Whatcha Eatin'?

[Parker]

I LOVE venison, so now I'm really curious about kangaroo. Think I'll search the 'net to see if I can buy it online and have it shipped here.

Awesome, found some for sale here: https://www.osgrow.com/products_detail.php?ProductID=10

Will buy whenever I have the money!

[RelentlessOblivion]

Nice, here our local supermarket stocks 'roo but I do live in a somewhat upmarket area.

 

I'd say approx. 2 minutes either side on high heat, another 2 either side on medium heat should be about perfect.

[Requiem]

20 hours ago, Parker said:

I LOVE venison,

 

Venison is awesome and I've just realised that you hardly see it on menus these days. About ten years ago it was really trendy. 

[GorboGorboze]

I'm eating a steak and cheese sandwich my wife made. 

 

Yes, venison is wonderful, especially back strap kebab.

[Parker]

3 hours ago, Requiem said:

 

Venison is awesome and I've just realised that you hardly see it on menus these days. About ten years ago it was really trendy. 

That must have been an Oz thing, never been trendy here. Have only seen it in a restaurant once in my life (ordered it of course). Usually I have to buy it online and have it shipped to me.

Last night I had chicken and bacon ranch pizza for supper. It occurs to me that some of you might not know what ranch dressing is, as they don't seem to have it in Europe. Here, in the U.S., a very popular kind of tortilla chip is Doritos Cool Ranch flavor. In Iceland I saw it labeled Cool American flavor, and thought, oh, that's what I taste like! In another country (can't remember which) it was labeled Cool Original flavor.

[Requiem]

20 hours ago, Parker said:

That must have been an Oz thing, never been trendy here. Have only seen it in a restaurant once in my life (ordered it of course). Usually I have to buy it online and have it shipped to me.

Last night I had chicken and bacon ranch pizza for supper. It occurs to me that some of you might not know what ranch dressing is, as they don't seem to have it in Europe. Here, in the U.S., a very popular kind of tortilla chip is Doritos Cool Ranch flavor. In Iceland I saw it labeled Cool American flavor, and thought, oh, that's what I taste like! In another country (can't remember which) it was labeled Cool Original flavor.

Ranch dressing isn't really a thing here in Australia, but one hears about it from time to time. 

Tonight I had roast chicken, potatoes, pumpkin, carrot with gravy (on everything dammit). For dessert I had a bowl of custard which felt like it needed something else with it, but oh well. 

Just then my wife walked in and picked up my tall glass of lemon lime and bitters with ice and full drank half of it. I was like, "Oi!". 

About kangaroo, I find it's mostly best when its marinated. Cooked on the bbq it's pretty good but like Restless pointed out, over-cooked it isn't very good at all. I usually avoid it because it's not English enough. 

[FatherAlabaster]

I've never had the opportunity to try kangaroo. I'm honestly not super curious about it though, I'm really picky about meat flavors and I'm easily turned off by something if it's too gamy. I've really enjoyed venison and elk, but I'm not into bison, lamb, or goat. Venison (at one point) was pretty readily available near me at a couple British-themed restaurants, along with rabbit and quail. I also took a trip with some friends to someone's family's land in upstate NY, where we stayed in an old hunting cabin and subsisted entirely on venison and beer for a weekend, which was great.

I just made a turkey and pastrami sandwich with cheddar cheese, mayo, greens, and pickles. The bread made it more fun - an Italian country-style bread made with enough dark rye to give it a nice pumpernickel flavor. 

[Parker]

Did you know that, "pumpernickel," means devil's fart?

Anyway, I just had sushi; a spicy tuna roll, two tuna sushi and two salmon sushi.

[FatherAlabaster]

2 minutes ago, Parker said:

Did you know that, "pumpernickel," means devil's fart?

Doing my part for the Dark Lord, one sandwich at a time.

[Natassja]

I have a hard time with meat, sometimes the idea just makes me sick. Went for dinner yesterday and my ma got ham salad and the ham was dead thick and I just couldn't look at it. Sometimes I really fancy it though. I dunno.  

[deathstorm]

Man yesterday at a restaurant in ocean city Maryland  at secrets  I had a jerk chicken cheesesteak with fries it was spicy and delish

[Requiem]

On 2017-6-23 at 4:52 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

I've never had the opportunity to try kangaroo. I'm honestly not super curious about it though, I'm really picky about meat flavors and I'm easily turned off by something if it's too gamy. I've really enjoyed venison and elk, but I'm not into bison, lamb, or goat. Venison (at one point) was pretty readily available near me at a couple British-themed restaurants, along with rabbit and quail. I also took a trip with some friends to someone's family's land in upstate NY, where we stayed in an old hunting cabin and subsisted entirely on venison and beer for a weekend, which was great.

I just made a turkey and pastrami sandwich with cheddar cheese, mayo, greens, and pickles. The bread made it more fun - an Italian country-style bread made with enough dark rye to give it a nice pumpernickel flavor. 

You're not into lamb? I love lamb. Whether it's a Greek gyros/souvlaki style or roasted with vegetables and gravy, lamb is one of my favourite meats. I've posted about a lamb pizza at this decent restaurant near my place and the thought of it drives me wild, even now at 8am in the morning, far more than any lascivious sexual encounter. 

To be honest, I think most Australians like to pretend they eat and enjoy Kangaroo more than they do, because while it's available it's hardly very prevalent. It's ok and fun to try I guess, but it's not very exciting to me personally. We also joke that we eat our national animal/emblem which I guess is pretty funny (and a very Australian thing to do). 

You tend to see goat curries in Indian/Nepalese/Afghan restaurants but very seldom elsewhere. I've certainly never seen Bison on a menu, although Buffalo mozzarella is all the rage amongst the bourgeoisie. 

Tonight we're having this Peking duck feast, and Peking duck (I guess any sort of duck) is really popular not just in Chinese restaurants (and god we have a lot of those in Melbourne) but also in what we call 'modern Australian' restaurants. So duck's a thing here, and I, for one, am glad of it. 

[FatherAlabaster]

26 minutes ago, Requiem said:

You're not into lamb? I love lamb. Whether it's a Greek gyros/souvlaki style or roasted with vegetables and gravy, lamb is one of my favourite meats. I've posted about a lamb pizza at this decent restaurant near my place and the thought of it drives me wild, even now at 8am in the morning, far more than any lascivious sexual encounter. 

To be honest, I think most Australians like to pretend they eat and enjoy Kangaroo more than they do, because while it's available it's hardly very prevalent. It's ok and fun to try I guess, but it's not very exciting to me personally. We also joke that we eat our national animal/emblem which I guess is pretty funny (and a very Australian thing to do). 

You tend to see goat curries in Indian/Nepalese/Afghan restaurants but very seldom elsewhere. I've certainly never seen Bison on a menu, although Buffalo mozzarella is all the rage amongst the bourgeoisie. 

Tonight we're having this Peking duck feast, and Peking duck (I guess any sort of duck) is really popular not just in Chinese restaurants (and god we have a lot of those in Melbourne) but also in what we call 'modern Australian' restaurants. So duck's a thing here, and I, for one, am glad of it. 

I used to like lamb quite a bit. Either my palate has changed, or nearly all of the lamb I've had in the past few years has been peculiarly gamy - either way I haven't liked it, with one exception when I tried some of my wife's meal at a Greek place a while ago. Goat... ah... I've had Nepalese, Indian, and Mexican preparations of goat, as well as lots of different things made from goats' milk, and goddamn if it isn't some of the most revolting stuff I've ever tried, like if stringy beef was left to rot for a few days, soaked in an astringent, and then plumped back up with a solution of glycerin and formaldehyde. I know what a solution of glycerin and formaldehyde is like because that's what they used to preserve the cadaver we studied in my anatomy class, and I didn't want to eat him, either.

Duck is fantastic, although I've only had it in Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese cooking that I can recall.

Speaking of venison, I came home to find our neighbor barbecuing a deer's head last week, which he explained by saying he didn't hit it, but he found it on the side of the road, so he was going to cook it. He told me this in broken English while scraping charred flesh off the skull with a grill cleaning brush. A couple of days later he had more of the carcass going. Dry aging roadkill is the thing to do, I suppose.

Er, not to put you off your feed there, I hope you enjoy your meal and your weekend...

[Requiem]

28 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I used to like lamb quite a bit. Either my palate has changed, or nearly all of the lamb I've had in the past few years has been peculiarly gamy - either way I haven't liked it, with one exception when I tried some of my wife's meal at a Greek place a while ago. Goat... ah... I've had Nepalese, Indian, and Mexican preparations of goat, as well as lots of different things made from goats' milk, and goddamn if it isn't some of the most revolting stuff I've ever tried, like if stringy beef was left to rot for a few days, soaked in an astringent, and then plumped back up with a solution of glycerin and formaldehyde. I know what a solution of glycerin and formaldehyde is like because that's what they used to preserve the cadaver we studied in my anatomy class, and I didn't want to eat him, either.

Duck is fantastic, although I've only had it in Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese cooking that I can recall.

Speaking of venison, I came home to find our neighbor barbecuing a deer's head last week, which he explained by saying he didn't hit it, but he found it on the side of the road, so he was going to cook it. He told me this in broken English while scraping charred flesh off the skull with a grill cleaning brush. A couple of days later he had more of the carcass going. Dry aging roadkill is the thing to do, I suppose.

Er, not to put you off your feed there, I hope you enjoy your meal and your weekend...

Where do I start with this eclectic and engaging post!? 

Firstly, I've never been excited by goat either but I've probably only had it once or twice, and only when I couldn't courteously get out of it. 

Secondly, studying cadavers! Sounds a bit Carcass to me...

Thirdly, yes duck is great. I asked my mother-in-law the other day why you never see goose around, when all the mythology of Christmas includes roast goose, and all the movies show flocks of geese walking around medieval market squares and we have idiomatic expressions like "my goose is cooked", "the goose that lays the golden egg" and "wild goose chase". What happened to all the geese is what I want to know. She couldn't answer me. I would really like to try goose. 

Fourthly, that deer anecdote is creepy in the extreme. The reference to your neighbour's broken English lent a sinister element to the whole sorry saga. 
 

[Requiem]

Ok, let's map this out: 

Food:

Chinese duck broth

Spring roll with sweet chilli sauce and lettuce

San Choi Bao

Peking duck wrapped in pancakes

Wines:

Random Cabernet Sauvignon x 2

Random Riesling x 1

Jacobs Creek sparkling wine x 1

Marlborough (New Zealand) Sauvignon Blanc x many

 

 

[JadedErotika]

WOW, Requiem, sounds like a meal they would serve the Queen of England...

[Requiem]

6 hours ago, JadedErotika said:

WOW, Requiem, sounds like a meal they would serve the Queen of England...

I was slightly disingenuous with the wines because half of those were afterwards at our friends' place. And the food was only so/so and we said we probably wouldn't be back. Actually the food was pretty good but they seemed to rush us by bringing out each course really quickly. It was fun but we had to tell them to slow down! 

[Natassja]

22 hours ago, JadedErotika said:

WOW, Requiem, sounds like a meal they would serve the Queen of England...

I know..he eats well huh  

now eating..chilli crisps.

[deathstorm]

Johnsonville stadium bratwurst for lunch love German sausage 

[deathstorm]

Leftover chipotle mayo cheesesteak 

[Tortuga]

Ice cream...vanilla flavoured. Going to grab me a bowl more of this delicious-tongue melting- created by the gods and goddesses "food"..._yummy!!!!! *grins*

[deathstorm]

Leftover dinner from last night  I want McDonald's

[Natassja]

Porridge.

[deathstorm]

A cheesesteak supermelt  with side of waffle fries at friendlys 

[Requiem]

Last night I had Indian food: 

Butter chicken, beef Kashmiri, tandoori sausage, pakora, rice, naan bread with two glasses of Cabernet Merlot followed by cookies and creme cheesecake with mixed fruits of the forest with cream and a cup of coffee and a small piece of chocolate slice. 

I ate like a young Maharaja.

Tonight we're having a roast dinner with all the trimmings so I'll be sure to report it here.