MarkAndre wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 2:22 pm Plant-based cream has come a long way and I don’t want it in my coffee.

They mask the lack of flavor with yet more sugar.
I actually like Cocoa powder mixed in mine with sugar.
I kept getting comments about how much sugar I put in my coffee.
One morning in front of the guy I filled my cup up to the top with sugar and then put about two tablespoons of coffee on top.
Then walked off.

Then there was the guy eating a fatty steak and all I had was french fries cooked in vegetable oil.
He said my cholesterol levels must be over the top because I was eating fried food.

One expert told me chili meant beans in Spanish and I didn't know what I was talking about.
He was originally from California and dumped ketchup on prime rib.
And people wonder why.

Then there's always that person that's got to tell you about where certain food comes from while your eating it.
There was the nitrates police that always showed up out of thin air while you're eating bacon.
Or the guy that's got to tell you how cruel it is to eat animals.
Then he would start up on Monsanto and GMO's.
Or maybe the comment that your on a diet because your eating a salad for supper.
I made Texas chili on Sunday night and if I didn't people I didn't even know would get mad.

I started locking it up in an office so they could smell it but not find it.
That really ticked them off.

One guy wanted to break into a conversation and talk about work.
I called him out on it so many times he wouldn't eat around us anymore.
We had the no work talk table.

One guy went on the Atkins diet and would eat 3 ribeye steaks in one sitting.
Last but not least.
They asked me why I didn't eat the enchiladas because I was from Texas.
I asked them where were they?
All I saw was some sloppy mess made with flour tortillas.

worth1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:12 pm I recall the time I was in Europe on a tour with a bunch of college kids.
I loved the food and the German people.
The snotty college kids didn't like them and they were rude to the Germans.
Many were from New York city or surrounding area and their manners were horrible.
They were raised to hate Germans.
They would ask for something by saying I want this or that.
I got along with the Germans because I was raised with manners.
I would ask may I have and they were nice to me.
I recall the time we had a meal service were we were staying and there were huge piles of sauerkraut bratwurst and potatoes.
Served with bread and wine.
The rude New York German hating kids turned their noses up and I had a feast.

"When in Rome,do as the Romans do." A lot of Americans don't seem to understand simple basic manners when overseas.

When I was deployed to Muskat in Oman, a lot of military people wouldn't even try the local food or associate with the local people. On the other hand, I wanted to sit down with the Omani base workers and venders and eat the same home cooked schwarmas, hummus, flat bread, gyros etc, they had and drink Turkish coffee with them. I even smoked a hookah a little with them. Needless to say, the Omanis really appreciated a American would enjoy their culture. Several times I was invited to have tea with them after work. These guys went out of their way on off days and would take me shopping and showed me the good deals on Kashmir rugs, Khanjar (short curved ceremonial sword) and some silver jewelry . On duty days they actually brought me several meals from downtown for free.

Meanwhile, almost all the dumb asses I deployed with insisted on getting their off base meals at the Chili's restaurant or Olive Garden in the downtown area.

Cinco de Mayo is coming up tomorrow.
Since I eat and celebrate Mexican cuisine all year long I find little use for it.
One Mexican Hispanic lady was asked what she was going to do for the event and she responded nothing.
I'm an American referring to her being a US citizen.
Cinco de Mayo is a marketing ploy to get people to celebrate something that few people celebrate.
Thusly selling more alcohol and food.
It is NOT Mexican independence day.
That day is September the 16.
Not saying don't celebrate or do something special but realize it's just not that big a deal for many people you would assume it was a big deal to.

And if you insist on making enchiladas for the occasion please ((((please)))) make them with corn tortillas.

I asked one Mexican American lady about it during a conversation on food and her reply was yeah I know, what the hell is that all about referring to flour tortillas.

We are going to my daughter’s house tomorrow to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Her fiancé is half Mexican, on the mother’s side. I’m hoping his mom is there and bringing some food as she’s reportedly a great cook. Her salsa is great. I know she roasts/grills the vegetables for at least one version of her salsas. I don’t know what’s on the menu, but the theme is Mexican. We have to bring avocados.

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican victory in Puebla, Mexico over the French forces in 1862. Evidently in Mexico, only around Puebla is the holiday celebrated. Like @worth1 said it isn’t anything special in the rest of Mexico.

But, there’s always been feast days and celebration days. Seems like the 5th of May is as good as any, especially with Mexican food and drink featured.

I'm good with any excuses for feasting and celebrations.
But at least know what you're celebrating and why.
The June 19th celebration is another one that has taken the country by storm that used to be only in Texas.
This is one I don't particularly get involved with mostly because the huge percentage of the people there or celebrating have no idea what it's about or it's history.
At one time years ago I did celebrate it with my many older black friends that did know the history.

I just tried to watch a beef cheek video by How to BBQ right.
Making barria tacos.
I got about halfway through it and turned it off.
I should have known better.
First all of his spice mix he sells all over the cheeks costs 11 dollars for 11 ounces not including shipping.
Boiling the dry chile pepper for 15 minutes in more of the spice mix and water or whatever the devil it was.
I just had to turn it off because all it is is a spice mix advertisment.
Probably used half the container.
Yeah I'm critical.

@karstopography
Chuy's doesn't have the chile relleno on the menu anymore.
I used to get the beef red sauce one.
As a matter of fact they cut the menu way back.
Not really worth going to anymore in my opinion.
Especially because they don't have the chile rellenos.

Interestingly enough Rick Bayless did a resent upload on YouTube about making birria tacos.
Right on the heals of that other BBQ guy on YouTube.

Arron Franklin the world famous BBQ restaurant owner in Austin Texas has opened up a new restaurant on east 6th Street.
The place has been an abandoned dump for years.
Much like the rest of East Austin people just didn't go there.
Afraid for their lives.
I was the exception because I never got bothered and there were some really good places to eat.
Not all but some.
Now due to the re-gentrification of East Austin this old ran down place with a long history is back and running again.
As usual the prices are over the top but you can't expect to stay in business in Austin without charging enough money to stay in business.
That's just the way it is.
Or you can go head off to some lousy chain restaurant like subway.
Ya pay for what you get.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ ... tin-venue/

I haven't been grocery shopping in about 3 weeks.
I picked up a large brisket and I'm going to grind the whole thing up for ground beef.
I was going to get just a small amount but the price of cheap chuck was over 5 a pound.
Damn that, I'll get a brisket.
It's still cheaper than any kind of ground beef and I control the sanitation so I can eat it medium rare.
Also picked up some nice beef shanks with small bones.
That's the only meat I bought and the bill was still over the top.
Oh I forgot I bought some bacon ends and pieces.
Dry cured and one package looked really good.
Cheap arsed olive oil because I can't taste test the expensive oil.
Made the mistake of buying California olive oil and it tasted like regular vegetable oil.
Total rip off.
The other stuff with a higher price said product of Italy or Spain.
But hold on.
If you read the label the oil comes from everywhere.
Some labels need and electron microscope to read.
Really?
In reality some cheaper olive oils are better or at least as good as expensive ones.
Eggs went down though and I was tempted to get a giant box of the but didn't.

But the beef jumped up a dollar a pound since the last time I bought it.
I literally struggled trying to make my mind up what to get.
These prices are killing me.
I wrote out a list and stuck to it and still it cost a fortune.
As a matter of fact I deleted some stuff from the list because my mental calculator was pinging in the red big time.

In case you missed it or are interested.
The large print is deceiving.
The fine print tells it all.
This stuff is 65¢ an ounce.
The stuff I get is around 19¢.

I can't find where I mentioned Italians not eating a lot of chicken so I'm putting it here.
But in a perspective one might understand.
It was probably this way here in the US as well.
Chickens were raised for eggs not meat.
To kill a chicken meant you were killing your egg production.
To this day as far as I know the average Italian doesn't eat near as much chicken as the Americans do.
From research pork is the meat of choice in many areas and obviously fish.

Also in my research the stuff we have always considered Italian food isn't eaten in Italy.
No big surprise there.
They just put an Italian name on it.
They almost never eat chicken and pasta together.
They don't have pepperoni because it was an American invention.
And so on.
I was totally alarmed when I saw what they ate in Italy compared to what we call Italian food here in the US.

https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/ ... in-pounds/
@worth1 chicken consumption is way up in the us since 1965.

http://www.scordo.com/food/the-italian- ... s-eat.html

Italy isn’t such a lover of chicken flesh.

Feel free to crow about being right.

karstopography wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 7:50 pm https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/ ... in-pounds/
@worth1 chicken consumption is way up in the us since 1965.

http://www.scordo.com/food/the-italian- ... s-eat.html

Italy isn’t such a lover of chicken flesh.

Feel free to crow about being right.

Not going to crow it was just an observation.
Remembering the political campaign phrase, "A chicken in every pot", sounds true.
Poor folks just couldn't afford chicken or any other meat back when president Hoover promised it.
Nor could they after the promise.
Italians like pork mostly done with some sort of curing or drying process.
I was absolutely flabbergasted when I walked into the shops in Italy and saw all the meat and cheese hanging up without refrigeration.
It was the defining moment which started my quest for making this type of food product and understanding it.

Here's a picture of some pancetta I made some time ago and it got shuffled into a black hole in the freezer.
It should still be good.
I also found my long lost cochinita pibil and some perfectly good wagyu beef rib things.

I'm putting it here instead of the what's cooking section.
Dill and fish go together like bread and butter
You can find a thousand recipes on line for it.
What you don't want to do is overload the sauce with other ingredients that will cover up the taste of dill.
Dill in my opinion should be one of the flavors as well.
You can look up what countries use dill the most and go from there.

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:09 am I'm putting it here instead of the what's cooking section.
Dill and fish go together like bread and butter
You can find a thousand recipes on line for it.
What you don't want to do is overload the sauce with other ingredients that will cover up the taste of dill.
Dill in my opinion should be one of the flavors as well.
You can look up what countries use dill the most and go from there.

I love dill as a seasoning. I'm disappointed the Lackland Base commissary stopped selling sell Dill Krauter (Knorr Salatkrönung Dill Kräuter) anymore and there is no other grocery store here stocks it. Potato salad with dill krauter sprinkled on top is heaven. Actually any potato or fish dish is better with dill. Also mix some dill krauter into ranch dressing for an amazing salad.

Wildcat82 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 3:06 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:09 am I'm putting it here instead of the what's cooking section.
Dill and fish go together like bread and butter
You can find a thousand recipes on line for it.
What you don't want to do is overload the sauce with other ingredients that will cover up the taste of dill.
Dill in my opinion should be one of the flavors as well.
You can look up what countries use dill the most and go from there.

I love dill as a seasoning. I'm disappointed the Lackland Base commissary stopped selling sell Dill Krauter (Knorr Salatkrönung Dill Kräuter) anymore and there is no other grocery store here stocks it. Potato salad with dill krauter sprinkled on top is heaven. Actually any potato or fish dish is better with dill. Also mix some dill krauter into ranch dressing for an amazing salad.

I checked my HEB and they don't have it.

I love using fresh dill with fish. We can find fresh herbs in most produce depts, sometimes packaged, sometimes in bunches. White fish of your choice, pour a little white wine over it in a baking dish, squeeze some fresh lemon over it, chopped fresh dill and dotted with butter. Bake or broil. Yummy fish with a yummy sauce to go with rice or whatever side(s) you make to go with it. Haven't made that in a while but I have some frozen fish filets coming so I expect I will soon. I should throw some dill seeds in the garden.

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2023 1:25 pm

Wildcat82 wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 3:06 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:09 am I'm putting it here instead of the what's cooking section.
Dill and fish go together like bread and butter
You can find a thousand recipes on line for it.
What you don't want to do is overload the sauce with other ingredients that will cover up the taste of dill.
Dill in my opinion should be one of the flavors as well.
You can look up what countries use dill the most and go from there.

I love dill as a seasoning. I'm disappointed the Lackland Base commissary stopped selling sell Dill Krauter (Knorr Salatkrönung Dill Kräuter) anymore and there is no other grocery store here stocks it. Potato salad with dill krauter sprinkled on top is heaven. Actually any potato or fish dish is better with dill. Also mix some dill krauter into ranch dressing for an amazing salad.

I checked my HEB and they don't have it.

We'll have to get it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dill+krauter ... _sb_noss_1

Might as well order some Knorr brand Paprika Gulash while you're on Amazon anyway.

I also love dill in a salad dressing - we have plenty of "wild" dill in the garden, we leave a few to make new seeds and spread them around. They just grow by themself, no work at all:)
Mostly we make dillvinegar, just simple vinegar where you add the dill for some weeks. The seeds (grinded) are also great in bread.