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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 18:12:32 GMT
I was looking at packages of frozen chicken feet yesterday at the Chinese supermarket (and the English translation on the packages was "chicken paws" which really grossed me out). Next to them were duck feet, which intrigued me (are they different?) but not enough to buy them.
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 5, 2010 11:11:09 GMT
They make a raw salad here with duck webs (as they call them here, webs cooked). Steamed chicken feet in soy sauce is a big favourite in a dim sum brunch.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2010 11:35:26 GMT
Yes, I've had that -- just don't call them paws!
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Post by bjd on Feb 5, 2010 12:57:02 GMT
Of course duck feet are different -- they are webbed. That said, I don't think I would eat any chicken or duck feet or paws.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 6, 2010 13:37:20 GMT
I was looking at packages of frozen chicken feet yesterday at the Chinese supermarket (and the English translation on the packages was "chicken paws" which really grossed me out). Next to them were duck feet, which intrigued me (are they different?) but not enough to buy them. We can buy chicken feet in vinegar here, neatly bagged in plastic. We were once served them, along with other nibbles, at the prelude to a big weddng dinner. There were about 500 guests, I think. I'm sure our hosts got a wholesale discount on them. I let our landlady, who sat across from us, have all of my pickled chicken paws. She also took home all the cute party favors on our table, as is customary. (An amiga invited us to a wedding taking place today nearby, of a couple we don't know. She couldn't tell me the name of the bride, either. We are trying to find excuses not to go. Actually, the ceremony takes place in the ancient church at Tzintzuntzan, but the comida afterwards will be a 10 minute walk from our house. I can predict with reasonable accuracy what will be served.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 15:36:12 GMT
I grew up seeing photographs of honey-glazed hams stuck with cloves and with pineapple rings draped over them. I think I may even have seen maraschino cherries in the pictures. I have never eaten such a thing in my life.
Is it any good?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2010 18:41:24 GMT
If you ever had baked ham as a kid at anyone elses house, that may well have been how it was cooked. You could have only seen the post-slicing version. A good old-fashioned ham baked with brown sugar, pineapple & cloves is very good indeed.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Feb 9, 2010 8:17:06 GMT
I like to take a slice of leftover ham, spead it with a mustard/brown sugar mixture, and top with with a pineapple ring and maraschino cherry. Bake it in the oven. Very good. I don't know about the whole ham effect though.
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Post by cristina on Feb 10, 2010 0:48:48 GMT
I had ham like that as a child. The cherries were always a novelty. I like ham, pineapple and provolone cheese in a hot sandwich. I don't eat this often but each time I do, I wish I did. I would skip the cherries now, though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 6:02:30 GMT
I would imagine that people like pineapple with ham because they had it that was from an early age, so it doesn't shock them at all. Since I have never had it, it just does not appeal to me at all, like putting chocolate syrup on a T-bone steak.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Feb 11, 2010 11:11:43 GMT
What about pork chops with apple sauce?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2010 11:38:31 GMT
Not part of my life either!
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Post by lagatta on Feb 12, 2010 11:21:03 GMT
Pork with apples can be very Normand.
k, I'm surprised you'd never eaten any of those food preparations that are common in the US South. Of course your mum wouldn't have cooked like that as in general, sweet and savoury is not part of French cookery - with some exception such as the pork and apples.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2010 14:48:42 GMT
And that is exactly why I never ate any of that shit those delicacies.
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Post by gertie on Jan 24, 2011 7:02:51 GMT
Hm odd I thought apples and rabbit was common in France as it seemed every restaurant we saw had it as a special the first time we visited. I actually had it in Versailles, where it arrived sizzling in a small cast iron skillet. Yum! I'm not sure pork chops and applesauce is really a southern thing as my first taste was from a midwest cook. Denny's serves a sort of watered down midwest fare. Or at least the food is a lot like the food my good midwest farmer's wife grandmother cooked, only even more overcooked (horrors!) and without the slight amount of herbs she liked to add. I think perhaps back in the fifties this sort of food was more common across the US than it is now. Not really going to be mourning it myself, although I admit a taste of some of those things really brings back memories. Olive Garden food isn't what I'd call traditional Italian, unless I am mistaken and it is all heavy, rich, creamy or spicy sauces. I quite like Olive Garden myself. They are usually quite generous with the free wine tastings. I don't know how anyone would make a list of the quintessential United States food, the different areas are so different. Even if you name a food, lets say pizza, which is available about anywhere, you'll find it very differently preferred in different areas. NYC likes to fold, Chicago likes those deep dish pizzas, around here people want to put bbq sauce or salsa in place of the pizza sauce. I live in Texas, and I'd say we have a lot of variation, but no more than the rest of the US. Used to be, all you saw excepting way down south was Tex Mex as far as Mexican food. When done well, Tex Mex has a lot of flavor. Slow simmered beans and spanish rice topped by thick, rich salsa. Mmmm. So few places do it well, though. Now we have a lot of real Mexican, which I love. Goat, beef, chicken slow roasted with cumin and other spices. I love goat grilled up Mexican style, such as when my neighbor has a party. Then we have Southwest, which people around here assume is to Mexican what Tex Mex is to Mexican, just from New Mexico or maybe Arizona. And it does seem to be just a different fusion of Mexican food. BBQ around here used to be ubiquitous, now I live in I think the only small town in the state without at least a competing pair of BBQ joints. You always have to have one doing thick and spicy sauce while the other does thin and sweet. Or maybe thick and sweet verses spicy thin. We don't have one in town, but there are three in the next town over. Then we have the Americanized Chinese food served at most Chinese places in my youth. A friend who is Chinese rocked my little universe in college when she told me no restaurant in China would serve several of the most popular dishes because they were simply invented to please western palates. She then proceeded to educate me by ordering off the secret menu, which wasn't really a menu and just consisted of asking for specific things based on having asked the region the cook was from. Things are a lot different in Dallas now, where we have large communities of various Asian groups, and you can get about any Asian specialty cooked to perfection if you just know where to go. How I wish we'd had a good pho place nearby when I was in college! Also, you can have all my allotment of buttermilk for drinking, but not my allotment for cooking. There are very few things I can flat out say I do not like. I had been reading a book where the main character was always on about 'sweet, thick, rich buttermilk' so tried some and yuck! Sweet? Puhlease! Still love buttermilk biscuits and buttermilk ranch dressing, though. I will take any ham cooked with pineapples rings and brown sugar glaze anyone wants to slide my way. I didn't ever taste it until I was grown, but I sure do love it!
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