Forum: Eat, Drink, and be Merry

We picked up a couple of new beers tonight! Join us! First up: Harpoon Leviathan. Christened an "Imperial Red" by the brewery, this monster weighs in at 9.2% ABV. For those counting at home, that's roughly double the strength of the average...

Two thoughts here. First off, when making chili, do you use a recipe, or is it just "some of this, some of that, look what I found in the back of the fridge, and oh, a few of those?" That's the poll. For those of you who use an actual...

Seems there's always something not-too-good-for-me that I indulge in. This month: Skittles I am on a diet, and doing pretty well, but shortly after lunch I seem to need a little sugar boost, and these little round bundles of artificial flavor...

After a great night with lots of takeout pizza, there are sometimes a few slices leftover in the morning. What do you do with them?

http://www.kozyshack.com/assets/images/Puddings_Tapioca_ppanel.jpg I'm a big tapioca fan.

I rarely make any type of stew and after I'm done with soups, I'd like to move to stews. A good stew over plain white rice is an almost perfect meal. My mom's stews just kept getting better and better as the week would wear on. I know she would...

Yes, it's Shrove Tuesday aka Pancake Day. The simple recipes are the best. And what are your favourite toppings? I mean Lemon Juice and Sugar are great, but Southern Comfort adds a great kick to the batter if you cook it straight away.

You must choose one. You cannot pick it out.

My kid and I went on one of our regular weekend culture trips today, this time to a fairly well-known German deli near our house. Along with the deli, which is packed with all things pork, there's a nifty assortment of German packaged food, all...

I love lime. I love all citrus, but I LOVE lime. I'm a lime first, orange second, lemon last kinda guy. You? (I'm narfing Skittles right now, BTW)

Do tell...

We're going to a chili potluck this weekend, and I've been charged with bringing some with no beans. Anyone have a good recipe they could share?

I don't know why it is but brand name foods usually taste just that little bit better than the shop's own equivalent and so if I can, I always prefer to get the brand name products. Kellogg's Cornflakes always taste better than the other brands,...

You read that correctly, in America, pizza is classified as a vegetable because it has a smear of tomato paste across the top of it. It counts as one of your five-a-day according to Congress who have turned down a challenge to the existing rule...

You didn't know we were having monthly cooking contests? Well. That's probably because I just decided we are. Also this month is actually more of a baking contest. Anyway. December's cooking baking contest challenge is.... MAKE AN EDIBLE...

Yes, you read that thread title right. I seriously grossed out a friend when he asked me what I was doing yesterday. "Oh, just pickling a bunch of tomatoes." They're simple refrigerator pickles mostly with some firm little yellow pear tomatoes...

My husband and I decided to have an Oktoberfest feast tonight, just for fun. The menu so far consists of: Sauerbraten Pork Loin Spaetzel & Gravy Onion Pie Red Cabbage I would make Sauerkraut, but my husband doesn't like it, so I'm not...

Yes, that's right. Let's hear your salsa recipes. Tomato, peach, pineapple, mango, tomatillo, whatever kind of salsa you make. I've got to bug my mother for her recipe for the tomato-based salsa she canned this year. It's really great. But until...

Thread title says it all - so, what was it? The most delicious thing I ate was only peripherally tied to the holidays. My mother came for a Christmastime visit and had health problems, so we ended up in Singapore for medical treatment. In between...

Pick.

Well?

Broth and bread.

I collect cookbooks, great and terrible. The terrible ones are usually sociologically interesting, and sometimes when my middle-American-1960s roots get the better of me, I even secretly like some of the heavily processed, high-fat glop that passed...

Man, when a buzz word catches on, it sticks. With this post I officially whine about the food-marketing band wagon and my already being sick of anything "artisan."

I just found this gem, which is new to me, and I think it's about time to start thinking about stuff with words again. True to my thoughts, the only stuff I packed in my little shoulder bag (besides some sheet music, because I have brain damage...

So today, I decided to make a baked potato. A large well scrubbed russet potato, slow baked at 350F for 3 hours. It was divine with grated mature cheddar and butter. The inside was fluffy and soft, the skin was crispy and tasty. The sucker was...

So you guys are getting ready for Turkey Day tomorrow, but I'm not. :( I wish I was. :( So, instead I made 2 batches of pepper jelly. :D Only takes about 10 minutes, really worth the little trouble: 1 small green pepper (I used a largish...

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Okay so I keep sriracha around and it's nice as a condiment but it's a little too sweet for a lot of times I want hot sauce. I'm looking for something else, maybe around the same heat level as sriracha, or a little less spicy, with a pepper flavor...

I've got peach schnapps, orange juice, vodka, cranberry juice, whiskey (bourbon and irish), coca-cola, and can probably muster up some wine and/or beer, what cocktails can i make??

So, two guys at work are retiring. As a member of the local union, I took upon myself to get them retirement presents. After checking with their closer work mates, I confirmed that Scotch might be a good choice. Today I bought one bottle of 10yo...

Summer is coming and with it warm, weather, blue skies and the chance to eat outdoors on the lawn. Would you stick with sandwiches and fruit squash. How about a few savoury dishes and maybe a bottle of lemonade. For the refined perhaps a...

... but really, really do. Right now I am eating rice with a sauce I made. The main ingredients are butter, roast wattleseed powder*, and nutmeg. Tuna and corn are thrown in, too. These flavours work brilliantly together. It should be more of...

How do you handle it? How would you prefer a polite guest respond if you offer them food that it turns out they dislike? My niece and her boyfriend came over at dinner time tonight, uninvited. I'd made extra, as I'd intended on saving leftovers,...

Its strange but when younger, on those occasions where I had to drink wine, it was invariably white, couldn't stand red, it just seemed to taste dry and wrong. Nowadays, I seem to have almost grown into the taste of red wine and will enjoy it on...

I honestly did not think there was such a thing as too much coffee until Starbucks decided to roll out it's new Trenta size of coffee. It contains as much as a bottle of wine in one cup at 31 fluid oz. Seriously, do you really need a coffee cup...

Anyone got any good recipes for either cabbage rolls or pyrogies?

Yeah so I realized I don't think I've ever had real salsa verde, or for that matter tomatillos in any form. Hopefully I can find some around here. So, if I do, how do I make a good salsa verde? Hopefully something simple, with a good kick -- I'm not...

Was chatting with someone yesterday about how set in our food ways we tend to get. Tell a Chicagoan that you eat your fries with mayo and they will likely gag. Likewise, tell some Belgian you dip yours in catsup and they'll likely cringe. ...

Besides throw it at people. I have a whole chicken sitting in my fridge since last night. My plan is to throw it in boiling water and let it cook for a good chunk of time and pull off all the meat and save it and ? the carcass and ? the water. ...

I've been trying to think of things I know how to cook. Obviously I left things off, such as spaghetti (because I use sauce out of a jar) and various 'normal' sandwiches (although I included burgers -- go figure). I'm not trying to be...

Rosemary Garlic Chicken --1 whole chicken --1/2 stick of butter --8 cloves garlic --2 sprigs of rosemary --some lemon juice --2 cups of broth --8 potatoes (optional, obviously, they're not very low carb, but they were in the original recipe...

Two things, pretty closely related. Anyone know how much caffeine the black tea at Starbucks packs? I am an iced tea hound, and consume a lot of it daily--usually with no ill effect. BUT, a couple of vente teas fron SB and my head feels...

What's the better part of a fish?

Our local shop does lots of filled doughnuts. Everyone eats the jam-filled, apple-filled or custard-filled doughnuts. But no-one will even look at the chocolate-filled doughnuts. Would anyone here eat them, or is it just a sugar overload?

I have decided that I'd like to make something for dinner involving a can of tuna and brown rice. Why? I have no idea. Sometimes I just like to do stuff like that. So what meal can I make utilizing these two ingredients? I already have a ton of...

Anybody ever make it before? Any tips, tricks or recipes you'd suggest? I'm one of those weird people who actually likes fruitcake and I was thinking I'd attempt to make one.

Dominos are now considering how to build a franchise on the moon for when it becomes settled by pioneering astronauts. Is it April already?? Don't believe me? Here you go. What on earth could you order, the Margharita with asteroids and...

It exists. This holy mecca of foods has been created. Seriously, is there any way it could get any better?