they all lost out through being divided, no-one likes split peas.
get out
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 August 2017 11:49 (seven years ago) link
i guess like james ingram said, you should've just had yam or pea there
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 25 August 2017 11:50 (seven years ago) link
HUGE GOLF CLAP
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 August 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Veggie Sticks (potato snacks)
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
I made some Bombay style potatoes yesterday, they were boiled in their skins, fried in butter with mustard seeds/cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, onions, tomatoes + extra hot Caribbean curry powder + loads of spices etc. Damn, it was so nice I'm doing it again today.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
I want to try that. Is there a recipe online you use?
― jmm, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember what recipe I started with. But I boil some reasonable sized potatoes in their skins for half an hour. Cube them after they have cooled. Fry the Mustard seeds/Cumin seeds in massive slab of butter, then add potatoes, onions and spices. Sorry I'm no good at this! I bet Suzy has a killer recipe.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
that sounds more like onions and tomatoes and garlic with potatoes in it.
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
why don't you try the recipe four more times and leave out a different vegetable each time, then tell us which one seems most crucial.
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
No results found for "bombay mushy peas"
― mark s, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
I have a can of chickpeas at home and now I have an idea
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
it's a collaborative effort, as the garlic, onions and tomatoes shrink and dissipate into the potatoes - they become an important part of it, but not necessarily the star attraction!
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
That basically was a recipe?
xposts
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
I suppose it was an attempt. Also add Turmeric, Cayenne Pepper and some ground Cumin. Is what I usually do. And I find going irresponsibly apeshit with the butter makes it much unhealthier and tastier.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
tombot hardmanning calzino's cooking is one of the more unexpected turns this godforsaken thread has taken
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
calzino is right - that recipe is specific to potatoes - you could try it with another starchy veg like yuca or something but only the intrepid potato will meet the acid of the tomato & the sting of the onion head-on, laughing, its face to the wind announcing - I am the potato - I have the gumption to weather storms in which my brethren vegetables wilt - fuck the haters, eat some taters
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
potato will reign always in a pick-one poll because potato goes well with practically anything and if you've ever been poor probably you've gone through whole seasons where in the absence of potatoes it would've been super hard times
i don't know, during my shitty college days when i was learning how to feed myself i pretty much lived on quinoa and lentils, and even though i appreciate those foods and will gladly eat them on occasion to this day, i'm not going to pick them in any poll because 64% of my body was made out of lentils at some point and i've had enough for a lifetime. i imagine those who went the potato route during financial hardships might feel the same way!
i guess this comes down to whether or not we were voting for the one vegetable that we'd want to pick as a practical matter, day-in and day-out, or if we were voting for the vegetable that stands out as especially delicious compared to others for a single meal. like the great ILX reality cooking series, and the special food group for one episode is "vegetable", and you have to choose something from the ingredients in the poll to wow the judges (who, in a cruel twist, is just guy fieri). in that case, even guy fieri is going to be disappointed in "potato" unless you dumb bbq sauce all over it or something
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
weird typo with dumb and dump there due to the presence of the words guy fieri earlier in the sentence
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
xpbeautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
Some of these online recipes that google throws up are so bad. Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
depends what it is
― mark s, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e1/87/1f/e1871ffa9532f1dc3b402d3637a19524.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
thanks for the extra detail calzino.
― jmm, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
Essential thread feels like 2012 in here
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 25 August 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
if by that you mean the apocalypse predicted by the mayans then yeah i cannot disagree
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 August 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
fuck forgot to vote
― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 25 August 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
Specifically tombot hardmanning shadows and jclc writing heroic fiction about vegetables
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 25 August 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
sorry JMM, my recipe was a bit of a fudge, and jclc's honeyed classicism puts me to shame! I'd put about of inch cube of grated ginger and 6 or 7 cloves of garlic in there, is something I should have added.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.
Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced.
― May contain peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, pits or pit fragments. (WilliamC), Friday, 25 August 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
I use a garlic press usually, which probably has the same effect as a microplane, and have never noticed this effect! I'm down with Maunika Gowardhan when it comes to garlic, don't be shy, 6 or 7 cloves will do.
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
beautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.
thank you! nb I am not Owen though we are buds, I am his fatter brother from below the northern border
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 25 August 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Garlic Poll: More or less, and is William C's bad garlic science a 1st world construct. Where do you stand on this very important question, JCLC?
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
man that is a huge question. for several years I ate no onions or garlic at all -- as you might imagine, this has resulted in a very intense love for both. still I do think there are places where garlic can be overdone - there's a right quantity in a sauce, unless it's specifically a Garlic Sauce.
but like if it's a Thai dish like Eggs with Crispy Garlic, basically quadruple the amount in the recipe, you will not say "oh no there's too much of this incredible crispy garlic." If you're roasting vegetables, nobody's going to see "you've ruined this by roasting too many garlic cloves to mushy, melting, caramelized brown perfection."
I missed William C's postulate somebody refresh me
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 25 August 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
"Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.
Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced."
No disrespect to William C, because I like his movie posts a lot. But I'm not buying this outright lying and unbelievable, minimalist garlic propaganda!
― calzino, Friday, 25 August 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
The facts are on my side, you science denier.
― May contain peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, pits or pit fragments. (WilliamC), Friday, 25 August 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
I'd hesitate to gainsay wmc but ..... it is not my experience that the thing he says is in fact so
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Friday, 25 August 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
hmm, ok
― May contain peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, pits or pit fragments. (WilliamC), Saturday, 26 August 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Kptp6u4JQ
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
crispy garlic eh? how does one do this without burning it and getting that bitter taste?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 26 August 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
brussells sprouts and broccoli voters = disgusting savages imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 August 2017 03:53 (seven years ago) link
veg otm
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 26 August 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
beets+cheese. So many permutations. Or maybe just two v good ones.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 27 August 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
beets + a blue-veined cheese is ace!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Hannah sent me a recipe for mushy pea guacamole yesterday
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
That sounds terrible
― Moodles, Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
wrong
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Wasnt there some "OMG HERESY!!!!!1" thing about pea guac doing the internet rounds about a year back?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 28 August 2017 03:40 (seven years ago) link
kale's the best
― Treeship, Monday, 28 August 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
i hate cooking but i will sautee kale with onions
brussell sprouts are disgusting
― Treeship, Monday, 28 August 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link