To translate: These are chicken (a small domesticated bird) wings, fried and in a vinegar, butter, and spicy pepper sauce, named after a city called "Buffalo", where the preparation method was invented.
It is so hard to choose just one! My favorite varies constantly depending on what my mood is a particular day. I'm sure if I had to choose just one to have all the time, it would quickly become boring and no longer delicious.
I hereby disagree with you, and agree with Vae: There are so many different kinds of cheese that I could never grow tired of it. (It goes with everything!) I think my favorite combination of cheese is between cheese cubes with tart apples or cheese melted on roast bird!
It is a theory of mine that one of the driving forces of civilization is the desire to get the hell away from nature. Therefore, the less a food looks like its original form, the more civilized it is. My favorite foods are very, very civilized... meatsloaf, hamburgers, chicken nuggets....
(I used to be so much better at catching typos and using the right words… okay, no I never really was, but I had been much better for many years! I am sorry for this double post, but I HAD to fix things.) Oh Dear! Favorite foods!
Well, for vegetables, I really like Green Beans and Corn. It's hard to do better than them. For fruits, I'm really into pineapples and peaches. For Deserts, nothing beats a Coconut cake...
OF course you are hitting me up when I am making the bestest holiday treat ever. Stuffed Cheese Pepper rings! This is how you make them.
The Kensan_Oni Family Pepper Cheese Ring Recipe! Appetizer.
You take 16 oz. of Cream Cheese, which has been left out to soften. You need about 4 oz of chopped olives, and about the same amount of chopped Walnuts. You also need a package of gelatin (Unsure universe equivalent here), some Worcestershire Sauce (A fishy fruity sauce. Some tangy sauce served with meat will suffice for crossworld), and some Tabasco sauce (Any hot pepper sauce will do in a pinch). Also, of course about 6 Green and Red Bell Peppers. (Large edible vegetables that can be hallowed out with ease will do here.)
Blend Cream Cheese, walnuts, and olives together with a fork or spoon. Add Worcestershire sauce till the mixture slightly is brown (About 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons, I think. I don't measure this part) and enough Tabasco to give it a non-heaty bite (About 1 teaspoon). Dissolve gelatin in 1/4 cup boiling water, and stir into mixture. Blend until smooth and pourable. Using Ladle, fill each pepper. If peppers have a small hole in the bottom, place them in a cup, so that the small leakage before getting blocked by the good stuff won't go all over the place. Chill. When ready to serve your guests, slice into thin to medium slices.
Serves about two per pepper, More depending on guests appetite.
Hmmmm. Well, I think that Worldtree has sausages, for certain? One of my favorite foods is a spicy, savory sausage that has been boiled in beer to cook it through, then grilled lightly, just enough to give the outer skin a pleasant snap and crunch. We call them bratwurst, which means "pork sausage". Pork is a type of meat in our world. Very tasty, and fortunately, nobody you know. Anyway, we add a bit of spicy mustard, which I know you have there. Very nice.
I think you also have cabbages on Worldtree, yes? Well! One of the things we monsters do with our cabbage, is shred it fine, then pack it tightly in jars with layers of salt and more cabbage. Over a few months, this ferments into a lovely food that is both sour and salty, but crispy and delicious. We call it sauerkraut, or "sour cabbage".
We place the bratwurst in a bun, then add a healthy scoop of sauerkraut on top of the bratwurst and mustard.
*sighs in bliss*
Mircanis would be jealous, for this is my version of heaven.
The sausages that primes make are many and varied. The sausages of the Herethroy are the strangest, for they are truly sausage in many ways, but contain no meat, but merely nuts and grains and vegetables and butter.
The Elfimel -- whom I have just asked -- say that Mircannis provides sausages of meat in her Heaven, with sour leaves upon them. If you visit there ever, tell me how they compare!
I have no single favorite food but I have some Indulgences that I like to indulge in when I can.
Pizza. For health reasons too long to go into, I can only have pizza rarely.
Steak - a properly prepared slice of the appropriate muscle of a sub-sentient animal, grilled or pan-seared to the perfect done-ness, which varies by animal.
Bagna Cauda - a garlic and anchovy flavored pot of butter and olive oil, heated to aromatic, into which raw pieces of vegetable are dipped and savored. J Michael Straczynski made the common foolish mis-evaluation of the food on an episode of Babylon 5 (and this would require unpacking 'television' as a concept and entity, but you can consider it to be a high-quality theatrical performance greatly enhanced by the use of specific illusidor to create the representation of a slightly different, potentially future, universe.) His doctor character was all upset about the "high fat" content of the food, which is a common prejudice among uninformed people; in fact the fat content of the meal is not terrible, given the predominance of olive oil, which actually corrects many problems. Further, the use of raw vegetables (usually cruciform veggies which are specifically good in other ways) makes a meal of the stuff much healthier. And, since it's almost never eaten except as a very special feast food with friends, one doesn't usually eat that much of it. JMS, like many, misunderstood that eating a high-calorie high-fat meal once or twice a year will NOT harm one's health, unless one is already to the point of needing massive healing. Though it's possible to eat Bagna Cauda with bread cubes as well, it's better with vegetables anyway. (Highly processed grain, fruit, and other carbohydrates being one of the things we don't necessarily handle well despite our love for the things; our "design" isn't made for high-starch foods all the time, even though it's also what has allowed us to have civilization.)
[Bard saw that episode of Bab5 not long ago, and can explain to Vae. Vae sits still to listen much better than Sythyry ever does, incidentally. -bb]
The bagna cauda perhaps I shall prepare, or ask Arfaen who cooks better than I do to prepare. The nutritional details I do not know, and the precise olive oil I do not have, but there are aromatic oils of delightful flavor [some of which Bard translates as 'olive oil' -bb] and they shall find their employment in my "bagna caudal". [Bard and Vae had to work on that one. -bb]
Pasta (usually, Penne, which is cylindrical noodles about half as long as they are wide but hollow inside) with mushrooms, onions, peppers, other assorted vegtables, and chicken, fried with garlic and a white cheese sauce, then add barbecue sauce (I think it's a sweet tomato sauce basically? Not sure) and mix it in.
I have quite a few favorites. Cheese is one which we hold in common. I am particularly fond of it when combined with tomato sauce and fried chicken, but there is an unending variety to cheeses.
Some times my tastes run Orren-ish both in desiring fish and shifting focus intensely on one food to another. Fish I am slightly finicky about as there are some that I just do not enjoy all that much, most of which fall into the "bland, flakey white flesh" category. Sadly this is the most popular type in our world.
There really is little to compare, where my palate is concerned, with a properly prepared steak; though tuna, or perhaps shark, are a close second. Which, I admit, is technically a variation on the steak concept, but there you have it.
Various kinds of candy are my main weakness, I guess. Of the "real" food that I prepare myself, I think braised short ribs are it. For vegetarian dishes, I like butternut squash soup.
One of my favorite foods is a desert that mimics a fruit. Watermelon sherbet in a half-moon shape is surrounded on the rounded side by a layer of lemon sherbet, then a very thin layer of lime sherbet (the lemon and lime sherbet look like a watermelon rind). Throughout the watermelon sherbet bits of chocolate are scattered, to seem like seeds. It is particularly wonderful in the summertime!
Think about very thin layers of pasta, eggplant, several kinds of cheese, meat, spinach, tomatoes, with garlic and spices, baked for an hour until the cheeses melt through the layers.
Oh! Do you have the same variety of Ice Creams, Frozen Custards, Sherbet, Sorbet, Shave Ice, Frozen Yogurts and Frozen Ices that we have on this world? And that's only the frozen desserts that really translate into my culture, that I have tried and I love. Let me check the names of some from some other cultures... like, uh, Ais kacang, Granita, Gelato, Cendol, Faloodeh, Shirokuma, the list goes on and on! What are the frozen, maybe creamy, sweet frozen desserts that are on the World Tree? Do you have a favorite type? Is there one main frozen desert that you think of when the idea is mentioned? Are there many regional variations in texture and flavors and preparation method, as there is here?
[And how am I supposed to translate that, pray tell? -bb]
The flavor is the species of the frozen sweets, so that we speak of "a frozen pren sweet", but it might have the additional adjectives, thus: "a custardly frozen pren sweet", or some specific name, thus: "dukikki".
Just saying thanks will not just be sufficient, for the tremendous lucidity in your writing. I will right away grab your rss feed to stay abreast of any updates.
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There are so many different kinds of cheese that I could never grow tired of it. (It goes with everything!)
I think my favorite combination of cheese is between cheese cubes with tart apples or cheese melted on roast bird!
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Oh Dear! Favorite foods!
Well, for vegetables, I really like Green Beans and Corn. It's hard to do better than them. For fruits, I'm really into pineapples and peaches. For Deserts, nothing beats a Coconut cake...
OF course you are hitting me up when I am making the bestest holiday treat ever. Stuffed Cheese Pepper rings! This is how you make them.
The Kensan_Oni Family Pepper Cheese Ring Recipe!
Appetizer.
You take 16 oz. of Cream Cheese, which has been left out to soften. You need about 4 oz of chopped olives, and about the same amount of chopped Walnuts. You also need a package of gelatin (Unsure universe equivalent here), some Worcestershire Sauce (A fishy fruity sauce. Some tangy sauce served with meat will suffice for crossworld), and some Tabasco sauce (Any hot pepper sauce will do in a pinch). Also, of course about 6 Green and Red Bell Peppers. (Large edible vegetables that can be hallowed out with ease will do here.)
Blend Cream Cheese, walnuts, and olives together with a fork or spoon. Add Worcestershire sauce till the mixture slightly is brown (About 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons, I think. I don't measure this part) and enough Tabasco to give it a non-heaty bite (About 1 teaspoon). Dissolve gelatin in 1/4 cup boiling water, and stir into mixture. Blend until smooth and pourable. Using Ladle, fill each pepper. If peppers have a small hole in the bottom, place them in a cup, so that the small leakage before getting blocked by the good stuff won't go all over the place. Chill. When ready to serve your guests, slice into thin to medium slices.
Serves about two per pepper, More depending on guests appetite.
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Do I have to pick just one?
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I think you also have cabbages on Worldtree, yes? Well! One of the things we monsters do with our cabbage, is shred it fine, then pack it tightly in jars with layers of salt and more cabbage. Over a few months, this ferments into a lovely food that is both sour and salty, but crispy and delicious. We call it sauerkraut, or "sour cabbage".
We place the bratwurst in a bun, then add a healthy scoop of sauerkraut on top of the bratwurst and mustard.
*sighs in bliss*
Mircanis would be jealous, for this is my version of heaven.
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The Elfimel -- whom I have just asked -- say that Mircannis provides sausages of meat in her Heaven, with sour leaves upon them. If you visit there ever, tell me how they compare!
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[Wasabi is reasonably close. -bb]
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Pizza. For health reasons too long to go into, I can only have pizza rarely.
Steak - a properly prepared slice of the appropriate muscle of a sub-sentient animal, grilled or pan-seared to the perfect done-ness, which varies by animal.
Bagna Cauda - a garlic and anchovy flavored pot of butter and olive oil, heated to aromatic, into which raw pieces of vegetable are dipped and savored. J Michael Straczynski made the common foolish mis-evaluation of the food on an episode of Babylon 5 (and this would require unpacking 'television' as a concept and entity, but you can consider it to be a high-quality theatrical performance greatly enhanced by the use of specific illusidor to create the representation of a slightly different, potentially future, universe.) His doctor character was all upset about the "high fat" content of the food, which is a common prejudice among uninformed people; in fact the fat content of the meal is not terrible, given the predominance of olive oil, which actually corrects many problems. Further, the use of raw vegetables (usually cruciform veggies which are specifically good in other ways) makes a meal of the stuff much healthier. And, since it's almost never eaten except as a very special feast food with friends, one doesn't usually eat that much of it. JMS, like many, misunderstood that eating a high-calorie high-fat meal once or twice a year will NOT harm one's health, unless one is already to the point of needing massive healing. Though it's possible to eat Bagna Cauda with bread cubes as well, it's better with vegetables anyway. (Highly processed grain, fruit, and other carbohydrates being one of the things we don't necessarily handle well despite our love for the things; our "design" isn't made for high-starch foods all the time, even though it's also what has allowed us to have civilization.)
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The bagna cauda perhaps I shall prepare, or ask Arfaen who cooks better than I do to prepare. The nutritional details I do not know, and the precise olive oil I do not have, but there are aromatic oils of delightful flavor [some of which Bard translates as 'olive oil' -bb] and they shall find their employment in my "bagna caudal". [Bard and Vae had to work on that one. -bb]
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Ginger is another good thing to add while frying.
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Some times my tastes run Orren-ish both in desiring fish and shifting focus intensely on one food to another. Fish I am slightly finicky about as there are some that I just do not enjoy all that much, most of which fall into the "bland, flakey white flesh" category. Sadly this is the most popular type in our world.
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I like to eat it on its own, or into fat emulsions thrown.
I like to eat it, nendrai Vae, to eat it each and every day!
Steaks and roasts it nicely fills, with sour fruit my soul it thrills.
I love to eat it, nendrai Vae, to eat it each and every day!
With moldy cheese I fill my house (and often share it with a mouse)
I love to eat it, nendrai Vae, to eat it each and every day!
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Think about very thin layers of pasta, eggplant, several kinds of cheese, meat, spinach, tomatoes, with garlic and spices, baked for an hour until the cheeses melt through the layers.
Delicious!
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The flavor is the species of the frozen sweets, so that we speak of "a frozen pren sweet", but it might have the additional adjectives, thus: "a custardly frozen pren sweet", or some specific name, thus: "dukikki".
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