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Would the book "Apocalypse Chow" (well reviewed on the Amazon site) help? Milagai

Would the Indian / Pakistani "meat and wheat" dish haleem, qualify? Recipe: http://www.indiacurry.com/lamb/l004lambhaleem.htm I got the impression that the scrappleses and whatnots are more downscale and made of waste parts. Haleem seems more upscale than that, though I really don't know much about this... Milagai

A good rule indeed. Do you ever feel though that we who believe in this rule are in the majority? My parents certainly never had tiny tupperware, nor do any of my friends. Me too! I have spent untold amounts of money at Container Store. ← I also like them to send teensy portions of fruits/veggies when packing my kids' tiffins. Yr comment makes me wonder how my mother packed for us, and I recall we took the whole fruit Re dishwasher: I snag them in some nifty clips my DW has for holding such small floppy items.... Milagai

Acxshully, it's not like vegetables have 0 protein - most ingredients have small amounts of protein that all add up. Second, most vegetarian cuisines DO include a protein component as an important part of the meal (e.g. a dal or paneer dish in the Indian food plate, which we often speak of as the "main dish", even though it may occupy a smaller proportion of the plate as compared to slab-o- beast), and there's all the other things that are important too - the rice / roti; and some of the veggies... The Indian food plate looks pretty similar, whether it's vegetarian or non-vegetarian: the quantity and placement of the grain (rice or roti) and of the other dishes.... Milagai

Enjoyed the article greatly. I also loved the last line, especially as I am currently pondering in my life the realization that what I produce (cooking or otherwise) is more satisfying than what I consume (eating or otherwise).... Looking fwd to more.. Milagai

I'm curious about something. So many posters have mentioned that restaurant/hotel staff who take home unused items that would have been thrown away anyway, are treated as thieves. Why was that policy created? Milagai

Is a taboon oven similar to a tandoor? That bread looked a lot like naan... Anything other than bread made in a taboon? Great pictures... Milagai

Overall question: please tell me what you find useful if you feel more hungry than usual. I've heard from my meater friends that vegetarian food does not provide the feeling of satiety as quickly or long-lastingly as slabs of meat does.... What would you do to deal with that, assuming eating double quantities is not an option Please do tell me whether some strategies usually suggested (whole grains rather than refined, and many small meals rather than 3 large ones, etc) really work? thanks Milagai

Hello! Is the the same eg where previously people very enthusiastically discussed the wonders of cheese made with mite droppings or with the mites themselves? http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=85530&hl= Maybe the problem here is the fishmongers should charge extra for the worms and market it as a special process. Highprotein after all and it's not the dreaded tofu. Or, as suggested upthread, the latest in weight control (though as also pointed out, that's hardly a new idea). Or market it in an upscale restaurant, as in this discussion: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=90000&hl= Worms and fish seem to have been previously discussed here too: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=85934&hl= Milagai

What Grub said! I'd be happy to talk you through any recipes etc. if you pm me.... Milagai (veggie family not bored yet)

If the recipe book was published in India, your thought about the size of the lemons is correct. US style lemons (huge and yellow) are not known in India, Indian style lemons (small, green or yellow and very thin skinned) are not known in the US or if they are, I don't know the name. In Hindi they're called "kaagazi nimbu". Not fully analogous to US limes. Something in between US limes and lemons. The Indian nimbus are much smaller (less than a golf ball) Milagai

My family is vegetarian, and kids raised that way since infancy, and all are flourishing health-wise. It'll be interesting to see if kids' idea of teenage rebellion is a cheeseburger But right now there's no problem with varied and yummy food. I was lucky to be raised in a culture that's got probably the world's best vegetarian menu, though I was not raised a vegetarian myself. Making the switch was pretty painless. It's more the spices that make my food rather than the main ingredient anyway..... My 9 yo DD accidentally took a bite of shrimp cracker, thinking it was a regular papad and the aghast look on her face when the fish staink hit her palate was priceless. Milagai

I don't know what kind of food you're used to, but things like ginger, cumin, garlic, and many other spices are very medicinal for soothing unhappy GI tracts. They perk up any otherwise bland food (soup, congee, whatever) and make it much more appetizing. Milagai

This is hardly something new, no idea why they just caught the eye of the writer. Brands like Deep have had frozen rotis, parathas etc. for years now, and before that many brands had frozen dishes of all kinds (chhole, kormas, whatever). I've tried many of the frozen parathas / rotis, and while nothing beats a freshly made roti, the frozen ones are not bad. Milagai

This is unfortunate. I'll just pretend I've never read the above statements should anyone official ask. I think a bit of civil disobedience is in order. I will push forward (and do my best to catalog my progress). Well, you just outed yourself online and can no longer claim ignorance (and ignorance of rules is never accepted as an exculpation for flouting them). Many "official" eyes read public fora It would be interesting to know your enterprise fares vs. that of say, a local "tamale lady" or "chapati lady" ..... Milagai

Have you had much experience or luck using clay or stone vessels (kalchatti, mannchatti, etc.)? I want to try, but each time I leave India I end up deciding not to lug such a heavy and fragile object along, Milagai

This happens all the time from one language to another. Westerners prefer to write dofu for tofu because that's what their ears hear (there is no unaspirated "t" sound in English). (same as Beijing vs Peking, etc.) But to Hindi ears that "t" (without the puff of air) is clearly heard because we have "t" and "T" (I don't know how to write it in English so I'm making that up). Every Hindi consonant can be said to have 4 forms: aspirated and unaspirated soft and hard: t = no Eng equiv (ends up sounding similar to d to non-Hindi ears). T = regular Eng t th = soft like the Eng "they" thh = (no Eng equiv) these are recognised as 4 different sounds, not 4 versions of the same sound.... and don't occur next to each other in the alphabetical listing (which is classified by tongue position - so t, T, d, D and N would go together). (Note: I've used a different transliteration from that given in SDSeth's web link) and one is confined to the English t letter when moving from one sound to another, so people keep experimenting with diacritical marks. Sorry, wandering too far from food. Except to say that the tt in Patta (Gobhi) is pronounced soft, not hard like in pitter patter.... Milagai

Maybe because desis think like whoever (Mark Twain?) said : "a cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education". i.e. I don't know, and different cultures classify foods differently from each other.....? And anyway are not cabbage, cauliflower etc. closely related vegs (all Brassica...., along with some others?) and ps: to the other Hindi-ers ; yes, I do know but forgot to write: Bandh Gobhi is probably the more common name for Patta Gobhi. Milagai.

For Triangle area eg-ers, the Panzanella restaurant in Carrboro is doing an eat local event on July 12th, where they will serve food sourced within a 250 mile radius of their location..... Milagai

No: it's not a regional thing. The Hindi language has 54 letters in the alphabet and though they may sound indistinguishable to other ears, you can't randomly substitute one for another. The alphabet distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated versions of consonants e.g.: k and kh, g and gh (the latter used in "ghee") and so on and so forth. so there's a difference between "b" and "bh". All Sanskrit / Hindi derived languages have this alphabet system (but different scripts). The vegetable is phool (not pool) gobhi = cauliflower and patta gobhi = cabbage. Generically called "gobhi" Gobi (without the h) is the Asian desert in China / Mongolia. Thus the Indian-Chinese dish Gobi or Gobhi Manchurian is actually an arcane translingual pun...... Of course, rendering the Indian language sounds into English is a wild free for all and people do whatever they want. I don't know how the movie spelled it. If not sufficiently confusing I can stir the pot further.... but NEVER NEVER NEVER write Ghandi (urk my flesh crawled as I typed that) for Gandhi and if you know anyone who perpetrates this atrocity, please yank their chain from me. Milagai

Just to make sure: the point of making aloo gobhi (yes, that extra 'h' in the spelling is needed) is that it's one of the most basic recipes, and if you know how to make this you won't starve. It's like requiring an Anglo-background American teen to know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich or some such thing, or an extremely basic pasta + sauce. So Jess' mom was not asking her to perform any extraordinary culinary feat, just a basic but iconic dish, to ward off future comments (what do you mean she can't even make aloo gobhi, what kind of upbringing did her mom give her, was she raised by wolves, etc.) Milagai

So, unintelligent animals are okay? Where's the line, intelligence-wise? ← I too am curious about this.... People who have pigs for pets say that pigs are more intelligent than dogs. Then others eat dogs / cats .... Horses are said to be not so bright, but most people in the West hate the idea of eating one..... (and let's not get into the intelligence of some of our fellow humans .... ) Also curious about the film you refer to. I have heard about similar films showing similar scenes for cows crying for their calves (taken off to veal pens because they are male) etc. I agree that the slaughter and processing of any animal is pretty horrible in most situations. Milagai

I'm not getting into the stuff about PETA and foie gras etc. I'm curious about 2 points: First, how come you oppose whaling? Those animals are not factory farmed or raised inhumanely? Re breeds of ducks going extinct, maybe they'll become like breeds of dogs / cats - raised for pets and profits come from that. And has not modern farming made several older breeds of cattle near-extinct? Milagai Unrelated to this particular thread: one of the problems is that meat has gone from being a once-in-a-while treat (for the masses) to large hunks dominating the food plate at every meal. So much grain and water for feed, instead of being directly eaten. At this rate it will take the resources of something like 5 planets to feed the people in this one.

Of course, most desi kids love okra, and carry that through life, me among them. Root beer - well, those of you who love it can have my share. I love the gooey greasy Chicago pizza but ALSO love the thin crust kind... basically all pizza is my friend.... Thanks for the update on North Asia.....(new term for me, but sounds very useful). Milagai

Maybe mentioned upthread, but most non-desis (desi = South Asian term for South Asian) can't hack pickles..... Maybe some very adventurous person will like the sweeter milder kinds, but not the really hardcore stuff (e.g. lemon pickle or whole little raw mangoes). Or maybe now the new popularity of Moroccan pickled lemons (pretty similar to the desi kind) may create a new wave.... Milagai