresh scallion tops
this was the first time i had made any of these items and all ingredients came from local sources!!
recipes:
scallop scallion dumplings: (makes 15 dumplings)
1/2 lb of scallops
1 egg whites
1/8 tsp chinese 5 spice powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp groun black pepper
1/4 c. sliced scallions (green part only)
waton wrappers
water
(copyright june 21, 2007)
place scallops in a food processor (cuisinart) with egg white, five spice powder, salt and pepper and pulse until a paste forms.
scrape into bowl and fold in scallions.
chill mixture in fridge for 1 hour to allow it to firm up.
place 1 tsp of filling into the center of the wanton skin. fold wanton however you want. just note that in order to seal the filling inside the wrapper the edges must be sealed with water. just to moisten the surface, do not make it too wet or the wrapper will tear.
these dumplings can be stored in a single layer of a pan or dish with rice flour or corn starch to prevent stickng (they will stick so do not leave more than an hour)
the dumplings can be cooked using a variety of methods including deep frying, pan frying, steaming and boiling. i pan friend them (heat 2 T oil in non stick skillet over med heat place dumplings in oil once desired browness is reached slow pour 1/4c of water into pan standing away as oil will splatter. cover pan immeadiately and allow dumplings to steam 2 min, remove top and allow extra liquid to evaporate and bottoms to recrisp.
boil in salted water until they float to surface and are cooked thru (2-3 minutes)
steam in steamer over med heat 3 minutes, until just firm to touch in center.
radish and english cucumber sunomono
sunomono just means a pickling.
slice vegetables however you want, i sliced the cucumbers very thinly andthe radishes into smaller wedges. placed them into an airtight container and added rice wine vinegar, tamari, the juice from the pickled ginger jar, sliced ginger, white balsamic vinegar and brown sugar. i let it pickle for 4 hours. i served this atop the dumplings with some of the pickling liquid as a sauce
the first entry
so i am finally getting this blog thing started. just to explain the title, "eating on eaton", the street on which i am living and subsequently writing this from is Eaton Avenue in Camden Maine. i'm going to use this blog as a place to discuss mostly all things food related, i will post recipes as i develop them as so as other food information in relation to maine. there will however be some non food items as i see fit...so enjoy and fesel free to comment on my hopefully some what sensical ramblings.
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