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USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
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FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Good call. I'd love to see Alton Brown move to his own Netflix or Amazon series, but I'm sure the size of his ex-wife's divorce settlement precludes it.
Good call. I'd love to see Alton Brown move to his own Netflix or Amazon series, but I'm sure the size of his ex-wife's divorce settlement precludes it.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
That's almost certainly why Food Network picked up Good Eats 2 instead of it being 100% web like was originally planned.
That's almost certainly why Food Network picked up Good Eats 2 instead of it being 100% web like was originally planned.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
dx, good call. I haven't watched Food Network in years. Seems like everyone I used to like (other than Alton) is just phoning it in.
dx, good call. I haven't watched Food Network in years. Seems like everyone I used to like (other than Alton) is just phoning it in.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
"I've had my fill of healthy. I'm looking to go unhealthy. Spitefully unhealthy."- Anthony Bourdain
What's something I could try that's decadent? Seems like all I could muster this weekend for "unhealthy" was beer and a cocktail.
"I've had my fill of healthy. I'm looking to go unhealthy. Spitefully unhealthy."- Anthony Bourdain
What's something I could try that's decadent? Seems like all I could muster this weekend for "unhealthy" was beer and a cocktail.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
"Your body is not a temple - it's an amusement park."
Depends on your price tag.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Right now, I would take a nice stuffed French toast for breakfast.
Lucy's Cafe in Grand Rapids has a blueberry and cream cheese filled croissant.
Could go back to Marquette and get the waffle fries from Vango's and a more decadent dish from Casa Calabria.
New Holland Dragon's Milk.
Mac fudge ice cream.
If nothing else, explore the dessert section of Fannie Farmer and see what I can do.
bostonewe
Short/Round
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Here too. I have every (or pretty close to every) Good Eats episode recorded thanks to Cooking Channel and late night Food Network. For awhile I was watching the Chew a lot. Now I read a lot of Serious Eats (Kenji Lopez-Alt) and watch America's Test Kitchen on PBS. I've tried a few other PBS shows with varying interest levels (Ming Tsai's is hit or miss; I have about 8 of Jacques Pepin's that I've kept because the visuals help with the technique in a written recipe).
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
Can't believe Fanny still exists. Back at the height of late 90s prosperity, we were not only giving boxes of Trinidads to my father's subordinate managers at Christmastime, but even the mailman.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
ATK is the best we've got, even without Pretentious Chris.
Who here remembers when Ming was a FoodTV star, right next to Sara Moulton?
ATK is the best we've got, even without Pretentious Chris.
Who here remembers when Ming was a FoodTV star, right next to Sara Moulton?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
The bad guy from Flash Gordon was a cooking show star?
The bad guy from Flash Gordon was a cooking show star?
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
1. Going spitefully unhealthy in a group is much more fun.
2. Serving sizes on ice cream are jokes. A proper serving of ice cream is when my spoon has emptied the pint of its contents.
I have the 100th anniversary edition of that and the 75th anniversary of JOY. They're the cookbooks I always come back to.
1. Going spitefully unhealthy in a group is much more fun.
2. Serving sizes on ice cream are jokes. A proper serving of ice cream is when my spoon has emptied the pint of its contents.
I have the 100th anniversary edition of that and the 75th anniversary of JOY. They're the cookbooks I always come back to.
bostonewe
Short/Round
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Ehh - It's when you're full/done with eating...it doesn't have to be the whole pint.
Me too. I have a bunch of basic/introductory cookbooks (Bittman's How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian; Ruhlman's Twenty; 75th of Joy of Cooking) and I still always go back to Joy of Cooking.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Knowing the way I eat ice cream, this is why I don't bring home half-gallons.
Knowing the way I eat ice cream, this is why I don't bring home half-gallons.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Yes! My opportunity to go "spitefully unhealthy" comes on Saturday. My trans support group is having a cookout, with tube steaks, ice cream, and apple pie.
Yes! My opportunity to go "spitefully unhealthy" comes on Saturday. My trans support group is having a cookout, with tube steaks, ice cream, and apple pie.
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
I don't think I've ever seen an actual tube steak. [Insert joke here.]
I don't think I've ever seen an actual tube steak. [Insert joke here.]
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Got some raspberries at the farmers' market last week, and some overripe discount mangoes (3 for $2!! couldn't slice them, but perfect for pureeing) and made mango-raspberry sorbet. I believe I have captured summer in my freezer. It's delicious.
Also, I have an experiment planned for next week - mini caneles.
Got some raspberries at the farmers' market last week, and some overripe discount mangoes (3 for $2!! couldn't slice them, but perfect for pureeing) and made mango-raspberry sorbet. I believe I have captured summer in my freezer. It's delicious.
Also, I have an experiment planned for next week - mini caneles.
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dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: USCHO Cooks: Are you our Top Chef?
Got a call from my mom yesterday saying she wanted to see her son since I’ve been in the road the last month. Decided to invite her over and do something special.
Smoked a rack of ribs and a pork butt. I haven’t done a butt in so many years because mine never quite came out right*. This time it did. It needed another hour or two to be pulled pork and didn’t want to wait so I just chopped it and it was awesome. Best ribs I’ve ever made as well. Plus the smoked bacon potato salad was killer too.
The house smells real pretty right now.
*Which is why I also did ribs. Need to have a good backup plan. And ribs I’ve got down pat.
Got a call from my mom yesterday saying she wanted to see her son since I’ve been in the road the last month. Decided to invite her over and do something special.
Smoked a rack of ribs and a pork butt. I haven’t done a butt in so many years because mine never quite came out right*. This time it did. It needed another hour or two to be pulled pork and didn’t want to wait so I just chopped it and it was awesome. Best ribs I’ve ever made as well. Plus the smoked bacon potato salad was killer too.
The house smells real pretty right now.
*Which is why I also did ribs. Need to have a good backup plan. And ribs I’ve got down pat.