What did you last eat/drink?

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Stitch! You're in Thailand and I'm in New Orleans and I'm the one who ate Asian fusion (albeit Vietnamese) and you ate Cajun (Cajun isn't New Orleans food. That would be Creole. However, it is Louisiana food. Big differences in cuisine and culture). Anyway, I find that amusing.

Around the corner from my house, but on the same block, there is a Japanese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Thai family restaurant, and a Western-style sandwich shop. For Cajun AND Creole cooking, we have to walk about 5 blocks.
But in this case, I cooked the chicken at home, as I wanted to try a new recipe.
We eat Thai food 90% of our meals, but those other 10% can be almost anything you can imagine here. The assortment of restaurants seems to be wider than in large metro cities in the US, and this is a very small town! But with so many retired ex-pats, and restaurant meals costing under $5 for a really good 'ethnic' one (I usually pay under a dollar for a Thai dinner in a restaurant) eating is 'big' around here!


Stitchawl

[pdurrant]

An apple and a Coke Zero.

[Stitchawl]

Spicy Italian Foot-Long with the works from Subway


Stitchawl

[meeera]

spinach and onion quiche, om nom nom.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Around the corner from my house, but on the same block, there is a Japanese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Thai family restaurant, and a Western-style sandwich shop. For Cajun AND Creole cooking, we have to walk about 5 blocks.
But in this case, I cooked the chicken at home, as I wanted to try a new recipe.
We eat Thai food 90% of our meals, but those other 10% can be almost anything you can imagine here. The assortment of restaurants seems to be wider than in large metro cities in the US, and this is a very small town! But with so many retired ex-pats, and restaurant meals costing under $5 for a really good 'ethnic' one (I usually pay under a dollar for a Thai dinner in a restaurant) eating is 'big' around here!


Stitchawl

Sounds wonderful. We have a large Vietnamese population here, which has led to yumminess. So, you have Creole (French with overlays of Africa and the Americas), Cajun (which moved in from the countryside with Paul Prudhomme), Italian (since the 19th century, there was a large influx of Sicilian Italians and New Orleans Italian developed into its own thing), and the aforementioned Vietnamese. Lately, there is more Thai and Latin American. Funnily enough, there seem to be more Thai places (3 or 4) in the suburban town N. of the lake that I moved from.

Anyway, there aren't any restaurants in my neighborhood but, by work, there is a neighborhood New Orleans cafe with an Italian bent to the food that serves red beans and rice, po-boys, paninis, salads, etc. They also do breakfast. The Vietnamese place is on the other side of campus. It is cool but not as good as Phau Tau Bay on the West Bank or Dong Phuong in the East and way more expensive and hipster. Also, there is a beignet place in the park and a snow ball stand (that also serves boudain sausage). I miss Sala Thai on the Northshore.

/Now I am already hungry for lunch, especially since the last thing I ate (breakfast) was cheerios with almond milk. *sigh*

//I am glad to it pretty inexpensive (or can be) to eat out in New Orleans. My mother cooks Creole, brown-rice-hippie, or Creole with a hippie/healthy bent and does it very well. My brother is also an excellent cook (he likes to make Asian-inspired recipes) but me...I can follow a recipe but am lucky if I don't get distracted and set off the smoke alarm.

[covingtoncat73]

Mediterranean salad with grilled shrimp. Yummtastic.

[pdurrant]

Fish & chips & green beans and some left-over egg-fried rice.

[kindlekitten]

Roasted unsalted peanuts, 10 Gummi bears (that's just what was in the packet I was given, and sparkling water. Yesterday I had 12, 12 ounce cans of sparkling water and still felt thirsty. Yes, I've been checked for diabetes

[Bilbo1967]

Meat balls, mashed potato and sauce.

[Melon Soda]

Bagel with jam. I need to start dieting.............

[cromag]

A couple of empress plums. I like them, but their season is short.

[meeera]

vegie omelette again... we are still drowning in egg surplus.

[orlok]

Roasted asparagus topped with poached eggs and drizzled with a lemon and butter sauce.

[meeera]

Lemon-lime Soothers and a little pot of custard. Nasty cold & sore throat.

[Stitchawl]

Khao Soi Gai (Chicken stewed in yellow curry, with egg noodles, preserved mustard greens, and chopped shallots. )

The 'Signature Dish' of Chiang Mai

Originally Posted by orlok

Roasted asparagus topped with poached eggs and drizzled with a lemon and butter sauce.

Roasted asparagus topped with a lemon and butter sauce sounds fantastic, but even the though of poached egg turns my stomach. Unless the yolk is hard enough to chip your teeth, I won't go near it. Even after so many years living in Japan, where beaten raw egg is used as a 'dipping sauce' for many dishes, I still can't handle it.


Stitchawl