Whats for dinner???

[terryu1]

Originally Posted by JLA

I know halupki is stuffed cabbage, never had it but its in several of the wifes cook books. I googled halupsa and google wants me to change the spelling to chalupa, so Im guessin its the same thing, and makes sense too since russia is actually closer to AK than the USA is.

Yeah we are a big Polish area and halupki and several other names is the cabbage rolls. Usually hamburger with sometimes rice in it rolled in steamed cabbage leaves and in a tomato based sauce. I feel he may be speaking of Haluski which is cabbage chopped up and steamed with side noodles, onion and butter.

[JLA]

mmmm, either one sounds delicious. i love cabbage

[Big ugly]

Venison Stew. Same process a beef stew but with Bambi and his Mother instead of Bessie the cow. Garden Cauliflower Broccoli carrots and store baught I-da-ho taters and a diced onion and some fine chopped Garlic. Home made Corn Bread.

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Originally Posted by terryu1

Yeah we are a big Polish area and halupki and several other names is the cabbage rolls. Usually hamburger with sometimes rice in it rolled in steamed cabbage leaves and in a tomato based sauce. I feel he may be speaking of Haluski which is cabbage chopped up and steamed with side noodles, onion and butter.

Yes that the stuff My granparents were from Grodno in Beylaruss,,which is reasonablly close to the Polish Border,also a Luggin Friend of mine says his Ma makes a similiar dish

[Zhurh]

My wife's people from Hungary, Slovakia, and though they don't claim it, Poland too; I know these things from living 26 years with her. So Halupki is a standard Hunkie food. The wife mixes ground beef, rice, stewed tomatoes, sauercraut, egg, bread crumb, ketchup, and I don't know what else. She then cores a cabbage and boils it until leaves separate. Then she rolls up the mixture in the leaves so you have a bunch of cabbage rolls stuffed with rice, sauercraut, meat, tomatoes, ect. She then stacks the cabbage rolls in crock pots with sauercraut and stew tomatoes all around them. She usually sticks one pot in fridge and cooks the other one overnight. We eat it with mashed potatoes & this tomato gravy she makes and eat it for days, always better 2nd day like all sauercraut. I only ate it at polish weddings and such until I met my wife, we eat it once or twice a month now. Then Indians out the village even like it and you'll never hear them complain about halupki being filthy white man's food, ha ha. You all ought to cook some up, it's good stuff actually.

All Eastern Europeans and Russians and polish people eat the stuff, even Germans and Siberians eat it but they often use pork for meat. I've had tourists here from all over the place and they eat it in Europe, anywhere they grow cabbage. I have a Russkie buddy who lives in Fairbanks, just became an American citizen and they eat it all the time too. Every country has different name, but they all begin with Hal something.

Wife and I were originally from the Burgh, Steeltown; and all kinds of ethnic communities with rich heritage of food and culture being part of their lives even though nobody ever goes back to Eastern Europe, ha ha.

We do have many Russians here in Alaska, due to Siberia being so close, no joke I can see it on a clear day, just ask Sarah, she'll tell ya. The Russians come here anyway they can, usually under religious persecution reasons, but everyone of them will tell ya the real reason is because life is better here than in Russia. They all become Americans too and their kids don't even speak Russian. My one buddy is in an adult hockey league in Fairbanks, spends all his time with his boy's travel team;;;; Now he still thinks Russian Players better hockey players, ha ha. Yet this same guy had to come to Alaska cause his ancestors were from Germany (Catherine the Great Era) and in Russia today, if you have a German sounding name, you are a second class citizen. He came here to achieve the dream, and you can't fault anybody for that.

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Because Grodno was close to the Polish and Lithuanian Border there was a lot of cuisine trading also a Large Population Of Russian Jews before WW11,,I remember because my Granparents being Eastern Orthodox celebrating two Chrismases and two Easters,,Hunkie havent seen that name for a long time,,,In my old Neighborhood back in Chicago ,,if you wern,t Italian or Irish you were just a Dumb Pollack,,FF

[American Leader]

JLA, I think you would eat anything!

[JLA]

I draw the line at some things... Wont eat squid, octopus, oysters, mussels, etc. Dont like slimey.. Dont much care for oatmeal, unless its cookies. Pretty much hate yogurt. Tried calamari and escargo once, ONCE, then i threw up. Sushi gave me the heeby jeebys til i actually tried it once, i was drunk, and hungry, and there was all kinds of strange food sittn around, some of it was sushi and i ate some without even knowing what it was, It was actually quite good.. Stupidest thing i ever ate was a ghost chili, F THAT! Ill let someone shoot me point blank in the nuts with a .22 before EVER eating one of them evil peppers again. A 40 grainer to the boyz would be far less painful i think. Yuck, menudo, disgusting, cow guts belong in the hotdogs and dogfood, not in my soup.. Im sure there are others, but as you can see my list of no gos mostly consist of things I have tried before..

[bluesea112]

Originally Posted by JLA

Sushi gave me the heeby jeebys til i actually tried it once, i was drunk, and hungry, and there was all kinds of strange food sittn around, some of it was sushi and i ate some without even knowing what it was, It was actually quite good.

You were drunik and hungry. Don't ever forget that, because you will not have the same experience sober. If you would not savor the flavor of pulling a fish out of the lake and sucking his guts into your mouth through his anus, then I can almost guarentee you will not like true sushi while you are sober. Lot's of people eat california rolls in sushi restaraunts and think they are eating sushi. A california roll is just rice wrapped up in seaweed, but no fish. Depending on the type and wilt of the seaweed, it sometimes takes on a color and flavor of a raw fish fillet.
I'm starting to feel my gag reflex coming on, so I'm going to end this befor

[bluesea112]

......Came on faster than I thought.

[JLA]

hilarious!

You may be right charles. I have not had the nutz to try it since that night.

[dad2thebone]

y'all talkin cabbage gives me the bad juju. Im german irish and grandmas on both sides pushed it on me like a catholic wedding. omg i cant do it , i smell it im sick in a heartbeat. lots i eat but that aint it !

[terryu1]

I agree with the cabbage comments. I love it and actually play a pretty mean rectal flute. Hey JLA, I just bought a Maverick ET732 dual wireless thermometer. I had a cheaper wired remote thermometer and it did not read correctly and I overcooked the pork a little on Sunday. What do ya think about this thermometer? (Guess I should have asked before I bought it but it was $20 off at Amazon and free shipping. I paid $59 for it)

[JLA]

If it works use it, its a little high tech for me. Only thermometer i use is the traeger on the door of my smoker. Its a dummy thermometer with shaded areas for 'smoke' and 'BBQ' I keep the temp right on the line between the 2 when i cook most anything. 225-250 degrees seems to be a magical temp for anything BBQ'd, especially when BBQing with a barrel smoker.

[terryu1]

Originally Posted by JLA

If it works use it, its a little high tech for me. Only thermometer i use is the traeger on the door of my smoker. Its a dummy thermometer with shaded areas for 'smoke' and 'BBQ' I keep the temp right on the line between the 2 when i cook most anything. 225-250 degrees seems to be a magical temp for anything BBQ'd, especially when BBQing with a barrel smoker.

Yeah I have a Weber 22" kettle grill but I was looking at the Traeger grills, and now they have those pellet grills. I always liked him on a lot of those competetion grill shows. Have you ever tried the "pellet" grills??

[langenc]

Had grouse last night. Something w/ burger tonight.

Forlunch tomorrow I think it will be a Spamburger sammich.

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Leftover Gyros

[Bobitis]

Originally Posted by JLA

I draw the line at some things... Wont eat squid, octopus, oysters, mussels, etc. Dont like slimey.. Dont much care for oatmeal, unless its cookies. Pretty much hate yogurt. Tried calamari and escargo once, ONCE, then i threw up. Sushi gave me the heeby jeebys til i actually tried it once, i was drunk, and hungry, and there was all kinds of strange food sittn around, some of it was sushi and i ate some without even knowing what it was, It was actually quite good.. Stupidest thing i ever ate was a ghost chili, F THAT! Ill let someone shoot me point blank in the nuts with a .22 before EVER eating one of them evil peppers again. A 40 grainer to the boyz would be far less painful i think. Yuck, menudo, disgusting, cow guts belong in the hotdogs and dogfood, not in my soup.. Im sure there are others, but as you can see my list of no gos mostly consist of things I have tried before..

I guess it depends on what ya was raised with.

I will try anything that comes from the sea. I love clams, oysters, muscles, scallops, lobster etc. All fish included, tho shark has to be done right cuz they urinate thru their skin.

Oysters are best raw. Caviar (fish eggs) is tops on my list. And I love sushi!

Any California roll I've ever seen has a pc of raw tuna in it. No exceptions. Yeah, it's mostly rice bound up in seaweed, but it's got fish in it.

Sashimi is at the top of my list as well (wish I could afford it more often).

Raw fish with a dip on the side (typically wasabi) or a soup of some sort. I be in heaven.

I've even eaten sea slugs. Some parts are edible and tasty.

Still friends Josh?

[JLA]

Originally Posted by terryu1

Yeah I have a Weber 22" kettle grill but I was looking at the Traeger grills, and now they have those pellet grills. I always liked him on a lot of those competetion grill shows. Have you ever tried the "pellet" grills??

Nah. I have a Weber gas grill I use to cook steaks. My smoker is home made. built out of a 150 gallon propane tank and mounted on a utility trailer. I also mounted a smaller smoker of the same design on the other side of the trailer for smaller cookouts, and an extra barrel for huge cookouts. The small smoker is made by Cabelas, the big one by myself. and I assembled them on the trailer with my welder and cutting torch. and painted them with pot belly black hi-temp wood stove paint. The big smoker has a 24X24 firebox made of 1/4" steel plate. and i use it for a griddle to cook bacon and burgers too. And to top it all off it has 17" cobra wheels on it with Nexen 3000 215 45s on it. Its a pretty sweet rig.

HEres a pic of it hitched to the ol 'burban. This was taken the morning we left out for TFF TX '11 this past april.

[JLA]

Originally Posted by Bobitis

I guess it depends on what ya was raised with.

I will try anything that comes from the sea. I love clams, oysters, muscles, scallops, lobster etc. All fish included, tho shark has to be done right cuz they urinate thru their skin.

Oysters are best raw. Caviar (fish eggs) is tops on my list. And I love sushi!

Any California roll I've ever seen has a pc of raw tuna in it. No exceptions. Yeah, it's mostly rice bound up in seaweed, but it's got fish in it.

Sashimi is at the top of my list as well (wish I could afford it more often).

Raw fish with a dip on the side (typically wasabi) or a soup of some sort. I be in heaven.

I've even eaten sea slugs. Some parts are edible and tasty.

Still friends Josh?

Fa sho. you and me would get along nicely. You can eat the crap i wont so you wont come after my medium rare ribeyes and Brisket sammages..

[terryu1]

Originally Posted by JLA

Nah. I have a Weber gas grill I use to cook steaks. My smoker is home made. built out of a 150 gallon propane tank and mounted on a utility trailer. I also mounted a smaller smoker of the same design on the other side of the trailer for smaller cookouts, and an extra barrel for huge cookouts. The small smoker is made by Cabelas, the big one by myself. and I assembled them on the trailer with my welder and cutting torch. and painted them with pot belly black hi-temp wood stove paint. The big smoker has a 24X24 firebox made of 1/4" steel plate. and i use it for a griddle to cook bacon and burgers too. And to top it all off it has 17" cobra wheels on it with Nexen 3000 215 45s on it. Its a pretty sweet rig.

HEres a pic of it hitched to the ol 'burban. This was taken the morning we left out for TFF TX '11 this past april.

Certainly is a sweet rig. Way over anything I will ever have. Very nice.

[JLA]

I never thought Id have this one either. But a firend of mine, Joe Stroud, a man if you ever saw him you would say to yourself, "That guys gotta be Texan" because hes about 6'4" 275# and wears a big white stetson and has a huge handlebar mustache. He also very big on BBQ and has many many smokers. He had the tank and trailer in his back yard and was going to sell them on craigslist..I traded him a shotgun for them. Best rem 1187 I ever spent.. All I had to do was put them together and do a little fabricating. i built the big barrel mostly with scrap metal out of the scrap trailer. Then just painted it all to match

[howlnmad]

Tonight it's gonna be mudbug tails in a white wine, garlic and shallot sauce served over angel hair pasta and some roasted asparagus on the side. And a nice glass of chardonay.

[JLA]

An aristocrat eh??

[American Leader]

Polish sausage with cabbage, potatos, and fresh sliced tomatos (home grown) over cottage cheese! Now this IS fit for a king!