Just got this from my friend and neighbour Caroline at Haven:<\/p>\n
Hi Rae,<\/p>\n
I know how you love food so I thought that I’d tempt your taste buds by telling you about my latest experiment. \u00a0Montreal Smoked Meat. \u00a0I love the stuff and can’t buy it here very often (almost never). \u00a0On Smoking Meat Forums, I requested a recipe and received several – one that swears that its as good as Schwartz’s or Smoke Meat Pete’s.\u00a0I paid $50.00 CND for the brisket at Mitch’s Meats and then go totally hosed at Co-op for the 125 grams of coriander ($25.86). Put the rub on the meat and flipped it twice a day for 10 days.\u00a0Washed it, soaked it for 3 hours, patted it dry, put on another rub of coriander and coarse black pepper for 24 hours.\u00a0Today it is in the smoker. \u00a0Maple smoke at 250F for 4 hours, then in the oven for another 5 hours. \u00a0Tomorrow, I will steam it for 3 hours and serve it on fresh rye bread with mustard.<\/p>\n
All of my previous experiments have turned out well. \u00a0The cured & smoked pork chops are heavenly.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if you check our weather here, but we have had a silly mild winter. \u00a0Its headed into the teens again today and I fear that the plum tree will bloom and be frosted again, hence no fruit.<\/p>\n
We started our summer supply of wine, have 180 bottles in various stages of fermentation.<\/p>\n
If you wish, you can share this with your blog readers, \u00a0some may be interested in Haven.<\/p>\n
Miss you<\/p>\n
Love Charles & Caroline<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Is anyone else drooling? Caroline is am amazing cook and she makes everything from scratch. Charles hunts and butchers a lot of their meat and most of the rest comes from Mitch’s Meats, a butcher with high quality products, not the crap you get at supermarkets. She didn’t say it in the email, but I’m pretty sure she made the rye bread herself because you can’t get decent rye bread out west. Being a Montreal gal, I’m drooling. You just can’t get decent smoked meat outside of Montreal, although I did have some that passable enough for a desperate person right here in Mazatl\u00e1n last year<\/a>!<\/p>\n
The news on the weather is really good. I am going to keep monitoring as it means I may be able to get home early this year. With the impending trip to Europe, I just don’t want to spend a lot of money in the U.S. this spring and made be willing to do a cannonball run north similar to the one I did going south so I can land and make some money ahead of jetting off.<\/p>\n
As for wine, I imagine I’ll have time for a few nights of rolling down the street to home quite tipsy after a delicious dinner! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
I love these updates as I find that they ground me. No matter how much I’m planning to be on the move, they remind me that when I get tired, I have a place to land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just got this from my friend and neighbour Caroline at Haven: Hi Rae, I know how you love food so I thought that I’d tempt your taste buds by telling you about my latest experiment. \u00a0Montreal Smoked Meat. \u00a0I love the stuff and can’t buy it here very often (almost never). \u00a0On Smoking Meat Forums, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haven","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}