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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2009, 03:50:47 pm » |
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Indian buffet. I know of two, good, reasonably-priced Indian places within 20 minutes of my house.
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2009, 03:53:11 pm » |
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I've been to some very nice Chinese buffets. Mmmm. I like putting random combinations together to see what works.
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« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2009, 06:17:42 pm » |
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Gumbo. I don't know how to make less than vats of the stuff anyway. It's expensive, but so worth it.
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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2009, 06:42:09 pm » |
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Sign me up, kakiphony! I take it you make the seafood kind--chicken/sausage doesn't usually cost the earth.
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2009, 06:47:00 pm » |
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Sign me up, kakiphony! I take it you make the seafood kind--chicken/sausage doesn't usually cost the earth.
I usually do andouille sausage, shrimp OR crawfish (if it's crawfish season and I can find them live or if I can find flash frozen tails for a good price) and oysters if I can find some that look and smell fresh without breaking the bank. And I use okra, I'm not a fan of filé powder. It's how my childhood neighbor (from St. Bernard Parish) taught me. |
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« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2009, 07:04:17 pm » |
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I like okra in the dish, then filé at the table for flavor. Mmmm, andouille. And now I'm homesick. :-(
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« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2009, 10:10:16 pm » |
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To feed the whole team? Lasagna! Two of those big foil roasting pans, one red-sauce-with-meat and one white-sauce-and-spinach without. Chaz and Hafs will probably both have some of each, Lau will have the veg, and then there ought to be enough of the meat for the rest of the carnivore, with leftovers of the veg. Win!
huh. Do we know whether Lau has the lactose intolerance all-too-common to Asians? Problematic also if the Faulkners keep kosher. Meat and milk are not allowed in the same dish. Or, to quote a friend of mine: "Any god that denies me lasagna is NO GOD OF MINE!!!" Actually, no. I forgot to mention it, but Falkner seems content to share Lau's veggie pizza, so I had figured her as going for the veggie lasagna as well, which is kosher for the same value of kosher as the pizza would be. |
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« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2009, 10:11:11 pm » |
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Gumbo. I don't know how to make less than vats of the stuff anyway. It's expensive, but so worth it.
Gumbo, alas, does have problems for vegetarians and those who keep kosher. |
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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2009, 10:18:41 pm » |
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I would be willing to design a vegetarian gumbo, although I would not leave out the okra. Sry, nokra-tarians.
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« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2009, 11:22:06 pm » |
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Well, you can't have gumbo without okra!
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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2009, 01:12:50 pm » |
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To feed the whole team? Lasagna! Two of those big foil roasting pans, one red-sauce-with-meat and one white-sauce-and-spinach without. Chaz and Hafs will probably both have some of each, Lau will have the veg, and then there ought to be enough of the meat for the rest of the carnivore, with leftovers of the veg. Win!
huh. Do we know whether Lau has the lactose intolerance all-too-common to Asians? Problematic also if the Faulkners keep kosher. Meat and milk are not allowed in the same dish. Or, to quote a friend of mine: "Any god that denies me lasagna is NO GOD OF MINE!!!" Actually, no. I forgot to mention it, but Falkner seems content to share Lau's veggie pizza, so I had figured her as going for the veggie lasagna as well, which is kosher for the same value of kosher as the pizza would be. Quite so. I had forgotten the pizza. I suppose that sharing the veggie pizza would be a mark in the "Mom Keeps Kosher" column. |
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« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2009, 02:19:23 pm » |
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I'm pretty sure she said so explicitly. I remember there being something about her eating the veggie pizza because the team would object to a cheeseless pizza, anyway.
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« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2009, 04:46:33 pm » |
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I'm pretty sure she said so explicitly. I remember there being something about her eating the veggie pizza because the team would object to a cheeseless pizza, anyway.
Never said kosher, but you remember the pizza incident well. From "Knock on Coffins" Act II: The second one was cheese and veg, and even though Lau wasn't here to help, Falkner thought Chaz would get through at least three quarters of it. Brady wouldn't eat anything that wasn't swimming in animal fat, and since none of the others would let Falkner hold the cheese, one pizza with artichoke hearts, black olives, sundried tomatoes, and garlic was her compromise. (I cheated and made a little shadow unit search form so I don't have to go fill in the where-to-search stuff on google every time. There's one for Continuous Coast too, but I probably need to update it for all the other sites that thing keeps spawning. http://tomecat.com/google/) |
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« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2009, 07:38:58 pm » |
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If it's summer, and my garden is booming (I really miss the garden I had 3 decades ago when we lived in the insufficient trailer - it produced, and kept producing!) I make a vegetable stew that has been praised by everyone who ate it, and the guidelines for which were published in the cooking column of our newspaper. I typically served it with french or crusty italian bread. I sometimes served it with a block of cheese melting in each portion.
For the carnivores, I would have hubby grill burgers, bratwurst, franks and chicken. Possibly see if we could move the whole shebang over to Baj's place, borrow their BIG grill. Also in that case the swimming pool would be available. Mama Bear (that's Mrs. Baj) makes schnitzel to die for, as well.
*light bulb over head* Or maybe I'd just arrange an invite for everyone to the Baj's Octoberfest? That might be a whole lot of fun all around.
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« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2009, 08:09:48 pm » |
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Vegetable stew? You know, we do have a Recipes thread....
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