Cooking a Good Everything Else

I wanted to take some pics from my first Frenchie holidays but kind of screwed up. I do have some pictures of a raclette layout which is kind of the opposite of cooking. I also have pictures of an uncooked capon a castrated rooster but after it’s been cooked. Had it with chestnuts, sautéed green beans, pureed butternut, mashed potatoes, cranberries. You’ll just have to trust me. They take there poultry over quite seriously.

Did throw in a galette my wife made tonight.

They sell birds with their feathers still on and we give China a hard time for their wet markets?
Would crush that cheese board.

Lovely galette

every last bit of that is highly desirable

Little off from norm... but is cream corn a well known side dish somebody shocked me recently when he said they never had it

Maybe at grandma's house for Thanksgiving 😉

hans and Nit bringing the HEAT.

do they have any Pangolin?

Even then people only put enough on their plate to appear polite.

Or so I've heard 😉

Stop dissing cream corn... OR ELSE.

Let me guess: No dessert!

well known? sure
frequently eaten? naw

Made a dessert for a gathering with friends tomorrow night.

Snickers caramel apple salad.

gotta admit
skeptical at first

Saw photo and immediately thought cokeboy99 has to be from the upper Midwest somewhere.

"Snickers" implies chocolate and peanuts, as well as caramel. If included, pretty good odds I'd enjoy it. What kind of apples?

i always made sure my apartments abroad had an oven so i could host thanksgiving

i never allowed anyone from the midwest to bring sweet potatoes because they'd bring some monstrosity that was 50% sweet potato 50% marshmellow

Well I'm going to a BBQ tomorrow and thinking of bringing jiffy cornbread made with a can of creamed corn in the mix.

Originally from Illinois, living in Ohio now.

For some reason thought you were in Vegas? I might be confusing you with someone else or maybe that was 10 years ago.

Never lived there, no. Visited a few times over the years and contemplated moving there once, but it never happened.

Better chance now, tho, since I have a fully remote job and nothing tying me down. Might consider it in the next couple of years.

snickers + cool whip + green apples? midwesterners love meme meals

So no pics here just a kind of trip report. I've been on extended visit to the states from Thailand and have mixed in a bit of Thai food while here. It's rare because there are so many other ingredients here that I miss and want to cook with. Anyways I've wanted to mix it up a bit for the family and do some Thai dishes. Back home I leave the Thai cooking to the wife and I do the western stuff but I've picked up a few hints and obviously know what some Thai dishes are supposed to taste like. So I've done a few curries and based on my girl on youtube Palin (hot thai kitchen) she rated what are the best curry pastes to get that are available in the states. I went with Aroy-D as it's the least shrimp paste forward flavor and I'm a pussy and hate that fermented fish/seafood/shrimp taste but she said it was still pretty legit. I know Aroy-D from Thailand, it's a standard for coconut milk and everything type ingredient brand. Tonight my sister did pad thai for the 1st time using the recipe on the noodle package and I did panang curry and some other random dishes with some veg we got from the Asian grocery store. We live right next to a big Asian community and I wouldn't say our stuff can stand up to their dishes but with some youtube and an Asian grocery for sure this pad thai and panang curry is equal to what I get from a rando shop near my house in Bangkok and blow away some generic Thai restaurant catering to "American" tastes.
So the point of the post is that quality Thai food is accessible to the home cook in America and really quite easy if you go to the Asian grocery store and spend 30min on youtube. Sorry if this is already obvious to everyone but I am pretty impressed it's that easy these days.

Thanks. I love Thai food -- will have to start searching.