The Food Thread

dankind

deadendp said:

You make me want to make chips...

Easiest thing in the world. 

rgambs

tempo_n_groove said:

I wonder if the slaw mimics a mayo in the tacos to make it taste good?

I have never heard of mayo in tacos, but the principal is sound.  White, fatty, milky condiments always pair well with salsas and red sauces.
Sour cream with salsa, tomato pasta sauce with ceasar, ranch, ricotta, mozzarella, etc. 
We love chip dip with Italian sausage sandwiches and we are big fans of ranch or other creamy salad dressing with any marinara sauce dish.

rgambs

deadendp said:

You make me want to make chips...

dankind said:

deadendp said:

You make me want to make chips...

Easiest thing in the world. 

Yes, it is.  And if the grease is fresh, they are so good you can munch them down by the handful even without dip!
We keep a deep-fry that was a Christmas gift on the counter filled and ready just for chips, we make them once a week.

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I wonder if the slaw mimics a mayo in the tacos to make it taste good?

I have never heard of mayo in tacos, but the principal is sound.  White, fatty, milky condiments always pair well with salsas and red sauces.
Sour cream with salsa, tomato pasta sauce with ceasar, ranch, ricotta, mozzarella, etc. 
We love chip dip with Italian sausage sandwiches and we are big fans of ranch or other creamy salad dressing with any marinara sauce dish.

I've had a mayo based sauce that was fantastic on tacos.  I should have said that instead, sorry.

rgambs

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I wonder if the slaw mimics a mayo in the tacos to make it taste good?

I have never heard of mayo in tacos, but the principal is sound.  White, fatty, milky condiments always pair well with salsas and red sauces.
Sour cream with salsa, tomato pasta sauce with ceasar, ranch, ricotta, mozzarella, etc. 
We love chip dip with Italian sausage sandwiches and we are big fans of ranch or other creamy salad dressing with any marinara sauce dish.

I've had a mayo based sauce that was fantastic on tacos.  I should have said that instead, sorry.

Gotcha, like I said, it makes sense.
In the tacos, it was mostly the crunch and bite of the cabbage and onion and the sweetness that had soaked in, I drained and died the slaw for an hour so it wouldn't make the tacos drippy.  But, when it comes to dipping with the chips, absolutely the "white" offsets the salsa so well.
I call it "white" because it doesn't matter if it's mayo, milk/cream, sour cream, ranch, ceasar, cheese, the way it pairs is essentially the same.

Cliffy6745

Doesn't have to be pretty.  99% of the food I cook doesn't look good. I just post the things that I am most proud of or that I am new to. Come one, come all.  Post your delicious food.

tempo_n_groove

Cliffy6745 said:

Doesn't have to be pretty.  99% of the food I cook doesn't look good. I just post the things that I am most proud of or that I am new to. Come one, come all.  Post your delicious food.

Sure but notice no posts congratulating me on my sauce, lol?

Tastes great, needs a better photo.

rgambs

tempo_n_groove said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Doesn't have to be pretty.  99% of the food I cook doesn't look good. I just post the things that I am most proud of or that I am new to. Come one, come all.  Post your delicious food.

Sure but notice no posts congratulating me on my sauce, lol?

Tastes great, needs a better photo.

Haha that actually looked good!  

GlowGirl

rgambs said:

Here an average photo of an above average meal...
The salsa's homemade from last year's garden, the pork is perfect leftovers from that 13hours in the smoker butt from the other day, the chips are home fried (thanks Cliffy!) and the red cabbage slaw was incredible, my own tweak on KFC clone slaw.
The cheese is Cabot Seriously Sharp.
They ended up being the best tacos we've ever had so far in life!

Try adding cole slaw to your Mexican meals people, you will not be sorry!  Hell, just try dipping your tortilla chips in good sweet and bitey slaw some time, pair it with a spicy salsa it's easily as good as dipping in salsa, you'll find yourself unable to decide which is better and certain that together is better than either alone.

Looks delicious. I am very motivated to make my fajitas this week. Braving the grocery store tomorrow. For a second I thought that flower on your plate was real and you wanted to be all fancy

rgambs

MF117973 said:

rgambs said:

Here an average photo of an above average meal...
The salsa's homemade from last year's garden, the pork is perfect leftovers from that 13hours in the smoker butt from the other day, the chips are home fried (thanks Cliffy!) and the red cabbage slaw was incredible, my own tweak on KFC clone slaw.
The cheese is Cabot Seriously Sharp.
They ended up being the best tacos we've ever had so far in life!

Try adding cole slaw to your Mexican meals people, you will not be sorry!  Hell, just try dipping your tortilla chips in good sweet and bitey slaw some time, pair it with a spicy salsa it's easily as good as dipping in salsa, you'll find yourself unable to decide which is better and certain that together is better than either alone.

Looks delicious. I am very motivated to make my fajitas this week. Braving the grocery store tomorrow. For a second I thought that flower on your plate was real and you wanted to be all fancy

Hahaha nope we just use dinnerware from the 70s 😂😂

F Me In The Brain

It all looks great to me

I'm on day 3 of a 5 day fast.  Nothing but water

I would eat a piece of bark and like it, right about now.

Need to plan something bomb for Friday dinner when I break fast.

Sometimes the stuff that tastes the best looks less than the best

The sauce, the bread, the eggs Benedict DK all looked great and hearing that they tasted great makes them better still.

bbiggs

F Me In The Brain said:

It all looks great to me

I'm on day 3 of a 5 day fast.  Nothing but water

I would eat a piece of bark and like it, right about now.

Need to plan something bomb for Friday dinner when I break fast.

Sometimes the stuff that tastes the best looks less than the best

The sauce, the bread, the eggs Benedict DK all looked great and hearing that they tasted great makes them better still.

Damn man. That’s rough. Good luck! 

Cliffy6745

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

eddiec

I was sorting through some old photos. Came across this gem from a trip to the Basque Country. 
Edit: I may have posted it before. Can't remember.

bbiggs

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

deadendp

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

I admit that I would be beyond crabby. My husband would probably file for a divorce. 

Day 3 of 5?  

cutz

F Me In The Brain said:

It all looks great to me

I'm on day 3 of a 5 day fast.  Nothing but water

I would eat a piece of bark and like it, right about now.

Need to plan something bomb for Friday dinner when I break fast.

Sometimes the stuff that tastes the best looks less than the best

The sauce, the bread, the eggs Benedict DK all looked great and hearing that they tasted great makes them better still.

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

I'm curious too.

5 Days with NO food? I don't think I could do that either. I've gotten light-headed when I went Hours with no food so I can't Imagine 5 days !

F Me In The Brain

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

deadendp said:

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

I admit that I would be beyond crabby. My husband would probably file for a divorce. 

Day 3 of 5?  

Yeah, it is something I learned of almost 2 years ago.  My Vistage group had a speaker who was a nutritionist/health expert.

There are a lot of them, and many have different takes.

His clicked with me.

He turned to his lifestyle (8 hour windows, pretty extreme limitation on what he would put in his body, monthly fasts, etc) after they took strong measures to try and find a cure for his wife, who was in a stage 4 cancer treatment and was told by every doctor all of the way to the Mayo that they were SOL.  She came back from it and he attributed it to diet and fasting.

I am not saying I buy into all of that...but he struck a nerve.

His fast was a 5 day, nothing but water, fast.  I was one of 2-3 guys in our group who thought it sounded crazy -- and to me, that means I usually want to try it.

We agreed to give it a go shortly after and I do it 1x per quarter. 

I do a decent job of following the 8 hour food window on a regular basis and for about 6 months I followed the strict food regiment.  (No bread, no milk/cheese from an animal bigger than we are)

Also adopted some of his other methods.  (I was remiss in saying the diet helped his wife, in his opinion, alone....there were like 8 steps he followed having to do with stress levels, sleep, sunlight...lots of stuff.  Happy to share if anyone is genuinely interested, I have info.)

Anyway.....

The 5 day fast is a bitch.  I started doing it as a challenge, and now I know I can so it is actually harder to do, which I like.

Exercise during the 5 days is a holy bitch.  I sat in bed this morning at 545 and stared at the clock.  I did not want to get up and go run.

But, I did.

(I also was about 2 minutes slower on my miles)

Anyone can do it.  A number of folks I know tried after I told them.  A few couldn't hang but some did.

My sister, who is a Spartan TriFecta beast, could not hang.

Day 3 is always the worst.  I have to go and mow the lawn this evening.  I so do not want to do it.

Usually lose around 10-15 pounds, and I usually put almost all of it back on in 2-3 days. 

Gross item -- you still go #2 through 4-5 days w/o eating any food.  After eating your body (at least my body) holds onto the food and you go another number of days w/o #2.

I love the test of my willpower.  If you know me well, you know I fuck with myself constantly.  Also in the middle of a no drinking 30 day stretch.  (Just because.)  This is a fun way to really focus, and I believe it helps my body clean out all of the bad shit.  I am not a doctor, I don't play one on TV, and for what it is worth one of my best friends is a doctor and he thinks I am a loon.

Hey, only 2 days to go!

(22 more until I can drink.)

hedonist

Strength and discipline- tenfold! I’m impressed every time you do this. 

deadendp

F Me In The Brain said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

deadendp said:

bbiggs said:

Cliffy6745 said:

I meant to ask this before and Phil Mickelson posted that he does something similar.  Is that healthy?  How do you have any energy?

I’m curious of the health benefits as well if it’s not going to derail the thread. I’m sure there must be some. I could probably handle a juice cleansing, but 5 days with only water would test my will power in a big way. 

I admit that I would be beyond crabby. My husband would probably file for a divorce. 

Day 3 of 5?  

Yeah, it is something I learned of almost 2 years ago.  My Vistage group had a speaker who was a nutritionist/health expert.

There are a lot of them, and many have different takes.

His clicked with me.

He turned to his lifestyle (8 hour windows, pretty extreme limitation on what he would put in his body, monthly fasts, etc) after they took strong measures to try and find a cure for his wife, who was in a stage 4 cancer treatment and was told by every doctor all of the way to the Mayo that they were SOL.  She came back from it and he attributed it to diet and fasting.

I am not saying I buy into all of that...but he struck a nerve.

His fast was a 5 day, nothing but water, fast.  I was one of 2-3 guys in our group who thought it sounded crazy -- and to me, that means I usually want to try it.

We agreed to give it a go shortly after and I do it 1x per quarter. 

I do a decent job of following the 8 hour food window on a regular basis and for about 6 months I followed the strict food regiment.  (No bread, no milk/cheese from an animal bigger than we are)

Also adopted some of his other methods.  (I was remiss in saying the diet helped his wife, in his opinion, alone....there were like 8 steps he followed having to do with stress levels, sleep, sunlight...lots of stuff.  Happy to share if anyone is genuinely interested, I have info.)

Anyway.....

The 5 day fast is a bitch.  I started doing it as a challenge, and now I know I can so it is actually harder to do, which I like.

Exercise during the 5 days is a holy bitch.  I sat in bed this morning at 545 and stared at the clock.  I did not want to get up and go run.

But, I did.

(I also was about 2 minutes slower on my miles)

Anyone can do it.  A number of folks I know tried after I told them.  A few couldn't hang but some did.

My sister, who is a Spartan TriFecta beast, could not hang.

Day 3 is always the worst.  I have to go and mow the lawn this evening.  I so do not want to do it.

Usually lose around 10-15 pounds, and I usually put almost all of it back on in 2-3 days. 

Gross item -- you still go #2 through 4-5 days w/o eating any food.  After eating your body (at least my body) holds onto the food and you go another number of days w/o #2.

I love the test of my willpower.  If you know me well, you know I fuck with myself constantly.  Also in the middle of a no drinking 30 day stretch.  (Just because.)  This is a fun way to really focus, and I believe it helps my body clean out all of the bad shit.  I am not a doctor, I don't play one on TV, and for what it is worth one of my best friends is a doctor and he thinks I am a loon.

Hey, only 2 days to go!

(22 more until I can drink.)

Wow. And again I .