stereobreadsticks posted:

I had something today in Pasto, Colombia that was tasty but not pretty. Platano maduro con queso y bocadillo, that's a ripe plantain, stuffed with cheese and guava paste, then baked.

Grand Fromage posted:

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http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2015/09/california-prune-cream-salad-1934-a-mid-century-gelatin-recipe-test/ posted:

From The Tasting Notes –

This may quite possibly take the #1 spot as the worst thing we’ve ever made here on MCM. This was bad. And not, “Ha ha…this is so funky” bad, this was legitimately horrible. Absolutely horrible. The smell alone was enough to peel paint, and the salad itself was horrific. It never really set up in any way into something that you could slice. The best way to describe the texture would be “glorpy”. It was a gooey, sticky mess. The only texture change in the whole thing was the sweet pickles. And they weren’t a good addition. The flavor had absolutely nothing redeeming in it. There was no “Well, maybe if we left out this or that.” No. This was all around bad. The sweet pickles were overpowering, and mixed horribly with the prunes and gave off a flavor that can only be described as bile. The mayo, cottage cheese and chili sauce didn’t do much but gum everything up, so much so that when you took a bite you weren’t really tasting them so much as trying to figure out how a bite of silly putty got in your mouth. Horrible. Absolutely, totally horrible.

Arivia posted:

1934, you don't even have wartime rationing to blame for that. Jesus Christ.

Serves 10-12, the dog, the ground, and several raccoons coming to look for the delicious rotting soft poo poo.

Picnic Princess posted:

Why even bother with lettuce. Just eat that poo poo like it's mashpotatos.

stereobreadsticks posted:

I had something today in Pasto, Colombia that was tasty but not pretty. Platano maduro con queso y bocadillo, that's a ripe plantain, stuffed with cheese and guava paste, then baked.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Because it is "salad".

Haifisch posted:

stereobreadsticks posted:

I had something today in Pasto, Colombia that was tasty but not pretty. Platano maduro con queso y bocadillo, that's a ripe plantain, stuffed with cheese and guava paste, then baked.

Aunt Beth posted:

Would. I have yet to meet a preparation for plantains that I dislike.

drrockso20 posted:

On the topic of pancakes I like them thin with just a touch of crispness at the edges, big fluffy ones tend to end up not having much flavor and are often dry too

Tashilicious posted:

So a crepe?

TurboTax posted:

At first I thought that might be khachapuri (Georgian cheese bread):

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I would like one of each, both the kachapuri and the cheesy plantain boat.

TurboTax posted:

At first I thought that might be khachapuri (Georgian cheese bread):

Dzhay posted:

https://twitter.com/MrBarryLewis/status/972538635491913728

Helith posted:

It’s just a rice paper sheet like you’d use to make Vietnamese rice paper rolls.
It’s probably ~fusion~

Edit: haha, I’ve actually read the tweet and he made it hard on himself by loving around with starch to make the transparent wrapper.
Rice paper wrapper would have given the same look for a lot less hassle.

drrockso20 posted:

On the topic of pancakes I like them thin with just a touch of crispness at the edges, big fluffy ones tend to end up not having much flavor and are often dry too

Arivia posted:

So Japan beat us to making food solely for how good it looks on Instagram?

Tashilicious posted:

So a crepe?

The Bloop posted:

The secret is that fluffy ones are merely sponges for conveying large quantities of butter and syrup into the mouth in a socially acceptable fashion.

stereobreadsticks posted:

For what it's worth the cheesy plantain boat (thanks Fleta for that excellent description worthy of a terrible '60s cookbook) was genuinely good. Slightly salty from the cheese, sweet from both the ripe plantain and the guava, tart from the guava, and savory from the cheese and the plantain, surprisingly balanced. I'm about to cross the border into Ecuador today, will keep an eye out for AFP for the thread.

But before I go, I thought I'd share something from a previous trip. In October I was in Southeast Asia for a couple of weeks and I had this for lunch in Cambodia one day.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Thank you for not posting the bog-standard Cambodian tourist shot of a tarantula on a stick!

RareAcumen posted:

Are windy churros really much better though?

Helith posted:

It’s just a rice paper sheet like you’d use to make Vietnamese rice paper rolls.
It’s probably ~fusion~

Edit: haha, I’ve actually read the tweet and he made it hard on himself by loving around with starch to make the transparent wrapper.
Rice paper wrapper would have given the same look for a lot less hassle.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I really hate spiders.