The food thread

[carl stromberg]

I watched an episode of Man V Food Nation where someone had to eat a giant bowl of the Vietnamese soup as an eating challenge.

You can't beat noodles!

[katied]

I'd say the average bowl o' pho is mostly noodles and broth and meat and what have you.Personally, I could eat a bowl of it that was just broth, noodles and fixin's


Pho is great because(apart from a few higher end places) Vietnamese restaraunts tend to be hole-in-the-walls.But the food is *amazing*.

[kater23]

We went out to a sushi restaraunt for dinner last night(it was my sister-in-law's birthday and it was what she chose). Not a big sushi fan-don't like raw fish-but I did try a California roll and a tempura roll and liked those.



I actually ordered a teriyaki chicken bowl which was really good. I was worried that my youngest nephew and niece wouldn't find anything they liked, but they did(they also had teriyaki bowls-kind of a standard order for kids I think-it's about the plainest thing on the menu)

[Dr. No]

I could never bring myself to try sushi. I saw a Swedish cooking show where they cook the fish the chemical reaction in lemon

[kater23]

I think the preserved fish/salt fish is common in a lot of different cultures. Never had it myself.

[kater23]

My latest thing: Pickles. They sell cornichons(mini pickles) in a cup-kind of like the fruit cups they sell, but with pickles in juice.Not such a fan of pickle juice so I drain it off and eat the pickles.SO good!

[carl stromberg]

I'm enjoying the hot cross buns.

[kater23]

I've only had hot cross buns a couple of times.Gotta love anything involving bread/pastry and frosting(though Starbucks' scones are iced and it makes them taste strange-Overkill would be the word I'd use.)


Our Easter dinner usually consists of some sort of protein(usually ham), and tons of sides(hoping my sister-in-law makes her famous green bean casserole-SO good!)

[bjmdds]

French fried onions in that casserole? What, no Matzah?

[kater23]

Lol nope. I actually have a recipe(Sheperd's pie)that I put the fried onions in(I hate cutting raw onions!)

[bjmdds]

[kater23]

Hot dog sandwiches?awww yeah. We ate so many hot dogs when I was growing up.I only eat Hebrew National hot dogs now(when I eat them which isn't very often)

[carl stromberg]

I've been eating cucumber sandwiches as it is the summer.

[bjmdds]

Put some salad dressing on them. I like French and Russian dressings.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

I've been eating scones with strawberry jam as well as cucumber sandwiches.

[bjmdds]

I thought only Drax ett cucumber sandwiches. Is that all you guys put on the sandwich? No tomatoes?

[kater23]

I prefer not to use the oven during the summer, but I've got a TV dinner-green Thai curry-cooking right now.


Every year we got to a party on the 4th of July. I always bring a salad-this year I'm doing a Mediterranean salad-basically an Israeli salad, but with feta cheese and olives added.

[carl stromberg]

I only have the traditional plain cucumber sandwich. This wikipedia entry is quite interesting talking about the history and variations of the cucumber sandwich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_sandwich

You can't go wrong with Mediterranean food - olives, tomatoes, olive oil, hummous......

[kater23]

I *love* hummus. I actually buy cold cuts(turkey,usually) whole wheat bread, and just spread the hummus on the bread the way you would mustard or mayo(but it's way better!)

[bjmdds]

http://mcloonesboathouse.com/pdf/menus/ ... r-Menu.pdf Tomorrow night I will ETT the Hanger Steak entree.