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Video: Disney-fied 'Family Guy' Sings About Pie

I watched this yesterday over at my friends' place. It was great! How often do you get one of your favorite animated series to combine both pies and a bashing of an animator authority like Disney?

Note those fine details like a Cleveland skunk and a Mayor Adam West mouse :)

kurgerbing at 7:25AM on 10/02/09

From Serious Eats

Snapshots from the UK: Wagamama's Defunct #28 (Chili Mushroom Ramen)

At first I was happy when the Wagamama settled down in my hometown in the Netherlands and I was all the more happy with the fantastic broth that my noodles were served in. However, on subsequent returns the broth turned out to be different every time and not as fantastic any more :(
I also didn't like the service actually on these returns. I mean, I know that it's basically a fastfood place, but putting a sign at the entrance stating that you have to wait to be seated and not actually paying attention to incoming customers who wait to be seated is kind of annoying.

I think the service and the different broths are the main reasons for me not frequenting that place anymore, although I would recommend it to people who'd like a different eating experience, I guess.

kurgerbing at 7:18PM on 06/28/09

From Talk

The 10-Ingredient Shopping List

Corn
Eggs
Ground meat
Onions
Flour
Butter
Stock cubes
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Courgettes

What an interesting way of making a groceries list, usually I'd start by thinking budget first, then meal options and finally the ingredients needed for such meals. Actually, this is the exact opposite way.

Now, what could I make using these ingredients? I could have:

Pasta:
- Freshly made pasta using flour and eggs, boiled in stock (from cubes) to get that extra flavour
- Tomato sauce with onions and possibly courgettes
- Ground meat

Corn cookies (corn, eggs, flour, onion) and meat balls (ground meat, eggs, onion and anything else I can think of)

Potato and courgette gratin, using thinly sliced potato and courgette and probably some garlic and cream (which I could argue to have in the cupboard)

Hamburgers
- Self-made buns, making own dough from flour
- Patties, using the ground meat
- Fried onions
- Ketchup, mayo and pickles from the fridge

Pizza
- Tomato sauce, possibly cooked myself
- Dough, from flour
- Courgettes, onions, corn and ground meat on top
- Cheese would be missing, but I suppose I could argue to have that in the fridge as well

Soup, made from the stock cubes and any of the other ingredients I'd feel like tossing in. Heck, I could even create some kind of creamy soup, by first making a roux.

Quiche
- Dough, from flour and butter
- Eggs, courgettes, onions, corn stuffing

Now, in real life, I wouldn't do most of these things, because I hate making dough in general, but using ingredients this way feels like a nice frugal thing to do and using ingredients efficiently.

kurgerbing at 6:44PM on 06/24/09