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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2010 10:56:11 GMT
baz, I'll allow you to use it, I'm feeling generous.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 17, 2010 13:53:38 GMT
Baz - I hope you're only 'teasing' me well, actually, I'll be going to have a look around The Conran Shop, Chelsea beforehand....but I don't intend to buy anything Deyana - why are you suddenly a 'guest'?
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Post by rikita on Mar 17, 2010 23:16:05 GMT
pasta with garlic and various spices.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 18, 2010 0:14:14 GMT
Today, after shopping at Costco Morelia, México, we dined in splendor at the exclusive Costco "Fuente de Sodas". I had a starter of Pizza con Camarones (shrimp) and a refillable refresco. (Soft drink, soda.) Mi esposa had a Hot Dog.
The Shrimp pizza is a Lenten Special. The pizza also had sliced black olives and shreds of green pepper, and fairly generous on the shrimp, although the baking toughens them somewhat.
After the pizza wedge, I decided to also have a 1/4 lb, all beef Hot Dog, which was excellent but for the fact that the crankable Jalapeño Chiles dispenser was not dispensing. I made it o.k. with yellow, ballpark type mustard and chopped onions. (A good use of yellow mustard.)
I matched my feast with a dark, richly flavored, 16-oz. cup of Coke Zero™. I was well satisfied.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2010 1:41:42 GMT
Hmmmm. What will I have? I'm thinking of mixing cut up tomatoes with cold rice pilaf (which contains green pepper, chayote, & carrot) and having that with maybe some of the smoked fish or eel. Hmm. Maybe a light mayonnaisey something on the fish.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 18, 2010 10:20:58 GMT
You have more 'splainin' to do ~~ HOW much was that chicken? Eight pesos would only be @64 cents US, & that's impossible. And 3.85 US = 48 and a half pesos. So was the chicken 48 pesos? That's a fabulous price! coinmill.com/MXN_USD.htmlSí, for you, Señora, only $48 pesitos. Se perdío el cuatro.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 18, 2010 10:26:15 GMT
leftovers, I can't believe it... Maybe I'll take her out tonight instead, or she's pulling my leg (hopefully).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 10:41:36 GMT
After 2 days of not being able to taste anything from this dreadful head cold,I am confident that after a hard day's work outside,I'll be ready for something tasty,what,I will ponder, and probably even treat myself to something special.! (hw,you are spoiled rotten!! )
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 18, 2010 15:23:48 GMT
Tonight Mrs Faz is making a lamb's liver curry. She is great at doing this, judging the liver to be just cooked and not leathery.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 18, 2010 18:18:56 GMT
Tonight Mrs Faz is making a lamb's liver curry. She is great at doing this, judging the liver to be just cooked and not leathery. Good Lord, deliver us! If Mrs Baz is making it, I'm sure it will be excellent, but curried lamb's liver somehow just doesn't resonate with me. Is it...creamy?? We will have sauteed boneless loin pork chops, warm dried fruit compote, fresh asparagus and parsley buttered boiled potatoes. For dessert, sliced pineapple.
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Post by imec on Mar 18, 2010 19:28:22 GMT
Last night - Arctic Char
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 21:17:15 GMT
I have never heard of liver curry. Since curries seem to me to be long simmering dishes, at least when meat is concerned, liver never came to mind as a possible element since it cooks quickly.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 18, 2010 21:46:46 GMT
Right. Well, the liver curry is as usual superb. The spices, onion and tomato are cooked first; then the diced liver put in. Not all food from the Indian subcontinent is long simmered. Those keema dishes, chicken and fish are quite briefly cooked.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2010 22:28:15 GMT
You have more 'splainin' to do ~~ HOW much was that chicken? Eight pesos would only be @64 cents US, & that's impossible. And 3.85 US = 48 and a half pesos. So was the chicken 48 pesos? That's a fabulous price! coinmill.com/MXN_USD.htmlSí, for you, Señora, only $48 pesitos. Se perdío el cuatro. ;D Ja Ja, Don C ~~ nice use of the reflexive there, and not incidentally a neat way to grammatically side-step taking the blame. To paraphrase a friend of mine: you did not lose the four, the four lost itself!
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Post by spindrift on Mar 18, 2010 23:07:24 GMT
I have recently discovered how tender and succulent meat is achieved in Indian/Goan cooking. Either it's pressure cooked or it's boiled in water before it's added to the curry spices. I was shown this technique when I was taught how to cook Goan beef curry and it put me right off eating it. Come to think of it, Turks boil their meat before frying it and adding spices and vegetables to it. However I can't remember my Indian mother-in-law boiling meat.
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Post by rikita on Mar 18, 2010 23:10:43 GMT
first a miso soup, and then some bread with squid in ink. didn't feel like spending any time cooking.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2010 4:45:01 GMT
Spindrift, why did knowing it was boiled first put you off eating the beef?
Rikita -- this was canned squid?
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 19, 2010 7:16:35 GMT
We went out and had lamb chops and a t- bone steak ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2010 15:47:03 GMT
Well, thank goodness! I've been here tapping my foot, wondering if you were going to give her a break from the kitchen.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 19, 2010 18:38:55 GMT
Bixa - over the last several years I have noticed that I find raw meat 'repulsive'... it's not often that I bring myself to buy it. So far I'm ok at eating it if it's already been cooked. There's something about seeing meat boiling and turning grey that turns my stomach. I can't explain it other than perhaps, au fond, I'm reminded of the slaughtering process.
I can still buy and eat fish!
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Post by spindrift on Mar 19, 2010 19:55:41 GMT
Tonight I am eating r :Poast potatoes and Brussels sprouts.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 19, 2010 21:10:10 GMT
Spin; you don't like r :Past potatoes??
For our main, mid-afternoon meal today, we are going vegetarian. I smooshed up some Libanius brand Jocoque Seco with some evap milk, as it's too dense out of the container, cut a couple of tomatoes, added cold, leftover asparagus from yesterday and each of us dolloped on some extremely garlicky roasted eggplant and peppers in strips. Served with saladitas crackers, and red wine for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2010 21:52:59 GMT
If I couldn't stand to see meat cooking, it would not be a problem for me, because I do not mind eating raw meat, even pork (we were all raised with a fear of trichinosis but frankly have you ever heard of anybody suffering from it in your lifetime in our western countries?).
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Post by spindrift on Mar 19, 2010 22:09:58 GMT
I used to eat raw steak with the best of them....but not any longer. Something in me has changed irreversibly.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2010 3:34:48 GMT
I absolutely love raw beef and could happily eat a large serving of raw ground beef and have on many occasions in my life. Alas, I no longer do that and hardly ever eat hamburger patties any more because I prefer them so nearly raw. This is why:
Several years ago I got violently sick one night, including a horrible burning in my stomach. I'm pretty healthy, and hardly ever stay sick more than 24 hours. This illness, however, literally lasted for months. It even triggered a form of anorexia, as food mostly made me sick, and even tiny portions seemed like some dreadful ordeal. It must have finally run its course, because I did recover. A few months later I read an article about the dangers of contaminated beef which described the symptoms I had.
The irony was that I think I got sick from a tiny amount tasted while making meatballs.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2010 6:25:53 GMT
Remind me not to eat meatballs at your place.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2010 6:44:00 GMT
Well, I used to make them on the floor since that saved picking up the stuff that would drop, plus it's such a nice big surface, but I've stopped doing that.
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Post by imec on Mar 20, 2010 19:03:09 GMT
Last night... Pan Roasted Salmon with Wild Mushroom Lasagna (and a butter lettuce salad)
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Post by cristina on Mar 20, 2010 22:40:23 GMT
Last night's dinner was no match for imec's in beauty, but it sure tasted good. I went to a Spring Training game (baseball), and ate not one, but two hot dogs. And a pack of Crackerjacks (which I haven't eaten since I was 12). Washed down with 2 bottles of ice cold Mexican beer. Baseball+hotdogs+beer +perfect weather = bliss ;D Crackerjacks tasted better when I was 12
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Post by existentialcrisis on Mar 20, 2010 22:41:38 GMT
Imec that looks so yummy! Bixa - making meatballs on the floor?! My goodness, something like that is totally new to my perception of the world! My mother wouldn't even let us eat things that dropped briefly on the floor, and she mopped it constantly! For breakfast today I had a boiled egg, mashed up with some butter, salt and pepper. Some sauteed spinach and tomato slices on the side. For dinner, a grilled cheese sandwich with tater tots. No more groceries until I move.
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