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Saturday, July 4, 2015 11:38 AM
SIGNYM
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Saturday, July 4, 2015 10:09 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Sunday, July 5, 2015 2:02 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
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Monday, July 6, 2015 7:50 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: If I ever get back to the States there is a ton of food I want to try. Biscuits and gravy is one of them. From what I understand, biscuits are essentially what we call scones, only we eat them with jam and cream for afternoon tea. My favourite meal to eat out is normally breakfast or brunch. I love how that has become a sunday tradition, with really good coffee (not your american shite), sour dough toast with smashed avocado, perfectly poached eggs, smoked salmon, hollandaise sauce, pan fried mushrooms and tomotoes. Often outdoors, and at this time of year outdoors under heaters. The other type of food I enjoy eating is Asian street food, especially dumplings. But also a huge fan of bahn mi, and rice paper rolls. Hoisin sauce with anything is my creed.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 7:53 AM
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015 9:04 AM
Quote:Originally posted by G: Crazy that Nigella, an English women, would consider those scones. I think anything sourced from the Food Network is suspect. Funny too that the English also call what we call cookies, biscuits. Is that what scones look like in Aus.?
Quote: Plenty of shite coffee in the US for sure, but like a lot of things about the US, there isn't only one thing that defines us. Kind of on account of there being so many of us... eye roll ... so like the amazing craft beer movement we've been enjoying for the last 20 years, coffee too has many hipster mad scientists who have got all up in it and investigated the many ways to brew and roast the many kinds of beans. Pour over, drip, cold brew (my new favorite) - you name it you can find it, and these days usually in abundance. It's a pretty big deal here.
Quote: 3 words: N Y C - not sure if you have ever been but it has it all food-wise. A tad expensive, oppressive, exciting, amazing, addictive, one of my favorite places on the planet to visit.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:26 PM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 11:40 PM
Friday, July 10, 2015 2:30 AM
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Friday, July 10, 2015 6:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: BTW Magon's - unfortunately, while there are many places here that serve American classics like biscuits and gravy, jambalaya, fried catfish and corn pone, or other regional or regional foreign favorites, it's probably harder to find great versions. But then, if you're looking for a genuine American experience, the average American restaurant meal is probably it.
Friday, July 10, 2015 7:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I keep telling my coworkers ...we are all chemists ... SIGNY Please keep your chemistry out of my food! You sound like one of the "chefs" at Monsanto. -G
Quote:Chemistry is responsible for ruining a lot of great food, so while you might be able to use it to understand hot v cold brewing (why one extracts less acid)
Quote:I wouldn't want to use it to "make food better."
Quote:That's what Big Food has done for decades and we have very little good to show for it and plenty of bad.
Quote:Cold brewing coffee produces a very different tasting coffee (much, much less bitter), so I wouldn't say "better" just fyi. It's also meant to be consumed cold, not hot, but I heat mine up anyway because it's what I like.
Quote:For most people Taste in general is "I know what I like."
Quote: The 5 kinds of tastes on our tongue/palate are dead to any emotion, so they just ping our brain with quantitative feedback (how much sweet, how much bitter..). Our brain decides good and bad, and making that final decision is not just a y/n proposition. It looks like some people think it's a mathematical formula, crack the code and you have it down, repeatable for forever.
Quote:I could put 10 different coffees in front of you and one of them you would judge as the best one, but I doubt you would respond enthusiastically that it was the best coffee you had ever had. Emotion is at least half of the eating experience - in a cold lab environment it's just not likely to happen, even though it could be the exact same coffee that you end up gushing about because you had it on a rainy day at a little empty cafe while in Paris with your best friend. "It was the best coffee ever! And we can never recreate it at home... why-o-why?!"
Friday, July 10, 2015 8:49 AM
Quote: Yes Kiki, you described a culinary world of watery onions and bad tomatoes etc, so an obvious conclusion - from your own words - is that you are unknowing when it comes to food.-G
Quote:But then, if you're looking for a genuine American experience, the average American restaurant meal is probably it.- KIKI MAGONS, you can save yourself the airfare and visit your local McDonald's. That's a genuine common American experience, and you can visit it right at home! - SIGNY First: my gawd you 2 are thin skinned.Second: That is much worse than anything I said! You want to send Magons to a MacDonalds... god forbid. In a thread about FOOD of all things, you can't help but run out you America hatin' - even at Magon's expense. Shameful and very selfish.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015 11:47 PM
Quote:Don't understand - Cold brew has plenty of caffeine. I suspect you 2 are mistaking acid for caffeine.
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Monday, July 27, 2015 8:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: scones
Quote: 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 2 teaspoons superfine sugar 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) unsalted butter 2 tablespoons soft vegetable shortening 1 1/4 cups buttermilk 1 egg, beaten, for an egg wash (optional) 1 large lipped baking sheet or half sheet pan 1 (2-inch) biscuit cutter, preferably fluted Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/buttermilk-scones-recipe.html?oc=linkback biscuits Ingredients 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons shortening 1 cup buttermilk, chilled Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/southern-biscuits-recipe.html?oc=linkback seems pretty similar to me
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WISHIMAY
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