Melon Sushi, Papaya Wontons and Cantaloupe Salad
Catanloupe Salad, Papaya Wontons and Melon Sushi
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Fellow Goon Cutty and I spent most of Sunday not playing Maple Stories and cooking instead. This is our joint entry.
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- Sierra Nevada Summerfest (beer)
- Jumbo Freshwater Prawns
- Cantaloupe
- Casaba Melon
- Watermelon
- Honeydew
- Banana (never used)
- Avocado
- Cucumber
- Kuanu(?) Horned Melon (never used)
- Papaya
- Lemon
- Lime
- Shallots
- Garlic
- Onion (never used)
- Sushi Rice
- Coconut Milk (never used)
- Spinich (used for something else)
- Chocolate Chips (never used)
- Cilantro
- Ground Pork (which the Butcher ground while I was standing there)
- Bacon!
- Sour Cream
- Nori
- Large Wonton Paper (under the Nori)
- Coconut (never used)
Why so many non-used ingredients? We were going to make desert but Tim ate my bananas when I wasn't looking.
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Simplest way to prepare melons. Cut. Eat.
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The inside of one of those spikey melons. Kind of tasted like a cucumber but slightly sweeter and slightly more acidic.
Cantaloupe Salad with Grilled Shrimp and Bacon
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Bacon should only be made in an oven. Anything less is a travesty.
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Bacon In
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Bacon Cooking
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Bacon Done
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Bacon Cut
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Kitty agrees - Oven Bacon His name is Twatwaffle or T-Dub for short.
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Cucumber - peeled and cut
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Thaw prawns in water
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Peel prawns and soak bamboo skewers so they don't burn
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Peeled
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Insert Skewers - blur camera with closeup
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Grill shrimp
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These smelled SO GOOD
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Chop Shrimp - halve cantaloupe
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Cilantro, juice of 1 lime, 1/2 lemon
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Sour Cream
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"Blaaapppppppp whirrrrrrrrrrr sluuuuuurrrrrp" - Direct Quote
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Cube cantaloupe in the rind and scoop out
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Combine
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Need a bigger mixing pot
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Dressing in
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Serve in cantaloupe rind
Fried Pork and Papaya Wontons The idea here was to make our own chinese-style pork sausage flavored with chinese 5-spice. However, I didn't actually have any 5-spice when I went to season it so we used garlic, corriander, red and black pepper.
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Chop Shallots
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Cook Ground Pork - I'm a huge dork
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Papaya: seed, scoop, chop
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Add shallots, chopped garlic, salt, pepper, corriander, red and black pepper
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Yep. That's sausage.
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Sausage with Papaya
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Wonton Paper. Keep a damp towel on it because it dries out fast. Moisten the edges where you plan to seal it.
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Fold Again - like oragami you plan to eat
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Finished!
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Make with the frying
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Served up with Cutty's special garnish. Dipping sauce is Kikoman Tempura Dipping Sauce
Melon Sushi It is what it says. Sushi rice and melon. We put cream cheese in the rolls to add some substance.
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Cutting Watermelon to resemble Ahi Tuna
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Honeydew and Casaba
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Cutty spent a lot of time and effort making those look like pieces of fish. Then Stevie (my roommate) ate them before we could put them on rice. Oops.
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Made sushi rice using Godsmullet's guide at Goonswithspoons.com but added a touch or mirin to make it interesting.
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Slicing the dressing in to the rice.
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Cut the nori down to make it more manageable
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Making sushi
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A sushi roll
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The rice is now on the bottom side of the roll. This roll has Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Cucumber and Cream Cheese
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The finished product. I didn't have wasabi so we had to pretend. But the soy sauce was actually really good with the sushi.
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The final plating
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My tasting crew including forum goons TheFace and Twiggles
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Cutty and I celebrate that we don't have cook anything more today.
