posted on August 9, 2000 08:43:32 PM new
Steak and turnips! Yum!
Turnips are getting a bad rap here. They are really really delicious! Best way I serve them is in beef stew with lots and lots of vegies, including parsnips too! Turnips are a mature acquired taste. Once you enjoy their wonderful flavor---there is no substitute.
posted on August 9, 2000 10:47:59 PM new
Where is okra? One can not live without okra! One word: GUMBO!
I don't know what a parsnip is. What the heck is a parsnip?
Mushrooms are wonderful!
Polk Salad. I never eat that because if you don't cook it right it will kill you. I heard it's really good.
On a different note...
Do you know what I see in the store in my town? NASTY NASTY NASTY pig ears, and feet, and snouts, and tails all curled up in the deli case. NASTY! I have to drive to another town to shop. AND they have chicken FEET all laying there in a styro tray toenails and all. NASTY! People tell me you fry them and crunch them bones and all...NASTY! And buckets of chittlings...do not get me started on those! Some people will eat anything!
T
maybe a cup of warm milk is in order...
[ edited by jt on Aug 9, 2000 10:51 PM ]
posted on August 9, 2000 11:01:13 PM new
Geesh Terri--trying to get us all to go on a diet---that post almost sent me up to the BR Can we please stick to Steaks, turnips and sure--why not?---okra. Ummmm--what's okra and is it friendly?
posted on August 9, 2000 11:03:07 PM new
It's poke salad. You have to blanch the greens several times, draining off the water each time, to make them okay. Then cook like collards, with fatback.
You don't know pig til you've had the snout and deep-fried tail. Pickled pig's feet are a real delicacy in some parts, very tasty, just don't look at them too long. One of the best chicken soups I ever ate was at a little Spanish restaurant in a neaby neighborhood. What do you suppose was in the bottom of the bowl? A FOOT! And a darned tasty one it was. Those are good parts, with lots of character!
Slimola okra? Gaggamon warm milk? Spitup time!
- Pareau
P.S. It's chitterlings or chitlins. We agree on those. They belong in the bucket, with a lid on it.
posted on August 9, 2000 11:07:52 PM newkrs:Go get yourself a steak.
Unfortunately, red meat is one of the doctor's "no-no's"...
jt: parsnips look like white carrots. Oh, BTW, I have eaten okra...yech. Mushrooms. The only ones I have ever really liked are the black, slightly crunchy ones that they use in Szechuan Pork dishes. I think they are called elephant ear mushrooms? Like tofu, most mushrooms do not have a pleasant texture. OT, I am currently making the rounds of agents with a YA thriller I've written about two boys who discover their teacher is a killer mushroom...
posted on August 9, 2000 11:26:05 PM new
Listen to your doctor, unless he or she is mentioned here: http://www.citizen.org/press/pr-sid34.htm, and even then, there's always next year.
posted on August 9, 2000 11:27:19 PM new
Alert--Alert--Alert---Alert--
After 1 and 1/2 years---whew---KRS and I have finally found a common ground---STEAK.
Yes--my favorite is the Rib--sure and enough--he will dispute it
posted on August 9, 2000 11:51:07 PM new
James--toast those cashews up nice and brown(needless to say cashews have one of the highest fat content)--Boil and cook your rice seperately-- and have a nice bread pudding on the side for dessert. Yes--am trying my best here to make those ingredients palatable--Give me --Angus---thick cut--grilled to rare--just the Moo removed.
Terri--still waiting to hear about Okra---come on now---why do I classify this as a slimy vegetable--gotta be doing something wrong---right??
posted on August 10, 2000 01:21:45 AM new
If you boil it it IS slime. GOOD slime...especially in New Orleans Seafood Gumbo. There is no such thing as gumbo without okra.
BUT better alone is to slice it in little wagon wheels (like 1/4 inch wide), wet it so the meal sticks, and shake it in a bag of corn meal. Then deep fry it in oil and add a bunch of salt. Crispy! Yummy!
Resaturants mess it up with BATTER. Do not use batter, just plain corn meal. It will NOT work on frozen okra either. It will gunk up. You need fresh okra. You must try it. It is delicious. When you make that and have the corn meal out, make fried green tomatoes too. Same recipe just bigger wheels.
If in doubt always fry it in corn meal no matter what it is.
T
posted on August 10, 2000 01:35:14 AM new
Funny this came up when it did. I'm not a big fan of zucchini, either. Tonight I went out to a chinese restaurant with my folks and I ordered Kung Pao Shrimp. Well, it was mostly zucchini. But the sauce was very spicy and I could hardly taste it. If you want to improve your diet, add vegetables.
I wish that when I was a kid, my Mom had found more creative ways to cook vegetables. She served the frozen mixed vegetables: peas, lima beans, corn and carrot cubes. Horrid taste, and totally unimaginative. I used to hide the peas and lima beans under the mashed potatoes.
