Mmm, sausage
Brats, dogs, italian, liverwurst. How do you feel about it? Does the taste outweigh the unhealthiness? Where do you like 'em best? With what? Is this totally taboo?
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Share your single best recipe
JEP has a great thread about, "I have a great recipe for. . ." This is your shot. Share your single best recipe here. No hemming, no hawing, just spill. :) Thanks.
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Burgering Through D.C.'s Georgetown
Nick has some of the best reviews of burgers -- or any other food -- hands-down, no questions, end of story. If you want diverse reviews (albeit from know-nothing morons), go Yelp.
Out of Focus?
@FFC -- I love your feistiness here, always entertaining, but I agree with Chiff on this one. NO "off-topic" boards here, please. There's no quicker way to poison a site. If people want to offend others with their immaturity and stupidity, they can go MySpace. :)
headline fix?
dbcurrie, i LOVE your contributions here (i've been a long-time lurker, for the most part). but this whole thread begs the question: are you a neocon or just a gutterhead? ;)
Can you cook rice?
Done. Minstrel, your advice for cooking Mahatma rice was dead-on. Perfect bite, nice separation but still a teeny bit glutinous. Yay you. And me. Thanks!
Can you cook rice?
Okay, Minstrel -- game on. I've just followed your instructions for Mahatma, and it just went to low. Does "just below the top of the rice" mean that I could swoosh the back of a spoon over the rice and feeling more resistance than liquid. . .and does it look like deep bubble pockets on top? Thx.
Recipe deal-breakers
One deal breaker is when a recipe includes "a can of. . ." I have no clue how big the can is and, even when I think I can deduce the size, I'm already turned off by the lack of clarity.
Also -- although it is not a deal-breaker 100 percent of the time -- is the use of "Rotel" or "tomato sauce with basil." I like including ingredients to my taste and those of my guests, so I rarely use these "combined" products.
Speaking of Mayo....Mayo or Miracle Whip?
Mayo. And seriously, if you haven't tried Saffola, do it.
I don't know how to cook chicken
Brining, pounding, whole, half, fillet, boneless, skinless, thighs, not touching, buying a cookbook, looking at videos, etc.?
This person just wants to cook a chicken breast, people! Can we keep it simple and, in turn, keep this person interested in cooking instead of bombarding? It's called "coaching."
1. Take one chicken breast. No skin. Just one half -- basically, the way they're sold pre-packaged.
2. Put a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a saute pan. Heat it over medium-high heat until it's hot. When it is, add the chicken breast, smooth-side down. This smooth-side is the "top" of the breast, the side you'll serve facing upward eventually. If you touch the raw meat with your hands, let it cook while you wash up really well with soap and hot water.
4. Done washing up? Sprinkle salt and pepper on top. Cook this for about 3 minutes. Peek to check coloring underneath, if you need to. Then flip it without stabbing it with a fork. If you use a utensil to peek or flip, throw it in the sink where it won't germ up anything else. Brown for 3 minutes more.
5. Turn down your heat to medium low and add about 3 tbl.water, white wine, or some sort of broth. Cover it as best you can. Cook for about another three minutes. Leaving it covered, push the pan off the heat and shut off the burner. Let it sit for 5 minutes, covered, off the heat. Then eat.
6. Once you're comfortable with this, read about brining, pounding, whole, half, fillet, boneless, skinless, thighs, not touching, buying a cookbook, looking at videos, etc.
Some people shared this stuff. Most didn't. Just wanted to contribute my approach here.
Stew advice;
Bitter, feel free to send me your email address -- I'll send you a recipe that you'll love. :)
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Burgering Through D.C.'s Georgetown
First Five Guys was in Alexandria VA, I believe.
Mr. Smith's is nasty. You should have skipped it and gotten the Black and Blue burger at The Guards if you needed to stay in Georgetown. Or Chadwicks (under the Whitehurst), I've never been but I know people who swear by their burger.
headline fix?
I have to admit I did a double take. I know the meaning from the "old" days. I am from New England and that "term" was in play in my youth. However, I have stopped just reacting because I learn a new phrase from an old phrase all the time these days. Sometimes my head does a 360!
headline fix?
@cyber, I'm glad at least someone else is familiar with the definition I know. However, definitions change...apparently I missed this one as it changed into something less interesting. :-)
headline fix?
dbcurrie, i'm originally from the midwest and i think that "ball" means the same thing that you do. mostly because a lot of incredibly uncouth teenage boys tried to convince me to ball with them when i lived there, and they didn't have cleats on at the time.
headline fix?
Since I'm not in the Midwest nor a basketball fan, I wasn't aware of that particular definition. No, I haven't seen a basketball game in the last ten years. Not even the sports highlights on the news. Seriously.
However, when I was a tad younger, "ball" had a completely different meaning, and at the time, only one meaning in common use. So maybe it is an age thing. But fer cripes sake, I'm not THAT old. Some other people my age may be old, but I'm not. It's not like I'm a crotchety old gramma who runs around shushing people who say "that sucks."
I can't imagine I'm the only person here who lives outside the midwest and doesn't follow sports and who read something else into the headline. Or maybe I'm just unique. Yeah, that's it. Unique. One-of-a-kind.
Weird.
If the headline is fine with you, it's fine with me. Maybe I need to rent a teenager and learn some new definitions. Then again, those trendy new words may not have arrived here yet. I'm still waiting for decent pizza to show up.
headline fix?
Does anyone remember that song by Skee-lo?
I wish I was a little bit taller/ I wish I was a baller/ I wish I had a girl that looked good/ so I could call her
The video features a short dude who doesn't get picked to play basketball and has to sit on the bleachers dreaming about being taller/a baller.
headline fix?
No way this was, or should be, considered inappropriate, and here's multiple reasons why.
1) Anybody who has seen, heard or participated in a basketball game in the last ten years has surely heard the Ballin' expression many times.
2) Aside from the obvious Basketball reference, Ballin' is also commonly used to describe somebody living the high life. A wealthy person. A person with style. A person living large. A person who grew up poor, but became wealthy and successful. A person who is Fly.
Note: Being "Fly" does not mean you're a tiny insect.
3) There is at least one SE member I know who would be quick to comment on anything male-ball(s) related, and he hasn't said a word.
4) Searching Ballin' on Google -- Not a single sexual reference on the first 5 pages. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ballin&btnG=Google+Search
Anyway. I would have never in a million years thought somebody could have viewed it as sexual.
What next, the Popsicles are offensive because they resemble part of the male anatomy? Don't even get me started on the Donuts....
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