All Things Food

[Goerge Bush]

Enough sports. Enough current world issues. Enough about your life.

How about your food?

There are three questions that this thread revolves around:

a. How many meals do you eat per day? You can address specific concerns in your diet, or simply comment on it. Comparing food we eat with one another can actually provide stunning results.
b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods? Different people have different preferences. How about you?
c. How do you feel towards (insert specific type of food)?

Alternatively, you can simply comment on different types of foods.

Image I: Scorpions on Sticks. Mm...
Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie. Drool.
Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice!
Image IV: Dumplings! Tasty!
Image V: Fruit Salad for All!

Of course, you could also share your cooking experiences and recipes you think we should all try.

 

[gorm]

a. I'm trying to expand my cooking repertoire, it's limited to stir frys, chili, curry, and boiled/cooked vegetables. next thing i want to do is learn how to oven roast vegetables, and maybe cook with meat which i never do. Also soups, although i imagine i could fake a bunch of them.


i did however recently start making the easiest/most delicious bread in the entire world. if anyone wants instructions i'd be happy to share them, all you really need is household staples and a dutch oven.


b.i try not to think of least favorite foods since pretty much everything is an acquired taste. one think i cant bend my stomach around is indian pickled mangoes. my favorite food is too much to list but i love any good indian, mexican, greek thai, chinese, japanese morrocan ethiopean italian, polish cuisine is great. that and burgers.

c.
I. Never tried this but i like crunch food and almost all food on sticks so i am giving it the benefit of the doubt
II. i don't like the meringue tbh x_x
III. pomegranate is ok but i don't love the taste enough to shell out whatever pom is trying to sell it for.
IV. fuck yes
V. usually as long as it isn't lame.

 

[Big Bayou]

FooooooooooooD

a. This year I've really hunkered down and taught myself to cook quite well (sushi, Thai, wok cooking, etc.) and I guess it follows that I usually eat 3 times a day. As long as it doesn't have dairy/eggs, I am extremely open about what I will eat- I think this weekend I'm going to try and make frogs (they sell them by the bucket in Chinatown)!

b. Nepalese, Ethiopian, Afghani, North Indian, Malaysian and Japanese cuisine are all good to me, especially if there's seafood involved. But honestly any genre of food can be delicious if the chef knows what he/she is doing and is willing to be creative. During the summer my friend (also obsessed with food) and I used to starve ourselves until dinnertime and then go to really nice Ethiopian or Nepalese restaurants that his chef-dad would recommend and devour a four person feast meal. I remember one time (we must've been really high) he started crying tears of joy when they brought out the food and the server guy must've gone back and told the chef because they brought us free dessert :-)

c.
1. Could be pretty good. Although you know that they haven't been raising those things on a ranch or anything; they're probably filthy.
2. Dairy :-(
3. Pomegranate is good, but I don't drink juice unless it's a chaser really...tea is my thing.
4. Uhhh those are crucial.
5. Sure, as long as it isn't some bullshit Midwestern variety that uses a gallon of marshmallow paste and crushed snickers etc.

 

[Chill Murray]

I love cooking but other than helping my mother out in the kitchen (peeling potatoes, boiling water, etc) my repertoire is kind of limited. I can make stir-fry, quesadillas, and anything from a box, and I make some mean chili (I like lots of peppers, and I like it spicy).

I'll eat anywhere from 2-4 meals a day though I usually end up eating lunch, dinner, and a late night meal (though that'll change to a more normal schedule now that I'm home). Breakfast isn't usually a big deal for me, it'll be something small like a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea or coffee (sometimes just the coffee, but I'd hardly call that a meal). Dinner's usually my biggest meal of the day.

If I had to put the basic tastes into a hierarchy of preference I'd go spicy > salty > sweet > bitter > sour. I love spicy and salty shit, I like the occasional sweet thing, and bitter stuff is ok, but I'm not a big fan of sour stuff. I love any sort of pepper (anywhere from bells to habaneros) and vegetables in general. I also enjoy seafood, but that's probably normal growing up a stone's throw from major bodies of water. I enjoy a good steak every now and again as well.

I was a picky eater as a child but I try to make an effort to expand my gastronomic horizons now. The weirdest thing I've eaten so far is either baby octopus or pate.

 

[Ambitions]

I could go fucking crazy in this thread.

A. I eat non fucking stop. 3 main meals and constant snacking. Literally everything I eat is super low in calories so I have to always be eating.

B. My favorite food at the moment is Sietan. I fucking love that shit its so good. You can put it in anything and make anything with it. It has no fat, cholesterol, or carbohydrates in it, its pure protein.

Behold Sietan, lord of Veganism.

 

[DM]

a. How many meals do you eat per day?

I eat on average 4 meals a day. Each meal I have a serving of each of these: protein, complex carbohydrates, vegetables. Oatmeal and brown rice are what I have for carbs, turkey and chicken for protein, and broccoli or cauliflower for veggies. Sometimes I'll have a spinach salad for lunch to switch it up. Also, I eat fruit all throughout the day. Truth be told my weekly eating budget is about $20, usually less. (skiddle take note!)

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods?

I'll eat anything once, but here are the things I always come back to: a good bologna, just about any type of cheese, my mom's homemade pasta sauce... yeahhhhh. Haven't had that in a while, can't WAIT until Thanksgiving.

c. How do you feel towards (insert specific type of food)?

I'm coming around to sushi, slowly. Last summer my buddies and I went to this place downtown and they told me which kinds to get. "It tastes like bacon!" Crazily enough, it did.

Image I: Scorpions on Sticks. Mm...
Like I said, I'll try anything once!
Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie. Drool.
Fuck yeah. That looks amazing.
Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice!
Eh, I never got into the whole pomegranate craze. It's average-tasting and way too expensive.
Image IV: Dumplings! Tasty!
Oh GOD do I love dumplings.
Image V: Fruit Salad for All!
As long as it isn't ruined with yogurt or sugar or someshit. Just gimme the fruit.

EDIT: Ohhhhh GOOOOOOOOOOOD now I'm hungry and it's almost lunchtime.

Ambitions, keep your opinions out of this thread.

 

[wildfire393]

A) I eat usually two meals a day. One brunch-ish, the other dinner or later.

B) Favorite foods include Buffalo Chicken, good chinese food (especially authentic szechuwan), bacon, chorizo, calamari, chocolate-peanutbutter concoctions.
Least favorites include beans, onions (except in rare circumstances like onion rings, I can't stand the texture and I'm not big on the flavor), ham and turkey (I guess I don't hate them, they're just... bland), fish, spinach.

C)
Hm... scorpions I might try, but I have the feeling I wouldn't much like.
Pie is always pretty good.
Not a fan so much of the pomegranate.
Good dumplings can be amazing.
Is that... CHEESE on that fruit salad? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like fruit, but it really doesn't belong with things like cheese (or chocolate, but that's another story).

 

[Goodbar]

a. How many meals do you eat per day?

2, I'm not a huge eater, keeps me skinny :S - not that I'm anorexic, my appetite is just unusually small for someone my age.

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods?

Despite the fact that I eat little, I do love food and have a pretty varied taste. Steak I have always liked, in particular prime rib is my favorite. Filet mignon is always good too, though pretty expensive. Lobster can be amazing, so can crab. I actually picked up a strong liking of sushi about a year or two ago. I like certain fish sometimes, mainly ocean stuff like mahi mahi. Shrimp, steamed clams, scallops, escargo even, all very good. I love homemade roasted chicken and stuffing, and I like chicken livers (not anything like meat). Italian dishes I like a lot, such as veal parmisian and gnocchi. You might think I'm the son of a spoiled rich kid now but I don't get to eat the food I like often because my family isn't that rich lol.

c. How do you feel towards average everyday food?

I do like some average foods, I'll eat pizza, burgers, hot dogs, grilled cheese, fruit and vegetables... I don't like wonderbread at all though, unless i'm eating a burger on a wonderbread bun or hotdog, but I'll eat sandwiches on italian bread which isn't very much more expensive, it just gets dry quicker. I like fruit quite a bit but sometimes I'll like more exotic stuff too.
I. Crickets? I'd try them, they look salty
II: Lemon Meringue Pie, looks good, though not my favorite kind of pie
III: Actually pomegranite and its juice is pretty good, I mixed it with sprite once and that was kinda good lol
IV: Dumplings, mmmmm
V. Fruit Salad, yea that's good, not a big fan of the melon though, and sometimes you buy it and its gross, when it's fresh though, mmmm

 

[akuchi]

a) I eat one meal a day. if that, if I don't eat that meal I'll usually snack but sometimes I forget to eat altogether.
b) my favourite food is calamari. ohmygod it's gorgeous. pizza I like too - chicken breast. spicy chicken on pizza with peppers aaa yes. FOOD PORN. I like lots of food.

c)
Image I: Scorpions on Sticks.
no no no no. get out.
Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie.
<3 pie
Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice!
never tried it. might though.
Image IV: Dumplings
mm no. don't like them.
Image V: Fruit Salad
maybe. sometimes. icecream's better though.

 

[Banana292]

a. How many meals do you eat per day? You can address specific concerns in your diet, or simply comment on it. Comparing food we eat
with one another can actually provide stunning results.

"Meals as such is 3 on every day bar sunday, which is more towards 2 nowadays. I snack like hell though.

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods? Different people have different preferences. How about you?

Pizza or cheeseburgers for a meal. Porridge is the best breakfast ever. Also, cheese makes anything yummy. I LOOOOVE cheese ^^

c. How do you feel towards (salty food)?

I cannot stand salt. I don't know if it's to do with my upbringing, but salt makes food pretty icky. My dad likes to eat salt on a lot of things, But like vinegar it just ruins the potential flavour in my opinion. I'm sure many will disagree.

Image I: Scorpions on Sticks. Mm...

O_O I'll pass...

Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie. Drool.
Mmmm....Want.

Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice!
Must admit I've never tasted a pomegranate

Image IV: Dumplings! Tasty!
Dumplings are the only reason I like cassarole >_>

Image V: Fruit Salad for All!

Want.......

 

[monkfish]

i guess i have 3 meals a day, it kinda depends... i dont have much of an eating routine, i eat when i feel hungry until i dont feel hungry.

i do like to cook, my speciality is risotto. i like things that require some effort, not just throwing a few things into the oven for half an hour.

my favourite food is like pizza or cheesecake or something equally fatty and delicious

Scorpions - no. also they look more like crickets to me
Meringue - yea!!!!!!!!!!
Pomegranate j - why not
Dumplings - yup
Fruit salad - na

 

[Colloquy]

I eat, like, two meals a day.

I mainly cook soups, like, homemade soups.

Goldfish are fucking amazing.

 

[Birdy [old]]

a) 3 meals a day, unless snacks count.

b) Sushi, especially Ikura Sushi (Salmon Roe). I also enjoy eating lasagna.

c) 5 types of food:

I) Uhh... no thanks, I hate eating anything that can be put onto Fear Factor.
II) Mmm, I love eating pie =D
III) To be honest, I've never drank Pomengranate juice before. And since I drink all kinds of juice, I'll like to try it.
IV) I love eating Dumplings.
V) Fruit Salad is good, as long as it's just the fruit.

 

[Ryfle]

a. How many meals do you eat per day?
Two, one in school and another when I get home.

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods? Different people have different preferences. How about you?
I fucking hate pozole. I would rather not eat than eat that. My favorite food is a ground beef Chalupa from Taco Bell.

c. How do you feel towards (food)
As long as I think its good im good to go.

 

[Morm]

a. How many meals do you eat per day?
Depends on if I'm in the field or not, sometimes one and sometimes five.

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods?
Favorites: Sushi, Pizza, anything with lots of salt, Burgers, anything else with lots of meat, Ginger beef. I subscribe to the thought that if I haven't killed at least four different animals, preferrably from different phyla or class at least, I haven't truely eaten. I am the KING of sea creature genocide. Anything spicy, preferrably something that really hurts.

c. How do you feel towards (vegan/vegetarian food)?
I have lots of friends that do this and I have to say that I don't get along well with soy and tofu. I know it doesn't HAVE to be a main staple in that kind of food, but it often is. It makes me feel sick to the stomach, as do peppers that aren't unbelieveably spicy.

 

[Outlaw]

A. 2 unless snacks count.
B. My stomach is very racist so if its not stuff like hamburgers, bbq chicken, etc I just can't eat it.

 

[Lexite]

a. How many meals do you eat per day? You can address specific concerns in your diet, or simply comment on it. Comparing food we eat with one another can actually provide stunning results.

I try to eat two meals a day. I do not like to get up in time to eat breakfast since i have to get up to be at work at 7. So breakfast is normally skipped. I do eat lunch and dinner. Lunch at work sometimes consists of a cup of ice cream and nothing more (I just transfered to a new store and the thrill of having a cold stones right there is finally wearing off. A good lunch at work is normally chicken strips I am now able to keep in the frig, stuffing and leftovers from dinner the night before. I am trying to eat better now espically now that the economy is getting a little harder and making food is cheeper then buying fast food or anything like that. Dinner is by far my best meal and can be a verity of things.

Stir Fry (Chicken, shrimp, 3 squash, 3 onion, peas, baby corn, noodles, rice)
Home Made Soup (chicken, rice, noodles, veggies)
Roast/Stake/Burgers with potatoes
Chicken with stuffing and or potatoes and veggies
Mac n Cheese

We are trying really ahrd to not eat fast food and not eat out much since it is better for our health and even better for our wallets. Chicken is the major staple of our food and almost every meal includes meat as the main dish. I ate better when I lived with my parents but im trying to get back to that.

b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods? Different people have different preferences. How about you?

My favorite food is meat. I love chicen and I love a good peice of beef even more. Ever since I was little I have loved BBQ and any meat my parents made me and couldnt have enough at dinner. My least favorite food is fruit. Ive never been much of a fruit person. I like apples and bananas and grapes and thats pretty much it, but I wont go out and buy them and I know i need to fix that. Veggies are prefired over fruit, I can mix them with meat better and I just love peas and corn. My brother and I woul fight over the peas at home, as odd as that is. But I am a meateater.

c. How do you feel towards (insert specific type of food)?

I: Scorpions on Sticks. Ummmm, I have a huge problem with bugs, so no.
Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie. Dont like the Lemon as much, but love Meringue.
Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice! Cant say ive tried pomergranate Juice.
Image IV: Dumplings! Love them
Image V: Fruit Salad for All! Errr, dont really like fruit.

 

[BlakBlastoise]

a. How many meals do you eat per day?
I eat all day. The only time I'm not eating is when i'm at work or at school. Other than that, I can not eat for the first 2 hours after i wake up. The food just doesn't go down. I simply look in the kitchen and see what i can find. I don't have set meals. (no breakfast lunch or dinner for me. More like food, food and food)
b. What are your favorite / least favorite foods? Different people have different preferences. How about you?
I like to eat anything that used to be alive. Sorry if this offends any vegitarians, but i can not fill up unless i have some meat. I love steak which is probably the only thing i cook on a regular basis. Seafood is also one of my favorites. Shrimp fish and whatnot It's all delicious.
I can not stand chicken. I have about 150 chickens that i have been taking care of for about 9 years and in that time I have learned how they are built. This contributes to my not eating chiken. I can't bite a leg without thinking of the specific parts of it that i am eating.
c. How do you feel towards (insert specific type of food)?
Beans. I am Mexican so this Used to be a very big part of my diet.
My mom used to feed me beans every fucking day for about 10 years, then i got tired of them. I still like them and eat them at least once a week.
Image I: Scorpions on Sticks. Mm...
I heard that bugs were an excellent source of protein. I'd try them but i would only eat them on a regular basis if there were nothing else to eat.
Image II: Lemon Meringue Pie. Drool.
I would eat a little of it. Pie is sometimes too sweet for my liking.
Image III: Healthy Pomegranate Juice!
I have a couple of pomegranete trees in my back yard so this time of year (when they are ripe) I eat about 3 per week. The juice is too expensive for me to buy.
Image IV: Dumplings! Tasty!
not of fan of them.
Image V: Fruit Salad for All!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKH6EP74JG8

 

[The_Duke]

a. I'm trying to expand my cooking repertoire, it's limited to stir frys, chili, curry, and boiled/cooked vegetables. next thing i want to do is learn how to oven roast vegetables, and maybe cook with meat which i never do. Also soups, although i imagine i could fake a bunch of them.

Roasts are really easy to do!
Here's one that i quite like:

Moroccan Lamb Roast:
1 leg/shoulder of lamb
handful fresh corriander
Good quality olive oil
2 cloves Garlic, minced

The Duke's Moroccan Spice Mix
1 tsp Cumin
1 tsp Ginger (Fresh is best, but ground is usable)
1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Corriander
1/2 tsp Tumeric
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Chilli

Mix together the olive oil, chopped fresh corriander, garlic and spice mix. What you want to do is make lots of little cuts all over the roast, before massaging the spice mix into these cuts. This will allow the flavour time to perfuse into your lamb.
Leave to marinate in the fridge, preferably overnight.
When it is time to cook, preheat the oven to 200C, and let the lamb come back to room temperature. Cook for roughly 90 minutes in a roasting tray or roasting bag, this way it will be nice and pink in the middle.

This is really good served with couscous and roasted sweet potato, and makes excellent sandwiches the next day too!


Soups are quite easy to do, its hard to stuff a soup up. For most soups you will need:
-Stock Base
-Vegetables and/or meat
-Seasoning

Remember, Use vegetable/chicken stock for purely vegetable based soups, use beef-stock for heartier soups.

The Duke's Potato and Leek Soup
5 or so large potatos, peeled, chopped finely
2-3 Large Leeks, finely sliced
1 large onion
Garlic
2-3 sprigs of Thyme
Salt + Pepper
1L Chicken Stock
300mL Cream

Fry up the leeks, garlic, and onion in butter, until translucent or golden. Next, you will want to add your potato and chicken stock, as well as dropping in the thyme sprigs.
Leave to cook until the potato is soft. Keep topping up with water if the volume drops too much.
Once done, add cream and blend the soup until smooth (you don't want lumps!). Return to pot and heat, but DO NOT BOIL once cream has been added.

Anyway, that's enough from me! If people have any other recipe requests, let me know. I do a fair bit of cooking, as do a few of my friends and so i have lots of recipes on hand. Most important thing: use what you like, but don't be afraid to try new things!

 

[Goerge Bush]

Thanksgiving is coming and I'm thinking of making something creamy, but can't really get my mind to it. Probably I'll be starting off with a soup, then comes the turkey, but this year I need more inspiration and ideas. Suggest something?

 

[DM]

Creamy yet special? Make your mashed potatoes with crumbled bleu cheese in them.

You're welcome. OH GOD THANKSGIVING CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH

 

[Goodbar]

Try gnocchi, something different for you maybe, my family usually makes them every year because we're part italian and it's just a tradition. They're like a thick pasta-like dumpling that's soft and creamy, and you can throw on a sauce of your choosing. We usually make a homemade meat sauce, but if you want really creamy maybe some sort of alfredo-like sauce would taste good? They're very easy to make, basically potatoes, flour, and eggs.

But DM's potatoes intrigue me, and i agree i can't wait for thanksgiving, 8 more days <3

 

[TAY]

Creamy yet special? Make your mashed potatoes with crumbled bleu cheese in them.

You're welcome. OH GOD THANKSGIVING CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH

Oh my god that sounds amazing...when I and my roommates go to CostCo next I'm going to get potatoes and bleu cheese to makes this.

As long as we're on the subject of Thanksgiving meals, I like to make cranberry sauce with a fair amount of cinnamon thrown in. I'm not sure how common this is, but the flavors go together really well.

Next time I cook I'll try to remember what I use; I think it would be a really cool idea to get a "Smogon Cook Book" sort of thing going.

 

[nardd]

Is that... CHEESE on that fruit salad? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like fruit, but it really doesn't belong with things like cheese (or chocolate, but that's another story).

^^^I think those are coconut shavings, but yeah cheese doesn't really go with fruit unless it's apples.

I'm currently surviving on a meal plan at my uni, but the food's not too bad. I can usually find something I'm in the mood for. I do enjoy some good chinese food or a gourmet slice of pizza with a bunch of vegetables and a meat, but I've been introduced to sushi over the last few years, and I fell in love.

image:
1. Um I guess I would try the scorpions
2. I generally go for any pie, but I do love my lemon ones. Perfect blend of tart and sweet IMO
3. I like the juice when it's blended with other ones and the seeds are good, but I've never had just pure, fresh pomegranate juice. That sounds yummy though :]
4. Dumplings are to die for, especially pork ones. Steamed is good, but fried is always better
5. Fruit is so good but I never have it enough. It's so hard to get really high quality fruit without buying it at the grocery store when you have to depend on your school to pick good fruits. The bananas are good most of the time, but I can never find the perfect apple/peach/apricot/plum/etc. I guess we're lucky to have that much selection but idk. I really like frozen fruit though


I got into cooking when I started dating my girlfriend, but I was too lazy to really work on it or actually cook much for myself back in high school. Now I can't so I just watch food network :)

 

[Captain Falcon]

a. 3 solid meals a day, plus usually some soup after i get in from school.

b. I like most stuff, but I particually enjoy spicy caribean foods. English muffins are fucking amazing as well if you stick a bit of bacon or a couple of sausages in them. As to dislikes, not much really other than raw tomatoes.

c. Burgers. I used to love them, but now i just find them greasy and unappealing.

image:
1. I'd probably try it....
2. lovely stuff, nice and tart and that amazing flakey pastry.
3. It's OK, i don't really drink fruit juice that much, i usually just have a cup of tea.
4.Dumplings are amazing, nuff said
5. Not too fussed, I'd eat it if I have to.