Have you ever eaten cabrito, capretto or chevon?
Maybe if I describe it differently: do you eat goat meat?
Did you know that Australia is the world’s largest goat meat exporter and that goat meat is the most widely consumed red meat in the world?
(They’re also super cute, but I don’t know if I should talk about that AND also talk about eating them.)
What’s green, furry and grows on trees?
I know that this sounds like the beginning to a terrible joke, but I do have a serious answer for you: almonds.
I’m going to be completely honest and tell you – I had no idea that immature almonds came in a fuzzy green pod. It’s not something that had ever crossed my mind. So when I saw some, I had to buy them.
Green almonds appear very briefly in early spring, and consist of a fuzzy outer shell and a soft white seed surrounded by a jelly-ish inner. After they are harvested, they eventually shrivel and harden and lose their furry coats.
This is another one of my “throw everything into the pressure cooker and assume it will be okay” meals. (And all was okay.)
It’s not winter where I am right now – it’s actually really hot and very humid – but when I purchased these pieces of osso bucco it was back in Melbourne when it was dead cold.
Yes, yes, beef ribs again. I’m telling you – it’s going to be a thing if it isn’t already.
I cooked this dish on two separate occasions. The first time, I wasn’t intending to blog it. But as soon as I ate it, my head went, “This is so yum!” so I had to cook it again to take photos. 🙂
And it was an easy process because I just poached the ribs in a soy sauce master stock. Do you have a master stock? They are the best. If you’re thinking, “What’s a master stock?” it’s a flavoured liquid that’s used to repeatedly poach/braise food. Instead of discarding it after cooking, it’s used again and again, picking up more flavour each time.
I’m in Motherland 1 (NZ) at the moment for family stuff, with Bro and I flying into Auckland yesterday. The parents picked us up from the airport, and it wasn’t long before the fussing started.
“Did you bring a coat?
It’s really cold here.
Where’s your coat?
No, it’s really cold. Why didn’t you bring a coat?” (This last question to Bro – I did bring my coat, cutting out 200% of the fussing.)