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[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I'm glad spring is coming for you Hellmanns.

Here is a picture of tonight's supper.
I have never made it before in my life.
Chicken Marsalla.
Been awhile since I posted a picture of food.
Worth
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Mushrooms?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

Mushrooms?

No I dont have any.
I didn't even know I had a full unopened bottle of marsalla.
Worth

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

Beautiful area! I've never seen pictures of Texas, except your place Worth. Unless in the movies...

In the movies, it was dry and dusty and full of horses. In the news, it's always under water! This looks way better.

Until lately most of the movies about Texas were westerns.
A very huge portion of westerns are filmed in Arizona at a movie set and town that has been there for many years they still use it.
There is one famus western I cant remember what it was.
Me and another guy was watcing it one night and they were t=stanign around a corral in the middle of nowhere.
The corral had a loading ramp for cows to go into a cattle truck.

In another move you saw a guy buy bullets for his gun but you never saw him load it.
The reason is the gun he had was a cap and ball black powder revolver.
I cant count how many times they have used the Palm Springs bus station in movies.

They have also filmed a ton of movies here in Bastrop.


Worth

[bower]

Nice to see you having a good dinner again. Looks delicious.

[whistech]

Great looking meal Worth. I bought chicken leg quarters for 29 cents a pound yesterday at my local Krogers store and I think you have inspired me to give it a try.

[efisakov]

Originally Posted by whistech

Great looking meal Worth. I bought chicken leg quarters for 29 cents a pound yesterday at my local Krogers store and I think you have inspired me to give it a try.

LQ marinated and BBQrd...mmm

[whistech]

Originally Posted by efisakov

LQ marinated and BBQrd...mmm

Yes!, That's what I had for supper last night.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by whistech

Great looking meal Worth. I bought chicken leg quarters for 29 cents a pound yesterday at my local Krogers store and I think you have inspired me to give it a try.

I just dreamed up my own recipe.
I used olive oil and coated the chicken in flower and fried it in the oil until golde brown.
About half way through I added chopped onion and let it cook.
Then I just put some more flour in and let it simmer for a bit and then added the Marsalla and let it reduce making a thick gravy or sauce with a lid on it.
The other ingredients were black pepper salt and garlic powder.
I put this on a bed of spinach spaghetti.
I used about 1 cup of marsalla.
The chicken came out very tinder and sweet.
You might as well drink the rest of the marsalla with the meal but be careful because it is 18 to 20 % alcohol by volume or 36 to 40 proof.
You will find yourself as drunk as a skunk drinking this stuff very fast.
But of course cooking it take the alcohol out.

[Worth1]

I have a thousand Loquat fruit.
Here I am trying them with fermented Fresno pepper sauce.
They turned out very well.
First the saltiness then the tangy sweet fruit flavor then the heat followed by the numbing effect and a slight tingling of tbe ears.
Going to give it a thumbs up.
Worth
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[Worth1]

The heck with a BLT sandwich.
Romaine lettuce homemade dried ham Loquats garden fresh tomatoes sugar snap peas Swiss chard black pepper mayonnaise and walnut oil.
Eating right out of the giant mixing bowl.
All home grown.
Worth
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[Worth1]

Toad bug patrol in the onion patch.
Bears Breeches starting to bloom.
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[bower]

You sure you didn't bait those toads with the delicious salad?
They look like you got em trained!

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

You sure you didn't bait those toads with the delicious salad?
They look like you got em trained!

If you look at the bottom of the pictuer that is the toad cave they live in.
I have several of them around the place.

As for the dried ham it is to die for I am spoiled nothing and I mean nothing no matter how expensive can compare in our stores.
This stuff isn't salty as all get out plus has a nice natural smokey flavor.
The fatty goodness just melts in your mouth and I am almost out.

Worth

[bower]

The ham looks amazing. You'll have to make more.
I've never made anything like it myself, but when I lived in Catalunya we would get Jamon Serrano, and boy is that nothing like the "ham" in the store. Not that I dislike a bit of Black Forest but it doesn't come close to the naturally cured style of meats... for sure.
And why not, treat yourself, indeed.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by bower

The ham looks amazing. You'll have to make more.
I've never made anything like it myself, but when I lived in Catalunya we would get Jamon Serrano, and boy is that nothing like the "ham" in the store. Not that I dislike a bit of Black Forest but it doesn't come close to the naturally cured style of meats... for sure.
And why not, treat yourself, indeed.

I had some ham I made at work and some of the guiys asked some jerk if he wanted some.
He is one of those ignorant pretentious jerks we all know of.
He said I have already had the best ham there is when I was in Spain you cant get it here.
He wouldn't even try my ham like I didn't know what I was doing and was going to poison him or something.
What was it I asked and he didn't know.
Well I do know and I bet he didn't have Jamon Serrono or even better yet Jamón Ibérico de Bellota.
Probably got some cheap tourist knock off.

So I asked him if he wanted to go in halves on the best ham in the world for the low price of 500 dollars each.
He almost had a cow.
Black forest ham is something you cant even compare the two with.
I cant compare my ham to it but I can promise you it is far better than the dried Smithfeild they all rave about.

Worth