matthew

Make sense... He is cheesy

We compliment each other so well...

... I am smart & sexy
... you are full of useless information

sheftali52

and Channel Baldur continues to entertain!!

Baldur

Welcome back to Radio Baldur, 'All Baldur, All the Time'.
Today's cooking episode was inspired by a recent posting on ThinkDraw by kmkagle. That posting contained a recipe for 'Alligator Pie'.
Ahhh what memories that brought back.

I'm certain that kmkagle's recipe is delicious but I'd like to offer a different variant here. My dearly departed Grandmother: BabkaBaldur used a recipe that she learned when working the Riverboats to and from New Orleans back in the 1920s.
Here is:

BabkaBaldur's Alligator Pie

Make a large graham cracker crust and put it aside

In a large bowl take 1 pint of heavy cream and add 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar, beat the cream with a whisk until soft peaks form, put the whipped cream aside

Place 2 oz of milk in a small saucepan and sprinkle a tablespoon of unflavored gelatin over the top of it. Put the saucepan on the stovetop and heat it while stirring constantly until the gelatin dissolves.

Take 8oz of soft cream cheese and place it in another bowl, fold into this 1 small poached alligator, boned and chopped fine. stir in 1 cup of Absinthe and the warm gelatin/milk mixture. If desired you may add 1 teaspoon of alligator extract (available from www.spicesetc.com). Place the bowl over ice and stir the cream cheese/alligator mixture until the gelatin has started to set. (The mixture should be like a thick syrup)

Now using a rubber spatula gently fold the reserved whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. Pile the mixture lightly into the reserved pie shell. Place in the Ice Box for 4 hours or overnight until firm.

Garnish as desired

Dragon

Perhaps a nice Kaymen for garnish! LMAO!

Dragon

Now that I think of it, I'm not sure this recipe falls within the vegetarian lifestyle. Though Alligator is green, so perhaps it does count as a vegetable.

Baldur

Dragon, I was not a vegetarian last time I had this amazing recipe.
One should definitely substitute Soyigator nowadays.

Dragon

Aaah, Soyigator Pie, Soyigator Pie, if I don't get some I think I'm gonna die...

solosater

Ok, please don't think I'm completely without culture, but really? Alligator pie?

Now my question isn't so much about the alligator (though I do have to wonder about that extract) but more about the recipe.

You put sweet whipped cream in a meat pie? That just seems wrong! And I believe quite sweet too, when I make mine I use way less sugar.

Am I going to be thrown off the show? Please don’t hang up on me and laugh with the rest of the audience over my boorish and unsophisticated questions.

Baldur

Ok let's untangle this whole Alligator Pie thing.
If you go to Dragon's pictures you will find a drawing called 'Alligator Pie'.
Read the comments and you will find that kmkagle put in a recipe for 'Alligator Pie', which I questioned the sweetness of. It seemed to me to be light on the sugar.
That is how the topic was first stumbled upon.

What I've learned from my time spent in New Orleans is that one can never add too much sugar to a recipe.
Think Pralines and Pecan Pie.

Qsilv

It's a new one on me, but I gather it's a children's book, largely with jump-rope nonsense rhymes (those rhythms are way catchy).
So the recipe is nonsense too, ALTHO.... you could make a sweetened meat thing easily enough.

I normally think of mincemeat pie, or swedish meatballs, dark stuff involving nutmeg etc when I think of sweet with meat. But alligator meat is yummy, and could easily make a gorgeous aspic (or chaud-froid with the cream), hmmm?

solosater

Ok, so kmkagle put in a recipe that sounds like a pie you might make for a child with the idea of an alligator green color but is basically green cheesecake pie, yes?

And you, Baldur, questioned the lack of sugar so made up your own recipe for a Sweet Alligator Meat Pie with real alligator meat, yes?

Have you made it or is it theoretical? I like meat pies and use cream cheese in a lot of my meat recipes so I can see that but did you also use a graham cracker crust? That can’t be right.

BTW, I get that it’s all in re: the book or at least the comments on the picture of the book.

Also, Pralines and Pecan Pie, NO ALLIGATOR!

Baldur

yes, you've got it now

Qsilv

and then there are praline "turtles"... (yes, marg --and Luna-- drizzled in dark chocolate!)
;>

Dragon

Mmmm, turtles my favorite edible amphibian (even better than alligator).

solosater

You know, I've got real issues with the whole naming food things that will confuse the umm, "light minded" among us.

Shoofly Pie, Grasshopper Pie, Turtles or Truffles, Monkey Bread, Head Cheese, Sweetbreads, and of course Rocky Mountain Oysters, why?

Why do you want to make me crazy? I don’t need help!

Baldur

I had an odd thought this evening and wished that I was someone else. Just for a brief moment, when they did something brilliant.
It passed though. Some things are so transient.

Baldur

This was after spending a couple hours trying to figure out why my revisions to my MySpace profile page wouldn't stick.
I redid the page over and over, carefully clicking on the 'Save & Publish' button each time. It would be fine until I closed the page.
Upon my return there was the old profile smiling at me again.
I tried their profile editor Version 2, then went back to Version 1, it's just not going to work.

Baldur

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solosater

There must have been a wind storm, all I get is static.

Baldur

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'All Baldur. All the Time'
Baldur went to the local Savers today (a charity driven thrift shop for all you non-US-centrics) and found the neatest thing.
A coconut box. Someone took a coconut shell and hinged it back together after emptying it. Then they flattened the bottom a bit so it sits nicely and polished up the surface to a smooth gloss.
I actually already have a smaller version that I keep on my stove as a saltbox. This one will probably hold spare coins on my dresser.