Take Home Dinner Tonight

"aem" <[email hidden]>
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snip delicious sounding take home for space<

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Depends on my mood. I like to bring home Mexican but it's usually soggy
and not all that appealing by the time it gets home. I'm talking good
Mexican, not fast food. A lot of times I'll stop at one of the delis I go
to, and bring home some chopped liver, pastrami and good rye bread.
Sometimes it's Porter's fried chicken. Cafe Brasil and the Seafood Gumbo
Shop are 2 of my favorites. Cafe Brasil has lots of interesting menu items
and the Gumbo shop has excellent gumbo and many other Cajun menu items.

Michael
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aem wrote on 13 Jun 2006 in rec.food.cooking

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Was in the right part of town today to stop in at the deli attached to
the Chilean restaurant. Picked up an 8" pie plate of pastel de choclo.
That's a kind of corn casserole with chicken and hardboiled eggs and
black olives. Also got some empanadas. These are beef and raisins and
some other goodies, wrapped in a nice pastry dough and baked. I'll
toss a big salad to go with, and open a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva
cabernet. This is delicious food. I could learn to make the pastel de
choclo, but I know that I'm not good at making the empanada dough. All
in all it's easier and better to get these goodies to go.

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Honey garlic chicken balls and the special fried rice that goes with it
from the chinese joint down the road. Yes I can make my own chinese
food...But I don't have their recipe. And to me that's what's makes me buy
them.

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aem said:

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Thai food. I have a phobia about using fish sauce. 🙂

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aem said:

Was in the right part of town today to stop in at the deli attached to
the Chilean restaurant. Picked up an 8" pie plate of pastel de choclo.
That's a kind of corn casserole with chicken and hardboiled eggs and
black olives. Also got some empanadas. These are beef and raisins and
some other goodies, wrapped in a nice pastry dough and baked. I'll
toss a big salad to go with, and open a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva
cabernet. This is delicious food. I could learn to make the pastel de
choclo, but I know that I'm not good at making the empanada dough. All
in all it's easier and better to get these goodies to go.

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Burritos and hurraches or sopes
On Lake street in Minneapolis we have a ton of tiny mexican places, all hand
lettered signs and a single long counter. At most of them, nobody speaks
english. I can read spanish but I cannot speak it so I usually just grab the
take out menu and point and say "sin cebollas". Trying to get the licuado I
want is a little harder because it requires pointing at many different fruits
and trying to answer all the questions.

Interestingly, when I go in alone and order, the salsa is always on the side,
but when David goes in to order the salsa is on the burritos. I think it's
because he can actually speak spanish.

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Was in the right part of town today to stop in at the deli attached to

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the Chilean restaurant. Picked up an 8" pie plate of pastel de choclo.
That's a kind of corn casserole with chicken and hardboiled eggs and
black olives. Also got some empanadas. These are beef and raisins and
some other goodies, wrapped in a nice pastry dough and baked. I'll
toss a big salad to go with, and open a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva
cabernet. This is delicious food. I could learn to make the pastel de
choclo, but I know that I'm not good at making the empanada dough. All
in all it's easier and better to get these goodies to go.

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Lemon chicken and crispy wontons.

E.

aem said:

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Most asian cuisines. Thai, Chinese, Indian mostly. I love to
experiment with them now and then, but I'm an intuitive cook, and asian
methods and ingredients don't come naturally to me, so I have to follow
a recipe closely (not my favorite thing to do). Takes too much time
for me usually, so we eat out or carry it out. Some day when I'm
retired and have more time I'll get more experience, I'm sure.

Sandy

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I like to bring home Mexican but it's usually soggy
and not all that appealing by the time it gets home.

If you stay away from "fried", you won't have that problem.
🙂
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Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

aem said:

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself?

Our usual home delivery is Chinese (we're tired and don't feel like
cooking - well, cleaning up is more like it), sometimes Thai (I don't
cook Thai food)... occasionally pizza (that's just pure laziness,
because I prefer my own pizza).
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Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

On 13 Jun 2006 14:19:20 -0700, in rec.food.cooking, "aem"
<[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

Was in the right part of town today to stop in at the deli attached to
the Chilean restaurant. Picked up an 8" pie plate of pastel de choclo.
That's a kind of corn casserole with chicken and hardboiled eggs and
black olives. Also got some empanadas. These are beef and raisins and
some other goodies, wrapped in a nice pastry dough and baked. I'll
toss a big salad to go with, and open a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva
cabernet. This is delicious food. I could learn to make the pastel de
choclo, but I know that I'm not good at making the empanada dough. All
in all it's easier and better to get these goodies to go.

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Vietnamese food. There's a little joint across town that has the best
food....can't pronounce any of the names but I just point to a name
and they dish it up, lol....delicious.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:42:03 -0700, in rec.food.cooking, Ranee Mueller
<[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

aem said:

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

Thai food. I have a phobia about using fish sauce. 🙂

Heh, a good point. That's why I avoid learning to make Vietnamese and
Thai cuisine, I really don't want to know what all the ingredients
are.

aem said:

Was in the right part of town today to stop in at the deli attached to
the Chilean restaurant. Picked up an 8" pie plate of pastel de choclo.
That's a kind of corn casserole with chicken and hardboiled eggs and
black olives. Also got some empanadas. These are beef and raisins and
some other goodies, wrapped in a nice pastry dough and baked. I'll
toss a big salad to go with, and open a bottle of Santa Rita Reserva
cabernet. This is delicious food. I could learn to make the pastel de
choclo, but I know that I'm not good at making the empanada dough. All
in all it's easier and better to get these goodies to go.

Which raises the question, what are the foods that you prefer to bring
home rather than make yourself? -aem

I'm a fairly lazy cook and I LOVE milky desserts but since there are
only two of us and DH isn't mad keen, so I buy rice pudding or
tapioca ready-made (preferably the deluxe brand), and Publix custardy
desserts are lovely. I know I could make them for myself equally well
and a lot more cheaply, but the time requirement puts me off. Plus I
know that if I made them I'd never make a SMALL batch - I'd make a
great big one and eat it all in about three days!
I also buy potato salad and coleslaw for the same reason... it's
easier to buy one meal's worth than to try to make it for two.