Thread: What brings out your inner ChowSnob? For me, it's apparently enchiladas..
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago by shanagain
I'm Texan. My love for traditional Tex-Mex (note, TEX-Mex) knows no bounds. (I draw the line at Velveeta in anything but RoTel queso, however - it was not considered standard in my part of TX. For us "rat cheese" aka good old cheap longhorn cheddar was the norm.) And I got a little.. overbearing, maybe, at the suggestion that you could make Texan style (ie, Tex-Mex) red enchilada sauce with ...
BarmyFotheringayPhipps replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
As a fellow Texan, I have a hard and fast definition of what constitutes a proper hamburger. Not that I won't eat hamburgers that fall outside this standard definition -- it's only been fairly recently that anything even resembling a good burger has made it here to Boston -- but I still think "It's good, but it's not a proper hamburger."
I could've just started this in the Texas board, because Chicken Fried Steak belongs on that list, as well. And let's not forget chili. (I've mellowed on chili, as long as you don't name it something like "Texas Red" or whatnot, I can accept variations. Sort of.)
For me, it's southern cuisine, like fried chicken, potato salad, gravy & biscuits, gumbo, greens, pig feet, etc. I live in NC and a few years ago I went to a buffet in VA (about an hour from me) and I couldn't believe they were calling that food "country". Potato salad is more than just mayonnaise & potatoes; you have to season a pig foot, you just can't stick it in a pot of water and think...
LOL - I guess my post originally asking about enchilada sauce caused this!! Well, definitely have to agree with any "recipe" where a can of soup is an ingredient. But also, bottled salad dressing and proper gravy and mashed potatoes (at least - proper by my own definition). Oh yes! And also "homemade bread" from a bread machine. I guess I am a bread purist but that stuff out of the machine may ...
When I'm served mashed potatoes at a restaurant and they're made from a dried "instant" product, I send them back. I'm not talking about the spuds on a blue plate special at a diner, I'm talking about mashed as a side at a restaurant I'd not expect to use potato powder. The more I think of it, actually, diners make some of the nicest mashed potatoes -- consistently -- from scratch. Bottled ...
I am also a Texan and I have a knee jerk reaction of irritation to people who think they "know" Mexican food but they fetishize Oaxaca, or only want restos with the lable "interior" and they especially turn their noses down at Northern/Frontera cuisine and Tex-Mex and don't realize how much these cuisines overlap. And they snub flour tortillas, thinking flour tortillas are inauthentic. And they ...
I have a bunch. I cook a lot. When places don't take pride in their food offerings, it makes me think they are only in business to slop out food to anyone who will accept it. Mole Jarred Salsa - there is NO excuse for this. Fake meat on a sandwich Processed, preservative laden, guacamole. Fake, sugar laden, "salad dressings," and "mayonnaise" - who EATS that stuff? Why not just sprinkle ...
Oh dear, never visit the restaurant kitchen when they're prepping your plate, hahaha! We have a friend who eats unbearably slowly!!! He loves to talk, and the food moves at a snail's pace to his mouth, so that we are long finished and ready to move on and his plate is still 2/3 full. I always think he's not going to finish it, he mustn't be enjoying it... But he does... I generally just like to think of it as one of his...
Hey Stashu, who stole the kiska? I'm w/ you on the kiebasi and perogie. Kapusta too; commercial saurkraut too is, well, just too sour; lacks deep cabbage flavor. Commercial xren, horseradish too; lack knock down power, but what a grating experience fresh is! My matuska would say gov(b)na! Shenkooya Passadumkegsky
No, actually, shanagain nailed my view exactly: it is a Portuguese soup from the fishing villages of Rhode Island, eastern CT and Cape Cod, which was later co-opted by New Yorkers. I don't understand what's so difficult to understand about that.
Jus finish making chkn enchiladas & I'm so effin... Jus finish making chkn enchiladas & I'm so effin tired!!!! Apparently the Sudafed I've been taking is non-drowsy but it's making me sleepy.. 10:43 PM Apr 7th from Tweetie
Hanging with @ aai & making... Hanging with @ aai & making enchiladas-turned-casserole as apparently I have recipe-reading issues. http://twitpic.com/c7z2a 9:52 PM Jul 30th from Tweetie
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