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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 20 – Winter Greens

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Shawn and Simon dig out from December’s snowpocalypse and bring with them a bounty of beautiful, bitter, brassicas. 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Alexis Sawyer’s Shilling Cookery For The People: https://www.amazon.ca/Shilling-Cookery-People-Embracing-Entirely/dp/1436749719

Caldo Verde: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/portuguese-style-kale-soup/

Fermented Chard Stems: https://raiasrecipes.com/2018/04/lacto-fermented-rainbow-chard.html

Track and Food Podcast: https://www.midrangevancouver.com/track-food

The Great Courses on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/915

Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 18 – Soop!

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Nothing satifies and nurishes us during the dark and bliseringly cold months like a big ‘o bowl of soup! Simon and Shawn dive deep into the pot of memory and dredge up some stories and killer recipes plus literature/music picks and a special guest. 

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Orange and Grapefruit Marmalade: https://www.goodto.com/recipes/grapefruit-and-lemon-marmalade

Cajun Jambalaya with Isaac Toupes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ytqP64AVkk

Chestnut Soup with Crispy Pancetta: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/chestnut-soup-with-crispy-pancetta/

Mammal Hands: https://mammalhands.com/

Soup By Barbara Kafka: https://www.amazon.ca/Soup-Way-Life-Barbara-Kafka/dp/1579651259

Chasing the Gator Isaac Toups: https://www.amazon.ca/Chasing-Gator-Isaac-Toups-Cooking-ebook/dp/B075CS23Y4

Stay warm out there kids!

Chestnut Soup with Crispy Pancetta

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Many years ago on a whim I purchased a rather strange cookbook by Lois Anne Rothert dedicated entirely to the various soups of rural France. Normally I don’t pitch in for something so bizarrely specialized but something about this tome’s yeomen charm captured my imagination and it’s survived many cookbook purges over the years when shelf space became scarce.

Now, three months deep into my still-UN-identified illness this book has more than earned it’s keep with such soul-satisfying and sanity-soothing soups as Country Sorrel and Potato, Oyster and Cognac stew, Lentil Potage and this deeply savoury winter soup of pureed chestnuts, aromatics and crispy pancetta. Read More

Oatmeal Bread

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Despite years of being the “guy who never ever gets sick” I contracted something at the beginning of December which caused my immune system to completely collapse and left me a physical and mental gong-show for the entire month. A month, I might add, in which I was Executive Chef and couldn’t miss a moment of work.

I got vertigo, chest pains, the shakes, heart pounding, random numbness in my extremities and oh yeah, I couldn’t sleep. The few doctors that were available during the holidays couldn’t fix me, hell they couldn’t even tell me what was wrong inside…  So, I just sucked it up and suffered through Merry-‘Freakin Christmas and into the New Year.

Perhaps due to all the Zen breathing exercises that I employed back in December to get my heart rate under control I cracked open my long-neglected copy of The Tassajara Bread Book during a particularly sleepless night and started down Edward Espe Brown’s rabbit hole of sponge-fed Buddhist bread making… It was just something to do at 2:00am. Read More

Radish Kimchee

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radish-kimcheeEveryone I know has been hiding from the snow (we got a foot and a half! Wtf!?) and pre-Christmas congestion in their kitchens, baking cookies into festive shapes and filling the world with the often-neglected scent of nutmeg. I on the other hand, leave the sweet stuff to Crystal and have spent the last couple weeks pickling and preserving whatever herbs and veg the weather didn’t manage to wipe out.

Its slim pickings… If we were legit homesteaders we’d starve this winter *laughs* I’ve got a handful of radishes left from my mid-August sowing in the ‘ol Zen garden, some chard and a couple knobbly carrots. I’m thinking the chard will get eaten right away while the radishes ‘n carrots will live on, packed into mason jars and swimming in Korean chillies.

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