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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 7, 2014 10:35:38 GMT -5
so, eating dracula tonight. 'eating dracula' sounds like a cool band name. i call it! let us know how it goes.
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Post by Mod City on Jun 8, 2014 20:31:39 GMT -5
It came together in yet another form. It continues to evolve! In this case, we substituted two loaves of mild garlic bread instead of French bread and dropped the garlic/feta sauce, opting for straight feta and a shredded horseradish cheese. The bread worked really well, it crisps up nice but still has a soft bite, but I think I like the previous version better. Still looking for perfect bread, but this worked great, and would use again.
We also broiled the kabobs, as the grill is not working (just need a new one). Also worked great, but I prefer the added char flavor the grill gives. And now the whole house smells like kabobs, so I'm in heaven/undergoing torture now.
Bottom line? We ate the whole thing.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 9, 2014 10:32:42 GMT -5
another success! when i took that bruschetta to my cousin, who lives two hours away from me, my car reeked of garlic that had a similar effect on me. i mean, it smelled like i had a couple of italian gangsters in the back of my car, but i love garlic, so it wasn't that bad, as long as i kept the windows down.
on this restaurant you and your brother must open, that should be the only sandwich you serve. that's it. you could totally be like the soup nazi in seinfield - the sammich nazi. no sammich for you!! you could yell, shaking your fist, when some idiot asked for it on white bread.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jun 29, 2014 20:10:34 GMT -5
I really, really do not like to cook. When I lived by myself, I pretty much lived on salads, spaghetti with sauce from a jar, and fried eggs on toast, and that was good enough for me. However, in the past couple of years I have developed a passion for real, from-scratch food from all corners of the globe, and it's all down to my own sexy-ass personal chef, pictured here: That's my BF Tom, wearing the chef's jacket his mom got him as a jokey Xmas present one year, hahaha. He LOVES to cook, and makes everything from scratch, mostly using recipes he just makes up, more or less, or modifies from recipes he finds on the 'net. Everything he makes is spectacular, and he can even make amazing meals out of cheap, meh ingredients. My favorite dishes he has in rotation are his Indian butter chicken (we've had friends over and fed them this, and it is LEGENDARY), Hungarian paprikash, Italian sausage lasagna with homemade noodles, Thai crab soup, and Swedish meatballs. He also makes a pretty mean gumbo, since he lived in New Orleans for many years. I gained 25 pounds when we moved in together, and know what? I ain't even mad. :-)
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 30, 2014 10:21:09 GMT -5
indian butter chicken sounds awesome. that and the thai crab soup. it all sounds good to me, actually - i'm most impressed about the gumbo. genuine 'nawlens gumbo must be heaven. i've seen recipes for it and i know i would never have the patience to try making it myself.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jun 30, 2014 16:46:23 GMT -5
As a person who never really learned to cook, and grew up in a family where pretty much everything came out of boxes and cans, the fact that Tom can just browse through the pantry and fridge and come up with something amazing on the fly kinda seems like witchcraft to me, honestly. And the one gumbo he made was so, SO good...I specifically wanted some seafood gumbo, because I hadn't had any in ages and I love seafood in all its forms. He spent $60 buying all the seafood to go in it (yikes!), but his recipe yielded a GIANT pot of it that I happily ate for every meal for three days. :-)
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Post by nondescript spice on Jun 30, 2014 19:06:31 GMT -5
damn. seafood gumbo? authentic? *drool* i wish i could download some of it. yeah, anyone who can make a really good meal out of a few random things in the fridge or cupboard is a born cook. i didn't inherit that from my mom, unfortunately. i made a thanksgiving dinner for my parents and a few friends four or five years ago and you would have thought i had cooked for 300 people by how stressed i was.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jul 10, 2014 16:26:40 GMT -5
i want to try these just to see what they would taste like. but i don't have any eggs. i could go to the store but it's so hot out. someone else make them and tell me what they are like.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jul 14, 2014 21:31:32 GMT -5
A couple nights ago we had a hankerin' for some dessert-type sustenance, as you do. We really do try not to eat too many sweets, because our old-ass metabolisms will send the calories right to our respective (and already quite adequate, thank you) fat stores, but hey, sometimes we wanna live a little. We browse through the pantry and I notice a big honking jar of extra crunchy peanut butter. "Ooooh," I say. "Let's make some peanut butter cookies, dawg." Tom, who is always several steps ahead, immediately comes back with, "Yeah, I like that, but how about this? Instead of just peanut butter cookies, let's put those bitches in cupcake tins, poke holes in the middles, and fill them full of Nutella and/or cherry jam." You see why I love this guy??? Yes, you do. So YAAASSSSS, hugely thick peanut butter cookie cups with giant, luscious dollops of Nutella and jam in there. DESSERTS LIKE A BOSS.
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Post by milospinstripe on Jul 15, 2014 16:16:40 GMT -5
My favorite dishes he has in rotation are his Indian butter chicken (we've had friends over and fed them this, and it is LEGENDARY), Hungarian paprikash, Italian sausage lasagna with homemade noodles, Thai crab soup, and Swedish meatballs. He also makes a pretty mean gumbo, since he lived in New Orleans for many years.
He looks really familiar, how long ago did he live in New Orleans? I'm from N.O. I lived here for my entire life, I think you said he just likes to cook, but did he ever work as a chef in any NOLA restaurants? I've worked in a few when I was younger and I used to go out in the French Quarters after work in those days. Did he ever hang out at the Whirling Dervish or the Dungeon? He looks like the type that would frequent such establishments. I doubt I know him its just he looks quite familiar. The cool thing about New Orleans is its a medium sized city but for some reason it seems intimate enough that you can get to know people and recognize them when you hang out in certain areas and certain places for long enough.
I don't party and go out very much anymore but I used to, typically three times or more a week. My girlfriend was a bartender on Bourbon St. and I worked on St. Louis at a restaurant, so we spent a good bit of time in the Quarters in those days. This was around 2003-2008 by the way.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jul 16, 2014 19:00:50 GMT -5
He lived there from 1998 to about 2000 or 2001 I believe. He said he'd heard of the Dungeon, but he went to The Crystal and The Convent more often.
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Post by nondescript spice on Aug 21, 2014 18:02:33 GMT -5
oh my gosh, i just baked a peach. that sounds like it should be a euphemism for something. but slice it, take the pit out and put a dab of butter in both centers, sprinkle with cinnamon. bake for 30 minutes at 375. ahhhhhh, it was delicious. i'm sure it would be mind blowing with vanilla ice cream, maybe a li'l brandy. but just by itself it was grand.
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Post by Mod City on Aug 23, 2014 2:45:22 GMT -5
oh my gosh, i just baked a peach. that sounds like it should be a euphemism for something. but slice it, take the pit out and put a dab of butter in both centers, sprinkle with cinnamon. bake for 30 minutes at 375. ahhhhhh, it was delicious. i'm sure it would be mind blowing with vanilla ice cream, maybe a li'l brandy. but just by itself it was grand. I like the sound of this. All of it. Just cinnamon or sugar also? I like cinnamon toast but it's always been a half and half thing with sugar for me. And why don't I have any ice cream around here? Tomorrow, it's to the store.
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Post by nondescript spice on Aug 23, 2014 11:08:01 GMT -5
i suppose you could add sugar, but honestly it was pretty sweet with just the butter & cinnamon. a bit o' honey probably would make it even better.
i tried baking half a grapefruit this week, too. put a little honey or maple syrup in the center before you put it in the oven at 375 for 15 minutes. not bad - better than eating it cold, imo. and it's easier to spoon out.
next i'm going to try a banana. slice it up, drizzle honey, sprinkle cinnamon and put in the oven at 350 for ten minutes.
and after that? BAKE A WATERMELON. ehhhhh, nah.
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Post by nondescript spice on Aug 31, 2014 21:19:17 GMT -5
i baked another peach tonight and put a little honey in the centers, which made it even sweeter.
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