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  2. moikel

    Pan Fried Flounder (KISS Method)

    Great stuff! I love those flat fish by whatever name.We get some bigger size guys shipped from New Zealand. I loved that Halibut when I was in Canada. Very popular with the Asian community here.
  3. moikel

    good rubs for lamb?

    Lemon,EVO,garlic,rosemary,salt ,pepper. If you want to bit towards left field, chermoula which is Turkish /North African. My version, process  equal amounts fresh,cilantro,mint,parsley, garlic, cumin powder,coriander powder ,paprika, chilli,cbp ,salt ,lemon zest & juice ,EVO. I use big bunches...
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    Bottarga ,mullet are early this year.

    My late mother was from Orillia Ontario & I traced her line all the way back to 1821 to some place called Coldwater. Dad & her used to tell me you don't know what cold is son.They were right. I am safe in my suburb ,I am also not stupid enough to ignore all warnings & try to drive through...
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    Bottarga ,mullet are early this year.

    It just bucketed down for days. There is a lot of damage,beach erosion,flooding,power lines. River broke its banks at Greenwell Point because there was a king tide as well. I had to put the rubber boots on & carry the smoker to higher ground at 4 am! I had 20mm of free board before it came in...
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    Whole lamb

    I can't remember what they weighed when I was a kid on the farm.The shoulder of goat I cooked last night came off a carcass that was about 30 pounds. We have some " newer " heavy weight breeds here ,Dorpers the most popular but 75 pounds is still big for lamb. To us that would be hogget, back in...
  7. moikel

    smoked meat in freezer

    That's how I grew up! But I was born in 1959. There is a saying in Italian that translates as ( roughly) Eat it or don't eat but that's all there is. Household claims my cooking is to "meaty" . Turned down shoulder of young goat done low & slow in what I was taught was mountain style for...
  8. moikel

    Whole lamb

    http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/smoked-lamb-forequarter I know this guy,I go to this place a fair bit. I take him stuff like bottarga & smoked fish. Its just one way to approach lamb,his restaurant is a really special place in an unfashionable suburb that is just killing it at this time...
  9. moikel

    Whole lamb

    I get the butterfly bit. That's a big bugger of a lamb! Ribs on,lamb are tender if you mean cutlet , single muscle same as loin .The rib cage has a lot of fat . Do you have the capacity to have your unit hotter at the North south end & cooler in the middle? Loin & cutlet are your premium cuts...
  10. moikel

    smoked meat in freezer

    I have been getting grief over the freezer jammed full of product. How long does smoked pork keep for?I have bacon & hocks that I took to 60c internal in the smoker .Full brine of 7 days sticking to Pops measurements.I figure they are about 9 months old,never defrosted  Household point blank...
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    My Stainless build Australia

    Quality work there mate. Stainless steel something you have access to at reasonable cost?
  12. moikel

    Bottarga ,mullet are early this year.

    Really nice plate. Way back in the day you could keep your family fed if you had eggs,flour some veg out of the garden & bottarga for protein.Same principle as preserving anything ,it got you through tough times when you couldn't get fresh protein. Now its all high end joints shaving it over...
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  14. moikel

    Whole lamb

    I am with Chef JJ  on this. I have done a lot of lamb cookery & a few whole ones in my wood fired oven & a few more on spits. I had the good fortune to be at a couple of whole lamb events in the mountains of Abruzzo in spring some years back.  Like chef JJ says you can't get a whole carcass...
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    Bottarga ,mullet are early this year.

    Thats the finished product ,after a light smoke over apple. Pouring rain here ,localised flooding.  Lunch will be a pasta with young veg,spinach,zucchini flowers with the little zucchini attached,young garlic,peas,cherry tomatoes butter ,EVO ,herbs. No salt in the pasta water ,bottarga...
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    Better Than BBQ!!!

    I think that's brilliant . Mine is an outsiders view from way down here but I love cooking with roots & connection to people's heritage .
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    Easter stuffed lamb (kind of like a haggis)

    I love it!
  19. moikel

    Smoked Chicken Pot Pie ~ Foamheart

    We Aussies do love a pie. From the big company product eaten at the football to all the gourmet ones. Yours looks great. . Real old school pastry here was often lard based in that British farmhouse style. That real snow white fat from around the kidneys of lambs ,suet to us ,  sold by the...
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    Bottarga ,mullet are early this year.

    The smoke part is really about drying it as well.I can set the MES at 40c & get the moisture out of the roe. I will then press it to get the salt all the wAy to the centre . It's a really old school thing ,dare I say even BC . I you had salt you could preserve roe when it was abundant.It was...
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