(no subject)

[derien]

Just had some butter chicken from a jar (well, I cut up the chicken and cooked it and the sauce came from the jar) and I loved it, but we won't have it again because Eor really didn't, unfortunately - it was almost solid onions. Guess we've got to find a recipe for it. We generally just replace onions with garlic. :9 It kind of amuses me on some level that Eor loves Indian food but hates onions. But if you like onions try the Tiger Tiger brand butter chicken sauce. :)

Listening to Prairie Home Companion (it's about over) recorded at the Minnesota State Fair and looking at copperbadge's pictures of the same Fair makes it doubly interesting. Minnesota's largest...boar.

Comments

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

It kind of amuses me on some level that Eor loves Indian food but hates onions.

Bless his heart, but I find it a bit perplexing as well. After all, onions really are an indispensible ingredient in curries. But didn't you say that onions are tolerable if, (a) he doesn't have to smell them cooking, and (b) they're chopped up really small?

Speaking of food (which is one of my favorits subjects!) what can I contribute to the camping fare? Keeping in mind, of course, that it has to travel well! I'd love to bring something, and hope to arrive well before dinner-time on Friday. (Can you tell I'm already really looking forward to this coming weekend?!)

[derien.livejournal.com]

But the onions in this butter chicken were visible and so overwhelming in their taste that they were unavoidable and not ignorable. I loved it, personally, and am eating the leftovers for breakfast. :)

I don't know about food for camping, we hadn't really discussed it, though we are doing so right now because you asked. Possibly we could do tacos, which means a pile o hamburger and cheese on corn tortillas. I think groundcntrl will bring flour tortillas if we mention it to him beforehand. We could also cook sausages over the fire and maybe boil baby potatoes with lots of salt (those on the stove in the van - because we don't think we can cook the potatoes on a stick).

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

I would love to bring something, maybe lovely steaks and fresh Ohio corn? Sausage is good too; the meat store here in Mantua makes killer fresh sausages! I'm in bargaining mode here; if I bring a proper dinner for five, I won't feel quite so guilty about relying on you for breakfast food. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I think your nuts, wanting to haul sausages in the car all that way. :) And that it's not a fair trade at all, because breakfast is the thing we really don't do when we're camping. I love to cook breakfast when we're at home, but when we're camping I don't want to have to deal with the dishes, so I try to find ways around it. I think last year we just got up and went to the fair. We might have had tea and some scones that littleredhead made or something.

However, if you feel confident you want to haul food all that way I'm sure I wouldn't mind at all paying for your food the next day at the faire. And I will try to get my self organized and bake something, because littlredhead and groundctrl are beside themselves busy trying to get things in order - they're trying to get a house built - so I can't depend that she'll have time to bake anything this year.

[littleredhead.livejournal.com]

those scones came from a GF boxed mix, my dear - I cannot take much credit. I just added the chocolate chips, because really.

I'm planning to bring homemade granola bars - I've been making them a bunch this summer, and they are basically GF to start with so it's an easy adaption & a good snack to have on hand (and they definitely work as breakfast with tea) - as long as no one has a peanut allergy? I could always make them with almond butter or something - just let me know.

and I'll bring some other sweets & snacks, and whatever else anyone tells me to bring. and tea. there must be tea.

the sausages are a bit of a quandary - neither one of us can really handle pork in any quantity, but we can always bring or go get something else, of course.

I can't wait!

[derien.livejournal.com]

granola bars sound great! :) I think everyone's okay with peanuts...? *glances around* I'm slightly allergic to almonds, but maybe only if they're uncooked, I don't know for sure, haven't investigated the matter. Actually, though, I plan to do so, because I bought some almond meal to try to make scones with. Um. Yeah. If I manage. Or I'll try to get a box mix. Something.

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

No sausages then, how about steaks? It's no problem hauling them, if they leave Ohio frozen and travel in the cooler with corn, they should be thawed out by dinner time, but in no danger of spoiling. There's nothing like a steak over a wood fire!

[derien.livejournal.com]

*chortles* Littleredhead just said in email that we're such a special group that there won't be anything left we can eat but steak and chocolate, and I think she's right. ;)

Are you confident in cooking steak and corn over a fire? I really know nothing about cooking properly over a fire, which is why I go with things that are mostly precooked. Is there anything we should bring for cooking gear? Do you wrap the corn in tinfoil and put it on the grill as I've seen people do with veggies? Is there even a grill over the firepits at Myles Standish... I can't remember. We do have gas for backup - should we bring a large pot and maybe the cast iron pan?

[littleredhead.livejournal.com]

Corn over a fire is fine (and yummy!) - we'll bring some foil. I usually peel back the husks, remove the silks & put the husks back, then foil, and they work great on the grill here.

neither of us can remember if the firepits have grills though - a cast iron pan might not be a bad idea, in my opinion, and maybe we'll bring ours as well.

I'm trying to think of a breakfasty option that we could prep a little at home to simplify cooking & cleanup on Saturday morning - but if we get a good breakfast then we can wander more without having to find (and pay $$$ for) food immediately, right? I'll think it over.

I looked at the schedule today & Paolo Garbanzo is there again this year! huzzah!

[derien.livejournal.com]

I guess I could watch Paolo Garbanzo's show every year. :)

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

When I cook corn over a fire, I just leave the husk on, cut off the ratty tassels on the end, and turn them a few times as the outside gets charred. I've tried littleredhead's way of removing the silk first, but I can never get the husks to go back together properly. :(

It will be a challenge cooking five (large!) steaks and ten corns over one fire; perhaps if you and eor bring the big pot "just in case", we'll then have a backup plan in the event that everything doesn't fit.

Are you bringing salt and pepper, or should I?

[derien.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, that will be a LOT of food. We've got salt and pepper. :)