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Remander

  • Location: Louisiana

The next ingredient trend..any predictions?

Two words: breast milk.

Modernist Cuisine Releases Special Edition Baking Steel

Some people save a lot of money by cutting their own hair. Sure, it may not look as pretty as a fancy store-bought haircut and is ragged around the edges, but it gets the job done. Other are willing to pay for a cut that looks better. Your choice. Same with steel.

Turkey Burger ideas?

I mixed a pound of lean beef with a pound of turkey last weekend. The hybrid burgers came out pretty good. Caramelized onions on top helped. I just ate a leftover one for dinner.

What's with the spammy comments

dupacora is spamming like a mutha. Please kill them.

A Sandwich a Day: Shrimp Po Boy at Danton's in Houston

That looks like a legit poboy. You have to be careful when you get outside south Louisiana when ordering cajun or creole fare. It is often a very bad imitation, but I have found that many places along the Gulf coast, from the Florida panhandle to Texas, can do a good job of it.

What is your favorite shape of pasta or noodle?

Penne rigate

Horse meat, Should we worry about our own ?

The meat is more tender if the horse is whipped thoroughly just before slaughter.

12 of Our Favorite Food Movies

Gran Torino. All that Hmong food looked great.

Let's Get Drunk Watching: The Taste

I tuned in for Bourdain and Nigella's cleavage. Even those were not enough to make me keep watching. Sorry, Tony, but this is the first of your shows I just can't watch.

The Vegan Experience: Why Does Everyone Assume Vegans Are Health Nuts?

I feel your pain. The only cigarettes I will smoke come from local, organically grown, heritage tobacco, and they are hand rolled with bleach-free paper. I have explained this to my doctor, but he is always like, "Here's a Salem Light. You can smoke it since it's light, right?" NO! Not the same.

Emergency Pizza Sauce, Experimental, V-1.0

I've cooked sauces, but my go to sauce these days is the CI no-cook sauce:

1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
2 medium garlic cloves, minced (I might use garlic powder or microwave the raw garlic to take the harshness out of it)
1 teaspoon table salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Zip it for 30 seconds in a food processor. Done.

Should I get a Pressure Cooker?

Just got a Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker and made short ribs, falling off the bone, in 35 minutes of pressure. Recipe said 25, but it needed more. Looking forward to risotto and stock in the next few days.

New Beer: Shiner FM966 Farmhouse Ale

I dislike beers that have cloves and fruit and such, so I hated the Ruby Redbird. That said, I liked this Farmhouse Ale. It was not gussied up with add-ins. Rather, it had a fresh and clean flavor. Fresh was the key aspect, like it was just brewed, and perhaps it was. The guy who was giving samples said it was released that week.

Is it safe to cut mold off of cheese?

The mold, like crust on bread or peels on vegetables, is where all the vitamins are. At least that is what my grandma always said when she gave us kids moldy cheese.

Soda: Grapico, A Rich Taste of Alabama

Sounds like the perfect mixer for a batch of Purple Drank.

Why does my hummus suck?

I have used the Cooks Ill recipe many times with great, creamy results.

They reported recently that the hummus will be creamier if, after you drain and rinse the chickpeas, you microwave them for one minute. Then allow them to cool to room temp before making the hummus. The heat breaks down starch crystals, which then get coated in the fat from the tahini and olive oil.

Barbecue: Cajun Spiced Ribs

I smoke ribs in a similar 3-2-1 method, using beer or apple juice as the liquid for the wrap stage.

Were you able to taste the crab boil in the ribs? I have used it in beer can chicken, and it did flavor the chicken slightly.

What do you love most about BBQ

With a $300 Weber smoker, I can crank out pulled pork, brisket, and ribs that blow away 99% of restaurant BBQ and amaze friends and neighbors. And so can you.

Most folks have had only restaurant Q, but most of it sucks. Do you see a pile of wood outside or smell smoke in the air? No? Then it's not real BBQ.

Which Is the Best K-Cup Coffee?

Dark Magic is perhaps the best widely available (in stores) cup. I order online from coffee cow and get Kenyan AA, Jet Fuel, Black Tiger, and Double Black Diamond.

Emeril's has a Big Easy Bold that is good. He had a French Quarter Roast that I liked, but I never see it anymore. Must have gone under.

Food Porn and Other Filthy Attitudes

What that horrible boy did to an innocent pastry in the movie American Pie was definitely food porn.

Kenji's favorite thermometer on sale!

Insert joke here about suitability for taking rectal temp.

Baking Steel

I use tongs to left the edge of the cooked pizza off the stone, then slide my cheap old wood peel under it. Always works.

Turnip Recipes, please!

I made that Epicurious recipe again last night. Very good.

Turnip Recipes, please!

Epicurious has a recipe for Glazed Turnips with Scallions and Parsley that I have made and enjoyed. You basically cut into wedges and cook them down in some chicken broth, butter, salt, and sugar.

New Years' food superstitions

Blackeyed peas and cabbage (or some say any greens) is the tradition in my neck of the southern woods.

Both are available year round, but the stores will have piles of cabbage and large displays of dried blackeyes near the end of the year.

split articles and slideshows are EVIL

Slate has posted an excellent article about one of the features of this site that I dislike very much: all the slideshows that may in the short run generate more page-views, but in the long run make me use the site less.

I used to visit daily, but the annoyance factor has made it more like weekly, and I won't click on a slideshow unless I am so interested in it that I can tolerate all the clicks and delays it will take to read it.

First world problem, but still a problem.

Slate says: Splitting articles and photo galleries into multiple pages is evil. It should stop.

Pagination is one of the worst design and usability sins on the Web, the kind of obvious no-no that should have gone out with blinky text, dancing cat animations, and autoplaying music. It shows constant, quiet contempt for people who should be any news site's highest priority--folks who want to read articles all the way to the end.

More at : http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.single.html

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