I made a seitan roast for Thanksgiving stuffed with barley and almonds. It was good. My family isn't vegetarian, so they had turkey. I like this thread!
Just had a second piece of the pumpkin pie I made. I always use pumpkin from my leftover jack-o-lanterns (flesh roasted, scraped off, and frozen) and cream instead of evaporated milk. This year the cream was from the raw-milk farm and the pie is, if anything, too bland and creamy. If I use it again, next time I'm putting in more brown sugar and a lot more spice.
Sometimes it's the pumpkin itself that lacks flavour. Generally speaking, the pumpkins that make the best jack-o-lanterns make the blandest pies. They're grown to be pretty, not tasty! Me? I use good old Libby's! When I can get it, here in the UK. I didn't do Thanksgiving dinner at all (not much point where I live) but this has made me hanker for pumpkin pie. Perhaps I'll make some this week.
Nah, you have to make Pumpkin Pie with candied pecans and cookie butter. Give it texture, otherwise it's too mushy and flavorless for me. Still not keen on em. I would rather have Carrot Cake... Then again, I would rather have Carrot Cake than any other form of food I can name. -SIN
Family secret, but when I make pumpkin pie I'll add some butternut squash to fill out the flavour and some carrot to add colour.
Yes that would certainly work. I miss having access to great 'winter squash' here in Scotland. The hubbard squash type. These are my favourites to eat baked—and they make great pies. The only halfway tasty one you can get here regularly is the butternut—and that's pretty watery. I miss the others.
The problem with carrot cake is that it's made of carrots. Not that there's anything wrong with carrots - there isn't - but they are unlikely cake ingredients. It's as if someone said, "What's the most unlikely thing to make cake from?" And someone else said, "Bacon!" because bacon is usually the right answer to food questions. But no, we need something weirder! "Uh, olives?" Still not weird enough - one can imagine making an olive mousse, for example, and mixing it into a cake batter. "Coelacanth?" No; their flesh has high levels of urea and wax esters (it says here...) "Carrots?" Carrots, carrrots - bingo! We have a winner! Cake should be made of chocolate. Failing chocolate, coelacanth crab. Carrots are a last resort.
*takes deep breath* The world is full of fascinatingly different people. But seriously, if it's not your thing, I get that. It's a bit far out there, sure. And hey, you show me a recipe for a cake that tastes exactly like Carrot Cake but without carrots and I will love it no matter what is in it, maybe even more. Closest I've come is spice cake and jam cake and they are fine confections, but they're just not there. I have four different favorite Carrot Cake recipes. I still remember where I ate the best piece of Carrot Cake in my life. There was a shop at Branson, Missourri at this mall that specialized in Carrot Cakes exclusively. I bought a plain chilled slice of Carrot Cake and it was transcendent. If I had a bag of weed, I would not smoke one single bud until I'm satisfied I have a fresh Carrot Cake for munchies. I would wear Carrot Cake merch if I could find it. And yes, I will capitalize Carrot Cake every single time. -SIN
I'm cooking up a good excuse for why I should drive out to the nearest city from me and buy WingStop again.
No, I can definitely taste butter. A lot of this is me being thrifty and not wasting food, so I've repurposed the jacks the past several years. Only thing new is the raw cream. But enjoy your Libby's pie!
Zucchini is fine, but I find tomato soup cake problematic because the tomatoes clash with the peanut butter. I might be able to smooth that out with bourbon and cinnamon, but I'm just too lazy.
Taco Bell wasn't too busy after work tonight, and I got paid today. This is my last week with fast food, though. I saw how much I've spent in the last month on fast food alone and it made me sad, haha.
Back in the 80s when I worked at Taco Bell we used to laugh when the vegetarians came in ordering bean burritos and such. The beans were made with lard at that time. You're safe now though, I don't think there are any natural ingredients left in the food there
The real cake argument is, is cheese cake a cake or a pie? I too had Mexican tonight, not fast food though. New Mexican place opened up closer then the other one that`s in town. Been meaning to go up and today was just a gloomy moody day. The pick me up/unwinding idea certainly did work. Food was lovely as was the atmosphere. Place was packed. Had a burrito with chicken and Mexican sausage followed up by some churrios. Picked up some lunch meat on the way home. Work served us spoiled turkey for our free meal today....yeah i`m packing after that. Have a sandwich all peeped for tomorrow.
The beans are just dehydrated now, no lard. I worked there in 2012, so a bit more recently than you, haha, but yeah. The beans and the tortillas are now safe for vegetarians. And if I'm being honest, I'm not going to get all huffy over stuff like that. I don't have to eat at places that aren't what I choose to eat. The only time it bothers me is when there's clearly a piece of chicken or some beef got mixed into it and they don't remake it. I know it takes time, but I do legitimately get ill from eating meat.
With fast food, you kinda expect what you`r getting when you do it. It`s more supposedly legit places that do it that gets sketchy. I remember I was out to lunch at a fancier place with two people who are vegetarian and asked about something that was on the menu. I forget what the disk even was now but it was a meatless dish. My memory`s to shit to recall the details , but i do clearly remember the staff having a conversation along the lines of "The chef made-meat including vartient-instead" "Just serve them that they don`t need to know." .....loudly.......where everyone at the table heard them.... If you`r gonna do it at least whisper about it.
Like I said, I'm not too huffy about it, but part of what I learned in culinary school was food safety and you can get heavily fined if you cross contaminate certain things. I don't know what the word is I want for this, but it scares me a little (I guess "scares" works) when people have such little regard to food requests without knowing the full extent of someone's dietary needs. Had a roommate in college who couldn't even smell peanuts. I went a whole semester without peanut butter and that was torturous for me, but I didn't want to kill her, so I ate it only when I went home and then sanitized everything I brought back. EDIT: Just realized I sound like I'm being harsh toward you, Kinzville, but I was being general, promise.
Dont see how itd be harsh unless you edited it. I agree with everything you said, the point of my story was that its a shitty thing to do. Fast food is a different beast then standard restaurants just because how it functions but especially in the storys case where its not even the advertised item....thats not right. The last line was a joke... Kinda Like...dont do it.... But why on earth would you talk so loud the person your doing it to could hear?
I didn't edit it past the note I put on the bottom. I thought maybe the "you" in the part about cross contamination might have been too direct. But since you didn't take it so, then there's nothing to worry about. A lot of people lack tact nowadays.
I mean I used Libby's canned pumpkin, NOT their prepared pie filling, if that's what you mean. There's no butter in the canned pumpkin. Just pumpkin.
My mother used to make a delicious chocolate cake with mayonnaise! I have her recipe. However, while I happily ate it, I was always thinking ...mayonnaise? I've never been motivated to make that recipe myself. But carrot cake! Yes! Yum. And zucchini bread. And pumpkin pie. Yep. Veggies do make great desserts. Hmm. Tomato soup cake with cinnamon and peanut butter? Is this homemade tomato soup, or do you use the canned, condensed semi-edible variety? Just had a piece of peanut butter cake in my local coffee shop the other day. It was fantastic, by the way. More or less the only time I eat cake these days is when I'm out and about. My cooking skills stop at cake. I'm not a great cake-baker. My cakes tend to not turn out well.
That's a good point, about dietary needs. Not everybody is just being fussy (although some certainly are.) Some folks actually have allergies. I've got a friend who can't eat any peppers (sweet, chillies, etc) or she breaks out in immediate hives. She said she used to love peppers but now she can't eat anything with peppers in it ...which limits her a lot. She will eat absolutely anything else. And her husband was violently allergic to shellfish. Another friend is allergic to the skins of certain stone fruits ...again, which she loves. Plums, cherries, nectarines, peaches, etc. She can eat these if they're cooked, but not raw. Me? I'm allergic to oats. (And I used to eat them every day before the allergy developed.) They give me severe stomach pains, as if I had ulcers. I thought I DID have ulcers, till I finally isolated what was causing the pain. I really would love to eat oats again, but I can't. Not even a bite of an oatcake. I also know people with coeliac disease to whom gluten is extremely detrimental, and can put them in hospital. And nut allergies are severe, and can actually kill people really quickly. Anybody with a food allergy would be well advised to steer clear of fast food and of restaurants that don't take the allergy seriously. Which is a shame. I think vegetarians have it a lot easier these days, though, because LOTS of fully vegetarian restaurants do exist. Back in the day when I was a vegetarian (didn't last) the menu offerings for vegetarians were usually salad and/or salad on a bun. Now even non-vegetarians frequent these restaurants because the food there is so good.
I was making a bad joke. Sorry. Sometimes I practice my bad jokes here on the forum before I use them in real-life conversation. As for semi-edible tomato soup, I use the canned Campbell's when I make chili. For every other need for tomato soup, I may use canned, I may use actual tomatoes, but once it's made, I just usually dump it down the sink, because I don't like tomato soup.
