Best food lately

[Fellfrosch]

Give me an inedible piece of pig any day, if it means the food tastes good.

[42]

Give me an inedible piece of pig any day, if it means the food tastes good.

See, this is why you can't be TWG's food critic.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Authentic Mexican food gets a bad rap... for some great recipes and advice on traditional (and flavorful) mexican cooking check out some of Rick Bayless's stuff... or his PBS show...
Who would have ever thought Corn on the cob with sour cream was good....

[Chimera]

See, this is why you can't be TWG's food critic.

Oo oo! Can I?  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I thought that was me... but if you can best me in single combat...

[Nessa]

So my brother-in-law manages the Radio Shack near Pike's Place in Seattle. He sent us king crab for Christmas this year. It was heavenly! (We had to eat it before Christmas.)

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

One of these days I will find out what king crab tastes like, until then I will have to settle for normal food.

[Maxwell]

mayos has the best mexican food in santa barbara, it's one of those little ethnic places where nobody speaks english and soda still comes in glass bottles, it's a minimart/carniceria(mexican butcher)/resturant

[Fellfrosch]

See, that's the kind of place to get real Mexican food. Sounds yummy.

[The Jade Knight]

"Authentic" is just silly.  For example, you can talk about "authentic" Chinese food, but there are so many different regional varieties of Chinese food that the differences between "real" Chinese and "American" Chinese is sort of silly, in comparison.

Ari is from Hunan, which has spicy food (not too dissimilar from Szechuan), but her mother learned to cook largely in Canton, so they eat milder food at home.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

to be fair, though, China is a vast region of many sub-ethnic groups. As you point out, you can be more specific than "Chinese" food. However, it is more than fair to say that Los Hermanos food is not the sort of food that is typically eaten in Mexico. Thus, it is not authentic Mexican.

[Maxwell]

I actually made hunan food last night, mu-si soup, it's served all over hunan, which is a very pretty place, i don't feel right cooking food from a region unless I've been there myself, and I cook food more often from places I've visited more frequently, which is why i mostly cook selk and iseraeli food.
for tonight:
grilled salmon with a blackberry and red wine reduction
grilled potatoes with gravey made from the the leftover salmon juices and flour and onions
boiled then creamed radishes(kind of like spicy cremed spinach)
this would or is an example of delicious selk cuisine.
tomorrow night i'll treat you to some israeli recipes.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I've never had salmon gravy before.

[Maxwell]

it's actually quite good, and a little spicy, however the addition of some lemon juice can take the edge off.
also for tonight I plan to make
Brisket(traaditional)
Matzobrie, which is an egg dish made with matzos and onions added to scrambled eggs.
latkes, they are sort of like fried potato pancakes, or perhaps jewish hashbrowns
blinses, sort of like semi-sweet cheese burritos made with pancakes(served with sour cream apple sauce and jelly)
tomorrow...more selk food, or maybe thai....but probably selk.

[Chimera]

My mom and I made fresh salsa yesterday. It was great--mostly because the lady who came to help my mom clean is originally from Guatemala, and she helped us make it. She showed us how to cut the jalepenos holding them with a plastic bag so you don't get the juices in your hands (it makes your hands feel like they are on fire if you don't use a bag or gloves). She also kept taste-testing it for us and telling us to add more salt or cilantro or whatever. It turned out sooooo good! We made a ton, and it's almost gone already.  

Now I just need to convince my mom to make her famous caramel popcorn. It's a bit of a mess, but very tasty.