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Mrs.M I am Looking for small cuts of Italian Pecorino. It comes usually in ll lb wheels
but only need a small..wedge. A "wheel" at The Cheese Supply is $356 plus postage. The wholesale is $285. Checking places now. I thought I couldn't get smoked salmon to snipe but last month I got some. I'm checking.
If AS needs space they can delete my posts - no problem.. Tomorow is payday so I can Snipe again.. Yippie,,,I see Microsoft upped the reward on the new Virus Creator. I'm deleting all my E=Mail unopened unless
I know the sender. mory
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...or maybe the Cooking Sniper! I think this would be a good topic for you, Mory! Wink Seems like everytime I was reading your posts in the Heavenly Waffles topic, my mouth was watering!

This Pec. cheese you describe sounds pretty exotic. I'm rather boring when it comes to cheeses -- american, sharp american, cheddar, parmesan, mozarella, and provalone. Would one need to go to a specialty cheese shop to get this pec. cheese?

I think you need to post one of your favorite recipes a week. Big Grin

Jabbergah                                                    
Something I found in a yahoo search:
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Pecorino

Pecorino is the name given to all Italian cheeses made from sheep's milk. Pecorino Romano is the name given to cheeses from the Rome area, Pecorino Sardo is from Sardinia, Pecorino Siciliano from Sicily. It is traditional, creamery, hard, drum-shaped cheese. The smooth, hard rind is pale straw to dark brown in color. The cheese is made between November and late June. Pecorino Romano is larger than most cheeses of this type and must be pressed. It takes eight to 12 months to mature, during which time it develops its characteristic flavor - salty, with a fruity tang that becomes steadily more robust. The rind varies in color, depending on the age of the cheese, and may have a protecting coating of lard or oil. The compact interior is white to pale yellow, with irregular, small eyes. Pepato is a variety spiced with peppercorns.

Pecorino Romano

Pecorino Romano is made from sheep's milk. It is straw-white in color and has a sharper flavor than the other cheeses listed here. Although it is sometimes referred to as "Locatelli" Locatelli is a brand name of Pecorino Romano. Pecora in Italian means sheep and Pecorino Romano is one of Italy's oldest cheeses. Legend has it that a shepherd filled his flask with sheep's milk before a long trip and the motion during the trip caused the milk to naturally ferment. The idea for a new cheese was born. Today most Pecorino is made in Sardina Italy. With its fine flavor Pecorino's popularity as a grating cheese has grown significantly in the U.S. Since sheep only give milk for 6-7 months a year all production must satisfy the public's demand for the entire year.


Which kind do you use , Mory? I saw prices ranging from $19/lb to $9/lb. Didn't look at shipping costs.

Jabbergah                                                    
When I go to the Cheese Shop I just ask for a small wedge of plain Pecorino.- and add, try to keep it under $10. They usually have two plain and a pepper. I don't buy the pepper any more it fouls my grater and I have pepercorns everwhere - they are hard on my bare feet when I'm raiding the frig at night. Of the two left I get the oldest - at least a year.
They have more flavor, dryer to grate and it last longer without discoloring. I tasted four varieties in Rome and two in Florence they were all great. I was going to bring back a wheel but was leary about customs. Was I ever disapointed when they waved me on..I said to the 400 lb female agent. I got up at 4am to pack aren't you even going to "look" - She said -Honey, YOU is not a smuggler - Move It.. & I new immediately I was back in NY. Sorry I was away for a time had to soak some swiss steak in buttermilk .I'm making Country Fried Steak Saturday in the Fogor Broaster. mory
Jabbergah - Great info - I copied it...

Rick: I'm not sure I understand..

Mrs. M - You don't need it- use Parm..until you find some Pec.. The reason I bake it first is to get the rich beef flavor out..When I had the stock pot on my wood stove I just drained off broth for the soup..But I have left the farm for winter. Soooo its a 2 day
project to get the fat out. and get the flavor in.
Puppy: Your going to force me to buy a new sharper monitor.. I'm not sure but think the
Boxes say Pecorino Romano.. If it does, there's enough there to pay off the national debt.
INSURANCE - yuck!
I'm in a real slump - the last two smipes I won arrived this morning " without packing" and broken. Such a waste - the seller apologized & says he " just can't get good help". I think he can, but just won't pay for it. I can't afford to go elsewhere the bargains are too good.
Today it was two beautiful $600 regulated power supplies for my computers = That now have broken faceplates. Yes. I can order new ones but I can't get back my LOST day - Last month I tore into the owner so hard for a broken porcelain vase - his wife personally packed two as a replacement. "Insurance " isn't the answer if all parties lose days. Winning The
Snipe is only the begining . . .I CAN be greatful the AS part is working well ..BUUUUUT
Monday when I explain to my Dr why I gained five pounds this month - I'm blaming it all on AS = for being too good. mory
Jabber: I think you were lucky - I have friends in PA they said they got 21 inches in
10 hours... But did you see, in Syracuse they got 61 inches in the last one.. There are pockets here and there that really get hit.. Snow is OK but the falling trees are scary.. My home place on top of Jackass Mountain is buried
until spring. Believe me the name is appropriate.
Mrs M. The Broth Is The Secret... Congrats I can smell it from here....

Just went to the door..my neighbors returned the generator I loaned them when the power went out ....and they brought me a complete dinner..
Now I have two.,,, not good...I have no will power.. and she sent me a big slice of fresh Lemon Pie with her Killer Crust and 4 inch meringue. I really should freeze everything
in the house and "FAST" until Monday...I'm driving 100 miles to see my Dr. Only to have him
charge me $75 and scold me...not good...
I just may do it...but I'm NOT freezing the Pie..That would be a mortal Sin..
I think you mean not farm raised, Mory? Here is a good salmon recipe:
Broiled Salmon Steaks and Roquefort Tomatoes

Yield: 4 servings

Big broiler flavors such as cheese and tomato can only be balanced by a big fish, like thick salmon steaks, with a slightly sharp marinade and a crumb coating that brings the flavors together.

Ingredients:
4 salmon steaks
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 flat anchovies
2 teaspoons dried oregano
4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
8 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 small tomatoes
1 lcup cornbread crumbs
4 tablespoons crumbled Roquefort cheese


In a small bowl combine the garlic, anchovies, oregano, Worcestershire, and 4 tablespoons olive oil into a sauce, stir and allow to marinate for half an hour. Cut off and discard the top 1/3 of each tomato. With a sharp knife make deep cuts across the inside of the tomato meat, preserving the skin, but cutting so as to open the space slightly. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the sauce over the top of each tomato and set them aside.

In a blender process the cornbread to a fine crumb, add the cheese and blend briefly to combine.

In a large skillet heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil over medium-high heat, and saute one side only of the salmon steaks for 5 minutes, pushing them around to avoid sticking. Remove the salmon and scant cooking oil remaining to four individual ovenproof serving dishes, placing each steak, cooked side up, in a separate dish.

Spoon one tablespoon of the remaining anchovy sauce over the top of each. Place one tomato, open side up, inside the ring of each salmon steak.

In an oven preheated to 400° F broil the 4 dishes in the upper 1/3 of the oven for 10 minutes, and avoid burning.

Scatter 1/4 of the cornbread and cheese mixture over each steak and tomato (especially on the tomatoes) and return to the broiler for an additional 5 minutes, or until the cheese melts. Center each hot dish on a cool plate for handling and serve.

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Puppy: I like the Pecorino Romano,(Zerto) Its made for Grating..In Italy they have it at every Pizza bar - which also has Pasta - They grate it until you say stop. Then you stand at the Bar and eat it. If you sit down at one of the little Bistro Tables you have to pay the waiter a clean-up tip of about $3. They eat Pasta and Pizza standing but don't walk down the street with food eating like we do.
This Pec is also Pressed -But that is a short wedge at three times the price. This is a real "find" on the net. A steal at $7 a lb
Pizza in Italy is square and this Month Pizza Hut introduced real square Italian Pizza Four small assorted Squares for $12 Pizza in Italy is dressed any way you want cut to the size you want and then weighed and priced by the oz. Americans at the bar load up a real "garbage Pie and are surprised when they have to pay $5 a slice - but wonderful ingredients and cheeses. Were getting there.

I read the whole site and copied the recipe for the Honey balls as I lost mine. They are soft fried doughnut Balls drizzled with Honey
and sprinkles. Great with black coffee. I had them on the street after seeing the Sistine Chapel I was starved.- THANKS PUPPY!
Mrs. M. Just the opposite - Wild means caught at Sea the Hard Way. Local migrating salmon are soft as is the farm cultivated.
My dad fished at Homer Alaska until he was 86. He used to send me 3 big salmon by Air for my birthday each year Jan 19th. Since he is gone, I bought the case for my birthday a giant 24# box. which goes for $250 but it was sniped I think for about $60 - Shipping was $20.. It's " smoked" and is in four six lb bags - I haven't even Opened it yet. I just look at it an say Thanks Dad..and walk away..
Your Salmon Steak recipe is great, I am sending it to a chef friend who cooks for the
Archdio == of Scranton, PA. (I need a spelling checker) I've eaten a lot of Salmon and King Crab - I homesteaded a place in Homer,
Alaska when I came back from Korea. & then spent three years in the Aleutian Islands. Ive
eaten my share of Salmon and love it.. I usually broil it in my rotating grill. But will do it your way... next.
UPDATE: company arrived so I had plenty of great food which was all devoured - I had made up my last bag of Fresh Cranberries with
Orange so put that on the plates with Country Fried Steak. All was fine until Kenny my former warehouse manager said to his wife Lynn = Why can't you make CFS like this? So I jumped in with Because your too cheap to buy her
a Italian Fogor Broaster! Just one big happy family. I saved the Pie as a reward after I did the dishes..then .had a fresh giant coffee -now I'll be up till 3am. mory
Wonderful, Mory! Nothing like good company to enjoy a meal!...I lived in the UP of Michigan at one time and coho salmon fished. A great sport and good eating. We usually canned the salmon back then. Hope your friend enjoys the recipe....hmmm 24# of smoked salmon...your doctor won't like that , Mory! LOL!

Your Flag finaly got to me...
spent two hours last night reading up on it's history. Really a wonderful historical background. Then went to Half Com and bought 2 tapes.. Have a lot of homework to do before I visit. I plan to stay a year, I spent time with
Aussie pilots at Iwakuni AFB in Southern Japan.
Covered their flights into Korea for Pacific Stars & Stripes in 1951. Got used to the "Aussie Breakfast W/beer" Can't wait to visit. mory
LEXIE: I AM SO WOUND UP ABOUT COMING...YOU wouldn't believe the dreams I am having. I have been saving for four years but my brother
recently passed and left me money for a ticket. so just have to wind up a few things here like selling my farm this coming summer. I have a couple invitations so can be in all four states I think in a year. Have already made banking arrangements for my retirement checks to be forwarded. Plan to visit several places during the Shearing.
I studied Columbia, South Down and Rambolet sheep Breeding at the University of Minnesota
but ended up in Advertising for a Career - ain't that a Hoot.. Since I spent 3 yrs with the natives at Point Barrow at the top of
the US , I thought it would be cool to visit your Northern Coast as well. Then I'm going to Germany to see my Great Grandfathers farm.
And then thats it.... mory
Mrs M.: Oh the Coho are wonderful when about six pounds - I had them while cooking down on the Kenai Peninsula. The Alaska King is most famous and then the Sockeye. The Chinook is what brings the high rollers to Alaska for world clash fishing.. The Coho were called Silvers by the natives ...and they had a word for the black spots on the back but I've forgotten it.
Chinook means "warm Wind" and what that has to do with salmon I'll never know.

I am just full of totaly useless information....I'd like to clean house
so I can improve my AS learning curve...
Mrs.M. I realy like your colorful " welcomes "- just forgot to tell you...

I deleted 76 spam messages today - 16 were for Viagra... I have no idea whats generating this but I am ready to get a new E-mail address.
I put a couple blocker programs in but they call for closing Cookies. I put in Cookie Pal - it was great but lost AS so had to delete that. Now I've lost the AS snipe I set up on E-Bay. Think I'll meet with my host server next week and see what they recomend..or I am going to Digital or Road Runner
The main Jung farm called Jungerhoven was where the Brandenburg Gate plaza is now. The farm was conscripted and made into a parade ground. But for many years my Great Grandfather and his 11 sisters daily milked 100 cows there by hand.
The sisters hand cleared, over 160 acres of rock by hand - a monumental task. I am the last survivor - our family name will go with me.

So just thought I'd check it out as my last flight......
Oh, Mory, I darned near forgot the best part! A neighbor, a couple of doors down , I knew was a great cook. I was telling him about the recipe and my search for Italian Pecorino cheese. Guess what he had...yep, and I did a little bartering with him. I enjoyed my soup with a little Italian Pecorino cheese and he enjoyed my soup! Great trade!! Wink He says he uses it quite frequently in is recipes.

MRS M. No problem with the Dr. I was asked to eat Salmon at least once a week by both him and my Dietician. Studies have shown that people who eat fish once a week live much longer.
It's all in the Omega content and Wild Alaskan Salmon is as they say Off The Chart. The farm salmon is so lacking in mega they feed it Sups and color it to make it palatable - but who needs all the PCB's. Its unatural.
Just buy the wild. I set out to try and snipe some salmon and succeded.
I bid on a 24# case. I won it at $41.77 the
sniping fee to AS was 42 cents. The freight
was $8.50 or so. The cheapest 12# box I can find is $195 x2 400 top $500 so I sniped $400 of Alaska Salmon for $50. Not bad....
This is unsmoked - cooked in natural juice. The
filets are beautiful. I opened a 4 lb unit and froze the other five. At first I thought it was smoked and then I saw the check mark on the case "precooked light". and it is...
They even sent recipe: Drain Put 10 to 12 oz in bowl,add 2tbl spoon mayo 1/3 cup diced
celery, 1/3 cup fine chopped scallion, 3 tsp lemon juice and ground pepper, blend with a fork, chill and serve. This gives me four
fabulous servings (worth $12) for $3.
Now I put down a Bed of lettuce - sprinkled the bottom with sliced black olives
- added the Salmon & Lemon Wedges... That was my lunch today - I used Diet Mayo.
This was my Best Snipe in January - Thanks AS!
So my doctor will be happy that I have one less
meat day and I am a very happy Sniper. mory
I've just popped in to see how everyone is and discovered all this wonderful "Salmon" chat...

It's really sad for me because I love salmon, but of course now we have been told not to eat farmed local salmon more than three times a year, and I can't afford the wild stuff - it's more expensive than gold!

Do you live in Alaska nowadays, Mory? I have a dream to one day visit there (of course!).

It had never occurred to me to look for food on eBay - although I wonder how fresh salmon or meat would be by the time it arrived in the post... Big Grin

BTW, if anyone is wondering why I'm so quiet - it's because I've got that small fluffy bundle keeping me away from the PC, and because it's so cold here that I can't type for more than a few minutes without my hands going numb! Roll Eyes

SS
SS: No, my Alaska Days are over - but I lived in 15 villages over 12 years - & homesteaded there. I hitchiked to Alaska in 1954 - like it and stayed. Worked construction on the Distant Early Warning Line and White Alyce Radar sites.
In all I went back 14 times so pretty much know the drill.. If you have amy questions E-Mail me and I'll fill you in.
SS: Most salmon is packed in Dry Ice when shipped, as is the crab and prawns...but you get it in better shape than local fish markets.
Next day Air is the Best, You get the best prices if you order from a Seattle Fish Broker
or Coop. Wheather King Crab, Wild Salmon, or Halibut I like Northwest Seafood.com and you can click there site for info on the PCB's contained in Wild Salmon vs. farmed. You can also go to Pacific Gourmet.com.
The reason Salmon is priced high is the Japanese
have proven the life saving value of Omega oils and have the money to buy the King

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