I've never had truffles or truffle oil. Does it taste like good mushrooms?
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Amy - Aug 27, 2009 7:12:58 am PDT #5764 of 30001
Because books.
shrift - Aug 27, 2009 7:20:48 am PDT #5765 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Truffle oil + Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese + French fries = OM NOM NOM GET IN MY FACE.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2009 7:24:41 am PDT #5766 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Truffle oil + Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese + French fries = OM NOM NOM GET IN MY FACE.
That's what I'm talkin' about!
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2009 7:26:55 am PDT #5767 of 30001
hwæt
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.
Vortex - Aug 27, 2009 7:53:55 am PDT #5768 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2009 7:55:34 am PDT #5769 of 30001
hwæt
I am seriously burned out at work, and need to take a vacation.
DavidS - Aug 27, 2009 8:00:38 am PDT #5770 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2009 8:03:33 am PDT #5771 of 30001
hwæt
Minor league baseball is pretty much over. Expanded rosters are on Sept 1.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2009 8:06:34 am PDT #5772 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You know how joint marital email addresses annoy me? I just came across a JOINT FACEBOOK ACCOUNT! Seriously, you are two separate people!
Glamcookie - Aug 27, 2009 8:06:38 am PDT #5773 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I am sorry you're both still having a rough time, msbelle. Thinking of the two of you and glad you have family there for support.