What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[blackemerald1]

best kombucha I've ever had.

^^@somerandomguy - I am intrigued. Recipe pleeease? :)

 

[ILoveLife]

Come! Come! Eat my goat!

Had a similar situation in Beijing. But relating ducks.

We wanted to eat a REAL Beijing duck and ended up in a real joint and thought "They might have it!" and obviously, none of us spoke mandarin, so there we were 4 western tourists making duck sounds and flapping our "wings" until they finally got it and brought us a bunch of dishes full of duck just to be sure we were fed properly (this happened a lot in this trip - close to the big wall we ended up on another joint who's owners didn't allow us to leave until we individually tried all their dishes).
We made friends with one guy who ate a bit of our duck and very seriously said "This place only serves beijing duck"

So yeah. Not an entire goat, but several ducks. :P

 

[blackemerald1]

Hmm I don't eat goat or duck - I'm imagining the goats head flopped on the table ...oh yuk... stop imagining it please lol

And I was already imagining whole dead ducks on your table @Sietz - did they still have their heads too? lol

How can anyone eat something with it's head still attached? :wtf:

 

[ILoveLife]

Heads and all, the rest was properly sliced and delicious :roflmao: So the heads weren't really attached!

 

[somerandomguy]

Homemade kombucha

Mix 1 cup of sugar with 14 cups of water. Heat the water and use it to steep 8 teabags (real tea, not herbal). Put it in 1-gallon a glass container and let it cool to room temperature, then take out the teabags. Add the starter liquid left over from the last batch of kombucha along with your disgusting scoby. Cover the jar with a tea towel and secure it with a rubber band. Leave it out for a week and a half or so or to taste.

When it's ready, it'll taste half way between tea and vinegar. If you've had kombucha before, you'll know. Add flavoring - I prefer lime or grapefruit juice, but you can add anything. Take out the disgusting scoby and some extra liquid and save for the next batch. Dispose of the disgusting yeast baby. Bottle it up. You can either drink it right away, or if you like it extra fizzy like me you can let the bottles sit another week. The longer you let it sit, the more snot you will have to remove once you want to drink it. It's worth it, though.

Kombucha is also mildly alcoholic, probably about 1-2% alcohol with this recipe.

 

[ILoveLife]

There's also the "Pig Kill" here in Portugal - Whole pigs, it's a family and friends ceremony where the whole pig is used for meat purposes, from the head to the toes.
That's way worse than duck heads.
I never witnessed the actually killing, but heard from my house. It's horrible, but it's the old way of having a big feast preparing for winter.

 

[ILoveLife]

That sounds disgusting, @somerandomguy ... ? Sugar, teaBAGS and vinegar. Holy crap

I trust you guys that it's good.

 

[blackemerald1]

your disgusting scoby.

disgusting scoby

Dispose of the disgusting yeast baby.

more snot you will have to remove

^^^:hilarious: - serious gourmet terms going on there random :)

Thank you..

 

[somerandomguy]

It IS disgusting. But it's delicious :D

 

[blackemerald1]

Well I've bought it and it's sooo sooo expensive but very very good to drink and good for one's health... (not that random's description gives much reassurance of that lol..... So... I'm going to give it a go.. :)

 

[somerandomguy]

It's got active living yeast cultures, which are disgusting to look at and touch but are very, very good for your gut flora.

 

[blackemerald1]

Whole pigs, it's a family and friends ceremony where the whole pig is used for meat purposes, from the head to the toes.

Totally grossed out now @Sietz.. I don't eat pig either! There are a lot of things I cannot handle... tongues, ears, brains...really anything that an animal thought with, ate with, procreated or digested with??? Yuk... lol