Things that are pissing you off- Food & Drink Edition

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by impolyt_one

.... could I get away with cooking the roots of standard celery and selling it to people who don't know any better, and referring to it as celery root? or is standard celery root unpalatable/not big enough?

they're related but not similar. celery root has been domesticated to have, well, a large root. on the other hand, maybe there is a market for counterfeit celery root.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by mordecai

My celery usually has leaves. I use them in salads, or throw them and the hearts into stocks.

I never use anything but the whites and light green stalk of leeks.

aren't you just the bestest little guy!

 

[mordecai]

Originally Posted by foodguy

aren't you just the bestest little guy!
Sometimes I tie my bouquet garni with them (granny knot).

 

[itsstillmatt]

My celery also has leaves. They are great fried and sprinkled over fish.

 

[Piobaire]

This is about to happen and I won't be there.

http://www.hospicedurhone.org/

 

[mordecai]

Honestly though, what the hell do you do with leek leaves?

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by mordecai

Honestly though, what the hell do you do with leek leaves?

stock.

 

[Gus]

Originally Posted by iammatt

My celery also has leaves. They are great fried and sprinkled over fish.

That sounds delicious.

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by foodguy

they're related but not similar. celery root has been domesticated to have, well, a large root. on the other hand, maybe there is a market for counterfeit celery root.

there is, as far as the foodmaking venture I am planning. Can I make any old duck liver into foie gras if i mash a bunch of it together?

 

[edinatlanta]

Originally Posted by edinatlanta

UGH THIS IS ******* BULLSHIT.

My sister ordered me a smoker for my bday as I mentioned elsewhere. Still not here, still no shipping info for her, nothing. I want to smoke a duck--what's that? I can't. I WANT TO SMOKE ANY FREAKIN THING AT ALL AND I CAN'T!


I can also predict, should I ever get this erstwhile gift, that I shan't ever use the kitchen again for cooking. Or at least, much less than I normally would. I'm going to smoke anything I can. May even give pizza a shot.

still nothing.

 

[MarcInDentonTx]

Originally Posted by mordecai

Honestly though, what the hell do you do with leek leaves?

Compost.

 

[Eason]

Potato leek soup.

 

[holymadness]

Originally Posted by mordecai

Honestly though, what the hell do you do with leek leaves?
Soup, mostly. Here is another one I've noticed: restaurants giving their dishes pretentious and nonsensical names. This may just be a Quebec thing. This week I've seen "une tombÃ

e d'asperges" ("a falling of asparagus"), "une harmonie de pÃ

toncles" ("a harmony of scallops"), and my favourite, "une crÃ

meuse maraÃ

chère" (which is actually just two adjectives and is untranslatable because it's gibberish. It means roughly "a creamy market gardening"). The waiter wouldn't even tell me what it was; it turned out to be vegetable soup with lots of crème fraÃ

che.

 

[edinatlanta]

I am still sans smoker.

 

[Szeph el raton]

So I was in Singapore for a week and didn't get to try Durian even once.