Aha! If it’s where the cool kids hang, it’s no wonder I didn’t know
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Until recently I thought it meant “What a Friggin’ Disaster”.
Which, from time to time, describes my “What’s For Dinner” experiments…
Further this deponent sayeth not.
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Eeek . . . we’re under oath here?
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I’m the least cool person you’ll ever meet. 
We’re ordinary folks who like to cook, sometimes turning out extraordinary meals for ourselves and family/friends.
And then there’s those days I just eat cheddar Goldfish crackers or have a bowl of Raisin Bran Crunch cereal. I usually don’t post those meals. 
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I’m never on it either but I enjoy reading and seeing others accomplishments which are far beyond mine. It provides inspiration.
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Yeah I tried it for a while, but discovered I’m actually a pretty boring cook.
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I’m not a cool person, but I play one on television.*
*Not really. But I am a WFD frequent flyer.
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If I throw in my tuppence here, I read most of these threads to take a look at what I’ve been missing in life 
But I’ll make some of those stuff someday, when I can afford cheese and those sauces etc.
Anyway I will post some photos of Naga peppers today.
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I have been here a while but I just found this thread. Let me try this.
- New York, New York…the town so nice, they named it twice. Specifically, Manhattan.
- Experiencing culture through food. I love to travel, and I find food an easy way to connect to local culture.
- There are too many to count to be honest. However, I think some of the meals I remember most fondly have been those that I have been able to share with my parents, especially in Paris. Both my folks loved Chez Denise, Bistrot Paul Bert, Dauphin, and Josephine Chez Dumonet. That and this place in Rome that my friends and I went to twice, and basically sat there and drank with the owners two nights in a row. Sadly, I do not think it survived COVID.
- I have a dog, Harvey, who hates when I travel. I have a house sitter that he loves, but he still hates me being gone.
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Oops, more self-promoting.
However, as a result of getting invited to celebrate the first iftar (breaking the fast) in Riyadh last week, I get to introduce to the Hungry Onion community a number of Middle Eastern desserts (wherein some are common only during Ramadan)-- check it out on YouTube.
Please enjoy, and mind the purple lighting.
J
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Given your profile photo, where’s your favorite place to grab a local bite in Philly?
Hello again! Son and daughter in law are on their way from Turkey! The lighting reminds me of their wedding reception.
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Hello there! I was a Chowhound many years ago and spent lots of time on the forums (probably most active during the mid-aughts), but drifted away when changes started and have missed it ever since. I’m so glad to have found this spot to re-engage on all kinds of food-related topics.
- I’m located in the Seattle, WA metro area.
- I don’t know that I’m answering this question exactly, but I have a deep love of threads that go on and on and on (I have fond memories of a number of “what are you snacking on right now?” CH threads as well as the weekly meal planning ones) and threads that go deep on ideas or discussion on a very specific, sometimes just-slightly-out-of-the-ordinary ingredient (“what’s your favorite way to eat tinned sardines?” “How should I use up a tube of liverwurst?”). I also love talking about leftovers/kitchen scraps and creative ways to use or repurpose them.
- The first time I ate the cumin lamb hand pulled noodles from Xi’an Famous Foods in NYC was incredible. I’d never had a combination of flavors and textures like that before and I fell hard for those noodles.
- I have two small, lovably annoying senior dogs who are spoiled as dogs should be. One of them, my mini poodle mix, loves human food so she sits next to me while I snack and rests her paws or sometimes her chin very delicately on my lap waiting for me to drop something.
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Welcome, calmossimo!
I’m a fan of those Xian noodles, too … the sound the dough makes when “thwacking” the counter in front of the chef even has its very own Chinese character: https://www.chinasimplified.com/2014/02/28/biang/.
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Thank you! Yes, that sound is quite satisfying. I went down a rabbit hole at the start of lockdown and learned how to make the noodles at home (surprisingly simple! Just lots of waiting time required) and have made them a bunch since. I haven’t tried making cumin lamb yet since I never buy lamb - but I was serving the noodles with hot fresh chili oil and other proteins.
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Welcome to the forums. I’m from a rather unknown island in the Indian Ocean but I am enjoying it here. You will surely find a lot of things to read and comment on in here.
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Thank you! I’m sure I’ll be spending lots of time on these forums!
Welcome to HO @calmossimo ! Glad you found us. Sounds like you’ll find lots to peruse on the boards here: monthly and weekly cooking threads, ingredients and memories . . . even discussions of our spoiled pets (Our Pets and Their Gourmet Palates - #5 by gaffk Enjoy!
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Welcome! I’m in your corner of the world, and we HO’s from the PNW are a small but mighty bunch. Every add’l person is an exponential increase in our total number That said, I hope we hear from you from time to time on the regional PNW board as well as on the more topical what’s for dinner and so on boards. I’m located in Bellingham. College kid in Tacoma. Lived for about 6 yrs in a studio apt in SEA for work until covid. Near the I5-90 crossing. But since it was a work apt and I was alone, I didn’t do much more dining in the 'hoods than to occasionally grab takeout from the ID. Anyway, good to have you here!
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Shizuoka, Japan (formerly in Tokushima, hence my handle). Shizuoka is famous for tea and wasabi. Fish (especially bonito) and citrus (of any kind) is big here, too.
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There’s honestly nothing like that I have to say about me/myself.
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Eating the original Pastéis de Belém at the shop of the same name in Lisbon. I loved all the food I ate in Portugal except for bacalhau. I felt bad about that because it’s the national dish, but I just couldn’t stomach it. I didn’t care for Port Wine either which I also felt bad about that too because Porto (Oporto) is the favorite city I’ve ever visited.
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I’m a NY born, LA raised American on my 3rd stint living in Japan. I lived in Osaka from 1984 to 1987, Tokyo in 1996 and have lived in Japan continuously since 2009. 2009～2021 in Tokushima and now in Shizuoka since September 2021. I love food but am definitely not a foodie or gourmand. And although I live in Japan, Japanese food is not my favorite. That would be Chinese food. My favorite Japanese food is “kinpira gobo”, which is thinly sliced, sautéed burdock root in a soy sauce, mirin and chili pepper coating (not really a sauce, I’d say). Every family’s recipe is a bit different…sometimes salty, sometimes sweet, sometimes spicy.
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