yum yum the food thread

viva · 09-01-13 00:00:32

our house likes bread so much we have a bread picture. It makes every space instantly warm. we like to hang it in the outdoor living room when we are there, and in the kitchen the rest of the time. behold, the bread picture.

Orioneye · 09-01-13 05:21:55

bread and butter!

hartp02 · 09-01-13 21:08:08

And now for something completely different!
Do you guys like Mexican?Easy to make?Which can't get cold waiting for your guests?
Try Guacamole!
Here it comes for about 4 persons:
8 ready to eat-avocados,2 red onions,one hot pepper,4 tasty tomatoes,a koriander bushel,one garlic part,half teaspoon of ground cumin,2 lemons,if available tabasco or better,chipotlesauce,salt half/whole tablespoon,after your taste.

Sooo,roll up your sleeves and:
Cut the avocados in half by circumcising it in two and remove the nut and after with a tablespoon the inside contents and put it in a large bowl;cut/pulp these with a fork
Heat up the lemons in warm water and cut and squeeze them over the 8 pulped avocados(do the pulping with a fork,not with a kitchen machine,this is essential!)
Grind the tomatoes,add this
Cut the onions veeeery fine,add this
cut/grind the garlic,add
cut the koriander,add
Cut the pepper without the seeds,very fine,add
Stir the lot good with spoon/fork while adding some drops of tabasco/chipotlesauce and the cuminpowder
When done,garnish with some koriander leaves.
Serve with taco-crisps and a Margarita(cocktaildrink consisting of :1 part tequila,1 part cointreau,half part lime juice,ground ice)

Happy midsummernightsdream!

Last edited by hartp02 (09-01-13 21:10:38)

viva · 10-01-13 00:09:52

ooh protip time - after cutting the avocado, hold the pitted half in your hand and thwak your knife pretty firmly onto the pit, vertically. Twist the avocado away from the knife and the pit will pop out attached to the knife, then gently tap the countertop with the knifepoint, with your palm under the pit and the pit will fall right into your hand for easy disposal.

or you could grow an avocado tree by putting two toothpicks in either side of that pit and suspending it in a jar of water so only the bottom half of pit is submerged.

This message brought to you by girls who grew up in florida.

Orioneye · 10-01-13 21:30:12

Mmm! Thanks for the recipe Hartp. It sounds legit.

I bet you have an avocado tree growing somewhere down in Florida Viva!

My mom has quite a green thumb, so we tried this experiment many times growing up. Needless to say the plants wouldn't last longer than a few months up here... Even indoors.;)

jane_e · 11-01-13 17:35:36

Orioneye wrote:

I am not so sure if Calgary would be considered fancy Jane E... But there is oil money here. Regardless, I stumbled upon them one day at a lovely shop we have here for foodies. The distributor's name is Gigi, an Italian importer. Hope that helps, anyone who deals with them (or is willing to) should be able to easily order this, if it is available at the time of year.

Calgary? I never would have guessed. I lived there once. I liked it. The mountains are so close and once a year you get to ride the C-Train with 100,000 drunk psudo-cowboys. Oversized belt buckles for everyone! Actually, the belt buckle in my videos is from a thrift store in Calgary and to this day I wear it off centre to avoid looking like a cowboy. You aren't a cowboy are you?

Regardless, there is good Italian grocery store near my current location on the other side of the country -- I'll check it out. There is a good chance I will be completely sidetracked by expensive olive oil and home-made pasta though once I go though the door.

artemesia wrote:

ps Jane, omg we have the same puppy!!!!! (almost my guy's a jack russell/foxy terror)... He's gorgeous!

Isn't she the cutest. Sometimes I just sit and look at how cute she is. She is a monster though. An adorable, adorable, monster. If our dogs were on the same continent they could probably play forever. She's a stray English Pointer type thing, but someone once tried to tell me she's a rare French hunting dog. I said "Well, her French iiissss preeeety good now that you mention it." I don't think the women thought I was funny.

hartp02 · 11-01-13 23:12:06

A TRUE Mexican chili recepy(Northern-Mexico) follows now:
1 jar of white beans
1 jar of kidney beans
2 red onions
pork belly or minced cowmeat
3 dried hot chillies
1 tsp paprika powder
1 tsp chilipowder
1 tsp thyme
2 garlicparts
1 knifepoint of beanherbs

stage 1:
Put the contents of the jars in a large pan.
add the ground garlic,ground dry peppers and the rest of the spices and stir good.
leave it for an hour or two.
stage 2:
season the meat with salt,pepper and some thyme and chilipowder.
bake the red onionrings glazy,then add the prepared meat.stir-bake the lot and when well-done add some water.
Put the pan with beans on a low fire and add the meat.
The longer it cooks,the better to let all the tastes mingle with eachother.

Serve with brown bread,sweet maiscorns and/or a fresh tomato-cucumbersalad.
This one is not for the meek-rather spicy shit it is!
Buon Probece!

Orioneye · 08-02-13 23:51:57

jane_e wrote:

Calgary? I never would have guessed. I lived there once. I liked it. The mountains are so close and once a year you get to ride the C-Train with 100,000 drunk psudo-cowboys. Oversized belt buckles for everyone! Actually, the belt buckle in my videos is from a thrift store in Calgary and to this day I wear it off centre to avoid looking like a cowboy. You aren't a cowboy are you?

Wouldn't say so. If I could pull off a great big buckle though, I definitely might consider it!

You are among a small few, I think, who consider Calgary a decent place. I have to agree, and how can I complain when today is above freezing with lots of sunshine?

jane_e wrote:

Regardless, there is good Italian grocery store near my current location on the other side of the country -- I'll check it out. There is a good chance I will be completely sidetracked by expensive olive oil and home-made pasta though once I go though the door.

Isn't that always the delightful problem?

artemesia · 11-02-13 00:21:25

jane_e wrote:

She is a monster though. An adorable, adorable, monster. If our dogs were on the same continent they could probably play forever. She's a stray English Pointer type thing, but someone once tried to tell me she's a rare French hunting dog. I said "Well, her French iiissss preeeety good now that you mention it." I don't think the women thought I was funny.

Yes. Yes. Yes. My guy's a horrible lil dude. Tried to attack a child on a bicycle today and he wonders why he's constantly on the lead. How long have you had her for? Are they like this forever?

I'm starting to wonder if my guy will ever calm down. His latest trick on the weekend was to literally try and eat the shirt off my back. Maybe it was cause it was a sweaty band tee that I played a gig in and cause I've been having such a hard time (apparently as always) passed out in. I woke up to the sounds of destruction, only to realise i was the target.

I'm hoping people will find my dog funny cause he's so small, and then forgive him for being such a jerk.

artemesia · 11-02-13 00:24:01

hartp02 wrote:

1 knifepoint of beanherbs

edgy...

i like the idea of writing recipes with unique measurements

ps this chilli sounds good, and those are the kind of ingredients that live at my house. i'll give it a go soon

SongofMyself · 22-02-13 17:35:39

Viva, kinda random and you may have answered elsewhere but what kind of fruit were you and Emile eating in that first luc? You peeled it like an orange but it wasnt the right color.

viva · 25-02-13 00:02:17

Ah, we were eating figs!

Monotreme · 26-02-13 23:02:01

artemesia wrote:

I'm starting to wonder if my guy will ever calm down. His latest trick on the weekend was to literally try and eat the shirt off my back. Maybe it was cause it was a sweaty band tee that I played a gig in and cause I've been having such a hard time (apparently as always) passed out in. I woke up to the sounds of destruction, only to realise i was the target.
I'm hoping people will find my dog funny cause he's so small, and then forgive him for being such a jerk.

Dog training is actually something of an expertise of mine. Next time I'm in your neighborhood I'll sit down with you and Monster and we'll have a session.

:-)

Until then, try looking for videos by my friend Sophia Yin (she's got a collection on YouTube) or if you prefer reading/narrative on dog training then naughtydogge.com

artemesia · 28-02-13 01:25:23

Ha monotreme, I'd probably take you up on the offer! He's a bit better these days, but a week seems like a year ago, and it was just that time ago, I awoke to him shitting on my clothes because I'd been out the whole night before. Sigh. Payback is a stinky business. I'll give the videos a look. Thanks so much for thinking of me! Oh.... we could share dog treat recipes.

Is feeding my doggies porridge a good idea or should I be mixing up the grains more (their current diet is cooked oats, mixed with dried food and various meats or bones)?

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