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Food Thread: The Plain French Fry: The Highest Expression Of The Fryer's Art?![]() A great French fry is a glorious thing, and surprisingly difficult to achieve. Lots of places are content with just good or very good, and that is fine. As long as they are crispy and not mealy, I am happy to eat them, particularly with a good sandwich and a beer. But dousing them with leftovers from the chili pot or the omelet prep station is an insult to the potatoes that gave their all for the apparently forlorn hope to be cooked crispy and eaten happily. Cheese fries, chili cheese fries, and some even more revolting examples (check below the fold for a particularly vile concoction) are merely masks to cover up poorly rendered fries. Come on, if you can't appreciate a plain old French fry from a good, wholesome American fryer, then the communists have completed their infiltration of America and it is time for drastic measures. I will grudgingly allow some fresh herbs, and maybe a sprinkle of Old Bay if you catch me in a vulnerable moment, but the food as originally designed by George Washington* is almost perfect. Don't let the theft of the concept by the frogs and the red coats fool you! *This is entirely made up and is pretty much just word salad.
Yes, those are "Smores Fries." Kill me now! I drink a fair amount of gin when I am not drinking rye or bourbon or scotch, and I have come to prefer the London Dry style. Why? Mostly inertia. And when I buy it I tend to rotate the brands just for curiosity's sake. My newest bottle was Bombay Dry Gin, which is their London Dry Gin variety. And it was not good at all in a Martinez...my current I am always leery of drink recipes that call for a particular liquor. My suspicious side suspects some booze company payments or free bottles slid under the bar to the mixologist. But in this case I stand corrected. There is indeed a big difference! I have mentioned one of my favorite local butchers a few times, and a few days ago they demonstrated why I like them. I went to the Swiss Pork Store to pick up some sausages and ground beef for burgers (yes...burgers and hot dogs on the grill!). They grind each order fresh, so I had a flash of intelligence (rare...I know) and asked the butcher to grind in a bit more fat than usual. And all was good and fine and proper in Dildo World! Yup...give it a shot if you can. More fat than the typical 80%-20% is just better. Richer mouth feel, more flavor, and oh so juicy and tender. What the hell is "kedgeree?" And who the hell is Valentine Warner? Obviously it is some deeply disturbing Brit dish, cooked by an equally disturbing Brit chef. A cursory internet search reveals that Valentine Warner is a TV chef, and not nearly as odd as I expected. But kedgeree is still sort of weird. Why cook smoked fish again? Why not just eat it? Valentine Warner's special kedgeree I have had Finnan Haddie and smoked salmon (both cold smoked and hot smoked) and they go very well with eggs. I just don't get the additional step.... Commenter "Bensdad00" sent this very interesting explanation of what exactly is going on with the word "bonded" on whiskey labels. Good stuff! Bonded Whiskey Speaking of Brit breakfast food... ![]() Tender Broccoli Rabe that isn't bitter, beef short ribs that have meat on them (not the stupid little sliver of bone they sneak into the packages), Snap Peas (apparently they are no longer grown in quantity), spare bottles of Van Winkle Special Reserve 12 Year Old Bourbon, an herb garden that actually produces herbs, well-marbled NY strip steaks and elk backstrap to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. And don't think that you are off the hook with maple syrup and French Toast: I'm watching you...all of you! And I am watching you perverts who shake Manhattans and keeping a list for the Burning Times. | Recent Comments
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