What are you eating?

[DavidRoss]

Just to be sure we were all on the same page, I checked google images for "crap salad" and found that it's far more popular than I would have imagined:








Master chefs hard at work, developing their own signature crap salad!


And the results are worth the effort!  Mmm-mmm good!

[karlhenning]

Wonder what wine goes with that? . . .

[Brian]

Crap salad, the new culinary phenomenon!

I bet it's too mild for Gordon Ramsay though.

[DavidRoss]

Wonder what wine goes with that? . . .

But of course:




And we also offer a non-alcoholic option for our drug-free customers:

[abidoful]

Yeah, this is funny---DISGUSTING and funny. I suddenly started laughing while in bed when I realized what was wrong with my salad. I hope it won't be crappy!

[MN Dave]

Diet Coke and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast.

Yeah, I know. 

[Brian]

Diet Coke and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast.

Yeah, I know. 

You should have a talk with that guy who started the Fat Enders thread. He'll set you straight. Who cares, it's Christmas!!

[MN Dave]

You should have a talk with that guy who started the Fat Enders thread. He'll set you straight. Who cares, it's Christmas!!

Oh, no. I still count the calories. Haven't gained a thing since I hit my goal.

[toledobass]

Here is one from a while ago:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,88.msg46968.html#msg46968

Allan

[Sergeant Rock]

I suddenly started laughing while in bed when I realized what was wrong with my salad. I hope it won't be crappy!

[Sergeant Rock]

Just to be sure we were all on the same page, I checked google images for "crap salad" and found that it's far more popular than I would have imagined:

Reminds me of a mistake I've seen surprisingly often in German restuarants that offer an American menu: corn on the cop. 

Sarge

[SonicMan46]

We have a new Japanese restaurant just up the street 5 minutes from home called Mizu - surprisingly good for Winston-Salem, North Carolina; at the moment the best one in town - does not match my experiences in NYC, Chicago, D.C., West Coast but not bad at all - and we've returned! 

Last night, we started w/ salads (I've had their regular garden offering w/ a nice ginger/miso dressing, seaweed salad, & their squid salad in a smaller version than the one shown below).  Susan had mainly appetizers including the ones in the pics, i.e. shrimp dumplings, jalapeno yellowtail, and BBW sliced squid - the latter I shared; our third one and always delicious.

For myself, the usual sushi and/or sashimi w/ several rolls - last evening, a couple tuna, yellowtail, and smoked salmon, plus a spider roll (also pic below) & a king crab (not crap!) roll - along w/ a couple of glasses on NZ Sauvignon Blanc, a wonderful experience - 

[Sergeant Rock]

For myself, the usual sushi and/or sashimi w/ several rolls - last evening, a couple tuna, yellowtail, and smoked salmon, plus a spider roll (also pic below) & a king crab (not crap!) roll

I don't trust foreign restaurants in Munich, having been spoiled by quality foreign fare in DC and NYC... but a few nights ago I let myself be guided to a Japanese place by one of the local band's double bassists.


The resulting octopus in a ginger-something-something sauce was excellent; her tempura style fried chicken* was, too. Next up: Hot Pot & Bavarian Beer; after that Cocktails.

Lovely company, and sounds like good food. You and Dave make me hungry for Japanese (food!). We used to eat regulary at a decent sushi restaurant in Mannheim before concerts at the Rosengarten. Our concert activity tapered off considerably this year due to health problems but I look forward to a better new year...and more sushi!

We had a great meal last night: Mrs. Rock bought black truffles and sliced them into a potato casserole. We boiled a bunch of slipper lobster tails and washed it all down with champagne: the 2003 Tarlant Brut I bought last week. Friday suppper was a seafood night too. We found fresh mussels (packed just the day before) at a local supermarket. Fresh seafood is a rarity in our part of Germany. We cooked them in a tomato sauce; drank a Chianti Classico.

Sarge

[SonicMan46]

We had a great meal last night: Mrs. Rock bought black truffles and sliced them into a potato casserole. We boiled a bunch of slipper lobster tails and washed it all down with champagne: the 2003 Tarlant Brut I bought last week. Friday suppper was a seafood night too. We found fresh mussels (packed just the day before) at a local supermarket. Fresh seafood is a rarity in our part of Germany. We cooked them in a tomato sauce; drank a Chianti Classico.

Sarge - those two dinners sound just FINE to me - Susan makes mussels often but usually steamed w/ a clear celery type sauce (think the recipe is on the bag) - I usually have a white wine, but w/ a tomato based sauce red would be a fine choice me thinks! 

For me last night again left alone so had to do one of my 'easy' standby dinners - actually the pic below is from a few months ago, but the dinner was similar: Salad - baby spinach w/ mandarin oranges, crumbled blue cheese, and a raspberry vinaigrette dressing; King Crab - simply steamed (dish below was a mix of King & Stone crab) w/ cocktail/horseradish sauce (try to avoid a lot of melted butter these days but a delicious & the usual combination); and King Estate Pinot Gris from Oregon - nice, simple, and quick!  Dave 

[Sergeant Rock]

I usually have a white wine, but w/ a tomato based sauce red would be a fine choice me thinks! 

Yeah, Chianti goes very well with mussels cooked this way. It's my preferred choice when we have mussels in restauraunts too (our local Italians offer it with a white wine sauce too but I usually go with tomato).

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I doubt many bachelors (temporary like you or otherwise) eat this well!!! 

Sarge

[abidoful]

I doubt many bachelors (temporary like you or otherwise) eat this well!!! 

Sarge

I'm a bachelor and I like to eat well, but I was sooooo disappointed yesterday when I couldn't find mussels from the nearest supermarket. All they have is like 15 different kind of Tuna cans but no mussels...;( It's different to live in downtown Helsinki--This is someways so miserable little town. The girl who worked at the groceries was sort of cute though; "mussels...? That's kind of EXOTIC". You know what Berlusconi said...

[jlaurson]

Lovely company, and sounds like good food...

As you say: MOST delicious.

[DavidRoss]

A mug of steaming hot chocolate on a cold, windy, rainy night. 

[Bogey]

A mug of steaming hot chocolate on a cold, windy, rainy night.

Best weather in the world, save that it would be early spring.