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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 22, 2019 23:23:35 GMT
I went Ethiopian for the first time about a year ago. I wasn't that impressed. My friends had been there before, not sure why they wanted to go back, I wanted to go to a Spanish place that we often like and order several things of the tapas menu and share. They do the most delicious roast veg dish. The bread had a purple look to it and was kinda sour. Being vegetarian limits my options as well. I shared my mushroom dish with one of them, because she, while not veg, ordered a potato dish. They needed to be shared and the food had a bitter taste. I think they overdid the turmeric perhaps.
My friends husband had a goat meat dish, which he found bony and didn't really enjoy due to the texture of the meat. Can't recall what he described it as. His dad appeared to be the most pleased with his lamb dish which was spicy hot.
Yes! The food did have a bitter taste to it. So weird to come across that particular flavor in a cuisine. It was almost bizarre. As far as the purple bread.... yikes!!! I am not all that familiar with turmeric, Toasted Cheese. Is it a bitter flavor? You don't come across this spice too much. The most I know is that turmeric somewhat resembles curry in color. I believe that is right? "Kinda like goat meat.... maybe a little more stringy..." - Farmer Vincent Yes, turmeric is a popular spice in Indian dishes and is yellow. It has a bitter taste, but also has a scraping action in the system. Good for cleansing one out. I don't want to be mean, but I just don't feel I can recommend Ethiopian to others.
So your bread was purple too Mr. D?
Yes, I think stringy was the term, good point of reference. You can always relay on Farmer Vincent where meats are concerned. He knows his critters.
I can't single out any favorites really, because of my vegetarian diet, my options on the menu are very restricted and I have to compensate\improvise my orders. I am usually content to go anywhere though, because there is usually always something. Turkish and Lebanese I find nice, except for the pickled things they can tend to serve a lot of.
There is a vegetarian Chinese down the road from me and you order stuff like pork, chicken, beef, duck etc from the menu, but it is all vegan product. It is served as normal western Chinese is from a regular Chinese restaurant and does allow an opportunity to indulge in the entire menu. I find it a bit pricey though, so only go on special occasions. I love deep fried ice-cream from Chinese restaurants and when I was out with my parents recently at a nice Chinese, I ordered a sizzling platter of vegetables in Mongolian sauce. This was just so delicious!
I do like Mexican though. I like making my own nachos, but I stay away from re-fried beans. Too dry for me.
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Post by llanwydd on May 22, 2019 23:36:28 GMT
Indian is definitely my favorite. The first time I had it was on Kuwait Airlines on a flight from NYC to London. I thought it was delicious, but because it was Kuwait Airlines I thought it was Arabic. That sent me on a quest for Arabic food which I love to this day (I actually became a manager of a Lebanese restaurant. Long story) but I still like Indian better. Looking back, I remember there were a lot of Indian-looking people on the plane so the food was probably for them. I recognize the stuff now. What I had was tandoori chicken, raita, mixed pickles and gulab jamun. The kind of stuff you get at an Indian restaurant buffet.
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Post by koskiewicz on May 23, 2019 0:05:28 GMT
Thai...their use of curries make their cuisine several cuts above all others...
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 23, 2019 1:03:48 GMT
Szechuan.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 23, 2019 3:18:18 GMT
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Post by goz on May 23, 2019 3:41:16 GMT
what about aussy for goz ? huge fan of Vietnamese seafood dishes: Thanks, we don't really have a 'cuisine' though a few favourites however we steal every other cuisine from all cultures in our multi-cultural society and make it even better with the high quality of our local produce due to our amazing ( and varied) climate. Whilst we still have seasonal foods, almost everything can be grown somewhere in our country, year around. We even eat tropical fruit most of the year esp strawberries and tomatoes. I can only think of a few things like oranges and table grapes that we import from California when your season is better than ours.
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 4:57:56 GMT
I chose French cuisine as my favorite. I have only had French food three times in my life, but in each case, they were over the top delicious. Duck a l'orange, Veal Prince Orloff and Shrimp Berra Terria were the dishes, I remember them so well. The veal dish I ordered strictly because they featured it on an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"! As soon as I saw it on the menu I freaked! I wasn't expecting such verisimilitude from a 70s sitcom. Of course, it had to be Mary!  But I had no idea the dish was going to be soooo delicious. I should have known Betty White would never steer me wrong. lol The Julia Child cookbook has a recipe for it, calling for turkey medallions, in place of the veal. I made this dish exactly two times in my life. Oh, my gosh, was it good! And never again will I think to attempt it. Both times, it took something like six months to make. After that, it would be Thai and the take out I get that passes for Chinese cuisine. The Chinese food I eat just doesn't seem super authentic to me. Who can say? I also like Indian food a lot, too, though, other than fast food in general (which I do like, and I would be a liar to deny it), I would be hard pressed to come up with an example of American cuisine. Hot dogs? Chicken noodle soup? Ho Hos and Ding Dongs? The only thing I hardly ever get at a Mexican restaurant are the fajitas and the free chips. I can't stand the Mole sauce, so much cheese is unappealing, guacamole is just wasted fat intake and refried beans are downright disgusting. I know I am limited in my point of view, but for me the adventurous spirit begins its decline when the hostess is wearing castanets. I think Italian food is over-rated. I'll admit I've never eaten at a French restaurant though. I don't know why Julia replaced veal with turkey. Veal is heavenly. Anything Chinese is great. Maybe you've just gone to those quickie takeout Chinese places. Try a real restaurant for Chinese. I've become an excellent Chinese chef myself. I've never seen anybody in a Mexican restaurant wearing castanets. Lol. You're a witty guy. Your post on Ethiopian food is hilarious. Come to think of it, I read the exact same thing. The first French restaurant I went to was called Chez Jean and it was in this super small country town in Indiana. I went with my college friend, Rachel, who was a French major and she was dying to go. Gosh, we were only like 21 years old. The bill was over 200 dollars! Oh, my god! Rachel was such a money scammer, though. She would sign up for the maximum number of credit hours for school courses, then after she was sure she was going to get the maximum amount for her student loans, she would immediately call up the Registrar's office and drop all the courses except for two, which was what she needed to remain a student, and then in a couple of weeks she would get a check for something like 8,000 dollars. Wow. I haven't thought about this in years. She was a transgender person and she would have to come up with all these elaborate ways to finance all her operations. She could be super creative. I'll never forget the day she called me on the phone after she got her check and said "Toddy! Yay! I got my check today! Now I can get my tits! Yay!" and then she would hold the receiver under her shoulder and make clapping sounds over the phone. She was hilarious and shameless and kind of an unbelievable individual. But, boy, was she fun! All my female friends, with the exception of two, have been crazy. When she had her final operation and was being wheeled into surgery, one of the nurses commented on how lovely her manicured nails were, and this I will never forget, Rachel's last words before passing out were, in response to the compliment... "Oh, the Vietnamese are the only ones who know what they're doing..." That was a bona fide, true blue ROTFLMAO!!!! I just had to share that! I miss her, but she was soooo high-maintenance, it was not to be believed!
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 5:18:25 GMT
Yes! The food did have a bitter taste to it. So weird to come across that particular flavor in a cuisine. It was almost bizarre. As far as the purple bread.... yikes!!! I am not all that familiar with turmeric, Toasted Cheese. Is it a bitter flavor? You don't come across this spice too much. The most I know is that turmeric somewhat resembles curry in color. I believe that is right? "Kinda like goat meat.... maybe a little more stringy..." - Farmer VincentYes, turmeric is a popular spice in Indian dishes and is yellow. It has a bitter taste, but also has a scraping action in the system. Good for cleansing one out. I don't want to be mean, but I just don't feel I can recommend Ethiopian to others.
So your bread was purple too Mr. D?
Yes, I think stringy was the term, good point of reference. You can always relay on Farmer Vincent where meats are concerned. He knows his critters.
I can't single out any favorites really, because of my vegetarian diet, my options on the menu are very restricted and I have to compensate\improvise my orders. I am usually content to go anywhere though, because there is usually always something. Turkish and Lebanese I find nice, except for the pickled things they can tend to serve a lot of.
There is a vegetarian Chinese down the road from me and you order stuff like pork, chicken, beef, duck etc from the menu, but it is all vegan product. It is served as normal western Chinese is from a regular Chinese restaurant and does allow an opportunity to indulge in the entire menu. I find it a bit pricey though, so only go on special occasions. I love deep fried ice-cream from Chinese restaurants and when I was out with my parents recently at a nice Chinese, I ordered a sizzling platter of vegetables in Mongolian sauce. This was just so delicious!
I do like Mexican though. I like making my own nachos, but I stay away from re-fried beans. Too dry for me.
I actually don't recall if the bread was an unusual color, so I guess it wasn't or I would have remembered it. But when I read in your post "purple bread", that was just too much to go without a comment! What I do remember is that it had a weird texture and was spongy and very spicy, which seems offputting to come across this in bread! I think the best bread is a bit sweet and a bit savory and just a little bit on the mild side. Spicy bread does nothing for me. I love your basic Jerkins dill pickle, and I love the sweet pickles and the bread and butter pickles, but I have had some of the pickles that you are referring to, Toasted Cheese, and they were way too spicy! I was not expecting! But, I am definitely a vinegar type of guy! I guess I am a little bit confused as to how chicken, beef and pork can be vegan products. Did I read this right? Is it meat-flavored, but no actual meat? I know you are a vegetarian, Toasted Cheese, and I say good for you... That would require a lot of discipline, I would think. I have a friend who is vegetarian and when we go out to a restaurant if he wants to order fries or something, he has to ask the waitress if the potatoes are prepared in chicken fat. I have always loved vegetables and can picture your dish... Were there onions and peppers? What was the Mongolian sauce like? I love sauces. I am pretty much a sauce queen. That's cool that you go out to dinner with your parents. Who has the more adventurous palette, your mom or your dad? My parents are not open minded at all when it comes to food. Especially my dad. His diet consists of red meat, potatoes, beans, onions and Coca-cola. But he seems to be healthy as a horse. I've never come across friend ice cream in a Chinese restaurant; however, there is a Thai restaurant not too far from me that has the most delicious ice cream flavors, like guava and mango and pistachio and red bean and green tea and coconut, I can't even pick a favorite, and they come in these individual size containers and they are kind of expensive, but they are soooooo good! As far as Ethiopian food goes, the restaurant I went to - like 25 years ago - is still up and running. I go past there all the time and it is always busy, so I don't feel too guilty about making fun of it. "has a scraping action in the system..." That's a new one! Oh, my God! I love Rory, but Nancy is priceless! You just can't take your eyes off her facial reactions and she keeps them coming. My favorite might be when she drinks her beer a little too fast @ 43 seconds and she has to place her hand on her chest to counter the indigestion! Ha!
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 5:28:29 GMT
I've read that culinary experts consider French and Chinese to be the two greatest cuisines on earth. I'll admit I've never eaten at a French restaurant though. I don't know why Julia replaced veal with turkey. Veal is heavenly. Anything Chinese is great. Maybe you've just gone to those quickie takeout Chinese places. Try a real restaurant for Chinese. I've become an excellent Chinese chef myself. I've never seen anybody in a Mexican restaurant wearing castanets. Lol. You're a witty guy. Your post on Ethiopian food is hilarious. Come to think of it, I read the exact same thing. The first French restaurant I went to was called Chez Jean and it was in this super small country town in Indiana. I went with my college friend, Rachel, who was a French major and she was dying to go. Gosh, we were only like 21 years old. The bill was over 200 dollars! Oh, my god! Rachel was such a money scammer, though. She would sign up for the maximum number of credit hours for school courses, then after she was sure she was going to get the maximum amount for her student loans, she would immediately call up the Registrar's office and drop all the courses except for two, which was what she needed to remain a student, and then in a couple of weeks she would get a check for something like 8,000 dollars. Wow. I haven't thought about this in years. She was a transgender person and she would have to come up with all these elaborate ways to finance all her operations. She could be super creative. I'll never forget the day she called me on the phone after she got her check and said "Toddy! Yay! I got my check today! Now I can get my tits! Yay!" and then she would hold the receiver under her shoulder and make clapping sounds over the phone. She was hilarious and shameless and kind of an unbelievable individual. But, boy, was she fun! All my female friends, with the exception of two, have been crazy. When she had her final operation and was being wheeled into surgery, one of the nurses commented on how lovely her manicured nails were, and this I will never forget, Rachel's last words before passing out were, in response to the compliment... "Oh, the Vietnamese are the only ones who know what they're doing..." That was a bona fide, true blue ROTFLMAO!!!! I just had to share that! I miss her, but she was soooo high-maintenance, it was not to be believed! That was perhaps why she could afford a $200.00 bill for an expensive restaurant as well. I think she would be too much for me and high maintenance and preciousness does my head in. You are very resilient Mr. D.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 5:41:31 GMT
Yes, turmeric is a popular spice in Indian dishes and is yellow. It has a bitter taste, but also has a scraping action in the system. Good for cleansing one out. I don't want to be mean, but I just don't feel I can recommend Ethiopian to others.
So your bread was purple too Mr. D?
Yes, I think stringy was the term, good point of reference. You can always relay on Farmer Vincent where meats are concerned. He knows his critters.
I can't single out any favorites really, because of my vegetarian diet, my options on the menu are very restricted and I have to compensate\improvise my orders. I am usually content to go anywhere though, because there is usually always something. Turkish and Lebanese I find nice, except for the pickled things they can tend to serve a lot of.
There is a vegetarian Chinese down the road from me and you order stuff like pork, chicken, beef, duck etc from the menu, but it is all vegan product. It is served as normal western Chinese is from a regular Chinese restaurant and does allow an opportunity to indulge in the entire menu. I find it a bit pricey though, so only go on special occasions. I love deep fried ice-cream from Chinese restaurants and when I was out with my parents recently at a nice Chinese, I ordered a sizzling platter of vegetables in Mongolian sauce. This was just so delicious!
I do like Mexican though. I like making my own nachos, but I stay away from re-fried beans. Too dry for me.
I actually don't recall if the bread was an unusual color, so I guess it wasn't or I would have remembered it. But when I read in your post "purple bread", that was just too much to go without a comment! What I do remember is that it had a weird texture and was spongy and very spicy, which seems offputting to come across this in bread! I think the best bread is a bit sweet and a bit savory and just a little bit on the mild side. Spicy bread does nothing for me. I love your basic Jerkins dill pickle, and I love the sweet pickles and the bread and butter pickles, but I have had some of the pickles that you are referring to, Toasted Cheese, and they were way too spicy! I was not expecting! But, I am definitely a vinegar type of guy! I guess I am a little bit confused as to how chicken, beef and pork can be vegan products. Did I read this right? Is it meat-flavored, but no actual meat? I know you are a vegetarian, Toasted Cheese, and I say good for you... That would require a lot of discipline, I would think. I have a friend who is vegetarian and when we go out to a restaurant if he wants to order fries or something, he has to ask the waitress if the potatoes are prepared in chicken fat. I have always loved vegetables and can picture your dish... Were there onions and peppers? What was the Mongolian sauce like? I love sauces. I am pretty much a sauce queen. That's cool that you go out to dinner with your parents. Who has the more adventurous palette, your mom or your dad? My parents are not open minded at all when it comes to food. Especially my dad. His diet consists of red meat, potatoes, beans, onions and Coca-cola. But he seems to be healthy as a horse. I've never come across fried ice cream in a Chinese restaurant; however, there is a Thai restaurant not too far from me that has the most delicious ice cream flavors, like guava and mango and pistachio and red bean and green tea and coconut, I can't even pick a favorite, and they come in these individual size containers and they are kind of expensive, but they are soooooo good! As far as Ethiopian food goes, the restaurant I went to - like 25 years ago - is still up and running. I go past there all the time and it is always busy, so I don't feel too guilty about making fun of it. "has a scraping action in the system..." That's a new one! Oh, my God! I love Rory, but Nancy is priceless! You just can't take your eyes off her facial reactions and she keeps them coming. My favorite might be when she drinks her beer a little too fast @ 43 seconds and she has to place her hand on her chest to counter the indigestion! Ha! My dad is the most fussy eater ever, but he has always liked Chinese and the sizzling plates. He usually gets black bean. My mother is more adventurous.
I like the occasional pickled veg, like onion or dill cucumber. I don't find it very agreeable with my system though, it is heating and not that good for the skin. I would rather have more lettuce and raw vegetable, than pickles with my falafels.
The vegetarian restaurant makes it dishes out of soy and vegetable proteins. The chicken texture is actually quite nice. I don't care for the fake beef. I am not sure of the nutritional value either. At any rate, it is a nice treat to get sweet and sour pork, or honey chicken and know it is not a dead animal I am eating and looks and tastes pretty much the same.
Here is a photo of one of my actual desserts I took of a deep fried icecream over a year ago. So yummy Mr. Dirty and the ice-cream comes nice and hard inside and the batter is like coconut sometimes. It depends on where you go. The vege Chinese discussing, allows you to choose your flavor of ice-cream, but the batter is very bland and ordinary. I just like plain vanilla, with a nice crunchy batter:
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 5:46:06 GMT
Come to think of it, I read the exact same thing. The first French restaurant I went to was called Chez Jean and it was in this super small country town in Indiana. I went with my college friend, Rachel, who was a French major and she was dying to go. Gosh, we were only like 21 years old. The bill was over 200 dollars! Oh, my god! Rachel was such a money scammer, though. She would sign up for the maximum number of credit hours for school courses, then after she was sure she was going to get the maximum amount for her student loans, she would immediately call up the Registrar's office and drop all the courses except for two, which was what she needed to remain a student, and then in a couple of weeks she would get a check for something like 8,000 dollars. Wow. I haven't thought about this in years. She was a transgender person and she would have to come up with all these elaborate ways to finance all her operations. She could be super creative. I'll never forget the day she called me on the phone after she got her check and said "Toddy! Yay! I got my check today! Now I can get my tits! Yay!" and then she would hold the receiver under her shoulder and make clapping sounds over the phone. She was hilarious and shameless and kind of an unbelievable individual. But, boy, was she fun! All my female friends, with the exception of two, have been crazy. When she had her final operation and was being wheeled into surgery, one of the nurses commented on how lovely her manicured nails were, and this I will never forget, Rachel's last words before passing out were, in response to the compliment... "Oh, the Vietnamese are the only ones who know what they're doing..." That was a bona fide, true blue ROTFLMAO!!!! I just had to share that! I miss her, but she was soooo high-maintenance, it was not to be believed!That was perhaps why she could afford a $200.00 bill for an expensive restaurant as well. I think she would be too much for me and high maintenance and preciousness does my head in. You are very resilient Mr. D.
She was too much for most people. She was unreal. But she could command a room. I am absolutely happy that I was friends with such an interesting person, but, yes, she was soooo high maintenance. I used to go over to her house at 2:00 in the morning to watch "The Patty Duke Show". Oh, my god. The memories. She was also the laziest person I have ever encountered. One time she called me on the phone and said "Oh, Toddy! You've got to come over and take down my Christmas tree... it's got me wild!" This was in July, mind you. So I drive over to her place and she is laying on the sofa in her Grandma nightgown, her hair flying in all directions, teetering on inertia... For my troubles, she offered me two day old rice-a-roni... "There's some rice-a-roni on the stove, help yourself..." I am absolutely cracking up as I recall these minor misadventures.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 5:50:02 GMT
That was perhaps why she could afford a $200.00 bill for an expensive restaurant as well. I think she would be too much for me and high maintenance and preciousness does my head in. You are very resilient Mr. D.
She was too much for most people. She was unreal. But she could command a room. I am absolutely happy that I was friends with such an interesting person, but, yes, she was soooo high maintenance. I used to go over to her house at 2:00 in the morning to watch "The Patty Duke Show". Oh, my god. The memories. She was also the laziest person I have ever encountered. One time she called me on the phone and said "Oh, Toddy! You've got to come over and take down my Christmas tree... it's got me wild!" This was in July, mind you. So I drive over to her place and she is laying on the sofa in her Grandma nightgown, her hair flying in all directions, teetering on inertia... For my troubles, she offered me two day old rice-a-roni... "There's some rice-a-roni on the stove, help yourself..." I am absolutely cracking up as I recall these minor misadventures. You could have told her that she could have Xmas in July. They do that here in Australia....  Hope the rice-a-roni was good for all your troubles.
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 5:53:25 GMT
I actually don't recall if the bread was an unusual color, so I guess it wasn't or I would have remembered it. But when I read in your post "purple bread", that was just too much to go without a comment! What I do remember is that it had a weird texture and was spongy and very spicy, which seems offputting to come across this in bread! I think the best bread is a bit sweet and a bit savory and just a little bit on the mild side. Spicy bread does nothing for me. I love your basic Jerkins dill pickle, and I love the sweet pickles and the bread and butter pickles, but I have had some of the pickles that you are referring to, Toasted Cheese, and they were way too spicy! I was not expecting! But, I am definitely a vinegar type of guy! I guess I am a little bit confused as to how chicken, beef and pork can be vegan products. Did I read this right? Is it meat-flavored, but no actual meat? I know you are a vegetarian, Toasted Cheese, and I say good for you... That would require a lot of discipline, I would think. I have a friend who is vegetarian and when we go out to a restaurant if he wants to order fries or something, he has to ask the waitress if the potatoes are prepared in chicken fat. I have always loved vegetables and can picture your dish... Were there onions and peppers? What was the Mongolian sauce like? I love sauces. I am pretty much a sauce queen. That's cool that you go out to dinner with your parents. Who has the more adventurous palette, your mom or your dad? My parents are not open minded at all when it comes to food. Especially my dad. His diet consists of red meat, potatoes, beans, onions and Coca-cola. But he seems to be healthy as a horse. I've never come across fried ice cream in a Chinese restaurant; however, there is a Thai restaurant not too far from me that has the most delicious ice cream flavors, like guava and mango and pistachio and red bean and green tea and coconut, I can't even pick a favorite, and they come in these individual size containers and they are kind of expensive, but they are soooooo good! As far as Ethiopian food goes, the restaurant I went to - like 25 years ago - is still up and running. I go past there all the time and it is always busy, so I don't feel too guilty about making fun of it. "has a scraping action in the system..." That's a new one! Oh, my God! I love Rory, but Nancy is priceless! You just can't take your eyes off her facial reactions and she keeps them coming. My favorite might be when she drinks her beer a little too fast @ 43 seconds and she has to place her hand on her chest to counter the indigestion! Ha! My dad is the most fussy eater ever, but he has always liked Chinese and the sizzling plates. He usually gets black bean. My mother is more adventurous.
I like the occasional pickled veg, like onion or dill cucumber. I don't find it very agreeable with my system though, it is heating and not that good for the skin. I would rather have more lettuce and raw vegetable, than pickles with my falafels.
The vegetarian restaurant makes it dishes out of soy and vegetable proteins. The chicken texture is actually quite nice. I don't care for the fake beef. I am not sure of the nutritional value either. At any rate, it is a nice treat to get sweet and sour pork, or honey chicken and know it is not a dead animal I am eating and looks and tastes pretty much the same.
Here is a photo of one of my actual desserts I took of a deep fried icecream over a year ago. So yummy Mr. Dirty and the ice-cream comes nice and hard inside and the batter is like coconut sometimes. It depends on where you go. The vege Chinese discussing, allows you to choose your flavor of ice-cream, but the batter is very bland and ordinary. I just like plain vanilla, with a nice crunchy batter:
Desserts can look so pretty! Yummy! Fried ice cream is delicious. It's curious how the ice cream stays so hard after it has been dunked in a deep fryer. My vegetarian friend says the same thing when somebody orders a meat dish... "dead animal" He always cited Brenda from the first "Friday, the 13th" as his favorite because she was a vegetarian! lol. She was my favorite, too, but that had more to do with the fact she was so pretty and seemed the coolest and nicest of the kids. She should have been the final girl, instead of bland Alice. Wow, I am really pin balling it tonight.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 6:04:55 GMT
My dad is the most fussy eater ever, but he has always liked Chinese and the sizzling plates. He usually gets black bean. My mother is more adventurous.
I like the occasional pickled veg, like onion or dill cucumber. I don't find it very agreeable with my system though, it is heating and not that good for the skin. I would rather have more lettuce and raw vegetable, than pickles with my falafels.
The vegetarian restaurant makes it dishes out of soy and vegetable proteins. The chicken texture is actually quite nice. I don't care for the fake beef. I am not sure of the nutritional value either. At any rate, it is a nice treat to get sweet and sour pork, or honey chicken and know it is not a dead animal I am eating and looks and tastes pretty much the same.
Here is a photo of one of my actual desserts I took of a deep fried icecream over a year ago. So yummy Mr. Dirty and the ice-cream comes nice and hard inside and the batter is like coconut sometimes. It depends on where you go. The vege Chinese discussing, allows you to choose your flavor of ice-cream, but the batter is very bland and ordinary. I just like plain vanilla, with a nice crunchy batter:
Desserts can look so pretty! Yummy! Fried ice cream is delicious. It's curious how the ice cream stays so hard after it has been dunked in a deep fryer. My vegetarian friend says the same thing when somebody orders a meat dish... "dead animal" He always cited Brenda from the first "Friday, the 13th" as his favorite because she was a vegetarian! lol. She was my favorite, too, but that had more to do with the fact she was so pretty and seemed the coolest and nicest of the kids. She should have been the final girl, instead of bland Alice. Wow, I am really pin balling it tonight. You can see my fingers reflected in the spoon taking the shot... 
Talking about pinballs, I have been watching Tommy - 75'. Haven't got through to the end yet as I had to stop half way through last night. Such a surreal and creative vision that Ken Russell bought to the screen, with a lot of subtexts. Haven't seen for ages. What got me thinking about watching it was Elton John and the new Rocketman film coming up. Are you keen on that one Mr. D?
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 6:05:51 GMT
She was too much for most people. She was unreal. But she could command a room. I am absolutely happy that I was friends with such an interesting person, but, yes, she was soooo high maintenance. I used to go over to her house at 2:00 in the morning to watch "The Patty Duke Show". Oh, my god. The memories. She was also the laziest person I have ever encountered. One time she called me on the phone and said "Oh, Toddy! You've got to come over and take down my Christmas tree... it's got me wild!" This was in July, mind you. So I drive over to her place and she is laying on the sofa in her Grandma nightgown, her hair flying in all directions, teetering on inertia... For my troubles, she offered me two day old rice-a-roni... "There's some rice-a-roni on the stove, help yourself..." I am absolutely cracking up as I recall these minor misadventures. . Hope the rice-a-roni was good for all your troubles. That's a good one! I should have! I actually like Rice-a-roni. She had a boyfriend for about a year, and I guess he had money, though I could never pinpoint what he did for a living; but, anyway, she actually intimidated him into having a house built for her (yes!) and all according to her specs. And this is just hard to adjust to this kind of perspective, but she would gush to me how exciting it all was and the "piece de resistance" was a "Christmas tree closet"... she had the xmas tree fitted with wheels and then just put it in this closet. "Just dust her off and wheel her out..." - She actually said that. I can't even imagine it now, but there you have it. Wow. I am being flooded with these memories. Damn, she was a HOOT!!! She dumped him after she came home one day and found him dressing up in her clothes! Oh, my God! I couldn't even make this stuff up if I tried!
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 6:09:27 GMT
You could have told her that she could have Xmas in July. They do that here in Australia.... Hope the rice-a-roni was good for all your troubles. That's a good one! I should have! I actually like Rice-a-roni. She had a boyfriend for about a year, and I guess he had money, though I could never pinpoint what he did for a living; but, anyway, she actually intimidated him into having a house built for her (yes!) and all according to her specs. And this is just hard to adjust to this kind of perspective, but she would gush to me how exciting it all was and the "piece de resistance" was a "Christmas tree closet"... she had the xmas tree fitted with wheels and then just put it in this closet. "Just dust her off and wheel her out..." - She actually said that. I can't even imagine it now, but there you have it. Wow. I am being flooded with these memories. Damn, she was a HOOT!!! She dumped him after she came home one day and found him dressing up in her clothes! Oh, my God! I couldn't even make this stuff up if I tried! Well, it pretty much stands to figure, if a guy is going out with a female transgender, did Rachel claim she was straight by the way, he would have some of his own fetishes and issues going on. Wouldn't R be happy though, that she had a bf that was in touch with his feminine side?!
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 6:25:21 GMT
That's a good one! I should have! I actually like Rice-a-roni. She had a boyfriend for about a year, and I guess he had money, though I could never pinpoint what he did for a living; but, anyway, she actually intimidated him into having a house built for her (yes!) and all according to her specs. And this is just hard to adjust to this kind of perspective, but she would gush to me how exciting it all was and the "piece de resistance" was a "Christmas tree closet"... she had the xmas tree fitted with wheels and then just put it in this closet. "Just dust her off and wheel her out..." - She actually said that. I can't even imagine it now, but there you have it. Wow. I am being flooded with these memories. Damn, she was a HOOT!!! She dumped him after she came home one day and found him dressing up in her clothes! Oh, my God! I couldn't even make this stuff up if I tried! Well, it pretty much stands to figure, if a guy is going out with a female transgender, did Rachel claim she was straight by the way, he would have some of his own fetishes and issues going on. Wouldn't R be happy though, that she had a bf that was in touch with his feminine side?! Rachel's boyfriend was this little guy who I think was from Jamaica. He was nice, but there was always something a little off. He almost certainly did have some fetishes. But I don't think Rachel was prepared for this. She told me once that she woke up in the middle of the night in bed and he was standing over her wearing this long blonde wig and holding a butcher knife, just staring down at her. That was the beginning of the end. Yes, Rachel always identified as a heterosexual woman and while she had male friends who were effeminate, she disliked effeminacy in a mate. The guy didn't seem effeminate to me, but obviously he had issues.
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Post by dirtypillows on May 23, 2019 6:37:10 GMT
Desserts can look so pretty! Yummy! Fried ice cream is delicious. It's curious how the ice cream stays so hard after it has been dunked in a deep fryer. My vegetarian friend says the same thing when somebody orders a meat dish... "dead animal" He always cited Brenda from the first "Friday, the 13th" as his favorite because she was a vegetarian! lol. She was my favorite, too, but that had more to do with the fact she was so pretty and seemed the coolest and nicest of the kids. She should have been the final girl, instead of bland Alice. Wow, I am really pin balling it tonight. You can see my fingers reflected in the spoon taking the shot...
Talking about pinballs, I have been watching Tommy - 75'. Haven't got through to the end yet as I had to stop half way through last night. Such a surreal and creative vision that Ken Russell bought to the screen, with a lot of subtexts. Haven't seen for ages. What got me thinking about watching it was Elton John and the new Rocketman film coming up. Are you keen on that one Mr. D?
That's kind of funny, because about a month ago, I went through this period where I watched the Ann-Margret baked beans scene. I love it how she comes out all glamorous, decked out in white and guzzling champagne and AM is just overcome with certain urges. I didn't catch the KR film itself, his movies were just a little too much one side or another for me to appreciate the movie. Though I liked it when they did that scene in "!3 Men" for AM, it seemed appropriate. I think it AM was always an exciting presence for me. For Ken Russell, I just have never been to inside one of movies And I wanted to like "Women in Love", and it was all because I wanted to see Oliver Reed nude, I would mind seeing the biopic of Elton John, with the some kid of approach that the "Boheminan Rhasosdy", which I liked so so
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on May 23, 2019 7:37:50 GMT
I like Chinese but only the stuff I get at the local place which is probably very Americanized so I didn't check it off since I don't know what kind of Chinese it is. Since I do like Lithuanian food (I'm part Lithuanian) and you felt it was too obscure, I checked off Polish and Russian because they have similar dishes.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on May 23, 2019 9:37:18 GMT
You can see my fingers reflected in the spoon taking the shot...
Talking about pinballs, I have been watching Tommy - 75'. Haven't got through to the end yet as I had to stop half way through last night. Such a surreal and creative vision that Ken Russell bought to the screen, with a lot of subtexts. Haven't seen for ages. What got me thinking about watching it was Elton John and the new Rocketman film coming up. Are you keen on that one Mr. D?
That's kind of funny, because about a month ago, I went through this period where I watched the Ann-Margret baked beans scene. I love it how she comes out all glamorous, decked out in white and guzzling champagne and AM is just overcome with certain urges. I didn't catch the KR film itself, his movies were just a little too much one side or another for me to appreciate the movie. Though I liked it when they did that scene in "!3 Men" for AM, it seemed appropriate. I think it AM was always an exciting presence for me. For Ken Russell, I just have never been to inside one of movies And I wanted to like "Women in Love", and it was all because I wanted to see Oliver Reed nude, I would mind seeing the biopic of Elton John, with the some kid of approach that the "Boheminan Rhasosdy", which I liked so so Tommy is perhaps the film he is most well known for and it was a smash hit. Of course the Who's music and it being based on a rock opera helped its success. It is very outlandish, but it is also the creation of a genuine auteur and visionary. I have always pretty much been fond of Russell's films and he wasn't afraid to defy convention, was original and daring and mocked and satirized the establishment in a bold and brazen manner. He also liked to put religious hypocrisy at the forefront of many of his themes.
In Tommy, he uses celebrity idolization as Christlike figures—Marilyn Monroe is substituted for The Virgin Mary—and Tommy himself, in despite the trauma's he encounters and his psychosomatic afflictions of blindness, deafness and muteness make him purer than most and in turn the new messiah. It is quite a stunning 70's cinematic achievement Mr. Dirty and I think you really need to make an effort to see if you can. Ann Margaret and Oliver Reed—who wouldn't be able to sing a note for his supper—are a classy added bonus. Tina Turner is just one freaky deakey chick in her Acid Queen Cameo.
I have never seen Listzomania—where are copies around?—and this is apparently even more outrageous with plenty of phallic imagery and homoeroticism, but just wasn't the success Tommy was.
I like Women In Love and think The Music Lovers is even better, about Tchaikovsky.
I am really looking forward to Rocketman. Allegedly, it isn't as sanitized as BR. Looking forward to Tarantino's new film, his ode to Hollywood and Sharon Tate, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
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But I had no idea the dish was going to be soooo delicious. I should have known Betty White would never steer me wrong. lol
