Favorite meal all time

[WhyteHypeBG]

I really like Chili. I think That's my fav right now. A bed of basmati rice, my homemade chili sauce and a shit load of grated extra strong cheddar

You ever use venison in your chili, Astor?

[the13r]

I already have problem with eating meat now, i just can't eat wild meat (meat from other than elevage)

So no never did

usually just use some locally produced pork

boil my own blend of beans

pastene tomatoes

sambal oelek for the heat

oinions/celery/green and yellow bell pepper

even put garlic and my own blend of spices

pretty much it





Do you prefer chili with venison?

[WhyteHypeBG]

Do you prefer chili with venison?

I love venison chili because the meat is so much leaner than beef or pork. Venison doesn't make for great burgers, but I really like it in chili.

[tmoney1224]

Do you prefer chili with venison?

I love venison chili because the meat is so much leaner than beef or pork. Venison doesn't make for great burgers, but I really like it in chili.

Yeah, I have had venison chili multiple times and it is always delicious.

[SmartyBeardo]

By far, Russian feasts, usually on New Year's Eve (Russian Christmas), starting around 10pm, going until about 5am, and on International Women's Day, starting between 3 and 4pm and going until at least 10pm. It involves between 10 and 20 dishes, not including the meat / poultry and dessert. Vodka, champagne, beer, wine, and cognac flows. Everyone, no matter how many, sit together around a long table. The dishes are not huge, because everyone paces themselves eating small portions of whatever they like. The food comes in waves and the vodka comes in volleys. Everyone talks at once until someone does a toast. There is always someone who takes their toasts entirely too seriously, telling long stories involving tears.

There are usually at least two or three types of fish involved, not including the caviar. There are always at least two styles of beet salad, a korean style carrot salad, an eggplant dish or two, salami, slices of cheese, cheese and pressed garlic spread (on fresh tomatoes sprinkled with fresh dill if at our house), fresh breads of at least two varieties, pickles, olives, pickled asparagus, at least one potato dish (mashed mixed with spinach and sour cream, topped with cheese and baked has become a favorite), liver pates of multiple varieties, fresh sauerkraut, and always my fruit salad. There is usually one meat (pork or lamb), often shezlick (shish kebabs), and a poultry (usually chicken but more often a sauerkraut, sausage and apple stuffed duck at our place). Sometimes I do ribeyes or prime rib roasts, but Russians are more comfortable preparing pork, lamb and chicken. They had little beef in Russia in the past.

Dessert is often honey cake, an eight to 12 layer homemade creation of ultimate decadence. I have added the American touch of slow churned ice cream to put it completely over the top. Sometimes it might be Napoleans. When my oldest kid's mother in law is over, it could be anything, since she is a master pastry chef in Russia to this day. Of course, Russian chocolates of several varieties make the rounds during the waning hour or two of the party to go with the hot cups of tea.

These feasts are tradition with Russians for special occasions. i have had families with very limited means put on dinners like this in honor of my presence, although i knew full well that they would be living on not much more than bread and tea for weeks after. Protest is futile, and even humiliating to them. I have watched bone thin kids gorge themselves until they puke in decades past because they knew that the good food would be gone very soon and they wanted to taste as much as they could.

Those days are mostly gone for the Russians that I know, but the feasts live on, thank goodness.

edit; I forgot several things but most importantly the Russian stuffed pastas: pylmini, verenyki, peroshki.

[BIGBrandon2785]

I really like Chili. I think That's my fav right now. A bed of basmati rice, my homemade chili sauce and a shit load of grated extra strong cheddar

Damn I think your the only person I've heard of besides myself that eats rice with their chili.

[deadlything]

A good hamburger.

[SmartyBeardo]

By far, Russian feasts, usually on New Year's Eve (Russian Christmas), starting around 10pm, going until about 5am, and on International Women's Day, starting between 3 and 4pm and going until at least 10pm. It involves between 10 and 20 dishes, not including the meat / poultry and dessert. Vodka, champagne, beer, wine, and cognac flows. Everyone, no matter how many, sit together around a long table. The dishes are not huge, because everyone paces themselves eating small portions of whatever they like. The food comes in waves and the vodka comes in volleys. Everyone talks at once until someone does a toast. There is always someone who takes their toasts entirely too seriously, telling long stories involving tears.

There are usually at least two or three types of fish involved, not including the caviar. There are always at least two styles of beet salad, a korean style carrot salad, an eggplant dish or two, salami, slices of cheese, cheese and pressed garlic spread (on fresh tomatoes sprinkled with fresh dill if at our house), fresh breads of at least two varieties, pickles, olives, pickled asparagus, at least one potato dish (mashed mixed with spinach and sour cream, topped with cheese and baked has become a favorite), liver pates of multiple varieties, fresh sauerkraut, and always my fruit salad. There is usually one meat (pork or lamb), often shezlick (shish kebabs), and a poultry (usually chicken but more often a sauerkraut, sausage and apple stuffed duck at our place). Sometimes I do ribeyes or prime rib roasts, but Russians are more comfortable preparing pork, lamb and chicken. They had little beef in Russia in the past.

Dessert is often honey cake, an eight to 12 layer homemade creation of ultimate decadence. I have added the American touch of slow churned ice cream to put it completely over the top. Sometimes it might be Napoleans. When my oldest kid's mother in law is over, it could be anything, since she is a master pastry chef in Russia to this day. Of course, Russian chocolates of several varieties make the rounds during the waning hour or two of the party to go with the hot cups of tea.

These feasts are tradition with Russians for special occasions. i have had families with very limited means put on dinners like this in honor of my presence, although i knew full well that they would be living on not much more than bread and tea for weeks after. Protest is futile, and even humiliating to them. I have watched bone thin kids gorge themselves until they puke in decades past because they knew that the good food would be gone very soon and they wanted to taste as much as they could.

Those days are mostly gone for the Russians that I know, but the feasts live on, thank goodness.

edit; I forgot several things but most importantly the Russian stuffed pastas: pylmini, verenyki, peroshki.

Btw, wedding / feast tonight, starting at 4pm with appetizers, ending sometime tomorrow morning. African Texan marrying into a Jewish Moscow family.

Traditional Texas BBQ and sides mixed with traditional Russian feast. Vodka, champagne, vino, cognac, and a keg or two of Rickards Red will flow. I'll see you ten pounds later.

[hardcorebee24]

Feast of the Seven Fishes

Every Christmas Eve. Very nice.

[WhyteHypeBG]

Every Christmas Eve. Very nice.

Far and away my favorite meal every year. I start looking forward to it the day after Thanksgiving.

We also get a bunch of stuffed breads (one pepperoni, one sausage, broccoli rabe, etc.) and scungilli salad. Put together a couple gigantic trays of antipasti.

Then, of course, on to the pasta with octopus, shrimp, calamari, mussels, clams, etc.

Uh... ... ... You celebrate Christmas? Or are you one of those assholes that celebrates the "holidays", in general?

[hardcorebee24]

Every Christmas Eve. Very nice.

Far and away my favorite meal every year. I start looking forward to it the day after Thanksgiving.

We also get a bunch of stuffed breads (one pepperoni, one sausage, broccoli rabe, etc.) and scungilli salad. Put together a couple gigantic trays of antipasti.

Then, of course, on to the pasta with octopus, shrimp, calamari, mussels, clams, etc.

You're Italian too?

[TopNotch86]

i had this buffalo chicken chilli from some restaurant once, in nyc, cant remeber the name but it was fucking amazing.

[hardcorebee24]

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You're Italian too?

I'm a pizza bagel (half-Italian, half-Jew).

http://youtu.be/7RgLqoIBGAY

[WhyteHypeBG]

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Uh... ... ... You celebrate Christmas? Or are you one of those assholes that celebrates the "holidays", in general?

I feel like I explain this to you once a month, Kendall Windham.

I do celebrate Christmas. My mom is Italian (Catholic), my dad was Jewish (atheist). In Judaism, your mother has to be Jewish for you to be "Jewish." So, technically, going by the religious code, I'm not really "Jewish." But, obviously, when you are talking about ethnically or culturally, then yes, I am part Jewish. No bar mitzvah, but we celebrated both Jewish and Catholic holidays growing up.

Just getting it on the record for the new guys, what with your dago moustache and your greasy hair.

[hardcorebee24]

@ reg dude, yep.

[dreadlock214]

I like an old family classic Meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and roasted corn on the cob.

[BIGBrandon2785]

I like an old family classic Meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and roasted corn on the cob.

Yeah you cant go wrong with that,you eat yours with ketchup or brown gravy??

[dreadlock214]

I like an old family classic Meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and roasted corn on the cob.

Yeah you cant go wrong with that,you eat yours with ketchup or brown gravy??

Mustard and ketchup

[BIGBrandon2785]

I like an old family classic Meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and roasted corn on the cob.

Yeah you cant go wrong with that,you eat yours with ketchup or brown gravy??

Mustard and ketchup

Hmmmm,I never heard mustard before.For me it's brown gravy.