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Is there a whole genre of bitter melon-based sauces that I'm unfamiliar with because I don't read the right languages? Because I've got more bitter melons coming out of the garden than I know what to do with, and went looking for suggestions and didn't get anything too spectacular. Been making pickles, freezing a shitload, and so on. Decided to try making a vinegar-based bitter melon purée sauce, like a condiment sauce, basically just a shitload of bitter melon, garlic, heavy hand on the ginger, and a couple of bhuts. It's really loving tasty, in that particular way that the flavours come together that makes me believe this has got to be A Thing in some cuisine or other because how could it not be. Downside: it pretty much looks exactly like vomit. Should probably throw in some bell pepper or something like that just to improve the colour.
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Drink and Fight posted:Supersizers is amazing, everyone should watch it. this looks pretty good, def gonna watch it. on the topic of food TV, anyone else got any other non-US suggestions? I'm sort of out of cooking / food things worth watching at the moment. I got into some of the CCTV stuff after watching their 'bite of china' thing which was pretty loving awesome - and I'm now convinced the cure to my food/cooking/documentary glut is mining other country's cooking networks for content. I found some great documentaries on welsh TV when I was living in the UK, but I could only stream them via channel 4 while on a british network.  and I don't really have it in me to secure a VPN connection to each country I wanna watch some dumb food TV in.
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Aug 11, 2016 05:11
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mindphlux posted:this looks pretty good, def gonna watch it. Two Fat Ladies?
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Aug 11, 2016 06:08
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I've mentioned this before but The Katering Show is pretty great.
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Aug 11, 2016 06:24
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I'll give em a look as well. I skew a little more towards documentary / technique / history shows than entertainment-involving-food shows. like I'll nerd out with some ray mears or some thing about the fishing industry in south africa, or a french show about perfecting pastry or some heston blumenthal or whatever I can't remember if this was posted here or not, but this was a proclick for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pII_2VbgheI - 2h documentary about a microclimate in japan, sort of related to food I guess?
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Aug 11, 2016 06:46
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mindphlux posted:this looks pretty good, def gonna watch it. I don't know how informative it is since it's a cooking show, but I loved watching Two Fat Ladies growing up. It's incredibly British so you've probably heard of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FacCeRFWKx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJoIH3Omho4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgOpmgkRok
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Aug 11, 2016 15:41
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mindphlux posted:this looks pretty good, def gonna watch it. You've seen gently caress, That's Delicious, right? And The Mind of A Chef.
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Drink and Fight posted:I've mentioned this before but The Katering Show is pretty great. Pro fukkin click, there
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Aug 11, 2016 21:20
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Drink and Fight posted:I've mentioned this before but The Katering Show is pretty great. Season 2 just came to the US half an hour ago!
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Aug 11, 2016 21:30
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Drink and Fight posted:I've mentioned this before but The Katering Show is pretty great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1SjJm7yfek
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Aug 12, 2016 00:08
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Haha I came in here just to post that
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Aug 12, 2016 00:56
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The Midniter posted:I'd actually rather there not be an American version of TGBBO, casseroles or not. Ironically I think TGBBO was inspired by the Pillsbury Bake-Off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Bake-Off
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esperantinc posted:Since cooking shows came up, shout out to Masterchef Australia for being what a (televised reality show for amateurs) cooking competition should be. It's a monster - 60+ episodes of an hour each, per season. I like the UK series' too, even the celebrity edition - the contestants are just treated like normals: tough challenges, honest criticism. I think at least one has gone on to be a cook after appearing on the show. mindphlux posted:I'll give em a look as well. I skew a little more towards documentary / technique / history shows than entertainment-involving-food shows. like I'll nerd out with some ray mears or some thing about the fishing industry in south africa, or a french show about perfecting pastry or some heston blumenthal or whatever There are a few gems on netflix. Restaurant Australia was good, though only 3 episodes.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:You've seen gently caress, That's Delicious, right? And The Mind of A Chef. havent seen gently caress that's delicious, I'll add it to my list mind of a chef fuckin owns
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My former flat mate (amazing cook) was on MC Australia. Here in the UK they also have MC professionals, which is very good, and Celebrity MC (less so).
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mindphlux posted:havent seen gently caress that's delicious, I'll add it to my list If you like gently caress, that's delicious you might also like a lot of the other shows on Vice's Munchies channel. Their Guide to series can be pretty great, depending on the local host, I kind of enjoy the Matty Matheson Canada show and Chef's night out can be quite entertaining or insufferable. As a teaser have some a Chef's night out where some Danes eat ungodly amounts of food, get shitfaced and try to communicate in their incomprehensible heathen gibberish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWAFSBo2ak Bourdain's various travel shows are also pretty damned great, but I imagine you are already aware of those.
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I love Action Bronson, but for some reason I just could not get into gently caress, that's delicious.
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The Midniter posted:I love Action Bronson, but for some reason I just could not get into gently caress, that's delicious. I really like it at first but then I just got tired of his shtick. Same with Matty Matheson, really.
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sweat poteto posted:It's a monster - 60+ episodes of an hour each, per season. I like the UK series' too, even the celebrity edition - the contestants are just treated like normals: tough challenges, honest criticism. I think at least one has gone on to be a cook after appearing on the show. Oh no doubt it's a marathon. I generally have to watch in little weekly binges to catch up.
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mindphlux posted:I'll give em a look as well. I skew a little more towards documentary / technique / history shows than entertainment-involving-food shows. like I'll nerd out with some ray mears or some thing about the fishing industry in south africa, or a french show about perfecting pastry or some heston blumenthal or whatever There's a BBC documentary series called The Spice Trail: Pepper & Cinnamon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAfiduVxE2I Nutmeg & Cloves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12iOZ3PfRpI Vanilla & Saffron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSCr2xKXaQ I was going to suggest Gordon Ramsay's youtube channel since he's hunting his own food in exotic places like New Zealand and Oklahoma, but then you mentioned entertainment-involving-food shows and I guess that's what that is MrSlam fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Coming out of lurking to say that I love the Great British Baking Show. I made a drat Prinsessatarta because of that show. Also, a friend is bragging about her "amazing" zucchini casserole on Facebook and it's killing me. It's zucchini, broccoli, onion, and ground beef tossed in eggs and mayonnaise, topped with Velveeta and baked until mush.  doesn't begin to cover it.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:49
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It was probably a tasty episode. I did see a pretty decent pork chili from Tasty but the cook wasn't the one with sausage hands so it didn't use a block of cream cheese.
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I love Chopped in all it's variations, except for Canadian Chopped. It just seems... off. Not quite right. The contestants are weird.
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Squashy Nipples posted:I love Chopped in all it's variations, except for Canadian Chopped. It just seems... off. Not quite right. The contestants are weird. To borrow from the Simpsons Quote thread 
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The first two seasons of Mind of a Chef were loving fantastic. I tried to find it on my local public tv station when it came back for season 3 last fall, but could never find it. I hope it pops up on Netflix soon. I don't get Viceland, but my buddy showed me the Alaska episode of gently caress, That's Delicious and I didn't get the appeal. I tried to segue him to Bourdain (bit of a reach) and Huang (closer to FTD from what I saw) but he wasn't all that interested. He doesn't really cook at all though. As far as Netflix goes Cooked is what is quite possibly my favorite miniseries made about cuisine ever. Super interesting, Pollan is good on camera, and the camerawork is amazing. I think I'm going to knock out all 4 (iirc) episodes between tonight and tomorrow morning for the third or fourth time.
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Food show related: sausage party is the worst film of all time.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Food show related: sausage party is the worst film of all time. apparently a large part of how it met budgetary needs or w/e was by bullying staff into unpaid overtime and then leaving them out of the credits when they said "man wtf?"
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Trebuchet King posted:apparently a large part of how it met budgetary needs or w/e was by bullying staff into unpaid overtime and then leaving them out of the credits when they said "man wtf?" You just made the film, impossibly, even worse.
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I'm in France and just had some amazing cheese: St Felicien Tentation. So drat good. Went to stock up at supermarket this morning (going to market tomorrow, don't worry) and was amused by the range of chilled puddings: crime brûlée with a sachet of caramel to sprinkle on top and grill; chestnut with purée; rum babas etc.
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I'm encouraged by the progress of american cheesemakers over the past 10 years, but goddamnit if I'm not just frustrated as hell every time I go to france and walk in a fromagerie thanks for making me cheesefrustrated 
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mindphlux posted:I'm encouraged by the progress of american cheesemakers over the past 10 years, but goddamnit if I'm not just frustrated as hell every time I go to france and walk in a fromagerie It's the FDA's doing. They mean well - and, frankly, our food safety regulations hadn't been updated in 70 years so they definitely needed touching up - but they choose stupid hills to die on. My cheesemonger can't even get pasteurized brie from overseas right now.
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bartolimu posted:It's the FDA's doing. They mean well - and, frankly, our food safety regulations hadn't been updated in 70 years so they definitely needed touching up - but they choose stupid hills to die on. My cheesemonger can't even get pasteurized brie from overseas right now. There's an actress named Brie Larson and it only recently occurred to me she's named after cheese.
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bartolimu posted:It's the FDA's doing. They mean well - and, frankly, our food safety regulations hadn't been updated in 70 years so they definitely needed touching up - but they choose stupid hills to die on. My cheesemonger can't even get pasteurized brie from overseas right now. I saw the cheese-making thread and got wide-eyed at the possibilities. Then I asked around about unpasteurized milk. Everyone told me you have to know a farmer personally and even then they couldn't legally sell it to you. I can make cheese with pasteurized milk but what's the point 
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MrSlam posted:I can make cheese with pasteurized milk but what's the point Meh, I still make paneer sometimes. The freshness is nice.
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MrSlam posted:I saw the cheese-making thread and got wide-eyed at the possibilities. Then I asked around about unpasteurized milk. Everyone told me you have to know a farmer personally and even then they couldn't legally sell it to you. If you rented a cow for some time, the milk would be yours! Joking aside, this made think a milk co-op would allow you to get unpasteurised milk. Googled, and lo and behold, it's Canada, but still: https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/01/21/court_approves_raw_milk_coop.html Edit: quote:The cows will still give their milk and their owners will still savour frothy mouthfuls straight from the farm. But now, the infamous cow-share program of Durham, ON, is legal in the eyes of the law.
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MrSlam posted:I saw the cheese-making thread and got wide-eyed at the possibilities. Then I asked around about unpasteurized milk. Everyone told me you have to know a farmer personally and even then they couldn't legally sell it to you. It's for your pet, right? Totally legal!
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mindphlux posted:I'm encouraged by the progress of american cheesemakers over the past 10 years, but goddamnit if I'm not just frustrated as hell every time I go to france and walk in a fromagerie We went to the market today. We already had some petit Basque (we're near the Pyrenees) and we picked up three more, including a beautiful firm goat cheese almost like a young pecorino, with a creaminess I've not tasted with goat before, and a green pesto cheese just to try (wife more than me; the pesto overwhelmed the cheese for me). I also got a small jar of wonderful honey to eat with the chèvre, a local melon, and some olives
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therattle posted:We went to the market today. We already had some petit Basque (we're near the Pyrenees) and we picked up three more, including a beautiful firm goat cheese almost like a young pecorino, with a creaminess I've not tasted with goat before, and a green pesto cheese just to try (wife more than me; the pesto overwhelmed the cheese for me). I also got a small jar of wonderful honey to eat with the chèvre, a local melon, and some olives You in Languedoc? That's like my one of my favourite places ever, and yes all the food is absolutely awesome.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:You in Languedoc? That's like my one of my favourite places ever, and yes all the food is absolutely awesome. I am indeed. We were in a bit of a rush (hungry tired child) so didn't linger as long as I'd have liked to, but the produce also looked absolutely fantastic. We only got here Sunday eve but are very happy so far.
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I wanted a beer so I tried the nearest thing the village shop had to a craft beer: a Leffe Royale Cascade, made with Cascade hops in the US IPA style. 1) I learned that Leffe is part of AB InBev, the massive international beer/alcohol company. 2) I also learned that the beer is absolutely disgusting. i poured it down the drain (and I really needed a drink). It had an unusual sweetness, almost like it had been sweetened, and an overpowering not very pleasant flavour. I like a bit of sweetness and a full body, but this was just too much. Really gross.
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