I grabbed some retort pouches of Japanese vegetable curry the other day, and wanted to have katsu curry for dinner tonight, but didn't want to deal with breading and frying up a chicken cutlet from scratch. So, I just threw some frozen chicken strips in the oven instead. Basically the same thing, right?
I grabbed some retort pouches of Japanese vegetable curry the other day, and wanted to have katsu curry for dinner tonight, but didn't want to deal with breading and frying up a chicken cutlet from scratch. So, I just threw some frozen chicken strips in the oven instead. Basically the same thing, right?
I did a month long road trip through the USA. All through the states below the mason Dixon line, except for Florida.
Towards the end, all I wanted to eat was a salad. Just something fresh and relatively healthy.
I ask for a salad. They tell me they only do a chicken salad. I tell them no worries, that will be fine.
My salad comes out. It is two pieces of iceberg lettuce, with three giant fried chicken breasts on top, drenched in ranch sauce. I nearly cried
Sounds pretty German to me fwiw only swap fried chicken for pork and ranch sauce for "brown sauce."
Also in a tiny town in Belgium we went to a cafe where everything was in Flemish (YOUR FRENCH CAN'T HELP YOU NOW!) and I ordered what I translated roughly to mean "local forest salad"
It was
Just pork meats and gravy
It had the word salad in it
Fortunately I'm only vegetarian-by-preference but my friend described the look on my face (we had taken our first food break from cycling in 70-something km) as "truly horrible"
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited October 2020
The most impressive thing to me about that story is that you had just cycled 70km and ordered a salad
I can empathise with that, in high school I went to England for 3 weeks to stay with a family as means of improving my English before the relevant exams and boy did that family not believe in fresh fruit or vegetables. I was craving raw vegetables so much by the end of that trip.
so I am very much not a vegetarian, love cheese (though it loves me back less and less as I get older ), pizza is one of my very favorite foods, etc etc.
but sometimes?
sometimes I really want a salad. maybe with some bits of grilled chicken and/or boiled egg, but honestly, I'd be fine with just some romaine* and some dressing**. croutons and cherry tomatoes if I'm feeling fancy.
* not a fan of iceberg, which is (1) aptly named and (2) to re-use a phrase from earlier in this thread, pretty much just "water with texture".
** Caesar or Ranch, by preference.
Sometimes for dinner when I’m craving a salad, I make a HUGE salad with different greens(usually mostly a spring mix and spinach and romaine) put in a bunch of veggies that are fresh. Then end up drowning it in a dressing as I’m not a huge fan of some of the bitter lettuces that tends to come in “spring mix”. When it’s all said and done I often wonder if that meal was calorically more than a normal meal. And sometimes I need to add some chicken to the salad or else I still feel hungry afterwards, and my go to chicken for that thing? Yup buffalo chicken strips!
It's me I'm the salad hater, can't stand raw veggies except like carrots.
I'll happily take take boiled/steamed veggies and especially stir-fried ones.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I’m one of the few that rarely thinks that there can be “Too Much Toppings” on a pizza. As long as it isn’t soaked and mushy, I’ll happily eat it. Garbage pizza’s are designed for me! Gimmie all the toppings!
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My dad was banned from making pizza in our house because he used it as an excuse to empty the freezer of multi year-old garbage that should have been thrown away. That pizza was baaaaaaaaaad.
Still I am rather curious why broccoli in a lot of frozen food
not carrots or peas or such but broccoli
Because it's relatively cheap and you can use the stems etc. to take up a lot of extra volume. One of my pet peeves is buying some sort of frozen vegetable medley with broccoli in it and it being mostly little chunks of stem.
My dad was banned from making pizza in our house because he used it as an excuse to empty the freezer of multi year-old garbage that should have been thrown away. That pizza was baaaaaaaaaad.
Gluahg...I can taste the freezer-burn'd toppings from here. As someone that's made the mistake before, the only way you can reliably salvage food like that is to lump into a pressure cooker and make the hottest spiciest chili/goulash you can imagine to hide the funk and even then that's only done as a "oh shit i'm broke until payday, whelp, gotta make do I guess" kind of situation even then.
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No, that's smof
Let's put that all out on a tray.
Nice.
Towards the end, all I wanted to eat was a salad. Just something fresh and relatively healthy.
I ask for a salad. They tell me they only do a chicken salad. I tell them no worries, that will be fine.
My salad comes out. It is two pieces of iceberg lettuce, with three giant fried chicken breasts on top, drenched in ranch sauce. I nearly cried
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Sounds pretty German to me fwiw only swap fried chicken for pork and ranch sauce for "brown sauce."
Also in a tiny town in Belgium we went to a cafe where everything was in Flemish (YOUR FRENCH CAN'T HELP YOU NOW!) and I ordered what I translated roughly to mean "local forest salad"
It was
Just pork meats and gravy
It had the word salad in it
Fortunately I'm only vegetarian-by-preference but my friend described the look on my face (we had taken our first food break from cycling in 70-something km) as "truly horrible"
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
but sometimes?
sometimes I really want a salad. maybe with some bits of grilled chicken and/or boiled egg, but honestly, I'd be fine with just some romaine* and some dressing**. croutons and cherry tomatoes if I'm feeling fancy.
* not a fan of iceberg, which is (1) aptly named and (2) to re-use a phrase from earlier in this thread, pretty much just "water with texture".
** Caesar or Ranch, by preference.
and I gotta say, top 3 salads of my life, no contest.
I like to chuck a few basil leaves in mine but yeah, very tasty and fresh!
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I bet that "tell me your wildest kink" conversation got real awkward as you carefully pushed the Bugs Bunny costumes back under the bed.
I love salad!!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I'll happily take take boiled/steamed veggies and especially stir-fried ones.
A personal favourite of mine is tomatoes, fresh mint leaves, and balsamic vinegar.
But I ain't exactly trying to have pepperoni pizza every day either, right, like I need some corn and mayo on there once in a while.
throw some tempura shrimp and sweet potatoes on there too while you're at it
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Still I am rather curious why broccoli in a lot of frozen food
not carrots or peas or such but broccoli
The crust flavor options on this bad boy are... cheese, sweet potato, red bean or... cream cheese choux
The topping ingredients are corn, pepperoni, spicy chicken, jalapeno, bacon, grana padano, pineapple, garlic shrimp and... pumpkin salad.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
That's just factory-made "bechamel" sauce, isn't it? Pretty easy and quick to whip that stuff up yourself.
Sweet potatoes are for dessert!
Okay, that is too many things.
Because it's relatively cheap and you can use the stems etc. to take up a lot of extra volume. One of my pet peeves is buying some sort of frozen vegetable medley with broccoli in it and it being mostly little chunks of stem.
Gluahg...I can taste the freezer-burn'd toppings from here. As someone that's made the mistake before, the only way you can reliably salvage food like that is to lump into a pressure cooker and make the hottest spiciest chili/goulash you can imagine to hide the funk and even then that's only done as a "oh shit i'm broke until payday, whelp, gotta make do I guess" kind of situation even then.
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