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That didn't disappoint!

Our fridge is mostly weird. We don't even have ketchup. Highlights:

-Rendered wild duck fat in a jar

-Rendered beef fat in a jar

-Pickled shad

-Pickled plums

-Something orange and blended in an artisanal mezcal bottle (undoubtedly a hot sauce)

-3 varieties of tiny chiles picked from the garden this week

-Prickly pears that will get !@#$ glochids all over the house

-Gobo root and about 10 other weird things from Hank's field trip to the Japanese market

-Shad roe on salt (to become bottarga)

-A tub of chanterelles sent by a generous reader in Alabama

-A container with a bit of congealed half-assed chicken stock and meat shreds (because if Imma buy a rotisserie chicken, Imma use it for all it's worth)

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That’s s fascinating fridge! And who needs ketchup? I actually don’t like it , so it’s never in the house. You have the door I want to knock on for those “raid the fridge for a random cooking competition shows” & lucky you with the garden chilis…some critter got in my garden and nibbled many of my pepper plants down to nubs! He got almost all my hatch pepper plants 🥲

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This is 99% driven by my boyfriend - I'm the food photographer, not the chef. Garden is all his, though we both bring home a lot of fish and game and wild mushrooms. I am spoiled rotten - with this much high-quality and specialized stuff in our fridge and pantry, it makes a big difference in the final flavors of what we cook. What he cooks, rather.

I like ketchup on fries, and that's about it. These days I want it just to put on a hot dog just to get a rise out of Andrew, lol.

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That’s what I immediately thought….all those salty, spicy, fishy bits…makes for some fun cooking! My feeling for ketchup is similar to my feelings for Nutella…😂

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My garden is actually doing great this year after a few years of mediocre harvests. I was supposed to have snow peas but the seeds got mislabeled and I've got flat Italian beans, never had them before. I would much prefer something other than ketchup but the hubs must have it, lol.

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Let's see, Sea urchin pate, dried longan, pickled fiddlehead ferns, and that is in the refrigerator! The freezer has duck, pheasant, Wagyu, foie gras, elk tenderloin, and a huge variety of seafood!

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You win.

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Andrew, I also have about a pound of frozen lobster roe! I've searched for recipes using lobster roe, and for the life of me, I cannot find anything. Do you have any recipes with lobster roe as a main ingredient? I've thought of making lobster bisque and adding it in, but that is all I can come up with! I figured I'd ask a professional!

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Sea urchin pate - wow!

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Right! Suddenly I’m craving something I never knew existed.

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Not sure weirdest - but Korean ginger honey. I use it to marinate chicken among other things.

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That sounds A M A Z I N G!

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It is. Thin strips of ginger in honey. It's a sweet hot combo that is great. Also use it on Salmon, and Aidell's teriyaki pineapple chicken meatballs :)

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Do you make yourself? Sounds delicious!

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We will be adding it to the Weirderator.

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I don't really have any weird to me in my fridge maybe to other people. Like my homemade buttermilk lol. But seriously not a lot of people know about homemade buttermilk.

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I guess people would think our Scrapple is weird. LOVE it!!

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I’m feeling very boring now! I do Have some strange things we got at the Japanese market for our Japanese exchange student, though…. I have no idea what they are!! Maybe Holly’s boyfriend would know? 😂

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Pig snoots and feet in the freezer

Cooked tendon

Violet jelly

Lots of banchan

Pickled cherries

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We also have 2 squirrels in the freezer, plus 2 rabbits. Kind of a Noah's Not-An-Ark thing going on.

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Dang!

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Nothing really unusual in either the fridge or freezer. I don't keep much on hand. I do keep 2 bottles of hot sauce that I cannot eat - Endorphin Rush and Dave's Insanity. Way too hot for me.

However , being an aquarist , I do store packages of frozen bloodworms (midge larvae) in the freezer.

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Home rendered chicken fat, duck fat, tallow, and lard, a partial pork belly (in it's cure), caviar, pickled ramps, and brined grape leaves. The freezer has de-boned rabbit saddles, deer, pork skin, stocks of every kind, and seafood shells. Oh and I can't forget the fresh box of Hatch's chilies that arrived today!

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I'll be the disappointing problem child here.....leftover cat food is about as weirdest item I have in my fridge at present. Oh and a tiny jar of pine nuts. Don't judge me (Holly!) - I eat out all the time. ;)

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cat food!!!

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Well I DO have two cats, and the unused portion is to be refrigerated! It does resemble pate, and if people come over whom I don't particularly like, I have been know to spread some on a cracker and serve....ha You'll be pleased to know I did make some very good pesto with my pine nuts.

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Hi Andrew,

You must have a huge freezer!

My brother-in-law Chef David Tanis was asked what he would want for a last meal, he replied “a good kosher hotdog”

Regards,

Gerry

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I don't consider them too bizarre, yet they're far from "run-of-the mill", so here goes... 2 Bison Filets / 2 Clusters King Crab Legs / 1 Whole Octopus / 4 Squids w/ Tentacles / 3 Homemade Ground Seafood Dogs / 4 Pairs Frog Legs / Anchovy Stuffed Olives / Bluefin Bottarga / Mole Rojo Picoso - Spicy Red / 2 Squares Tomato Pie / 1/2 lbs. 36 Month Aged Parmigiano-Reggiano DOP / 1/4 lbs.Smoked Gouda / 1/3 lbs. Fontina PDO Valle d'Aosta1 / 1 each, small Black & White Truffle (shrooms) / 4 yellow Kiwis / 1 bunch Red Bananas....

well there you have it... what lies in the depths of my frig & freezer, well now you have me pondering dinner options... a Toast to Weird & Bizarre eats... always best regard Andrew & all your subscribers...

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A dozen duck eggs from my friend's farm, preserved lemons, aged fish sauce, Branson Pickle and Vienna Beef Neon Picklelili

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Dried morels from the 1970s . . . .

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