Not everyone is a foodie snob, is that okay?

Good grief.

and unrefined

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actually i have no idea what you are talking about :P

Some people just likes what they likes, and are not going to adventure much further than that!

:P

i'll be over here with the 'Adults' enjoying my Salmon :rofl:

While I enjoy my foie gras, Kobe beef and truffles!

:rofl:

recipe.

:sounds delicious:

2 teaspoons olive oil
4 ounces pancetta, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
2/3 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup sour cream
1 large garlic cloves or 2 small, minced
6 ounces crumbled Gorgonzola
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 head iceberg lettuce, cut into 6 wedges


Heat the oil in a heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Add the pancetta and saute until crisp and golden, about 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the pancetta to a paper towel-lined plate to drain the excess oil.

Stir the buttermilk, sour cream, and garlic in a medium bowl to blend; mix 2/3 of the cheese. Season the dressing with salt and pepper, to taste.

(The dressing can be made up to 2 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Stir to blend before using, adding more milk to thin the sauce, if necessary.)

Arrange each of 6 lettuce wedges on 6 plates. Spoon the dressing over the lettuce. Sprinkle with the pancetta and remaining cheese and serve.

I have been dying to know the recipe since I saw your thread last night. :bounce:

rosemary brown rice, sauteed asparagas, and sliced tomato.

an Omnivore?

I will not bash anyone's dietary choices. I am sure they have reasons.

ProChoice, whether in music, wine, food or reproductive choices. I have been known to do a reflexive "Eeww", but my questions are out of curiosity and not animosity.

*points ^*


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But I'm really not that much of a snob. If a person wants to eat at Olive Garden in New York or MickeyD's in London and Paris, I'm not going to talk them out of it, or even mock them for it.

Sure, if it was me going to New York, I sample my way through some of the finest restaurants my wallet could handle. But not everyone looking for dinner in New York is looking for a culinary experience; just like not everyone looking for a job in Hollywood is hoping to be a film star, and not everyone in a Berkeley coffee shop is a Birkenstock-wearing vegan, and not everyone in Green Bay, WI moved there to get on MrsGrumpy's Christmas card list. Okay, probably that last one really is true, but the rest of 'em, notsomuch. :hi:

...and chocolate milk.

I love really good food, but gourmet cooking is beyond me!

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:hi:

I'm on my way!

:hi:

I am a very good cook, and I also enjoy
some very crappy fast-food.
I don't apologize for the things I like to eat,
and I don't expect anyone else to.

Except SCRAPPLE, of course. But I don't count that
because scrapple is not actually a FOOD. :evilgrin:

Never thought that one would come back to bite me in the ass!

:rofl:

or monkey brains. But we can Just Say No.

It's just very tender beef, and not really any big deal.

I've never been hungry enough to eat any brains, though.
And I hope I never am!

Foodies eat some nasty shit and being overpriced makes it no less nasty. Simple food executed well is much more appealing as far as I'




*But ignore me. I make white trash vegan food, for fuck's sake. How much casserole and mac and not-cheese can one person eat?

mac and not-cheese :eyes:

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smell or taste nasty. I did it though. Because I rock.

I haven't had anything that even resembles M&C in over 15 years. :)

Unless it's already posted on a sticky thread, in which case I'm a dunce for missing it. :dunce:

I'll have to write it down and I'll PM you a copy.

:hug:
Thank you.

I envision your own cooking show: "Coming up on the Food Network -- White Trash Vegan Cooking with LeftyMom."

Needless to say, there are cans involved. :P

each day here on DU.

:D

for the white trash vegan food?

sounds cheap and easy, and i'm all about cheap and easy (don't even think about it! i'm talking about food!)

Nevermind you said don't think it.
























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and the pie recipe, which is cheap and very easy is in my journal, but I'll add a few more as soon as I get the chance. Especially the shepherd's pie. :9

can you clue me in on the VVAR thing? is that a topic forum?

and thanks! :D

:hi:

I'm finding myself less and less interested in animal fats these days. Trying to be healthy. :)



edit: WOW! What a resource! THANK YOU! :bounce:

SO THERE!!!!!!!

Lucky Charms make for a MUCH superior breading

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I worry about you Northerners.

the stuffing? Did I miss something?

Go and take your canned Spam and your pedestrian taste buds with you!

:P

:eyes:

Seriously, that's like going to Paris, Rome, Calcutta, and Shanghai and only eating at McDonalds.

:applause:

but some could show a little more understanding for people who come to NYC and just fall into a semi familiar place to eat. It wouldn't be my choice (nor my general strategy) but for many the City is very overwhelming and even a meal at the Olive Garden can be exciting.

and thinking that going to the Olive Garden while in New York City is a bad choice. I enjoy junk food as much as the next person, but if I'm going to visit one of the best food towns in the world I sure as hell am not going to be eating the pasta at Olive Garden.

I mean, really... how ridiculous is that?

:shrug:

Some people are more inclined to stay with what they're comfortable with... be less adventurous.

Why jump all over people for even the slightest little difference?

*sigh*

edit: and FCOL! If price is an issue, then that's even more reason to STFU about it.

*shakes head sadly*

in the same thread. $40 for some frozen chicken and canned pasta warmed up in an oven isn't reasonable.

The whole point of traveling is to be adventurous. If you don't want to be adventurous, stay home.

because they didn't want to eat where you think they should?

I mean...really... WTF?

Have you ever been to Hong Kong? Because I wanted to do some shopping and I'm wondering if they've got a Wal-mart.

Have fun with that.

Wow... and I haven't put anyone on ignore in over a year.

Congrats.

Not as nasty as Olive Garden.

stay home?

Real progressive there.

I'm saying you should travel and actually enjoy being somewhere new, be adventurous.

Progressive?

If there's anything conservative about traveling it's eating at American fast food joints.

I hope you're joking.

If not, you better check yourself.

and eat at American fast food restaurants...

and shop at American chain stores...

and stay at American hotel chains...

and in general do that whole Ugly American thing...

then please, by all means stay home.

Thank you Mr. Travel agent! :eyes:

Tell you what, the next time I travel somewhere, I think I'll eat at a chain and shop in a chain store just to raise your ire!! :rofl:

It's your lose and my gain.

By being an ELITIST SNOB?

without a bunch of American tourists.

Wanna take my Demo pinko card away now?

:eyes:

:9

Starting a new thread to highlight your disagreement with someone is tasteless.

Should one be told they are fucking crazy for mentioning a certain restraunt?

Uggg...

Pizza Hut Spaghetti and wash it down with Keystone Light.

Except that he's an AGGIE!!! :P

:)

Redstone

:hi:

would have been a list of close, good non-chain restaurants in NYC. I mean, there are so many amazing restaurants there! My mouth is watering just thinking about them.

and for the record, I like certain aspects of the Olive Garden. There are far worse places. But hey, if you went to Italy, you wouldn't eat in one, right? ;)

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But I'm still a foodie snob...

:woohoo:

And I'd do it again. :rofl:

I kid you not....

I'm not really a big fan of stuffing, but I could make an exception :rofl:

I won't impugn people for their food choices. I might impugn the choices themselves. That's how Internet discussion has worked since the dawn of time -- one person posts their preferences, another person posts variations on "ick."

I wouldn't choose a chain restaurant over a similarly priced local establishment in a city full of local establishments, but if that's what you want to do with your time and money, that's your business. (OK, I admit I'm still a little annoyed that my company held its trade-show dinner at Maggiano's, in Chicago, when we have a Maggiano's in Milwaukee and there are 10000 better restaurants in Chicago.)

Shall people who have dined at chains go ahead and turn in their Dem cards?

I call myself a food snob perhaps a bit self-depricatingly, for what it's worth.

Anyhow: I said very plainly that while I wouldn't eat at a chain restaurant over a similarly priced local establishment, if someone wants to do so with their time and money, it's their business.

Similarly:

I don't jump out of airplanes, but if someone wants to with their time and money, it's their business.
I don't wear flip-flops, but if someone wants to with their money (not much time there), it's their business.
I don't have much of a desire to learn to ballroom dance, but if someone wants to with their time and money, it's their business.

How does one's Dem credentials fit into this argument at all, either in the original thread or this one?

That chip on your shoulder's affecting your posture.

It was a bunch of elitist CRAP.

Take a look at every music thread on DU. People disagree vociferously. "Eeew, you like A Simple Plan? Are you on drugs?" "Olive Garden? Are you crazy?" has similar weight to that, I think. It's the nature of Internet discussion.

Nobody suggests confiscating one's party membership as a result.


For the record, I've eaten at Olive Garden once in the last two years. It was too expensive for what it was. The food was too salty for my tastes, and the restroom was in unacceptable condition. (I notified the hostess about that last one.) I wouldn't go back. Does that make me an elitist? I don't think so, because if I ate at a snooty French restaurant that was overpriced, too salty and not properly maintained, I wouldn't go back either.

I'd wager most people who chimed in on that thread have been to an Olive Garden at some point, and didn't like it much either.

Natch.

In fact, the only food I mainly eat is mac & cheese and ramen.

:(

it'll kill yo ass.

not a food snob, just don't want Fox Mulder to die. :)

in the ramen. I never use the whole thing.

You are not good enough for the DEMOCRATIC party!!! :sarcasm:

:rofl:

Generic or name brand?

You guys think it's OKAY to CHIDE someone for their choice of eatery while on vacation.

Fuck, maybe YOU need to take a fucking PILL.

In fact, I couldn't care less where someone wants to eat when they're on vacation. Convenience dining does not equal renunciation of the Democratic Party. I think all this bickering is silly.

Some assholes decided it would be real "cool" to pile on Radio lady about her eating at olive garden in NYC.

Nice...huh?

but starting a whole new thread to grill said "snobs" wouldn't have been my first choice, either.


But something tells me that there's more to all this than what's on the surface. Call it a hunch...

If you do...watch out!

Anyone who eats at the Olive Garden in New York City is a fucking moron. Period. There is no excuse for it, and no apology for the judgment. You have to be a lazy, ignorant, dim-witted fool to do it. Yeah, I fucking said it. What?

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