The Food Thread

vogonpoetbythelake

Volunteers are ...so hard...to find 'round these parts...

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

I use cilantro lol
Just not very much.

I used to like it more and then I grew some and it bolted and ruined me on it.
When it bolts to seed the flavor intensifies, in a bad way, and it grows like a weed.  I had coriander volunteers coming up in earnest for 2 seasons and I still find it coming up in the yard and the woodline 4 years later!

Cilantro I have come to accept is a grow it, harvest it and replant it type of herb.  Same thing with lettuce.  They don't last long.

hedonist

Fuck cilantro!

My mom planted watercress and mint in the backyard of my first childhood home.  Beautiful, and grew wildly, abundantly.  And much enjoyed.

tempo_n_groove

hedonist said:

Fuck cilantro!

My mom planted watercress and mint in the backyard of my first childhood home.  Beautiful, and grew wildly, abundantly.  And much enjoyed.

Mint is a damn weed!  Tomatoes seem to thrive with them around though!

PJ_Soul

Lizard said:

you CANNOT have a good salsa WITHOUT cilantro
just saying

Agreed. If I get a house-made salsa at a restaurant, there better be cilantro in it!

mcgruff10

Home made vodka sauce and penne. 

F Me In The Brain

You had me at Vodka

Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Pickles
Heinz
And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

Bangin'

mcgruff10

F Me In The Brain said:

You had me at Vodka

Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Pickles
Heinz
And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

Bangin'

nice!

rgambs

Classic tuna noodle for us tonight, the taste of my childhood.
Elbow macaroni

Cream of mushroom
Tuna
Onion
Sharp Cheddar

Peas on the side

dankind

rgambs said:

Classic tuna noodle for us tonight, the taste of my childhood.
Elbow macaroni

Cream of mushroom
Tuna
Onion
Sharp Cheddar

Peas on the side

The tuna pasta recipe from an early Deep issue is a good deviation from the childhood standard from time to time. 

rgambs

Can't think of a tuna noodle I've met that I didn't enjoy!

hedonist

That sounds fantastic, gambo (although I'd put the peas right in there vs. the side).

mcgruff10

F Me In The Brain said:

You had me at Vodka

Made burgers tonight.  Grass fed.  Simple salting and cook in a cast iron pan.
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Pickles
Heinz
And..... breaking from traditional approach I put mustard on.
Beer mustard, inspired by our recent posts on the subject of mustard.

Bangin'

Did someone mention vodka?  Ok just one!!

rgambs

I use Le Sueur canned peas and they can tend to get mashed up if mixed in, so I warm them on the side and add them to my bowl.

F Me In The Brain

There is a thread just for that!
(Tequila and beer tonight while I read a book and have the game on in the background)

Neil Gamby introdces a good topic though....
Vegetables.  If not fresh.....
Frozen
Or
Canned

How do you roll?

I'm a Frozen guy, all the way.

dankind

Growing up, everything was fresh or frozen except for peas, which were canned Le Sueur. Is that an Ohio thing? Asking because my family is a bunch of Hicks—literally, surname Hicks!—from the Buckeye State. 

Now, I haven’t had a canned vegetable in at least 25 years. 

F Me In The Brain

I grew up eating mostly canned.  Canned green beans?  Omfg, horrid.  Frozen?  Much better.  Obviously, fresh is preferred

hedonist

Several years ago I procured Green Giant's canned "asparagus".  That shit was MUSH.  I'm not one to send angry letters but I came *this* close to doing so.  Their quality was much better way back.  Assholes.

Yes to frozen - corn and peas, particularly.

(fine to go with canned French-cut beans for GBC though!  Just sayin', Senor F Me)

DK, is your Hicks family related to Bill?  .....because that would make a whole lotta sense

rgambs

Le Sueur are just the best I guess.

It really depends on the veggie and the way you are eating it.
I would never prepare frozen corn as a side dish, it is chewy and loses all the corn flavor.  Yuck, there is no objective basis for claiming it's better than canned, do yourself a favour and taste test them side by side.  Then again, it goes better in soups and casseroles. 
Green beans, broccoli, carrots, frozen.
Peas, canned all the way.
Maybe if they froze decent peas I would eat them, but they only seem to freeze large starchy peas, which are good in soups and casseroles, but not fit for a quickly prepared side dish.  Let Sueur early young sweet peas are tiny and tender and super sweet, there is no frozen equivalent.

F Me In The Brain

Peas and corn....I see a taste test in the near future!