made it in two sittings. Wish I did not share as I am now out. I eat it for breakfast instead of my usual croissant which I have learned to love with organic jam/preserves from Costco or TJ’s lemon curd. However, I have to buy a lot of those, sometimes 4-5 dozen, split them, freeze Individually prior to bagging them so they would not stick. That takes up a lot of precious space from my freezer.
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forgot to answer question re having someone come to house
Just not safe for me, often alone and often out in the garden
I have too many bad experience with things stolen from my house
Have had bad experience advertising give away in the local newspaper.
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I’ve seen people set up a bench by the road. Place the produce on it with a “free” sign. You see this done with a box for payment in some areas too.
See if any friends or neighbors are members of a religious group. Their organization might have a food supply network. Often there is a system for visiting housebound members or others in need and bringing them supplies.
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damn you and your memory!!
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Imo the texture is far more meat-like than the flavor. The one I tried tasted strongly of potato starch and had no meat flavor at all. The texture was similar to rare beef but the flavor was a complete miss. I did eat it by itself - perhaps on a bun it might perform better - but I was thoroughly unimpressed.
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But it comes with sides! Surely the rice pilaf and fries that come with it justify the price? 
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Fresh mozzarella with sun dried tomato/olive pesto, EVOO
Garlicky greens, seems to be a broken record here
Locally sourced cheese ravioli with simple butter sauce
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Quick but satisfying dinner tonight. Shredded smoked pork shoulder, crisped in a pan with bell peppers and garlic, then topped with cheese and lime juice and folded into a low-carb tortilla for a fabulous burrito. Whipped up a sauce with mayo, sour cream, pickled jalapeno juice and Tabasco. Delicious.
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I made black bean and garlic chicken with long beans and snow peas from the garden, plus cuke salad (homegrown as well). Cauli-brown rice on the side.
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Made red-braised pork ribs for dinner tonight. This time, I incorporated red fermented bean curd (nam yu) into the braising liquid, and it added depth to the dish that I really liked.
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Yumm
Dinner at Casa Harters will be a simple tortilla & salad.
I’d love to eat it on the patio as dusk falls but, looking out of the window, there’s no sign of sun or warmth. Still, we always make a big enough tortilla for leftovers with tortilla so maybe tomorrow’s lunch.
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tonight’s dinner is seared D’artagnan’s duck breast, dipped in soy sauce/venegar/ garlic/ tabasco sauce. Potato fried in duck fat, French beans from garden, boiled 8 minutes with bay leaf and lemon after squeezing the juice and eat to be used after . The beans were shocked and sautéed in EVOO and garlic, balsamic vinegar. cider vinegar, splash of soy sauce, S/P , then the juice and zest of one lemon.
My son had already started to eat when I asked him to take pictures but I cannot find pictures except for the green beans. I think he must have used his own phone to take pictures.
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3 hours hiking in Seogwipo, raining and a lot of wind.
Didn’t eat a lot at lunch. Dinner we went to a no frills place, but actually quite good.
Around 10 dishes of sides, pickles like kimchi and miso soup,
And grilled mackerel and black pork
Of course there were alcohol, soju and makgeolli, sweet rice wine.
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Beautiful!
I like my porgies to be cleaned just like the mackerels, butterflied and then fry to a crisp . That is they way they eat it in Spain.
In American grocery store, they fillet the porgies, chargin
At Asian store , they cost $2.99-$3.99 per pound. Sometimes, I chop the heads off and save them to make soup base for paella and tamarind seafood soup!
Sometimes, I even just boil them,( takes along time though to be sure there are no bones) so I can give the meat to my babies. There is quite a bit in them!
INVASION OF TINY TINY ANTS ON KITCHEN COUNTER. HOT AND POURING ALTERNATELY !
Here are some pictures taken whether was a break in the weather, ( Hot versus wet wet wet ), beautiful sunset , with babies enjoying ice cream beautiful sunset and me burning some branches that I trimmed.
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gorgeous! and i can just smell the star anise from here!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen bream butterflied in Spain. Most times I’ve come across it, it’s been cooked whole on the plancha, often as part of a mixed seafood parillada. From time to time, I’ve seen it baked whole in a salt crust. It’s one of Mrs H’s favourites and a place we go to in Tenerife has it as their “baked fish of the day” (they always have salt baked sea bass) although more usually they do bream baked in the oven on top of layer of sliced potatoes.
Eat some for me. Just a short stroll from your work to this roaster, a 12 flight to Hong Kong for me.
I can get some of these in the capital (a 2 hr train journey) but no goose and the quality is no Hong Kong.
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