Voodoolily's Snacktastic Recipe Thread!!

[Hindenburg]

Do you also dislike bananas?

[Nebu]

Do you also dislike bananas?

Excellent point.  I love bananas.  I just can't take avocado for some reason.  California rolls are the only place I will even consider it without gagging.  Must be a mental block. 

Funny... I've eaten bugs, worms, and other critters in survival situations, but can't do avocado.  Yes... I am broken.

[Mosesandstick]

I think my problem with avocado is the texture and not the flavor.  I just can't get past a "creamy" fruit. 

You haven't lived life till you've eaten durian. 

[Samwise]

I had a mental block against avocado for much of my youth.  The thing that broke it was encountering good guacamole.

[Bunk]

So I have a in-office bbq coming up on Friday, and having been away during planning has left me with the choice of dessert.

Looking for suggestions of not too difficult desserts, easy to transport, with no nut products whatsoever... (which ruled out most of the best ones I already knew. Really don't want to kill off a co-worker though)

[Oz]

easiest= fruit salad (everyone loves fruit)
easier= creme brule
easy= pie

[Ookii]

My favorite dessert for bbqs is one I came upon while looking for bbq deserts!

Basically you take sticky rice and make cook it in coconut milk and brown sugar.  Then you spread it on a banana leaf and put a banana in the center, and then roll the whole thing up kinda like sushi.  Grill until the outside is brown and you're GTG.

The problem is most office eaters aren't that adventurous, so it's fun to see who actually tries it.  At my old office I made two and we finished one, and by current place of employment I made two and a quarter of one was eaten.  Believe me though, it's scrumptious.

[Bunk]

It does sound good, but may be a bit too adventurous for this lot. Plus we'll be jumping in and out since they still have to cover the phones, so having a dessert I don't need to cook there would be better.

[NowhereMan]

Sounds similar to rice pudding, in that case I'm guessing it's tasty good.

[Samwise]

Sounds like bibingka.  I've plowed through a whole pan of that stuff in a single sitting.  It's  .

[voodoolily]

I think my problem with avocado is the texture and not the flavor.  I just can't get past a "creamy" fruit. 

You haven't lived life till you've eaten durian. 

Durian is overrated, imo. Just tastes like fruity barf.

I've made that coconut sticky rice pudding, Ookii. I served mine with lychee.

Speaking of avocado smoothies, Samwise, try a Vietnamese restaurant. They almost always have them.

[Ookii]

I would argue against it being a pudding, but I guess that's just me.

[Yegolev]

While looking for the ice cream attachment for my Kitchenaid: flame decals!

Also I'm ordering the Kitchenaid attachment.  It's my collect-em-all weakness plus my love of gadgets plus kitchen porn.  Did not get the decals though, $35 is too much for something that will also cause my wife to complain more.

[Sky]

Only $20:

[Samwise]

Speaking of avocado smoothies, Samwise, try a Vietnamese restaurant. They almost always have them.

They're always there, but never done well. 

[voodoolily]

While looking for the ice cream attachment for my Kitchenaid: flame decals!

Also I'm ordering the Kitchenaid attachment.  It's my collect-em-all weakness plus my love of gadgets plus kitchen porn.  Did not get the decals though, $35 is too much for something that will also cause my wife to complain more.

Get the sausage maker attachment to go with the meat grinder attachment. You can thank me later.

I would argue against it being a pudding, but I guess that's just me.

Well you can cut it into little squares, but you can do that to bread pudding too.

[Yegolev]

Get the sausage maker attachment to go with the meat grinder attachment. You can thank me later.

This is a fine idea but I think next on the list is the grater.  I'll be able to make hashbrowns and shredded cheese, which I really need since I already have all of the ingredients for my taco casserole except for the hashbrowns.

Also next time I might remember to use my Amazon store so I get the kickback.  Maybe.

[schild]

Also next time I might remember to use my Amazon store so I get the kickback.  Maybe.

/snarl

[Bunk]

We're sitting here at work with two bbqs setup in the courtyard of the building. Burgers, Italian sausage, Indian spiced lamb, tandoori chicken, salads, cake, cookie dough icecream.

I love sunny spring days.

[Sky]

You don't bbq burgers or sausage 

[Bunk]

Que?

Are you saying the using the term bbq is wrong, or are you actually suggesting that one doesn't barbeque hamburgers?

[Signe]

I don't understand, either.  I love Italian sausage on the grill.  Not with tomato-y barbecue sauce, mind you, but nicely browned. 

[Samwise]

I believe he is saying that there's a difference between "grilling" (what you do to sausages and hamburgers) and "barbecuing" (what you do to ribs).

[voodoolily]

I believe he is saying that there's a difference between "grilling" (what you do to sausages and hamburgers) and "barbecuing" (what you do to ribs).

This is the truth. Barbecuing involves slow, low cooking with smoke (and usually sauce), whereas grilling is just food cooked outdoors. BBQ is what you do to shitty, sinewy cuts of meat to make them awesome.

[Sky]

I almost killed myself eating a whole rack of ribs I bbq'd last week. Zomg the bark was amazing. I kinda wished I had taken the time to soak up some wood chips and smoke it, though.

BBQ is what you do to shitty, sinewy cuts of meat to make them awesome.

I was just discussing this with my fiancee the other night. She was reading some book about how the food industry doctors up food to make it more appealing. And I was kinda chuckling, because millenia of cooks have solved most 'problems' with food.

[Signe]

Ah, I see.  We just use the term wrong.  When ever we throw anything on the outside grill, we're having a barbecue!

[Yegolev]

And I was kinda chuckling, because millenia of cooks have solved most 'problems' with food.

Not the "shelf life" problem, though.

[Sky]

Frozen or canned, depending on how it holds up in either. Both methods are ancient and neither are too tainted by over-processing. Frozen is often better than the "fresh" veggies at the supermarket.

I generally shop daily for food, just made it a part of the routine, stop at the market on the way home and see what looks fresh, figure out what we're having from there.

Speaking of the market, shrimp is about $6/lb, boneless beef rib steaks were on sale at $6/lb, and boneless chicken breasts were $5/lb. Pricing seems all over the place, all the old trends are out the window. Turkey breasts were just over $4/lb.

[Yegolev]

Preserved food using traditional methods doesn't look particularly appealing, depending on the food, so I apologize for not elaborating.  Science allows us to have preserved food that keeps a lot of it's pre-death appearance.  Think of your grocery store as a mortuary for food.

I was just thinking yesterday that buying fresh strawberries only to have them turn fuzzy in a few days is a chump's game.  I have personally reached the mental placement of the ancients who decided to make strawberry preserves.  Of course, buying strawberries at the grocery store and then canning them seems a tad stupid.

[voodoolily]

Spending $4 on a half-pint of raspberries and having them mold the next day makes me stabby.

[Signe]

Spending $4 on a half-pint of raspberries and having them mold the next day makes me stabby.

Exactly this happened to us last week.  Bought the raspberries, Righ used half that night with his ice cream, they were bad the next day.  Not even good enough to use in cooking!  I don't understand it at all.  They were perfectly fine one minute and nasty the next!   

[voodoolily]

They should have a warning that they must be consumed immediately. I felt like returning them to the store, I was so frustrated. Next time (if there is a next time) I'll keep them in the fridge.

[Sky]

I love strawberries and raspberries with ice cream, but yeah...need to use them that day or they mold over. And you've got to be very careful buying them. I eat a ton of bananas and I'm fairly picky about them, like them totally yellow with no 'green' taste, ideal banana is dark yellow and very spotty, but they bruise extremely easily at that point. But I hate bananas that are bruised at the store, and it's not always easy to tell. Nothing worse than sitting down at break with a good book only to find my banana is half mush flesh.

[Signe]

I have bought berries bazillions of times and they have lasted 3 or 4 days in the fridge and have been very tasty.  A day or so only if you leave them out. 

[Yegolev]

Next time (if there is a next time) I'll keep them in the fridge.

This does not help much, if at all, depending on the batch you get.  Could be that my fridge is too humid, though.  Really, who knows how long they were in a truck and on the shelf?  Also I suspect that commercial berry farms could double as mold farms if they found a profit in it.

Please note that if your berries become hairy today, you ate fungus the previous day.