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

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Well cold pack pickles aren't that hard, Stitchawl, but they do take some time. I plan on trying to make some later on this summer - I hate paying what they're asking for pickles, when I'm the only one who eats them.

I've made them several times, and while they do taste good, they don't taste the same as Claussons. THAT is the flavor I'm craving, not just Kosher Dills. I can get Ferman's Kosher Dills over in Kobe ( about 60k from here) and they are pretty good too... but they aren't Claussons!

(When ever we travel to a country where I can buy them, I always pick up a jar to keep in the hotel room. )

I have the same problem with Jimmy Dean's Breakfast Sausage. I can make really good breakfast sausage, (breakfast sausage is about the easiest to make,) but it never tastes the SAME as Jimmy Dean's.

It's like when I was a kid and asked my mom to bring home Oreos, and she would show up with a bag of Hydrox or some other brand of the same sort of cookie. It's just not the same...


Stitchawl

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I've made them several times, and while they do taste good, they don't taste the same as Claussons. THAT is the flavor I'm craving, not just Kosher Dills. I can get Ferman's Kosher Dills over in Kobe ( about 60k from here) and they are pretty good too... but they aren't Claussons!

(When ever we travel to a country where I can buy them, I always pick up a jar to keep in the hotel room. )

I have the same problem with Jimmy Dean's Breakfast Sausage. I can make really good breakfast sausage, (breakfast sausage is about the easiest to make,) but it never tastes the SAME as Jimmy Dean's.

It's like when I was a kid and asked my mom to bring home Oreos, and she would show up with a bag of Hydrox or some other brand of the same sort of cookie. It's just not the same...


Stitchawl

Oh, I see! That makes sense. Well, I'm not wedded to Claussen's although I enjoy them tremendously. There are only two brands of cold pack pickles that we get here, Claussen's and Nathan's. I buy whichever is on sale. My problem with making them is a little different. Chris cannot stand the smell of vinegar. So I'll have to make them on a day when A. he's at work and B. I can open all the windows and get the smell out of the house before he gets home. and C. I have the time. Finding this magical combination is probably going to be harder than making the pickles!

[desertblues]

I love pickles, especially the big yellow onions.
I must not read this thread any further, as I'm in bed, can't sleep and am very hungry.

[RainingLemur]

I'm craving a huge cheeseburger. Like, one from Denny's Beer Barrel Pub.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I love pickles, especially the big yellow onions.
I must not read this thread any further, as I'm in bed, can't sleep and am very hungry.

'Pickles' are such a diverse concept. As an American, when I think of pickles I think cucumber drowned in vinegar brine, sweet or sour, etc., or onions. Perhaps cauliflower and green beans, but again, in a vinegar brine. Always strong flavors.

The Koreans have their kimchee made from cabbages, daikon radish, cucumber, etc. but always with a spicy red pepper coating give strong flavors.

But Japanese eat an entirely different 'pickle.' Not at all strong flavor, but often with a strong smell. No vinegar at all. Just salt. Or instead of salt, the ground up powder from the husks of milled rice, with cabbage, eggplant, daikon, etc., buried in a wet mudpack of that stuff. Not at all what I would think of as 'pickle' but pretty damn tasty, and eaten with all meals. Makes for a nice side dish.


Stitchawl

[zekes]

Well for me I love fries and I am craving of for it now.

[glowhappy]

a big steaming bowl of Pho...slurrrrrrpppppp!

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by glowhappy

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a big steaming bowl of Pho...slurrrrrrpppppp!

So very salivatingly awesome. We're having tuna (or salmon, or barramundi) tonight, but tomorrow it might be pho-day now.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by glowhappy

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a big steaming bowl of Pho...slurrrrrrpppppp!

w0w! you found your way back!

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by glowhappy

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a big steaming bowl of Pho...slurrrrrrpppppp!

Hey, you're back! How are you?

[phenomshel]

Craving.... Smoked brisket sandwich, a pile of fried okra, my potato salad, and a huge cold pack kosher spicy dill pickle.

[Ditchleyportrait]

ham and cheese sandwich. have to wait till tomorrow morning to get groceries.

[phenomshel]

I'm going to have to wait considerably longer than that - my grill died. So no smoking brisket for me until I get a new one.

[Ditchleyportrait]

is it a propane or charcoal grill or something else?

[phenomshel]

It was a charcoal grill. I'm not sure what I'm replacing it with yet. We went looking at grills today but didn't make a decision. I found a charcoal grill I loved but it's considerably bigger than the old one was, which means it's going to use a lot more charcoal. So even though I prefer the charcoal taste, I may end up going with propane for cost efficiency. I can get a lot more than one meal's worth of cooking out of a tank of propane.