Jackpine Radical Cooking

It’s supposed to have a different (earthier?) flavor from the usual (green cardamom) due to some sort of fermentation – might have to try an Indian specialty shop for that.

I love the usual kind, especially when combined with ginger.

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My favorite’s Pride of Szegred, made in Hungary.

I’m not as likely to do chicken, but I can see that it would work very well there.

If I had to make chicken any other way, and regardless if I use spices, I have this thing about using lots of onions on chicken. I wonder how onions and smoked paprika would combo up.

I use it as a substitute for black pepper….

But paprika is not my latest spice discovery – that honor goes to none other than cardamom – somewhere between cinnamon and nutmeg…I had used it earlier on Indian food…But recently, I cooked Russian cuisine for orthodox Easter.Kulich for which I utilized a saved recipe from 1978..The bread/sweet…[Read more]

Downside is they don’t have cheeeburgers…. as if that dayglo orange stuff McDonalds uses actually has any dairy content in it?

I’ve even eaten at McDonalds in Ukraine and Russia. It also does taste better there – both countries have stricter rules on preservatives and food quality.

I like the McChicken sandwich.

1975.

McD’s fish sandwiched got me through college.

I remember when the first McDonald’s opened in my neighborhood. I had never eaten a McDonald’s burger before. We had a couple of other fast food burger joints in the neighborhood almost identical to McDonald’s. One family owned. The other a franchise called “Wetson’s”. When I ate my first McDonald’s burger, I didn’t like it. Unlike the other…[Read more]

I tend to drink mostly at home. So, I have slowly been building up my bar tools (recently bought both a nice wooden muddler and a channel-knife for making citrus curls) and just need to get some martini glasses. Not that I’m a fan of the traditional martini, but some drinks are served in them, and I don’t have any smaller glasses for such…[Read more]

I always enjoy trying something different when I am out, but rarely do it at home.

Closest I have done is to make something similar to horilka – Ukrainian honey hot pepper vodka.

A bottle of Portland Hot Monkey vodka infused with about a cup of honey gives a real kiss and slap!

Makes me think of my bottle of Pervak in the cupboard in the flat…[Read more]

that’s certainly a useful thing he can do 😁

but I might need to decant it into smaller bottles because my freezer is packed. This will incentivize me to clear out the stuff I can’t eat right now (on a keto diet and I’m a vegetarian). I used to keep vodka in the freezer, but then I stopped buying it.

These days, I’m having fun learning new cocktails, thanks in part to learning more techn…[Read more]