Sometimes I like to imagine ILE is just a food forum

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Imagine if that was all there was to ILE. Looking at it makes me feel a bit nauseous.

Try it with other categories.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

That s1utsky thread on cereal is just amazing.

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

N., do you hate food?

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate it, but thinking about it too much lends it a kind of ridiculous quality.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'Looking for some food albums from the 80s' (21 new answers)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate it, but thinking about it too much lends it a kind of ridiculous quality.

Name a subject for which that isn't true.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hair

Until you get to:

Why does Anna own two Jamiroquai singles. (Pete, 17th Jan 2003)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The earliest Cuisine thread is what is good cooking instructions for poop?, and yet it took more than two weeks for anyone to ask what's the worst thing you ever ate, that's what disturbs me.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I don't like to imagine ILE is just a nude forum

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like to imagine ILE. At all.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

But the other times, whoo boy

(bah xpost)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't hate it, but thinking about it too much lends it a kind of ridiculous quality.

What's ridiculous about that?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually ingesting it.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think N. subsists on hoop dreams and Belle and Sebastian records.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Together, I like to call them my furry hoop dreams. Come join my nu-breatharian movement.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Update: I've just been to the 24hr shop to buy a bag of fizzy cola bottle sweets and 10 Camel Lights. I am a fraud.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Pfft, like that's food.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Foodist!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad you're still keeping the faith, Nicole.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

what if it was just a BttF forum?

nick: here it's.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Foodimentalists you lot!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Foodimentalists vs Popcornists

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG - I'm not reading that now, but I do like the way even the 'IV' on the logo is crappy and out of perspective. It looks more like a 'III' that's collapsed. Maybe that's the point.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(foodimentalists taking the lead oh no)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I have eaten most of my bag of fizzy cola bottles. I am less hungry and am not dead. I think that makes me a popcornist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

that sounds suspiciously close to mcdonaldists!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on, lets not get bogged down in political infighting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! Let's eat up instead :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Screw the isms, what're these fizzy cola bottles? I'm imagining a Bottle Caps/Pop Rocks combo, but I don't know if UKers know what Bottle Caps are (I'm assuming Pop Rocks are universal, as I am an optimist).

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Fizzy cola bottles

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(Pop rocks sound like a paradox too far for 2AM me)

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Fizzy sour bite! Sweet Jesus.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(Are Pop Rocks really not universal, or did you just read it piecemeal as well as brand-name-ily at 2 am? Either way, the link carries the good news that Savage Sour Apple pop rocks now exist, so it was worth the google.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Pop rocks are not universal, no.

A bag of fizzy cola bottles too far

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Conveniently I have a friend getting married who loves Haribo products because she lived in Germany as a kid. I should buy her those and then eat them!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It would appear that Pop Rocks might be the same as out Space Dust, which I was unreliably informed had been banned in America for blowing up kids.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, here we say that Mikey from the Life cereal commercials (popular in the mid-70s to mid-80s or so, I think, he was a kid then) died from eating Pop Rocks and then drinking a soda. Boom.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The more food and movie talk on ILE the better, I say. I am liking this board very much right now.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It's been a strange mix of threads, but I'm not sure that isn't always the case, so. Agreed.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, your vinegar chicken was lovely. And I managed not to chop off any of my fingers.

― quincie, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(Tep's vinegar chicken -- lovely, but not quite finger-choppin' lovely then?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i love food threads, as cooking is one of my obsessions (along with scarves,records, wine, and hair care products).

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent, thank you! (And yeah, I should maybe include a warning about finger-chopping; my hands were covered in nicks and scars and burns long before I started making this, so at most I'd accidentally trim a fingernail or something.

Apparently, having just woken up, I believe that once you have a scar on a given spot, that spot becomes invulnerable to further injury.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep (and others), another culinary challenge confronts me. What do I do with ground beef (the good 50% sirloin, 50% chuck kind, not that repugnant lean shit) other than 1) hamburgers, 2) meat loaf, 3) ragu/bolognese sauce, 4) meatballs, and 5) other obvious uses of the stuff.

Ideas?

― quincie, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well damn, you pretty much covered it there. There's a certain amount of variety within those, though, and you can do all kinds of things with a meaty pasta sauce -- for lunch, breakfast, whatever, I just had leftovers from:

Some Kind Of Pasta Bake Thing

3 large leftover meatballs
1 box of cooked pasta
Ground beef, browned with onions and peppers, drained of fat, added to enough tomato sauce to cover 1/2 of pasta
Enough sour cream mixed with chopped scallions, thyme, grated parmesan, and dash of salt to cover remaining pasta
1 big hunk of smoked mozzarella

Layer like so, from bottom up, in casserole dish: sour cream pasta; meatballs; meat sauced pasta; slices of smoked mozzarella. Bake at 375 until cheese is melted and has started to crisp in spots.

You can also sort of cut the beefiness of the flavor with prosciutto, pancetta ... OH HELLO I AM A DORK. Take away my Carpetbagger Creole Card now, pls.

Nevermind the "there's not much you can do," here's The Wussy American But Still Tasty Version Of Dirty Rice

1 pound ground beef, browned and drained of fat. You can season it with any of the spices below, if you like.
And yet, ironically, half a stick of butter (1/4 cup)
2 cups long-grain white rice, uncooked
4 1/2 cups chicken broth, homemade or the Swanson's boxed broth (which I like much better than the canned or any other brand, and more than weak homemade; long-cooked serious homemade is another matter, but it's time-consuming)
Sometimes you need a little more liquid there
pinch of flour
2-3 stalks celery, chopped
4-5 baby carrots, sliced fairly thin
1 small green bell pepper, or mango if you're in teeny's family, chopped
1 small or medium onion, chopped
A bit of garlic
Spices: Onion powder, garlic powder, paprika (sweet or hot; I actually like smoked bittersweet paprika a hell of a lot, but I'm a spice geek), hot sauce, black pepper, white pepper, cayenne, celery salt, and a tiny tiny tiny pinch of nutmeg; more or less in that order of proportion unless you want to fedaddle.
1 or 2 bay leaves
Chopped scallions

Melt butter in pot big enough to hold everything else. When butter has stopped frothing, add veggies (except garlic) and stir over medium to low heat until onion has gotten a little translucent and carrot has begun to soften. Add flour and continue stirring until flour is no longer white (no, this isn't enough flour to make this a true roux, but the flour will incorporate with some of the butter and do its thing as we need it to). Add rice and stir until rice is glossy (if you want, you can continue cooking until rice has browned a little, but don't burn it.)

Add liquid, which will sizzle and foosh. Add garlic, spices, and bay leaves. Cover, reduce to simmer, and cook for 20-25 minutes, checking at the 15-20 minute mark to see if more liquid is needed.

Let sit for 5 minutes to fluff, preheat oven to 425 (the oven bit is optional, I guess). Pour rice mixture into casserole dish, mix in ground beef and scallions, and bake until top layer of rice has just started to crisp.

Serve with additional hot sauce and beer.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, N, I made a $70 purchase from GermanDeli.com last night (the place you linked to with the fizzy cola bottles), most of which goes into the wedding present package, so thank you :)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The internet moves things in mysterious ways.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I really wouldn't mind if we all had to survive off of Dan Dare style food cubes. Well, Dan Dare food cubes and cakes.

― autobot lover -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

and pop corn

― autobot lover -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

and I guess I'd miss my favourite dinner of Bacon, Peas and Spaghetti.

and ice cream

and all afters

but yeah, apart from that, food can go jump.

― autobot lover -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

A very special dead animal carcass thread of my own.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Even though I saw this yesterday, today I read it as a new thread titled "Sometimes I like to imagine ILE is just a good forum".

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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