FOOD!

[Monotremeancer]

Hmm... well what do you know, we do have garlic.  I'm feeling better already.

If you want ideas on how to cook with garlic, feel free to ask. I've turned it into an art form

ahem...

Beef, pork, vegetarian , mutton, game, generic sauce, baking or appetizers? As long as it's not seafood I know how to cook it with garlic

crap seafood is a fave....
ummm...pork and chicken?

I'll keep this thread on track; expect me to post in the Forum Cookbook-thread sometime tomorrow

[bhu]

current faves are poblanos, chipotles, habaneros, ancho

I eat em on everything

[Jackinthegreen]

A few weeks ago I had an amazingly messy burger from a place called Famous Dave's.

Bhu, have you ever heard of a chain called The Wing Coop?  They have a little something called The 11 Sauce.  Took me three days to eat a chicken tender from them covered in that stuff, it was so hot.

[sirpercival]

I like 5 guys and red robin.

[phaedrusxy]

I like 5 guys and red robin.

5 guys has fabulous burgers. I'm not too crazy about Red Robin, at least the one near here.

As much as I like classic steak and burgers, I'm really more of a fan of great ethnic food. I lived in Albuquerque for 2 years and fell in love with New Mexican cuisine. Every place out there at least provided green chili on the side, even the national fast food chains. I nearly fell into a depression just from missing the chili peppers after we left... till we started growing and roasting our own.

I also love great Chinese food, especially Sichuan-style. My wife and I went to an awesome little dive the last time we were in NY called the Old Sichuan Restaurant. It was so good I said to my wife "It's worth the 8 hour drive a couple of times per year just to come eat at this place." She laughed, but I was serious.

[ShadowViper]

The best way to cook a lot of green vegetables is just to stir fry them with some freshly minced garlic and a bit of salt. This works for broccoli, bok choy, and a lot of other things with similarly "strong" flavors.

Hmm... do we have a thread/forum devoted to cooking? 

I'd agree for the really leafy stuff, but for broccoli you can get away with just steaming it and putting salt and butter on it.  If you want, you can include garlic in the butter.  Steaming leafy stuff like spinach, though, can quickly turn into a game of disentangle the stringy, green stuff from your steamer basket.

Cheese is the way to go with broccoli.

[sirpercival]

Yeah, ethnic food is the way to go.  My favorites are Thai, Mexican, Mediterranean, Japanese... there are a couple really great Mexican places near my house, and my wife and I ate at one tonight.  Just delicious.

[bhu]

Ethnic food is teh awesomes.  Sadly theres not too many places i can recommend in ohio.  Havent heard of Wing Coop Jack, they must not have made it into Ohio yet. 


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1607740036/leitesculinari  omg want!

[kurashu]

I had a Kentucky Grilled Chicken breast, half a serving of nast'd potatoes with gravy and single, lonely biscuit for dinner and then later ate half a burger on a sourdough bun with bacon, swiss cheese and bacon (I ignored my onion rings).

This instead of a delicious steak, real mashed potatoes (no gravy) and roasted broccoli and cauliflower because "the kitchen was just cleaned" (yeah, right) and "the sink is still backed up" (and the garbage disposal likely full of pipe cleaning liquid like I said not to use on it).

I am mad at food right now. 

[radionausea]

Last night I made an Iranian curry which contained:  Baked aubergine, sweet potato, beans, spinach chickpeas and shade dried limes.   

Never tried dried limes as an ingredient before - so good! You just squeeze them slightly once they're cooked and their delicious ooze runs out and freshens up he whole dish (make sure you don't bite into one to 'see what it's like'. Answer: Bitter as death.)

[Monotremeancer]

Wow, a lot of activity in such a short amount of time.
The reason I can't cook seafood with garlic is because I don't cook seafood at all; can't stand the taste of it  .

On the subject of garlic ice-cream: there is a restaurant in Stockholm that's famous for having garlic in just about everything (including the wine). I have yet to visit the place, but it's supposed to be great.

On ethnic food: When I went to Melbourne a year ago my cousin showed me this little shack where a Chinese couple who barely understood English cooked the most divine dumplings ever.

[radionausea]

I don't know if it's just in England that the term 'ethnic food' is hilarious/offensive or not.  It's usually the tiny part of a food aisle that the shop hasn't got round to labelling yet.  You'll have 'Chinese', 'Indian', Caribbean' whatever and at the end they'll have, I don't know, some Ghanaian ingredients that they have haven't been labelled up yet so they call it 'ethnic'. 

[bhu]

where i am at least ethnic food means any food from a country outside the US and/or specific local cuisines like tex-mex or cajun.

any advice on asparagus besides grilling it?

[X-Codes]

The best way to cook a lot of green vegetables is just to stir fry them with some freshly minced garlic and a bit of salt. This works for broccoli, bok choy, and a lot of other things with similarly "strong" flavors.

Hmm... do we have a thread/forum devoted to cooking? 

I'd agree for the really leafy stuff, but for broccoli you can get away with just steaming it and putting salt and butter on it.  If you want, you can include garlic in the butter.  Steaming leafy stuff like spinach, though, can quickly turn into a game of disentangle the stringy, green stuff from your steamer basket.

Cheese is the way to go with broccoli.

While it's certainly a way, I'd generally avoid it unless I was going to cook the broccoli into an actual meal-style dish, like some kind of chowder or rice dish.

[dman11235]

Bhu: sauteeing it works, and roasting it.  Grilling it makes it great though, one of my favorite ways.

[bhu]

http://news.yahoo.com/chile-experts-trinidad-moruga-scorpion-hottest-222716938.html

[phaedrusxy]

where i am at least ethnic food means any food from a country outside the US and/or specific local cuisines like tex-mex or cajun.

any advice on asparagus besides grilling it?

Stir fry with garlic, butter, and salt.

[veekie]

http://news.yahoo.com/chile-experts-trinidad-moruga-scorpion-hottest-222716938.html

During harvesting, senior research specialist Danise Coon said she and the two students who were picking the peppers went through about four pairs of latex gloves.

"The capsaicin kept penetrating the latex and soaking into the skin on our hands. That has never happened to me before," she said.

Eeek.

[Monotremeancer]

where i am at least ethnic food means any food from a country outside the US and/or specific local cuisines like tex-mex or cajun.

any advice on asparagus besides grilling it?

Stir fry with garlic, butter, and salt.

Chop it and fry it with cherry tomatoes in olive oil. Add some carrots that you've chopped into thin pieces and fried with garlic until they're soft. Pour everything onto pasta, add more olive oil and squeeze some lemon on top of it. Delicious

Also, make sure to wrap your asparagus in bacon before you grill it

[Halinn]

Also, make sure to wrap your asparagus in bacon before you grill it

Make sure to wrap everything in bacon before eating. Yes, that means you are to wrap your bacon in bacon before eating it.