Kent D
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to snipe -- I was just having a contrary opinion, what some would call a discussion or debate.
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Jeez, so he came up with some recipes for them, and shot a few commercials for them. Is it okay to be successful, but not okay to be commercial? I like Tyler Florence, but it's not going to make me more prone to walking into my nearest Applebee's and ordering Crispy Rosemary Chicken, or whatever the dish is. I don't go throwing out an album by a favorite music group because they license their song to a commercial, but it doesn't make me any more likely to buy that product, either -- unless it makes me look cool or allows me to drive faster.
Well, I guess it depends on whether you think food is art, or simply dinner. I used to be a huge Who fan, but since they've been whoring themselves out on the open market lately, they have less appeal to me. You have to have a little bit of pride in what you do, in my opinion.
Sometimes food is art, and sometimes food is food. And sometimes art is a photo of a crucifix submerged in urine or a model of the Statue of Liberty made out of gum wrappers. It's all relative. If you don't like it, fast forward over it and don't eat at Applebee's.
Sometimes I can't understand how people will debate the relative merits of mayo vs. Miracle Whip for 10 pages on this board, and then get outraged because some guy with a nice face who hosts a cooking show on TV tries to make some endorsement dollars off his name. The people he's pitching to are not going to be eating in your 3-star restaurants -- all they want is some mozzarella sticks, a 1/3 pound burger, and a margarita. They have chosen food, not art, and that is their choice to make.
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Jeez, so he came up with some recipes for them, and shot a few commercials for them. Is it okay to be successful, but not okay to be commercial? I like Tyler Florence, but it's not going to make me more prone to walking into my nearest Applebee's and ordering Crispy Rosemary Chicken, or whatever the dish is. I don't go throwing out an album by a favorite music group because they license their song to a commercial, but it doesn't make me any more likely to buy that product, either -- unless it makes me look cool or allows me to drive faster.
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I love Rachael Ray.
Don't know why, can't explain it to my wife or my mom -- she's got a mouth too large for her head, she wears orange eye-shadow too often, she can eat on $40 a day when I struggle to eat on $40 a week, but somehow, I can overlook all of that. She's my RayRay... No, really, I'm not kidding...one day, we'll be together, making a nice turkey salad and a delicious minestrone soup. -
I, and most of my kinfolk, would be right at home at a "white trash gathering". (Can't believe I said THAT!) During the cooler months, my mother-in-law cooks beans with fried potatoes and cornbread on Monday nights. Although I work nights, sometimes, if there's some left in the pot, she sends some home with my wife for me. It's not something I could eat every day, or every week for that matter, but it sure is good when I get it. And her beans are nothing but dry white beans, some form of cured pork, and water...and maybe something secret...
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I KNEW it...what my Mom and my wife have been calling "goulash" all these years is NOTHING like this. Their recipe is browned ground beef, diced peppers and onions, can of tomatoes, and cooked elbow macaroni, with a couple tablespoons of butter added at the last minute. Oh, and my wife adds lots and lots of garlic.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I've known about the real stuff for a few years, but people call that abomination cited above "goulash" around these parts. I think I need to explore my ancestry -- I think I might be secretly Hungarian...and I've got to try that salad!)
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"Hi, I'm Kent...and I'm a paprika addict."
Well, addict is probably a strong word, but I never realized how useful GOOD paprika was until I got out of my Mom's house. Aside from a sprinkle on deviled eggs, we rarely saw the paprika come out of the spice cabinet.
But now, that handy can of Hungarian paprika comes out of the cabinet for beef stroganoff (probably NOT authentic), as a rub for pork chops, as a seasoning for brisket, it's part of my chili seasoning, my rib seasoning, on top of cottage cheese, shake some on some peppers and onions with some ground pepper and olive oil wrapped in foil and thrown on the grill...I really ought to get me a shaker for the table...
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Oh, Man, I could RULE this thread...
Favorites:
Chipped beef gravy on toast (White sauce, rinsed dried beef, shot of tabasco, and a handful of shredded cheese)
Velveeta shells and cheese with a can of Mexican style chili beans
Meatball porcupines (I add a little garlic to mine), served over mashed potatoes w/cream cheese
"poor man's stroganoff" - browned ground beef and onion, can of cream of mushroom soup, sour cream w/chives, lots of black pepper, served over Minute Rice of course - actually having some left-over for supper tonight.
It's not that I can't cook better, I just happen to NEED my comfort foods, and I've even tweaked them/updated them for my personal tastes. My Mom would probably think I've ruined her recipes the way I make them...
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And with the NYC Board of Health wanting to ban all but minute quantities of trans-fats from all restaurant products, pretty much ruining french fries and baked goods as a food source, it's just a matter of time before we'll all laying teats-up in the park, chewing our cud and wishing for the smallest taste of anything greasy and good.
I don't eat foie gras, doubt that I WOULD eat it, but I really don't think it's some New Jersey sprout-eater's job to keep me and those who might eat it from eating it. This is AMERICA, dammit!
Small difference between trans fats and foie gras: to my knowledge, foie gras is not carcinogenic to humans.
(Not that I would really care to live in a world without french fries, either!)
Well, charred beef has been shown to harbor carcinogens, and I wouldn't want to give it up, either. And foie gras is not exactly a health food.
I just get worried that the more busybodies start taking foods they don't agree with off our plate, the menu we have to choose from begins to shrink. Before too long, caviar's off the list, veal's off the list, swordfish's off, red snapper's off, and you're left choking down farm-raised catfish suishi and veggie burgers -hold the mayo.
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Oh, the pic of the eclair was fine, the sandwich pushed me to the brink, and then the produce and spices sent me right over the edge. Surely, you must live in paradise, where such things to eat are available. Might as well go home, I'm not going to get any work done now.
Thank you for your service to our community -- living vicariously through other people's culinary experiences is quite enjoyable.
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And with the NYC Board of Health wanting to ban all but minute quantities of trans-fats from all restaurant products, pretty much ruining french fries and baked goods as a food source, it's just a matter of time before we'll all laying teats-up in the park, chewing our cud and wishing for the smallest taste of anything greasy and good.
I don't eat foie gras, doubt that I WOULD eat it, but I really don't think it's some New Jersey sprout-eater's job to keep me and those who might eat it from eating it. This is AMERICA, dammit!
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd be terribly reticent about eating in a "Family Restaurant and Gas Bar"...
seems like a bad evening just waiting to happen.
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They're still taking requests as of now -- will be received within 2-4 weeks.
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Oh, good -- now I can take myself off the waiting list for the available copies down at the library. Regretfully, it probably won't affect my purchasing decision at the local beer cooler, though...
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Bananas Foster Cheesecake -- cheesecake ice cream with caramelized bananas, pecans, graham cracker chunks, and a caramel/cinnamon swirl. Oh, and some rum and banana liqueur.
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And I've been served frybread, as-is and as Indian tacos, at gatherings in Seattle and in Northeast California (near Lassen Volcanic Park). Yeah, I got the vague impression they originated with the Navaho ... they've traveled far, and that's a very good thing as far as I'm concerned. I just hope Taco Bell doesn't find out and get inspired to do a bastardized form of them--that might be really scary.
Take the beans off it and fold it, and you've got the Taco Bell Chalupa. They've ruined a beautiful thing...
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Really interesting reading, and lots of beautiful photos!
re: Indian Tacos/frybread - I would argue that these are the quintessential indiginous North American food item, as I've eaten them in the southwest (Arizona/New Mexico), the southern plains (Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas), the Rockies (Colorado/Wyoming), and evidently they're popular way up there in the North. I had always believed that they originated with the Pueblos in New Mexico, but if that's where they started, they're nationwide/continental now. And I've never really had a bad one anywhere.
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I just can't handle the incessant guilt of keeping products in my kitchen that are looked down upon by the culinarati... I buy the wrong kind of chicken, I use the wrong kind of flour, even if I grated my own hand-made, organic, dry-aged, 3-year buffalo parmesan cheese over my imported semolina tortellini I'd find out that I'm not using the proper cheese grater. Some of us don't HAVE access to our own personal cheese monger. Some of us (me for instance) have to make some budgetary cuts in some culinary areas so once a week or so we can afford to have a really nice meal, with real ingredients and a drinkable wine to accompany it. And some of us LIKE our dry, granular, clumpy Kraft Parmesan/Romano cheese blend. Some of y'all eat guts and knuckles and feet and whatnots (though why anyone would EAT a whatnot, I'll never understand!), so don't you take my plastic container of ground cheese away from me...
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Oh, man how can I go through life without access to:
Armour Beef Tripe
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Bush's saurkraut juice?
However, I was distressed to find:
Brach's chocolate covered cherries (uh, oh, my wife wants a box of those at Christmas, and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't find them for the past 2 years)
Nestle's toasted coconut Treasures (she likes those, too!)
Freakies cereal (uh, that's been gone since the 70's right?)
Betty Crocker frosting mixes (I don't remember the last time I saw a frosting mix)
Lime and raspberry KoolAid - How, in the name of all that is good and tasty, did they get rid of Lime KoolAid? Kids don't get enough LIME in their diet these days.
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Big decision here -- do I eat healthy food, and possibly succumb rather quickly to multi-organ failure, or eat crap and possibly die a slow painful atherosclerotic death in 30 years...
They pulled the spinach in Walmart and Dillons stores today, and are urging people who bought bagged spinach to return it for a refund. The funny thing is, they always call a recall long after most people have already consumed the product in question.
And after all, only one person's actually DIED from eating tainted spinach...one person died in that other thread from eating marshmallows, and I don't see them recalling THEM...
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Today, at lunch, I was relating to my wife the basics of Ms. Ephron's piece and the discussion here, and she suggested maybe it was just a piece of satire, poorly written, but nonetheless a commentary on New York fine dining...but then again, my wife's a big fan of her work and her movies, so maybe she's cutting Nora a break. I can actually see her point though -- maybe she was just making a joke, and no one else got it...
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I know that some of these have appeared in "Kitchen Confidential", or similar, but I'd read a whole book of these...well, okay, a whole article or forum thread...Makes me wish I had pursued a career in the commercial culinary arts.
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I'll reserve any impressions I might have Ms. Ephron, and her work, as I'm really not that acquainted with either, being a Midwestern hick...
We-ell, if you've seen When Harry Met Sally or Sleepless in Seattle, then you're familiar with her work...she wrote them both, I think, and directed Sleepless.
Oh, then ICCH, I am acquainted with her work. "Sleepless" put me to sleep, and my wife does that "Everything on the side" thing...annoys the CRAP out of me. And she's threatened to do that other thing Meg Ryan's famous for in a restaurant some time. Every dinner with her is an adventure in fear...
and who can hook me up with a steady supply of bacon-salt -- that would be GREAT on eggs!
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I'll reserve any impressions I might have Ms. Ephron, and her work, as I'm really not that acquainted with either, being a Midwestern hick, and when I was assigned to read the NYT in college, I really couldn't identify with the world portrayed there, either, but GEEZ, that woman is a pretentious, self-absorbed, pompous little whiner. How can she find ANYONE who would want to dine with her? Guess she must pick up the check.
It would almost appear that she wants bad, inattentive service, while simultaneously dictating stringent conditions of food preparation and presentation. She must be a very pathetic, unhappy person...but apparently, we all know that already.
MA Says No Wine in Groceries!
in Wine
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And all this time I thought only Kansas had messed up liquor laws, although it's no longer a law that planes can't serve drinks while flying over Kansas airspace, and you don't have to have a private club membership to drink in most counties.
Right now, anything over 3.2% beer has to be sold in independently-owned liquors stores, and they're only open Monday-Saturday, but some cities have gone "local option" and are allowing Sunday sales, especially along the border with Missouri. And now, if you want to order a wine that's not locally available, you can have it shipped to a liquor store for pick-up, and they just charge you a nominal "conveniene charge" of $5 or so, still cheaper than buying concert tickets from Ticketmonster. And you can buy as many or as few beers as you want to -- even pick up a 6-pack of any mix of micros and import beers you want.
But we live such sheltered lives here in Kansas that it's still shocking to walk into a Target store or drug store across the line in Missouri and see fully-stocked shelves of liquor and wine and beer, and be able to buy it 7 days a week.
edited to add: wow, that's weird -- 2 Kansans posting the same thing at the same time...