What can you expect in the Food Thread on PF?

[Kevin_Axion]

Three more days... I smell sausage in the air.

 

[lisab]

How about a shepherd's pie for dinner? Now that's comfort food.

OK, but please not with lamb...I'm not a lamb fan.

 

[rootX]

OMG, super spicy hot red beef curry, it's the new chili. It's a la Evo, of course, no nasty stuff like cloves or star anise or coconut milk. This is Texas Curry!

:!)

 

[lisab]

This kind of made me feel ill.

[PLAIN]http://consumerist.com/digiornopizzaandcookies.jpg

 

[Kevin_Axion]

Do you use reddit lisab? I saw that on there yesterday.

 

[lisab]

Do you use reddit lisab? I saw that on there yesterday.

No, my daughter posted it on her facebook page. Guess it's gone viral...not sure if the manufacturer would really mind, though!

 

[Evo]

OK, but please not with lamb...I'm not a lamb fan.

No, I use ground beef, and someone said, well, that's not shepherd's pie. OH YEAH?? My shepherd's have cows.

 

[lisab]

No, I use ground beef, and someone said, well, that's not shepherd's pie. OH YEAH?? My shepherd's have cows.

Yay!

 

[Evo]

this kind of made me feel ill.

[PLAIN]http://consumerist.com/digiornopizzaandcookies.jpg[/quote]omg, no!

 

[rootX]

No, my daughter posted it on her facebook page. Guess it's gone viral...not sure if the manufacturer would really mind, though!

I wonder if it was intentional or they are just that weird...

 

[nismaratwork]

I wonder if it was intentional or they are just that weird...

Thank god, I did too. I wouldn't put it past someone in marketing to stop the laughter in the boardroom with a, "What if, this is what they REALLY want? Sweetened dough set with chocolate chips, and you finish baking them yourself... and we'll put white chocolate cheese and red licorice discs of pepperoni on it!"

The man (or woman?) at the head of the table barks back, "What kind of idiot proposes that? Who will eat a PIZZA-Cookie?!"

...and that marketing genius, without missing a beat looks his boss straight in the eyes and says, "We can always count on drunks and stoners!"

The boss pauses, his outrage derailed. "Make it happen."



Edit: If you're not laughing, maybe it IS realistic, or I'm not funny. If you ARE laughing, I have a one "word" response: 'Tropolis'.

 

[HeLiXe]

Who will eat a PIZZA-Cookie?!"

me. I am sO hungry -_-

 

[HeLiXe]

No, I use ground beef, and someone said, well, that's not shepherd's pie. OH YEAH?? My shepherd's have cows.

I <3 shepherd's pie with ground beef.

 

[nismaratwork]

me. I am sO hungry -_-

OK, You're worrying me! I think I'd go for eating my shoes before I ate a pepperoni cookie.

Unless... if this was during the Holi fesitval... yeah I could see eating that.

 

[AlephZero]

No, I use ground beef, and someone said, well, that's not shepherd's pie. OH YEAH?? My shepherd's have cows.

No, no, no ... it's the shepherds that go in the pie. That's why it's called "shepherds pie" <face-palm>.

 

[turbo]

No, no, no ... it's the shepherds that go in the pie. That's why it's called "shepherds pie" <face-palm>.

And then, the sheep get to eat them!

 

[nismaratwork]

OOOK... do NOT go hiking with Aleph or Turbo... check.

 

[physics girl phd]

No, no, no ... it's the shepherds that go in the pie. That's why it's called "shepherds pie" <face-palm>.

And then, the sheep get to eat them!

This makes me scared of the homemade chicken pot-pie I finished off last night (YUM!). Was it made of pots? I guess that would have been alright... if the chickens ate it and not me!

 

[nismaratwork]

This makes me scared of the homemade chicken pot-pie I finished off last night (YUM!). Was it made of pots? I guess that would have been alright... if the chickens ate it and not me!

OK, I can help!


When you first stuck your fork in the pie... did it meow?

 

[turbo]

Mmm! Just polished off the last of the huge vegetable sub from the artisan butcher-shop/deli. My wife took in two bags of garlic yesterday (equal amounts of German and Russian garlic) and told the proprietor that she could have them for $5/lb. She grabbed the bags, weighed them and paid up, then started showing the garlic to other customers in the store and drumming up interest. Her husband came out of the back and told my wife that the sample garlic she dropped off a few weeks ago was almost gone and that it is "the best garlic ever". Maybe I should have planted more...

Anyway, my wife bought some sliced sharp cheese, a ham, and one of their huge vegetable subs. After returning the cash from the garlic, she had to kick in another 18 cents. We both ate that sub for supper last night, and there was enough left over for me to have a nice lunch today. Tracy knows that we prefer hotter peppers, so she kept out the banana peppers and loaded the sub with crispy jalapeno slices instead. She's not a bit shy with the marinated mushrooms and ripe olives either. Great sandwiches!

 

[nismaratwork]

Mmm! Just polished off the last of the huge vegetable sub from the artisan butcher-shop/deli. My wife took in two bags of garlic yesterday (equal amounts of German and Russian garlic) and told the proprietor that she could have them for $5/lb. She grabbed the bags, weighed them and paid up, then started showing the garlic to other customers in the store and drumming up interest. Her husband came out of the back and told my wife that the sample garlic she dropped off a few weeks ago was almost gone and that it is "the best garlic ever". Maybe I should have planted more...

Anyway, my wife bought some sliced sharp cheese, a ham, and one of their huge vegetable subs. After returning the cash from the garlic, she had to kick in another 18 cents. We both ate that sub for supper last night, and there was enough left over for me to have a nice lunch today. Tracy knows that we prefer hotter peppers, so she kept out the banana peppers and loaded the sub with crispy jalapeno slices instead. She's not a bit shy with the marinated mushrooms and ripe olives either. Great sandwiches!

re: bold: Given the recent talk here, you must be very pleased!

For the rest... can I have your wife- NOT LIKE THAT!... just to buy cheese and such...

 

[Evo]

OK, I can help!


When you first stuck your fork in the pie... did it meow?

There's a cat in the kettle...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOjvvV9L_bs

 

[nismaratwork]

There's a cat in the kettle...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOjvvV9L_bs

OK... that IS hilarious, and maybe just a little eerie... still, you are twisted sister!

"Once they wrapped it up in dough"

 

[HeLiXe]

OK, You're worrying me! I think I'd go for eating my shoes before I ate a pepperoni cookie.

Unless... if this was during the Holi fesitval... yeah I could see eating that.

HOLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! I have always wanted to go But I have sensitive skin and fear the pigments *sigh*

 

[mugaliens]

There's a cat in the kettle...

Hey, food is food. When you're hungry, you learn not to complain. I've met jungle orphans in Peru, and they sure didn't complain.

My standards are quite a bit higher, but I can afford it. Most people throughout the world can't.

 

[nismaratwork]

Hey, food is food. When you're hungry, you learn not to complain. I've met jungle orphans in Peru, and they sure didn't complain.

My standards are quite a bit higher, but I can afford it. Most people throughout the world can't.

I like my food a little less bright, and preferably not a domesticated animal. If I'm starving, I'll eat a person to survive, but as this conversation is occurring on the internet... eh.

 

[turbo]

My wife made shepherd's pie for lunch. No shepherds were injured in the making of the pie. Ground beef, onion, garlic, and jalapenos - all pan-seared, then combined with my home-made marinara and frozen corn with black pepper, paprika, etc, topped with a layer of mashed potato and baked. Nice comfort-food for a snowy (again!) day.

 

[Evo]

My wife made shepherd's pie for lunch. No shepherds were injured in the making of the pie. Ground beef, onion, garlic, and jalapenos - all pan-seared, then combined with my home-made marinara and frozen corn with black pepper, paprika, etc, topped with a layer of mashed potato and baked. Nice comfort-food for a snowy (again!) day.

Mine is similar, I brown the ground beef, add two beef bouillion cubes, a cup of water and cornstarch to make a thick gravy/sauce, add corn, top with a layer of cheese, then a layer of mashed potatoes and baked.

 

[turbo]

There is usually a layer of sharp cheese under the mashed potatoes, but my wife is trying to cut back on both fat and salt... :-(

 

[Evo]

There is usually a layer of sharp cheese under the mashed potatoes, but my wife is trying to cut back on both fat and salt... :-(

Two women were cooking on tv the other day and they said "do not dare use lowfat mayonaise in this recipe, use the real stuff. If you want to cut back, eat less of the real thing, you'll be more satisfied.

 

[nismaratwork]

There is usually a layer of sharp cheese under the mashed potatoes, but my wife is trying to cut back on both fat and salt... :-(

...but... what's the point without fat an salt? I don't mean food... I mean LIFE! We're men damn it turbo, and you... a man who salted meats you had to kill and skin! Now you can't have your cheese...

Not OK ladies, not OK. You need to let us guys shellac our arteries with cheddar the way god intended! (it's somewhere in the bible I think). Yeah, we'll die young, but fat and happy.

 

[Kevin_Axion]

Alright, here are the pictures. Sorry for the late post, I went to Buffalo, NY yesterday for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, it was delicious!

 

[nismaratwork]

Alright, here are the pictures. Sorry for the late post, I went to Buffalo, NY yesterday for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, it was delicious!

Oh god... I don't know why you would EVER eat out with those sausages. :loves:

Hey, I've never been to the CF either... it was good, not just the cheesecake?

 

[Evo]

Alright, here are the pictures. Sorry for the late post, I went to Buffalo, NY yesterday for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, it was delicious!

Awesome!

 

[mugaliens]

The best sausages I've ever had were hanging just like that, but from a shop along the edge of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Lugano.jpg" . I bought some cooked ones, half a loaf of bread, and sat on the edge of heaven for a while devouring the other half.

 

[nismaratwork]

Oh god, I have to get sausage for some meal tomorrow! I'll take links and mash, ANYTHING... those pictures and mug's experience has driven me to the brink of frenzy. I'm only sane now because I had some leftover rosemary-lemon chicken... BUT IT IS NOT homemade sausage.

 

[mugaliens]

Oh god, I have to get sausage for some meal tomorrow! I'll take links and mash, ANYTHING... those pictures and mug's experience has driven me to the brink of frenzy. I'm only sane now because I had some leftover rosemary-lemon chicken... BUT IT IS NOT homemade sausage.

Lol, didn't mean to trip a wire, there nismaratwork!

Bangers and mashers, though.. Mmm! First time I ever had them was at the Bull Hotel, just outside of Fairford, England. I spent a few hundred dollars on old books in the town, too, and visited the cathedral and its incredible glass windows, learning that during WWII, they took out the windows and buried them to protect their incredibly lovely artwork.

 

[Evo]

I wanted to make beans, but I either use ham hocks or beef short ribs and I had neither, so I made chili beans out of them and they came out great. Nice to have during a blizzard.

Thanks to Kurdt for the vote for the chili. Although he used the vomit smiley when I mentioned the devilled eggs. He doesn't like eggs.

I LOVE EGGS.

 

[nismaratwork]

I wanted to make beans, but I either use ham hocks or beef short ribs and I had neither, so I made chili beans out of them and they came out great. Nice to have during a blizzard.

Thanks to Kurdt for the vote for the chili. Although he used the vomit smiley when I mentioned the devilled eggs. He doesn't like eggs.

I LOVE EGGS.

Oh yeah, that is definitely good winter food!

Man, I'm in the mood for beans... and eggs now. Blegh.

 

[Evo]

Where is that barfing smiley? Eggs were on sale and I LOVE EGGS.

I made a delicious egg salad today, my dog, the Fruit Bat and I ate almost the whole thing. I want to believe he ate most of it, by my tummy is telling me differently.

Now I have a huge filet mignon, 2 inches thick, prime restaurant aged beef, and I can't even think about it.

 

[Astronuc]

Deviled eggs are good, and so are curried eggs.

Eggs over easy on grits with hot sauce and bacon (or a good breakfast sausage) is a great breakfast.

 

[turbo]

My wife and I finished up the last of last year's beets with our supper on Saturday. Beets keep very well if you have cold storage or sufficient room in the 'fridge. Here is how we cook beets:

Wash the beets, put them in a foil packet with the edges sealed well, and pop them into the oven along with a baking potato or two (similar cooking times). When they're done, open the packet and let the beets cool enough so you can handle them with your fingers. Roasted beets peel VERY easily - just rub the peels off with your fingers.

Roasting produces the sweetest, tastiest beets ever. The peels keep the juices inside so you get all the flavor, unlike boiling or even steaming them.

 

[WhoWee]

Deviled eggs are good, and so are curried eggs.

Eggs over easy on grits with hot sauce and bacon (or a good breakfast sausage) is a great breakfast.

Lose the grits and substitute some corned beef hash and I'm in - just don't tell my Dr. or my wife.

 

[Evo]

Got a great deal on a pork butt, I'm going to make that heavenly pot roast.

 

[Evo]

I made some of those sushi cones, temaki, they're less trouble to make, but you takes bites out of it and I love dunking the smaller sushi into a soy sauce wasabi slurry that I make. Of course you're not supposed to do that, but I don't care, it's my sushi, and I like it.

A picture of temaki (not mine).

 

[turbo]

I'm making a big batch of pizza sauce today. Last time, I modified my home-made marinara to make pizza sauce, but that stuff is so good on other dishes that I want to save it, so I've gone back to my original recipe, starting with peeled ground Pastene Roma tomatoes. Now, for hours and hours of simmering to thicken the sauce. Smells good already!

 

[dlgoff]

Here's how to do it. Take 1.5 lb of 93% hamburger, flatten on a pizza pan, cover liberally with onion powder, moisten with a couple of squirts of KC Master Piece and a couple squirts of Tariyaki sauce, (plenty for making it pack firmly into balls), blend in three dice chillies (hot ones). Sear on a Squirts then cover and steam on low. This give you time to drink several crafted beers. Once completed, cover with chili (I had left overs). Serve with fresh peas and you'll be in heaven.

 

[nismaratwork]

Here's how to do it. Take 1.5 lb of 93% hamburger, flatten on a pizza pan, cover liberally with onion powder, moisten with a couple of squirts of KC Master Piece and a couple squirts of Tariyaki sauce, (plenty for making it pack firmly into balls), blend in three dice chillies (hot ones). Sear on a Squirts then cover and steam on low. This give you time to drink several crafted beers. Once completed, cover with chili (I had left overs). Serve with fresh peas and you'll be in heaven.

This is the only post on this page as I'm writing this, and I have no idea what it's in reference to... but I'm making this recipe asap. That sounds... REALLY good... lethal as hell, but worth it.

Evo: That's beautiful Evo! You downplay your talents don't you?! I mean, you talk about the more simple fare, but this is something I'd accept from a restaurant (visually of course). I love the placement of the salmon roe, and your use of cucumber? as a vertical accent.

Do you have experience in flower arrangment, because it seems like there's serious professional time behind this, or a lot of natural artistic talent.

 

[turbo]

Supper tonight was pizza and beer. Not just any pizza, but fresh home-made crust topped with the fresh home-made spicy pizza sauce I made yesterday, good cheeses (mozzarella and a little romano), ground beef, purple onions, black olives, and sweet red pepper. My wife and I have been trying a variety of dough recipes, and are narrowing in on favorites.

 

[nismaratwork]

Supper tonight was pizza and beer. Not just any pizza, but fresh home-made crust topped with the fresh home-made spicy pizza sauce I made yesterday, good cheeses (mozzarella and a little romano), ground beef, purple onions, black olives, and sweet red pepper. My wife and I have been trying a variety of dough recipes, and are narrowing in on favorites.

That sounds terrific! How are you making your dough, and have you tried proofing it?