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The Ten Most Recent Comments By zamboni

From Required Eating

The La Caja China Box, In Cake and Real-Life Form

http://www.offalgood.com/site/photos/put-your-pig-in-a-box/ is the direct link to Chris Cosentino's roast pig photos.

From Required Eating

Automatic Egg Boiler: Pretending to Be an Egg Conoisseur

In fact, it looks a lot like this Cuisinart model.

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

Ah, beetroot on a burger. Fantastic, but like TFP points out, they can be quite messy. (In Australia, it's typically pickled beetroot from a tin, but the roasted beetroot does sound interesting.)

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: The River Cottage Cookbook

Garlic and herbs, mostly.

From Recipes

Sunday Brunch: Johnny Apple's Crazy Creamy, Crazy Good Scrambled Eggs

LoCo: The recipe at bill's calls for

2 eggs
1/3 cup (2 fl oz) cream

Give that a go, and see what happens.

From Required Eating

Gothamist Interviews Food Critic and 'Iron Chef' Detractor Robert Sietsema

It's kind of weird to turn lack of research into a virtue.

From A Hamburger Today

Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger

I'm completely fine with the egg. Could do with some pickled beetroot, though, and I'm not sold on the doughnut.

From Required Eating

Golden Clog Nominees Announced; Bourdain Skewers Self

Anybody know what Donald Link did to deserve the Crazy Bastard Special Achievement Award?

P.S. Isn't it "Chef's Chef", not "Chef's Choice"?

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: Win a Copy of 'Cook with Jamie'

My mum, myself, and far too many cookbooks.

From Required Eating

In Videos: Space Food Sticks TV Commercial

You can still buy Space Food Sticks in Australian supermarkets.

Responses to Comments by zamboni

From Required Eating

The La Caja China Box, In Cake and Real-Life Form

The best meat I've ever eaten was a whole pig (I saved a little for the other guests) slow roasted on a spit and this sounds even juicier. I love your word crispification. I think this pig would be even more crispificatious than mine.

Now, that's a seriously creative cake from a devious mind ...... fondant-ify away, but get some therapy!

From Required Eating

The La Caja China Box, In Cake and Real-Life Form

Down on the bayou, it's called a "Cajun Microwave."

From Required Eating

The La Caja China Box, In Cake and Real-Life Form

Perhaps a little Spanish is in order here.

"The La Caja China Box"?

That would translate into:

"The The Chinese Box Box"

It's a lovely concept though.

From Required Eating

Automatic Egg Boiler: Pretending to Be an Egg Conoisseur

I have a very small apartment, and I use my egg cooker like crazy in the summer. I can boil eggs for a week's worth of lunches without heating up my entire apartment with a boiling pot of water.

From Required Eating

Automatic Egg Boiler: Pretending to Be an Egg Conoisseur

I received an egg-cooker as a gift years ago. Mine is white plastic, looks like a chicken, and "clucks" (OK, makes a poor imitation of a cluck) when the eggs are done. You can see a similar one here.

I don't know why using this makes me lazy - instead of repeatedly checking for the exact moment the water comes to a rolling boil, a la Shirley Corriher, I can be off doing something else!

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

Definately tinned beetroot on a burger. Messy and delicious. Hold the egg for this Aussie though please. And avocado and mayonnaise? I don't think so. Where's the sliced tomato & lettuce? Where's the tomato sauce?

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

Yeah gmerall, I want to know what happened to Vegemite in the US. I have not seen if for at least a year. I stopped buying sliced bread, because what's the point?

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

I realize avocado is not used on the "genuine article" but I need to say that the use of mayo anywhere in proximity to avocado is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Otherwise, this looks pretty interesting. I love beets.

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

Yes, tinned beetroot it is, and the same here in New Zealand. When we put pineapple on it, however, it's called a Hawaiian Burger, and it'll often have a bit of ham in it as well. Those beets you have look kind of pale too - our tinned ones are dark dark red, and stain everything you drop them on.

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: The Aussie Burger

Oh dear lord. No no no! Aussies *do not* substitute. Goodness me next you'll be telling us to eat a vegetarian meat pie!

Right then. Your beetroot must be sliced canned beetroot preferably from Golden Circle. It'll be something like this. For some reason my usual US based Aussie products site doesn't have them in stock.
I think bacon is optional but it should be a good sized piece of middle bacon. Not those weeny strips like leather. The egg is a must and then just lettuce and tomato. BBQ sauce like this

if you want the Kiwi experience use Watties Tomato Sauce and add a pineapple ring.

I'm a Kiwi but live is Aus. If I'm sending stuff to my mates I use Simply Australian to order my stuff.

And editors if you're reading this please please please do a piece on Vegemite and Tim Tams - but not at the same time! Now lets talk Tim Tam Slams shall we? :)