What did you eat today?
Quote: billryanA local eatery advertised a special- 16 pieces of chicken, three sides and six dinner rolls for $24.99. With tax and delivery, it came to $34. I ordered broasted chicken, fries, onion rings and cole slaw. It's my first time ordering and my first impression is the sides seem small. The chicken smells funny; when opened, it isn't fried chicken. It seems roasted, with a strange glaze on it. Looking at the menu, it seems like it is jabonero mango chutney, whatever that is. One bite confirms it isn't to my liking. I had ordered online but called to complain. The person who answered was very apologetic and offered to either send another order of chicken or give me a future credit of $25. I took the credit, but after snacking on the mediocre fries and rings, I'm not in a rush to order from them again.
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Did you not realize you ordered broasted chicken and assumed you ordered fried chicken?
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Pork katsu rice bowl at the food hall.
I still believe that "yum yum sauce" is a mistake, but I'm trying to remain open-minded. Slathering that stuff all over the delightfully crispy pork cutlet certainly isn't my idea.
The miso soup... ok. I don't expect miracles out of miso.
My preferred stall is still closed. I hope the aunties that run (ran?) it are well.
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Not bad except for that yucky looking sauce and that bowl of weak looking broth pretending to be soup. I would eat that meal if it didn't have the soup or the sauce.
I don't know who eats
Quote: EvenBobQuote: Dieter
Pork katsu rice bowl at the food hall.
I still believe that "yum yum sauce" is a mistake, but I'm trying to remain open-minded. Slathering that stuff all over the delightfully crispy pork cutlet certainly isn't my idea.
The miso soup... ok. I don't expect miracles out of miso.
My preferred stall is still closed. I hope the aunties that run (ran?) it are well.
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Not bad except for that yucky looking sauce and that bowl of weak looking broth pretending to be soup. I would eat that meal if it didn't have the soup or the sauce.
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Miso is fairly thick, by broth standards. It's got extra solids in it, unlike a consomme, which is clarified.
The yum yum sauce reminded me a lot of Henri's Tas-tee salad dressing, another unfavorite.
I really hope the aunties come back to the other stall. I'm not quite bold enough to try the Jollof rice place, yet.
Quote: Dieter
Miso is fairly thick, by broth standards. It's got extra solids in it, unlike a consomme, which is clarified.
The yum yum sauce reminded me a lot of Henri's Tas-tee salad dressing, another unfavorite.
I really hope the aunties come back to the other stall. I'm not quite bold enough to try the Jollof rice place, yet.
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I know what miso is, it's mostly broth thickenrd with cornstarch. Asian cuisine is loaded with cornstarch, they stick it in everything to make it thicker. Cornstarch should be avoided because it's extremely highly processed and contains zero nutrients. It raises blood sugar and does nothing for you.
Quote: SOOPOOBought the ‘faux crab’ chunks. Just added some hot sauce and mayo. Ate with a fork. Good for diabetic SOOPOO. I need EB as a personal chef.
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Which brand?
Surimi are definitely not all created equal.
I just got some Tetsujin Kani Kama, but it's still thawing. I've unfortunately had bad luck with a few domestic brands, and am now sampling the import market.
Quote: DieterQuote: SOOPOOBought the ‘faux crab’ chunks. Just added some hot sauce and mayo. Ate with a fork. Good for diabetic SOOPOO. I need EB as a personal chef.
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Which brand?
Surimi are definitely not all created equal.
I just got some Tetsujin Kani Kama, but it's still thawing.
It's the epitome of processed foods. I've tried it a few times at Chinese buffets
and it tastes nothing like real crab meat. It tastes like sweet salty goo
which is exactly what it is.
Ingredients. Threadfin Bream, Water, Potato Starch, Tapioca Starch,
Sugar, Sorbitol, Mirin, Salt, Natural and Artificial Crab Flavors, Soy
Protein, Glucose, Propylene Glycol, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium
Guanylate, Xanthan Gum, Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Color Added
(Carmine and Paprika).
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: SOOPOOBought the ‘faux crab’ chunks. Just added some hot sauce and mayo. Ate with a fork. Good for diabetic SOOPOO. I need EB as a personal chef.
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Which brand?
Surimi are definitely not all created equal.
I just got some Tetsujin Kani Kama, but it's still thawing.
It's the epitome of processed foods. I've tried it a few times at Chinese buffets
and it tastes nothing like real crab meat. It tastes like sweet salty goo
which is exactly what it is.
Ingredients. Threadfin Bream, Water, Potato Starch, Tapioca Starch,
Sugar, Sorbitol, Mirin, Salt, Natural and Artificial Crab Flavors, Soy
Protein, Glucose, Propylene Glycol, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium
Guanylate, Xanthan Gum, Tetrasodium Diphosphate, Color Added
(Carmine and Paprika).
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I don't object to the idea of processed food, I object to the varieties that taste like a rancid litterbox.
It honestly doesn't need to taste exactly like real crab meat.
you should have donated that food to one of the homeless you give things to. You have a $25 credit from the restaurant so you didn't lose anything. Remember the life cereal commercial? Let's give it to Mikey...he,ll eat anything. I am sure they would not have turned it down.Quote: billryanA local eatery advertised a special- 16 pieces of chicken, three sides and six dinner rolls for $24.99. With tax and delivery, it came to $34. I ordered broasted chicken, fries, onion rings and cole slaw. It's my first time ordering and my first impression is the sides seem small. The chicken smells funny; when opened, it isn't fried chicken. It seems roasted, with a strange glaze on it. Looking at the menu, it seems like it is jabonero mango chutney, whatever that is. One bite confirms it isn't to my liking. I had ordered online but called to complain. The person who answered was very apologetic and offered to either send another order of chicken or give me a future credit of $25. I took the credit, but after snacking on the mediocre fries and rings, I'm not in a rush to order from them again.
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Quote: DRichI had a chicken cordon bleu casserole for dinner yesterday. It was basically just two pounds of pulled chicken meat, half pound of ham, one pound of Swiss cheese mixed together with some cream of chicken soup and topped with Italian bread crumbs and baked. It turned out better than I expected.
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The only thing I disagree with is the canned soup, that stuff is nasty. I would have used heavy cream. But overall you did a good job
There is a potluck dinner tonight to celebrate the end of snowbird season. Last week, we had a goodbye party for them, and now we have a party celebrating their departures. The park has a more resort-like atmosphere during the snowbird season. I went for a long ride on the park's bike path this morning and it was not crowded, for the first time in months.
Quote: billryanAlbertsons had family-size chicken parm dinners on sale for $5, reduced from $11.99, so I cooked up two and a pound of penne pasta.
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Did it look like this when you were done? I have no idea could you never include pictures. Reading descriptions of food is beyond boring, that's why every food magazine has tons of pictures. Even most good recipe books have pictures of the finished product. They do that for a reason.
I paid fifty cents to upgrade to the Cinnebon Special Select iced coffee, which wasn't very good. I'm unsure what flavors it had, but it was foul.
My favorite dispensary has 100 MG Chocolate chip brownies for $4.20 all month, reduced from $10 each or 3/$27.
Quote: billryanI had an early morning breakfast of two Taco Bell breakfast burritos and green salsa. I sliced each burrito into a dozen pieces, put them in a bowl, and ate them with a fork, dipping them in salsa.
I paid fifty cents to upgrade to the Cinnebon Special Select iced coffee, which wasn't very good. I'm unsure what flavors it had, but it was foul.
My favorite dispensary has 100 MG Chocolate chip brownies for $4.20 all month, reduced from $10 each or 3/$27.
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With no picture I have to imagine it looked like this.
Wow, what a mistake. This town isn't big enough to support a buffet. Volume leads to turnover leads to freshness.
The hot & sour soup was remarkable - probably the best I've ever had. The rest was lackluster, lukewarm, and regrettable.
I don't feel like I'm about to endure the vengeance of food poisoning, but I know how to edit the post with updates, should that become necessary.
Quote: DRichI am travelling again so this is dinner.
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They make for a nice road breakfast
Quote: DieterSince I'm stuck at the office for a day or two, doing "official" things, I ate at the neighborhood Chinese buffet.
Wow, what a mistake. This town isn't big enough to support a buffet. Volume leads to turnover leads to freshness.
The hot & sour soup was remarkable - probably the best I've ever had. The rest was lackluster, lukewarm, and regrettable.
I don't feel like I'm about to endure the vengeance of food poisoning, but I know how to edit the post with updates, should that become necessary.
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I understand Chinese buffets have really gone downhill since the food prices went up. The big local one was $9.95 and it went up to $17.95 2 years ago and everybody says the food is crap now. It's all chicken with almost zero beef or seafood and certainly no crab legs.
Quote: DRichI am travelling again so this is dinner.
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If I ate those things I'd be in the bathroom for 2 days crapping my brains out. It's been so many decades since I ate junk like that my system would just reject it.
Quote: avianrandyInteresting trivia question I seen today concerning wine. If you are drinking wine that smells like cat urine it is a good sign of...A) the wine is of poor quality...B) the wine is going bad...C) the wine is of good quality orD) the wine was left to close to the litter box...
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No really, what a wine should smell or taste like depends on the wine. There are so many wines that there is no rule.
I myself would decline to consume any wine, or anything at all, that smells like cat urine. I have graded wines at formal tastings, and the smell is considered part of the experience (as is the color) and there is no box to check for "urine." This is probably for a very specific kind of wine, where getting a note of something like that when you open the bottle or on the cork means it was done right.
Quote: AutomaticMonkey
E) You are actually drinking cat urine.
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I knew this wasn't riesling!
Quote: DieterQuote: AutomaticMonkey
E) You are actually drinking cat urine.
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I knew this wasn't riesling!
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Frenchman: Try this. It's chat eau.
Me: You mean wine from your chateau?
Frenchman: Non. Chat eau.
Quote: billryanQuote: DRichI am travelling again so this is dinner.
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They make for a nice road breakfast
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That might also be what the inside of your arteries look like.
Speaking of "going into town," I mentioned elsewhere (in the Crossword Puzzle Competition thread, I think) that I was in San Francisco last weekend for the World Diplomacy (the board game) Championships. They were being held near Union Square, and I thought Las Vegas Strip food prices were bad...
Here's what I had:
Thursday dinner: lasagne
Friday breakfast: a jelly donut, and coffee
Friday lunch: Popeye's - a 3-tender "meal" with mac & cheese, a biscuit, and a drink
Friday dinner: bacon mac & cheese, and meatballs
Saturday breakfast: a ham & cheese crepe, and coffee
(I skipped lunch on Saturday, which is why I got a ham & cheese crepe for breakfast)
Saturday dinner: a 12" Hawaiian pizza
Sunday breakfast: three blueberry pancakes, and coffee
Sunday lunch: a pastrami and swiss on rye sandwich
Sunday dinner: chicken tikka masala
Quote: ThatDonGuyI had to go "into town" yesterday, so I had lunch at an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. The first pass was goat curry and rice, which was excellent, but, like every other goat curry I have ever had, had the bones in it. The second pass was boneless butter chicken.
I like various Indian foods but I usually don't care for the buffets. It just seems like every food is so tamed down on the buffet that it doesn't have any spices at all.
Quote: DRichQuote: ThatDonGuyI had to go "into town" yesterday, so I had lunch at an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. The first pass was goat curry and rice, which was excellent, but, like every other goat curry I have ever had, had the bones in it. The second pass was boneless butter chicken.
I like various Indian foods but I usually don't care for the buffets. It just seems like every food is so tamed down on the buffet that it doesn't have any spices at all.
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That's why I avoid restaurants altogether. The food is always overcooked and bland because that's how people like it, that's how they cook at home. Salt is the only spice they know that's why it's on every table. When somebody gets food from fast food joint and they say man that's really good, what they mean is it's really salty. The more salty it is the more they like it.
oh, come on, it says it's reduced fat typeQuote: EvenBobQuote: DRichI am travelling again so this is dinner.
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... junk like that ...
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Golfed two days at different courses. I think they had the same brand of mediocre hot dogs.
Quote: SOOPOOVisited friend renting luxury condo on Siesta Key. He knows my wife doesn’t eat sushi so he picked an all you can eat (as an option) sushi restaurant for me. I had tobiko x 2, smelt roe x2, salmon, yellowtail, tuna, scallop, snapper, white tuna pieces. Spicy salmon hand roll. Spicy tuna roll. And one of those rolls with salmon, tuna, avocado, nori, crunchy stuff, etc.. I dip everything in a lot of soy/wasabi, then re-dip in spicy mayo. Oh yeah, tempura shrimp as an appetizer. To save space I declined the miso soup.
Golfed two days at different courses. I think they had the same brand of mediocre hot dogs.
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Siesta Key is one of my favorite spots in Florida.
Quote: DRichQuote: SOOPOOVisited friend renting luxury condo on Siesta Key. He knows my wife doesn’t eat sushi so he picked an all you can eat (as an option) sushi restaurant for me. I had tobiko x 2, smelt roe x2, salmon, yellowtail, tuna, scallop, snapper, white tuna pieces. Spicy salmon hand roll. Spicy tuna roll. And one of those rolls with salmon, tuna, avocado, nori, crunchy stuff, etc.. I dip everything in a lot of soy/wasabi, then re-dip in spicy mayo. Oh yeah, tempura shrimp as an appetizer. To save space I declined the miso soup.
Golfed two days at different courses. I think they had the same brand of mediocre hot dogs.
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Siesta Key is one of my favorite spots in Florida.
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Last winter I stayed at North Captiva Island in florida. Our house wasn't on the beach , but the beach is open everywhere on the island so you just walk down to it or ride a golf cart. I would tell you how the one restaurant was, but my relatives had brought all the food already, so just ate in the house. It's 30 minute ride by boat/ferry to get there. Or you can fly in by small plane. I think that is closer to where Drich lives than Siesta. But if you want more access to commercial businesses it's not the place to go.
I was trying to take a hyperlapse fo the sun setting, but it really didn't turn out so well. So, just a still.
Quote: rxwineI think that is closer to where Drich lives than Siesta. But if you want more access to commercial businesses it's not the place to go.
Yes, Sanibel and Captiva are much closer to me than Siesta Key.
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I just got some Tetsujin Kani Kama, but it's still thawing. I've unfortunately had bad luck with a few domestic brands, and am now sampling the import market.
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Finally got around to trying it. Good flavor, reasonable texture, but I'm not happy that each piece is individually wrapped.
First World problems, I suppose.
Quote: DRichQuote: ThatDonGuyI had to go "into town" yesterday, so I had lunch at an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. The first pass was goat curry and rice, which was excellent, but, like every other goat curry I have ever had, had the bones in it. The second pass was boneless butter chicken.
I like various Indian foods but I usually don't care for the buffets. It just seems like every food is so tamed down on the buffet that it doesn't have any spices at all.
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That's almost universal in restaurants. A business decision based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Can't unscramble an egg.
Not spicy enough: "No problem, we'll add some more spice."
Too spicy: "Sorry. We'll remake that for you."
Quote: EvenBob
Sliced cherry tomatoes on pickles on cornbread.
