The Cooking, Drink and Food Forum
Despite the fact I like it, a friend pointed out that Chicken Omelette is really just chicken wrapped in chicken and as such it is something that sounds just so very wrong. Are there any other dishes like this, where you wrap one part of a...
Not Unitedstatesian, I mean in terms of foodstuffs native to the Americas that have been adopted most widely by other cultures. I'm guessing it's the chili pepper. Chilis are used a fair amount in Europe (think of pimentón in Spanish cooking, or...
You got your beer. One sudsy domestic brew, warming in a paper cup. What one snack do you choose to go with it?
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)
Pick.
Thin Crust or Deep Dish?
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...
It's been done. It's being done again.
What are your favourite recipes? :madsci:
Okay look: I was raised by vegetarians. I hung onto that for a long time even after leaving the nest, until I actually sat down and thought critically and realized that, wait, I really like food, so I'm not about to swear off most of it for some...
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...
What's the better part of a fish?
Simple poll and conversation thread. We'll be having a fondue tonight. We’ll run probably two oil pots and one cheese. Usually we have beef and chicken for the meats. Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower are the basics for the veggies. There will...
My mother is planning to sell her house next year (hopefully the market will have recovered a bit more by then.) and so we're starting to look at what has accumulated within the house over twenty years of occupancy. For the last decade, until...
... but I think the idea is sound. I've had half of a demi-baguette sitting on my counter for three days, getting well past 'stale' and into 'inedible'. So: french toast. I have all the necessary ingredients: butter, milk, sugar, eggs. But no...
Mine is, two thick cut slices of poppy loaf bread with, lettuce, tomato, pickled gherkin, cucumber and white cheddar cheese with mayonnaise. I'll never be able to rear my head in the weight loss thread ever again.
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...
Too much stuff?
I was just looking at Sociological Images, and one of their posts today is this breakdown of the ingredients in a Snapple Iced Tea. Frankly, getting excited about it seems odd to me, since it seems to me that most sweetened teas are obviously...
We always get the same pizza at our house...sausage and mushroom. The perfect toppings, IMO. It's the one thing in life we manage to agree on. What do you like on your pizza? Do you have disagreements at home about what to get on them? Have...
Not much more to this than the title. It's just that question, what of your food dislikes surprises people when you tell them you don't care to eat it? For me it's maize. I love cornmeal foods, but corn itself - the kernels or on the cob,...
Apparently they're illegal in the USA. They are chocolate eggs with a shell inside that contains a toy. Fun for all the family, just don't choke on the toy.
I'm not talking about the cost of a Manhattan at the W hotel lobby bar($17! You bastards!), I'm talking about things that I buy at the store that are stupidly overpriced for what they are. Things like Red Bull. It's a tiny can and there really...
The gods have been cruel, and besides water have limited your beverage choices to the following. Which do you choose?
You must choose one. You cannot pick it out.
I kid you not. I've jumped ship. Old favorite potato chips: Jay's Hot Stuff New: Jay's Open Pit Ridged Barbeque
So artifex, little kid, and I went out for dinner tonight. We ate at a Mongolian BBQ joint. For those of you who don't know, Mongolian BBQ is a style of restaurant where you walk along a sort of raw ingredient buffet, and load up a bowl with raw...
The weekend after next my nephew (he's an adult, fwiw) is coming up to visit me, and the last time we spoke, he mentioned having become a vegetarian. One of the two nights he'll be here I've invited some other people over for dinner, and I'm kind...
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...
A friend of mine (who stayed in my house when I was back in L.A. for a year, and who was my roommate for a while after I got back) wrote a cookbook. Colombe's Cooking in Your Kitchen. He worked nights, and I worked days; but I did manage to...
Once a week someone will come and deliver one of these to your place of work or house. which do you choose?
I find mushrooms to be a fairly polarizing food item. How do you feel about them? :hoj:
it is a truth universally acknowledged that kids are weird, and do weird things. It is for this reason that they sometimes make up odd foodstuffs. Sometimes for the purpose of being gross and sometimes ... just because. Kids. Weirdness. My...
A scottish brewery have claimed to come up with the world's strongest beer which should be treated like a spirit. The beer, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, is apparently 32% proof. Anyone want one? The band of twelve drummers is looking...
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...
So, at what point of calorie-reduction does it stop being beer at all?
So, wife got older over the weekend, so the kid and I took her to a local Mexican place for dinner. Sorta un-challenging traditional Americanized Mexican fare, but very, very good. And while I usually hate when this happens at other tables, I...
I don't drink soda anymore for a variety of reasons (namely because I am a recovering addict to it, and can't have just one), but I love all sorts of varieties of it. Since as far as I know we've never had a thread like this, here goes. My...
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...
I'm cutting sugar out of my diet, except for certain vegetables. Essentially, if you can't find it on the perimeter of a grocery store (deli, produce, meat, dairy) then I won't be eating it (also this point is not going to be debated, so I don't...
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.
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...
I buy different types of bread or bread rolls from time to time, but all in all I have clear preferences. Most of the time I will buy something that is not too far from this one. In fact I bought exactly that today. It's a rye-heavy sourdough...
Never would I advocate underage drinking, but it has been known to happen. Recently I walked past the liquor aisle in my supermarket and once again that reminded my that there are alcoholic drinks that few self-respecting adults would ever buy...
and it is really pretty good. Really. Not great, and still not good enough for anyone in Chicago to pass on a local pie, but perfectly acceptible. And a deal. Can't say I would ever order it again, we have a list of local places we...
I have earned a rep for building strange sandwiches. Sandwiches that, I kid you not, have actually made people wretch. I say these people are close minded and play by silly rules of what-goes-with-what and "dear-me,-that's-not-breakfast-food." ...
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...
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...
My Vietnamese friend gave me a lot of her herb plants when she moved; most did not survive, but the plant pictured below is a juggernaut - it may take over my entire garden. Apparently it goes by many names, including Indian borage, Spanish thyme,...
I can think of no topical application for which ranch dressing is not an excellent, if not preferrable, substitute for mayo. Sandwhiches? Ranch Fry dipping? Ranch Even cole slaw. :hoj: Repaste: nil-link 36-C, 11.10.2009
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