Food!

Tex Beaumont · Post by **Tex Beaumont** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:17 pm

Dave's Insanity Sauce is the best chilli sauce I've ever had

http://www.gadgetsuk.com/Hottest-Chilli ... 16603.html

You only need a drop at a time. My bottle has lasted me almost 5 years

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:20 pm

plantains are good and available at most grocery stores. wal-mart has 'em. hispanic groceries have 'em.

they're not to be eaten raw.

they're also not generally to be eaten yellow.

they're huge bananas. they are a starch. other nations that aren't america use them like we might use potatoes. put them in a brown paper bag and let them ripen until they're nearly black. if a banana was nearly black you'd throw it out, not because it wouldn't taste good, but because it would be mushy. plantains when black on the outside are still firm on the inside. to peel a plantain, use a knife: cut the ends off, and make about three longwise slits just deep enough to hit the flesh. cut the other way and remove the peel piece by piece until it's gone.

this is a bit of instruction for fried plantains, which will impress everybody and sound really exotic but actually it's very easy to do.

if you have lard, use it, but if you don't or don't like the taste then take some vegetable or canola oil and put it in a sautÃ©/frying/whatever pan, set to medium-low-ish or medium. take the cut-up plantain and make little semicircles maybe 3/4" in width out of 'em. throw these in the pan, leaving enough room that they don't crowd. use some tongs or a flipper or whatever you'd like and flip them after a couple minutes, once they've begun to brown a little.

serve with limes and sprinkle with coarse (kosher/sea) salt. (then put the lime juice on the plantains.) delicious over ice cream, or as an appetizer, or as a side dish. i've never made fried plantain tacos, but it might be something to look into.

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:39 am

Panchos is the greatest mexican resturaunt ever.

a bebop a rebop · Post by **a bebop a rebop** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:19 pm

The Sober Irishman wrote:Panchos is the greatest mexican resturaunt ever.

Oh, gee, we used to go there for the buffet after church on Sundays when I was like 8. Good memories, man. Are you talking about the one in Richardson? Or am I mis-remembering or is it a chain or what?

Kweep · Post by **Kweep** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:38 pm

pancho's is a chain... it may just be in texas though. they used to have a little flag pole on the table, and when you needed more food... you just had to run the flag up the pole and *poof* there'd be a new plate piled with food. fun times... and fat times too.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:57 pm

I was at a buddy's house about a week ago, and he had some hot sauce out ... I covered like 5 chips in it and ate them all at once ... the sauce was his dad's specially made hot sauce. It was probably the first time I actually screamed because something was so hot. Eventually my tongue went numb and I just ate it with everything. It was pretty good actually. If I can get the recipe for you guys, I will.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:09 pm

Best Mexican food is a big can of worms. Coming from Tucson, I've learned that a) most people are pussies in New York and can't handle anything spicy and b) Tucson has the best Mexican food ever. I mean, Tex-Mex is good and all but Sonoran-style is heaven. Go to El Charro, the birthplace of the chimichanga in downtown Tucson, and be reborn.

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:59 pm

Oh yeah? Well my ex-stepdad was Mexican. My grandma Olga would say "oy, miho.. you need to eat!" Delicious wonders followed.

They had a pet goat.

His name was phillipe.

And bebop: That's creepy. My family had the exact same tradition. Sunday after church, family of 8 at the richardson panchos.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:02 pm

I've developed the habit of putting Frank's Red-Hot Sauce on everything.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:45 pm

i eat 9 volt batteries.

LMNOP · Post by **LMNOP** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:58 pm

Dan, does QL's still exist in Muncie? When I went to school there, back in the stone age, it was little more than a shack by the river. Drive up only. Well, drive up, park, walk up to the window, get your food and drive off. Half slab of ribs and a piece of white bread in a styrofoam box for four dollars. That's four dollars even -- no sales tax. Got in a spot of trouble for that. Really good eats, though.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:37 pm

I once made 4 guys late for a gig because of my pulled pork sandwiches.

The gig was right across the street from my house mind you. No Joke.

Gigs are a dime a dozen, good sandwiches are hard too beat. We played so well they want us back again.

Must have been the sandwiches.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:30 pm

LMNOP wrote:Dan, does QL's still exist in Muncie? When I went to school there, back in the stone age, it was little more than a shack by the river. Drive up only. Well, drive up, park, walk up to the window, get your food and drive off. Half slab of ribs and a piece of white bread in a styrofoam box for four dollars. That's four dollars even -- no sales tax. Got in a spot of trouble for that. Really good eats, though.

i don't know about QL's. is it only called QL's? or is that short for something. because it doesn't ring any bells.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:51 pm

fodroy wrote:waffles

As my wife so amusingly loves to point out, every member of my family has a waffle machine. Is this all that weird?