Red Kuri squash, peas, venison, crema, butter, ovine havarti (homemade), mushrooms, onions, homegrown Ivan garlic, fresh homegrown rosemary, thyme.topped with puff pastery, baked 375° 25min.eaten while watching Armageddon.
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>>22281085Wow sounds amazing, is the havarti hard to make?
>>22281098havarti is really no different from other mesophelic cheeses. milk, rennet, mesophelic culture. main difference from other similar cheeses is requires a washed curd. most difficult part is milking the sheep.and the Red Kuri was homegrown as well.
>>22281121Are sheep a lot harder to milk than cows? I think I might have unsuccessfully tried milking a cow once as a young kid (yes it was a female cow)
Fucking love Shepherds Pie
>>22281249In France, it's the way to use the meat leftovers in the school canteens (French hachis Parmentier).
>>22281242I have never milked a cow. sheep are small, and thus less "dangerous" perhaps. im not even talking about aggression. a 2000lb dary cow can destroy a foot or hand with a clumsy hoof or a panic kick can crush a skull. we have sheep that are docile and "just do" and we have had a few that can be cunts on the stand.we don't hand milk. we use a machine.
>>22281249for me it's having the beef part ultra rich with an ultra reduced stock , a hint of wine and that little bit of depth a few splashes of worchester sauce gives you. None of that "stick a couple of oxo cubes in"I also like the mash slightly imperfect with the occasional tiny piece of potato that got missed by the mincer. It's all about that varying texture.
>>22281470iirc in the uk originally it was also leftover mutton>>22281249same brother, once made one with braised lamb shanks, so good ate the whole thing in one sitting.
>>22281569our household meat intake breakdown:40% rabbit30% mutton/hogget/lamb10% venison/elk/oryx/etc5% chicken5% quail5% duck3% beef2% pork (see notes on bacon below)bacon is its own category, seperate from "pork". we eat at least a pound of bacon each week. we dont raise hogs anymore, so we dont eat much pork. even when we raised hogs we couldn't support our bacon intake so had to buy it.we dont raise beef, but sometimes trade for it or occasionally buy a pound of ground for burgers.
>>22281085>venisonJust stop it already.
>>22281605What do you have against organic, ethically sourced and hand processed meat?should i have used SPAM? bologna? hot dogs? wait... do you use tofu in your shepherd's pie?soory, we cant afford taco bell or "Hungry Man" frozen dinners.
>>22281675>What do you have against organic, ethically sourced and hand processed meat?Nothing.Bravo to you and your family.My point was, that your dish was not worthy of being called a Shepherd's Pie, as the protein is far too lean.>1 to 3%Lamb, the traditional protein, is 15 to 21%.THAT is why is was so hearty a dish.Let's respect national dishes a bit more.
>>22281696valid.for what it is worth, it was ground with beef fat for exactly that reason. unsure why she went with venison over Mutton/Hogget, but she is the primary cook and I dont question her methods or motives.picrel was probably not what she used in this pie. I believe that was all used for burgers a while back, and was a high organ meat content grind.
>>22281561Me on the right
>>22281706>for what it is worth, it was ground with beef fat for exactly that reason.Oh, good call.>unsure why she went with venison over Mutton/Hogget, but she is the primary cook and I dont question her methods or motives.Fair enoughI'm not trying to be a dick and it's clear that you both apply a lot of effort.Apologies for the harshness.
>>22281592You live in a literal cartoon fantasy though
>>22281561That’s a cartoon though
>>22281772>>22281773I run my photos through AI to obscure faces and any readily identifiable landmarks etc. because internet people are crazy, unnessesarily vengeful & vitriolic.they are in fact just photos from my phone, filtered and Metadata stripped. I didnt request anything changed, added or removed, just "remastered in the style of Studio Ghibli"its a shame we all have to think that way, even on a cooking board, but that's where society is at.
bump for night crew.
>>22281706Real nice setup
>>22282025It’s completely generated AI that you ran through a cartoon filter
>>22281085>Red Kuri squash>crema>ovine havarti>Ivan garlicWhat level of woke nonsense is this
>puff pasty instead of mashCriminal
>>22281772>>22281773>>22282670you would be amazed at how little effect some rando on the internet affects my actual Real World Life and the satisfaction I find therein.
