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Brian’s Brunswick Stew, for the Fourth

Brian’s Brunswick Stew

 Ingredients:

  • 4 chicken drumsticks
  • 1 skinless, boneless chicken breast (cooked)
  • 1 small pork tenderloin
  • 2 veal cutlets
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • 2 16 oz. cans creamed corn (or 8 ears corn cut and scraped plus 2 T. cream)
  • 2 16 oz. cans tomatoes, undrained
  • ½ lemon, sliced
  • 1 cup cut okra
  • 1 cup lima beans
  • 2 to 4 potatoes, diced
  • 12 oz. ketchup
  • 3 T. Worcestershire sauce
  • Tabasco (or other hot sauce) to taste
  • 1 T. vinegar
  • 4 cloves garlic tied in cheesecloth
  • 1 T. dry mustard
  • 2 T. lemon juice
  • 1/8 t. cayenne pepper
  • 1 t. salt
  • black pepper to taste
  • 2 slices white bread, crumbled (if needed to thicken)
  • 1 bell pepper, red or green, chopped

Procedure:

  1. Roast drumsticks and tenderloin in a 325° oven or 30 minutes.
  2. Lightly brown veal cutlets in a skillet.
  3. Shred or dice chicken breast, veal cutlet, chicken drumsticks and pork.
  4. Sauté onion in 1 T. butter in bottom of large stockpot.
  5. Add meats, chicken broth, tomatoes, okra, creamed corn, lima beans, and potatoes.
  6. Add seasonings.
  7. Heat until barely simmering, then lower heat to Low and cook slowly for at least two hours, stirring occasionally.
  8. Before serving, remove cheesecloth containing garlic. Add bread if stew needs to be thickened.
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Food and Travel? An Adventure Book Even I Can Love

eatmyglobeMajumdar, Simon (2009). Eat my globe: one year to go everywhere and eat everything. New York: Free Press. ISBN: 978-1-4165-7602-0

Just what I’ve been craving. An adventurous food book! A British blogger from a family where food is the primary, or it seems only, past time, finds himself turning forty. It is not surprise that his great mid-life crisis causes him to act on his life goal to “go everywhere and eat everything.” The resulting book is as eclectic as the world’s food cultures.

 His schedule for the “year” (p.13):

  • March and April: UK and Ireland
  • May: Australia
  • June: more UK
  • July: Japan
  • August: Hong Kong and China
  • September: Mongolia, Russia and Finland
  • October: United States
  • November: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil (and Thanksgiving in California)
  • January: Germany and Iceland
  • February: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia
  • March: The Philippines, India
  • April: South Africa, Mozambique, Senegal, Morocco
  • May: Turkey, Italy, France, Spain

Part travelogue, part global food profile, part wacky adventure story, the book is full of unexpected bits about food culture (Icelanders are obsessed with hot dogs?) And the book proves the best part of enjoying food is sharing it with others. The people he meets as he travels around the globe are as interesting as the foods he describes.  In fact, I wish there were more descriptions of both people and food. Not that the book lacks either, but Majumdar’s style is so familiar, I just want more courses.

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