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What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
I've yet to feel deprived of anything, but since I'm basically very happy with my weight as it is now, I am also much less worried if I have an entire freaking pizza to myself here, or whether breakfast consists of two toasts (which are, incidentally, about half the size each of an average American toast slice) and a soft-boiled egg.
Or tonight, where dinner will likely be Italian = pasta.
Most days, I am perfectly happy with two vegetable sides plus meat/fish.
Why, just last night I had an appetizer of veal tartare with wild herb salad and a lovely piece of eggplant, followed by croustillant of pork with.... uh-oh -- a cube of potatoes au gratin. The reasonable portion sizes in Europe are obviously part of the deal, too.
Losing Interest - Part Two
Right. As has been cstout's thread.
I guess I don't get the whole drama, as usual. Oh well.
Fake (& hilarious) menus distributed at Googamooga
Sorry if this has been posted already on the Brooklyn board, NAF or other boards. I was too lazy to search first.
This, however, is pretty damn funny:
http://laughingsquid.com/hilarious-parody-menus-with-pretentious-sounding-offerings-handed-out-at-the-great-googamooga/
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
Please to send the corn salad and grilled zucchini to Berlin. Thank you :-)
Ok, the meat looks nice, too. Wrap it up.
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
Interesting. I don't ever look at calories anymore but watch my carbs, and continue to lose. Despite that massive pizza at Due Forni... I mean, you saw the pic :-)
Just not pizza every day, all day. Or cheese by the pound (even if it's really, really low-carb :-)).
Losing Interest - Part Two
What I find most fascinating is that the OP participated in this thread, enthusiastically so.... and I don't see any massive changes to the tenor of the thread in later posts. Just folks sharing which recipes they liked most and, if it was a tough one to find (my heavenly tofu dish apparently was one of those), thanking others for digging them out.
Pointing out "ever-present alphas" indicates (to me) a beef of a more personal nature.
Losing Interest - Part Two
For some, the water glass is always half empty. For me, the beer glass is always full.
~ Are most meats at the supermarket already brined with salt? If so, how do can you tell? ~
Kosher chicken breasts are a) the only kosher product I buy and b) I don't buy supermarket meat that's brined in mystery solutions. Win-win.
Problems clicking on a thread
STILL GOING ON. >SIGH<
any news on when this will be fixed? it is really, really, really, really, really, really very irritating.
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
Ah, screw your stomach. A little culinary abuse has never hurt anyone '-)
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
I believe the designation as 'bank' holiday is given to many a US American holiday as well... MLK comes to mind, or Washington's birthday (!) -- both days we got off when I still worked for a binational government agency :-)
We got the best of both worlds -- all German holidays PLUS all American holidays off.
I hear you on the food market disappointment. Religion should never, EVER get in the way of good eats. Or anything, for that matter, but that's well OT.
PS: Way to go on the NE board, Harters! That's some meticulous reporting :-)
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
What, no Whitsunday in England this weekend? Colo(u)r me surprised!
refused to eat, out of line?
Ha! Any excuse will work to have some chocolate French silk pie. It's good for you, dontcha know?
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
Alas, no mint juleps for us -- the mom & daughter were exhausted from traveling, so we all went home after a very lovely dinner (I had the asparagus menu: asparagus risotto with pan-fried sea bass; rack of veal in porcini jus w/sautéed asparagus and baked polenta; woodruff parfait with strawberries -- yumboski!!).
Pentecost is actually not on the same weekend every year, kinda like Easter (?), so I don't think it's always on Memorial Day weekend. But yeah, considering how secular a country Germany is, it's amazing how many religious holidays are 'observed'....as in -- hey, a DAY OFF!!!
What's not to love :-)
What would Emily Post do? [moved from New Orleans]
I think it would make a wonderful teaching moment for that family. Pointing out that particular person's moral ineptitude or -- to quote Mr. Hunt -- "general" attitude.
The world is not populated by Disney characters, nor by people dressed in its merchandise. Not ever being offended by anything is not a birth right. Thank fucking god :-)
refused to eat, out of line?
"had used raw eggs in a chocolate pie" could mean pretty much anything, agreed. i've never had an unbaked chocolate pie, though, so..... your guess is as good as mine.
refused to eat, out of line?
That's funny. You do realize that most cakes or pies are made with raw eggs, milk and flour?
I don't bake, but trying to use cooked (scrambled? fried?) eggs to make dough must be pretty tricky indeed.
Of course, I eat raw eggs all the time -- my Caesar wouldn't be the same without it.
What's for Dinner? #146 - Memorial Day Edition [old]
Well, over here in Germany, we don't celebrate Memorial Day weekend.
It is, however, Whitsunday weekend / Pentecost, which the thrifty Germans have extended by making Monday a holiday and by extension "Whitmonday" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whit_Monday).
Having no personal attachments to whatever is supposed to have happened on Pentecost (some holy ghost extravaganza, IIRC), we will celebrate a friend's birthday tomorrow with a picknick / bbq in the park, for which we've bought some merguez at the market today.
The fish dude is sick, which is why he was AWOL at both markets today and yesterday, so I had to have Thai dumplings (see photo) and wonton soup instead. Wah.
Tonight, a couple (mom & daughter) from the US is planning on getting together with us for dinner, followed hopefully by one of the best mint juleps in town... it's their first time in Berlin, and we may have a chance to show them around town a bit on Monday,.
What would Emily Post do? [moved from New Orleans]
How does clothing "interrupt your dinner" and/or "insult 50% of the clientele" (what about the other half who aren't 'insulted')? What is "graphic clothing" (cartoons? graphic novel print?), and how do you define what kind of clothing is "suitable for family viewing"?
I'm having a really hard time figuring this out. Please, elaborate.
Best Recipes you have ever found on Chowhound Home Cooking board
oh, believe me, it is.
What's for dinner #145 [old]
hmmm. pasta? are you in a low-carb induced hallucinatory stage, mc2?
tee hee hee. no pasta involved in this dish, but it was tasty nonetheless :-)
What did you have for breakfast today?
Yes, whenever I'm in Berlin, I go completely apeshit for all the stuff I can't get back "home" -- all kinds of smoked and pickled (and grilled, duh) fish, good Turkish, Middle Eastern & Greek food, white asparagus, trout caviar :-).... etc. etc.
It's amazing I don't come home weighing a ton. (famous last words....)
What did you have for breakfast today?
I split my year into summers in Berlin and the rest in Pennysltucky :-)
What's for dinner #145 [old]
consider yourself lucky. maybe you have a better fan than i do (mine doesn't even have an outside outlet -- thus the plan to get a *real* one in the fall), or your oven was much cleaner. it smokes like crazy, just like the zuni chicken.
What's for dinner #145 [old]
Well, the fish dude wasn't around for lunch. Meh. Major disappointment. What *was* at the market, though, were lovely ivory stalks of asparagus, a lb. of which will be peeled, cut up (blasphemy, I know. but I really don't care) into 2-3 inch pieces, and par-boiled for approx. 5-7 min.
In a pan, I'll fry up some diced bacon and onions, and add a couple of sliced or diced -- haven't made up my mind yet -- king trumpet mushrooms... I only got a couple as they are ridic expensive here in the fatherland. The asparagi will join the party in the pan, as will some chopped scallions. Dinner.
Maybe a watermelon & feta salad on the side, though I still don't have mint, so probably not. Perhaps we'll have the karpuz for dessert instead, then.
Tomorrow, there WILL BE FISH, dammit.
