Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I had some truffle fries in Seattle that were pretty good.
It's one of the better uses. Similarly, I've had amazing truffled tater tots. No. Really.
I also like it used sparingly in things like mac 'n' cheese, and certain types of tomato sauce. But it gets overused, both in amount and the number of things it's in.
I've never had truffles or truffle oil. Does it taste like good mushrooms?
Truffle oil + Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese + French fries = OM NOM NOM GET IN MY FACE.
Truffle oil + Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese + French fries = OM NOM NOM GET IN MY FACE.
That's what I'm talkin' about!
Truffle oil is a modern culinary ingredient added to foods, which is intended to impart the flavor and aroma of truffles to a dish. Most truffle oils are not, in fact, made from actual truffles, but are instead a synthetic product that combines a thioether (2,4-dithiapentane), one of numerous organic aromatics odorants found in real truffles, with an olive oil base. A few more expensive oils are alleged to be made from truffles or the by-products of truffle harvesting and production, though the flavor of truffles is difficult to capture in an oil.
"Their one-dimensional flavor is also changing common understanding of how a truffle should taste," Daniel Patterson complained in a New York Times article.
And it's irritating the because people assume that the outrageous price is due to the use of expensive truffles, but it's all chemical.
I am seriously burned out at work, and need to take a vacation.
I am seriously burned out at work, and need to take a vacation.
Rent a car and go see minor league baseball games for a week.
Or maybe Portland. You can go to cool brew pubs and comic book stores and Powells.
Minor league baseball is pretty much over. Expanded rosters are on Sept 1.
You know how joint marital email addresses annoy me? I just came across a JOINT FACEBOOK ACCOUNT! Seriously, you are two separate people!