Food Thread

[trickyputt]

I finally learned how to cook shark in the grill. The internet said undercook it. Thats crApola. Cook it until its hard, then just past hard it falls apart to something like cooked crabmeat.

[Abu3baid]

White sauce lasagna with meat, spinach and mushrooms and lots of cheese..

[nevets88]

Sort of a Chinese ziti, with pork and cucumbers in a regional sauce. Similar to Szechuan but a little different.

[saevel25]

I finally learned how to cook shark in the grill. The internet said undercook it. Thats crApola. Cook it until its hard, then just past hard it falls apart to something like cooked crabmeat.

Tuna, Shark, Salmon, I like it on the Medium Rare side if not just rare. Love sashimi and sushi

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The other night I roasted some Anaheim and Poblano peppers and used them as a bed for some sauted shrimp that had garlic, onion and serrano & jalapeno chili topped with some guacamole, lemon & lime zest and green onion. Very tasty.

[nevets88]

I usually order the hottest option. Woohoo, I'm a 2%ter! How hot can you go?

[14ledo81]

"We recommend only requesting this level for a dish when you had it before"....????? :) :P

[Ernest Jones]

Duck Confit with parisien potatoes fried in, yep, duck fat and fried snap peas with Parmesan. Sweet, greasy heaven.

[saevel25]

I usually order the hottest option. Woohoo, I'm a 2%ter! How hot can you go?

I would try the top level just to see how hot it is.

[Ernest Jones]

I would try the top level just to see how hot it is.

But they don't recommend having the top level until...you've had the top level...

[iacas]

I would try the top level just to see how hot it is.

Most U.S. people seem to dislike spice.

The Thai place nearby has three levels of spice for their pad thai:

1. American Hot
2. Mexican Hot
3. Thai Hot

The Thai Hot is good, but VERY VERY spicy. Most people get American Hot, which is, as you would expect, basically not hot at all. :D

[boogielicious]

Quote:

Originally Posted by saevel25

I would try the top level just to see how hot it is.

Most U.S. people seem to dislike spice.

The Thai place nearby has three levels of spice for their pad thai:

American Hot

Mexican Hot

Thai Hot

The Thai Hot is good, but VERY VERY spicy. Most people get American Hot, which is, as you would expect, basically not hot at all. :D

I'm a 2.5 I guess.  Thai hot can be unbearable.

[nevets88]

I can eat the those chile red peppers, straight up, no problem, but I have friends and family who make me look like a wimp. The UK has the blandest Chinese food. Ever. Like eating paper. Sorry UK. Great Indian food though.

[Silent]

Last year my wife and I went on our honeymoon to the Maldive Islands. (bounty island idea in the middle of the Indian Ocean). We had some nice food there as well:

Whole Dorade

Fan fried pigeon's breast:

Fisherman's platter

We love to cook ourselves as well, will share some pictures from that later on.

[14ledo81]

Quote:

Originally Posted by saevel25

I would try the top level just to see how hot it is.

But they don't recommend having the top level until...you've had the top level...

@Ernest Jones the only ones who realize...... you can NEVER have the top level......???

[Ernest Jones]

@Ernest Jones , are you and I the only ones who realize...... you can NEVER have the top level......???

lol. Yep, it appears so.

[Dave2512]

I once asked them to make it go to the emergency room hot. I got what I asked for, had to ride home in the back of the truck after demolishing the head at a gas station. I am always the nothing is too hot guy but they blew me out with my request emergency room hot larb and som tum. Went back to Thai hot at that place after that. The salad was damn near caustic, smelled like chemical stripper, brutal.

Just ate my usual wimpy lunch. One can Dong Won tuna in black bean paste over half a cucumber and some green onion.

[jamo]

Most U.S. people seem to dislike spice. The Thai place nearby has three levels of spice for their pad thai: [LIST=1] [*] American Hot [*] Mexican Hot [*] Thai Hot [/LIST] The Thai Hot is good, but VERY VERY spicy. Most people get American Hot, which is, as you would expect, basically not hot at all. :D

I forget where it was I read this, but spices from different parts of the world also have different heat profiles. Asian peppers tend to be very spicy right away, right in the front of your mouth, but they diffuse relatively quickly. American (as in the whole continent) peppers tend to have a flatter profile. They don't peak as hot, but the heat lasts longer and you get the sensation all over. EDIT: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rating-chili-peppers-on-a-scale-of-1-to-oh-dear-god-im-on-fire/

[Golfingdad]

I forget where it was I read this, but spices from different parts of the world also have different heat profiles. Asian peppers tend to be very spicy right away, right in the front of your mouth, but they diffuse relatively quickly. American (as in the whole continent) peppers tend to have a flatter profile. They don't peak as hot, but the heat lasts longer and you get the sensation all overlonger.

EDIT: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rating-chili-peppers-on-a-scale-of-1-to-oh-dear-god-im-on-fire/

Yeah, eat a dumpling smothered in hot mustard, and then compare to a raw serrano pepper.  The mustard is immediately intense and all through the sinuses seemingly, and then it just as quickly disappears.

The pepper is a delayed reaction (just long enough for you to go "that's not bad at all" and take a second, bigger bite) that makes you feel the need to bury your tongue in milk for .... ever.  And that still barely helps until the pepper decides to wear off several minutes later.