Unutterably Silly I love food porn! so...what are you craving?

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

Anyone here easily addicted and likes black licorice and / or chocolate???

Aha.... Just saw this one question, H.T.
Black licorice is our national candy; we have about a zillion different kinds and shapes.
Everybody eats it; some elder folks get high blood pressure from eating too much licorice.
A lot of offices here have this jar filled with licorice and dip into them. Once in a while someone buys a couple of pounds to fill it up again.
When you have a cold: put some bay leaf licorice in a bottle of water: shake well and let it stand for a night = cough syrup
Another idea: take a huge peppermint + some really salt licorice and put it in your mouth; tastes real good.

Yes, we all love it. It's a national addiction

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Yes, we all love it. It's a national addiction

What is that nation (your profile just says 'travelling')?

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Aha.... Just saw this one question, H.T.
Black licorice is our national candy; we have about a zillion different kinds and shapes.
Everybody eats it; some elder folks get high blood pressure from eating too much licorice.
A lot of offices here have this jar filled with licorice and dip into them. Once in a while someone buys a couple of pounds to fill it up again.
When you have a cold: put some bay leaf licorice in a bottle of water: shake well and let it stand for a night = cough syrup
Another idea: take a huge peppermint + some really salt licorice and put it in your mouth; tastes real good.

Yes, we all love it. It's a national addiction

we had a Dutch exchange student for a year, everyone of her "care packages" had a fairly large supply of that kind of licorice. I like black licorice, but the heavily salty stuff was WAY too much for me!

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

What is that nation (your profile just says 'travelling')?

The Netherlands, Nijmegen: I don't like to be tied down to a country, but for now I am; always considered myself a ' rolling stone gathering no moss'.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by desertblues

The Netherlands, Nijmegen: I don't like to be tied down to a country, but for now I am; always considered myself a ' rolling stone gathering no moss'.

Ah - thanks.

I was guessing Denmark based simply on the fact that a Danish girl I worked with used to always bring salt liquorice back with her every time she went home to visit. I think it must be an acquired taste - just not one I've acquired

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

For lunch I had a bowl of brown rice with a boiled egg broken up in it, with a dash of olive oil and some salt and pepper. I got this idea a few months from a local food blogger and it's become one of my standby quick lunches (or breakfast). Works well with leftover brown rice too.

My wife's favorite 'quick meal' is a bowl of rice with a raw egg and soy sauce mixed in. VERY popular dish here, but I don't think it would go over very well with most Americans. I have trouble with even watching her eat it!

They never had the Salmonella problem in Japan, so raw eggs continue to be a popular food flavoring. It's the standard 'dipping sauce' for sukiyaki.


Stitchawl

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

My wife's favorite 'quick meal' is a bowl of rice with a raw egg and soy sauce mixed in. VERY popular dish here, but I don't think it would go over very well with most Americans. I have trouble with even watching her eat it!

They never had the Salmonella problem in Japan, so raw eggs continue to be a popular food flavoring. It's the standard 'dipping sauce' for sukiyaki.


Stitchawl

One of my favourite Japanese dishes I have had is oyakodon, but there have been two ways I've been served it: mostly raw egg, and cooked egg. I like the mostly raw version ("mostly", because the breaking of the egg into the hot dish slightly cooks it). In Perth, Australia, at a Japanese takeaway, I had the best oyakodon, with the Japanese chef coming out and asking me if the raw egg was okay, because he could cook it if I wanted.

And the raw egg is one of the best things about sukiyaki.

Cheers,
Marc

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

One of my favourite Japanese dishes I have had is oyakodon, but there have been two ways I've been served it: mostly raw egg, and cooked egg. I like the mostly raw version ("mostly", because the breaking of the egg into the hot dish slightly cooks it). In Perth, Australia, at a Japanese takeaway, I had the best oyakodon, with the Japanese chef coming out and asking me if the raw egg was okay, because he could cook it if I wanted.

And the raw egg is one of the best things about sukiyaki.

Cheers,
Marc

In the words of that famous philosopher and statesman, "Yuck!"

I too like oyakudonburi, but I prefer mine to have the egg cooked a bit. If the rice is REALLY hot, that would be enough, but rice kept warm from a rice cooker doesn't get if for me. Needs some pan time for me.

Strangely enough, when used for dipping sukiyaki, I don't mind it at all. Go figure?!?


Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

For some reason, I woke up this morning with a craving for Octopus dumplings! Called 'Takoyaki' in Japan, these are a 'fast food' snack or meal depending upon the number eaten, and I just want a snack. 6 should do nicely!




Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

I want Yaki Imo from a vendor's wagon! This is nothing like a hot baked sweet potato, roasted in a charcoal or wood oven and eaten outdoors!



Another month and the street vendors should be out in their trucks making the rounds of the neighborhoods, and the stationary vendors in all the parks!

Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

Cold, rainy Monday... Got the urge for some good Bouillabaisse! I just looked and I see that I'm all out of saffron... Damn. Gotta make a run into the city. Only one store I know has good saffron. The local markets near me only have the 'fake saffron,' looks like the 'real' stuff but comes from safflower instead of crocus, and has no flavor! For good bouillabaisse it's gotta be the real deal!

Stichawl

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Cold, rainy Monday... Got the urge for some good Bouillabaisse! I just looked and I see that I'm all out of saffron... Damn. Gotta make a run into the city. Only one store I know has good saffron. The local markets near me only have the 'fake saffron,' looks like the 'real' stuff but comes from safflower instead of crocus, and has no flavor! For good bouillabaisse it's gotta be the real deal!

Stichawl

Aren't you supposed to be drinking the burning tires stuff on a cold rainy day?

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Aren't you supposed to be drinking the burning tires stuff on a cold rainy day?

Man doth not live by tea alone.

Lapsang Souchong for this afternoon's reading time, and bouillabaisse with a glass of wine for dinner. But it's still morning here, so I'm workin' on a stein of Ceylon tea as I dress for a cold rainy ride into Kyoto!


Stitchawl

[Dodge]

CHEESEBURGERS!!!

[Stitchawl]

Oooo... that one on the foil looks really really good. I love a good juicy cheeseburger!


Stitchawl