Waffles. With ice. Need I say more? :D
Never cream! That's fat sacrilege IMO!
Never cream! That's fat sacrilege IMO!
I hope that I did not offend you to badly with my cream comment :(.
There ain't no innocents here. ;)
Waffles with ICE? ICE? I've never heard of such a thing?
It's hard to reconcile being an animal rights' advocate with being a meat-eater. The best I can come up with is please kill the food animals as quickly and painlessly as possible, and keep it to farm animals and fish (I realize there are people in the world who have to hunt for their food; we did that when I was a child).
Do a picture search for a Belgian Mikado waffle.
I do not disagree.It's hard to reconcile being an animal rights' advocate with being a meat-eater. The best I can come up with is please kill the food animals as quickly and painlessly as possible, and keep it to farm animals and fish (I realize there are people in the world who have to hunt for their food; we did that when I was a child).
I'd prefer people getting their meat by hunting&fishing. Reason: usually that's small-scale, and the animals have a life much closer to what they evolved instead of being locked in pens, stables, an pastures.
Of course, there's not enough free wilderness left for that. Not here on the ol' continent. :(
Mikado: 2 waffles, generous portion of vanilla custard topped with whipped cream,
chocolate ganache and roasted almonds.
;lolWell, I'm not gonna start an argument (that's what Care2 is for, where rabid vegans have called me every vile name in the book and a lot more besides), but it was actually moose and whale I was thinking about when I posted that.I do not disagree.It's hard to reconcile being an animal rights' advocate with being a meat-eater. The best I can come up with is please kill the food animals as quickly and painlessly as possible, and keep it to farm animals and fish (I realize there are people in the world who have to hunt for their food; we did that when I was a child).
I'd prefer people getting their meat by hunting&fishing. Reason: usually that's small-scale, and the animals have a life much closer to what they evolved instead of being locked in pens, stables, an pastures.
Of course, there's not enough free wilderness left for that. Not here on the ol' continent. :(
Seriously, I'm curious, does anyone else get the skull cake on the first page of google images or have I broken it? "Belgian Mikado Waffle"
Anyhow:QuoteMikado: 2 waffles, generous portion of vanilla custard topped with whipped cream,
chocolate ganache and roasted almonds.
I prefer fruits to chocolate as a general rule.
Well, I'm not gonna start an argument (that's what Care2 is for, where rabid vegans have called me every vile name in the book and a lot more besides), but it was actually moose and whale I was thinking about when I posted that.I do not disagree, though I do draw the line elsewhere. It's something I prefer not to think about, because I am sympathetic, but I like to eat what I like to eat. I am not a specimen of a naturally vegetarian species.
When I was a little kid, my dad, uncle, and grampa would go hunting. Every year they'd each get a moose, and that's what we had for meat that winter. I remember enjoying it, but now... Well, now I no longer live in the country, and have no need to kill for my food. I would prefer that moose get to live their lives without being anyone's food except for their natural predators.
As for whales... I can't think of a single reason whatsoever to hunt them for food (or anything else), unless the hunter happens to live in the far northern Arctic and there's nothing else.
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So the question is, do you drink either tea or coffee on a regular basis. If you do, what type do you drink?Coffee. Cheap instant coffee, heavily creamed, sometimes with cocoa stirred in. I wake up stupid, and desperately crave stimulants. I've learned to like the taste.
Some examples of coffee include: Espressos, black, iced and cappuccinos.
Some examples of tea include: green, white, yellow and oolong.
Also, I am surprised no one else has even remotely brought up coffee or tea. I know some people drink coffee or tea because either (a) they drink it to help them be alert and/or (b) drink it because they like the taste. :-\ If you want to answer the next question you can or continue on with the original topic.I don't drink coffee. At all. I find the smell revolting, and the taste even worse.
So the question is, do you drink either tea or coffee on a regular basis. If you do, what type do you drink?
Some examples of coffee include: Espressos, black, iced and cappuccinos.
Some examples of tea include: green, white, yellow and oolong.
That waffle looks absolutely sumptuous and highly palatable. However, you have to wonder if it was staged and what they put on it to make it look like that.
I was unaware of this tradition and it would make sense in this situation :). This is one reason that I find talking to people from around the world and my country so interesting.That waffle looks absolutely sumptuous and highly palatable. However, you have to wonder if it was staged and what they put on it to make it look like that.
It looks pretty standard to me. Most Belgians, in full Bourgundian tradition, like quality... :)
Brandy
Rum
Canadian Rye
Bordeaux style blends
Limoncello
Champagne
I like booze. Mainly Whiskey, Vodka, bit of wine, and some beers and ales. I find Rum hurts my stomach too much, Scotch is expensive.
I am a proud meat eater. Could give a damn about animal rights, domesticated animals are what they are titled: domesticated. They would not survive in the wild, they are overpopulated to begin with and they have no other purpose other to be ate. It sounds cruel but its the truth.
However for hunting, that's different. Unregulated hunting and poaching OR SPORT HUNRTING ESPECIALLY I see is unnecessary and debilitating to an environment. Regulated hunters that hunt for food, and trust me, you people may live in a nice comfortable area with capitalized grocery stores and hippies, but in many parts of the world and my country sometimes things get lean. I've been isolated for two whole weeks out in my home and when I can't safely drive out to purchase food, I resort to capturing wild harvest and eating it.
I love seafood to boot too. Especially crab.
Perhaps I should have said beverages :). Would that have made any difference?
Waffles with ICE? ICE? I've never heard of such a thing?
Its hard to find foods I DON'T like, that's the problem.
Waffles with ICE? ICE? I've never heard of such a thing?
Its hard to find foods I DON'T like, that's the problem.
Then you haven't tried Hákarl, the icelandic fermented shark. I haven't tried it myself, but Anthony Bourdain (my guide to everything weird you can eat) says it's one of the three worst things he's ever eaten. It's apparently like sucking on a spunge dipped in pure ammonia...
The smell of lutefisk was offputting enough that I never want to try IT either, and hope there's a special circle of hell for coworkers who shove THAT in the microwave.
Waffles with ICE? ICE? I've never heard of such a thing?
Its hard to find foods I DON'T like, that's the problem.
Then you haven't tried Hákarl, the icelandic fermented shark. I haven't tried it myself, but Anthony Bourdain (my guide to everything weird you can eat) says it's one of the three worst things he's ever eaten. It's apparently like sucking on a spunge dipped in pure ammonia...
The smell of lutefisk was offputting enough that I never want to try IT either, and hope there's a special circle of hell for coworkers who shove THAT in the microwave.
Well, it is weird to do things that you don't like simply because you've always done them.
Sometimes, though, doing what we do is a part of our heritage and culture, which can be pretty cool. I always enjoyed singing the hymn "A mighty fortress is our God" because it was a tie to nameless ancestors centuries before.
But sometimes traditions aren't what they seem. I'm reminded of the story about the man who asked his wife why she always cut the ends off of a roast before cooking it. Because her mother always did it that way. When she asked her mother why, it was because Grandma always did it that way. Grandma happened to be alive, so they asked her.
She said it was because they were too poor to afford a pan big enough to cook the whole roast at once.
I can't help but wonder if the tradition of jellied fish didn't originate with "We're having the whole family here in our home for our special Christmas dinner. The main course is smoked shark, but of course the grandparents have no teeth and can't chew it. We will serve jellied shark, too, so they won't feel left out."
Don't people eat lutefisk with mashed potatoes or something that has a similar texture?
I think that food preservation and preparation has come a long way over the centuries. For example, the traditional turkey at Thanksgiving ( basically the American harvest feast with origins in one of the Colonies in the circa 1621) is a smoked and grilled turkey breast at my in-laws celebration. It's the best turkey I've ever had in my life. Flavorful, moist, and perfectly done.
I think there is a lot of room to update traditional dishes. I think our ancestors did the best they could with what they had.
Lutefisk is usually served with a variety of side dishes, including, but not limited to, bacon, green peas, green pea stew, potatoes, lefse, gravy, mashed rutabaga, white sauce, melted or clarified butter, syrup, geitost (goat cheese), or "old" cheese (gammelost). In the United States in particular it is sometimes eaten together with meatballs. Side dishes vary greatly from family-to-family and region-to-region, and can be a source of jovial contention when eaters of different "traditions" of lutefisk dine together.
Today, akvavit and beer often accompany the meal due to its use at festive and ceremonial occasions. This is a recent innovation, however; due to its preservative qualities, lutefisk has traditionally been a common "everyday" meal in wintertime.
Lutefisk prepared from cod is somewhat notorious, even in Scandinavia, for its intense (and to those unacquainted with the dish, offensive) odor. Conversely, lutefisk prepared from pollock or haddock emits almost no odor.
The taste of well-prepared lutefisk is very mild, and often the white sauce is spiced with pepper or other strong tasting spices to bring out the flavor. In Minnesota, this method (seasoned with allspice) is common among Swedish-Americans, while Norwegian-Americans prefer to eat it unseasoned with melted butter.
One year for our Shire's annual Harvest Feast, we had turkey with chocolate sauce...
Well, it still sounds to me mostly like a diet from the days before dentistry and refrigeration.
Well, Chef Zoid, since I watch too many cooking shows..... I challenge you to put a modern twist on the traditional foods for some kind of Scandanavian holiday. You don't have to actually cook it, just propose a menu. Of course you don't have to use lutefisk, but you do have to use a kind of fish often prepared that way.
In Sweden traditional food is very hot and trendy and has been for quite some time...
I don't know how to cook "modern" really either, but I do tend to update a lot of 'traditional' family recipes. This is seen as either sacreligious or fantastic, depending on who you ask.You're describing how one learns to cook one's own dishes. Momma taught me some basics of cooking as a child, and I've been teaching myself ever since. It pays to pay attention to the physics and chemistry of the cooking process.
Most famously, I built our holiday mix up from a list of ingredients that mostly do not exist anymore, to something you can at least put together. That was fine with most, but taking advantage of the MICROWAVE so I could make a batch in 40 minutes instead of 4 hours was blasphemous!!!
But, there's no way a CHEF would call ANYTHING I do "modern".
Have a whole pile of recipes my grandma was throwing out as they were 'too hard' or 'can't find the ingredients anymore' that I've been putting together and updating. Mostly holiday stuff. The few meals that were in there have been quite mixed in the results. A lot of it was war time stuff that is not the greatest quality of meat available, so doctoring it to no end. Eyebrow raising hamburger recipe, for instance. There's kernels to be gleaned from all of it, though.
2 things that define my cooking. I was a naughty boy, mom loved to have us stand in the corner on her 'up' days, when we weren't having to stand with the encyclopedia held up on our outstretched arms. My designated corner had a great big poster that listed virtually all spices and what meats they should be paired with, and what other spices they best coordinate with to make what type of dish. I have that thing memorized...
And, experimenting with Grandma's recipes.
Between them, I can usually just toss stuff together and know what's going to taste good. I'm not afraid to screw it up either. Recipes are a guideline at best.
Maybe there's something in there that explains why so many chefs are men...
On second thought, I don't do modern food so I wouldn't know where to begin or what is considered modern these days. In Sweden traditional food is very hot and trendy and has been for quite some time...
Which brings me to one of the desserts we had: Chocolate-coated grapes. When I first decided on this, I was told it would never work - it wasn't a combination anyone was familiar with, it wasn't "period" and nobody would like it.
In Sweden traditional food is very hot and trendy and has been for quite some time...
Lax? ;lol
So what is "ishavstorsk "?
Shaved stork?
@Valka try this (maybe Barilla is easy to find and the quality is high, but attention how cooking)
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Peel the broccoli, remove the leaves and flowers divide into florets.
Wash them and then boil them for a few minutes in boiling salted water.
In a pan, heat two tablespoons of olive oil, sauté the garlic and chilli and then insaporitevi florets.
Meanwhile, boil salted water and the orecchiette.
Drain them and flavor them in the pan of broccoli.
Stir and passed it on the plate.
Serve with grated Parmesan cheese separately.
A variation is to boil the orecchiette with broccoli, drain thoroughly and then season it with oil and grated parmesan cheese.
(It's a long story on how a Soviet military engineering student on a year long exchange trip to New York meets a beautiful, fiesty woman, and the loads of paperwork and signed invitation permits that followed :wall: - And no she wasn't a New Yorker. That's enough about that though...)
Salted brackish veal tongue ???. If it is salted, then why soak it in a salty fluid? I hear whispered excessive salt intake. Also do veal tongues taste like cow tongues? I have had cow tongue but never veal tongue.
What was this man's name/branch, if you know?
. Also do veal tongues taste like cow tongues? I have had cow tongue but never veal tongue.
My favorite dessert has to be pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.
My favorite dessert has to be pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.
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My favorite dessert has to be pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.
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The only thing missing from that pie is a scoop of vanilla ice cream. :)
ice cream on PUMPKIN pie?Have you not had vanilla ice cream on top of Pumpkin pie? I think it is absolutely delicious. That is not even the oddest combination of foods I have eaten or seen eaten.
While on the Pie topic, I make a mean Apple pie. Made it up meself. Not sure how widely available the apples I use are, though.Well, if the pies are mean, you must make them out of crabapples, right?
Maybe he doesn't have crabapples in his country.
Maybe he doesn't have crabapples in his country.Which country is that?
What you often find in my area year round is a lot of tropical fruits like Mangos, papayas, pineapples etc. During the correct seasons, in my area you will find blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, apples of many different types (except for crab apples), apricots, grapes, plums, peaches, oranges, grapefruits, nectarines, and nuts like pecans and almonds. Unfortunately, the tropical fruits are often imported from places like Mexico or Chile. Otherwise most of the other fruits are grown locally. There are even spots near where I live that you can pick some types of fruits right off the trees.People around here grow strawberries, raspberries, some kinds of plums (we had 2 plum trees in the back yard of the house I used to own; they were small, yellow, and tart), saskatoons, crabapples, cherries (we had a small cherry tree that was more like a bush; the dog would eat the fruit right off the tree - swallow it whole, basically)...
Which country is that?
Maybe he doesn't have crabapples in his country.
how many non-existent countries in the world ... ;)
when we speak of sweets pistachio is the first thing that comes to mind
here is more common ice cream inside brioches rather ice cream on pumpink pie, but i'm going to try it seeing the wide praise you give
someone in sicily has made it big, as usual
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ice cream on PUMPKIN pie?Have you not had vanilla ice cream on top of Pumpkin pie? I think it is absolutely delicious. That is not even the oddest combination of foods I have eaten or seen eaten.