Food Thread: Chocolate Bunnies And Crawfish?

That was from the third batch of our neighbor's crawfish boil. Delicious! The first two batches were pretty damned tasty too. He uses the same boiling liquid for each batch, so it gets more intensely flavored as the day goes on. Yesterday was his fourth Crawfish boil, and the guy is getting really, really good at it! Controlling the amount of spice for each batch is a bit of an art, and this guy is an artist!

Luckily it coincided with a brief return home for us, because I would have been very disappointed to miss it. The Corn Hole tournament though was a bit much for our jet lag.

Am I the only one who thinks that Chicken McNuggets are actually pretty crappy? And that's not because I am a McDonald's poo-pooer. I like McDonalds on occasion, particularly when I stumble onto one of the few locations that knows how to make the food and get it to the customer hot.

But those McNuggets are thoroughly boring, have a faintly unpleasant consistency, and are completely worthless when confronted by the burger on the menu. And I won't even bother to compare them to the Platonic ideal of hangover remedies...the bacon, egg & cheese biscuit!

This is a trend, or is becoming a trend, or is dying out as a trend and I just missed it. That is whipped and foamed cheese. Yeah, it sounds weird, but it is actually delicious!

Just made this last night for the first time. I kept the recipe from the food thread in 2020 or 2021. Just as noted: moist, crunchy, tasty! Used the two-step fry.

The French love chocolate. The French love Easter. And they are energetic in combining the two. I think half the stores in Paris have some sort of Easter-themed display, but the best by far are the chocolate shops!

Who are those poor deluded souls We know who shakes their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty of fifty years, but it is worth it!

posted by CBD at 04:00 PM

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