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Wybert Takahashi

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  1. Yeah, that one puzzled me too. Seems like eating a defeated enemy is just doing them a favor. Stealing their weaponry makes a lot of sense though.

    Michael

    It isn't unknown for hunter gatherer types to catch an animal and eat the organs, leaving the muscles for the sands of time/bugs/cold, cold ground/dirt.

    Lovely saturated fat laced organ meat, that is the good stuff.

    Oh sacred culture, or just god damn biology again.

  2. I'm guessing you have the dried green looking stuff cut up in jars. The easy solution is to live near an Asian supermarket and buy fresh stuff. The second solution is to extract the sweet liquor from the grass. How to do that... I tried boiling the dried green stuff seperately in a little water for many minutes, making a dark green liquid... but it didn't seem to taste like much... perhaps one needs half a jar to get any flavour... or get one of those little metal teabag/bouquet garni things...

  3. Any dish that calls for smoked pork products as a seasoning: e.g., stews, daubes, gumbos, etouffes, chowders, etc. It should be something that has a saute or sweat step somewhere, so that you can bloom the paprika in the oil. I'm not sure I'd want to add it to a liquid straight, as it would just kind of float on top and not be very nice.

    Ah, thanks. I also haven't ever used smoked pork products. Or made a stew. But smoky sounds nice. I wouldn't have thought of blooming it, so thanks for the tip.

  4. Smoked paprika is now one of my favorite "cheat" ingredients for adding flavor, especially as I don't cook with pork products. It's a great way to get some rich, smoky goodness into any number of dishes.

    What kinds of dishes? I put some in chilli once, other than that, I don't think I've used it much.

    volfrahm, I don't think the chopper is very necessary for the Thai curry - but you could make your own paste in it, or just liquidize the onions. I wouldn't add corn starch to it. With Thai and Vietnamese (must try) curry, it often looks very liquidy, and so people add corn starch or keep boiling it down - but once poured over rice, it seems as if the liquid dissappears, the rice drinks it, or something.

    You could have cashews cooked in the dish, and garnished with fresh chillies and roasted peanuts, coriander..

  5. "Types of Hungarian paprika (Hungarian name in parentheses):

    Special Quality (Különleges): The mildest and brightest red of all Hungarian paprikas, with excellent aroma.

    Delicate (Édes csemege): Ranging from light to dark red, a mild paprika with a rich flavour.

    Exquisite Delicate (Csemegepaprika): Similar to Delicate, but more pungent.

    Pungent Exquisite Delicate (Csípős Csemege, Pikáns): An even more pungent Delicate.

    Rose (Rózsa): Pale Red in colour with strong aroma and mild pungency.

    Noble Sweet (Édesnemes): The most commonly exported paprika; bright red and slightly pungent.

    Half-Sweet (Félédes): A blend of mild and pungent paprikas; medium pungency.

    Hot (Erős): Light brown in colour, this is the hottest of all the paprikas."

    Smoked paprika from Spain is available in most UK supermarkets.

    Paprika and eggs? Eggs, onion, pepper, tomato, eggs, paprika, olive oil? Chilli?

    For lunch I had something like that - fried courgette, onion, bit of spinach, tomato puree, garlic, paprika, chilli-paprika, pepper, made into four groovy shapes, fried eggs between them, ate them. It was OK. I was going to go all Moroccan on myself - paprika, cumin, coriander, all dried, sometimes all three used as a condiment.

    P.S, no more breakfast problem, thanks John. There were good suggestions. I hear what you say about pre-preparing stuff - I know of some people who cook their entire weeks food on Sundays.

  6. Ah, Encona, that's good stuff. That Habanero Tabasco is worth a try, but it is too strong too turn your sandwich into a soggy chilli mess like Encona can.

    That is a lot of corned beef. Sounds alright on its own, but absolutely gross with jam. Beef and jam?

    In England flapjack is something else.

    On other sort-of American/English food related terminology - here is a quote from an American website -

    "My best friend is getting married in 2 months, and for his bachelor party we are roasting him. Anyone ever done anything like this? Any suggestions for how to come up with some stuff to say that is both cruel and hilarious?"

    Is not roasting him cruel and hilarious enough? Learn something new everyday.

  7. Got any good eggs for breakfast recipes (i.e quick)? I have been doing, microwaved frozen broccoli & spinach, into omlette.

    Or scrambled eggs and TABASCO® brand Habanero Sauce - which is more of a sauce than chillis in vinegar in barrels, like the usual Tabasco - as it has mangos and other stuff.

  8. Good answer. I'm not sure to call it the highest pursuit though. I think that would be mountain goat hunting. I mean, what can science do if we keep bombing each other? Might not the Iranians get some new super-science and start lazering us in our beds?

    E.G, for you, a presumably moral and ethical type person, science can be the highest pursuit. Not sure all the cool dudes with the science are going to save us though.

    Etc.

  9. I would show you a pic of my pet Luftwaffe Beagle, but I found him dead a couple of weeks back. Out of respect for the dead, I didn't take a pic of him. Would you want to be photographed all curled up and mangled? Well would you?

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