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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2011 5:31:15 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 11, 2011 18:13:25 GMT
But he packed more eating joy into his short life than most of us will have in a lifetime!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 11, 2011 19:08:34 GMT
Well, no one can argue with the first five words of that sentence!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 14, 2011 0:07:59 GMT
This next one has no photo or video. In fact, it's not even from the Internet. GASP! It's a recipe, from the Santa Fe ( restaurant) Hot & Spicy Cookbook © 1993, 1995, Tierra Publications. It represents a period when Santa Fe, NM restaurant chefs strove to outdo each other in creating new and often outlandisn combinations. It was de rigueur to use local ingredients, of which chiles were kings. This one, credited to Paul's Restaurant, is called "Stuffed Pumpkin Bread with Red Chile Sauce, Queso Blanco & Caramelized Apples". Rather than go into a detailed, tedious list of ingredients, I'll just outline the principal components. PUMPKIN BREAD A regular sort of pumpkin quickbread, pretty normal ingredients. The requisite Santa Fe green chiles are sauteed with the following. Yellow squash. Corn kernels. Chopped onion. Pñon (pine nuts.) The vegetable ingredients are sauteed together, set aside and cooled. The pumpkin bread batter is layered up in the oiled baking pans with the cooled vegetable mixture in the middle. O.k. A Queso Blanco sauce is made by simmering feta and Swiss cheese in heavy cream. O.k. The Paul's Red Chile Sauce is comprised of canned tomatoes, chopped onion, hot red chile powder, water, salt and black pepper. The Caramelized Apples are peeled, cored and sliced Granny Smith apples, cooked in butter sugar and a dash of cinnamon. Assembly: Each loaf of Pumpkin Bread is sliced into 4 sections about 3" wide. In the center of each of 8 serving dishes, pour Paul's Red Chile Sauce. Place a bread slice on top. Pour on the Queso Blanco. Garnish the dish with Caramelized Apples. Done!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2011 0:36:37 GMT
Sounds like school cafeteria cooks on drugs.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2011 20:39:55 GMT
Top 25 Reasons Paula Deen Has Diabetes "It was revealed recently, in the least shocking news of the year, that Paula Deen has Type 2 Diabetes. Here are but a few of her own recipes that might explain the delicious diagnosis. Diabetes is, of course, no laughing matter. But come on." www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/top-25-reasons-paul-deen-has-diabetesHere are just a few of the pictures, but do click on the link to see all of them -- with recipes! Sausage Pancake Egg SandwichTwinkie PieKrispy Kreme Bread PuddingDeep-Fried Lasagna (!!!!!)
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 4, 2011 14:00:32 GMT
I've made Twinkie Pie! Just for laughs, of course. Here's todays Abominable Food: Badger State Poutine Sandwich
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Post by mich64 on May 5, 2011 14:34:11 GMT
I did not know where to post this, I do not necessarily think of poutine as an abomination, but if you were to eat the portion my girlfriend had her kitchen make for us, than yes and abomination of gluttony. However, instead of ordering side orders, she had the kitchen do this. The children had hamburgers and we had fresh pickerel, yummy! My girlfriend treated us to a lovely lunch then I took the 4 children and ourselves for icecream, as if we needed that! Cheers, Mich
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2011 15:06:33 GMT
'Scuse my higgorance.............
What is poutine and what is pickerel?
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Post by bjd on May 5, 2011 15:26:03 GMT
Pickerel is a kind of fish. I had never heard of poutine when I used to live in Canada so I'll let Mich explain. I just found this explanation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine It sounds revolting.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 5, 2011 15:32:17 GMT
It does indeed sound revolting.
It's probably delicious....................
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Post by joanne28 on May 5, 2011 19:28:58 GMT
Revolting? French fries, curd cheese and gravy?? I mean, people eat fries with gravy all the time - it's just the addition of curd cheese to make it poutine.
That Wiki recipe is wrong - fries in Québec are not crispy on the outside, they are soft and limp and preferably fried in peanut oil. To me, crispy fries are American or English Canadian.
I personally prefer my fries with white vinegar and salt if they're good fries.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2011 20:14:54 GMT
I love poutine, but I would be distressed if that were served as an individual portion. I have always felt that french fries should be limp. I don't know if it is McDonald's that invented crispy shoestring potatoes, but they are an abomination as far as I am concerned.
I feel vindicated by the health threads that confirm that limp and thick fries are enormously more healthy than crispy thin ones.
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Post by joanne28 on May 5, 2011 20:37:13 GMT
K, absolutely fries are supposed to be fattish and limp. Crispy shoestring fries are nasty.
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Post by mich64 on May 5, 2011 22:17:38 GMT
The "platter" of poutine is unusual in size indeed. Because my friend owns the restaurant, she ordered her kitchen to make it into a platter size that was to be shared by the six of us.
The french fries are indeed limp as you can see in the photo and the are covered in a gravy and also pieces of curd cheese. It is indeed delicious but no something one should eat regulary.
Pickerel is a type of fish common in the lakes around our region. You can order the fish deep fried or baked. We ordered it baked since we were also having deep fried dill pickels and the poutine! ;D Cheers, Mich
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Post by joanne28 on May 6, 2011 20:30:57 GMT
Mich, I do believe I see hamburgers on that table!
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Post by onlymark on May 6, 2011 21:15:15 GMT
K, absolutely fries are supposed to be fattish and limp. Crispy shoestring fries are nasty. Crispy thin fries are the work of the devil. Classic thick British chips, as taught to the educated colonies, cooked in lard or beef dripping with malt vinegar and with or without gravy or curry sauce will delight the palate for time immemorial. I can imagine in many thousands of years the brain of an archaeologist instructing his eternal robotic body to dig at the site of an unknown building. He turns up remnants of steel and plastic. He eventually finds organic material and the skeleton of a north sea fish - and a small ancient electronic device made from silicon and associated parts. He spends many hours ..... nay weeks ........... piecing together the puzzle. Building a device to read what is on the electronic (and as he has found out) memory stick. He produces a Paper on the dig outlining his findings. It is, he says, what the ancient peoples used to call a "Fish and Chip Shop". One of the vertebrae in the backbone of village life. He's found and pieced together a container with salt residue in it. A further one with an acid he determines is a form of vinegar. Metal pans containing some form of animal fat. But the jewel in the crown is the memory stick. It contains a recipe for the perfect bag of fried potato (thick cut etc). He comes to a conclusion that upsets the experts of the day. The ancient British were far from uncivilised if they could produce the perfection that was the British chip. They must have stood head and shoulders above the rest of the world and were far advanced for their time. It is a conclusion that you should realise now before it is too late.
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Post by onlymark on May 6, 2011 21:18:09 GMT
One post script - on the memory stick was a reference to mushy peas. No trace in the diggings could be found of any trace of them. He could only posit that they were so poisonous and abominable that they consumed themselves.
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Post by Don Cuevas on May 6, 2011 23:32:59 GMT
Looks like a great lunch, Mich. One that I would like.
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Post by hwinpp on May 17, 2011 10:03:59 GMT
Here's a drink I actually experienced, and a small bow towards that 'how do we look' thread Unbelievable but true! Black Panther, Cambodia's answer to Guinness Stout, coke and condensed milk drunk from a cut off, square, plastic bottle! Group of illegal loggers enjoying above mentioned drinks just after breakfast and a car break down Two of those logging fiends, wearing the uniform of the Royal Cambodian Forestry Department... The meal was good though. By the time we got to our destination I was so, um, happy, I got into a taxi and drove straight home.
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Post by mich64 on May 17, 2011 14:17:30 GMT
Hi hwinpp No amount of convincing or peer pressure would make me even take a little sip of that drink. You said the meal was good, however what is your description of the taste of the drink? Was having a meal with people in the midst of doing something illegal as uncomfortable as it would seem? Thanks for showing a picture of yourself, nice to see you. Also I did not read Joanne's comment until now regarding hamburger on the table of my picture of lunch. Indeed, the children had hamburgers. We also had deep fried pickles but I did not get pictures of them as they were eaten so quickly. Cheers, Mich
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Post by tod2 on May 17, 2011 14:43:41 GMT
Hw, do the Thai's have a thing for condensed milk? Must make the drink with Black Panther into a kind of milkshake? I was wondering what else they use condensed milk in.....
Now, I can only drink Guiness if it is mixed with champagne or perry.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 17, 2011 16:55:09 GMT
Looks like a great bunch of guys, even the one on the left in glasses. How does Black Panther taste? Is it awfully sweet, or does the bitter & the sugar work well together? Whatever else, the sugar must get the alcohol zipping through the ole bloodstream. Super pictures, HW -- thanks for showing them and of course thanks for the recipe. ( )
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Post by hwinpp on May 18, 2011 5:00:20 GMT
The mixture wasn't very good but when I was offered a glass I just swallowed it and stuck with Black Panther straight after that. No, I wouldn't go out of my way to order it again... ;D The meal was steamed eel in lemon grass with banana flower, I haven't seen it again anywhere else. Nice though. This wasn't actually the illegal activity. I was on the way to a place on the border called Anlong Veng and the car broke down. Right beside this little shack of forest employees. They asked us in of course, so while my colleague went to the next village for spare parts I joined them. After a couple of hours though they got all hectic over a phone call one of them got. I found out a detachment of military police was on the way to their office from the capital... they were storing wood, illegally chopped hardwoods there Apart from the boss (the one in the first pic) everybody took off to move get rid of the evidence... Actually these are Cambodians They put milk in quite a few things that I wouldn't... They have a syrup which they call Zero (but which is named Lifeboy on the label) which they mix with condensed milk and crushed ice, comes in three colours, red, blue and yellow. Also not something I ever order. Then there's a cold sweet that consists of crushed/ shaved ice, red beans, seaweed jelly and canned milk. Looks like this (though this one seems to be a de luxe version: Black Panther itself is good enough, if you like stout. I'm not a huge fan of stout but there was nothing else to drink! I think if you mixed it just with coke, and it was cold, it would be ok. But with the addition of that milk it lost all attraction
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Post by tod2 on Jun 29, 2011 15:19:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2011 18:51:57 GMT
I was reading reports of fried Kool-Aid balls recently and I realized that they must be the inspiration for the famous Parisian macarons. Fried Kool-Aid Macarons
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2011 19:12:41 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 5, 2011 16:35:11 GMT
Nah, I don't like playing with my food! Strangest lot of ideas in those videos........
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Post by tod2 on Jul 11, 2011 9:15:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 5:40:13 GMT
When I was in high school, lots of people my age worked part time at places like McDonald's, and you absolutely do not want to know some of the things that they did to the food. I would assume that it is much less of a problem now that they are all working under video surveillance.
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