A FOOD poll

[YojimboMonkey]

Lookit this beauty of a soft shell crab taco that Mindy just ordered for lunch



my lunch, not nearly so attractive

[Thermofusion]

Lookit this beauty of a soft shell crab taco that Mindy just ordered for lunch

mmm fresh Lake Michigan crab!!! 

that looks excellent btw

[peacocks]

P: Everything I've seen you post about eating sounds like something a small child would pull up a stool to raid the fridge or cupboard for, baby girl. Or buy at the store on the way to school. In fact, when you mentioned making a salad I wanted to remind you to get your nanny before using a sharp knife. It's kind of cute but I have a hard time picturing you as a grown-ass adult.

Mama didn't raise no chef. I'm capable of making "adult" food but when I work outside sorta removed from civ. everyday some fruit and a pbj are the easiest. I posted what I ate because I realize how ridiculous it sounds. At least I'm not posting pictures of bento boxes with rice cakes made into little animal shapes.

[cold before sunrise]

You can use cookie cutters to make your sandwiches into cute shapes! Toted in a crafting box so the chopped fruit stays separate and doesn't make the bread damp, like a twee bento. A woman who can't cook is one I won't marry, unless she makes up for it by being completely adorable.

[peacocks]

Guess we aren't getting married then ;_;

It's not so much that I can't cook, just that I don't. And I do cook sometimes. Oh Christ why am I even still explaining.

[cold before sunrise]

Suppose I should have asked about the return policy at the jewelry store.

[clare]

Americanized Chinese food, you know, you can't complain too much I guess,

Well, actually....I can complain a whole lot about it if you'd like to hear it...

it's not like if you order "Mongolian Beef" you're going to get anything like what they'd eat in Mongolia, but there's kind of a certain expectation, right? There are certain parameters within which you expect that dish to fall. That's reasonable, right?  You don't expect a dish with beef, green peppers, pea pods, and celery.

I think what we have here is a cultural difference. Bad Chinese in here is infinitely better than bad US Chinese, though there are a few levels. Bad-restaurant-Chinese in the US is like Bad-food-court-Chinese here, so you might get peas and celery in your stir-fry there, and you'd certainly get carrots in the gluey mess...too much cornflour and too much MSG sums up Bad Chinese in the US.

I'm glad you managed to salvage it with the leftovers though.

[Thermofusion]

The problem with cheap Chinese takeout over here is everything tastes like salt. Meat, vegetables, rice, everything just tastes like salt.

[elpollodiablo]

I made some really light turkey and white bean chili today but then at the last moment I came to jesus and tossed in a few cut up links of andouille

[Thermofusion]

Yeah I really like it when improvising turns out well. The other night I was dicking around and cooked up some rice, cut up a few cloves of garlic and tossed it in a skillet with olive oil and some chopped onions, then threw in the rice, a can of garbanzo beans, water, tossed in a shitload of cumin, coriander, curry powder, chili powder, even a little Old Bay, mixed it all up, salted that shit, let it boil and simmer for an hour. I don't know what I made exactly but it was fucking delightful.

[peacocks]

that sounds awesome.

[Chet]

I made chilli the other day, and did the beer thing, adding the best part of a bottle of hobgoblin which is a ruby beer with "chocolate and crystal malts" and oh man if it wasn't the best fucking chilli i have ever made. my friend who came over waxed lyrical about it. i'm getting a boner right now just thinking about that chilli.

[dumbfish]

Baked stuffed shad, wrapped in bacon. So many bones, but oh so tasty.

[Ignatius]

yeah man that Alosa sapidissima is good for america.

[Ignatius]

*shed a tear for the state of the Hudson River shad fishery

[coldforge]

P: Everything I've seen you post about eating sounds like something a small child would pull up a stool to raid the fridge or cupboard for, baby girl. Or buy at the store on the way to school. In fact, when you mentioned making a salad I wanted to remind you to get your nanny before using a sharp knife. It's kind of cute but I have a hard time picturing you as a grown-ass adult.

Shoplift some limoncello, like a grownup

[cold before sunrise]

Okay, Dad.

Booze makes people do silly things.

[elpollodiablo]

Whenever I'm eating these fiber bars I'm like Fuck you, fiber bar

[Thermofusion]

Lately I've been doing "Banana with a personal-serving-box of raisins as a chaser" around mid-morning. Not sure how much fiber I'm consuming by doing that, but it's enough to get me shitting quickly.

[dumbfish]

*shed a tear for the state of the Hudson River shad fishery

Git ya some dark clothes, a drill, and some TNT, and those shad (and others) would come back in no time.

[Ignatius]

It's not so much the dams as the decades of overfishing and the zebra mussels and maybe a little bit the once-through cooling at the nuclear power plant (I fear that dynamite may cause more problems there than it would solve).

Up until late last year, you could buy a commercial fishing license/gear permit in NY for $250. I think the prices were set in like, 1906 and never changed.

[jebreject]

M made this excellent tortellini bake tonight, and goddamn if it isn't one of the best meals I've ever eaten. Wow. And fairly low fat too!

[Thermofusion]

Little bay scallops with capers and lemon/butter sauce over rice. I make this shit three nights a week sometimes, it's that f'ing good. The easiest thing anyone could ever cook. Easier than spaghetti and canned pasta sauce. Sheeeit!

[Bernard]

Was enjoying a plateful of wonderful Easter supper, got to something that looked, from the crust, like some kind of delicious chicken pot pie. Discreetly spat it into my napkin upon tasting. Later revealed to be vegan, from a well-known local vegan restaurant. Presumed to have cost a bundle. I would've checked to see if the dog would eat it but I am not that hostile to the dog.

[Greg Nog]

I had a Doritos Locos Taco Supreme from Taco Bell today!  There's no special sauce or anything, just the Dorito shell.  Which is a shame, as I think it needs something creamy inside to balance out the INSANE saltiness of the shell.  Maybe like a lime mayo or something.

Anyway, I wonder now if they can use the shell in other taco combinations; I could see it being pretty good in a cheesy gordita crunch. 

Overall, it was sort of boring; just salty and with that lingering Dorito aftertaste (which lasted much longer than the standard Taco Bell aftertaste).