Life and thyme in a small floating kitchen
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As Harold McGee will tell you, controlling heat is one of the most basic challenges a cook faces in the kitchen. We’ve all heard that it’s important to preheat your oven, and heat your skillet before adding ingredients. With regards to preheating a skillet however, I’ve always just sort of put the pan [...]
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This is a bit of a follow up post to the gingerbread houses we posted last week. Our 2009 house is an almost accurate rendition of our houseboat. When we finished it and it was sitting on the table, I realized that it looks like a very modern house from the 70’s – [...]
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When I was little, my family went through a gingerbread phase. I don’t really know how that happened, but we got really into it. I’ve kind of been into it ever since. It is a really fun, frustrating, rewarding, sometimes heartbreaking project, and who isn’t looking for more frustration and heartbreak during the holidays? The fun part [...]
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For the past month, we’ve been working on this Thanksgiving ham. We cured the ham, hung it, smoked it, soaked it, boiled it, roasted it, and served it. Now, after all that, it’s kind of hard to know how to measure success. Having never experienced anything but standard, store-bought ham before, we [...]
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Thanksgiving is just about the best day of the year and we hope yours is great.
Tomorrow, Gingerbread Houses!!
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Our Thanksgiving ham continues to evolve. Yesterday we told you about the curing and hanging process, and today we’ll show you how we’ve been smoking the ham. People have been smoking meats since before recorded history. The original purpose was probably food preservation, as the dehydrating and antibacterial properties of the smoking process allow meat [...]
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For the past 20 days or so, we’ve been working on a little edible experiment that will culminate on Thanksgiving day. This year, we’re bringing a classic home-cured, smoked, boiled, and roasted ham to our family gathering, to supplement the turkey of course. We’ve done some research (with most of our information coming [...]
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We’ve been storing some apples and pears on our back porch, and a few days ago we discovered some mysterious bite marks on a couple of the apples. Beryl was convinced the marks were made by a bird, and I suggested it must have been a raccoon. Last night, we were both proven [...]
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After leaving the farm of our neighbors Gwen and Fred (generous benefactors of the apples used to make last week’s tart), we went to Gwen’s son Sam and daughter-in-law Sue’s place. In addition to pigs and pears, Sam grew garlic this year. LOADS of garlic. Different cultivars, different colors, different names and, we wondered, different [...]
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It is apple season in Washington. This year, Washington produced over 5.5 billion pounds of apples. Billion with a “B”. That means that millions and millions of apples have been flooding into the farmers’ markets and stores, and dozens and dozens have landed in our kitchen. The apples that we have in our kitchen did [...]
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