I don’t have time to cook this week (or to write a long post) so I don’t have an “If I weren’t vegan…” post for you, so I thought I would do a quick roundup of vegan cookbooks. Over the coming weeks I’ll do these small roundups when I don’t have the time to do a long article for you.
Cookbooks
Vegan for Everybody By the folks at America’s Test Kitchen, Vegan for Everybody is one of those books I keep giving to people who say they want to go vegan, but aren’t sure how to do it. The tortilla soup recipe hits my craving for tortilla soup from Blue Corn Cafe in Santa Fe. Another favourite is Red Lentil Soup with North African Spices, by which they mean paprika, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, and ginger.
Simple Recipes for Joy If you can get past the name, this is a really amazing cookbook. Written by Sharon Gannon, these recipes are largely drawn from the Jivamuktea Café she has co-owned in NYC since 1984. Recipes are plant based, and delicious. I haven’t made one dish from this cookbook that disappointed me. The maharani dal recipe is so good, and has the same comforting effect on me as sambar.
Vegans Know How to Party I have no idea how this book came into my life; it just appeared on my bookshelf one day, but it’s amazing, and the title cracks me up. This is the perfect book for the vegan who likes to host dinner parties, which isn’t me…I don’t like having people in my house, but it might be you.
On my cookbook wishlist:
Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a Fuck Anyone who knows me personally knows that I love swearing and gangsta rap. Combined with vegan food, this cookbook looks perfect for me. Everyone I know who has this cookbook says it’s incredible and there isn’t one bad recipe.
Vegan Comfort Classics Comfort food gone vegan. If there’s one thing I don’t do very well in the kitchen, it’s traditional American comfort food. It’s probably because most of my comfort foods are Indian, Thai, Japanese, or Middle Eastern, but sometimes I really want traditional comfort food like I grew up with. This cookbook has some promising reviews.
That’s it from me this week. See you all in the comments!
I got nuthin….
Me neither, I like Dead Animal Flesh, Cooked
Sup Tres, BBQ is finally on….
So pics/discussion of the 6 pounds of beef jerky I smoked up yesterday would be inappropriate?
I insist. Pics and recipe.
Ditto
Not having the gift of the pic on this site, you’ll have to settle for the recipe. I do have a pic in case an edit fairy wants to put it up.
I have an imgur account specifically for posting pics here. It’s weird because I can put images in my articles, but not my comments.
You don’t even need an imgur account juris. Imgur.com/upload and copy the URL after upload.
No no no. Jerky is best sliced with the grain. tisk tisk Traeger. That looks like a great marinade though.
6 lbs? Jesus man, how much meat did you start with? I did jerky yesterday but just one small lonely roast since it was an experimental recipe.
It’s going to Burning Man and between campmates and friends I’ll be lucky to eat a pound in the course of a week and a half.
Pic
I’m a hardcore carnivore.
I can’t even…
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I can’t vegan.
Then no theme music for you.
I really do like those folks at America’s Test Kitchen. I’m very much a “let’s keep experimenting with this recipe until it’s easier, tastier and (if at all possible) cheaper,” and they seem to have a similar attitude, so I like the cut of their jib. As they themselves brag, who else will make forty or fifty or sixty variations on (insert dish here) to find the best one they can?
I didnt mind Test Kitchen. But Kimball was always, to me, a smug prick.
Oh, yeah. I just ignored the tone and concentrated on the content.
Christ, what an asshole.
I started watching it after he left the show, so I don’t know how he was. I find his new show markedly inferior to ATK.
So the site no longer exists, but this faux Cook’s Illustrated Letter from the Editor is PERFECT. The Day I Killed a Man.
I had cheese tonight at dinner. You should be ashamed of me.
The spousal unit believes cheese to be one of the four food groups. She may be right.
She also told me that, no matter what, she’s never gonna try the Keto Diet. “No fruits? That’s insane.”
There goes that idea.
Berries are ok on keto.
Oh and avocados…
I’m having shellfish like this: https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/crispy-cajun-shrimp-fettuccine/
You cant both look on in disdain.
Why should we be ashamed of you?
Where do I start…?
*can
Sorry, I was eating.
Captain Pedant Strikes again…….
The whole pedo thing?
Why do you hate children?
Cause they won’t shut up…
Oh just the constant crying, whinging, snotty, needfulness, ‘I can’t do anything because I’m stupid’ bit…why the hell would anyone like the little fucks?
Even worse, they Grow up to be ME!!!!
MuhuAHAHAHAAA!!
You hate half of them too, no? Or are you a (((catholic priest))) too?
No Catholics, no pedos, just Sweet Pussy!
God I love cheese.
Halloumi is not the best cheese, but it’s a great cheese that holds up to grilling.
Everything is better on the grill…
No cheese for you, two years! (Or probably more by now?)
More Cheese for me! HAHA!
I love Cheese God.
My favorite YouTube vegan channel.
At some point, I’ll get off my lazy ass and do some YouTube vids under “The Libertarian Vegetarian.” Starting with “Basics of Stir-Frying,” since several people here said they had some problems with it.
Bad link OMWC.
Sheesh. He’s old, he can’t help it. (Also, sleep deprived in Atlanta on a sucky hotel wifi connection.)
Here you go
Thank you both. I had no idea this channel exists. I’ll check it out.
Aw man, i was hoping for this.
Really wish I could find some dishes that would work with me and my vegetarian gal. Problem is, she’s a terrible vegetarian. Hates vegtables. Many of my go to “gotta cook for a grass eater” meals are right out.
Did a General Tso’s with tofu that worked tonight. Still a damn tough line to walk.
A vegetarian that hates vegetables?
Yeah…wtf?
Sugar and grains are vegetarian…
It’s insane. Cheese and bread isn’t a diet.
Ugh.
I can relate. My last serious girlfriend was vegetarian, but she was at least honest about it and refereed to herself as a junk food vegetarian. Cheese quesadillas and nachos where a usual main dish.
Sounds like a lady John would be interested in.
I dated a girl who was ethically vegetarian until you waved enough money in front of her nose. She’d eat a basket of chicken wings if you gave her $50.
Unsurprisingly, she was similarly unprincipled in the rest of her life, too.
I imagine that lead to wild times and a short relationship.
I think the only vegan “cookbook” I have is Diet for a Small Planet.
Anyway, I’m going a mention again that the Good Housekeeping Cookbook is an excellent addition to any food library.
“We have to keep a close eye on this situation where Alex Jones has been banned for youtube. This could be used as justification to arbitrarily ban dozens of Black commentators from social media sites.”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1026543588425920513
w/o following the link, I just heard in my head “Yeah….he needed to go. But they’re kinda….I dunno. They could do this shit to us, too.”
Was I close?
Pretty much
Oops, Idiot…….
Man, that is a whole lotta crazy in one place.
The comments are good.
Stopped clocks, etc.
So you are saying it’s black people time?
No, it’s hammer time.
Wow, the second comment was about racially segregating themselves to a black only youtube type site. Thanks for this racial unity Obama.
I LOVE meat. Absolutely crave it.
The only vegetarian dinner that I’ve had that satisfied me like a steak: Portobello mushroom fajitas.
They used to have it off menu at the Mexican chain Cozymel’s, and I got the recipe before the one nearby went out of business.
The mushrooms are marinated in soy sauce, garlic, oregano, and white pepper. It tastes like steak. Seriously.
Well, there’s this:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:mushrooms.png
Add some sesame oil, you’ll love it.
I mentioned that it was off menu, which explains why it was hard to find a picture on the internet.
Pretend that there’s no sour cream:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5__GUe7p2j0/UVC5urQ7LnI/AAAAAAAAAUY/-3xTXq396mw/s1600/0315132048.jpg
Speaking of mushrooms, couple years ago in Montreal I had an excellent grilled beef liver in some kind of delicious marinade and delightful brown mushroom & beef gravy. I figure Minor’s is going to go a long way.
I picked up two livers yesterday for $1 pop and aim to substantially replicate the recipe this week.
I’m sure I could be talked into eating liver, but damn, I had no appetite for it growing up.
Unless it came out of a force fed duck or goose, it sucks.
Mom loves it. With buttermilk. Blech.
Boss Hogg ate raw liver every morning. And his portrayer was a method actor, so…well. If that’s what the role calls for,
Chicken liver in a white sauce over linguini is divine.
(((Chopper liver))) is a good schmear.
Although chicken liver is extremely high in cholesterol if you care about such things.
Spanish Canalons stuffed with minced chicken livers. Actually makes pasta worth eating.
I never had it as a kid (unless you count liverwurst that my dad used to get), and I could see being turned off it by bad preparation. The old liver and onions trope comes to mind.
But with the right preparation: dy-no-mite.
Fois gras is something of an exception: universally delicious.
I loved fois gras. I had it with the ex once, and she couldn’t stand it. So I got her portion, too. Mmm.
I like liverwurst….
I had a potobello burger at a local barbeque joint and it took me until I was about halfway through to figure out it wasn’t a protobello on the burger, it was just a portobello. But, by the flavor I’d guess it wasn’t vegan as it tasted too much of meat and was probably marinated in some meat byproducts.
“The West Hollywood City Council is expected to vote Monday night on a resolution calling on officials to permanently remove President’s Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“The City Council will consider adopting a resolution urging the Los Angeles City Council and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove President Donald J. Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, due to his disturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood, the region, state, and country,” reads the agenda item, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday.
The star, which was unveiled in 2007 for Mr. Trump’s work producing the Miss Universe pageant, has been the target of vandalism since the president was elected, but the city council’s resolution, put forth by Mayor pro tempore John D’Amico and councilwoman Lindsey Horvath, cites his actions and policies as more reason for the proposed removal.
The staff report for the resolution cited multiple reasons for removing the star, including, “”The separation of children from their parents at the United States border; Denial of findings from the United States intelligence community regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, and the continued refusal to hold Russia accountable for its crimes; Denial of the impacts of climate change on the world, and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement; His treatment of transgender individuals, including his reversal of an Obama administration era policy to allow transgender individuals to serve in the military; Plans to divert funding from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to cover the cost of child detainment tied to its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy.”
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has previously rejected calls to remove the star of disgraced comedian and convicted sex offender Bill Cosby, citing its historical landmark status and referencing a policy of not removing stars over public backlash, THR reported.
The city council meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/6/west-hollywood-vote-removing-trumps-walk-fame-star/
By G_d ! This is really gonna show him!
This is how you get sued into the Stone Age.
Pathetic.
These people also don’t seem to know/care that this silly Hollywood star will just precipitate Trump into becoming more combative and petty.
So by all means, keep at it!
Wow, I thought the left hated Reagan, but I don’t ever remember anyone suggesting a need to rip out his sidewalk star.
The guy taking the pick-axe to Trump’s Hollywood star? Koo-koo clock with no life. Despite this, variety is the spice of life.
Since they’re not proposing to rip out out half the stars on the sidwealk, I’m just going to go out on a limb here and guess that they don’t actually give a shit about his “disturbing treatment of women”.
I step away and Bella got the top of my Burger, any later and I go Hungry! Little Shit.
BTW the Little Shit weighs 50 Lbs, a very Dense Pooch…
Question for WebDom – or any other Glib vegan – do you like hummus? It’s one of the few items I like (that I can eat as an entree) that can be totally vegan. Maybe some pita and a salad.
I can’t get enough of Athenos roasted garlic humus. I can easily eat a 2lb bag of carrots with it.
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/58389fdc-cfaf-4dd6-8f45-b41c8bbe5db9_1.87fb145e9842d8c15d5e0ca75da4daf5.jpeg
Agreed. I love garlic hummus.
Mmmmmm hummus! OMWC makes a kickass hummus.
Along with the traditionally served-with-pita method, I like it stuffed into pita with a ton of roasted vegetables, or instead of some other spread on a sandwich. Flavor FTW!
OMWC, care to share your recipe in the same way you shared the baking soda softened chickpea falafel???
I love hummus. OMWC told me the best way to make it is by rinsing the skins off of the chickpeas. He’ll be able to share you the recipe. I can’t find it.
PM – Athenos is really good – my local has Sabra, which I (personally) think is comparable (YMMV)
SP – hummus with roasted peppers & onions…. mmm dammit, woman, now I’m drooling.
WD – I’ve heard that if you’re going to make it, skin it yourself. Me, I’m too lazy, especially when large brands create some really good hummus out of the container. That said, if I ever had a party with lots of dip, I might be grudged to get off my ass, especially if it was BIG.
The stuff you make yourself is way better than anything you can buy. Easy too.
I’ll add Trader Joe’s house brand hummus is good and, if you like jumbo size, Costco always has good hummus but I can’t remember the brand.
I’m vegetarian and I love hummus.
I’ve had hummus. It’s ok, don’t mind it, but I don’t crave it like chewing on a nice piece of meat that has an outside sear with a dark red inside. /not vegan
I love hummus. It’s a great lead in to a dish that has meat in it.
Dramatic video of WebDom when her vegan lasagna isn’t ready.
https://youtu.be/rr4AgQjGuHQ?t=23
“.@facebook rejected my video because it was “too shocking” for their platform, referring to the scenes of horrific events my parents survived in Cambodia. Facebook, do you think it’s right to censor history?”
https://twitter.com/ElizabethHeng/status/1025799506804305920
The video seems pretty tame, and she doesn’t sound all that conservative/republican either.
This was inevitable once they decided to censor based on content.
Not going to watch the video, because this just seems like a way to promote it. Like Faces of Death. Graphic content is something I don’t mind being censored, if that is in the video.
Rhywun:
Rice: 1 cup of rice, two cups of chicken broth, 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of sweet basil.
Dressing: 1 lb of ground beef, 1 pack of Richard’s dressing mix, 1 cup diced bell pepper (red or yellow), 1 cup of diced sweet onion, 1 garlic clove, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 cube of beef bouillon. Cook the onion and bell pepper soft then cook and drain the beef. Mix the rest of the ingredients in. Mix in the rice.
Chop 1 cup of green onion tops and mix into the cooked rice mix. (put the root portion of the onions in the garden, they will regrow the tops) Try to keep anyone from eating the ingredients before you are finished. That includes vegans.
#NotVegan.
You don’t have ground beef in your dressing?
The dressing mix is pork liver, chicken liver and chicken gizzards ground up finely. No, there is no beef in it.
Um…. the recipe you just posted?
1 lb of ground beef and one tub of Richard’s dressing mix – mix them together.
Isnt that what I wrote? I might be too drunk for this.
Ground Beef IS dressing….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_laNt7Sh6g
I think I am a little bit too drunk. I haven’t been able to keep up lately, I have been a bit busy. I better hit the bed.
No tomato?
as long as there are Caramelized Onions, we are good……
I respect your commitment to your lifestyle. Honestly. I wish I could be as committed to the one I’m supposed to be on.
I accept the fact that I’m taking a few years off of the end of my life. Those aren’t the years that I want anyway.
I’m supposed to be low-carbing, but my sugar addiction gets me.
I’ll be low carb/ketoish for a week or two… and then destroy a bag of Oreos.
*sigh* Yeup.
Allow yourself a ‘cheat day’ or a day and a half. Makes it less painful, gives you reward, and keeps you in control of the other 6 days. Or 5.5.
You being in control is what cements it.
aka, ‘operant conditioning’
see also: BF Skinner
I have tried that, but not consistently. I’ll do that a few weeks in a row and see what happens.
^^THIS
I like these articles because they remind me to think about what I stuff into my mouth.
Huh. It’s fascinating the WebDoms articles coincided exactly with me cooking meat.
Smoked country style ribs today with bbq beans full of leftover meat and caprese salad with a tomato the size of OMWCs head(softball).
I’m working up an article on makin’ bacon two ways. Smoked and pancetta.
What do you smoke with?
My cold smoker is giving me problems. I extended the duct by 3 feet, still getting to much of the bitter stuff.
I’ve got a Smokin-It 3D.
https://www.smokin-it.com/Smoker-p/smkmdl3d-gen2.htm
For cold smoking, I use this:
https://www.smokin-it.com/Cold-smoke-plate-p/smkplt3.htm
I do have to be careful with how much wood I use. This is an electric smoker that is very tight and the amount of wood used is measured in ounces. I actually got a little too much smoke on this last batch of bacon but it’s still quite tasty.
Can’t wait to see the article!
Reworking the stuff I’ve posted elsewhere is too much of a pain in the rear. This will flow a lot better.
Excellent. Thank you!
Veganomicon… I don’t use it as often as I should, but it’s always good.
I learned to cook with a cookbook called 100 vegetarian recipes. Nothing spectacular in that one, but really easy beginner vegetarian and vegan recipes.
“A position at the New York Times will amplify Sarah’s power one hundred fold, and if I thought she would never again abuse her power in this manner I’d stay out of it. But since she is unwilling to address her mistake, to come to terms with what she did I can only assume she intends to do the same to others.
This is why I am vocal in my objection to Sarah Jeong having any position at the New York Times. The position, properly filled requires someone with both competence and a conscience, Sarah has the first in excess and but not a shred of the second. I don’t think anyone should support someone who does not seem to be an actual believer in the values they espouse, but is instead a follower of convenience and absolutely comfortable it betraying those values when it serves her own ends.”
https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-my-experience-with-sarah-jeong-jason-koebler-and-vice-magazine-3f4a32fda9b5
Honestly, I haven’t been following this Sarah Jeong stuff all that closely, but she reads like an arrogant prick.
I read some piece she did earlier. “I can’t quit Facebook” or something. Long, tedious navel-gazing. Perfect fit for an outfit like The Atlantic or the NYT.
Another thing that tech cyborg pr whatever Naomi Wu writes is the characterisation of Sarah Jeong as some highly trained devious mega brain. In real terms, she’s nothing of the sort. Instead, she comes off more as a short-sighted, petty, arrogant dick. She’s not that smart at all. The pedigree doesn’t mean anything.
My impression is that Naomi Wu understands things much better than people. Also, English isn’t her native language.
I believe that is true but Ms. Wu also lives in a culture where if you say the wrong thing, not only you will be in danger, but all your friends and family as well. Sara Jeong apparently came close to asking questions might endanger Ms. Wu and her family and Ms. Wu overacted. But Ms. Jeong didn’t understand or didn’t care — probably both.
“The position, properly filled requires someone with both competence and a conscience”
AHAHAHAHAH!
Vegan delights: ratatouille must be roasted on very high heat to get your garlic cloves and some of the red peppers caramelised. Use no onion, but shallot instead. Use no tasteless California eggplant, but instead Italian or Chinese. Use plenty of tomatoes so that the end result amidst the roasted veggies is an incredible umami soup that I could drink by the cup any day.
Been on a gazpacho kick recently too.
I love ratatouille. Usually as a side dish to meat. What’s really nice is it’s just as good room temperature as hot.
My tin foil hat is having a hard time picking up the signal from the mother ship this morning. Anyone else having reception trouble? *Takes double shot of male vitality. (I wish Alex would change the name of that…)
Ahh. There’s your problem. Check your tinfoil clock, it’s not morning.
I keep forgetting the world is flat.
Common mistake
Who Gets the D? Annoying leftist edition
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ana Kasparian?
I think this is a pretty good matchup on paper, but it looks like years of I’m fucking better than you outrage is starting to tell on her face. I’m going with Hotsy Trotsky.
I’d give both of them the D, if you know what I mean.
DAMMIT COUNT YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE THOSE ARE THE RULES
OK, fine She Guevera.
Sorry for that outburst, but I hadn’t posted the Inauguration Screecher in a long time and you gave me a good excuse.
AnaK.
Yes she’s older, but she seems smarter and less likely to devour you mid-thrust.
Half-Breed Monster Crowned Miss Japan.
How do you say “WTF???” in Japanese?
Depends. Are you saying it to your mother or your boss?
Does it make a difference?
Absolutely. Also depends on if you’re drunk at an office party or in a sales meeting.
What if you are drunk at a sales meeting?
OK. I’ll be somewhat serious here. Business setting: “Sore wa, chotto…” With Mom: “Baka ja nai”.
Bakayarou?
Yeah, GL, it’d be something like that. I don’t use vulgar Japanese ever. Using polite Japanese to say perverted things is a skill I’d recommend to any learners.
I like your strategy.
There’s a ADVChina segment where one of the guys talks about getting his ass kicked because he mouthed off someone in Chinese who was hassling him. It went from a couple guys yelling at him to a mob whaling on him.
I think I’ve seen that one. Two expats talking while dining, right? South African dude and an American IIRC. TBH, you sound ridiculous using that blunt Japanese as foreigner. They wouldn’t get pissed. They’d just look at you like you mumbled gibberish. Imagine a Japanese guy saying, “Fuck me. No, I fuck, you mother shitter!”
To a bunch of reprobate strangers online.
Reference to anti-hafu racism?
Actual anti-hafu racism?
Japanese humor is inscrutable (not true, I’ve seen comedy anime and laughed)?
Considering the pic looks to be Linda Blair mixed with some Japanese chick, I’m going with satire.
It’s The Onion of Japanese culture.
I think they’re ridiculing the notion of non-Japanese as lesser or non-humans generally, not hafus.
https://www.therisingwasabi.com/foreign-residents-in-japan-predominantly/
Cool site. It is what the onion was
https://www.therisingwasabi.com/abe-told-trump-japan-doesnt-need-another-25-million-english-teachers/
Would. (did I do that right? I think that’s my first time)
Is there a food movement that hates pasta? I don’t mean anti-carb, because I love potatoes. But anti-pasta. I fucking hate pasta, it’s a waste of space only lesser in it’s useless than rice. What the hell is it’s purpose other than fill you up without actually eating anything? I can’t think of a single case in which pasta has a place in a meal, yet people keep trying to shove it my face. It’s disgusting and a crime against humanity that it exists.
That is its entire purpose.
It’s poor people food, for those times you don’t have enough protein and vegetables to go around, which is almost never.
Go back to Saudi Arabia.
I don’t get the joke.
I think of it as a sauce and/or savory fillings delivery system.
Brilliant!
To be fair, I’m not terribly imaginative in the kitchen and I also can’t be bothered with vegetables most of the time so pasta is one of the first things I reach for when I need to bulk something up.
My son and husband would eat marinara straight from the stockpot if I let them. I have to have spaghetti so it will last more than one meal.
I like all the components of a spaghetti dinner except the spaghetti.
C’mon over and you can dish up a bowl of marinara with us and eat it like chili, the way they do.
I’m making spaghetti tonight. Years of trial and error and I think I’ve got a pretty good carbonara thing going on. Can’t stand 90% plus of restaurant spaghetti. I can’t understand paying for pasta.
Growing up whenever my family had spaghetti I’d make a sandwich with the other ingredients, and that made it palatable.
Also, jarred spaghetti sauce. *gag*
Yep. Jarred spaghetti sauce, just like Momma used to make. If she was a meth addict.
The convenience of jarred spaghetti sauce as an argument for it is shot right to hell when you realize you can take a can of stewed tomatoes, add salt and garlic, cook it for half an hour, and have it taste a thousand times better than Paul Newman’s 47 Cheese Vodka Marinara or whatever, God rest his soul.
^^^Preach.
I remember the first time I went to an Italian restaurant that offered garlic and olive oil on my pasta instead of drowning it in a regular sauce. So much better.
I prefer white sauces to red, so I *really* hate how restaurants drown the pasta in a red sauce.
I get poor people eating it as a necessity for calories, but I find it disgusting that it is an ingredient used by people of means. Hell, I’ve lived off ramen like most, growing up macaroni and cheese a staple. Now I’m not a man of means yet at this point in my life, but I never use pasta in a meal if I have no monetary constraints, and I see no reason why people would enjoy it or waste money on it if they didn’t need to.
People of means co-opt poor people food, gussy it up a little, call it chic (occasionally making it too expensive for poor people to eat anymore), and voila, everybody forgets it was ever poor people food.
I know all that. I just don’t get it. Pasta is disgusting, no reason to eat it other than for calories.
Dude
I’m not saying it’s anything other than that. I find it disgusting. I also dry heave at the thought of most deserts. I know I’m not normal, I’m just voicing my opinion, that most of what people eat is fucking disgusting and makes me want to vomit. Yet, due to the cheapness of food in our capitalist society and bad genetics, I’m still a fat fuck. And happily so.
Oh, now I understand better.
I personally would be happier to never be obliged to eat again.
I’m waiting for that to happen with haggis.
That’s the Yorkshire pudding role. If you’re unfamiliar, British families used to do a roast beef on Sunday because having meat to eat was a big deal. For poorer families or larger families (there was a lot of overlap there) the move was to roast the beef, pour off the drippings into a pudding pan (a muffin pan more or less) and add an eggy, floury batter into same, then stick that in the oven to bake. The idea was that everybody would get a pudding (a popover, something like a savory beignet) that you’d douse in gravy to make the beef stretch further.
There does seem to be a pattern across cultures that, traditionally, the richer you are, the fewer starches you eat and the more protein you eat. I understand that in both China and Japan not terribly long ago the ratio of rice to not-rice was related to how well-off you were. If you were balling, the rice was pretty much just there so you had something to put food on, but if you were hurting you were eating a lot of that rice because you couldn’t afford the saucy goodness.
Oh damn, I missed that macaroni and cheese bit, too. If you don’t like macaroni and cheese, I’m willing to bet you’ve never had it made from scratch. Like cavatappi with a Mornay sauce of extra sharp cheddar and Jack. Ooh, or Havarti. It’s next-level shit.
Although, really, you could probably just eat the sauce and be perfectly content. If you’re a heathen.
I know this is a sin living in ‘America’s Dairy Land’, but I prefer the boxed shit with cheese sauce to ‘real’ mac and cheese. Not only because pasta is shit, but because real cheese adds a saltiness and dryness that makes the pasta all the more disgusting.
Are we talkin’ powdered cheese, or Velveeta? Because the powdered stuff is butt (although some dry mustard salvages it a little) but the Velveeta is hard to argue against. But the pasta they give you is shit. Too thin, too bland.
The powdered shit is way better than the Velveeta, but both are superior to abusing real cheese by adding it to pasta.
^This does NOT represent all food attitudes in Wisconsin.
I thought Wisconsin’s food attitude was to drink non-stop.
I would confess my favorite mac’n’cheese, but then I’d have to disappear and come back as Tulpa.
Build a time machine, and go back to the 13th century.
Swing wide and hit both Italy and all of East Asia in one swat. You like bread, CPRM?
Bread is ok as a delivery system for meat, but I don’t get people who want bread with each meal.
One of my mom’s old, Italian, boyfriends would like a word.
So you’re not a buttered toast guy, is what you’re saying?
Show us on the colander where the FSM touched you with its noodley appendage, CPRM. It’s ok. You’re in a safe space now.
Counterpoint:
Good pasta that’s not overcooked tastes good and adds texture. It also balances the flavor of what you’re serving it with, letting some of the more subtle flavors in a sauce come through. Ideally, though, there should be a good balance, not a pound of pasta with a cup of sauce on top. This is true also of rice.
Also, everything you’re saying about pasta could apply to potatoes.
except potatoes taste good.
I don’t know, I could take or leave Russets. Yukon Golds, though. And roasted red potatoes with garlic and rosemary are the absolute shit.
Oh, they can be fucked up. Once we got a microwave, Mom used it to fuck up baked potatoes royally.
I didn’t care for them before; now I really hate baked potatoes.
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!
Pasta is food of the gods. If you don’t like it, you are pure evil. Pure. Fucking. Evil.
Psst – more pizza for the rest of us, even if he’s starving.
I predict a riot. Or, at least, that’s what the media sooooo want.
Obviously those black people are just racist white people in disguise.
I get the impression the locals want one too.
Is it just me or are the chants getting worse. “no nails, no toes, these racist shops have got to go.” I hate that shit. Same with, “Whose streets? Our streets!”. Basically admitting they’re vigilante pieces of garbage. Also, the term for “arrested” is a news story is not “busted”, NY Post.
Good thing black people can’t be racist.
I am mildly surprised that Koreans are still running (most? all?) of the salons in that particular area. Given its history in recent decades.
Employee Huiyue Zheng, 32, and customer Christina Thomas, 21, were busted for a variety of charges including misdemeanor assault, harassment and menacing. Zheng was caught on surveillance tape chasing a combatant out of the salon with a broomstick.
Arrested for self defense? Because that’s sure what it sounds like in non-NY ‘Murica.
And “busted”? No bias there, no sirree.
Uh oh, looks like somebody wants to make America great again…
BTW, saw your comment on blacks and their opinion of white privilege from the other night. I hope you’re right about working class blacks recognizing it as silly. I imagine that’d be the case given they’re humans too and capable of sympathy just like any other group of people.
Oh, way to other them, shitlord.
+1 Freddy’s Fashion Mart
Thanks for the list of cookbooks Webdom. I’m looking to cook more with my girls. These look like a good place to start.
Sir Digby CC, The Venture Brothers season did in fact start last night. I still have no idea how the first 2 episodes got on that site you pointed out the other night.
I saw that (and recorded). I don’t have an answer, either, other than Youtube is weird.
I’m in my hotel room with the TV on in the background. South Park ended and The Daily Show came on. Holy shit this show is unfunny. John Stewart drove me nuts during the Obama administration because he was so in the tank for him. At least Stewart was sometimes funny. Trevor Noah is just terrible. Have the ratings tanked since he took over?
I don’t think those “political entertainment” shows are even trying to do comedy anymore; they’re just self-affirmation for Leftists.
The Two Minutes Hate.
This morning I had a little more time to look at the books WebD recommended. Americas Test Kitchen usually puts out good stuff. Looking at the “look inside” at Amazon, I see buttermilk squash steaks. Would. Granted I don’t get vegan, probably because I am shallow and have a hard time refusing myself anything I like. and I would top a squash steak with a grilled burger probably but that is something I have never thought of. looks like an interesting book.