I don’t think I’ve made a post on here about food, so here goes! 😃
I’ll go first…I just love eating uncooked pasta. It has such a satisfying crunch and the tomato pasta and wholewheat pasta are my faves! This has been a habit that I’ve had ever since I’ve had teeth and people are always surprised that I haven’t damaged my teeth doing this. I enjoy pasta cooked too!
I’ll eat almost anything so there are plenty of examples but I’ll pick one of my favorites: chicken hearts. They’re tasty and have a satisfying springiness to them! Organ meats in general get unfairly hated upon, I feel.
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I do the same but with mayonnaise, fish sauce, raw oniony thing, and some fermented chilli paste.
It’s one of my fav sandwiches.
Second only to bánh-mìs.
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To each their own ig :p
I only like mayo if it tastes like mustard Aioli or stuff like that is ok. Otoh North American style mayo like Hellmann’s which tastes like fluffy neutral oil disgusts me to no end.
I’m not a huge fan of butter personally. It’s my least favourite milk product. It’s ok cold with something like marmite to hide the taste or clarified like ghee. Things like buttered rice or pasta are horrible.
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I’d rather put some tasty olive or sesame oil.
But I learned to cook with butter, which includes making ghee, because my SOs prefer it. I do not regret.
Canned sardines on saltines. Dad was poor for awhile, eating straight from the can was passed down.
Grasshoppers
Shrimp heads, especially when they’ve been deep fried. So much flavor, and nice and crunchy. Fried fish fins are similar in this regard. Oh and fish eyeballs - my wife thought I was nuts until I got her to try it, now she really enjoys them.
Black licorice.
Venison, with kudu being tops. Love the gamey meats, so lamb, goat, elk all get a thumb’s up.
Beef is for pleebs!
Just a big chunk of brie cheese, something I’m currently eating now.
I have always gnawed on raw pasta, too. Love it. People always think its weird that I eat the leaves with my strawberries.
I love raw pasta. I like to give it a little nibble. I mostly love raw doughs. Pie and biscuit are my favorite
Same here with the para, but I enjoy dry instant ramen instead. It’s so good!
Frozen gummi bears.
Durian
And the more people hate it, the better for those who love it cause it keeps the quality up and costs lower.
uncooked pasta, uncooked noodles, flour, sugar, whole apple (with seeds and that wood thingy on apple), nails (not eat but chew and spit out), coffee beans. There might be more but can’t think of right now.
Nice! Do you have any particular favourite noodles or pasta shapes to eat?
No
I can relate, eating the whole apple is so efficient, even the wood thingy.
Same for the apple! I also eat pears that way.
nails
Please elaborate
please elaborate
This is uncalled for, to say the least. The very idea of someone chewing on (clipped) nails was problematic enough
If they meant nails like fingernails I’m completely lost. But I used to with regular nails for the metal taste. I almost died as a kid because I used to suck on small nails and screws. Surprisingly that’s not what stopped me from sucking on them. It was because i unconsciously bit down one once and that shit hurt. Used to do coins too but when I found out what germs were and how many germs are on money I stopped immediately.
That is definitely why I asked 😅thanks!!
I cut my nails and chew it and spit it out later
Thank you! 🔨
Raw flour is not recommended for direct consumption because it can actually carry foodborne illnesses. I suppose you could “cook” it in the oven with no other ingredients to have a similar experience but killing any potential pathogens.
But it tastes good :3
Yes, but cooking it at low heat can add a nice nutty flavor to it!
It really does. I’m one of those who like cookie dough more than actual cookies, especially when it comes to chocolate chip. Leave out eggs, add like a tablespoon more butter, and toast the flour beforehand, and you wind up with a truly excellent edible cookie dough. In my book, the nuttiness of the flour is makes it even better than regular dough.
I think it’s possible to pasteurize eggs to make them safe to eat like they do with eggnog. Don’t quote me on that, though.
Also make sure to brown the butter if you want an even richer, nuttier flavor.
I think it’s possible to pasteurize eggs
For sure it’s possible. Like you said, they do it for eggnog. I used to work for an ice cream company and we’d do it by thoroughly whisking them and then slooooowly stirring them into a hot mix of cream and sugar and whatnot. Not totally sure how you’d do it for this but I’m sure there’s a way; maybe if you’re getting the butter hot you could use that? But also not sure what benefit eggs would impart here. Maybe an extremely subtle flavor but as far as I can tell their purpose in cookies is their structure, which isn’t all that relevant for an edible dough.
Browning the butter is an interesting idea, I might try that. I worry it could reduce the moisture content though; the reason I add extra is to make up for the lack of moisture from eggs and there’s already so much, I wouldn’t want to add even more butter or oil lol. Maybe I could straight up add water but then I usually freeze it and idk if that would be a problem long term
My grocery store sells whole pasteurized eggs in the egg section. It’s only one brand but neat that’s even an option.
Milk mixed with orange juice looks terrible but tastes like an orange creamsicle.
Add a little vanilla, and yeah, that’s a Creamsicle!
Or, blend frozen OJ, milk, ice, and a bit of vanilla extract and you’ve basically got an Orange Julius. (Do those places still even exist…?)
Top tip: add in some powdered sugar. In addition to adding some sweetness, powdered sugar has cornstarch in it which will act as a thickener making for a more unctuous mouthfeel
How does this not curdle?
It does slightly, but way less than one would think.
It does a little, so stir vigorously to break up clumps.
Holy shit… This comment is my least favorite comment
Mother of the groom gave an impromptu speech at the reception about how her son is like milk and orange juice. It was as meandering as it was long.
The groom looked like chunky vomit?
Quite the opposite, but maybe his mom feels like she just drank milk and orange juice when she sees her son? I suppose we’ll never know for sure.
My wife’s dad held a 15 minute speech about South American partisans and guerillas at my wedding. No one knew what he was trying to say, and my wife’s bridesmaid pulled him from the stage before he was finished.
Is he from South America?
No, he’s German and has never been to South America.
That’s just an orange julius
That’s a very popular drink here in the Dominican Republic, probably in Puerto Rico and Cuba too, you have to know the trick so the milk and orange juice mix well tho. It’s called “morir soñando” (which means “to die dreaming” in Spanish) look it up if you feel like to.
Yeah, it’s pretty good, especially in the summer time.
On topic for the thread, the way I make it has pretty much always gotten a “WTF are you trying to feed me?” look from Dominicans. Okay, more of an “Ay dios mío, este muchacho” eye roll and a “¿Qué es este menjunje que tu tá inventando allí?” from them, if I’m being honest. For the ones I’ve gotten to actually try it, though, they all agree it’s pretty good.
I have the usual mix of milk and orange juice, add in some sweetened, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and then I add jam/preserves instead of just sugar. I’m partial to cherry preserves, but if chinola jam were a thing I could get here, I’d probably just stick with that. Toss it in a blender with some flaked ice, and 30 seconds later, you’re that much closer to developing diabetes. Depending on the sort of night I’m having, I might toss in some spiced rum, too.
What’s the trick?
I honestly don’t know since I’ve never done it myself, would have to ask my mom or something.
Yeah dude, ask her.
Ask her
Not OP, but I was curious about it, so I watched a video tutorial (in Spanish).
Basically, you prepare a mixture of evaporated milk, condensed milk and regular milk with some ice and vanilla extract, and in another bowl just orange juice with ice.
The secret is that both liquids need to be cold so they get mixed properly. She didn’t mention what temperature was necessary, just that 20 minutes in the cold did the trick.
Beetroot juice and beetroot based dishes, pikled lemons and other citrus fruits, sweet meat.
I like to experiment with food in general, try some old recipes like before american vegetables old.
I learned only relatively recently that borsch (which I love for the beets) was originally made without beets. I still haven’t found a recipe I like and we don’t get sorrel here.
You can grow sorrel at home, if you really like it.
Histrically borshch probably was a name for anything that was more or less drinkable and non-alcoholic, there were no original recipe, like there is no original recipe for other common dishes, they were just made with whatever was available and whatever people ate at the time. AFAIK there are similar dishes in countries that were part of lithuanian commonwelth, which were based on different kinds of kvass as well.
Personally I really dislike kvass based borshch, like it’s vile. 😄
, sweet meat.
For a second I read that as sweetbread. That is a very VERY different thing.
I’ve had lemon rind stuffed olives and kinda blew my mind
Beetroot is great when winter comes round. It fits so well in those hearty roasted dishes
try some old recipes
What do you think of Max Miller’s youtube channel?
I have somewhat mixed opinions on Max Miller; his acting is a bit over the top, and history fragments sometimes have weird details that he had misunderstood during research or misread. I would have liked his videos a lot more if he actually talked about the history of the recipe more and not something tangentially related to it. In general he is ok. 🙃
That makes sense. Not something to be taken too seriously, but a bit of fun engagement with the past in a space where it’s not hurting anyone if the details are wonky
