Foods We Ate

[Babar]

rachael ray answered how she comes up with all these recipes so brilliantly i think, she said something like "life inspires musicians to write songs and they're always looking for new ideas to involve in their songwriting, but i'm a cook so i do the same with recipes, i draw inspiration from wherever and it comes forth in my cooking"

i don't remember exactly what she said but comparing herself to a musician that writes songs, i thought it was great.

[Maaik]

i am eating a toasted PB & BBQ sauce sandwich and it is delightful.

seriously try it

Seems to work better with the thicker sauces, though the NC-style does give it more bite.

[Ignatius]

Damn your insistence.  I can only ignore a thing twice.  I s'pose I'll pick up some bbq sauce tomorrow, then.  But you're serious, right?

[Anne the Man]

Today I bought two litres of strawberry milk on a whim cos it was cheap.

I am going to use it in a cake.

[diesel_powered]

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting. I'd like to hear how that turns out.

[slow west vultures]

Today I bought two litres of strawberry milk on a whim cos it was cheap.

I am going to use it in a cake.

strawberry milk sounds damn good.  i don't think i see it in stores that often.  if they made a strawberry rice milk i'd be all set. 

[Anne the Man]

Really? It's the most common flavour here after chocolate and coffee I'd say.

I don't really know what kind of cake to make though. It'd probably make a sponge too heavy. Suggestions?

[slow west vultures]

Really? It's the most common flavour here after chocolate and coffee I'd say.

 

i gotta move to NZ stat. 

[diesel_powered]

Seems like strawberry and coffee are popular flavours in certain places. I think we've discussed the 47 flavours of Kit Kat they have in Canada.

Maybe they're not as popular here because all we have are flavors.

[diesel_powered]

OMFG. I am so stuffed with raw fish right now.

I went for sushi and the guy misread my order and gave me two eel rolls. Not wanting to fuss and knowing that I could probably polish off a megaroll with tuna and salmon and avocado and cucumber and two eel cucumber rolls and a spicy california, I went along with the gag and completed the mission. And now I'm stuffed with raw fish.

I guess I should probably finish this bottle of pear sake.

[Anne the Man]

Really? It's the most common flavour here after chocolate and coffee I'd say.

 

i gotta move to NZ stat. 

Holy hell, you've never had coffee milk?!
Shit is so cash.
NZ does pretty well in the disgustingly sweet department. Like biscuits which own 10,000 calories each.

[Ignatius]

In the US, or at least the northeast, coffee milk is an extremely local treat to be enjoyed only by people who live in Rhode Island, and maybe some guys who live in nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts.  Maybe there are others who make coffee milk, but I've never heard of it.  Which is weird, when you think about it...  It's not like nobody's ever thought about combining coffee and milk before. 

[Anne the Man]

Hmm. Just an idea, but do any of you want to do a food swap? I can send you crazy biscuits and you can send me Doritos and/or lots of Reese's.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

As requested by Ignatius.

Peirogi's (as per my ex's grandma)

Dough:
2 -1/2 Cups Of Flour
1/2 tsp of salt
3/4 Cup warm water
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 beaten egg

Sift flour and salt into bowl, add water, oil and egg. Mix then knead until smooth. Leave to rest for 2 hours.

Filling:
4-5 large potatoes
Cream or cottage cheese
Dill
salt & pepper

Boil potatoes in salted water till soft. Mash, and add cream cheese, salt/pepper and chopped dill. How much cream cheese is up to you, just go by taste. You can also add some grated chedder if you like.

Roll dough into a flat sheets. Approx 1/16" in thickness. Use a round cookie cutter or the like (I used a wide glass) to cut circular pieces. Should be about 3-4"s wide. Spoon some filling into the centre (you'll work out how much it can hold soon enough). Have a cup of warm water at your side and use a finger to wet the outer edge of half the dough. Carefully fold over into a half moon shape making sure to press the edges to get a good seal (you don't want any water to get in when boiling as this will ruin the dumpling)
When putting to one side dust in flour and seperate layers with some baking paper as the little fuckers will stick together easily at this point.

Use a large pot to boil the dumplings. They're ready when they float to the top.

You can have them at this point but I like to then fry them in a bit of butter and serve with fried mushrooms and boiled baby carrots. Awesomness achieved.

You can also serve with a good sausage and maybe a creamy mushroom sause of some sort.

[Greg Nog]

Hmm. Just an idea, but do any of you want to do a food swap? I can send you crazy biscuits and you can send me Doritos and/or lots of Reese's.

I would be so completely down with this.

[slow west vultures]

Hmm. Just an idea, but do any of you want to do a food swap? I can send you crazy biscuits and you can send me Doritos and/or lots of Reese's.

we would be locked up the rest of our lives for trying to smuggle our precious national brand identities out of this country.

true story.

but i could sure go for some coffee milk from new zealand. 

[Nick Ink]

Round these parts, I'd say strawberry, banana and coffee-flavoured milk are all pretty widely available.

In Korea, it was all about coffee-flavoured milk. You could get expensive, higher quality ones, but in the summertime, I used to live on the cheaper triangular-packet jobbies. No doubt, morgs will have experiences to draw on here too:

[morgan]

Yeah, I never tried the coffee-flavoured milk because I don't do coffee, but I really loved the strawberry and banana milk there.  There was some really good chocolate milk, too!  And yeah, all of those flavours were everywhere in Korea.  If you could find regular milk, you could find any of them.

[dieblucasdie]

So my friend's 30 birthday was last night, and he had a barbecue.  The featured item, though, was a slow-roasted wild boar leg, accompanied with a selection of various polish mustards.  Holy shit you guys, so good.  Not gamey at all, just like a softer, buttery version of roast beef.

[Greg Nog]

That sounds delicious.  Every time I've had wild boar, I've been really impressed.

[jebreject]

banana flavored milk????? wtf.

that sounds amazing to me.

i don't drink milk though.

[jebreject]

also i don't know why but i totally thought blucas was veg. maybe he's one of those "flexitarians" i've been hearing so much about.

[dieblucasdie]

I was a vegetarian until a couple months ago.

[slow west vultures]

he was a vegetarian until he killed his first wild boar, and the old atavistic blood lust of the human species came back to him. 

that wild boar sounds delicious indeed, but my uncle and cousin roasted a pig for last cinco de mayo, and i loaded up my plate with it, and then remembered that subtle taste of fresh pork that makes my tongue cringe.  but i guess there's different flavors of it.  my uncle (who used to be in the restaurant business) was explaining that a female pig is going to taste different from a male pig.  not that i am really inclined to ever try it again.   

[jebreject]

I was a vegetarian until a couple months ago.

Man! It's happening to everyone! Morgan, JustinH, my friend Luke! Soon I will be the only one left!

(And then I can feel superior to EVERYONE)