So here I am, planning a menu for Sunday brunch (some kind of quiche, lox and bagels, pancakes for the kids) and was wondering you all take the opportunity to go crazy and make the most fattening dishes of deliciousness ever, or do you keep it simple?
What's the plan?
I have a block of this stuff at home and was wondering what other people do to make it, well, tasty. I've tried stir-frying and using in sandwiches, but nothing's really helping to make it stand out, flavor-wise. What can i do?
I'm looking for a nice place for an anniversary dinner. Most of the places I've found have one fish option and (maybe) one vegetarian option and that's just not the way to go, in my opinion. Does anyone know of a good place that has veggie and fish options in abundance?
Throw a little orange juice in that sucker and side it with a good quiche. Yum~!
There's a cool place called Vatan. It's around 30th and 3rd ave. It's Prix Fixe vegetarian, but the ambience is fantastic! You walk through the door, down a short hallway, and all of a sudden it feels like you're in the middle of a village, with trees, house facades that hold balcony tables, and waitresses in saris. Fantastic.
I becamse a vegetarian for a while in high school, but it was really only to annoy my grandmother, who I was living with at the time. She only had 4 stock dinners that she rotated over and over every week: meatloaf, green beans, mashed potatoes; roast beef, salad, baked potatoes; broiled salmon, broccoli, roasted potatoes; and spaghetti. She liked her meat and potatoes. There's only so long one person can deal with that if they're more adventurous. So I went veg.
These days I still only really eat meat twice a week. I feel like the US has a serious meat overindulgance problem.
Is the quiche for breakfast or lunch/dinner. I second salads. I like a nice acidic green salad as a side.
For breakfast, I'd stick with fruit salad and maybe some nice potato dish, perhaps with peppers and onions.
She once stepped WAY out of her comfort zone and made a spicy chicken and black bean soup with fresh roasted peppers and grilled avocado. Man alive that was good.
Then there was the other memorable meal (bad memorable) was when my mother tried to make my great-grandmother's gefilte fish recipe. She bought 22 lbs of fish instead of 2.2 and when all was said and done even the cats wouldn't go near it. Awesome.
Plain (read: unsauced, but dried spices are ok) chicken or fish, veggies, brown rice, fruit. Stay away from anything spicy, caffeinated, sugary, or fried. If you have any sensitivities to eggs, wheat, dairy, etc., just leave them out of the diet. Go for stuff that's just easy on the system. Make sure you eat enough protein to keep yourself strong and keep your concentration up.
Chicken marbella impresses most of the time. Occasionally I'll do a short-rib in bhulgogi. One thing I miss doing is a perfectly grilled prime rib steak. I need a grill, yo.
Thanksgiving smells: turkey roasting, zucchini and onion sauteeing, STUFFING!!! Those are the cooking smells I remember.
Okay, when I tried Natto, the only description of the taste/texture that I could come up with was if a dirty, old gym sock came to life, devoured a whole bunch of lentils, died half-way through the digestive process, and then had the lentils removed from its stomach during the autopsy and left on a plate by mistake. It tasted like hurl and I nearly did.
Raw onions no longer trigger my instantaneous up-chuck reflex, but even a tiny piece of one can still spoil my day.
Non-vegetarian tsimmes? SHTUSS!
I'd just boil up some sweet potatoes and carrots (and apples maybe?) and mash with honey, raisins. You could probably do well steaming them if you don't want to boil. Add cinnamon and orange juice as desired.
A flute of Champagne with pomme frite (it must be fried to perfection) with an anchovy mayonaise to dip into.
I enjoy a poached egg on toasted brioche topped with a slice of prosciutto and drizzled with just a touch of honey.
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