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Casu Marzu posted:You've had a bad one. They should be sweet, yes, but also tart Fair enough, I sort of figured that was the case. People poo poo on Galas, but they consistently have the right balance of sweet flesh and tart skin that I like. The texture can be iffy but this time of year they're good stuff.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:No no no. I wasn't at the actual Oktoberfest in Munich, as cool as that would have been. Rather, I was at our town's fest, which is really cool on two levels. First, since we're a farm town, there's actual significance to a harvest festival since we've just finished, well, harvesting. But second, it's put on by and as a benefit for the junior high and highschool music programs. So it's in this great big barn, and everybody in town comes. There's good German music, plus the highschool band and choirs perform. All the kids work as servers bringing delicious foods like soups and hot kraut and assorted sausages and potato cakes and cucumber salads and everything else you can think of. The Rotary Club runs DAS BIERGARTEN in the corner of the barn under it's own little tent with it's own lights hanging and such and they bring in a great many kegs of pretty good actual marzens and weisbiers from good breweries that we all drink from big 1 litre mugs all night long. Actually, it's very close to the big party scene from the first LOTR movie - It's a real community thing, you see, and it's actual good wholesome fun for everyone involved. And we raise a ton of money for the music program, which is good because they don't get any actual funding from the school district. Is this in America? Where can I find this community farm paradise?
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I thought drought was choking the life out of the southwest. Was the harvest good?
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Kenning posted:Nevada A Heaven in Hell.
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the black husserl posted:I thought drought was choking the life out of the southwest. Was the harvest good? Pretty good. Onions and garlic did well, and so has the cabbage, salad greens, and squash. The alfalfa did about average, but prices are high; same goes for silage corn. Canola and teff didn't do so well, but those are new crops for this area so people are still figuring out how to deal with them. The drought was bad here, of course, but our water is from the sierras, and we still have lots of water in the reservoirs. If we don't get much snow this winter, though, it will be a tough one next year.
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mindphlux posted:hey also, I think I asked already - but anyone have any must-go-to recommendations for Chicago - food or sights wise? I think I heard about some market or something? If you are into cocktails, check out The Violet Hour. I haven't been yet, but I've heard it is a T.S. Eliot-themed bar with a hidden door and wonderful drinks. (I cannot guarantee that it won't be full of smug bow-tied mixologists.) If you are into museums, go to the Museum of Science and Industry and Museum of Contemporary Art. Very fun.
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MisterOblivious posted:It shouldn't have lacked the tart as you describe unless you lean towards Granny Smith levels of tartness. 
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CuddleChunks posted:Time to get your Guild Wars 2 on. A friend bought it for me about a week after release, but it definitely looks better now.
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mindphlux posted:
Benton's makes bacon too, and they smoke it very heavily. If you cook Benton's your neighbors three houses down will smell the woodsmoke. It's tasty stuff, but I've been going more for the light cure, light smoke, porky-tasting bacons lately. My local wine and cheese shop (where I tasted the above hams) had their 6th anniversary party on Saturday. They brought in some special guests and had wine, cheese, and charcuterie tastings. One of the special things was pancetta made from pata negra belly. It was like pig flavored butter, with tough chewy bits from the skin and meat - probably the best pork belly thing I've had as far as cooking potential goes. The distributor was talking about cooking turnips and turnip greens in the fat, then throwing in some pasta and a touch of butter to finish. I went to the farmers market the next day and they had turnips, so I guess I'm going to do that tonight. Should be fun.
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Homemade apple hooch? GrAviTy84 posted:I've been saying it for a while now, but Filipino Halo Halo packaged in the same manner as PinkBerry is overdue for it's spotlightmoment. Dude. There's cheese on that.
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Casu Marzu posted:I am so hungover right now death is an option. I was at a wedding on Saturday and still haven't got over it. I am definitely getting old.
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Reminder: Pepe's pizza in New Haven's clam pizza is the best specialty pie around anywhere. But if you get the opportunity to try a decent clam pie (dough, clam, garlic) anywhere, do it. Super convenient if you're driving from Boston to NYC or vice-versa, too.
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Have any of you guys eaten at Koi in Seal Beach, CA cause holy poo poo
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There will be a meat grinder in the apartment soon. I can finally grind my own burger meat. I am burgin so hard in anticipation  e: 
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An observer posted:There will be a meat grinder in the apartment soon. I can finally grind my own burger meat. I am burgin so hard in anticipation Advice: Freeze your poo poo! By poo poo I mean the meat (just barely frozen) and the attachment (should be as cold as the stares from my wife when I discuss her fathers sex-life with him).
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An observer posted:There will be a meat grinder in the apartment soon. I can finally grind my own burger meat. I am burgin so hard in anticipation Cast iron or kitchenaid?
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Vegetable Melange posted:Cast iron or kitchenaid? I have both! It's vintage, and it doesn't work well at all, but I have it, along with my decades old stand mixer.
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Eat This Glob posted:I have both! It's vintage, and it doesn't work well at all, but I have it, along with my decades old stand mixer.
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Cast iron, just like the one my family owned back in the old country 
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Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right?
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mediaphage posted:Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right? If he really loved you he'd have gotten you the $600 version **** Kidding aside, I didn't know they had a home version. Makes it actually a tempting option now... Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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Happy birthday mp! <3
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mediaphage posted:Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol so I've been joking with my girlfriend for like, a long time about the modernist cuisine books. I'm always like 'lol NEVER BUY ME THIS ITS LIKE 600 DOLLARS YOU WOULD BE INSANE TO DO THAT' but my birthday is in like 8 days, and today this large heavy package came and she was like 'oh that's my books'. I was like 'drat girl thats a lot of lawschool books' and didn't think much of it - but she rushed off and hid the box and told me not to go into the closet.  anyways congrats and happy birthday, almost-birthday-buddy! expensive cooking books are great presents! 
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therattle posted:Which do you find better for hookers? Most hookers I hang around with prefer primal cuts. They don't like ground meat  . In their line of work, the possibility of spreading bacteria needlessly scares them off or something.
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mediaphage posted:Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right? Got my copy today too, I read about half of it, it's really great. If you have a puddle machine and one of those molecular gastronomy starter kits you can make pretty much everything in the book, plus if you own the original set the At Home book references back to it for a lot of stuff which is cool.
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mediaphage posted:Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right? 10/10 is the best birthday. I'm thirty today! No cookbooks yet, though. Mr. W got me opera tickets for this weekend! Wagner!
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mediaphage posted:Hi friends! Today is my birthday. My significant other got me this! He did pretty good, right? He suuuure did. I'm jealous. Happy birthday! Wroughtirony posted:10/10 is the best birthday. Happy birthday to you too! Enjoy the opera. Wife got to go to a dance performance last night, which I haven't done for about 18 months (no opera either; stupid babby) - I was very jealous. “I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray "Wagner’s music is better than it sounds". - Edgar Wilson Nye "I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
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Last night we won 18 to 0. We should have had Die Valkyren playing.
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Thanks for the well wishes, friends! It wasn't a bad day - Canadian Thanksgiving was Monday, so I made buttermilk rolls, cranberry sauce, caramelized carrot soup, gluten-free stuffing, which came out surprisingly okay, buttered fingerling potatoes with green onions, Thomas Keller's roast chicken, some fried yuba roll for me, and individual pumpkin cheesecake desserts, with gluten-free speculoos crumbled below and atop, and layered with whipped coconut cream. Our Muslim friend and his wife (who is allergic to gluten) joined us and brought stuffed grape leaves, hummus, and a box of awesome middle eastern desserts. Yesterday we went to a froo-froo grocery store and got abunch of expensive finger foods for supper, including this spread that was composed of cream cheese, butter, sun-dried tomatoes, and pesto. Ridiculous. And MC! Anyway, it's a good week so far. Out to Denver (well, Fort Collins, really) for work today. I hope everyone else is having a good week! Your friend, mediaphage </lj> mediaphage fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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mediaphage posted:Thanks for the well wishes, friends! It wasn't a bad day - Canadian Thanksgiving was Monday, so I made buttermilk rolls, cranberry sauce, caramelized carrot soup, gluten-free stuffing, which came out surprisingly okay, buttered fingerling potatoes with green onions, Thomas Keller's roast chicken, some fried yuba roll for me, and individual pumpkin cheesecake desserts, with gluten-free speculoos crumbled below and atop, and layered with whipped coconut cream. This is a good post, and so is your post in my spanking new bread thread.
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therattle posted:This is a good post, and so is your post in my spanking new bread thread.  Foodchatbook
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mediaphage posted:
Foodbook.
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therattle posted:Foodbook. Insufficiently ridiculous
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ok keepin the good news running the ring I was having designed is finished. they appraised it and HOLY gently caress I won the lottery http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2764878&pagenumber=167#post408399211 time to go eat at a grant achatz restaurant and get hitched!
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mindphlux posted:ok keepin the good news running That reminds me, we need to go get gravette's band and engagement ring appraised.
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My wife didn't want an engagement ring. 
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therattle posted:My wife didn't want an engagement ring. Sorry she's not proud to be married to you, I guess?  Fake Edit: I kid, that was mean.
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therattle posted:My wife didn't want an engagement ring. She's lying. Buy her something shiny.
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