Prog Chefs Unite!!!

^ I do sausage with peppers&onions sometimes, usually on a soft roll (NY Italian style) with some good grainy mustard, and I like red cabbage (the pickled kind) or three-bean salad on the side

I also love homemade guac, though it seems harder to find both high quality & perfectly ripe avocados

and it's not just ripeness, many of the ones I've gotten simply don't have a good flavor - or much flavor - and can be stringy or oily or both  ..it's a sad state of affairs unless you've got a big farmers market nearby 

oh that would be bad, might as well make grassamole

Padraic wrote: Super Bowl menu tomorrow is kielbasa with sauteed onions and red (bell) peppers, and homemade guacamole.  Beer for myself and "peary" for the missus.  Nothing to get too excited about but it's just the two of us.

The only NFL game I watch all year. I'm getting drunk with a couple of buddies in some sports bar on the west island. Food?

Indeed it is! Yesterday evening we should have gone to see Yes play at the Warner Theater in downtown DC, but the concert was rescheduled (thank heavens!) because of inclement weather. So we'll get to see them on Feb 15 (barring earthquakes or swarms of locusts), and now we're listening to Yesshows (it was Yessongs yesterday evening).

Back to food... What are Monte Cristos? I'm sure I've seen them mentioned a number of times, but now I don't remember.

Dean wrote: ^ I gather it's an American take on a Croque-monsieur - except it's battered, deep fried and drenched in sugar.

*feels sick*

jammun wrote:   Nothing to do with food, but I was listening to The Yes Album last night and HOLY MOLY is that a fine piece of music, still to this day!

That it is, sir, that it is. 

Dean wrote: ^ I gather it's an American take on a Croque-monsieur - except it's battered, deep fried and drenched in sugar.

 

It seems that most of us (all of us?) love spicy food, especially in the winter time (if not, you’re not one of us). I love a good chili con carne, but I also like to vary. This Asian dish, called Kheema, is based on a recipe I found many years ago. I have adjusted it a lot; adding carrots and spices and reducing the amount of potatoes. Here’s my latest version:

1. Chop 5 to 15 cloves of garlic, 1 to 5 red chillies, one big onion and simmer in a big pot until the onion is shiny.

2. Add 400 grams of minced meat (beef or lamb), fry until the meat is cooked through.
 
3. Add 2 to 3 cubed potatoes and 3 to 4 cubed/sliced carrots. Add cumin, coriander seeds, ground nutmeg and Indian curry powder to taste. Add a can of crushed tomatoes and crumb a vegetable stock cube in the pan.

4. Bring the dish to boil. Have a glass of wine (or beer or whatever) while waiting. Chat with your spouse or listen to your favourite music. Stir occasionally. After app. 30 minutes, the potatoes and carrots should be ready. Taste. Add chilli powder if you want to spice it up. Add salt and a little honey if needed. Finally, add one can of peas (drained).

Edited by refugee - February 10 2010 at 10:33

I was in the bookstore and I couldn't believe all the cookbooks they had. They even had an Amish cookbook. They had more cookbooks than books on alien abduction. Just for fun I asked the girl if they had a jail cookbook . I told her I just got out after doing 15 years hard time and missed the delicious food. She looked at me and said "You're joking right?" She looked up jail cookbooks and such things really do exist but they couldn't order it. I think I`ll just buy some frozen perogies from the Ukranian food store and throw them in the nuker and forget about jail food for tonight since the other half is away. I stll can't beleive that they actually have jail cookbooks. Jail cookbooks!

Unbelievable! Half the world can't feed themselves! And this geezer wants a T-Bone steak for his last meal?

Guys in jail. I'd give them dry bread & water all year round.
On Christmas I'd put a few flavour crystals in the water but wouldn't make it too tasty and give them some butter on the bread . But not too much.

Guys on death row for the last meal could have mouse. I'd make a great jailhouse chef.