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Post by joanne28 on Jun 21, 2011 23:41:55 GMT
Bixa, I'm with you on the uncooked egg white. I refer to it as "egg snot" and am very careful when eating out to request it be properly cooked. I have to be careful though. Sometimes my eggs have shown up looking like the egg snot is cooked, only to find an uncooked layer underneath. Yeccch!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2011 0:00:39 GMT
That is one huge advantage to over-easy eggs. That shimmery, wiggly, gag-inducing stuff almost always gets cooked when the egg is flipped.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 22, 2011 1:19:15 GMT
The stuffed carp variety I had was very good. It also wasn't remotely sweet, though that is probably because my friend L and her family are French (they hail from Poland, but several generations ago).
There were also Sephardis present, and some of us token goyim. A good time was had by all.
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 22, 2011 1:33:13 GMT
Sometimes an over-easy egg doesn't get properly cooked. I've started being a real PITA by getting very specific about how I want my over-easy egg cooked a bit more to the over-medium but with a runny yolk. Some day someone will spit in my food, I'm sure. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2011 4:58:48 GMT
So, I take it you people have never sucked an egg straight from the shell?
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Post by joanne28 on Jun 23, 2011 2:31:12 GMT
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
That would be a "no", K.
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Post by mockchoc on Jun 23, 2011 5:04:17 GMT
When my teenager was young I told him how his grandfather and my brother sucked raw egg straight from the shell he's been doing it ever since.
You poke a hole at both ends with a toothpick or similar, give it a little stir then slurp it down.
Bleugh!!!
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 23, 2011 9:02:30 GMT
Anything with egg white where it is separated from the egg yolk and used separately...
E.g. Don Cuevas' delicious looking lime pie or little cookies/ biscuits we have in Germany called 'Makronen' (I think), baked for Christmas.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2011 16:21:07 GMT
Oh gawd, that reminded me of a Christmastime "treat" from my part of the US -- divinity fudge. Makronen are probably like kisses. That picture looks like the reason dogwalkers have to carry a scoop and a bag.  |
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Post by bjd on Jun 23, 2011 18:41:00 GMT
That divinity fudge looks like meringues. Very common in France. I generally find them too sweet and have never succeeded in baking them. I use a bit of raw egg white when I make marzipan -- to stick the ground almonds and icing sugar together. There are lots of things I won't eat, but don't even want to look at raw tripe. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2011 19:58:49 GMT
I hadn't sucked an egg in years until I was in -- where was it? -- ah, it must have been Charleroi. There was a device for making soft boiled eggs, but clearly it was not working properly. When the proper time had elapsed, I saw that it was not cooked at all. But it was warm and appealing and I still wanted it so -- down the hatch!
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Post by auntieannie on Jun 25, 2011 9:35:38 GMT
ha! macaroons, HW. macaroons. I like these. bixie, traditionally, you can make them with hazelnuts, almonds or coconut. I am sure they use other things in.
As for meringue... I make it! the thing is you have to leave it for hours at about 70C for it to be really good. so not for home baking, although my ex's mother makes an excellent pavlova (which has meringue on top) you leave it in a cool oven for a while, don't know how long, and it gets ever so slightly golden on top.
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Post by rikita on Jul 12, 2011 5:49:15 GMT
i am scared of sausages. well not really, i just don't like them. bockwurst is worst, but wieners are horrible too. bratwurst sometimes smells good so about once every two years i give it a try and then get sick from it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2011 5:55:49 GMT
That's hard for a German! Actually, I often think that I like sausages more than I really do, because when I start eating them, particularly grilled sausages, I suddenly start thinking "this is disgusting" even though it tastes like a totally normal sausage. I have to shift my brain to another area to keep eating.
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Post by rikita on Jul 12, 2011 6:07:18 GMT
well fortunately there are less sausages in germany than one might think, though sometimes it is difficult. like, for a while mr. r. worked in a social kitchen, so he brought home meals from there, and half the time it was some kind of soup with small pieces of sausage in there. so i spent most of the meal sorting them out and giving them to him...
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Post by lagatta on Jul 12, 2011 10:12:12 GMT
For one thing, there are a lot more vegetarians in Germany than in France. rikita, don't hate me as a Berlinerin, but one dish that absolutely repels me is Currywurst. I was imagining a normal sausage flavoured with curry - at the market here one butcher makes those with lamb and they are actually very good, if one likes sausages - but then I saw the mess of bits of sausages with a strange sauce that seemed a mixture of tomato ketchup and dry curry powder.
I prefer chicken döner kebab in terms of street food, though I know there are health issues with dôner as sometimes the meat is delivered in advance and there are hygiene problems. Here in Québec it goes by its Arabic name, shawarma, as unlike you we don't have a large Turkish community, and do have large communities from the Levant (mostly Lebanon) and the Maghreb. Greeks also make a very similar dish.
I do like some sausages - don't eat them very often as most are fatty and there can be other health issues with such processed meats.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 12, 2011 17:59:45 GMT
I love sausages, and it's terrible that I've forgotten the names of my favourite ones...  Now, if I went back to Hanover, I'd not even be able to order them, Goddam! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2011 18:37:40 GMT
You would recognize the names on the menu, wouldn't you?
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Post by Kimby on Jul 13, 2011 0:04:38 GMT
I agree with K2 about having to put your mind elsewhere to eat some things, particularly sausages which can contain who-knows-what and probably do.
I recall traveling in Austria as a 13-year old with my grandfather and my family of five when we all (except grandpa) got food poisoning from some ice cream "mit schlag" (=whipped cream) that had gone bad. After a day or so of puking and pooping, my Dad and I were well enough to go with Grandpa to visit some relatives while Mom and my sisters stayed at the gasthaus being sick. As honored guests we were served and expected to eat hideous white sausages and blood sausages, both of which about made me puke to look at. I did not eat them, but I think Dad made a game attempt to be polite. Uggh!
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 13, 2011 7:27:29 GMT
You would recognize the names on the menu, wouldn't you? These aren't sausages that you eat in restaurants, they're sausages that you eat at markets or mobile stands. Of course I could always point them out but it's much more worldliwise if you turn up and say 'I want a xxx on a bun with extra mustard' than saying 'give me one of those'. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2011 13:49:11 GMT
I plan on accompanying you to Germany and am practicing saying (in German), "I'll have what he's having!"  |
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 14, 2019 12:09:52 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 15, 2019 13:46:33 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2019 17:25:31 GMT
Did you make the 1000 year eggs yourself, or purchase them. Is that the kind that is buried in ash? Eggs mollet are my new favorite thing.  |
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 15, 2019 17:59:12 GMT
No, you buy the 100 year eggs at the store. One good thing about the box of 6 since they are not the sort of thing that most of us want to eat every day is that the expiration date is at least six months in the future.
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Post by lugg on Jun 15, 2019 19:51:28 GMT
Well certainly I would try the egg on the right . So how was it ?
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 15, 2019 21:04:25 GMT
There's something strange in the sentence that a hundred year old egg has a sell by date of six months.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 16, 2019 1:08:58 GMT
When is something a phobia? I'm not at all attracted to 100yr eggs, but I don't fear or hate them.
My main problems with certain foods are textural. I dislike raw oysters (slime) though am fine with raw fish. I loathe smoothies. Love oysters - and clams - if they are cooked.
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Post by questa on Jun 16, 2019 7:39:33 GMT
So much of our likes and dislikes come from the pictures we have in our minds. I was a stroppy, fussy brat when it came to eating until I realised that I was limiting my abilities and if other people could eat weird food and survive, so could I.
Since I started travelling to unusual food countries I have eaten whatever the locals eat. Dog-meat sausage, dumplings that I think were horsemeat, and all the sweet meats and sweetbreads which I like.
I chose not to share a part of a meal which was the placenta of a cow that had calved that day, gently stewed with herbs, spices and vegetables. I don't make a big deal of eating local...sometimes I get a tummy upset for a day but not often.
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