I gave up last year's diet in March after getting negative results and just sort of went with it. I must admit, my Hedonist side was well nurtured and I ate extremely well for the rest of the year. But nothing is without a price and I finished 2024 at 291.1 pounds.
According to tradition, the consumption of black eyed peas on New Year's Day will imbue the diner with good fortune, all year long. I'm not entirely unfamiliar with the occult, and for the life of me, I'm not sure just how the hell that's supposed to work. Is it some kind of Theurgy?
Today on "Fun with Leftover Holiday Ham" I present you with cabbage. It's a super simple dish to make, just make damned sure you pick a decent head of cabbage. The recipe will explain.
What we call Pralines came to this country, like most “Merkin” foods, via Europe. In the case of Pralines, it was the French who make sort of almond brittle they call pralines. I’m not really certain what the difference is between that and a classic nougatine is now that I think about it, but it doesn’t really matter. Think about the different origin stories for the Joker. It’s like that. Similar, but different.
Gumbo shouldn't be hard. Some people out there want to make it difficult and complicate the living shit out of it, but there really is no need. It's a rustic dish, with the Creole Trinity, meat, and okra. I can't say it's thickened with roux since the roux is cooked so dark there's little thickening power remaining, but I can say it's imbued with the rich, intriguing "Soul of the Swamp" by the dark roux.
Today I’m thinking about chili. I don’t have a chili recipe. I barely have a method, because it’s just not something we eat a lot of. My method, is basically a Texas Red (no beans) with a molé vibe. It'd beefy. It's rich. It's mysterious.
It's also undocumented so I need to fix that before it get deported.
