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We cold-smoked cheese last week , Saturday November 2, 2024, just using the smoke tube; didn’t turn on the propane.
Cheese included: Grafton Village Cheddar from Vermont, Swiss Le Gruyere, Vermont Cabot Sharp Cheddar, Cabot Farmhouse Cheddar Vermont, French Marcel Petite Comte.
We’ve been going to the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Virginia since 2001, when three of us met there.
This year, stopped at BBQ Country (9719 James Madison Hwy, Warrenton, VA | (540) 439-6904) so we could have a picnic onsite. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day.
It was the first year Chris Edwards wasn’t the announcer. Rooster was the aerobatic flyer in a Pitts S-2B. The wing walker was a very young woman.
On the way back, we went to Moo Thru in nearby Remington, where more people wait in the car drive through than wait in the people line. They were out of the pumpkin caramel swirl, but the salted caramel was tasty.
We made a pit stop at Messick’s Farm Market – we forgot they have frozen custard, too.
Prep:
Start smoking:
Finish smoking:
Serve:
We made bacon!
(This is mostly adapted from Hey Grill Hey’s recipe)
1. buy 2 lbs of pork belly
2. rub it with salt, pepper, and pink curing salt (we used InstaCure #1)
I think we also used some maple syrup.
3. put in refrigerator for 2 weeks
4. rinse
5. smoke
6. enjoy
We stopped at Weldon’s Ice Cream Factory on the way there.
We went to Duckey’s Snowballs and Ice Cream in Troy.
We went to the Waco Museum in Troy.
I made an eclipse viewer out of a cardboard box.
On the way back we stopped at Giacinta’s Gelato + Cafe and also Kirks Ice Cream in St. Clairsville.
It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without a menu of yummy carrot dishes.
Carrot Salad
3 T sesame oil
3 clove garlic, minced and sautéed
3 T rice wine vinegar
juice of one lime
zest of that lime
1 T soy sauce
1/2 T sugar
2 cups carrots, peeled into long curls using a peeler
from ncfieldfamily.org
Pasta with bacon and creamy carrot sauce
1 lb bacon
1 lb carrots
16 oz pkg orecchiette pasta or other funny-looking pasta
Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
1/4 c. dill
Cook bacon
To make carrot puree: peel carrots, slice, and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Drain, then use hand/wand blender, using some of the cooking water if necessary
Mix everything together.
savoryonline.com April 2023 p.55
Carrot Pie
3/4 container whipped dessert topping
3/4 c. carrot puree
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 t. maple syrup
graham cracker pie shell
Make carrots into puree, let cool.
Meanwhile, mix cream cheese, sugar, and syrup. Fold in puree, pour into pie shell, and freeze.
The Rodman’s on Wisconsin now carries Isigny Saint Mere’s Camembert. It was very good, and the box looks nice.
Our first ice cream stop on the way the the Broadkill Beach, DE : Vandwerwende Farm, Greenwood, DE. It came recommended, and it didn’t disappoint. Monday afternoon was a great time, before the evening crowds. Maple walnut, butter pecan. I bought a bottle of blueberry balsamic dressing, and I left it on the window ledge.
Then, we also tried:
Hopkins Farm Creamery. Milton, DE. You can see the cows, and there’s a nice picnic area / playground. Strawberry cheesecake, which was bright pink with cream-cheese and graham cracker chunks. I didn’t get what I ordered, but the coconut and chocolate banana was a good choice – even if it was Jeanne’s pick, and not mine.
Marigold Creamery. Lewes, DE. Also recommended, by Annie this time. Cute, food-truck like venue along the bike path. Sunny picnic tables so you can wave to the bikers. Banana Honey Oat (WWT), Counter Culture Coffee Toffee Almond Crunch (AT), Lemon Frozen Yogurt with Bennett’s Blueberry Swirl (MT). Wooden spoons.
King’s Homemade Ice Cream, Lewes, DE. Homemade ice cream since 1972. Also a shop in Milton, DE. Fresh butterfat milk from a local dairy is poured into two 10 gallon batch freezers. Flavors enjoyed: Butter Brickle, Coconut.
Before the trip:
Dolcezza is a gelato & coffee shop. Dupont Circle. Washington, DC. After a family dinner at Bistrot Du Coin, a French restaurant that’s been there for 20+ years. Gelato was perfect after seafood, steak and pommes frites. Locally sourced ingredients. Great gelato texture. Coffee was better at Bustrot Du Coin, however – but it is a an ice cream shop.
We visited Aladdin Market on Main Street in Laurel, MD today, and we tried what they called Roomy Cheese. Roumy (also known as Romy or Romi or Turkish cheese) is made from cow’s and water buffalo milk.
It’s an Egyptian cheese in the Parmesan family. The cheese we bought was salty, with complex flavor. It seems to be slightly aged, but still soft and crumbly.
Roumy was yummy.
One site said Roumy cheese is sold in some markets un-aged in slices and ready-to-use packages. It is a staple in Egyptian breakfast.
Aladdin Market let us try it before buying, and they also said it sometimes comes with black pepper.
We also visited the Prince George’s County Memorial Library Laurel Branch so I could renew my Library cart. Pretty place, and only 6 years old.
Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl– Zanesville, OH. Also candy and nuts.
GRAETER’S BEAVERCREEK ice cream – Made in Ohio / Paris pot style with high butterfat. Started in Cincinnati, but many Ohio locations.
Stoner’s Ice Cream Parlor, 100 N Detroit St West Liberty, OH. Serves Perry’s Ice Cream from Akron, NY. Near the Urbana aviation museum. Also has 3 thrift shops on main street. Candy store we didn’t make.
FRANCIS FAMILY RESTAURANT and Ice Cream Parlour. Cambridge, Ohio, the home of Hopalong Cassidy actor, William Lawrence Boyd. Velvet Ice Cream: Tastes so good, it’s gotta be Velvet – Utica, OH