The Food Disscusion

[~ Gheb ~]

Then we made a salad to go with it. We took your everyday lettuce, and added apples, olives, grapes, and mozzarella. They meshed surprisingly well.

Ewwww @ Mozzarella. If you add grapes and apples to a salad you shouldn't downgrade it with baloney like mozzarella. Go with goat or sheep cheese next time and add some walnuts or something.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

B-but mozzarella is cheese, not ham.

 

[Morrigan]

Mozzarella is good in salads only if it's buffalo.

 

[~ Gheb ~]

Mozzarella is good in salads only if it's buffalo.

And only with tomatoes, basil and olive oil.

 

[Morrigan]

Caprese. -drool face that swf doesn't have-

 

[Terywj [태리]]

My mom made ddukbokki for the first time, and it wasn't half bad. Not enough veggies but still solid.

 

[FlareHabanero]

I am having a spicy piece of breaded chicken.

Has anyone tried to soak chicken in tobassco and heavy cream, then bread it and and pan fry it, then cover the top with a pepper jack cheese? It tastes very good, I will say that much.

 

[~automatic]

That sounds like something I'd pan fry instead of grilling (assuming I wanted to make a mess).

Also, @ cheese talk:
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[Yodery]

This morning I ate a bowl of nails.

...

Spoiler

without any milk

 

[Claire Diviner]

So we finally made the lasagna last night and it tasted as godly as I hoped it would. Will post pics and details late tonight.

This morning I ate a bowl of nails.

...

Spoiler

without any milk

 

[~automatic]

My buddy who is studying abroad in Kansai took this pic of an Okonomiyaki (Japanese cabbage and onion pancake) which is common street fare in the region. Dude says it's totally cash.

 

[MASAHIROx]

that looks amazing!!!

So apparently Chipotle has opened up an 'asain infusion bistro' is D.C.

its just an experiment at this point but it is called 'shophouse'. This place is one of a kind!
Chipotle themeed asian food?? I'm in. I'll post when I've gone there. They have make your own bowls like reg Chipotle but apparently they also have spicy snadwich rolls as well but we will see.

anyone live in the md/va/dc area andd know of some great affordable eats?? let me know!

 

[ぱみゅ]

My dream of traveling to japan might just have been revived....

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Asian cuisine is quite literally the best.

 

[~ Gheb ~]

Yeah, because such a thing as "asian" cuisine exists.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Only referring to Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, etc. I didn't feel like typing all of them out.

 

[~ Gheb ~]

Chinese and Japanese really isn't that similar and neither is Thai. And in no way is it "literally" the best <_<

 

[Vinylic.]

What are you even on about, lol.

 

[ぱみゅ]

And back to debating semantics, way to go SWF!

 

[~ Gheb ~]

It's not about semantics at all wtf.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I was ordering some spam musubi when I noticed they had katsu musubi.

After trying the katsu, the spam has significantly dropped from what I thought tasted good. The katsu is just so delicious in comparison

 

[Claire Diviner]

I know it took forever, but here is the lasagna I said I'd post, like, a week ago or something. lol

So here are all the ingredients we used for the lasagna:

The pics speak for themselves, but here is a list of what we used anyway:

- Ground beef
- Tomato sauce
- Spaghetti sauce
- Adobo
- Marjoram
- Basil
- Crushed mint
- Pepper
- Parsley
- Olives
- Sazón
- Swiss cheese
- Provolone cheese
- Muenster cheese
- Monterey Jack cheese
- Cheddar
- Pepperoni
- Bacon

So there you have it. Sounds like a lot? Well, it is. First, we cooked the beef as normal, adding spices when necessary, but also added the olives in as well.

The next step was frying an entire pack of bacon (anywhere between 20-24 strips or more, if desired). The key, however, is to make sure you don't fry them to that traditional crispness that bacon is known for, since it will be thrown in with the lasagna when it goes into the oven, and you wouldn't want the already fried bacon to be even more cooked/burnt.

Next comes the task of layering everything. We started with the beef, and then set the bacon strips, and then the pepperoni:

Next, we layered the cheese on top of the meats in this order: Swiss, muenster, provolone, Monterey Jack/cheddar. Here is a pic of the layers so far:

So we add a second layer of the same thing and pop it into the oven for 30 minutes at 350 degrees (make sure you preheat the oven). After it was nice and baked, here is the end result:

The flavors of the cheeses, beef, pepperoni, bacon, and even the olives blend very well together; not a single flavor was too overpowering, which was very important. The red stuff on the top is spaghetti sauce used mostly for aesthetics. Here are a couple of pics of a piece of the lasagna used to show the layers:

So there you have it. It came out much better than expected. If anyone want to try this, the ingredients and directions are there. For bacon and lasagna fans, I promise it's worth the effort. Any thoughts? Feel free to give your two cents. :D

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I made my own lasagna a while ago...but I had quite different ingredients.

It was a very cheesy lasagna with chicken and lots of vegetables

 

[Labernash]

What about pickles?

 

[Morrigan]

Cheddar?

Disappoint.

 

[Claire Diviner]

Cheddar?

Disappoint.

Only you, Morrigan, only you.

 

[Vinylic.]

Damn, that is some good epic meal time.

It almost looks like a cheeseburger, lol.

 

[~automatic]

Cheeseburger lasagna.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Chinese and Japanese really isn't that similar and neither is Thai. And in no way is it "literally" the best <_<

Never said they were similar.

I didn't feel like typing all of them out.

 

[Claire Diviner]

Damn, that is some good epic meal time.

It almost looks like a cheeseburger, lol.

Thanks. What inspired us to make the lasagna was watching a program on the Travel Channel about places to pig out, and saw this restaurant that serves an epic bacon lasagna. Watching that, we said to one another, "yeah, we so want to eat that". XD

 

[~Koen]

Anybody here liek donairs? :3

 

[~automatic]

Vice (which is entertaining, informative and kinda sexy) had a spotlight on their food segment on Enrique Olvera who is often regarded as Mexico's top chef. Olvera runs one of the best restaurants in the world according to both the Pellegrino and Zagat surveys and his 14 course dinner is full of interesting interpretations of traditional Mexican favorites.

http://www.vice.com/munchies/enrique-olvera

 

[Claire Diviner]

Just went to a Chinese buffet. Yeah, I killed my diet today, but I'll get back on track tomorrow.

Anywho, the point is, I came across this; bacon wrapped around chicken:

Because really, who needs a heart nowadays? XD

 

[ぱみゅ]

Arteries and blood vessels are overrated.
All for the sake of bacon!

 

[~automatic]

Bacon>life.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I unconsciously have shifted meats to about 15% of my meals. I had three plates of food and had two large slices of ham which took up a quarter of the plate lol.

Everything else was greens and rice.

 

[Claire Diviner]

Here's a sammywich I made some weeks ago:

It contains a slice of provolone, American, and muenster cheese. It also contains three sausages cut in half and lined up, three slices of bacon, a fried egg, and some mayonnaise. Turned out great and meaty. Because really, what is a heart?

 

[~ Gheb ~]

I hate this thread now >_<

 

[ぱみゅ]

Damn Claire, just damn... /jelly

Gheb, why don't you share some of your food with us?

 

[~ Gheb ~]

I could actually try that! ^_^

And I don't actually hate this thread. It's just always the same chicken-bacon-cheese bollocks or asian stuff which is nice but repetitive. But yeah I should do something about it rather than just complain.