The Cooking Thread
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@Karla So that's a judo chop? With extra cilantro?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
I'd try one. Honestly I bet they're not as bad as they sound.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
Honestly I bet they're not as bad as they sound.
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@mott555 I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd try it, too. But only because I'm a clown with food and not because I have any expectation of it being a pleasant experience.
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@brie I had an eclair in Latvia once. They "forgot" to sweeten the filling at all. It was basically biting into a stick of butter wrapped in puff pastry. No thanks.
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
Honestly I bet they're not as bad as they sound.
Three years later:
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
@mott555 I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd try it, too. But only because I'm a clown with food and not because I have any expectation of it being a pleasant experience.
I think it would depend very much on the ratio of pastry to filling. I could see it being okay if the amount of mayo wasn't overpowering.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@brie I had an eclair in Latvia once. They "forgot" to sweeten the filling at all. It was basically biting into a stick of butter wrapped in puff pastry. No thanks.
Donuts are covered in sweet glaze, though. You're going to have some immediate sweetness; that glaze is the first thing that hits your tongue. Eclairs, if they're frosted at all, are typically only frosted on top.
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I was sure I had heard of this before. Damn April Fools Day making it virtually impossible to find it among all the "mayonnaise filled donut prank" links.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@brie I had an eclair in Latvia once. They "forgot" to sweeten the filling at all. It was basically biting into a stick of butter wrapped in puff pastry. No thanks.
That sounds pretty good actually.
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@boomzilla I'd try it; I can't say I'd expect it to be as good as, say, a donut filled with mayo.
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@brie I mean...the stick of butter by itself sounds good, too. Warm it up so the pastry's hot and the butter is soft / melted. Yum!
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I'd try one. Honestly I bet they're not as bad as they sound.
I like mayo. But, no.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I was sure I had heard of this before. Damn April Fools Day making it virtually impossible to find it among all the "mayonnaise filled donut prank" links.
One of the fair food items that has made the rounds the last several years is a cheeseburger with Krispy Kreme donuts for the buns.
It's actually pretty good. It will put you in carb coma, and knocks me out of ketosis, but pretty tasty.
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Has anyone here ever had or used the Mexican vegetable huauzontle? Saw some in a little Mexican grocery store, and trying to find any useful information about it. Figured this might be a good place to try.
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@Erufael Are you looking for any specific information? I won't ridicule you by posting a lmgtfy link, but I found both info on the plant and recipes from googling just the name.
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I would skip the strawberries but otherwise this looks good:
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Onebox was the whole post.
AI recipes are bad (and a proposal for making them worse)
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One of my personal favorites is a recipe called “Small Sandwiches” that called for dozens of fussily chopped, minced, and diced ingredients...Trained on Dwarf Fortress?
Filed Under: Transformer thread is
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@Erufael said in The Cooking Thread:
Has anyone here ever had or used the Mexican vegetable huauzontle? Saw some in a little Mexican grocery store, and trying to find any useful information about it. Figured this might be a good place to try.
It looks like it can be used in ways similar to leaf spinach.
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@dkf Do you mean "buy a bag of it, eat a few leaves once, forget the rest in the fridge until it's all mushy and you throw it out?"
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@remi that's why I've started buying my spinach frozen
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@Jaloopa I'll stick with fresh and steamed to preserve the maximum taste and structure.
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
The best way to eat a raw onion is like an apple.
...and oranges, limes, lemons . But then I'm fairly odd: the only part of watermelon I like is the rind au naturale or pickled.
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Had never heard of this before.
To begin, the dough is spread out on large, heavy, rectangular pans called trays and first layer of sauce is added. Primo cooked it until the dough would rise. He would then pull out the tray, add more sauce and sprinkle some cheese on it before placing the pizza back in the oven to finish cooking to a crispy, golden brown. Once done, he would pull out the tray, place it on a large table and slice it up into 28 pieces. To finish it off, he would toss handfuls of fresh shredded cheese generously across the tray then add thin slices of pepperoni or other toppings ordered-cold.
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@boomzilla never heard of that, but there's a type of pizza that never spread the way the other styles have. For lack of a better term, it is "Louisville style" pizza. The best of which, in my opinion, is by a pizzeria named "Bearno's".
Fairly thin crust, light on sauce, heavy on toppings with cheese sprinkled over the top and baked until the cheese is golden brown. When you first see one of their pizzas you would think the crust was fairly thick, but it isn't. It's just thick with toppings. You eat the pizza as best you can and then clean up all the stuff that fell on your plate with a fork.
Sounds weird, super tasty. When I first introduced my wife to it she saw the gigantic pizza and asked:
"How do you eat it without making a huge mess?"
"Hell if I know, I never figured that part out."
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@Polygeekery Reminds me of some kind of sandwich (pulled pork?) typical from the Italian community of some American city (yeah, I know, that's very accurate...) that I saw in a travel documentary. It was drenched in sauce and the "right" way to eat it is to stay as far as you can away from the counter, lean forward to put your elbows on the counter and eat this way, so that everything that drips falls on the floor, not on your shoes. Although that seemed an awfully wasteful way to eat what seemed a very tasty thing...
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla never heard of that, but there's a type of pizza that never spread the way the other styles have. For lack of a better term, it is "Louisville style" pizza. The best of which, in my opinion, is by a pizzeria named "Bearno's".
Fairly thin crust, light on sauce, heavy on toppings with cheese sprinkled over the top and baked until the cheese is golden brown. When you first see one of their pizzas you would think the crust was fairly thick, but it isn't. It's just thick with toppings. You eat the pizza as best you can and then clean up all the stuff that fell on your plate with a fork.
Sounds weird, super tasty. When I first introduced my wife to it she saw the gigantic pizza and asked:
"How do you eat it without making a huge mess?"
"Hell if I know, I never figured that part out."I've always preferred thin-crust pizza over (american-style) thick-crust pizza. My solution is slicing it in pieces with a knife and picking up the pieces with a fork, rather than trying to pick up larger slices with your hands.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
My solution is slicing it in pieces with a knife and picking up the pieces with a fork, rather than trying to pick up larger slices with your hands.
Oh, so you are one of those people.
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@Dragoon It does mean getting more filling on…
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
It was drenched in sauce and the "right" way to eat it is to stay as far as you can away from the counter, lean forward to put your elbows on the counter and eat this way, so that everything that drips falls on the floor, not on your shoes.
........why not eat it over a plate? Why the floor?
I shudder to think of how many mice that place must have.
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@Polygeekery Don't ask me
It was a random documentary on a 3-digits TV channel playing in the background of whatever waiting room (?) I was at the time, I guess the "journalist" was just a random dude who stopped in a random sandwich bar and may or may not have been pranked by the owner.
The image stuck in my mind, probably because of its weirdness.
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
I guess the "journalist" was just a random dude who stopped in a random sandwich bar and may or may not have been pranked by the owner.
That does not seem unlikely given how you described it.
In the USA it is not uncommmon for it to be tradition to throw dry waste on the floor. Like peanut hulls. There is a local bar where when you walk in there is a literal wooden barrel full of peanuts in the shell, a scooper and some paper containers like you would be server french fries in. Tradition in this particular bar is to eat the peanuts, throw the shells on the floor.
But a sloppy ass sandwich? Just dropping god knows what, but you described as similar to a pulled pork sandwich, on the floor? -shudder- I am reminded of:
But mice, and roaches, and -shudder-
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
In the USA it is not uncommmon for it to be tradition to throw dry waste on the floor. Like peanut hulls. There is a local bar where when you walk in there is a literal wooden barrel full of peanuts in the shell, a scooper and some paper containers like you would be server french fries in. Tradition in this particular bar is to eat the peanuts, throw the shells on the floor.
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
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@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
-stares at you, knocks napkin on to floor-
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
-stares at you, knocks napkin on to floor-
What, are you a cat?
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery Don't ask me
"i.e. the one you reached only after having browsed through at least 99 other channels... not sure if that makes sense with US TV networks?"
If you have cable, it does! 9999 channels and nothing to watch. (ok, there's lots of holes)
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
9999 channels
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
-stares at you, knocks napkin on to floor-
What, are you a cat?
Growing up, our cat would do that.
: It's dinner time. Now.
: (continues doing something else)
: (what @Benjamin-Hall posted, but it was his dinner bowl. or whatever was on his counter)
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@mott555 said in The Cooking Thread:
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
-stares at you, knocks napkin on to floor-
What, are you a cat?
Growing up, our cat would do that.
: It's dinner time. Now.
: (continues doing something else)
: (what @Benjamin-Hall posted, but it was his dinner bowl. or whatever was on his counter)I had a roommate that had a dog that would always bring his dinner bowl to his owner as soon as he got home from work. The food bowl was metal. Said roommate had a whole thing about metal in his mouth and especially touching his teeth so it was a very effective strategy. He couldn't stand to hear the food bowl on the dog's teeth.
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
ok, there's lots of holes
Once you get to the babestation area, yeah
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
there's a type of pizza that never spread the way the other styles have. For lack of a better term, it is "Louisville style" pizza. The best of which, in my opinion, is by a pizzeria named "Bearno's".
GIS result:
Instead of crust^sauce^cheese^toppings like most pizzas, theirs is crust^sauce^toppings^cheese, and there are a shit ton of toppings.
Good stuff.
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I might have everything needed to do this, actually...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Cooking Thread:
I might have everything needed to do this, actually...
And, of course, everything is past the expiration date
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@TimeBandit Well you've got to use all that stockpiled toilet paper somehow.
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@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
And, of course, everything is past the expiration date
I've recently been cleaning out all of the cabinets and such (amphetamines are a wonderful productivity enhancer). Some of the expiration dates I found were truly alarming. Some were getting close to a decade.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
And, of course, everything is past the expiration date
I've recently been cleaning out all of the cabinets and such (amphetamines are a wonderful productivity enhancer). Some of the expiration dates I found were truly alarming. Some were getting close to a decade.
What was your high score?
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
What was your high score?
By that scoring method I'm going to say 22.5.
((2020-2011) ÷ 40) x 100 = 22.5
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@Tsaukpaetra
Put a 'Quarantine Day 7' tag on it and you'll have a viral meme in no time