Aromatherapy raviolis: the new FOOD thread

[jess]

If you still have those whenever I finally make it back up to Chicago, I will eat the hell out some of thai food with you. That was awesome last time we did that.

[YojimboMonkey]

now that we no longer have a deadline I think we should really buckle down on getting some damn top notch beefburgers man. South Side expedition. Whaddaya say? Don't make me start posting reviews at you.

[RoyBiggins]

I'm completely in.  Not this weekend, though, as I will be with Jess, drinking bourbons and eating pumpkin-related things.

Hot Brown Grudgematch 2011?

[jess]

Revenge of the Sausage Gravy*

Dude, I had brunch at Stellas just last weekend and had the biscuits and gravy and cheese grits, and oh man. So good. I hope you are salivating already in anticipation.

In fact, you probably need to exercise your salivary glands in preparation for this weekend. I recommend exposure to tantalizing smells, several times a day.

*I know there's no sausage gravy in a Hot Brown, but that sounded better than Revenge of the Mornay Sauce. And it's not like there won't be sausage gravy involved in the weekend somehow.

[coldforge]

jesus christ i would eat a hot brown

[jess]

LPTJ Meetup Kentucky—hot browns, the bourbon trail, biscuits and gravy, Derby (choc bourbon pecan) pie, y'all know you wanna.

[YojimboMonkey]

I'd eat a hot brown... but I'd be thinking about a horseshoe

[YojimboMonkey]

actually that hot brown looks really fucking good too. Maybe with an order of cheese fries on the side it'd be sufficiently horseshoe-like

[RoyBiggins]

There's quite a bit of cheese involved with the Hot Brown.  I had a surprisingly great Horseshoe at the state fair this year with breaded pork cutlets as the meat.  Damn.

Additionally, Jess, if we went back to that joint with the hot browns, I woudln't know how NOT to order the chicken fried steak.  That was so damned good.  And I am already ready to hit those cheese grits and biscuits and gravy.  Shiiiiiit.  Yup.  Salivating.

[YojimboMonkey]

breaded pork cutlets

Not surprising. The breaded pork tenderloin sandwich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_tenderloin_sandwich) is the other great food I miss from the days when I was living downstate. Combining it with the horseshoe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_sandwich) seems like a natural, though the one time I tried it the tenderloins were patties instead of real cutlets and so it very much sucked.

[coldforge]

I just showed a hungover friend a picture of a hot brown, and she puked.

[YojimboMonkey]

Mindy: These latkes are delicious, I could handle being Jewish
Me: Well, I fried them in bacon fat, so....

[jess]

I've been away too long, I tried to 'like' that. Got confused at the absence of the option.

I made some latkes from Genes' Sausage Shop with some blutwurst yesterday. Hot Damn.  Also Un-kosher.


ETA: This is Biggins BTW.  Always forget when I'm sitting at another LPTJer's computer.

[coldforge]

Just had a delicious spaghetti puttanesca from the local hipster pizza place. And it was a reasonable amount of money to pay for pasta: $5! Success.

[FreddyKnuckles]

5 boners for dinner is always a solid.

[Thermofusion]

$5 is definitely fair for a pasta dish, good deal

[YojimboMonkey]

re: mom's turkey stuffing mentioned in another thread

Mindy made a turkey dinner Sunday night and didn't make stuffing and I didn't throw a tantrum about it or anything, but I decided we were going to have stuffing for dinner some night this week. 

Stuffing for dinner? Just stuffing? Yes.

I took that turkey carcass and made stock with it. Then yesterday I went out and bought a couple sourdough baguettes at a bakery I hadn't visited since a certain incident a few months ago that I posted about at the time, but I felt this bread was necessary even though Mom just makes it with plain old white bread. No reason I can't improve on it right?  I staled the bread in the oven and last night when I got home from my homebrew club meeting I sauteed some onions and celery in butter, moistened the stale bread with the turkey stock, mixed it all together and bound it with some eggs seasoned with sage, salt and pepper. Simple as can be. Going to have it for dinner tonight and it's going to fucking RULE.

[YojimboMonkey]

we bake that shit HARD too, fuck a wimpy stuffing, I like the crunchy bits. I guess it's not technically stuffing since we're not putting it inside anything but that's what I fucking call it ok?

[coldforge]

My name is coldforge and I approve this message.

[mixed cats]

approved also, because I have done the same thing.

[alex]

Approved, but only because of the crunchy bits. In fact, I really only care for stuffing when it's not technically stuffing at all.

A friend of mine dropped by at the office a few hours ago to share some homemade chocolate beetroot cake. The beetroot flavour was more prominent than I would have expected, and yet it was not at all weird. Nice!

[clare]

Chocolate beetroot cake is my favourite kind of chocolate cake.

Jim...I have no words....(other than, "what time is dinner?")

[Bernard]

if it ain't stuffing it's dressing, and dressing is gooooooooooood

[YojimboMonkey]

dudes, I don't even know how to tell you how great that stuffing dinner was


I ate waaaaay too much. but there's still plenty leftover for lunch tomorrow

[YojimboMonkey]

I tried to get some detail shots but the light wasn't very good, but let me tell you: the crispy bits are even better when you start with some good bread