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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 30, 2013 19:11:11 GMT
I should have taken a photo of my attempt at a strawberry cheesecake....for some reason I had an idiot moment and bought 'thick' cream instead of double cream...so the blasted thing wouldn't set. I put it in the freezer for an hour, took it out of the flan tin and it OOOZED over the plate....ew
It was a heart attack waiting to happen anyway....here's the recipe...
Ingredients
230g digestive biscuits 80g unsalted butter melted 200g white chocolate 400g mascarpone cheese 100ml sour cream 300ml double cream 80g caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 400g strawberries 50g unsalted pistachios crushed
Method
1. Using a food processor blitz down the biscuits to fine crumb, add to a bowl and mix in the melted butter. Place the mixture into a buttered 23cm loose-bottomed spring form cake tin, compress down and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
2. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan of gently simmering water then set aside to leave to cool slightly.
3. Cream the mascarpone, chocolate, sour cream and sugar together along with the vanilla extract.
4. Whip the double cream then fold the two together. Hull and halve the strawberries then place round the outside of the tin in an ordered fashion. Place a few more in the bottom of the tin then cover with the cheesecake mixture, smooth the top with a spatula or palette knife then chill for at least 1 hour to set.
5. Remove from the tin then decorate with the remaining strawberries and the crushed pistachios just before serving
it was VERY sweet...(you could suck my saggy attempt up through a straw)...IF I make it again (unlikely) I'd deffo leave out the sugar
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 12, 2013 19:01:07 GMT
This one doesn't look too bad: Dunkin Donuts new breakfast offering. "Who says the morning meal should be all about cereal or scrambled eggs? Certainly not America’s fast-food chains. In recent years, they’ve started pushing the envelope in terms of what constitutes the perfect breakfast food. Just this week, Dunkin’ Donuts announced it was introducing the Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich, a sweet-meets-salty menu item featuring a fried egg and cherrywood-smoked bacon stuffed between two halves of a glazed yeast doughnut. “The sandwich is fun and quirky, and that’s what makes it very ‘Dunkin,’” says Stan Frankenthaler, the brand’s executive chef. And while it may seem like a fairly excessive a.m. item, it actually clocks in at 360 calories — 50 fewer calories than the chain’s reduced-fat blueberry muffin." From Marketwatch.com Video: live.wsj.com/video/behold-the-donut-sandwich-for-breakfast/67AB5DDD-8989-4D58-91A1-17943A701B8E.html
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2013 4:36:57 GMT
*full body shudder*
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Post by htmb on Jul 13, 2013 4:44:25 GMT
50 calories less than the reduced fat blueberry muffin
Go on! How nuts is it that a reduced fat muffin has 410 calories? I suspect neither the muffin, nor the glazed concoction contain much in the way of healthy nutrients.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2013 5:18:28 GMT
Well, you'd burn up a bunch of calories frantically trying to lick all that stickiness off your fingers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 18:00:31 GMT
This is a fantastic inspiration.
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Post by htmb on Aug 8, 2013 18:17:19 GMT
Gotta cover those scary eyes with cream!
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Post by mossie on Aug 8, 2013 18:34:27 GMT
Better still, cover the whole thing about half an inch thick, in cream ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 6:37:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 6:49:55 GMT
I have eaten poutine at both McDonald's and Burger King in Montréal just about every time I have gone there. It's where it embarrasses me the least to order it.
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Post by bjd on Dec 13, 2013 10:29:46 GMT
Next time go to Poutineville, rue Beaubien (and two other locations). It was quite good, you can choose your ingredients (I didn't have gravy but red wine sauce), even though they are too big.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 13, 2013 11:18:56 GMT
This avocado based salsa picante has to be the most visually unappealing I have ever known. It did taste good, however, and it was HOT!
As served at Taquería El Güero, Zihuatanejo Mexico
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 12:13:03 GMT
Are you sure those aren't little pineapple chunks mixed in?
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 17, 2013 12:33:36 GMT
No, not in my opiña.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2014 18:05:48 GMT
Nutrax dug this up for a discussion on the Thorn Tree. Frankly, some of the photos actually made me nauseous. Unholy recipes
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Post by tod2 on Jan 14, 2014 14:33:16 GMT
Definitely puking stuff Kerouac. I have recipes cut out from some 1960's American magazines and thought they looked wonderful but now I can't believe I ever thought them sane! Today we are still not let off the hook when turning onto the food channels and viewing "Guys Big Bite"....ugh! He eats some really ghastly concoctions of "fiddled about" food.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 19:58:23 GMT
I remember the food pages of magazines from back then, and that was about as good as the quality got in those days in terms of visual reproductions. But some of the ingrédients that we found normal back then are beyond belief.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 21, 2014 18:08:56 GMT
RedShoesBetterBacon sent me a couple of tasty web links. 14 Strangest Canned foods
30 WTF Canned Foods
Here's a sample (one of the best, IMO) from 30 WTF Canned Foods This has to be a joke, courtesy of PhotoShop
Canned Whole Chicken, from 14 Strangest Canned Foods
I think 14 Strangest has the better selection.
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Post by redshoesbetterbacon on Apr 22, 2014 3:10:35 GMT
Canned whole chicken, although disgusting, is really for real. I think I saw some once at a dented can store. Wait, it's available at Amazon -- www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sue-Chicken-without-Giblets/dp/B00BX31YC6. Damn, that stuff isn't cheap. Still, there is just something abusive about canned whole chicken. It looks like something vegans dreamed up to scare normal people away from eating chicken.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 5:36:22 GMT
When I lived on an Air Force base in Germany as a kid, often the French military wives came to our PX to purchase groceries (they weren't allowed to shop on the American bases for their consumer fixes). Once one Madame purchased several cans of Crisco, lured by the photo on the label of delicious fried chicken. Apparently, she was quite disappointed when she opened the can and dug down into the white glop and failed to find chicken. I suppose she was expecting some kind of confit.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 22, 2014 12:27:59 GMT
Funny one, Lizzy!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 17:24:02 GMT
She must have been a bit naïve, though, because France has always had a major brand of shortening called "Végetaline" so it's not at though the concept of Crisco is outrageous. I would say the main problem is the word "shortening" which is incomprehensible to most people whose native language is not English.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 6, 2014 17:24:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2014 19:34:09 GMT
She must have been a bit naïve, though, because France has always had a major brand of shortening called "Végetaline" so it's not at though the concept of Crisco is outrageous. I would say the main problem is the word "shortening" which is incomprehensible to most people whose native language is not English. Ah Kerouac, but if you didn't know the word for shortening, what would you assume that is?
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Post by lagatta on Jul 24, 2014 12:17:13 GMT
I fail to see anything disgusting about the reindeer pâté. Reindeer is the same animal (domesticated) as caribou. Caribou is delicious, though to make pâté with it you would have to add some kind of fat, or fattier meat.
Is it because the person who posted the photo associates reindeer above all with Santa's reindeer? It is a staple protein source in subpolar regions round the world.
As for local disgusting food (not tinned) just google poutine burger. I couldn't settle on a single photo. I have never actually seen anyone eat one of those.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2014 15:41:15 GMT
So wrong, so very, very wrong ................... More alarming variations here. The two above are simply highlights of the horribleness.
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Post by htmb on Aug 17, 2014 15:48:00 GMT
Now, after looking at the link, I don't want lunch even though it was going to be normal.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 17, 2014 16:44:13 GMT
Cheeseburger pop tart! Oh my, not appetizing at all.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 17:54:29 GMT
Maybe they are from an alternate universe where bread was never invented but Lord Sandwich existed anyway.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2014 19:38:59 GMT
I think that is the only logical explanation!
The funnel cake variation ---- *full body shudder*
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