Something Delicious

Ursy · 12-02-2012, 04:43 AM

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#1 Is there a city or town that stands out for you as having a great food scene?

#2. What makes a location a great food scene for you?

#3. Where would you like to travel to, to experience the local foods?

#4. What dish or meal stands out as something that you would travel for again?

#1. Singapore. When visiting relatives in Singapore, amazing food is ALWAYS involved.

#2. It has to engage *all* the senses.

#3. We briefly visited the Mediterranean on a cruise that my mother in law took us on a few years ago. I would love to visit there again and spend more time in Italy and Greece especially.

#4. Oh too many to list! Probably many of the things I had on the trip I mentioned in #3!

I just had some Thai green curry and coconut chicken sausages from my local butcher. Mmmmm, very very good!

I'd like to get into sausage making one of these days

lusciouskiwi · 12-02-2012, 04:55 AM

#1 Is there a city or town that stands out for you as having a great food scene?
I think most places have somewhere great to eat. My ex and I used to go to a divine French restaurant in Hillcrest, San Diego but it's closed now. Bobby Chin's in Hanoi is fabulous. In fact, Hanoi has some great restaurants.

#2. What makes a location a great food scene for you?
I think I'll have to go with Guihong and Ursy - the company, the location, the occasion, and of course, the food.

#3. Where would you like to travel to, to experience the local foods? Would love to go back to Vietnam. Austria for cake and coffee. Spain, Portugal, Italy, and there is so much I haven't eaten in Malaysia yet! But where WOULDN'T I go to eat is probably an easier question to answer.

#4. What dish or meal stands out as something that you would travel for again?
Vegetarian bibimbap, Ulsan, South Korea. Their gochujang was home-made and fantastic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gochujang

Nadeest · 12-02-2012, 07:15 AM

Wow, I just saw some beef and chicken base at one of the larger H.E.B. stores, here in the Houston area! I am definitely going to be picking up some of that, very soon. Mind you, I'd drather make my own stock, but this makes for a quick substitute when I don't have any stored away in the freezer. Besides, I have very limited freezer space, and can never store enough stock for my tastes. I don't really like the boxes of stock and broth that are available, either.

Sun · 12-02-2012, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Nadeest

Wow, I just saw some beef and chicken base at one of the larger H.E.B. stores, here in the Houston area! I am definitely going to be picking up some of that, very soon. Mind you, I'd drather make my own stock, but this makes for a quick substitute when I don't have any stored away in the freezer. Besides, I have very limited freezer space, and can never store enough stock for my tastes. I don't really like the boxes of stock and broth that are available, either.

This is a challenge for me as well. When I do not have stock on hand and have to improvise I can never find a stock that I really "love" and if I do not love it I do not want to use it. I have had some good luck with Pacific brand organic boxed stock that I then enrich with onions, carrots, celery. Never found a base that I really like.

Sun · 12-02-2012, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ursy

#1. Singapore. When visiting relatives in Singapore, amazing food is ALWAYS involved.

#2. It has to engage *all* the senses.

#3. We briefly visited the Mediterranean on a cruise that my mother in law took us on a few years ago. I would love to visit there again and spend more time in Italy and Greece especially.

#4. Oh too many to list! Probably many of the things I had on the trip I mentioned in #3!

I just had some Thai green curry and coconut chicken sausages from my local butcher. Mmmmm, very very good!

I'd like to get into sausage making one of these days

Ursy I have heard so many wonderful things about the food scene in Singapore.

Yes, go back to Italy and Greece to sample everything.

Green curry is one of the great foodie loves of my life. You had this IN the chicken sausage or with it?

Ursy · 12-02-2012, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Sun

Ursy I have heard so many wonderful things about the food scene in Singapore.

Yes, go back to Italy and Greece to sample everything.

Green curry is one of the great foodie loves of my life. You had this IN the chicken sausage or with it?

Yes, it was IN the sausage, it was a chicken sausage with green curry and coconut flavouring in it. Yum! I should go back and get some more.

Sun · 12-02-2012, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ursy

Yes, it was IN the sausage, it was a chicken sausage with green curry and coconut flavouring in it. Yum! I should go back and get some more.

Now that is clever idea. I have made chicken in green curry and its a coconut base.

Great flavor profiles. Yum.

Do you make Thai green curry?

Ursy · 12-02-2012, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Sun

Now that is clever idea. I have made chicken in green curry and its a coconut base.

Great flavor profiles. Yum.

Do you make Thai green curry?

Not from scratch, but I've got a favourite curry paste - Maesri - Excellent flavour. I hear Mae Ploy is also very good, but I haven't tried it because I heard that it was generally hotter.

The coconut milk/cream has to be good too. Do you have a favourite? I like Aroy-D or Chaokoh (not certain on the spelling...) - it makes all the difference.

Hmm, think I need to make a green curry soon...

Sun · 12-05-2012, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Ursy

Not from scratch, but I've got a favourite curry paste - Maesri - Excellent flavour. I hear Mae Ploy is also very good, but I haven't tried it because I heard that it was generally hotter.

The coconut milk/cream has to be good too. Do you have a favourite? I like Aroy-D or Chaokoh (not certain on the spelling...) - it makes all the difference.

Hmm, think I need to make a green curry soon...

The Mae-Ploy that I am familiar with is a mild hot sweet sauce. Try it.

Coconut Milk is a challenge for me due to the sodium metabisulphite that is often added as a preservative. I found a Goya coconut milk that does not have the preservative added. Many of the others do, sadly

12-02-2012, 04:55 AM	#2
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Nadeest Member How Do You Identify?: as myself Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Leesburg, FL Posts: 595 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,876 Thanked 2,118 Times in 501 Posts Rep Power: 17077997	Wow, I just saw some beef and chicken base at one of the larger H.E.B. stores, here in the Houston area! I am definitely going to be picking up some of that, very soon. Mind you, I'd drather make my own stock, but this makes for a quick substitute when I don't have any stored away in the freezer. Besides, I have very limited freezer space, and can never store enough stock for my tastes. I don't really like the boxes of stock and broth that are available, either.