Archive for the ‘Culinary’ Category
Microwave features
The rotating plate that became a standard feature on most microwaves some years ago were a great addition. They enable food to be cooked more evenly. The bowls and mugs best for microwaving have handles on them to protect your hands from the freshly heated contents. If you build microwaves please bring these two features [...]
Pho Hoa’s Got Wood!
For those of you that don’t live in the culturally diverse bay area, pho is a Vietnamese soup consisting of rice noodles in a clear broth and various meats. Around here it’s typically eaten with over sized plastic chopsticks. The problem is that wet noodles are very difficult to pick up with plastic chopsticks. The [...]
$25,000 Beef Chili
Yahoo lunch subsities are getting better every day. Today we have the option of “$25,000 Beef Chili” for a mere $1.75 for a small $2.25 for a large. I hope it is as good as the name suggests. I will post a review after lunch.
Cock-A-Leekie Soup
Am I going to try it? Hell no. The full menu entry is “Cock-A-Leekie Soup – Chicken and Leek Soup” Somtimes we get strange items on the lunch menu here at Yahoo! but that one has to be the worst.
Chopsticks and popcorn
First let me start by admitting that I didn’t come up with this idea but I do feel I can expand on the concept a bit. Most people employ one of the following ways of eating popcorn. The painfully slow one piece at a time method. The hand full in your face, funny sound snarfing [...]
One day someone is going to come up with a word that rhymes with orange.
… and everyone is going to be really upset. Especially M&M Mars and their horrible new advertising compaign. Borange – The same fruit you can get every day from any place that has fruit. Even when you don’t want it (a twist on the side of a breakfast dish). Add your own…
American Cheese Abuse
American cheese pisses me off. How dare it try to take the place of cheddar. Omelettes, breakfast sandwiches. I see this shit cropping up everywhere. American cheese has one place. The grilled cheese sandwich and it’s not all that great there. PLEASE PEOPLE, COMPANIES!! Bring back the cheddar. For me. For everyone. On a side [...]
Future Food.
Sometimes when deciding what to eat I think about where the food is at that moment that I will consume in the future. The hamburger patty sitting in a box in the freezer at Wendy’s or the sour cream in the caulk gun they use at Taco Bell are all patiently waiting for me to [...]
Sushi does not mean raw fish.
Recently I have been trying to get people from work to go to a near by sushi bar. So far there has only been one taker and he loved it. We have been back since then at his suggestion. The most common reason for not going has been, “I don’t like raw fish.” To which [...]
Freedom Fries
I know this is a little late but it came up in a conversation today. French as in ‘french fries’ has nothing to do with the culture or people. In cooking ‘to french’ is a verb meaning “to cut into thin strips”. French: 1. To cut (green beans, for example) into thin strips before cooking. [...]