Foodies
 

For some it's nourishment, for some it's a chore, but for some of us it's an art form. I love food. I love tasty food and pretty food. I love sweet foods and savory foods. I love fancy foods and down-home foods. I love to cook it. I love to look at it. I especially love to eat it. I even love to read about it. I have spent summers checking out cookbooks at the library. I am a foodie.

I beat myself up all the time about my love affair with food but the truth is it pleases me. It's as sensual an experience as is sex for me. Often I express my feelings with food. If I love you, and you visit me I will spend weeks planning just the right thing to cook for you. Not to impress you but to please you. Am I a culinary submissive?????? :p If we go out to eat I will try to pick the perfect place, or the perfect dish, or the perfect drink, to express how I feel about our relationship, or my mood, or a point I am trying to make.I love when food is presented beautifully and it tastes as good as it looks.

I'm a big girl and it causes great distress because it inhibits my urges to delve into this art with the gusto that I would if I were not. I wonder how many of you love food. I don't mean just any food, or that you just love to eat. I mean you love the world of culinary delights. That good cheese makes you weep with joy. Or that you actually rate a wing place by the quality of their blue cheese and crudites.

Well this thread is for us. Here we shall revel unashamedly. Pease post recipes, links to restaurants, pics of beautiful presentations, whatever you want to share that is food related. BTW Neige's tea eggs link was what inspired me to really start looking into foodie blogs so when I can't fit out the door blame her.

http://www.cheekwood.org/Visitors/P..._Room_Menu.aspx

This was where Scarecrow, Mr. Lil and the ladies had lunch one day. I ate the Tuscan Bread Bowl Salad. It was so incredible. I had not had white balsamic before and am now in love. The tomato trio consisted of ripe red, delicate yellow and grape tomatoes. Heaven.

OMG....assuming you love me *L*...I'm not eating for a week before i come visit you LMAO

Ask Oldfart. I already know where I will take you for lunch http://www.foodgloriousfood.com/index.html

I've never been and I'm waiting for the 'just right' reason to. You would be the 'just right' reason.

Ooooooo now that looks great. Best get to saving them upover pennies eh :D

I had the Kentucky Hot Brown and it was as good as it sounds. And I hope you noticed that Mr Lil and I went with the ladies, not to see some stone markers in a row.

Oh my... what a delicious find. I hope to see expansion in the thread and not my waistline.

I love food too. Read cookbooks for pleasure and take joy in preparing a meal when I know it's going to be appreciated. Will make special efforts to show my love with food as well.

The first thought that came to mind was the film and book... Like Water for Chocolate. A fabulous story surrounded with food and just as much about food as it is about love and life.

A recreated recipe from the film, which I admittedly have yet to try but so wish to is for the Rose Quail. In searching for the recipes I happened across this and just need the right opportunity to give it a go...

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE - ROSE QUAIL RECIPE

My husband and I recently made a delicious dinner by adapting the recipe for quail-in-rose-petal sauce found in the novel Like Water for Chocolate. The book gives the ingredients, but doesn't tell how to make it. We used chicken instead of quail and changed some of the other ingredients, and figured out on our own how to put them together.

Ingredients:
1/2 dozen red rose buds
1/2 cup of slivered almonds
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons of butter
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons cornmeal
2 tablespoons anis

Chop the roses into small pieces and grind in blender with the almonds and garlic. Melt the butter and add honey. Stir the rose, garlic and almond mixture into the honey and butter. Add the cornmeal and anis. The mixture will be a thick paste. Use a spoon to spread onto the chicken. Bake the chicken as usual, basting if the coating gets too dry. The rose petals and anise will infuse the chicken with wonderful flavor.

Use additional rose buds or petals as a garnish when presenting the chicken.

After we ate we watched the movie based on the book for an unforgettable romantic evening.
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Now that does sound wonderful. The idea of pairing it with the film even more romantic and sensual.

The next thing that popped into my head was my two favorite food blogs:

1. The Domestic Goddess
2. Orangette

Errm, cough, DB and PF and I either went on a male bonding, spiritual exercise plumbing the immeasurable sadness of the war, or tripped over more tablets than than a PEZ factory.

:rofl:

This morning I happened across this and thought of Lilith, foodies, Pagen Fest... oh fuck ... PIXIES!

Burning Man: A foodie heaven

Know that although the article is dated the experience known as Burning Man isn't.

Suuuure, it's always my fault. :p:p:p

I like to call myself an amateur foodie. Certainly I love food and eating and cooking and playing in the kitchen... but I've met a few people who are such better foodies than me that I don't really dare place myself in the same category.

I do have a slight addiction to food blogs though. :D Salacious I used to like Orangette - and indeed I think it was she who first got me so addicted to the blogs - but in the past year I find she's become less interesting, somehow. (Her husband sounds like my kinda man though, with his vinegar collection! :D) I have made this recipe for pickled red onions repeatedly though - they are absolutely fantastic. I've made the Domestic Goddess's cream of asparagus soup and it was delicious... I also have her roasted pumpkin soup recipe bookmarked and I'm hoping to make it this fall!

Nowadays, I think my favourite blog is Roots and Grubs. Amster has experience as a food critic (and he likes to write about his daughter Iris). Other blogs I enjoy as well are Chocolate & Zucchini (which is awesome 'cause it's got a French version too!) and Ice Cream Ireland. :D

w00t!!!!!! I am now the proud owner of a brand spankin' new cast iron skillet!! :D I will use it to make steak for my man tonight for supper!!!!!! :D :dance:

Make sure you season that skillet well before you toss that steak in there...else, the menu may change to shredded steak fajitas...

One of my favorite BBQ restaurants in the whole wide world - Shorty's BBQ in Miami. Been going there since I was a kid.

Shorty's BBQ

I would absolutely love to try one of those! :thumb:

Shadozfire suggested I give this one a try on the grill for an easy dessert/snack. I gave it a go last night and it was yummy!

Not really much of a recipe to it, you just take some bananas and either M&M's or chocolate chips (I went for the M&M's), peel one side of the banana down and slice the fruit open. Put the chocolate goodness into the slit you have created and then fold the peel back over the banana. Wrap it in foil and put it on the grill for a few minutes.

I added some marshmallow creme to it and oh man, I was in HEAVEN!!! :slurp:

I'm sure you could throw in some peanut butter or even Reece's peanut butter cups if you really wanted. Hmmmm, I believe I'll give that one a go. :p

i am adding more cruciferous vegetables, legumes, and whole grains and oats to my diet. not only for thier obvious health benefits but also because of their abilities to block harmful estrogens and inhibit certain breast cancer growth. plus there is some research that shows a photochemical in crucifers that affect programmed cell death. recently i heard a recipe for crunchy kale.

wash and dry. cut into chip-size pieces, sprinkle with s and p and a spritz of olive or veggie oil. bake at 375ish for 15 minutes-ish. it get a nice nutty flavor. i think it sounds yummy and i'm gonna try it soon. i'll tell ya'll how it tastes

I read a book called The Short Bus about ESE and they are going to BurningMan. Makes me want to go for the food but ummmm I do not camp.

Typical camping food. I remember making it as a kid. Keep in mind :D I don't *do* camping :D

I make Roasted Brussel Sprouts that probably are very similar. I'm sure these would be very good for you. Don't be afraid to get them brown.

I hear you there, my idea of roughing it includes running water and flushing toilets. ;)

One of my favorite restaurants when I was in college:

Andrews Capital Grill


and drinking establishments:

Bullwinkle's

and place to go near campus to cure those late night munchies:

Sweet Shop

bought brussel sprouts today, gonna try your recipe lil.

made the kale today too. i over-salted a little bit, but i liked it. totally tolerable way to eat it.:p my oldest loved it

Might I suggest edamame? Easily prepared and very nutritious. We've been eating them like they're going out of style.

soybeans are a no-no for me now. tofu and all that sort of stuff, too but oil and soy sauce are still ok, i think. something about the isoflavones and estrogen production (my cancer type has estrogen receptors on it, the estrogen feeds it) i'm not quite sure how it all works, frankly. i'm going to meet with a nutritionist who specializes in this type of stuff, eventually - to learn more than i can from google.:D there's too many differing opinions and studies.

I heard soy was not a good idea for some tumors. Have you ever grilled squash or eggplant? I soak in Italian dressing then grill. So yum.

sounds like sumpin' hubby would like, too. he likes being smothered by a little italian.:D

"Aproach Love and Food with the same Gusto." Somebody said that,or should have. As Wolfgang Puck says, "Live,Love,Eat" Right now I am enjoying the foods of Spain. I love making Paella,and all of those delightful Tapas. YUM..... Just bought the Bible on Italian frozen deserts, compleat with the trinity: Gelato,Sorbetti,and Granite. Guess I'm a amateur foodie,or at least,I'll never starve.

These are so pretty!!!!!!!!!!!

They are so cute. I have a huge individual bundt cakes pan from Pampered Chef. I think I will make pumpkin bread in them.

I made this the other night (using butternut squash) and it was fantabulous.

Last night I made burritos and I put hot Spanish smoked paprika in the meat sauce and it was just divine.

I'm a pumpkin whore :D

Sometime this month, many of the food items you purchase will come with labels that identify the country where they were produced. Get ready for even more fine print to read in the grocery store! A 2002 law requiring country of origin labeling (COOL) takes effect by the end of September. Now, in many cases, you will be able to know where your food comes from.

Have you seen my pumpkin costume?

but ignorance was blissful...

My nose is running from the capsaicin in the air - I'm making harissa! :D

Food labeling is set to change in Canada too - but it applies to domestic food.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/advanced_search.shtml

My first stop when looking for any receipe, excellant search engine, a binder system to keep all of your recipes together and thousands of recipes to choose from

Well worth a visit

Thanks cutsdean! I will check it out.

Tomorrow (and on the weekend) I am not only cooking for Wilderness and his parents, but his maternal grandparents as well. I was warned that the grandfolks don't eat spicy and are very meat and potatoes people. I'll be making a roast Saturday, I think, but I'm still figuring out what to make tomorrow. All I know is I'm making these zucchini pickles to eat with it! :D

Today I'm also making these tomatoes. Wilderness and I will be having some tonight in a sandwich with arugula, bacon and brie.