me make food

I am amazed by how many times and all the comments on my hashbrown video. I got an email yesterday that intrigued me a bit.

Hello, I watch your video on hash browns they were pretty good, but do you know how I can make those triangle hash browns that they serve at school? They taste like hash browns and look a little like them but I can’t find how to make them.

I consider it a dare. There has to be some sort of binding agent. A few folks mentioned eggs and flour in the comments of the vid. Not really sure how to go about this. First step is to keep the potato shreds from turning brown, then form some how and partially cook them to make them possibly toaster ready.

Any ideas?

Smoking Meat Forums

I think I found my home away from home. I picked up the smoker from Willie Wed night and I will be smoking the heck out of the neighborhood this 3 day weekend. I did my introductory post yesterday and got many responses. I am sure I will be spending a good amount of time there.

Headed to the Old Cheney farmers market again this weekend to pick up 3 more dozen sweet corn from Daniels Produce. It is so good, oh man. I asked JR of Hollenbeck where to get my sweet corn from and he said without question it is the best at the farmers market.

From their site:

We preserve the natural sugar in every ear so our corn taste as sweet and fresh as if it just came off the stalk. All sweet corn is hydro cooled with 38 degree water within 30 minutes or less, after picking

That pretty cool. We only have about 3 more weeks to get more so I guess we will be stocking up on tons of this corn. We have had it with almost every meal this last week and I am still craving it right now. Shucking, boiling, ice bath, and cutting the corn off the cob is a bit of work, but so worth it.

Corn likes kicking it next to other corns. The three big plants I had in the main yard were not close enough to the main corn plantation to get adequate germination. Still I took what I got from my 8 corn plants this eve and got some killer corn. Enough ears for 3 sides of corn, and sweet as heck. Darn good for being something I fricking grew.
Would I do it again? No
But at least I grew my own corn and am darn P-roud.

It is too easy to buy 3 dozen sweet corn from the farmers market for me to deal with growing corn again. Still uber proud for actually eating corn I grew from seed. It is as close to animal husbandry I will ever achieve I bet.
We will not ever give up on normal garden stuff though. Fresh tomaters, herbs, cuces, and peppers cannot be beat.

I have mentioned it before on my main site, but nothing compares to open harvest when it comes to fresh spices on the cheap. We got 10 big chunks of spices, some bread, and about 2 pounds of risotto rice (aborio) for $20.00

My friend hooked me up with a big ol sack of corn for free.