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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m

10 years ago

I get many of my cooking ideas from this Cooking Forum.

Read the Endive thread, AnnieÃ¯Â¿Â½s apple thread, the alfredo thread and some pork dishes on the WFD thread, I decided to make this pork dish.

I like the bitterness of endive, radicchio and escarole. They basically taste the same, but I mostly use escarole ($0.75 a lb) because endive ($3.99 a lb) and radicchio ($4.99 a lb) are much more expensive. I like escarole sautÃ¯Â¿Â½ed.

For the sauce, I made apple sauce, and had some leftover alfredo sauce, so I used both. The combination worked fine.

The pork is just simple sous vide 24 hour pork shoulder ($1.19 a lb) in oregano marinade.

A simple and inexpensive meal.

dcarch

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mustangs81
10 years ago
Yeabut looks like a million $$! You could open a restaurant, charge a substantial amount, and make lots of money.
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
10 years ago
We were just talking about escarole last night. Something we bought often last winter and i put it on the list right away...(from the endive thread.)
I like to tie it up in bundles using the bitter outer leaves to slightly char off to the side from the main heat....julienned apples and veg inside. Lots of lemon off the heat to serve. It has more flavor than swiss chard. (or just different). We overdid kale recently and chard grows so well here we pulled back a bit to wait for the garden onslaught in july.

Lovely. Another Cirque du Soleil ducarch creation.
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annie1992
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Well, I'd sure never have thought of putting alfredo sauce and apple sauce together, although I mix apple sauce with yogurt and that's a dairy product, so it would probably be much the same.

As for cheap pork, there is a disease in 27 states and spreading, called PED (porcine epidemic diarrhea) and it kills between 80% and 100% of the piglets who contract it. If they don't get it under control promptly the price of pork is going to go crazy.

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mustangs81
10 years ago
PED? Just one more thing that's going to have us looking for "Cheap Dish"es. It keeps piling on-drought, floods, disease, late snow, ice in shipping lanes, etc! Big changes are coming to availability and prices.
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
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10 years ago
Thank you all for your kind words.

I admit I can be a little mischievous. On another food forum, there is a fellow posting on the WFD thread, who happens to be amazingly good. Practically every dish he makes is carviar, truffles, or foie gras ---- very expensive ingredients.

I enjoy posting after him with cheap cheap dishes. LOL!

dcarch
wintercat_gw
10 years ago
dcarch, which forum is that? I'd love to watch such a food war. I'll root for you of course!

Your dish may be cheap but who'd guess?. The arrangement is too sophisticated for it to look cheap.
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
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10 years ago
I can't link you to that competing forum. Someone will report me to GW and have me banned. Ann_t knows which fellow in that forum I am talking about.

LOL! no food war. Just me trying to have fun.

He just posted : asparagus beignets with bacon and truffle bÃÂ©chamel

May be I will make something in tofu. Hahaa!

dcarch
wintercat_gw
10 years ago
Tofu's too expensive. Try Mujaddara.

Power to your elbow!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Mujaddara
wintercat_gw
10 years ago
Yay! Just tracked down that forum.

Won't mention its name, but I, too, don't think gefilte fish could ruin the pot.

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