What are you eating? (food porn)

[james.d]

Lemon squares, like lemon tart on shortbread base.

For some reason half went darker than the other side.

[bang saen guy]

Made a pot of chicken/andouille gumbo. Tasty

[Lacessit]

7 minutes ago, bang saen guy said:

Made a pot of chicken/andouille gumbo. Tasty

Recipe using locally obtainable ingredients? Please.

[bang saen guy]

What do you think is not available? Only issue is andouille and Smokey Mountain Foods makes that. 

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, bang saen guy said:

What do you think is not available? Only issue is andouille and Smokey Mountain Foods makes that. 

Time, temperature and reactants please.

[bang saen guy]

Mostly in my head but I will find a similar recipes. The roux takes me the longest, maybe 30 minutes of constant stirring. As always the holy trinity gets sauteed first. Celery, bell peppers and onions. I use okra in mine cos my wife loves it. Smokey Mountain will deliver too. It is on Soi Khao Talo I think. I love to cook

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, bang saen guy said:

Mostly in my head but I will find a similar recipes. The roux takes me the longest, maybe 30 minutes of constant stirring. As always the holy trinity gets sauteed first. Celery, bell peppers and onions. I use okra in mine cos my wife loves it. Smokey Mountain will deliver too. It is on Soi Khao Talo I think. I love to cook

I like cooking too, although I prefer lazy recipes.

I was once given a Christmas dinner by a guy who had worked as a chef in one of the big London restaurants. He spent two days doing reductions, stuffings, sauces etc. While the end result was very good, I thought it was a hell of a lot of work for a single meal.

Okra is a bit tricky, if it is overcooked it goes quite slimy. I used to buy it in Chiang Mai, can't recall seeing it in Chiang Rai.

[OneMoreFarang]

Breakfast this morning - or a part of it.

[Kwaibill]

On 6/30/2016 at 7:53 PM, Skeptic7 said:

GF cooks all vegan Thai cuisine...and occasionally Western dishes. Somtam...geng keow wan...tum yum...other curries...spring rolls...mock chicken wings...and on and on...

Aroy mahk! http://static.thaivisa.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.gif

 

On 7/2/2016 at 7:46 PM, anotheruser said:

Are you really dipping those in ketchup?

I remember early on watching a family of four Thai people in a pizza joint use an entire bottle of catsup on their pizza, and ask for another! If its not catsup they drown their food in nam prik, or some such. I think because by the time they're adults they have burned out half their taste buds.

[Kwaibill]

Chocolate cake baked in our rice cooker.

 

[Damrongsak]

My wife just made some pork laab and gathered some greenbrier shoots to go with it.  Here in our area of the U.S. it's bamboo shoot season.  We've already gathered a bushel or two.  Next up will be Miang Kham, as soon as the greenbrier leaves get full size.

 

   

[Lacessit]

9 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

My wife just made some pork laab and gathered some greenbrier shoots to go with it.  Here in our area of the U.S. it's bamboo shoot season.  We've already gathered a bushel or two.  Next up will be Miang Kham, as soon as the greenbrier leaves get full size.

 

   

Bamboo is one of the healthiest foods around. Packed with minerals and fibre, zero calories.

[Denim]

Last night I enjoyed chicken drum , pork and potato adobo cooked by my own hands. Absolutely delicious.

[Yellowtail]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Bamboo is one of the healthiest foods around. Packed with minerals and fibre, zero calories.

So it's a healthy food you can starve to death while eating constantly? 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

So it's a healthy food you can starve to death while eating constantly? 

Of course. Other food groups are necessary.

During the Great Depression in Australia, impoverished rural families whose only form of protein was rabbit meat became fat-deficient.

When one is looking for a low-carb diet, as I am, bamboo is the perfect food, but I don't know why you would think I would eat that exclusively.

[Yellowtail]

50 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Of course. Other food groups are necessary.

During the Great Depression in Australia, impoverished rural families whose only form of protein was rabbit meat became fat-deficient.

But they did not starve to death, and would adding a "healthy food" like bamboo to their diet have helped them?

 

50 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

When one is looking for a low-carb diet, as I am, bamboo is the perfect food, but I don't know why you would think I would eat that exclusively.

And I don't know why you would think I would think you would eat bamboo exclusively.

[Lacessit]

30 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

But they did not starve to death, and would adding a "healthy food" like bamboo to their diet have helped them?

 

And I don't know why you would think I would think you would eat bamboo exclusively.

As I said, minerals and fibre.

AS for the rest, I now get the sensation of going around in circles.

[KhunLA]

[Stocky]

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Bamboo is one of the healthiest foods around. Packed with minerals and fibre, zero calories.

Whilst it might be nutritionally poor, bamboo clearly isn't totally devoid of calorific value, or else the Giant Panda wouldn't exist.

[Damrongsak]

12 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Bamboo is one of the healthiest foods around. Packed with minerals and fibre, zero calories.

Take a large shoot and dry it and there's hardly anything left.  No wonder they are low cal. 

 

Bamboo shoots do contain cyanide and some varieties are much higher than others so they don't eat them.  Soaking in water for 24 hours helps reduce it.  Boiling also reduces it.  My wife boils them for about a half hour, but longer is better. 

 

https://bambooplantshq.com/is-bamboo-edible-or-is-it-toxic/

 

excerpt:  There are over 1000 identified species globally, but only 110 varieties are registered to have consumable shoots. The cyanide in bamboo is taxiphyllin. It is unique because it deteriorates quickly in boiling water. That is why boiling or cooking shoots is a good way to eliminate the problem. Taxiphyllin is also very bitter. This is a great way of telling if your bamboo is safe to eat or not.

 

In case you're wondering:  Giant pandas consume more than 65% of cyanide in bamboo shoots. However, their bodies are capable of turning 80% of the absorbed cyanide into a weak toxic chemical called thiocyanate and pandas can simply pee it out.

[Adumbration]

12 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Bamboo is one of the healthiest foods around. Packed with minerals and fibre, zero calories.

1,864 giant pandas can't be wrong.

[Yellowtail]

10 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Take a large shoot and dry it and there's hardly anything left.  No wonder they are low cal. 

 

Bamboo shoots do contain cyanide and some varieties are much higher than others so they don't eat them.  Soaking in water for 24 hours helps reduce it.  Boiling also reduces it.  My wife boils them for about a half hour, but longer is better. 

 

https://bambooplantshq.com/is-bamboo-edible-or-is-it-toxic/

 

excerpt:  There are over 1000 identified species globally, but only 110 varieties are registered to have consumable shoots. The cyanide in bamboo is taxiphyllin. It is unique because it deteriorates quickly in boiling water. That is why boiling or cooking shoots is a good way to eliminate the problem. Taxiphyllin is also very bitter. This is a great way of telling if your bamboo is safe to eat or not.

 

In case you're wondering:  Giant pandas consume more than 65% of cyanide in bamboo shoots. However, their bodies are capable of turning 80% of the absorbed cyanide into a weak toxic chemical called thiocyanate and pandas can simply pee it out.

Watching the Pandas eat bamboo at the Chiang Mai Zoo is hilarious...

[Damrongsak]

39 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Watching the Pandas eat bamboo at the Chiang Mai Zoo is hilarious...

 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, Damrongsak said:

Take a large shoot and dry it and there's hardly anything left.  No wonder they are low cal. 

 

Bamboo shoots do contain cyanide and some varieties are much higher than others so they don't eat them.  Soaking in water for 24 hours helps reduce it.  Boiling also reduces it.  My wife boils them for about a half hour, but longer is better. 

 

https://bambooplantshq.com/is-bamboo-edible-or-is-it-toxic/

 

excerpt:  There are over 1000 identified species globally, but only 110 varieties are registered to have consumable shoots. The cyanide in bamboo is taxiphyllin. It is unique because it deteriorates quickly in boiling water. That is why boiling or cooking shoots is a good way to eliminate the problem. Taxiphyllin is also very bitter. This is a great way of telling if your bamboo is safe to eat or not.

 

In case you're wondering:  Giant pandas consume more than 65% of cyanide in bamboo shoots. However, their bodies are capable of turning 80% of the absorbed cyanide into a weak toxic chemical called thiocyanate and pandas can simply pee it out.

Interesting, thanks. I guess my GF hasn't got around poisoning me, I have yet to encounter bitterness in any of the bamboo she buys. It's almost sweet.

I eat it as an evening snack, dab it in ground chili to go along with a whisky.

[Damrongsak]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Interesting, thanks. I guess my GF hasn't got around poisoning me, I have yet to encounter bitterness in any of the bamboo she buys. It's almost sweet.

I eat it as an evening snack, dab it in ground chili to go along with a whisky.

45 years ago I tasted a bit of raw bamboo where I worked, but it was a "sweet" type.  Apparently the toxin in the bamboo becomes hydrogen cyanide when it is eaten/mixed due to the reaction of a couple things in the plant.  I read one account of some Chinese who were pickling bamboo shoots in a well.  They climbed in and were overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas.  Two died.  Rather unusual.   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51697967_A_mass_cyanide_poisoning_from_pickling_bamboo_shoots

[Yellowtail]

7 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

 I read one account of some Chinese who were pickling bamboo shoots in a well.  They climbed in and were overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas.  Two died.  Rather unusual.   

One would hope...

[Yellowtail]

9 hours ago, Lacessit said:

... along with a whisky.

My favorite healthy grain....

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

My favorite healthy grain....

Correct, whisky has zero carbs. OTOH, beer is packed with carbs.

Alcohol has been listed as a Class 1 carcinogen since 1989, so don't get too comfortable with the notion whisky is healthy. Particularly if drunk neat.

[BritManToo]

Made mince and onion pasties for lunch.

 

[james.d]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Made mince and onion pasties for lunch.

 

Looking very good indeed.