Nice picture! (And a nice lunch too, by the looks of it.)

home grown tomatoes & salad greens w/ smoked pork neck
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venison is on the menu lately.
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bacon wrapped venison kabobs
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Mrs non-fixie was in Barcelona last week for business, and I joined her for the weekend. We had been there before, seen the sights and got the T-shirt, so this time we could really focus. :)

Drinks and pintxos - jamón ibérico and a rather lovely pâté - at a Basque bar:

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For dinner we had reserved a table at a seafood restaurant near the harbor. We were seated next to a display counter in which half of the animals were still moving:

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When ordering the seafood platter the waiter asked "cooked or alive?" After slight hesitation and quick look to the moving extremities on the right, we decided to go for "alive" as that was the better choice, according to said waiter. Luckily nothing walked away:

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Lunch on Sunday consisted of various Spanish tapas:

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non-fixie, I can't stop drooling. ;)

Neither can the cats on that other thread

Is that smelt in the last picture? I need to make that dish more often than just on Christmas Eve.

Anchovies, deep fried. Not much taste to them this way and a little disappointing to be honest. The salty ones in the picture above them were much nicer, not to mention the delicious preparation I tasted in Italy (see post 586).

Best meatloaf I've had. Beef, pork and venison with a pork glace and onion reduction. Whole grain mustard and breadcrumb crust.

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Looks delicious as well! I'm familiar with beef/pork mixtures, but what does the venison do for the taste?

Frankly, I had it (ground venison) and there aren't many applications where I want to use and this is one. It just adds a little more depth of flavor and little firmer texture; you must compensate for the lack of fat, however. It can elevate it from a somewhat bland dish to one a lot more complex and flavorful. That said, you could put that sauce on just about anything and make it fantastic. There is literally the contents of 10 pounds of bones in each quart of that glace.

Working on my culinary sagacity. Saltimbocca, one of my favorites.

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Thanks. I see. I have some nice tender deer in the freezer, but to grind it for a meatloaf would not be worth it, I guess.

Love some saltimbocca! You do yours like a roulade? Capers?

non-fixie, if it's a good cut it is hard to improve upon salt, pepper and a good sear.

'Twas nothing fancy this time, just a good sear on both sides and a little time in the oven (I made cannelloni too that day, in a bit less succesful recipe :p) and stirred a little wine and butter in the juices to get a nice gravy. I served them flat. Pure and simple and done in 10 minutes. No capers though, I don't really care for them.

I once had a great Saltimbocca (in Rome, off course!), where they served them in the cast-iron pan they were fried in, flat, with apparently very little done to the gravy at all.

Exactly what I had in mind for what's left over from the small deer my neighbour got me a while back. I found most of its meat to be surprisingly tender, so far.

The Porcinis (Boletus Edulis) were extremely late here this year. Usually we are harvesting them in November.

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Brent

Pork Gyoza....
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Began a manic Monday very early, Sun was low, took advantage of it while having my espresso....
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Those look like Trader Joes potstickers or gyoza.

They are Crazy Cuisine, some Japanese-American company I think. Pretty good product. :-9

I like gyoza, sometimes my wife makes them

Jealous

I can almost smell that ...

Avoiding SXSW Chuck? ;)