Iron Chef WAYCT - What Are You Cooking Today

[goosehd]

@Giles They still look pretty good. I had zero luck this year with my chillies and nothing really grew. Maybe ended up with a large handful or two for the entire season.

Screwed up and bought plants from local greenhouses instead of starting them myself and it made a huge difference.

Lesson learned.

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Yesterday was pizza day

[Giles]

I'm doing a pear tart for dinner tonight. Just went a picked the pears, Jesus, they are enormous this year....

[goosehd]

...but how does it taste? I have found larger fruit less flavourful and more watery/blander than smaller fruit. Often see it with the apples on Laura's family farm and apple orchard.

[Giles]

Dunno, I'm going to poach them to inject some flavour into them anyway

[goosehd]

wine or brandy?

[Giles]

Sugar, cinnamon sticks, star anise and vanilla.....

[jordanscollected]

A couple clove buds and a little citrus peel for zip!

[Giles]

I have lemon peel in there, but forgot the cloves......

[Giles]

Pretty pleased with that.....

[goosehd]

@Giles How did it turn out? Looks good

[jordanscollected]

look utterly smashing

[flannel slut]

Damn G

[Giles]

@goosehd said in Iron Chef WAYCT - What Are You Cooking Today:

How did it turn out?

Amazing considering it was a "we've got some pears on the tree, what the fuck should we do with them?"

[ROman]

@Giles Looks excellent along with the brown cords.

[steelworker]

@Giles looks like eggplant! what, you have a40 ft pear tree?

[mclaincausey]

Chili season in Colorado

[JDelage]

Yum. Do you char & peel the chilies for this?

[mclaincausey]

Yes @JDelage they have drums and torches and they’ll char em for you at the chile stands

[Giles]

I was so pleased with the peart tart I made a couple of weeks ago (well, it is the ideal excuse to OD on clotted cream :-)), I'm making another one for tomorrows Sunday lunch with @louisbosco and fam.

Poaching the pears (cloves added this time @jordanscollected :-))....