ipsedixit's Profile
Trader Joe's soups
One thing I should note about the Chicken Barley Vegetable is that I like to dilute it with a bit of water. It just tastes better to me.
When you fail at what you make
Savor your failures. Because they will only make your success that much sweeter.
Breakfast Sausage: Patties or Links?
Only time I prefer patties is if I'm having a Sausage Egg McMuffin.
Is anything ever as good as you remember it?
Is anything ever as good as you remember it?
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Yes. My mom's cooking.
Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village (first impressions)
JGold is irrelevant. Or should be.
And Mr. Chow does one thing very well -- it makes the rich feel important.
Same business model with Shanghai NO. 1 Seafood. It makes the rich and naive feel important. Table next to us was bringing in truckloads of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, and for all the restaurant could care they could've used the entire restaurant as an orgy exhibition and it wouldn't have mattered.
One would like to think that making good food and making money can co-exist in the restaurant business.
But if they are mutually exclusive, it is certainly not unwise to choose the latter over the former.
Long live Mr. Chow!
Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village (first impressions)
That's how all rich Mainlainders who are here in the U.S. are impressed.
Good vs. Evil - Tony Bourdain and Eric Ripert in Santa Rosa, CA
Ripert needs to grow thicker skin.
What are the best Mexican restaurants in Phoenix?
Rito's (on 14th St. near Roosevelt)
homemade breakfast burrito with guacamole, heated in oven tastes like pesto?
Heated avocado, esp. microwaved heated avocado, tastes very different from cold avocado.
Roasted avocado is smokier and earthier than non-roasted. Heating the avocados changes not only its texture but its flavor characteristics.
Also, heating it with the other ingredients in the burro will make it taste different.
Why Hasn't There Been More Talk On This Board About WP 24?
Along the same vein, I will defend Panda Express as having "good food" and even "some of the best Amercanized Chinese food" but would not say that it is "Chinese food".
How long does soup last?
For example, if you buy those refrigerated soups (e.g. from Trader Joe's or Whole Foods), the "use by" date is usually 2-3 weeks out.
Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village (first impressions)
No, by being over-the-top ostentatious.
They strive to make Nero blush.
foods you eat to get full without consuming too many calories?
No, that would be with sugar.
Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village (first impressions)
This place is totally geared for the Chinese mainland ex-pats.
A fruit for every season?
What fruit -- to you -- symbolizes each of the four seasons?
While I fully understand that with refrigeration and globalization, we can have bananas year-round and apples whenever, and watermelon in the dead of winter, there are certain fruits that either become popular or hit their peak depending on what month(s) we are in the calendar year.
So, with that said, what fruit brings to mind each of the four seasons?
For me:
Winter: Persimmons
Spring: Cherries (with strawberries a close second)
Summer: Watermelon
Fall: Apples
How much do people associate "Asian food" with spicy? (And other stereotypes about Asian food)
What the hell is "Asian food"?
That's like saying "European food" with the only less vague term possibly being "Western Hemisphere food"
Sitting or Standing in the Kitchen?
Standing, except when I am cleaning green bean (or yellow) bean sprouts.
Do you serve pasta in bowls or on plates?
If it's for company, then a plate.
If it's me, myself and I, then in a big cappuccino cup.
Wasting the liver?
There are probably lots of parts of the pig that you are going to discard aside from the liver that another person might eat, including the tail, ears, feet, snout, tongue, face, etc.
Just because you choose not to eat does not necessarily make it a "waste".
Cod roe
Parboil, then slice, then pan fry and serve with some rice with a soy-ginger-horseradish sauce.
