Comments on: Quinoa with Feta, Shrimp and Fennel http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel A gourmet appetite on a bus boy budget Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mel http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3707 Mel Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:07:43 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3707 This is such a gorgeous dish. I would be honored if you would submit the recipe to our December's BATTLE FENNEL and participate in the fun! Please click here for more details: http://tiny.cc/ySuy6 I love your blog by the way :) What fantastic recipes and photos. I added it to my reader. This is such a gorgeous dish. I would be honored if you would submit the recipe to our December’s BATTLE FENNEL and participate in the fun!

Please click here for more details: http://tiny.cc/ySuy6

I love your blog by the way :) What fantastic recipes and photos. I added it to my reader.

]]> By: Jacquie http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3693 Jacquie Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:29 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3693 Hee. geoducks are quite porny. Hee. geoducks are quite porny.

]]> By: Mike http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3684 Mike Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:10:29 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3684 I am so glad that for once, I am part of a website that features the words: Geoduck condom non-phallic siphon chowder razor clams ...and <em>doesn't</em> feature pornography. I am so glad that for once, I am part of a website that features the words:

Geoduck
condom
non-phallic
siphon
chowder
razor
clams

…and doesn’t feature pornography.

]]> By: Jacquie http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3683 Jacquie Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:30 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3683 Yeah, I've eaten geoduck. I got one of the "rejects" from the guy who's died a few times. Sometimes they accidentally puncture the geoduck with the airgun and they lose most of their value (They can fetch more than $20 a pound). I went looking for a picture of me dangling the thing by its siphon but I couldn't find it. Anyway, the siphon meat is much tougher than the shell meat. To prepare the siphon, you blanch it then peel its skin off (almost exactly like removing a condom) and slice it. The shell gets cleaned just like a non-phallic mollusk. You can quickly pan fry the siphon meat like calamari. I made chowder with the rest. I have yet to eat razor clams but I've heard they're fun to dig. Yeah, I’ve eaten geoduck. I got one of the “rejects” from the guy who’s died a few times. Sometimes they accidentally puncture the geoduck with the airgun and they lose most of their value (They can fetch more than $20 a pound). I went looking for a picture of me dangling the thing by its siphon but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, the siphon meat is much tougher than the shell meat. To prepare the siphon, you blanch it then peel its skin off (almost exactly like removing a condom) and slice it. The shell gets cleaned just like a non-phallic mollusk. You can quickly pan fry the siphon meat like calamari. I made chowder with the rest.

I have yet to eat razor clams but I’ve heard they’re fun to dig.

]]> By: Tina http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3678 Tina Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:55:57 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3678 Kristie - yup. They certainly are. After years of art education and life drawing classes you'd think I'd be mature enough to overlook that fact, but they still make me giggle. Grocery shopping is totally my zen activity, and I would have been right there beside you in Chicago. Heck, I could spend hours in a grocery store in BUFFALO, just because the products are so different from what I get at home! So....if quinoa looks like tiny rolled condoms, and geoduck looks like, well, you know, are you not now smitten with the idea of cooking them in tandem? Because I am. It could be called "Safety First Salad". Ivy - thank you so much! Bev - Is your husband allergic to fish as well? Because if not, salmon would be a great substitute and smallish (1") cubes of salmon fillet would cook up in about the same amount of time. You could also use some diced chicken tenders which would absorb the anise and lemon flavors quite nicely. For a vegetarian option, because I'm a sucker for legumes and pulses, you could cook the quinoa in water and sub in chickpeas. Ack - that's totally my half Lebanese side coming out, you know, thinking that you can use chickpeas as a substitute for almost everything :) OH! And another quick note is that if you wanted to use zucchini instead of cucumber (great raw and diced or sauteed quickly at the same time as whatever meat you choose) the salad will keep longer in the fridge. "Next day" cucumber sometimes wiggs me out... Jacquie - I ADORE YOU. You're seriously the token expert on all things fished/caught/harvested/hunted in my opinion. Have you ever eaten geoduck? I've heard that they're really meaty and I've seen razor clams used as a sub for geoduck in recipes, but I have yet to try them. The food prep would be interesting, though. "Come one, come all! Bring your inner Lorena Bobbitt into the kitchen!" Martin - you have lucky kids, and I think it's great that you did that!!! Wow, $9 for brown sugar. It really is all about supply and demand, isn't it? I love your butcher story because I had a similar experience asking for pig fat one time when I was making sausages. He stared at me for about two beats and then said, "Sure.....uh...come back in a half hour." When I did he gave me a priceless (in both ways) paper wrapped parcel of, well, pig fat. Kristie – yup. They certainly are. After years of art education and life drawing classes you’d think I’d be mature enough to overlook that fact, but they still make me giggle.
Grocery shopping is totally my zen activity, and I would have been right there beside you in Chicago. Heck, I could spend hours in a grocery store in BUFFALO, just because the products are so different from what I get at home!

So….if quinoa looks like tiny rolled condoms, and geoduck looks like, well, you know, are you not now smitten with the idea of cooking them in tandem? Because I am. It could be called “Safety First Salad”.

Ivy – thank you so much!

Bev – Is your husband allergic to fish as well? Because if not, salmon would be a great substitute and smallish (1″) cubes of salmon fillet would cook up in about the same amount of time. You could also use some diced chicken tenders which would absorb the anise and lemon flavors quite nicely. For a vegetarian option, because I’m a sucker for legumes and pulses, you could cook the quinoa in water and sub in chickpeas. Ack – that’s totally my half Lebanese side coming out, you know, thinking that you can use chickpeas as a substitute for almost everything :)

OH! And another quick note is that if you wanted to use zucchini instead of cucumber (great raw and diced or sauteed quickly at the same time as whatever meat you choose) the salad will keep longer in the fridge. “Next day” cucumber sometimes wiggs me out…

Jacquie – I ADORE YOU. You’re seriously the token expert on all things fished/caught/harvested/hunted in my opinion. Have you ever eaten geoduck? I’ve heard that they’re really meaty and I’ve seen razor clams used as a sub for geoduck in recipes, but I have yet to try them. The food prep would be interesting, though. “Come one, come all! Bring your inner Lorena Bobbitt into the kitchen!”

Martin – you have lucky kids, and I think it’s great that you did that!!! Wow, $9 for brown sugar. It really is all about supply and demand, isn’t it? I love your butcher story because I had a similar experience asking for pig fat one time when I was making sausages. He stared at me for about two beats and then said, “Sure…..uh…come back in a half hour.” When I did he gave me a priceless (in both ways) paper wrapped parcel of, well, pig fat.

]]> By: Kristie http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3672 Kristie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:11:12 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3672 geoducks=sea weiners geoducks=sea weiners

]]> By: Ivy http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3670 Ivy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:29 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3670 What a beautiful dish, healthy and full of colour and flavour!! What a beautiful dish, healthy and full of colour and flavour!!

]]> By: Bev http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3669 Bev Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:36:09 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3669 HELP! it looks perfect, but my husband is allergic to shrimp, to all shellfish and crustaceons. can you make a good suggestion for a substitute? HELP! it looks perfect, but my husband is allergic to shrimp, to all shellfish and crustaceons.

can you make a good suggestion for a substitute?

]]> By: Jacquie http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3668 Jacquie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:13:32 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3668 Oh, Geoducks! Did you know there is a university in Washington with Geoduck as the mascot? I do believe the slogan is Omina Extares or "let it all hang out." And, fishing/diving for geoducks in Alaska is really super dangerous (They can dig them up at low tides in Washington). The crazy folks who dive for them wear dry suits with really heavy weight belts and have an air gun of sorts. The walk along a sandy bottom until they see the siphons sticking out of the sand, grab one, stick the airgun into the muck and blow the muck all around while pulling the stubborn geoduck from the ground. So now they can't see, are underwater, in November. Did I mention the season runs from October through February? Yeah, deadliest catch my ass. The one guy I know who does this has "died" like 3 times. Seriously, he's a legend around here. Wow. sorry for the length, but geoducks = endlessly fascinating to me. Oh, Geoducks! Did you know there is a university in Washington with Geoduck as the mascot? I do believe the slogan is Omina Extares or “let it all hang out.” And, fishing/diving for geoducks in Alaska is really super dangerous (They can dig them up at low tides in Washington). The crazy folks who dive for them wear dry suits with really heavy weight belts and have an air gun of sorts. The walk along a sandy bottom until they see the siphons sticking out of the sand, grab one, stick the airgun into the muck and blow the muck all around while pulling the stubborn geoduck from the ground. So now they can’t see, are underwater, in November. Did I mention the season runs from October through February? Yeah, deadliest catch my ass. The one guy I know who does this has “died” like 3 times. Seriously, he’s a legend around here. Wow. sorry for the length, but geoducks = endlessly fascinating to me.

]]> By: Kristie http://www.choosy-beggars.com/index.php/2009/11/20/quinoa-with-feta-shrimp-and-fennel/comment-page-1/#comment-3665 Kristie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:35:41 +0000 http://www.choosy-beggars.com/?p=7158#comment-3665 I'm so with you on the grocery store thing. I could spend hours perusing the aisles of even the most familiar grocery joint, and God help our schedule if I get to go to a foreign or gourmet one... Usually my favorite part of any trip is getting to look around the grocery stores in a different city (we went to 6 when I was in Chicago for 5 days). Quinoa is great, and not just because it looks like tiny, rolled condoms, but also because of its interesting history and nutty flavor (HA!). I’m so with you on the grocery store thing. I could spend hours perusing the aisles of even the most familiar grocery joint, and God help our schedule if I get to go to a foreign or gourmet one… Usually my favorite part of any trip is getting to look around the grocery stores in a different city (we went to 6 when I was in Chicago for 5 days).

Quinoa is great, and not just because it looks like tiny, rolled condoms, but also because of its interesting history and nutty flavor (HA!).

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