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This week on Catch It, Cook It, & Eat It!, Ben takes us on an educational, hands on, real time journey into the world of chowder. Ben makes whole batch of fresh chowder from scratch in real time inside HRN studios, taking listeners though each step and giving tips and hints along the way. He also goes into some fun historical chowder facts, like why meat is a mainstay in most chowders, the origin of the New England vs Manhattan chowder, and why we live in perhaps the most ideal "chowder time" in history. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods.
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It Introduction: Cookin' Chowder (15:00)
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Catch It, Cook It & Eat It, Ben Sargent, Whole Foods Market, Heritage Radio Network, Ben taught a class at The Meat Hook yesterday, leftover chowder ingredients in the studio, induction ovens, New England Clam Chowder, Ben usually has guests cook, salt pork over bacon, hard shelled clams, common in the New England area, Ben was clamming in Cape Cod this weekend, somebody has been poaching his family clam bed, you know the clams are done when they open their faces, minced garlic, Meat Hook, whole pig cooking, knife skills classes, you don't have to measure carefully in chowder making, milk curdles very fast, use good butter!, New England vs Manhattan, try to keep an even temperature, clam broth is really potent, East Coast seafood is very fishy, advanced oyster swallowers, added sugar to the chowder,New England Clam Chowdah (15:00)
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have some tongs ready to pull the clams out, if the clams have opened you want to take them out and cut the meat, clams were currency with the Native Americans, sailors didn't have potatos or cream in their chowder, we live in a great chowder town, corn and shrimp chowder, corn and lobster chowder, leeks, endives and fennel, if you overcook the chowder you will destroy the clams, make sure your potatoes are soft!, use the side of your spoon and mash the potato against the edge of your pot, there is a lobster roll craze in New York City, wuss seafood eaters, true seafood lovers just eat lobsters!, after a good boil add the clams, white wine is essential, use 4 tablespoons of butter, add some dill, dill doesn't improve with time,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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Catch It, Cook It, Eat It Introduction: Jamaican Conch Chowder With Denton (14:45)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, traditional Jamaican meal, Denton eats the fish he catches, Jamaican Conch Chowder, bottom fish, stripers, bass, John Raffino, Denton won the best teacher award in the Brooklyn Fishing Derby, there's never one fish in the ocean unless you have a man made fishing pole, Denton also bodyguards, Denton fishes with 10 poles, Caribbean Conch, Scungil, Scungili, the native pot, shrimp, octopus, the pepper pot, tourism, conk shells, souvenirs, blow horn, wooden ships, hurricanes, gold jewelry and dreadlocks,Cooking Conk Chowder On Air! (15:15)
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regulations, red peppers, green peppers, potatoes, conk, break it up, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, tenderize the conk, bacteria, pumpkin, clams, coconut milk, thyme, scallions, three to four hours total cook time, mussels, Denton used to use glass bottles to catch fish in Jamaica, fishing sounds, rum, native soup, plantains, bananas, party on December 5th, 2501 Fulton St, open bar, Paphos Bar & Grill, West Indian Food, reggae,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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Intro w/Sophie and Tad Habrowski: Carp Experts (16:23)
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carp outside of storefronts, Greenpoint, carp experts, Sophie and Tad met by accident in Philadelphia, Tad is a poet, putting words together, Sophie was a mechanical engineer, Sophie and Tad are Tommy's parents, Ben and Mike drove a carp from Brooklyn in a bag, reviving a carp in a bathtub is customary, carp is a Christmas tradition, Christmas is a very important Polish holiday, carp is the hero of Polish Christmas, fasting before Christmas, no pleasure food, nothing fancy, carp does not have very many small bones, children can eat carp safely, you grow attached to your carp, showering with your carp, Ben has the carp with him, the custom is not as necessary with refrigeration, it makes sense to purge the carp in freshwater due to what they eat, carp is a unique fish that can resurrect over and over, fish is a symbol for Christianity, the fish was a subtle way to communicate one's Christianity to others, this is a Christmas Eve rather than Christmas tradition, keeping a carp scale is good luck for the future, sometimes the carp skeleton will hang for an entire year, different parts of the country have different customs, many carp were farmed rather than from the ocean, carps are quite large, you bow hunt carp from the shore, carp can jump 10 feet out of the water, you have to aim with refraction in mind when bow hunting carp, it is an Eastern European tradition to keep a place open during Christmas Eve dinner, Eastern Europe has severe winters, the open place is for strangers who may be lost in a snowstorm, people in the country were very welcoming of strangers, there are simliar customs in Judaism when compared to Polish Christian traditions, breaking wafers, wafers are like communion,Poetry, Plus the Deadly Asian Carp versus the Well-Behaved Polish Carp (13:46)
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a poem to Sophie from Tad, Tad wrote poetry when he missed Sophie, Tad and Sophie have been together for 32 years, Tommy and his wife live near Tad and Sophie, not a lot of Greenpoint families live so close, Brooklyn Hospital, addicted to healthy food, the whole family eats healthfully, Tommy knows how to prepare a traditional carp, Sophie gets to prepare the carp during the holidays, Ben is a Christmas tree thief, its not as necessary to keep the carp these days, Greenpoint still has many live carp, the longer the carp lives the better it tastes, carp is usually fried or served as fish and jelly, fish and jelly requires more than a day of preperation, you leave the skin but remove the scales, there is a carp chowder, there is English or European carp and Asian carp, the Asian carp is an invasive species and a ravenous eater, the Asian carp constantly grows, Asian carps may be startled and jump in the air and hit you in the head and kill you, Polish carp are very nice and pleasant, Christmas Eve dinner is everything except meat,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
