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This thread coincided with me reading the Zeb Wells/Abnett-Lanning run of the New Mutants (verdict: good stories, wildly inconsistent art). There's a sort of running joke about their Latverian landlady, Mrs. Livitz, serving the team steaming bowls of prokporzhki prod, a typical Latverian dish:  Braised pork, potatoes, allspice, cream, and paprika. Latverian cookbooks are hard to find, so I couldn't get a recipe! Mrs. Livitz mentions another dish, bigos doomorschi ("Doom's soup"), which at least shares a name with a real dish (bigos, a Polish sauerkraut stew). These are just words made up to sound funny and vaguely Slavic. That said, the ingredients suggest it's basically a goulash, and now that the weather is cooling off, this sounded rib-sticking good! Here's what I did.  I started by browning about 1.5 lbs of pork shoulder.  Sauteed onion, garlic, and (because I had it around the house) red bell pepper.  Some acidity in a dish likes this helps lighten it and brighten the flavors. Here, sour cream would be great. Or do what I did and add 3/4 cup of sauerkraut.  Spices! Lots of Hungarian paprika (about 3T), some allspice, and black pepper.  I added a cup or so of chicken stock and it was time to cook. Traditionally you'd cook it at a low temperature for an hour or two, but Doom wants Doom's subjects to use the newest technologies that Doom provides! So, into the pressure cooker for 30 minutes.  Because I don't really care for potatoes, I left them out. Instead, I made homemade noodles. I figured cutting them irregularly was appropriate for a rustic dish like this (and is quicker). After it finished cooking, I reduced the liquid some, then added a half cup of heavy cream. And here it is, prokporzhki prod!  Verdict: delicious! Truly a meal fit for a mutant, Doctor Doom, or a goon. Cooking a non-existent dish is good fun! And the best part was telling my kids that DOOM DEMANDS ALL CHILDREN CLEAN THEIR PLATES BEFORE DESSERT, etc. Hail Doom, and bon appetit! Zombie Dachshund fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Sep 19, 2020 |
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How Wonderful! posted:This looks incredible and a lot like the goulashes that my mom (not Latverian) used to cook. Thanks! I enjoyed it, and it was a fun exercise. Also, I’d love a gang tag, whenever those go out!
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^ that looks great! I approve of a pea-based substitution; I love peas. Anyway, it's a real bummer that the Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook isn't available on Marvel Unlimited. It is available, posted in full or close to it, on somebody's blog. I won't link because  but it's out there and not hard to find.And like almost all cookbooks, it's a time capsule of the culture that produced it: in this case, the olden days of 1977. First up, the recipes are terrible. Just the worst of midcentury American cooking. Almost all the recipes involve "convenience" ingredients. Canned soup? Oh my stars and garters, yes! Canned vegetables instead of fresh? By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, you'd better believe it! It's a good reminder of how we have moved on (well, many of us have) culinarily: Glob Herman's vegetarian laksa recipe, by contrast, uses lots of fresh ingredients and shows a cultural influence broader than "The Campbell Soup Company." (To be fair, while it's not a difficult recipe, it's also way more work than anything in the MMSC.) The 1977 cookbook is also casually, cringily racist, especially with Shang-Chi's rice recipe and a kung-fu foe of his speaking fake Chinese. I was worried we'd have chicken recipes from Luke Cage but fortunately (?) there's just a picture of a worried-looking Howard the Duck.  Namor's tuna salad is fine, I guess. And baked hoagies are good, though I wonder what size bread Cap imagines us using that calls for a quarter cup of margarine but only three slices of ham? But Spidey's "parmigiani" is a real  . It's a Monte Cristo sandwich! That's a perfectly good sandwich. Spidey, you're from Queens! You know about eggplant/chicken/veal parmesan; why give yours a fake Italian name? Just say "it's gooey, like my web fluid!" or something.This is another favorite of mine:  Doctor Strange doesn't have time to cook! It's probably not fair for me, an experienced cook in 2020, to make fun of a cookbook from 1977, written for kids and non-cooking nerds, in a time when cooking was way more of a niche hobby than it is today. It's a fun read and I encourage everybody to seek it out. But it's tough for me to find much that I'd actually want to make from it!
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I command this thread to RISE FROM ITS GRAVY and return! Marvel Unlimited has brought out two issues(?) episodes(?) of a web comic called "TEST kitchen" featuring a young chef cooking for Tony Stark. It's not a very good comic! (and I don't think it's intended to be much of a comic.) But it is written by an actual chef and contains actual recipes. The first one is for a torta milanesa and the second is for linguini alle vongole. The recipes are slight twists on classics, and they look good! And it's striking how they are pitched at such a higher level than the Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook: they aren't crazy complex but do require some knowledge of technique and multiple steps. There are some nicely detailed instructions; they probably wouldn't be the worst way to learn some cooking skills. Mostly it's remarkable to me to see how much the culture has changed since the 1970s...
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