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Nov 8^th, 2007 at 4:09pm

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Its been a wet miserable day in the New Englands, and with the temperature struggling around 14 deg. the sensible thing seemed to be fire up the Pot Belly.
And with it nicely warming things up it seemed to make even more sense to cook tonights dinner on it too.
Only took a couple of beers to decide on a nice lamb curry, pretty basic but with a Thai influence.
Starting to look nice and edible, the rice with fresh coriander will go alongside in about an hour for a slow absorbtion cooking.
Just wondering how it will go with the Coopers Pale ale.
Will find out soon enough, its going down ok at this stage.
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Reply #1 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 4:10pm

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Oops....
Heres the othe pic.
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Reply #2 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 4:17pm

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Oh Yum, can I come to dinner

Cheers

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Reply #3 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 4:48pm

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No problem at all Newme.
Just hope you like Coopers/dry white/dry red/muscat and port.
Oh, forgot, we do have water!!!
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Reply #4 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 5:02pm

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G'day mikel, the name on the front of your potbelly just about sums me up, I've been indulging in too many camp oven meals lately, rosettes, shanks, roast pork washed down with lambrusco and a port or three. Ain't no good for the figure lemme tell you.
I cook on a covered patio using heat beads in a "Camp Oven Mate" .

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When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #5 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 6:18pm

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PD I suppose I could do something like that, but today just felt like an indoors one.
Here is the final result, we demolished it pretty well.
Curry does go well with beer, but then again so do most things. Wink

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Reply #6 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 3:03am

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The contrast on my monitor made it hard to read the name on the stove.

My daily wet weather inside cooking is on an electric range, vintage 1978. Cast iron is my regular utensil. The best there is.

But, sheesh Mike, you need to put on heat in 14'C. Just HUH!!!!!! Real HUH??????????????????????

Like man, do you own a sweater?

Or like your house really cools off thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt much?

I don't think it's that I'm used to cooler temps, it's more like good ole Canuck insulation.

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Oh, idea for inside cast iron cooking that's easy on the belt. Sizzle servers.

You take one of these: http://www.rvingoutpost.com/specs.php?prodnum=1918&title=Skookie%20Cast%20Iron%2...

or one of these

http://www.rvingoutpost.com/specs.php?prodnum=1918&title=Skookie%20Cast%20Iron%2...

take a teensy bit of olive oil and cover cast iron pan with same, about as much as you would use for seasoning.

Slice meat really thin. 1/8th " x 1" or less. Spread over base of pan. Dice onions. spread around. Into oven @ 300' F

Take mushrooms, cucumber/zuccini, capsicum, or other nice crunchy moist green veggies and dice into a bowl. Add less than 1 tsp. olive oil. Toss with hands.

Take sizzle server out of oven. Mound veggies over steak and onions. Put back in oven for 20 min or until you're happy. The Cucs will make a lovely thick gravy.

Note, try this without salt. The best taste is a la naturelle.

See, healthy oil. Cast iron cooking

Of course, it you have many to cook for, it will take time.

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Reply #7 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 7:24am

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LK.
Ha Ha!! Its called a "FATSO"
That is what PD was referring to. Grin

I know, I know, 14 deg. is not that cold but it was wet too and I was only looking for an excuse to cook a curry (nice and slow)
Whilst I had the fire going, Chris had all the windows open. But I didn't include that in the story. (literary license, eh) Wink

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Reply #8 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 4:24pm

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Hey LK
whats wrong with being warm anyway

beautiful Queensland

Mikel 15o is cold enough eor curry just dont put the fan at the end of the bed you could get your own back

If you don't know the bush then you have never lived life to the full

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Reply #9 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 7:35pm

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Furph.
You know the strange thing about chilli is the more of it you eat, you require it hotter to satisfy the taste.
We then sometimes (not often I would add) go a little while without cooking with chilli.
Jeeeeeze, that was spicy Chris would say, me, red as a beetroot, spluttering into a glass of iced water, thinks bugger.... Embarrassed

So you start again. build up the tolerance, then the next thing Habenjero is back on the agenda.
But tonight a none spicy meal. Nice medium grilled T bone, boiled spud with sour cream & garlic chives, tomato/onion salad, all helped with a Cab. Merlot. Wink

But finishing the evening with a block of Lindt & Sprungli dark Chilli chocholate. Difficult to entirely keep away from the stuff, eh. (with a snifter of port, naturally) Roll Eyes

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