The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Gary thinks "Food - Good - Eat"

 

[Gary A.]

I can do that... well, the sauce part not the grilling part, but I don't see why it couldn't work in a pan/skillet just fine. I gotta watch stuff so finding some sort of teriyaki sauce that isn't so high in salt/sugar will be the thing - or I'll have to look for a recipe that works for me. Thanks! I don't know why it sounded like it would be more involved but it isn't!

If a recipe has along list of ingredients that's pretty much a deal breaker! lol

A pan should work, you'll miss out a bit on smoke ... but should work fine.

 

[Frank F.]

The list I posted earlier is incomplete. Today I took the shopping list for the first week to collect the ingredients and there are lots of fruit, vegetables and even a bottle of red wine on the recipes that are missing from the master list.

Second observation is that here in the middle of Germany a lot of ingredients is seasonal while it seem to be all year stuff in the USA.

Northern USA is the same height as Southern Europe, Southern California is like Tunesia sunwise. So you factually got a greater selection of natural ingredients than us in the North...

What experiences in the US - other than your visit to parts of Southern California - do you have on which to base your comparisons?

The guy who wrote the book is from NYC and he seems to see it as a given that the reader can buy the stuff he mentions all year.

I read through some of the ~300 reviews of the book on amazon.com and there were very few who complained about shopping difficulty...

 

[snowbear119 50]

Various ingredients are available in the US, or at least in the more populous areas of the US, throughout the year because we can quickly import things from other places or get items that are grown in hot houses.

 

[Frank F.]

It feeeeels like August.

Gary what's the recipe for teriyaki salmon? That sounds good.

Easy as pie. Gary marinades the fish in Mr. Yoshida, (a teriyaki sauce), for a few hours prior to cooking. In a lidded container, he seasons the salmon to his taste, (seasoned salt, garlic, lemon and orange zest and lots of black pepper), then adds Mr. Yoshida. He flips the fish and repeats seasoning. Gary uses a flat grill basket, (this), as the salmon easily sticks to the grill and easily falls apart. When on the grill Gary basks the salmon with more teriyaki sauce which caramelizes into a nice, tasty crust.

Gary finds that his charcoal Kamado grill, cooks the fish up better than a propane type of grill.

Now I am hungry and have to find a midnight snack that is compatible with the diet

 

[vintagesnaps]

Then you'll have breakfast before we do! so let us know in the morning how your coffee was.

I just got a package I ordered from a regional gourmet (sort of, not fancy schmancy but good) grocery store that's in a nearby city - of four different kinds of coffee! mmm which to open first will be the big decision tomorrow.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Depends on where you live I guess... not sure everything out of season makes it to those of us here in the middle, at least not all the time. Have had fresh peaches lately because they're in season, but some things like kiwi the stores only have certain times of the year. Guess most things are shipped from somewhere year round. Or maybe we just don't know what we're missing!

 

[snowbear119 50]

We can get cantaloupes any time at all but they just don't taste as good as those we get during the summer, from the shore. Same with 'maters and silver queen corn.

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

We can get cantaloupes any time at all but they just don't taste as good as those we get during the summer, from the shore. Same with 'maters and silver queen corn.

I agree on the melons. Available does not equal good. Like for most apples - once fall is gone they are not crisp enough. Red grapes are good all year, but green are only good in summer here. I'd rather they left them off the shelves entirely in the off seasons.

 

[jcdeboever]

I like big melons

 

[Gary A.]

Gary is growing some melons.

 

[dxqcanada1]

Gary needs to get off the couch.

 

[limr32 1]

Corn on the cob is another item that tends to be seasonal.

 

[Frank F.]

Corn on the cob is another item that tends to be seasonal.

Strange. We got that all year but not all year in the same quality...

 

[Frank F.]

We can get cantaloupes any time at all but they just don't taste as good as those we get during the summer, from the shore. Same with 'maters and silver queen corn.

I agree on the melons. Available does not equal good. Like for most apples - once fall is gone they are not crisp enough. Red grapes are good all year, but green are only good in summer here. I'd rather they left them off the shelves entirely in the off seasons.

Difficult to define off season in a global market.

Asparagus is March to June here and it is white or green, white being the traditional variety here. The book, written in NYC claims asparagus as 1. Green and 2. Available.

Yes, you can get green asparagus in specialist shops for 20€ a kilo from Chile or China, but that is not what I want.

Plus. Even in the season, meaning locally, you can get a range of qualities from barely edible to delicious.

Apples: depends on the species. Some 30 different species are available here. Some are good for storage and taste well all winter, some have to be eaten immediately. Some are for sap, some for eating as a whole, some are only for cooking or baking.