Adirondack Recipes from the Captain's Table at Fourpeaks Camp Barn.

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Martin's Recipes. For Fourpeaks Frequent Flyers:A selection of choice meals offered by your Adirondack Host at the Captain's Table. We have fun with food, so these recipes are all healthy, quickly prepared and true to their ethnic origins. CLICK & GO. Healthy. Quickly prepared. Ethnic food. Cooking pan. Cooking oil. Ingredients and sources. A word from your host. Pan Fried Beef More pages in An Adirondack Miscellany: Newspaper and Magazine articles, Books and lots more.

No sweets, less meat, more vegetable, a firm solid base of starch for the healthy food pyramid we've all heard about.

Healthy. The smartest idea in life is to take good care of your body. It's all you got! Feed it well, but not too much! No sweets, less meat, more vegetable, a firm solid base of starch for the healthy food pyramid we've all heard about. No prepared (packaged) food. You can't trust the list of ingredients and the ones at the end of the list can do you in. What's in these Adirondack recipes are top-flight healthy and good for you!

Quickly prepared. It's no fun slaving over a hot stove, messing up a lot of pots and kitchen utensils. And the oven? OK to heat your house in the old days, but certainly not needed today. Besides, here in the Adirondacks we're very busy exploring nature, hiking around and communing with other life forms (bees and trees). When we're ready to eat, we're ready to eat, not spend more than (say) a half-hour with food preparation, often lots less.

Ethnic food. Humans have been eating cooked food for many thousands of years in a variety of cultures all over the world. The dishes that developed, were remembered, and passed down through many generations of people (we think) had special qualities worth learning about. Made from the raw foodstuffs available to them, the dishes and their accompaniments reflect the simpler lifestyles of the people who created them. The recipes here recreate those ethnic styles through food right in your own kitchen. It's fun and the dishes are a tasty break from your everyday meals!

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Canola-peanut oil is a favorite for any Asian stove-top frying or wocking. One part highly aromatic peanut oil and two parts canola oil, for flavor and economy.

List of ingredients and sources.
Shop only shop in a genuine Asian market: Japanese, Korean, maybe Vietnamese.

Japanese, my favorites.
Katagiri. Find product on website www.katagiri.com (no ordering, just descriptions), excellent mail order service. 212/755-3566, 224 E 59th, NY NY 10022, Hours 10-8 7days, ask for Mr.Kazu (Kaz).
Mitsuwa Market, 595 River Road, Edgewater NJ 07020. Biggest japaneses mega-market in the world. Restaurants and more. 201/941-9113 For help ask for Ono.

Korean, very good, a small well-stocked grocery.
Jang Tuh Korean Grocery, 462 Troy-Schenectady Road, (Northway Exit 6, past Latham Circle) 518/783-7944.

Vietnamese, always a language problem, very good produce.
Thai Phat Market, 100 North St, Burlington VT, 802/863-8827.

Or shop online. Google for more.
Asian Food Grocer, 888-482-2742, www.asianfoodgrocer.com

Ingredients.

Kikkoman soy sauce (shoyu), dark not light. Dilute for ponzu dipping sauce.

Mirin, a fermented rice product like sake, naturally sweet, 14% alcohol. Check ingredients. Don't buy it if product has been altered for liquor tax purposes.

Daikon. Look for firm, hard product.

Udon (wheat flour noodle). But only made in Japan, maybe Korea, NOT China.

Chicken. Only dark meat. Purdue thighs are the best, easy to debone and butterfly.

Peanut oil. Select highest grade, maybe roasted peanut oil, strong peanut aroma.

Shichimi. Ask for "Yagenbori togarishi shichimi," Yagenbori (brand) shichimi (seven spices) pepper.

Daishi (Hon-dashi, Bonito fish soup stock, for all Japanese soups). Ask for "Daisho no-moto," instant daishi. Brand "Ajinomoto Co."

These recipes break this pattern in our culture, providing us with real food experiences for good health and fun together. CLICK HERE to meet Your Adirondack Host.

A word from your host. Like it or not, most of us take meals three times a day. Gabbing away to a companion or engrossed in our mind-worry agenda, often we don't even think about what we're eating. These recipes break this pattern in our culture, providing us with real food experiences for good health and fun together. Please indulge! CLICK HERE to email for help or to get the latest recipe variations. (I'm always experimenting and adding!)

The Hunter's Shanty in the Adirondacks. Currier and Ives litho, 1861. CLICK HERE for An Adirondack Miscellany.

An Adirondack Miscellany   Newspaper and Magazine articles, Books and lots more.
January 1998 Ice storm of the Century Devastates Northcountry.
May 1998 Town of Jay Happy 200th Birthday Party at the 1829 Southmayd Stone House
June 1998 Natives and Outsiders at the Jay Old Covered Bridge.
July 1777 Jane McCrae Murdered by Indians in Ft. Edward NY
Adirondack Great Camps: Adventures in the Wilderness.
Miss P, the famous www.Internet web purrcat, interviews Tramp, our Fourpeaks barking cocker.
Ironman USA comes to Fourpeaks.
Chickadees In Winter
Flying Critters on your Adirondack Vacation.
Adirondack Letters: "Hints of Balsam and Pine from our corner of the Adirondacks."
AuSable River Swimming: Where the Pools Are Never Crowded, And Water Slides Are Nature's Own (New York Times)
A new novel about Fourpeaks: Moss Krupnick's Daughters of Utopia, 196 pages, $9.98
For your Adirondack experience--"Stay Awhile In Style!" Plattsburgh-Republican November 2002.
NATURE WITHIN REACH: Luxury Camping. (July 2004, Southwest Airlines SPIRIT (In-flight Magazine.)
Annual Jay Yard Sale. (First Sale August 19, 2006.) )
Adirondack Recipes (Page 1: Japanese Food.)

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