Sam Fujisaka's Recent Activity
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Left Lasagna Out All Night. Can I eat it?
What can I say?
I'd agree to tossing the lasagna if you did touch it with a barge pole used in one of the canals in Jakarta or a klong in Bangkok or under the houses on the river in Iquitos. Then you would have a petri dish of fun. Otherwise, where are those bacteria coming from?
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Advice on kitchen torch - moved from Home Cooking board
Plus the hardware torch is good for flaming slugs out in the garden and getting charcoal in the BBQ going if in a hurry.
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Christmas Party for 40 - theme ideas, main courses on a budget?
"Big Love on a Budget Christmas"
"More Love on Less Dough Christmas"
"More Bang for the Buck Christmas"
"Post-Crash Christmas"
"Hobo Mickey's Christmas"
Agree with the majority of posters above who suggest budget meat (pork, chicken, and/or beef), slow cooked in some way, and pulled and sauced.
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Successfully Steam Both Levels in a Steamer?
boltnut55 hasn't replied as to steamer type. Another possibility is a stacking two-chamber clear plastic type. These have a drip tray for the condensed steam. Half way through. empty the tray and switch the positions of the two compartments.
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Dried apricots
Well, I was just about to recommend a Dundee cake that my friend Nick just introduced to me:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/ty...
But now I won't.
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Finding focus at a potluck? Good Luck?
Prep all the fixin's for assemble your own tacos: maize tortillas; ground beef cooked with diced onion, cumin, and cilantro; optional refried beans; grated cheese; diced tomato, diced red onion; homemade hot sauce/salsa; and finely chopped lettuce (iceburg is OK). Always good fior a crowd.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Lomo saltado is Peruvian/Peruvian Chinese/Peruvian influenced by the Peruvian Chinese.
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Chinese College Students
Yes, a wonderfull outcome. Sounds like a great event on all counts.
monku, maybe it was the potatoes - Chinese and Japanese tastes are not the same.
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Elements Of Americanization?
keg!!! Check again. "Montado" refers to that egg in the saddle with feet in the stirrups and taking the reins on top of that lomo. If you saltear that egg when mounted on that lomo, you'll have "Lomo a un lado con el huevo caido en algun otro". The Guatemaltecos in your local Mexican restaurant seem to agree with me: montado has fried egg on top. A salteado is always thin strips of meat and vegetables salteado (tossed/flippoed/stir fried).
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Chinese College Students
I'm going to repeat my call for rice made upthread.
I think the only real "foisting" would be with potatoes or bread in place of rice. Non-Asians often don't understand that bread and potatoes are simply not satisfying in the way that rice is for Asians. Someone above mentioned meatloaf and potatoes - OK but nowhere near as good as meatloaf and plain rice.
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Elements Of Americanization?
One of my favorite places in Pucallpa, Peru, had about 1m x 1m kitchen under a stairwell with the "restaurant" opening at about sunset when chairs and tables were placed on the sidewalk and the street at about sunset. Lomo salteado was the attraction. Fries were prepped ahead of time and could be tossed in at the end. One time the owner let me cook for my friends and me: Rather than potatoes or fries, I made a fried rice to serve alongside.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Steak w/ fried egg on top is a lomo montado in Bolivia. A lomo saltado in Peru combines thin strips of meat and vegetables - stir fried/tossed (salteado). Potatoes can be included.
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Thanksgiving etiquette question
Salaam alaikum. How was the smoothie and what was it made of?
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Thanksgiving etiquette question
Maybe your guest bought the pies at Marie Calendar's or the grocery store and then got her feelings hurt by hearing other guests saying that they wouldn't touch the store bought pies. Her response may have been to remove the offending pies. This is not far-fetched in that lots of hounds have dissed store bought pies served for holiday meals.
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forgotten yoghurt
Perfecfly safe. Even homemade woiuld be safe. Your store bought yogurt has enough stabilizers and preservatives to make it safe for a month in your cafr at those teperatures.
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Discolored fry pan OUTSIDES
Right! I was with you up to that point and then the two of you started a hollerin' en cussin' at one another.
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Chinese College Students
Do what you suggest, but please add plain, steamed rice to the offerings. They will likely be missing rice by about now.
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Discolored fry pan OUTSIDES
4under &JB, sorry to butt in, but I've never known a restuarant to clean the stain off of the outsides of pots and pans.
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smoked goat meat?
Absolutely - curry, stew, and beans. I've steamed smoked and salted meats to soften them up and to get rid of excess salt. You probably won't need to do that. I'd also figure out a way to eat it in tacos!
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tips for getting started with fried rice
Do the egg first and set aside. Use as high heat as possible and toss rice into the near aflame bit of oil. Toss and stir like crazy, add your other finely chopped and prepped stuff; and finally the soy sauce. Toss/stir. Top with finely chopped green onions.
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Eating vegetarian in Africa
For East Africa you might find some vegetarian restaurants in cities like Nairobi. Otherwise, much of the food in the countryside does not include much meat. You can get plantains, cassava, sukuma wiki (greens. although ask if these have been cooked with some meat), rice , beans, and - in Kenya and Tanzania - ugali, the ubquitious maize dish. There are also plenty of Indian restaurants in Kenya and Uganda.
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Kansas hounds: Bierocks?
Dumplings large and small are steamed in Asia - not so odd if you consider that the same cuisines do not use ovens.
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I forgot Thanksgiving! Help!
Along the lines of what CM suggests: a roast chicken, stuffing, roasted & slightly sweetened squash (cubed) or sweet potato, any kind of fruit crisp. Easy.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Nice, thoughtful reply - added nicely to the whole discussion.
A related anecdote: The Colombian chicken producing mafia is opposed to free trade with the US (something that would benefit the majority here). They took out full page adds in the newspapers claiming that Americans eat only the breast meat, and thow away the rest; and that free trade would result in the dumping of what is otherwise discarded. Chicken costs 4 - 5 times as much here as in the US,
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Aside from convenience, what's the point of a casserole?
Bitter gourd or melon. First had it in a no name dirt floor "restaurant" in Canh Tho in the delta region of Vietnam. Ground pork, spices, herbs stuffed into the gourd (previously cut in half and each half emptied of pulp and seeds using a table kinife). Steamed. Delicious.
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Aside from convenience, what's the point of a casserole?
Really!! Went out to lunch at a local place with friends the other day. The soup had a vegetable base, potato, and a chunk of bone with some tasty meat bits. Had the carne sudado. It came with beans, rice, platano, and the tablespoon sized "salad" of tomato and onion. And agua panela - a sugar cane drink. All for for about $2.50. jeremyn, that was a good anti-casserole plate.
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Aside from convenience, what's the point of a casserole?
jeremyn, I agree with all the above replies, including your replies to the replies.
But I'd like to turn the question around. I am not that great a fan of American//European cooking in which a plate is served with "a protein" (usually a slab of meat), a starch (often a potato in some form!) and a "side" (usually a vegetable). To me, this style of cooking takes little skill, even when your "proper sauce" is added. I enjoy more complex cooking and combinations - making tamales, enchiladas, momos, bierocks, sio pao, pot pies, beef wellingtons, curries, stir frys, makizushi, inarizushi, stuffed bitter gourd, complex Chines or French, and the like. To me a good casserole can involve separate prep of several ingredients and always involves careful consideration of melding several flavors and textures together.
So, I might ask, " What's the point of a plate with a slab, a carb, and a veg?".
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smoked goat meat?
I saw the words, "smoked goat meat" and my mouth started watering. I've had it in East Africa. But never smoked and frozen, which must be lightly smoked and then frozen. I've had and enjoyed smoked and dried.
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Turkey Emergency-need feedback!
Quick! Run it back to the butcher's and ask them to give it a whiff!!
[And I'm the one who usually says, "Don't worry; it'll be OK"].
