Re: What's cooking NCT Sunday 2/26/2017 - Saturday 3/4/2017
we have a nearby Amish Market - I go there for dry cured bacon (YUM!) - DW likes various chow-chow / pickled scruff - an on-site flour to loaf bakery with a super white loaf - but they put it in plastic bags and then it rains inside the plastic - so I only buy it when it's still cooling and have it put in a paper bag. they think I'm crazy; well, except for one older woman, she never blinks at my request - she knows what evil moisture in a plastic bag lurks . . . .
the bacon man also has a mean chipped beef for SOS - which I did last night over soft italian toast. extremely simple - 3 T butter + 3 T AP flour to make a roux, expand with light cream, add fresh ground pepper, thin with milk, add 1/4 lb chopped chipped beef. obviously you need a good chipped beef - ranks right up there in the comfort food zone with mac&cheese.
another butcher vendor has bratwurst. done tried it now several times. el bombo. wurst is like scrapple - it's a concept more than a recipe and one either likes that source or one does not . . .