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Author Topic: Cooking as Inspiration  (Read 948 times)

LordVreeg

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« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2015, 02:36:27 PM »
http://www.saveur.com/smoked-almond-smores-whiskey-marshmallows-recipe


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« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2015, 10:03:30 AM »
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http://www.saveur.com/smoked-almond-smores-whiskey-marshmallows-recipe


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« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2015, 03:41:56 PM »
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... That twist on an old favorite is intoxicating. But what to wash it down with?


Late harvest Riesling, Tokaj, Jerez Amontillado or white port.

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« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2015, 06:25:43 AM »
Ooh, tokaj! Others sound great too, but adding tokaj to that sounds like a decadent finish.
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2015, 03:31:44 AM »
If I host a gaming night, I occasionally make pasta sauce from scratch - nothing epicurean, just slow cooked meat, garlic, onions and stewed tomatoes.  

However, I consider the importance of food within game settings - especially interesting to me is the cooking of fantastical animals. AKA, is giant scorpion like a massive lobster? Do we break out the butter sauce?

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« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2015, 02:22:06 PM »
Now that is cool! What would giant scorpion taste like? I heard deep fried scorpion is tasty...

Closest I can think would be George Zimmern's Bizarre Foods where he ate large, tarantula-like spider in Vietnam. They were caught in bamboo tubes then thrown directly upon an open hearth. They were a delicacy shared by males while drinking. He said the roasted flesh inside was unbelievable — he said it tasted like steamed lobster with butter already added.

I don't know how much to believe him sometimes. :)
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« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2015, 03:53:38 PM »
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Now that is cool! What would giant scorpion taste like? I heard deep fried scorpion is tasty...

I have no idea (I only ever ate lemon ants, and only once. Tasted like lemongrass), but other people who eat bugs have been nice enough to share their impressions here and here and here.