The stuff you put in your foodhole
I had talked about this some in the Politics Thread and it didn’t feel like it fit in there well enough and more in a health/food/wellness kind of area. While we’re still likely not at the peak of the first … Continue reading Preparing For COVID-19 Wave 2
After a long break for Easter, the tournament resumes at a critical phase. We’re down to the heavyweights now. Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Quarterfinals
We’re getting into the homestretch of this competition now! These final matches will be truly grueling. The highest-scoring winner last time was the eminently deserving Potstickers, winning over its close cousin Wontons with an astonishing 44 votes. Peking Duck was … Continue reading Best Chinese Food Tournament, Round 4
We’re down to just the top 16 in each bracket! Things are getting intense at this point! The highest-scoring winner last round was Egg Rolls, with a whopping 58 votes! Rival appetizer Potstickers tags close behind with 57– it’ll be … Continue reading Best Chinese Food tournament, Round 3!
Things are tightening up in the battle for the best appetizer, and some strong contenders are starting to get sent home. Which entrants will make it on to the quarterfinals? Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Savoury 16
Our first round of elimination is now complete! At this point, mostly because I’m salty (and spicy and mala and umami) about mapo tofu losing, we’ll switch to a double-elimination format, with the second-placers from round one going into the … Continue reading Best Chinese Food Tournament: Round 2!
Half the field is gone, and we’re on to the round of 32. Time to vote! Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Round of 32
I guess tournaments are our thing now, so, yeah, here’s one for a subject near and dear to my heart: Chinese Food! This’ll be standard Avocado tournament rules. I’m expecting a 64-entry bracket, but if it’s bigger or smaller we’ll … Continue reading Best Chinese Food Tournament: Nominations
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first round of the Avocado’s favourite appetizer tournament. Just a couple of quick programming notes: first of all, I’ve tried to seed things as fairly as I can, to keep the most popular nominees … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Round of 64
We’ve had some dessert-themed food tournaments, but following a recent (ish) discussion in the OT, it seemed like a tournament for anti-dessert (known to some as appetizers or starters) would also be fun. I’ll run the nominations themselves this week, … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer: Nominations
Midwest is prepping for a blizzard and I’ve got a roaring fire going, made me think of soup! What’s your favorite soup? Either home made or from a restaurant or a can/box whatever. Continue reading Sunday Food Thread Jan 12
We spent our Saturday preparing for a meet & greet we’re hosting for a local political candidate. It’s a point of pride for my wife to make as much of the food ourselves rather than just ordering a tray and … Continue reading 64 Samosas Sunday Food Thread, 1/5
Hello, everyone and welcome to Let’s Read An Old Menu! This is another in a I-really-can’t-honestly-call-it-weekly-anymore series looking at restaurant, hotel kitchen, and lunch counter menus from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sometimes things will be familiar, sometimes they’ll be … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Menu, featuring Childs’, New York, New York
Any good holiday foods happening? Got New Year’s Eve/Day food traditions to share with us? Did you celebrate Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa or none of the above? In any event I hope you’re all eating well! Continue reading Last Sunday Food Thread of 2019
These two cookie recipes are the usual holiday treats, we do other things too but these are the ones we make every year. Moravian Wafers– We make a trip to the Spice House to get fresh spices for these cookies … Continue reading Holiday Treats Sunday Food Thread 12/22
It’s a double-whammy today. Not only am I uninspired to write about anything, I’m also uninspired about what to eat today. Often this means I’ll eat a bowl of cereal because it’s pretty much the fastest way I can get … Continue reading The Food Thread Is Uninspired 12/14
I don’t have an idea for a topic today, but as yesterday was Tom Waits’ 70th birthday and his song Chocolate Jesus name drops Abba-Zabba (among others) I figured why not a favorite candy thread? Tell us your stories of … Continue reading Sunday Food Thread, 12/8
The header is what we served, I guess we didn’t write a dessert menu but we had pumpkin pie, pecan chocolate pie, cheesecake, and banana chocolate chip bread ( a guest brought it). We had two food threads on the … Continue reading Thanksgiving Recap, Sunday Food Thread 12/1
Turkey Day Edition What better way to celebrate the holiday famous for pumpkin pie than with another discussion about pumpkin spice foods? Precisely! So let’s not sit around waiting several hours for it to be ready, let’s dive right in. … Continue reading The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow #13
Happy US Thanksgiving ! Did you forget to thaw the turkey? Is your green bean and onion casserole not getting the desired crunch? Wanna share a pic lovely meal? Here’s where we share advice, troubleshoot, and brag. Continue reading Thanksgiving Cooking thread
Last week was power tools, this week what’s your favorite hand powered tool? Anthony Bourdain (RIP, sniff) has said a sturdy chef’s knife is the single most indispensable tool in a kitchen and I have to agree. I definitely keep … Continue reading Hand Tools. Sunday Food Thread 11/24
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