Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

[6pairsofshoes]

Happy birthday, 8ully!

Glad your burger was good.  I've never heard of fried cheese curds.  We used to get fresh cheese curds when I lived in Wisconsin.  They had them at the farmer's market.  When they're fresh, they squeak when you chew them.  They're really delicious.  It's always nicer to be able to wear casual clothes and not have to worry about being in a place where you have to worry about making a mess when you eat.  A relaxed meal is better than a stressful one and I think a trip to the French Laundry or similar would be kind of intense and probably not in a good way by comparison.

In the midwest they like to deep fry stuff.  Not quite to the level of Mars bars, but they will bread and deep fry mushrooms.  I'm not a fan of that.  A Japanese fried of mine once made me a dinner of tempura.  She had the batter sitting in a bowl of ice and an electric fryer with hot oil to dip the ingredients into.  It was lovely, but it's rare that you find it so well prepared.  She was from Yokohama.  She'd have us make sushi and then we'd eat it.  A group of us.  But we always had to photograph it first.  I  have a bunch of polaroids of sushi dinners we made.  She'd fan the rice to cool it before we used it.  She had a Tower Records Tokyo fan.  Tower Records is long gone but I still have those polaroids.  She was a treasure.  I lost track of her after she returned to Japan.

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I'm sorry for your pain smokes.

For my birthday, I negotiated DOWN. Instead of a fancy dinner I just wanted a burger and fries. So, we went to culvers.
I got the double bacon butter burger. Burger was fantastic, bacon sucked. I got the cheese curds because crinkle fries bless'ed suck, most of the other guests got the fish dinner.  ....

Many Happy Returns, 8ully.

I had to look up ASDA and see that it's a WalMart subsidiary.  Some of the Walmarts in the U.S. have a reasonable food selection with a deli that sells lunchmeats and rotisserie chickens, that sort of thing.  They also have frozen foods but nothing that would fit the description of what you were able to buy there.  Still, we have Trader Joes and they have some really good offerings of frozen ethnic entrees that won't break the bank.  Eating out can be expensive and if the food isn't great, it's a real disappointment when you realize you could have stayed home and enjoyed the meal for a fraction of the cost.

They have a whole Panku street food aisle. It's better than some takeaways, to be honest.

https://www.asda.com/instore/panku-streetfood/

[6pairsofshoes]

I think that the Canadians have the best idea for cheese curds: pile them on top of freedom fries (preferably deep fried in used engine oil, apparently), and then slathered in gravy. (They call the resulting mess poutine)

Not skimping on the calories, either.

I just had some nice maple walnut ice cream for the first time in many years.  It was just delicious.  They don't have it on the West Coast.

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From the neck up I've never met a calorie I didn't like. But from the neck down hates them.

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In my experience, flavour has calories.

Not that it matter to you as you're stick thin, brother.

[8ullfrog]

3 day water boil notice. UGH.

We bought paper bowls and plastic cutlery, but things are gonna be rough.

Turns out the big convection oven is dying because the top coils turn on when they feel like it. So we can do a frozen pizza, but it will take a while. As to a turkey, no dice.

We picked up a couple of soups and our last night with water we did mac and cheese with melinda's sriracha. It's good. Not fishy like huy fong, and not as sweet either. One funny thing, I found out my Melinda green sauce is 1 torch, and the sriracha is 2 torch.

I also watched a fascinating video on hot sauce that employed a test I've never heard of, the paper towel test.

The way the paper towel test works is you dab a drop of your hot sauce on a piece of paper towel and watch it bloom. The more red at the center, the more "mash" your sauce is made of. If it's got a giant halo? Vinegar or water.

I'm hemming and hawing over a sauce, it's $3 an ounce, and it's from the other side of the state. I'm leaning towards no unless it shows up in a liquidation center.

The vid: