USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

[MissThundercat]

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Make a pale ale/fruit leather reduction, which barely turns out in time and probably tastes disgusting.

Drizzle over butter-sauteed snails (shells removed) with a perfunctory salad on the side for which I've produced a Dijon vinaigrette. Pray the lack of integration isn't a big deal, even though odds are I'm getting the boot.

Don't worry, Amanda Freitag will let you down gently, while Geoffrey Zakarian will tell you that the snails were good, but everything else tasted awful. Aaron Sanchez will stare at you if you speak of the snails in anything less than adoring tones.

[leswp1]

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In-laws over for dinner. Menu:

Appetizers:
Roasted tomato and basil dip
Caramelized onions
various cheeses and crackers
garlic stuffed olives
almonds

DInner:
Angel hair tossed with olive oil garlic and fresh basil with additions of (add your own)
roasted zucchini and summer squash
roasted tomatoes
roasted asparagus
Steamed broccoli
thinly sliced steamed carrots
Sliced chicken breast
Fresh parmesan- shredded

Eggplant roll-ups (like lasagne but roasted egglant instead of noodles) with meat sauce

Dessert:
Chocolate cake with half frosted white half chocolate
Fresh strawberries
French vanilla ice cream from the fahm.

Wine
Ginger beer

served all the veggies and chicken room temp after preparing earlier in the day (It was bleeding hot so I couldn't deal with heating it all up again). Served the pasta hot. It came out really well.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

In-laws over for dinner. Menu:

Appetizers:
Roasted tomato and basil dip
Caramelized onions
various cheeses and crackers
garlic stuffed olives
almonds

DInner:
Angel hair tossed with olive oil garlic and fresh basil with additions of (add your own)
roasted zucchini and summer squash
roasted tomatoes
roasted asparagus
Steamed broccoli
thinly sliced steamed carrots
Sliced chicken breast
Fresh parmesan- shredded

Eggplant roll-ups (like lasagne but roasted egglant instead of noodles) with meat sauce

Dessert:
Chocolate cake with half frosted white half chocolate
Fresh strawberries
French vanilla ice cream from the fahm.

Wine
Ginger beer

served all the veggies and chicken room temp after preparing earlier in the day (It was bleeding hot so I couldn't deal with heating it all up again). Served the pasta hot. It came out really well.

I had chicken parm from Gemignani's for dinner (best Italian in Houghton), but I want all of this.

[Proud2baLaker]

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I did another southern soul food type thing tonight. I fried some hybrid striped bass (caught them myself) coated with a creole style breading. Cooked up some cheesy grits and put that in a deep plate and topped them with sauteed mushrooms and onions. Placed the fish around the grits and finished it off with a few dashes of hot sauce. The crunchy bite from the breading on the fish combined with the smooth texture of the cheesy grits and some heat from the hot sauce was awesome. Definetly a comfort food.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Can he use the snails as bait to catch a fish?

What's so bad about escargot? That stuff's good!

[MissThundercat]

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In-laws over for dinner. Menu:

Appetizers:
Roasted tomato and basil dip
Caramelized onions
various cheeses and crackers
garlic stuffed olives
almonds

DInner:
Angel hair tossed with olive oil garlic and fresh basil with additions of (add your own)
roasted zucchini and summer squash
roasted tomatoes
roasted asparagus
Steamed broccoli
thinly sliced steamed carrots
Sliced chicken breast
Fresh parmesan- shredded

Eggplant roll-ups (like lasagne but roasted egglant instead of noodles) with meat sauce

Dessert:
Chocolate cake with half frosted white half chocolate
Fresh strawberries
French vanilla ice cream from the fahm.

Wine
Ginger beer

served all the veggies and chicken room temp after preparing earlier in the day (It was bleeding hot so I couldn't deal with heating it all up again). Served the pasta hot. It came out really well.

I'm suddenly hungry...

[Beer Pong Horn]

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What's so bad about escargot? That stuff's good!

Never had it, but I think it'd be easier to plan a meal around fish than snails.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Never had it, but I think it'd be easier to plan a meal around fish than snails.

Escargot is typically an appetizer.

[SteveP]

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In-laws over for dinner. Menu:

Wow - that's quite a feast.

My in-laws come for dinner:



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[FreshFish]

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Is it "cooking" if I don't use any heat?

We tried growing tomatillos in our garden this year and they make great salsa verde, especially when we also can use jalapenos from the garden too! Not sure what else they are good for though.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Is it "cooking" if I don't use any heat?

We tried growing tomatillos in our garden this year and they make great salsa verde, especially when we also can use jalapenos from the garden too! Not sure what else they are good for though.

Given what Giada does with her melons, why not.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Escargot is typically an appetizer.

Escargot is delicious, as long as they just serve the snails drowned in garlic butter, no puff pastry B.S.

I'm not sure what else you could do with a snail that would mask their slimy/gooey nature, thus why it's usually an appetizer. If everyman still posted here, he might have some bright idea.

[MissThundercat]

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Trying another loaf of bread:

2 cups whole wheat
1 cup rye
1 cup bread flour
Sesame seeds
Fennel seeds
Oregano
Water
Yeast
Salt

We'll see how it goes.

[FlagDUDE08]

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Escargot is delicious, as long as they just serve the snails drowned in garlic butter, no puff pastry B.S.

I'm not sure what else you could do with a snail that would mask their slimy/gooey nature, thus why it's usually an appetizer. If everyman still posted here, he might have some bright idea.

Why drown it? That completely destroys the natural snail flavour!

[bigblue_dl]

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I've had escargot, and it wasn't terrible. I'll generally try any kind of food once, with a few exceptions. With that said, I wouldn't order it again, based on my first experience with it.