Talk About Other People's Cooking
Good restaurants? Bad restaurants? Reminiscing about mom's home cooking? Discovered an amazing flash frozen pan-Asian dumpling of mystery? Chat about it here.
posted by astrid @ 4:50 PM
The Recipe Files
A collaborative blog for sharing recipes, locating great restaurants and upholding the proposition that we live to eat.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The Recipe Files
A collaborative blog for sharing recipes, locating great restaurants and upholding the proposition that we live to eat.
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I always refrain from naming bad restaurants. It is impossible to tell if they will bring a baseless lawsuit on you.
Wouldn't restaurant critics be all out of business if that was true?
Wouldn't restaurant critics be all out of business if that was true?
You are right. I am silly.
Has anyone else here tried to steam Wei-chuan Shanghainese pork dumplings? I'd love to hear feedback on that.
Talking about other people's cooking. Time for a self pity rant.
I grew up in the armpit of the midwest, Ohio, as you guys know already. I have never, anywhere on the globe, experienced such bad taste as I did growing up there. You guys really have no idea.
And it travels. Whenever relatives visit us they inevitably bring their warped tastes with them. They will turn their noses up at a beautiful, authentic pain perdue for breakfast, and instead sneak out to Dennys later for a grand slam. Then they'll complain that California Dennys are "too fancy in their cooking".
And they always buy the cheapest meats they can find. And out of date discount potatoes. Hot & Sour soup from Tommy's Wok? Forget it. It's so hot they run for the Pepto.
We had a German au pair to help around the house the first year of our son's life. She cooked a lot. Her authentic northern German cuisine was 100X more interesting and palatable than my mother in law's Ohio cooking. Even that whipped potatoes, boiled eggs and sauce 800 calorie per sniff concoction.
Wow.
Wow is right! Randy's comment may have also answered my long standing question about how Shoney's stays in business.
Denny's burger is actually pretty good for fast food burger. I like Denny's because they're open 24 hours a day - sometimes, I really am looking for a full meal at 1 AM in the morning.
My brother married a woman who's from Oklahoma, and Randy's right, midwest cooking is frightening.
My sister-in-law thinks it's a law that everything must be covered in gravy and cheese, liberally. I'm not talking a lovely gruyere, I mean cheddar, american or velveeta. I have nothing against cheddar, but not on everything.
At Thanksgiving a few years ago, my sister-in-law made a jello dish for dessert that had cheese in it. I kid you not.
And they're idea of gourmet is the green bean dish with cream of mushroom soup and the dried onions you can get in a can. It might be good for all I know, but it looks so vile I can't touch it.
LOL! Cheese and jello! I heard of cheddar in apple desserts, but cheese in jello is a novel idea indeed!
I didn't recall Oklahoman food as especially bland when I lived there, but I was still adjusting to pizza at the time. I always liked potato and gravy, so the heaviness of the food didn't bother me.
ROFL!
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