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so kerisik is sorta like..coconut butter, huh? (didn't do any cooking this weekend...i'm on the verge of an ear infection i think)

what is "mook" salad skchai?

question? how is a jangiri different from a jalebi? (other than the shape i mean)

Gouda with real bacon bits in it will always be my favorite.

i second the cajun ideas - Especially the chicken and sausage gumbo.

cantaloupe's my favorite flavor, followed by juicy pear and buttered popcorn.

man - these pictures amde me homesick for the Greek Festival I used to attend at St. Sophia's in Syracuse....

hah! so basically..never tip them and they'll never sing? sweet.

The 'stuff' mixed into this ice cream is done in front of you on a chilled slab. You look at a buffet of mix-ins that include chopped cookies, candy bars, sprinkles, and other flavors. You choose your base flavor and with two giant paddles, the gunk is literally spackled about on the cold marble before being scooped into said cup or cone. Kind of the Benihana's of ice cream. So it's not actually different from a blizzard. you just get to watch someone mess with your blizzard before putting it in a cup and charging you 3 dollars more? what a novel idea....

how is this stuff different from a dq blizzard?

*lol*...ahhh. good times. well i suppose compared to olive and ground beef turkey stuffing, no pickles isn't so bad. i forgive you.

no pickles on a chik-fil-a? geez dave. i don't know if we can be friends anymore...

mmmm - i didn't think about the fact that we can't get good quality coconut even fresh. I'll have to see what's in the stores.

there's an electronic cocnut grater? how exciting! and yeah - no i would never use the sweetened stuff. gah - i cna't evne imagine what that faux pas would be like...

i don't know. i can get freshly cracked coconuts. but i may go the desiccated coconut and coconut milk way altho i prefer doing everything from fresh ingredients. i'll see if maybe my mother will ship me her coconut grater. lord knows she never uses it.

could even be a wax coating thing. incidentally for y'all talking about having to eat eggplant for a week - just think about me and the asparagus contest. and asparagus side-effects. and then be thankful. :-)

In my experience kew - I really don't like using the slow cooker for that type of stuff, unless with fresh herbs. it seems that flavors never meld correctly - not like cooking something stovetop. and of course it never really evaporates all the water off either because the heat is so low. I'm going to try the malaysian version first i think/ i like the idea of making kerisik beforehand. here's a silly question.....how do i get meat out of the coconuts? I can get fresh coconut here, but i'm at a loss for how to get the flesh out without an indian style grater like my mother had.

sweet jesus. i don't know what i do without my full cable package. i certainly wouldn't be watchign the local channels. i'm addicted to sundance.

i did this pseudo-review just today as a matter of fact.

without a doubt this old Good Housekeeping mushroom turnover hors d'ouevres recipe. yum. i'll have to do some digging to actually find the recipe however.

your brother isn't a cable-guy by any chance, is he?

I do in fact live in the States Chewme - so i may have problems finding ingredients. i see everyone talking about long simmer times - can you make rendange in a pressure cooker and have it taste as good?

i understand what you mean. if i didn't have insulin issues i never would have noticed myself. as it stands now - when i'm eating really "clean", i can easily tell the sugar rush and crash. but i had to take all sugar, incidental as well, out of my diet for a few months before it became readily apparent that i can be a real spaz. what's interesting to me is, i have a friend who is clinically depressed. and he self-medicates with alcohol - so it makes for interesting times. but man the tuesday thru thursday after one of his binge-drinking weekends - he is hell to be aorund. the thing is, he's well aware it's a serotonin crash - doesn't keep him from making everyone around him miserable anyways.

hi chewme! welcoem to the forums. do you have a recipe for indonesian style rendang?

starchy and sugary carbs in general increase serotonin levels in the brain, a short while after eating them. sort of like nature's prozac and why they are so often our "comfort food" however, jsut like any experience raver can tell you, Suicide Teusday always follows. After a few hours serotonin levels come crashing down and you need a little more to spike it back up again. so you go through in effect, sugar rush cycles.