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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730725 - 10/12/16 10:12 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Usually fish, I like fish.
As far as cooking at home, I have been exploring ramen recently though, might try to get my family members on board to open our own ramen shop, I love cooking the noodles, I mean the real ones, not the cheapo ones. The other night I used 5 different species of wild mushrooms I picked (Clitocybe nuda, Marasmius oreades, Laetiporus sulphureus, Amanita muscaria var. guessowii, and Armillaria gallica) with some soy sauce, lots of garlic, some onion, stir fry veggies, sriracha, and some secret seasonings I wont reveal, then threw an egg on top.
Shits so good man, so good.
Everything was cooked to perfection. 
But I usually order fish when I eat out.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730758 - 10/12/16 10:22 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Beef or bison ribs ...
Bison or elk steak
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730782 - 10/12/16 10:31 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Things I commonly order and why:
French Dip---If you can't make a good french dip, the rest of your menu is probably garbage too
Chicken Fried Steak---If its frozen-pre-packaged CFS, i won't be back.
Veal in any form---Many places just don't serve veal anymore, so if i see it on the menu, I'm gonna get that delicious tortured baby cow.
Biscuits and Gravy---the gravy is key here. If you can't make a decent sausage gravy, it seems unlikely that that rest of your breakfast shit is any good.
Meatloaf/Pot-roast---This is some comfort food right here. It better come with mashed potatoes and gravy too.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23730827 - 10/12/16 10:46 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ballsalsa said: Biscuits and Gravy---the gravy is key here. If you can't make a decent sausage gravy, it seems unlikely that that rest of your breakfast shit is any good
I looooove country gravy, that thick white sauce. When it's done right it's incredible.
I must be the only person that doesn't like meatloaf though. I just don't like ground beef whatsoever. It's the main reason I'm not a big burger eater either. I just don't understand why anybody would turn a cut of beef into ground anything.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730839 - 10/12/16 10:50 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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do you cook much? I've got a chili recipe that works just as well with ground beef and pork as cubed beef and pork though you have to simmer longer with the cubes/chunks (which isn't really a bad thing)
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730841 - 10/12/16 10:51 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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French onion soup, but I usually order new things then promptly regret my choice as soon as the food comes. I can't bring myself to order something boring I know I'll like.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23730928 - 10/12/16 11:18 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ballsalsa said: do you cook much? I've got a chili recipe that works just as well with ground beef and pork as cubed beef and pork though you have to simmer longer with the cubes/chunks (which isn't really a bad thing)
I cook every day. I usually use combination ground pork and veal and turkey in my chili, a lot of the store-bought ground beef you buy at chain supermarkets is of no-good quality.
Every recipe out there that you can make using ground beef though, I feel like it's vastly improved when you use a real cut of beef instead and make something similar. Steak sandwich > burger... beef stew > chili... roast beef or pot-roast style beef > meatloaf, so on and so forth. I'd be interested in replacing ground beef wontons/dumplings with cubed beef and see if it improves any.
The only recipe I like ground beef is in meatballs, and even then it has to be heavily seasoned and full of flavor, because I'm just really not a fan of ground beef. For years as a kid I refused to eat burgers even, because I was so disgusted by the taste and texture of ground beef. And I still never fully became a fan of cheesesteaks.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730947 - 10/12/16 11:26 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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when i do chunks in my chili, i usually sear(a little heavy) a porterhouse, trim it and cube it, and just throw the chunks in to simmer. in the same pan, i do the same thing with some pork shoulder, then trim, cube and simmer. I also add about half of the retained grease to the chili.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23730950 - 10/12/16 11:27 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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You actually use porterhouse for chili?
Isn't that kind of a waste of a porterhouse? I mean that's a really good cut. Usually people use chuck steak or a cheaper cut of meat for something that's going to be marinating in stew for that long. After it's been cooked in spices for that long the cheap beef ends up tasting not that much different as using an expensive cut.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730967 - 10/12/16 11:33 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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fuck it if i'm not going ground, then i'm going all out. i want those cubes to melt.
to be honest though, its just as good with cheap ground beef and pork IMO. the other way is just a bunch more expense and work for the sake of saying i went all out.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23730983 - 10/12/16 11:36 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well I certainly hope you at least use the bones of the porterhouse when you make the base of your soup. Because all the flavor of the meat is in the bones.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23730997 - 10/12/16 11:40 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I boil all bones in my possession one way or another. Hell, I even boil fish bones and heads. My girlfriend hates it when i make "soupy fish".
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23731015 - 10/12/16 11:44 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fish bones and head is a common way to make soup stock in Asia. Add some kelp and dried bonito flakes, and that's a typical Japanese soup base.
If the fish are small enough, like the size of tilapia or smaller, you can actually deep-fry the fish bones and eat them with a little salt. It's a delicious snack actually, full of calcium and healthy for you.
And if the fish is large enough, like with a yellowtail or salmon, you can actually grill or broil the entire head. The meat around the cheeks is very tender and succulent, is one of the best parts of the fish.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23731022 - 10/12/16 11:46 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went to a mexican/american wedding and they had the spit roasted goat with the head on still. The eyes were gone but the meat off the skull was supreme!
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#23731032 - 10/12/16 11:48 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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fried chicken and grape drink
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23731048 - 10/12/16 11:56 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: Fish bones and head is a common way to make soup stock in Asia. Add some kelp and dried bonito flakes, and that's a typical Japanese soup base.
If the fish are small enough, like the size of tilapia or smaller, you can actually deep-fry the fish bones and eat them with a little salt. It's a delicious snack actually, full of calcium and healthy for you.
And if the fish is large enough, like with a yellowtail or salmon, you can actually grill or broil the entire head. The meat around the cheeks is very tender and succulent, is one of the best parts of the fish.
I know, I've been a fisherman since I was 3, was raised by a japanese-american step-father, and dated a girl from japan for 3 years.
Once when i was in Baja, the local fishermen caught a black seabass. It was probably upwards of 300 lbs. The cheeks on that thing were the size of dinner plates, and even the meat around the base of the fins was both substantial, and delicious. I felt a little guilty eating it because they really aren't sustainable, but hell, it was dead already so fuck it.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Crystal G]
#23731069 - 10/12/16 12:05 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Chinese style BBQ pork. I order it at every Chinese joint i go to. Its really completely different at each and every place i order it from.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
#23731161 - 10/12/16 12:42 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Eggs Benedict.
Every diner I go to I order eggs Benedict. Since I was 12. I've probably eaten it in hundreds of different places and made it a few times myself. You'd be surprised but there are vast cays to prepare good Ole eggs Benedict.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: ballsalsa]
#23731164 - 10/12/16 12:44 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ballsalsa said:
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Crystal G said: Fish bones and head is a common way to make soup stock in Asia. Add some kelp and dried bonito flakes, and that's a typical Japanese soup base.
If the fish are small enough, like the size of tilapia or smaller, you can actually deep-fry the fish bones and eat them with a little salt. It's a delicious snack actually, full of calcium and healthy for you.
And if the fish is large enough, like with a yellowtail or salmon, you can actually grill or broil the entire head. The meat around the cheeks is very tender and succulent, is one of the best parts of the fish.
I know, I've been a fisherman since I was 3, was raised by a japanese-american step-father, and dated a girl from japan for 3 years.
Once when i was in Baja, the local fishermen caught a black seabass. It was probably upwards of 300 lbs. The cheeks on that thing were the size of dinner plates, and even the meat around the base of the fins was both substantial, and delicious. I felt a little guilty eating it because they really aren't sustainable, but hell, it was dead already so fuck it.
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Re: What's the one thing you always order on a menu when you see it? [Re: Mush 4 Brains] 1
#23731168 - 10/12/16 12:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I order the hamburger.
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