Food + Television = Innovation
I'm aggravated because the deliverymen who were supposed to drop off the mattress for my fold out couch aren’t anywhere to found. I'm tired of having to stay home and wait all morning just so they can come at the last possible minute loligaging and doing a half-ass job.
EDIT: Damn I spoke to soon just as I typed that they arrived. Whatever I still despise deliverymen.
So I started watching Top Chef Tuesday, which evidently isn't a great show to watch when your home sick with the stomach flu. It doesn't have the zing that PR has but it still had enough culture and style to keep me tuned in till next week at least. I'm just amazed at how beautiful some of the dishes look and sound especially the ones that are made during the quick fire challenge which is a thirty-minute immunity cook off at the beginning of each episode.
I would have never guessed that Pork Pho with Carrot Vermicelli and Herbed Peanut Candy is actually 1 pound pork butt with assorted vegetables with fish and chicken oil though. It looked so appetizing on the show but now yuck!
Ingredients:
1 five pound pork butt
4 Tbsp vegetable oil
salt and pepper for seasoning
2 onions, minced
8 garlic cloves, minced
8 Tbsp tomato paste
3 quarts chicken stock
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup fish sauce
Top Chef has opened my eyes to all things culinary and I found myself watching the food network late into the morning last night. One of the cooler shows that I watched on the Food Network was Ace of Cakes, a show that follows around the rebellious cake maker Duff Goldman and his friends as they do just about whatever the fuck they want with their bad ass cake company. He did everything from make a life-size flamingo cake to the aptly named "fist of rock" cake which was a wedding cake designed for a punk rocking coupling with flames, dancing monkeys, and of course a huge fist pumping the horns out the top of the thing. It kicked some serious ass.
All of this food television in mind I wouldn't mind trying out culinary school after I get my undergrad in fucking around with computers or whatever the official title is lol. I think it would be cool as hell to actually have someone sit me down and tell me what wines went good with what food and so on and so forth . . . although I'm sure being a vegetarian would kind of limit my tastes. I wouldn't mind preparing a dish with meat in it- well with exceptions of course. Oh well there are plenty of great vegetarian chefs needed somewhere.
Oh well at least I have another profession to add to my mantel of fantasy jobs.
EDIT: Damn I spoke to soon just as I typed that they arrived. Whatever I still despise deliverymen.
So I started watching Top Chef Tuesday, which evidently isn't a great show to watch when your home sick with the stomach flu. It doesn't have the zing that PR has but it still had enough culture and style to keep me tuned in till next week at least. I'm just amazed at how beautiful some of the dishes look and sound especially the ones that are made during the quick fire challenge which is a thirty-minute immunity cook off at the beginning of each episode.
I would have never guessed that Pork Pho with Carrot Vermicelli and Herbed Peanut Candy is actually 1 pound pork butt with assorted vegetables with fish and chicken oil though. It looked so appetizing on the show but now yuck!
Ingredients:
1 five pound pork butt
4 Tbsp vegetable oil
salt and pepper for seasoning
2 onions, minced
8 garlic cloves, minced
8 Tbsp tomato paste
3 quarts chicken stock
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup fish sauce
Top Chef has opened my eyes to all things culinary and I found myself watching the food network late into the morning last night. One of the cooler shows that I watched on the Food Network was Ace of Cakes, a show that follows around the rebellious cake maker Duff Goldman and his friends as they do just about whatever the fuck they want with their bad ass cake company. He did everything from make a life-size flamingo cake to the aptly named "fist of rock" cake which was a wedding cake designed for a punk rocking coupling with flames, dancing monkeys, and of course a huge fist pumping the horns out the top of the thing. It kicked some serious ass.
All of this food television in mind I wouldn't mind trying out culinary school after I get my undergrad in fucking around with computers or whatever the official title is lol. I think it would be cool as hell to actually have someone sit me down and tell me what wines went good with what food and so on and so forth . . . although I'm sure being a vegetarian would kind of limit my tastes. I wouldn't mind preparing a dish with meat in it- well with exceptions of course. Oh well there are plenty of great vegetarian chefs needed somewhere.
Oh well at least I have another profession to add to my mantel of fantasy jobs.