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annabelle

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  1. Let's hope not.
  2. Yeah! Southern Girl, Damaris Phillips wins it!
  3. I like that Health Inspectors show. It's even scarier than Robert Irvine's show "Restaurant Impossible" wherein he discovers people's disturbingly filthy restaurants and inadvertently makes an argument for chain restaurants if only for the sake of cleanliness and consistency. Re: Food Network Stars. I kind of like the Pie Guy. He's obnoxious, but that seems to be their go to model on FN. I hope Southern Girl takes it, though. She's a doll. Mohawk Sin Guy is annoying and preachy. Hit the road, man.
  4. I gave up on FN when they announced their upcoming season and Alton Brown's boney visage was shown mugging as the host . . . AGAIN. I've been watching the BBC's cooking shows, especially their version of Master Chef. It's so refreshing to have competent judges (with 2 Michelin stars, so actually cred), competitors without attitude, weird hairstyles or sleeves of tattoos, who actually listen to the criticism/praise of the judges without getting a case of the ass about it and pronouncing the judges to be wrong to the camera in the Confessionals.
  5. The owners are taking tremendous advantage of your duties as a hostess. What in the world are the waitstaff doing while you are buzzing around doing their job? Are they seating patrons in their own sections?
  6. Worse, they wouldn't let you inspect the tap.
  7. I don't like them, either Andie. They don't cook well at all and aren't tasty in salads.
  8. So is picking up coffee and donuts. I don't tip them either.,
  9. This curry discussion is getting to esoteric for me.
  10. I've only ever used fenugreek in cookies. The best comparison I can make to curry is many of the chili (or chilli depending on where one lives) cook-off dishes I've had that are either so hot, that they are inedible or such a mess of conflicting flavors that the only thing to do is casually stir it a bit and push it away. I would describe those chilis as muddy, as well.
  11. As I have stated repeatedly as a member of the curry haters club, it is the sheer number of overwhelming spices, to me. I can't single one out, as I like them all individually. It is the combination of what would seem to be a dozen spices that is off-putting. And Jaymes nailed it upthread: the smell of cheap motel lobbies is what comes to mind.
  12. I don't tip for take out food. Delivery, sure. If I go pick it up, what am I tipping for? The pleasure of driving there and paying for it?
  13. The nutritional value of beef versus the other items was what they were going for and using a comparison of portion size to show how much more of the other item one would have to consume to ingest the same vitamins and minerals as one would ingest in 3 ounces of lean beef. The illustration was to show how much more "value" is packed in a small portion of beef.
  14. "According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 20, a 154-calorie, three-ounce serving of lean beef contains more zinc than 13.5 servings of salmon (2,363 calories), more vitamin B12 than 7.5 servings of skinless chicken breasts (1,050 calories), more riboflavin than 4.5 servings of white tuna (491 calories), and more vitamin B6 than 6.5 cups of raw spinach. A three-ounce serving of lean beef also contains more iron than 2.75 cups of raw spinach. “Lean beef is a real nutritional powerhouse,” Tenner said." According to the USDA, those numbers are accurate.
  15. Pana, one of my brothers had a similar incident with fresh fish. He still refuses to eat it now, 40 years later. More for the rest of us! Prasantrin, I've tried explaining the vinegar in sushi rice, et cetera to him. He looks skeptical, but then he is 16. I'm pleased that he is an adventurous eater now. His brother who refused to eat anything but bacon when he was a toddler, recently emailed me a picture of him making pesto. Perhaps my cooking many different cuisines when they were small (included the accursed curries) has caused them to strike out on their own and embrace new things. Jaymes, I feel your pain. Tom Collins seem harmless when one is a young'un . . .
  16. One of my sons cannot stand the smell of anything cooked with vinegar. This was a real problem when he was small and I was making pickles or ketchup. He used to gag, not vomit, but make gagging sounds and he still won't eat anything that is pickled or put vinegar on dark greens. However, he loves Chinese food (the real kind, not the crappy buffet stuff) and his favorite is Japanese food, including sushi with pickled ginger and refuses to admit that he actually eats a pickle. I think in that case, it is the smell of the ginger that overpowers the vinegar to him.
  17. It isn't a matter of not liking foods touching. I just don't like either the flavors or the texture of the curries I have had. It's all so mushy to me. Maybe it's one of those tastes that is better acquired in childhood?
  18. French food, mainly. Heavy on the vegetables and with fruit desserts. Meats with sauces. Vegetables from the garden or fruit from the farm stands. Noodles or pasta, but mostly potatoes and rice for starch. Good bread and real butter. I'm a child of Depression babies and learned never to waste anything so, if there are bones and trimmings: they become stock. Apple peels and cores become apple jelly. Citrus peels get candied.
  19. You tell us, huiray. I recall you getting angry with me about your characterization of half the world's cuisine as Asian.
  20. Never mind. I was genuinely interested in what the common thread could be but you seem to prefer "it is because I said it is" snark over open discussion so I'll just move along. Never mind. I was genuinely interested in what the common thread could be but you seem to prefer "it is because I said it is" snark over open discussion so I'll just move along. Don't be a sorehead. I covered all the things I don't like about Indian food on the first page of this thread. I'll expand it for you: it tastes "muddy" to me. There are too many spices and it is saucy and messy to eat. And, frankly, it disagrees with me.
  21. Quite obviously, munchymom, that is because you've never had properly prepared seafood.
  22. That sums it up for me, as well. I've tried to like it and I just don't. I don't care what country it comes from et cetera, it isn't good to me.
  23. There is a definite connection regarding ones genes and the soapy or lack thereof taste to cilantro. It is not unlike detecting a strange odor in one's urine after eating asparagus. Some have this gene and some do not. I have to disagree about not having eaten the proper curry or X types of ethnic food. Like Furzzy, I have eaten curries at many, many places from hole in the wall to high end and I don't like them. 20+ years of trying to find one I like is enough to convince me that I just don't like curries.
  24. Mrs. Charles, Paula Deen or the author?
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