Are you CRAZY? Durian smells and tastes like shit. Hell, not even that good! It's more like the smell you'd expect if you threw a chicken carcass, some used cat litter, a gallon of milk and two heads of garlic into a trash can and left it outside for a week. During the hottest month of summer. In Florida.
The flavor is not much better, and you'll be burping up that smell for two days.
DO. NOT. WANT.
Eggs are DEFINITELY the worst offender. EVERYONE overcooks them. Even the best places in town can't get a reliably runny poached egg, or an omelet that isn't overcooked. I guess maybe because it's one of those meditative foods that requires patience and concentration.
NOOOO! Oh my god, it's not on there. The Park Cafe in Saint Mary, Montana, right outside the entrance to Glacier National Park. You have no idea what you're missing. It's almost good enough to make me move to Montana. It's one of those places where, for the rest of your life, you'll be saying "oh lord, remember that pie place? what was it called? it was soooooo good." There's a couple of OK pie places around here (Zingerman's, a branch of the Grand Traverse Pie Company, and some good stuff in Detroit) but nothing I've ever had hold a candle to this place. It's beyond comprehension.
Once you've done the initial seasoning of your crepe pans—you need two! :)—you won't need to do it again. You never even need to run water over them...mine have gone five years without seeing the sink. A plastic scraper or just a paper towel is all you need to get 'em clean enough.
Just google "crepe pan" and look for the cheapest plain steel ones. Heck, they're only $20 at williams-sonoma.
I never did the full blown seasoning on mine...they self-season really fast if you're using butter before each one and cooking over a fairly high heat (I looove it when the edges get just a little bit crispy).
I think good grass fed beef is way better than corn fed (or finished) beef for anything where you want a lot of flavor. I eat beef because I want to taste the meat, not because I want some sad, chicken-like neutral protein source that serves as a blank slate for whatever I throw at it. You do have to be more careful about overcooking it and never serve it more than medium rare, but I'm convinced the anti-grass fed beef lobby is crazy. :)
I am SO tired of hearing people complain that eating healthy is expensive. Eating ORGANIC is expensive, but buying and eating lots of fresh produce and cooking at home is much cheaper and better for you than processed, fat&sodium laden crap that is turning the poor/middle class fat. Fast food is a convenience - if you take a *little* time to cook real food, you'll find that it doesn't break the bank and will do wonders for your health. Yes, this can be difficult for those working two jobs or just otherwise stretched to the max, but there are PLENTY of people who aren't so overburedened that they can't cook a simple meal.
I'd like to argue that cows that are grass-fed, grass-finished, as just as good tasting as corn finished. It's also better for the cows, because feeding them grain, such as corn, is stressful to their systems - it also diminishes the omega-3 content they gain while eating grass.
I've found a good brand recommended by Eating Well magazine, called La Cense Beef. They recently sent out an email to their customers letting them know about a giveaway their doing I thought I'd share the site:
www.winagrassfedcow.com
Oh, golly. I can eat almost anything, but durian gives me the gag reflex! I went to Malaysia with DH in 2000 and ate jellyfish, chicken feet, thousand year old eggs, pretty much everything except that fruit. Yuck!
Ahhhh ! Durians, queen if Tropical Fruits, exotic fragrance, sometimes pungent and overpowering, rich creamy texture, but should be eaten in SE Asia to be fully appreciated. In passing, must mention the Durain Cake Paste
available in Thailand, unique ;-)
Ugh...Durians smell too bad for me to consider eating it. Go to Chatham Square Restaurant for their dim sum and cha siew baos though.
I'm in the same boat as chlamers. I ate that stuff all the time as a kid (outside because my dad HATED it) and it puts me off a bit now that I'm an adult.
I still really wish I could try these, though.
I use a method to season pans:
1. Buy pan.
2. Cook something in pan.
3. Next morning I am faced with a dirty pan.
4. Throw pan away, vow to eat out more often.
It works pretty good but every six months or so I feel the need to buy a new pan, even though I know it will only end up in heartbreak ("In all honesty pan, I only bought you to use you once" "But ... but you said you loved me! ... "I say that to all the pans, grow up! You're not a kid anymore!"
If only the scientists could come up with a disposable pan ...
i got mine at a restaurant supply store for 10 bucks.
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