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Chris Cognac

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fimbul

fimbul

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How about when you actually discourage friends and family from giving you cooking/kitchen stuff for Christmas because: a.) you have enough, and b.), if you don't have a particular desideratum, you know EXACTLY what it is you want, and they'll never get you the right thing, even if you bang it on their heads screaming, "I want this one, THIS! ONE! there is NO! NEED! to 'upgrade,' Dad."

Issues? What?

*twitch*

A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place.

jgm

jgm

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How about when you actually discourage friends and family from giving you cooking/kitchen stuff for Christmas because: a.) you have enough, and b.), if you don't have a particular desideratum, you know EXACTLY what it is you want, and they'll never get you the right thing, even if you bang it on their heads screaming, "I want this one, THIS! ONE! there is NO! NEED!  to 'upgrade,' Dad."

Issues?  What?

*twitch*

he he he he he :laugh:

Are you my long-lost sibling? *twitch* *twitch*

The only reason my mother got my cookbooks right at Christmas was because I gave her a list, complete with a physical description of McGee's book ("red cover") and a full-paragraph description of why the 2nd edition was important. Bless her heart, she actually read the list this year, and scored a home run.

JanMcBaker

JanMcBaker

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When you keep a pepper grinder and a container of Kosher salt in your desk at work. Oh, and a couple of those itsy bitsy bottles of olive oil and tabasco.

"Fat is money." (Per a cracklings maker shown on Dirty Jobs.)
origamicrane

origamicrane

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When you keep a pepper grinder and a container of Kosher salt in your desk at work.  Oh, and a couple of those itsy bitsy bottles of olive oil and tabasco.

oh yes!! and a bottle of balsamic, chilli oil, mustard, mayo. You bring in a sharp knife to work (not to stab your manager) but to make lunch in the office kitchen. And you have made a banoffee pie at work during lunch and been invited to make a sushi lunch for your deptartment :wink:

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

"tastes so good makes you want to slap your mamma!!"

WHT

WHT

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When you buy a santuko and know how to spell it.  You drizzle olive oil over everything and refer to it as EVOO.  You call things confit that aren't really.  You call sauted greens braised.  You refer to the fruit you are eating by the latin name.  You consider cheese to be dessert.  You use French words to describe mundane food.

That sounds like one of the best examples I have seen. I hate the term!

Living hard will take its toll...
WHT

WHT

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

Living hard will take its toll...
rooftop1000

rooftop1000

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well I dont keep hot sauce in my desk.....i dont have one, my desk is a grill but I do keep hot sauce in my glove compartment :hmmm:

and I got myself a bottle of Real Balsamic with my birthday money

T

its a good thing i work in a kitchen

The great thing about barbeque is that when you get hungry 3 hours later....you can lick your fingers

Maxine

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ladyyoung98

ladyyoung98

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

:huh: ? i dont get it

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andiesenji

andiesenji

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You know for sure when your mailbox is full (large rural mailbox) and it includes only one bill plus 9 catalogs, food or kitchen related only, a package from the Mustard Museum and one from Salsa Express.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

MarketStEl

MarketStEl

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

:huh: ? i dont get it

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have here what may be the only U.S. citizen to have slept through the entire run so far of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Sandy Smith, Exile on Oxford Circle, Philadelphia

"95% of success in life is showing up." --Woody Allen

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ladyyoung98

ladyyoung98

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

:huh: ? i dont get it

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have here what may be the only U.S. citizen to have slept through the entire run so far of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

just because i didnt get it doesnt mean im stupid and yes i have heard of the tv show queer eye for the straight guy and ive even seen a few episodes...however ive also known plenty of straight guys who could cook very well and on short notice and of all the gay men ive known in my life i actually only know of one who WAS NOT a complete disaster in the kitchen ..i dont believe in sterotypes and quite frankly shame on ya'll for perpetuating them as well..so just because i didnt get it doesnt mean you have to sit there and insult my intelligence either...this is a nice food forum and i love this site but what i dont care for is snobbery or belittling people and people who try to create an atmosphere for intolerance of any kind...an ability to cook well and on short notice is not determined by ones sexual preference, ones race or releigion or even gender ..or whatever it is that may make one different in some way....your comment was totally uncalled for

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origamicrane

origamicrane

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oh! oh! i got one :biggrin:

when you can have a fight (real not food) about food!!!

now kids play nice

ladyyoung i didn't see anything that market said that was insulting to your intelligence.

What market said could mean that you like to sleep alot

or you just don't watch that channel.

And the fact you may not have seen that series might mean that you just have higher taste in tv programs like me :wink:

As they have that series in the UK but i never seen it as i'm far to busy cooking reading egullet and applying for cooking programs :laugh: hahaha

And Market being gay doesn't make you a foodie.

hmmm... Come to think of it how many of the top chefs in the world are gay???

maybe a new thread ? :laugh:

now you two kiss and make up :biggrin:

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

"tastes so good makes you want to slap your mamma!!"

NulloModo

NulloModo

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

Or how the combined faculty and students in your school just assume you are gay because of some of the things you have brought to school pot-luck dinners. (I maintain that I have a habit of wearing lots of pink shirts, like to sing showtunes while wandering around on cafeteria duty, and teach dance amongst other things have nothing to do with this).

LadyYoung - Not to create a rift here, but I'm sure Sandy didn't mean anything offensive in his comment, hang out in the Philly forum a bit, really, he is a nice guy.

He don't mix meat and dairy,

He don't eat humble pie,

So sing a miserere

And hang the bastard high!

- Richard Wilbur and John LaTouche from Candide

andiesenji

andiesenji

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Having been in the dog show world for many, many years, I have had a great many gay friends, who excel at showing dogs with great style. However not all were great cooks, not all were fashion plates and few fell into the sterotypical frame that many people assume.

A few were great cooks and some were professionals. Some couldn't find their way around a kitchen with a map and they weren't all decorators either. One was a high steel worker!

For a couple of years one young man rented a room in my house and had kitchen privaleges but never stepped foot in the kitchen. His successor, who stayed for 5 years, loved cooking and baking and had plans to attend culinary school but caught a break and has been very successful in the entertainment business. We keep in touch and he still loves cooking but just as a hobby now - he has been able to afford the most amazing kitchen that even makes me envious.

He is definitely a foodie - now even has an interest in a vineyard and an olive grove. However his partner, an artist, often doesn't even remember to eat unless prompted and will eat anything and everything without caring whether it is gourmet or the crappiest fast food.

And ladyyoung, I didn't see anything in market's post to imply you were not intelligent. It was a joke about the series on TV, not about you. I haven't watched the show either, but there has been so much about it on other shows, it would have been difficult not to know it existed.

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"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

Susan G

Susan G

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Another sure sign: You've had a hell week, work stress up to the eyeballs, and the way you really, really, really want to decompress?

Getting into a Zen state chopping vegetables, making soup. Or your favorite Indian recipe (four hours, three cutting boards and two spice grinders). Comfort. Food.

I'm a canning clean freak because there's no sorry large enough to cover the, "Oops! I gave you botulism" regrets.

Chris Cognac

Chris Cognac

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Another sure sign:  You've had a hell week, work stress up to the eyeballs, and the way you really, really, really want to decompress? 

Getting into a Zen state chopping vegetables, making soup.  Or your favorite Indian recipe (four hours, three cutting boards and two spice grinders).  Comfort.  Food.

That is SO me! I break out the big pot and buy a ton of stuff at the market and just "create". It makes me feel so good and then you get the "happy ending" cause you get to eat the soup you have just created.

Moo, Cluck, Oink.....they all taste good!

The Hungry Detective

ladyyoung98

ladyyoung98

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ok ive taken some heat for what i said...thats fine...im sure hes a nice guy and perhaps he wasnt making a crack at me...i will allow for that...the whole thing just hit a very raw spot for me today as ive got a cousin who is gay who my aunt(his mother) told me this morning he recently got the crap beat out of him by someone who is homophobic...so seeing the post just sort of struck me as all wrong in light of recnt events with my cousin..i apologize to the person i popped off at...you had no way of knowing what had happened

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winesonoma

winesonoma

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You know the difference between a Mandolin and a Mandoline :laugh::laugh:

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andiesenji

andiesenji

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You know the difference between a Mandolin and a Mandoline :laugh:  :laugh:

And how about the difference between a guitar and a "guitar". :biggrin:

(for pasta). :rolleyes:

I would post a picture of my antique guitar but ImageGullet is still not operational for me.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

plunk

plunk

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When you shop at professional and restaurant supply stores and the staff ask where you work. I say "I don't work in the industry, this is for home use" and wonder what they must think.

WHT

WHT

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When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites.

Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends.

:huh: ? i dont get it

Then I doubt you would get the explanation.

Living hard will take its toll...
chow guy

chow guy

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A few sure signs are:

When your friends discover you have three refridgerators and one is filled with mostly condiments.

Most of your cookware is restaurant sized.

You get invited to dinner... only to discover you are doing the cooking or at least coaching the host on a dish they've never made and can't firgure out.

When you'll drive 58 miles one way for cajun take out or a piece of pie or 35 miles in a dangerous ice storm (in hilly Derby Connecticut) for the best pizza you've ever had.

andiesenji

andiesenji

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When you shop at professional and restaurant supply stores and the staff ask where you work. I say "I don't work in the industry, this is for home use" and wonder what they must think.

Or you walk in Smart & Final and everyone in the store knows you by your first name and directs you to an unadvertized special on a 50-pound bag of bread flour and on full-sized sheet pans (10 for 79.99, regular price 9.99 each (since have gone up to 10.99 each).

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

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