sleeve boning a chicken
any butchers or chefs, i would love some advice. thanks. chefman
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Backlash to the Ethanol Binge
eth from corn is foolish. much of the food cost in my restaurant has doubled since this hoax began and it is only getting worse. i am all for biofuels but how about ones that dont ruin engines and kill industries (see serious eats catfish story). it is obvious that the previous comment came from a 5 year old. take a look at the forrest idiot, not just the trees!
Vegan Zombies, This Shirt's for You
i would like to buy a dozen tshirts when available.
What is your best low-calorie recipe?
thai watermelon soup. puree a seedless watermellon and mix with fish sauce, hot sauce, lemongrass and water. garnish with crab or poached shrimp and cilantro. easy and good.
Bourdain Rants About the Food Network
i think bourdain is getting angrier since he quit smoking. someone refill his wine goblet.
Best way to use dried rice noodles?
sit ih not water. add fish suace, lime juice, chilies mint and cilantro. toss with romaine or like lettuce. top with garlic pork or fried egg. mmmmm. just like vietnam without the happy ending and tiger beer.
Is it impolite to tell your food preferences your hosts?
i cooked a big southern meal for my buddy from south carolina. turns out his wife is a strict vegetarian. no ribs, ham, butter beans with tasso, mustard greens, cracklin corn bread or gravy for her. glad she liked macaroni & cheese & bourbon. point is, big food pussies should let their hosts know. chefman
Would you rather give up chocolate or cheese?
chocolate. cheese is the greatest, most diverse food product there is. besides, it's alive and we should eat more living things.
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Vietnamese pâté recipe anyone?
i just returned from vietnam. i found the pate french in style with a hint of fish sauce. my restaurant now serves a bhan mi and i just blend some fish sauce in traditional pork liver pate.
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Vegan Zombies, This Shirt's for You
I'd totally wear that and I'm not even a vegan!
Bourdain Rants About the Food Network
If you watch the next food network star show, and see and listen to the executives that are in charge of the programming.. you may get a feel for why the network has become so inane.
Backlash to the Ethanol Binge
I read an article about the processed "feed nutrient" being fed to the cattle and it seems that they are getting new varieties of illnesses from the new product. I believe there are non food plants that might have value as fuel, but of course, we have the fuel that resides under the ground all over and around America, and it's cheap to produce and it works in everything that we now wish to operate. They have now announced that oil is a mineral that continues to be made ( not just from dinosaurs) and of course, clean natural gas is abundant. Not to get too political, but the use of corn for fuel has affected the price of all food and until the unintended consequences are addressed, the government should rethink the ethanol situation.
Backlash to the Ethanol Binge
Actually there could be a wide ranging discussion on the fact that food prices are skyrocketing not so much as a result of the corn being diverted into the fuel market, as due to the devaluation and lost trust in the American dollar that is just now showing the effect of Congressional mismanagment over the last 4 decades...but that's for another board.
Corn processed for ethanol still feeds the beef, but after processing the ethanol out of it, making an even more nutritent rich feed product, so that argument is void.
That all said, I would still much rather see ethanol from non-food crops, the problem is, there just isn't a strong "switchgrass" lobby to combat the corn producer lobby! The moral is, if you don't like where it's heading, you have yourself to blame...vote out your congressman.
Backlash to the Ethanol Binge
What ever happened to the initiative to make fuels from the waste products, like corn cobs and wheat stalks??? The corn itself should be *eaten*!!!
Backlash to the Ethanol Binge
Feed it to livestock? -- Spoken like a true Texas cattleman.
Corn is FOOD. It should be used to feed PEOPLE. Biofuels made from foodstuffs are unethical, and should be banned, imo.
Real food for real people!
@chefman -- You are so right! -- "hoax", indeed!
Vegan Zombies, This Shirt's for You
Ha! Love it -- I have a couple of Threadles shirts and they have some good designers doing work for them.
What is your best low-calorie recipe?
This is my fast food lunch...I get Amy's Tamale Pies....They are low calorie and high fiber. While one is microwaving for 4 1/2 minutes I cut up one romaine lettuce heart or 1/4-1/2 a head of iceberg, a red pepper and I dice some onion. I pour the tamale pie over the salad and serve it with Barbara's Mango Peach salsa (or whichever other I have around), perhaps a tablespoon of Total 0% yogurt and maybe a couple of sliced olives...It turns into an extremely filling Taco salad....which is less than 200 calories (and if you think of weight watcher terms it's only 2-2.5 points depending on whether you add the yogurt or the olives...)
What is your best low-calorie recipe?
I've recently lost 35 pounds, and here are a few things I think really helped:
Kashi Instant Oatmeal--kept me full until lunchtime
Smoked Almonds--for when I was craving bacon
Radishes--when I wanted something crunchy
Green Giant brand "Healthy Weight" frozen vegetable mix--have one serving at dinner, the other cold on a salad for lunch the next day
Cabbage-Mushroom Stirfry--one head Napa cabbage, sliced into approx 1" ribbons and 1 8oz package sliced mushrooms. Saute the mushrooms in a little oil or chicken broth until you think they're about halfway cooked, then add the sliced cabbage. When the cabbage just begins to wilt, add about a Tbsp of soy sauce and a Tbsp of sesame oil. If you have some, add a couple of splashes of rice wine vinegar. Cook until the cabbage is crisp-tender. This is usually enough for 1 dinner serving and 2 lunches.
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