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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:

Birth year???!!!! Man, am I getting old...

PH

No kidding. I remember what I was doing in '78. Well, it's a little fuzzy, but more or less

I bet it's having a side salad tonight.

A monster hunk of prime beef ribeye rubbed in garlic, sea salt, and a fresh-cracked pepper blend - roasted very rare; steamed asparagus; bearnaise; 2003 Marques de Casa Concha Cab, (an hour in the decanter and my goodness, has it opened up!)

Yes, no starch - gotta watch the waistline, (the arteries we'll worry about later...)

Lamb burgers

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Lamb burgers

I actually saw ground lamb in the grocery store for the first time the other day.

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I actually saw ground lamb in the grocery store for the first time the other day.

And you walked right by it, like I did right?

Not a lamb guy myself. Making a burger out of it is the furthest thing from my food mind.

Had excellent vegerarian East Indian food last night-- spicy grilled eggplant; fried cauliflower and potatoes; yogurt and cucumber; cabbage salad; couple of different breads. We ordered it mild, but it was still nice to have a cold beer to wash it down.

I hadn't had East Indian food in a very long time, and had forgotten how much it makes the taste buds sit up and take notice. Great array of spices, highly complex.

What wine do you slug down your pie hole with East Indian food?

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Originally posted by spo1977:

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Lamb burgers

I actually saw ground lamb in the grocery store for the first time the other day.

Actually lamb burgers can be pretty tasty. The trick is to have zero/zippy/nada lamb fat in the mix. If lean lamb is blended with beef fat, it makes for a nice burger. Try with a teriyaki glaze.

PH

Beef jerky right now.

Grilled lamb flank steak makes for some good tacos...

Over the last few nights on the grill:

Chicken, tri-tip, and pork chops. Something fun about standing at the grill in 45 degree weather....

I had some outstanding authentic Chinese food this evening:

Spring roll "Hong Kong style"
Pan fried dumplings
Deep fried crab meat and mashed shrimp balls (soooo good)
Wonton soup
Peking duck 2 ways with steamed buns (2 ways means they shave off the top layer of the duck-the skin and thin layer of meat-and serve it to you first and then they take the rest of the duck to the back of the kitchen, diced up the rest of the meat on the duck and sautee it with veggies...very unique)
Beef with flat noodles in XO sauce (this was to die for...I have no idea what XO sauce is but it was good)
Orange slices for dessert (kind of cheap but it was complementary)

pmwiv

Speaking of ground lamb, tonight I made kibbe (lamb patties w/bulghur).

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Originally posted by Bella Donna:
I had some outstanding authentic Chinese food this evening:

Very far from authentic.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Very far from authentic.

Atleast I wasn't the ignorant American that ordered pig's blood and then sent it back...

Maybe I should have spiked my cholesterol and ordered the pig intestines fried...or maybe the $50 shark fin soup would have appeased you.

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Originally posted by Hunter:

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I actually saw ground lamb in the grocery store for the first time the other day.

And you walked right by it, like I did right?

Not a lamb guy myself. Making a burger out of it is the furthest thing from my food mind.

Hunter, I actually like lamb. The only reason I did not buy it was I had to go back to work. I will pick them up in the future.

I made chicken cacciatore with lots of mushrooms on fetuccini noodles last night. Man, I LOVE a good stew on a cold wet evening.

With it, we had 2002 Frescobaldi Chianti Ruffina Nippozana and 2001 Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva Badia A Passignano. The latter was young and still quite tight, but not a huge improvement over the Nippozana which costs about half as much.

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Originally posted by Board-O:

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Originally posted by Bella Donna:
I had some outstanding authentic Chinese food this evening:

Very far from authentic.

I was in China for more than a month in 2004, and I can tell you that "very far from authentic" is not necessarily a bad thing!

Not surprisingly, in a country as large and densely-populated as China, the diversity of cuisines is tremendous. Though we usually get a sanitized, North-Americanized version of Chinese food here, there are a lot of things that I have no desire to try again. Deep-fried cicadas, anyone?

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cicadas

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Originally posted by Bella Donna:
Atleast I wasn't the ignorant American that ordered pig's blood and then sent it back...

There was nothing ignorant about it, ignorant one. I wanted to try something authentic. I did. I didn't like it. I paid for it and ordered something else. Your use of the word "ignorance" in this context is ignorant. Ignorant is ordering Americanized food and calling it authentic.

Now go stuff your pie hole with a side salad.

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Originally posted by Seaquam:
I was in China for more than a month in 2004, and I can tell you that "very far from authentic" is not necessarily a bad thing!

I agree completely. My experience with authentic Chinese cuisine was not fun. Pig intestine in hot pot arrived in bubbling pig blood. I thought I was gonna get pig kishka!

Speaking of pie hole, the month is half over and I am a little worried that Bella is not going to edit the title of this thread to "What are you eating"? I even like the less formal "Whatcha Eating" but "pie hole".

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Originally posted by Board-O:
I thought I was gonna get pig kishka!

My bubba would burst if she read that!