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Author Topic: Cooking is intuitive and experimental until something gets set on fire: FOOD  (Read 16963 times)
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YojimboMonkey
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« Reply #25 on: Mar 15, 2011, 10:56:39 AM »
So I checked out XOCO today for breakfast and I've been thinking about a pithy and dismissive way to describe my experience there.  McHipsters?  Bourgeois King? Taco Hell-is-other-people?  (reaching too hard on that one?)  Fast food ordering with extra waiting around and eye rolling.  Kind of like if Starbuck's and Panera adopted a Mexican baby and then spent the next 20 years ignoring it.

My sandwich was assembled distractedly by a guy wearing a student chef's getup.  He was distracted as he made it because, apart from the general chaos of the open food prep area, he was being periodically harangued by a more senior chef.  At one point, he dropped a roll on the floor.  I was relieved to see him pick it up and throw it away.  A little alarmed to see him then continue prepping food without washing his hands but I guess it's possible he didn't get them dirty when he picked up the roll from the floor.  Seven second rule.  Whatever.  I'm not the most fastidious guy. 

The sandwich was pretty good but rather than go back and spend 8 bucks on another, next time I get to work without having eaten I'll just hit my local greasy spoon and spend $2.75 on an english muffin with bacon egg & cheese.  Or if I'm really hungry, $4.50 on a giant breakfast burrito. 
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« Reply #26 on: Mar 15, 2011, 11:08:13 AM »
Quote from: YojimboMonkey on Mar 15, 2011, 10:56:39 AM
McHipsters?  Bourgeois King? Taco Hell-is-other-people?  (reaching too hard on that one?) 
Chic Filet?
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YojimboMonkey
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« Reply #27 on: Mar 15, 2011, 11:09:28 AM »
 Laughing  Cool
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« Reply #28 on: Mar 15, 2011, 12:54:42 PM »
Have you guys seen this Philadelphia Cooking Creme stuff? They're handing out free samples, and I got the Sante Fe flavor.  I have yet to open it, but it seems like it's just some kind of salad dressing / dip concoction that exists largely to add dairy-based fat to pre-existing dishes.  Like, it does for tacos what cream-of-mushroom soup does for casseroles.

So it looks unhealthy and trashy, which means I'm psyched as hell to try it!  Maybe I'll throw it over some nachos, see how it goes.
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« Reply #29 on: Mar 15, 2011, 12:58:19 PM »
Fucking gross! D and I saw that shit in the grocery store last week and both pulled faces. Cooking Creme? Yikes!
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« Reply #30 on: Mar 15, 2011, 01:01:07 PM »
As far as I can tell, it's basically a slightly thinned-out cream cheese with various spices added.  It comes in this massively unappealing-looking rounded-trapezoid tub.  It seems like the home version of fast-food restaurant "special sauces".

Oh, SHIT.  Just realized this may be useful to try cloning Taco Bell's now-extinct Bacon Cheeseburger burrito!
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« Reply #31 on: Mar 15, 2011, 01:12:11 PM »
Paula Deen's cosmetic modifications are fucking terrifying and grotesque. There's this perfect oval of smooth plastic where her face should be and then a pouched and baggy mass of sallow flesh hanging from it. The sallow flesh moves in a horrible way that's completely divorced from the movements of her face when she's speaking. It literally (and I mean *literally*) made me shiver watching her on Top Chef.
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« Reply #32 on: Mar 15, 2011, 08:59:33 PM »
She makes some terrifying faces! I bought a magazine of her holiday dessert recipes, and the pictures are horrifying. She takes "y'all" to such extremes that she says "yowl"!

I can't stop eating salads with avocado in them. I like to make it in a tupperware container so I can shake it until everything's covered in avocado. Dear fat, you taste good.
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« Reply #33 on: Mar 16, 2011, 06:11:06 PM »
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« Reply #34 on: Mar 16, 2011, 06:13:52 PM »
woah! I'm trying to eat breakfast here dude. Was that really necessary?
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« Reply #35 on: Mar 16, 2011, 06:35:39 PM »
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« Reply #36 on: Mar 17, 2011, 12:50:41 AM »
I made this thing tonight which involved spinach, carrots, eggs, milk, cheddar, asiago, tomato sauce, butter, garlic, chives, onions and rosemary... as a sauce.  It was on chicken.  Don't ask me exactly why I did... I never remember.  I only know that it was very green, very tasty and more filling than a funnel cake.
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YojimboMonkey
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« Reply #37 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:44:26 AM »
jesus davy



simonfox that sounds like a mess but it sounds like a tasty mess.  I'd eat it Smile
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« Reply #38 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:45:07 AM »
My boss is making an Irish brunch for us today, I am not sure what all will be involved but I will report back
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« Reply #39 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:48:05 AM »
Also he brought in donuts from Munster Donut in Munster, Indiana and pointed out that Munster was a kingdom in southwestern Ireland in medieval times.  I had a "mint cream" donut which was basically a jelly-filled but instead of jelly it had green marshmallow cream in it.  It was pretty bad but hey free donut.
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« Reply #40 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:48:41 AM »
Goddammit I am going to keep posting until I get that... THING... off the page
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« Reply #41 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:50:55 AM »
Oh shit he brought in a variety of Irish whiskies for us to taste as well.  Fat, drunk and stupid may be no way to go through life but it's de rigeur for St. Patrick's Day I guess
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« Reply #42 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:51:25 AM »
I'm running out of things to say, somebody help me out here.  And goddammit nobody quote that shit once we hit the next page
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« Reply #43 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:54:10 AM »
I fucking slaughtered some fools at an Irish bar in a traditionally Irish area of Chicago last night.  At darts I mean.  I brutalized those fools.  Except for one game of cricket, dude got pissed off at me and stepped up, first three darts, goddamn triple 20, triple 19, triple 18.  How do you come back from that shit?  Well, you don't but we play in sets of three and next game I opened up double-in, double-out 301 with a 132, and you don't come back from that shit either.
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YojimboMonkey
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« Reply #44 on: Mar 17, 2011, 10:55:42 AM »
Quote from: YojimboMonkey on Mar 15, 2011, 10:56:39 AM
spend $2.75 on an english muffin with bacon egg & cheese. 

Back to food, I did that ^^^ this morning.  And now of course there are giant piles of food and whiskey in the office.  I have no regrets
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« Reply #45 on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:08:19 AM »
I'm making jacket potatoes for dinner tonight.
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« Reply #46 on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:10:25 AM »
Quote from: YojimboMonkey on Mar 17, 2011, 10:54:10 AM
I fucking slaughtered some fools at an Irish bar in a traditionally Irish area of Chicago last night.  At darts I mean.  I brutalized those fools.  Except for one game of cricket, dude got pissed off at me and stepped up, first three darts, goddamn triple 20, triple 19, triple 18.  How do you come back from that shit?  Well, you don't but we play in sets of three and next game I opened up double-in, double-out 301 with a 132, and you don't come back from that shit either.

Can you quickly tell me how the fuck you're supposed to play a game of darts, because as far as the rules go, we were sort of making shit up.
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« Reply #47 on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:14:00 AM »
I will!  But maybe not here in the food thread, as much as I'd like to keep derailing it with bullshit posts
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« Reply #48 on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:14:29 AM »
Though I'm pretty sure the next post will flip the page
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« Reply #49 on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:15:17 AM »
Let's see...


Yup.
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