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What is youre soup of choice. I was thinking about that while sitting here eating a bowl of Tomatoe soup then I started wondering which was better tomatoe or chicken tll meyour favorites
peace and trees
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trevor
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Tomato is good with grilled cheese, though, but not "a meal."
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Mine is grandmoms meat soup.  Just got to enjoy it last weekend
Setras
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My home made cream of mushroom is up there, but I think I have to go with clam chowder, New England style.
Think good thoughts,
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Before 1988, I would have had to agree with e about cream of mushroom, and also with smith about clam chowder and oyster stew...
Now, I have 2 favorites. Man always knows which 2 soups to make me for the first 2 dinners at home:
Tom Kha Gai...chicken, mushrooms, lemongrass, loads of coconut milk.
Tom Yam Gung...Hot and spicy (and I mean take the roof of your mouth off, but in a good way) shrimps and other yummy stuff.
Not only hungry, but homesick...*sighs*
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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trevor
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Do coconuts grow there or imported? Seems like they are used quite a bit, and are hopefully cheaper there than here. On a related note, my favorite Thai restaurant, a half-hour drive away, just opened a sister restaurant with the same menu about 15 minutes away. They managed to get us served in about 15 minutes when we were in a hurry Saturday night - beautiful decor, too.
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it comes canned from other countries like the Phillipines, etc. but Man says not only is it more expensive, it doesn't taste as good...which I think is just pride in Thai products.
What Thai dishes did you order? Man has worked in restaurants in the past, so I have it pretty good with his home cooking! Just one more way that I'm lucky.
Naturally, coconut milk is high on cholesterol...drat...but some things are just worth the risk...heehee
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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That's exactly what my dad and I had for "lunch" last Friday (it was our friend "thirdfencepost" who reminded me how well they go together). Mmmm mmm good indeed!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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It's making me hungry, too, smith (just reading about it is making my mouth water!); and it brings back memories of some of the homemade delicacies of my younger days.
It was my grandmother (the same one who said "forth and back" instead of "back and forth"!) who made the homemade soups in our family (especially for Christmas Eve supper, which was an even bigger affair than Christmas Day dinner; and which, because it was a day of abstinence in their church tradition, was meatless). She made two kinds in particular. One was a cabbage soup called "kapusta" which to me was the vilest smelling (and vilest tasting!) concoction I've ever encountered (sorry, grandma!); the other was borsch (which, although by definition should be served cold, she always served piping hot, so it always tasted especially good on a cold night like Christmas Eve). When it became just my dad and me on Christmas Eve several years ago, we were faced with a dilemma. He hates borsch as much as I hate kapusta; so we compromise with something we both love: pea soup.
I don't recall my grandmother ever baking her own bread (although she probably did at one time), but I do recall she always used to get fresh (and I do mean fresh!) "chala" bread from a near-by Jewish bakery. A big piece of that with a big bowl of borsch also made for a nice lunch (washed down, of course, with a glass of the root beer she always got for me!).
Is it lunch time yet?
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Cesare Pavese
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No Message Body
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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No Message Body
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Cesare Pavese
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Canned and packaged soups are ok in a pinch; but there's nothing like homemade, is there?! []
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Shame on me, I don't believe I've ever partaken of it.
A friend of mine and I attend Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts about once a month during the concert season. There is a Thai restaurant just steps away from Symphony Hall in Boston which just opened within the last few years. I think the reason we haven't stopped in there yet is because it replaced an Italian restaurant (the Cafe Amalfi) which had been an institution for many years (and where we had many an excellent pre-concert dinner), and we miss it too much. I'm going to try to talk my friend into trying it out at least once next season. Perhaps, David, you and Man can make suggestions as to what would make for a good first Thai meal (I'd really appreciate that!).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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All gay men love to cook!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I am sorry, but thats not true tim. My bf hates to cook. so I do all the cooking. he does the laundry.
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No Message Body
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I don't cook either (unless I really have to); and it's not just because the results aren't all that appetizing, either! I do laundry, but don't ask me to iron anything unless you want a gaping hole in it!
So much for your theory, Timmy! [ ]
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Cesare Pavese
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Well lol... I can't cook if my life depended on it. Follow the recipe HA!! Me I do dishes and laundry and sew and iron lol. Sigh the things I do best.. Just don't let me anywhere near the kitchen!! I mean I am the ultimate bad cook I messed up making instant pudding... Who knew you needde to add milk and not water... Oops!
peace and trees
Ydna
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marc
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It is an expression of love...
An expression of the celebration of good friends...
A catalist to better times...
And if done well... It's just damn yummy.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Potato and onion with home made spetzels... A type of dumpling
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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At the few Thai places I've been to, the descriptions are pretty good on the menus - lots of meat/veggie in sauce with rice on the side or noodles in my limited experience. Unlike almost any other "ethnic" foods, I haven't met a Thai dish I didn't like. Well, peanut sauce (a lot like peanut butter thinned down) is just so-so IMHO. But, to my taste, much more likeable than vietnamese or sushi by a long shot.
I love any of the basil-based stuff with lots of veggies and full fresh basil leaves, or the yellow curries. I haven't seen it except in one restaurant, but beef panang, which was just sauteed beef with spices - a little plain but meaty. It seems "panang" seldom means the same thing, though.
The spicey stuff often has a star on the menu - usually 1 to 4 or 5 star "maximum" - the missus usually does 0 stars and I do 2-3 depending on mood (I'm a wimp.)
The only thing I've found confusing is trying to figure out what kind of noodles you will get since there are usually at least 3 kinds - clear stringy rice noodles (which gross out my boss) flat lasagne-like, and more "normal" stringy noodles.
Okay, David, now that I've totally ruined it because I'm hungry, you can give the "real" answers. Can you remind me what the name of the "drunken noodles" is? Drunk as in "intoxicated", supposedly tossed together from leftovers to appease a drunken husband as I heard the story.
My favorite is "Prince's (or Princess?) Favorite Chicken" which is a chicken/veggie/yellow curry heavy on the grated coconut and a bit of red chilies, I think.
My first experiences were with a group of people who would all go and order one dish for lunch and pass them all around the table for everyone to share - the more people the better!
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I just can't consider potato a vegetable, so I hate it in things like soup with noodles or dumplings, but it's fine in chowder or stew where it is the star carbohydrate!
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Then i tasted some...... Yummy
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Well, this is pretty cool to talk about! I had no idea ethnic food is so interesting to people!
Peanut sauce isn't Thai, it's Malaysian/Indonesian. You find it with satay, usually chicken or pork on a skewer. It's too sweet for my taste.
Penang beef or pork is good, altho named after a city in Northern malaysia, confusingly. It's a simple not-too-spicy curry with the basil you noticed. The beef penang is the closest Asian equivalent to beef stew. It even comes with potato and carrots on some menus.
The one to 5 star rating system to judge level of spiciness is universal, also in Thailand. Except that in Thailand, the ratings are done by Thai people, so are ratcheted up a lot. A one star in THailand would be a two or three star item in the States.
Different kinds of noodles CAN be confusing...hehe The flat ones you referred to are made out of rice flour, the regular noodles are made out of wheat flour (like spaghetti). Glass noodles (the clear ones) are neither of the above, but my favorite with the right dish.
"Drunken noodles" and the "Princess's Favorite" are Americanized Chinese dishes, I've never had them. And did you know that chop suey was an American invention?
All Thai meals are meant to be shared around the table. The idea that everybody orders their own dishes and doesn't share is a western custom that seems selfish and no fun to the Thai.
I'll go on and on more about my favorite Thai foods, with ingrediants and all, if you like...and I won't mind if you want to take it off the Board...hehehe
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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An attorney in California has sued Kraft Foods wanting to ban Oreos because they contain transfat. OMG!! Does this man have no clue that anything that tastes that good has got to have bad things in it? He says that the transfat makes the Oreos inedible.........No Way!!
How do you eat Oreos? I put a whole one in my mouth and then take a big gulp of coooold milk and let it mush up....Total deeelicious !!
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No Message Body
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then eat the half with the least amount of filling first. Crushed and stirred into homemade vanilla ice cream with crumbled Reese Cups is another favorite way to eat 'em.
But here's the scoop on transfats.
"Walter Willett, co-author of a recent New England Journal of Medicine study and chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Mass., calls trans fat "the biggest disaster in the U.S. food supply," because it destroys essential fatty acids while raising cholesterol."
For more go to:
http://www.junkscience.com/news2/transfat.htm
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that Nabisco is owned by RJ Reynolds. We all know how health conscious they are.
Think good thoughts,
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