Nobody cares about food.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Are you lowering yourself to condiment shaming?

Also, if you want to seriously enjoy a good piece of haddock or salmon, you broil it. That way you get it faster to the plate, and you get it melting in your mouth. Grilled works in a pinch. Baked is next in line, and then fried.

You could poach it, of course. If you hate yourself...

 

[Free]

Would you like some fugu?

 

[Khamon]

Broiling and grilling are good options. And we consume much raw fish as well. And not so much shame as I don't see the point of paying for a grand piece of salmon or haddock then dousing it with condiments. For example, SOP is to dunk pieces of lobster into melted, sometimes flavoured, butter. I have done this, and can attest that butter is a fine and wonderful consumable, but there is no lobster taste, none, not even a little. One might as well be eating buttered bread.

So in my stream of consciousness, shame is not the use of condiments, but the gross overuse that seems typical when serving seafood. Many of my relatives can eat a bowl of spicy "cocktail sauce" and never realize that you forgot to add the shrimp. A lot of people I know can eat a plate of salt and pepper and never know there's no real food under it. My insanity was to go polar opposite and use none then adapt to using very little if any. And I found that foods had their own tastes to enjoy.

And yes, as long as is blogging, I do evangelize and attempt to share the message of plain food with little additive. Try it, experiment, rather than follow the common practice. Occasionally, or rather rarely, someone doesn't laugh it off or throw me out of their house.

 

[Isabeau]

I want to start drinking kefir every morning, but man, this stuff is nasty. This coming from someone who loves plain yogurt.

I'm going to push through and continue for my health, but blah

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Uncle Roger reacting to the cooking competition nobody asked for named "Black Fried Rice vs. Chinese Fried Rice." What could possibly go wrong? Introducing nephew macha latte/soy boy and niece tap water.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A Cornish deli trademarked a word for vegetables – and all hell broke loose

When a Cornish deli claims to ‘own’ a Farsi word spoken by a billion people, and a book with the same name disappears from Amazon, something’s gone badly wrong. Hannah Twiggs asks what this latest fight in the food world says about Britain’s uneasy relationship with cultural appropriation

www.independent.co.uk

Evernote Link

 

[Free]

 

[Isabeau]

I wanted to make a giant lasagna this weekend and picked up the ingredients throughout the week, here and there, to be ready. Boiled some water to “blanch” my pasta as I got everything else ready, only to realize I had bought oven ready noodles. Not something I‘ve ever used and was kind of bummed.

Sigh, so I look up how long to bake in case there’s a difference… anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half. Ghad… scroll scroll scroll. I finally decide on 55 min covered, and broil without foil til cheese is toasty, then let it sit for 15.

Turned out good, i.e. cooked, and I enjoyed it well enough, but it just isn’t the same. I’ve never used fresh pasta, so can’t compare, but I’m never using oven ready again. It only tasted good because of all the other ingredients. The texture isn’t as toothsome.

Maybe it’s just a question of what one is used to, or maybe I just made it wrong.

So, no-boil pasta, yea or nay?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Nay. Absolutely nay.

 

[Free]

Eh, God is dead.

Maglink

 

[Rose Karuna]

I wanted to make a giant lasagna this weekend and picked up the ingredients throughout the week, here and there, to be ready. Boiled some water to “blanch” my pasta as I got everything else ready, only to realize I had bought oven ready noodles. Not something I‘ve ever used and was kind of bummed.

Sigh, so I look up how long to bake in case there’s a difference… anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half. Ghad… scroll scroll scroll. I finally decide on 55 min covered, and broil without foil til cheese is toasty, then let it sit for 15.

Turned out good, i.e. cooked, and I enjoyed it well enough, but it just isn’t the same. I’ve never used fresh pasta, so can’t compare, but I’m never using oven ready again. It only tasted good because of all the other ingredients. The texture isn’t as toothsome.

Maybe it’s just a question of what one is used to, or maybe I just made it wrong.

So, no-boil pasta, yea or nay?

I also accidentally grabbed the oven ready noodles and really disliked them. They made the lasagna taste too starchy for me as well as not having the right texture. They are also shorter than regular lasagna noodles. So nay, not a fan.

 

[Free]

Oven-ready lasagna noodles? Aren't those just thin, wavy crackers?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

This monstrosity is apparently available at Arby's.

Uuuurrrrrrp!

 

[Isabeau]

This monstrosity is apparently available at Arby's.

Uuuurrrrrrp!

Too much.
I like to try new things, even novelty or gimmicky stuff, but that’s actually kind of off putting.

 

[Free]

There's not even like a single slice of...uh...I guess bread could be considered a vegetable, but geez.

I'd call it the Heart Attack Preparatory Sandwich.

 

[Free]

Oh oh, woke food culture is turning against white (meat)!

Eating white meat was meant to be good for you – now, apparently not

Swapping chicken for seafood and avoiding overcooking could cut the risks associated with eating too much white meat, the authors of a new study suggest

www.the-independent.com

Regularly eating chicken could double the risk of dying from gastrointestinal cancers, a study has suggested.

With red meat long been linked to an increased risk of bowel cancer, chicken and other white meat have typically been considered less of a threat for illnesses.

Chicken is thought to help reduce health risks like increased cholesterol and inflammation, as well as being a budget-friendly source of protein.

But a study by Italian scientists, published in the journal Nutrients, which followed the diets of almost 5,000 people over two decades, has suggested poultry also has health risks.

/me nibbles on her Korean BBQ-style chicken leftovers from last night's dinner

Good to know...

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Next up: A study that concludes that merely eating - anything - increases the risk of dying from something.

 

[Free]

Next up: A study that concludes that merely eating - anything - increases the risk of dying from something.

That might ruin things for all the studies focused on specific foods. GRANT FUNDING WILL DROP OFF!

 

[Isabeau]

Breaking news, too much of anything is too much for you.

 

[Casey Pelous]

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