I made risotto tonight. It was delicious and turned out perfectly.
I am never making risotto again.
You know I never minded making risotto. It turns out delicious and all I had to do was add some liquid every few minutes and stir for a bit?
There's a way to make it without the tedious stirring. You use 300g arborio rice, half an onion, 1l stock and 2tsp white wine vinegar. Soften the onion in a little oil, quickly fry off the rice, add the stock and the vinegar, bring to the boil, put a lid on the pot and throw it in a 160C oven for 20 minutes.
Take it out, stir it all up. From that point you have a perfect risotto base to add whatever else you want to. The recipe I use has some smoked salmon, frozen peas, spring onions and a squirt of lemon juice thrown in before putting it back in the oven for 5 minutes.
You might cause some Italian Grandmothers to faint and curse the ground you walk on but that's a small price to pay
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There's a lot of justified heat directed at British cuisine, but your pastry game is on point
I mean it’s not though, the valid complaints about British cuisine come from expats from Britain who mostly were part of the Great Depression. That particular generation has that little money they considered garlic to be a luxury. And yeah, that food was pretty fuckin bland because they were dirt poor. And you know what? So did everyone’s food. The difference is that your food evolved and you eat the better food and rather than looking at modern British food, everyone points at their food from the 1920s and laughs.
I'm not really sure what the relevance of that is, I am not up on my California knowledge
California either has no weather or apocalypse.
It's sunny in Southern California something like 300-330 days out of the year.
It is also the land where everything burns every summer and has been in a drought for something like 40 years.
Somehow not a desert yet.
Well, more it hasn't reverted to being a desert again yet. Because we can pipe in as much water as we like, plant crops and trees, build cities, but none of it has changed the fact it's still a desert and should the water from up north stop flowing nature will reassert equilibrium.
On the coast, but there's a whole lot of Southern California past the San Gabriel Mountains
But they never show that part in movies or TV or anything so it might not actually exist at all!
Oh they show it, the area's very popular for filming, they just rarely represent it as California in the movies. I grew up near a very popular "downtown" street in Lancaster that was often used for vehicle stunts.
Yeah, fish and chips is perfectly good (if unhealthy) food.
Now, Irish food on the other hand... well, I'm a big fan of the annual family dinner on St. Patricks Day.
Colcannon is the saddest food that I love. Like I admire that you came up with a hearty comforting dish made entirely out of winter animal fodder, good job the Irish.
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There's a lot of justified heat directed at British cuisine, but your pastry game is on point
I mean it’s not though, the valid complaints about British cuisine come from expats from Britain who mostly were part of the Great Depression. That particular generation has that little money they considered garlic to be a luxury. And yeah, that food was pretty fuckin bland because they were dirt poor. And you know what? So did everyone’s food. The difference is that your food evolved and you eat the better food and rather than looking at modern British food, everyone points at their food from the 1920s and laughs.
And rolling straight from the Depression into the Blitz and rations etc.
Entire decades of poverty food.
Also, mushy peas are amazing. And while I'm not a fan of savory pie, I can totally understand the appeal and would likely reach for a meat pie over a poptart on a given day.
Meat pies are one of those things that like... the entire concept is not a common thing in American cuisine but it feels like should be. Except chicken pot pie, that feels like the one example that made it through the filter and I have no idea why.
It’s one manifestation of the thesis of this thread in fact!
There's plenty of good non-imperialist ethnic British food, too. See Jedoc's cottage pie lunch.
But most British foods are not easy to make really well, or rather: far tooeasy to make badly, and unforgiving of poor quality ingredients.
Person A might have a cream tea made by a really good cook and enjoy fresh, light, buttery scones, well made raspberry preserve and home made clotted cream and come away from the experience with a very different view from Person B who might have had a visually indistinguishable version of the same meal that was infinitely poorer. The same might apply to just about any iconic british food from fish and chips to steak & kidney pudding. Done well, it's fantastic. Done poorly, no.
And a lot of our foods also have very little middle ground between delicious and deeply disappointing. eg: a Yorkshire pudding is either a delight or a disaster, and can go from one to the other in a few moments of misjudgement. Most of our dishes take a lot of skill to do well, and until you have that skill you don't make an 'OK' Yorkshire pudding.
Anyone who thinks we don't care about food should ponder how many Michelin starred restaurants there are here, or why, given half an opportunity, British people will discuss food at length and with feeling, even if we pretend we're just joking around. You will get our opinions about a 'proper' full English (Scottish or Irish) breakfast, or beer, or local chippy, because we care about it just as much as an Italian does their pasta.
Meat pies are one of those things that like... the entire concept is not a common thing in American cuisine but it feels like should be. Except chicken pot pie, that feels like the one example that made it through the filter and I have no idea why.
Stromboli was invented in Philadelphia, the chimichanga in arizona, and the Hot Pocket in Colorado
Pepperoni rolls come from west Virginia! I forgot that one.
Corn dogs are American, too!
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Honestly some of the best eating I every had was my two trips to England.
I don't remember much of the trips other than the food.
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A warm kidney pie on a cold day, heating your hands and sating your hunger at the same time? Lovely
The weather is amazing when it stops, much like the jokes about our food.
You know I never minded making risotto. It turns out delicious and all I had to do was add some liquid every few minutes and stir for a bit?
And whisky.
I see a pattern.
Bourbon is from America and the best scotch these days comes from Japan.
Wellllllllll
I mean they still win SOME categories in the world gin awards
I would argue that the best gin in the world is coming out of Australia these days though
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This seems reasonable but also I'm not a huge fan of gin.
I'm from California, dogg, it's like you're not even trying
California either has no weather or apocalypse.
It's sunny in Southern California something like 300-330 days out of the year.
It is also the land where everything burns every summer and has been in a drought for something like 40 years.
Somehow not a desert yet.
There's a way to make it without the tedious stirring. You use 300g arborio rice, half an onion, 1l stock and 2tsp white wine vinegar. Soften the onion in a little oil, quickly fry off the rice, add the stock and the vinegar, bring to the boil, put a lid on the pot and throw it in a 160C oven for 20 minutes.
Take it out, stir it all up. From that point you have a perfect risotto base to add whatever else you want to. The recipe I use has some smoked salmon, frozen peas, spring onions and a squirt of lemon juice thrown in before putting it back in the oven for 5 minutes.
You might cause some Italian Grandmothers to faint and curse the ground you walk on but that's a small price to pay
Bourbon is whiskey (the e is important).
And incorrect but if you want get technical the Scottish taught the Japanese so the point still stands.
Then all the credit clawed back and then some for the spelling-pronunciation gap
Cause of stealing all the water from southern Arizona and northwest Mexico
I likely have no idea what I’m talking about….maybe most of the water comes from the Sacramenti vs the Colorada?
Forget it, Captain, it’s Chinatown.
I mean it’s not though, the valid complaints about British cuisine come from expats from Britain who mostly were part of the Great Depression. That particular generation has that little money they considered garlic to be a luxury. And yeah, that food was pretty fuckin bland because they were dirt poor. And you know what? So did everyone’s food. The difference is that your food evolved and you eat the better food and rather than looking at modern British food, everyone points at their food from the 1920s and laughs.
Satans..... hints.....
Ya got Salty, sweet, Crispy, Flakey, juicy.
Cause of the imperialism
Which makes it bad
But yummy
It’s one manifestation of the thesis of this thread in fact!
Well, more it hasn't reverted to being a desert again yet. Because we can pipe in as much water as we like, plant crops and trees, build cities, but none of it has changed the fact it's still a desert and should the water from up north stop flowing nature will reassert equilibrium.
On the coast, but there's a whole lot of Southern California past the San Gabriel Mountains
This is why SoCal rocks, drive an hour in any direction* and you end up in a completely different biome
*lol, assuming no traffic
But they never show that part in movies or TV or anything so it might not actually exist at all!
Oh they show it, the area's very popular for filming, they just rarely represent it as California in the movies. I grew up near a very popular "downtown" street in Lancaster that was often used for vehicle stunts.
the curry is also cursed.
(that's bad)
Now, Irish food on the other hand... well, I'm a big fan of the annual family dinner on St. Patricks Day.
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No it's a pizza - all the dry on one side, wet/open on the other.
Colcannon is the saddest food that I love. Like I admire that you came up with a hearty comforting dish made entirely out of winter animal fodder, good job the Irish.
And rolling straight from the Depression into the Blitz and rations etc.
Entire decades of poverty food.
Also, mushy peas are amazing. And while I'm not a fan of savory pie, I can totally understand the appeal and would likely reach for a meat pie over a poptart on a given day.
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1. Pizza crust
2. Tomatilla sauce
3. Queso fresco
4. Crumbled chorizo
5. Diced onions
6. Cilantro
7. Squeeze of lime
Mexican street taco pizza
There's plenty of good non-imperialist ethnic British food, too. See Jedoc's cottage pie lunch.
But most British foods are not easy to make really well, or rather: far tooeasy to make badly, and unforgiving of poor quality ingredients.
Person A might have a cream tea made by a really good cook and enjoy fresh, light, buttery scones, well made raspberry preserve and home made clotted cream and come away from the experience with a very different view from Person B who might have had a visually indistinguishable version of the same meal that was infinitely poorer. The same might apply to just about any iconic british food from fish and chips to steak & kidney pudding. Done well, it's fantastic. Done poorly, no.
And a lot of our foods also have very little middle ground between delicious and deeply disappointing. eg: a Yorkshire pudding is either a delight or a disaster, and can go from one to the other in a few moments of misjudgement. Most of our dishes take a lot of skill to do well, and until you have that skill you don't make an 'OK' Yorkshire pudding.
Anyone who thinks we don't care about food should ponder how many Michelin starred restaurants there are here, or why, given half an opportunity, British people will discuss food at length and with feeling, even if we pretend we're just joking around. You will get our opinions about a 'proper' full English (Scottish or Irish) breakfast, or beer, or local chippy, because we care about it just as much as an Italian does their pasta.
Here ends the serious post.
Stromboli was invented in Philadelphia, the chimichanga in arizona, and the Hot Pocket in Colorado
Pepperoni rolls come from west Virginia! I forgot that one.
Corn dogs are American, too!
I don't remember much of the trips other than the food.
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London?
In America, they are the food manifestation of our national id