A little hungover. I’m hankering a Popeyes spicy chicken burger and a full fat coke. Actually off to a barbecue for FIL’s birthday.
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With you on the crab and pork xlb. I still remember the crab roe and pork xlb frim Din Tai Fung in Taipei.
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No kidding?
Lamb tacos represent my favorite highway stop restaurant experience anywhere.
It was in a town in Mexico called San Juan del Rio, which is well-known (in that region) for barbacoa de borrego (lamb bbq).
OTOH, boiled lamb, pass. Not so pleasant memories of my brief spell in Kazakhstan.
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Oh man, save me some
With you on that. We were at Costco yesterday and I had to give myself a big dressing-down to not get the big old Drumstick multipack. And the bigass Oreo display. Yay for me.
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Impulse buying at a regular grocery store can get you, say, a bag of Doritos. Impulse buying at Costco gets you enough of something you KINDA want for 2 months. Probably unwise, from a culinary standpoint AND a fiscal one.
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Seeing all of your incredible, exotic posts make me want to eat it all now!
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I absolutely want to eat this, the banana cream pie from The Apple Pan in West Los Angeles. It’s my favorite dessert ever and I’ve never met anyone who I’ve recommended it to who didn’t fall in love with it. Alas, I’m living in Shizuoka, Japan now where such things or even a close facsimile don’t exist. Oh, my kingdom for a slice (which I haven’t had since 2007 and no, making a pie isn’t even remotely an option at all.)
https://www.tasteatlas.com/theapplepan/cream-pie
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You mean you don’t like sudachi pie? Oh, you said you now live in Shizuoka … never mind 
Besides green tea x infinity and eel, for which other foods/drinks is Shizuoka-ken renowned?
Aomori had some good simple (and buttery) apple pies, but nothing like the photo you posted.
And that tasteatlas website is goofy. It lists ingredients for dishes from around the world, but forgets that everyone has their own spin on said dishes. And I won’t even get started on food origins.
Why don’t you post a pic or two of what you’re raving to eat NOW?
Apologies for the rubbish photo quality (it’s from August 2006; I’m going with that).
Anyway, I really want spicy grilled squid with an avocado shake. This was in Jakarta.
Of course, there are squid skewers in Japan, but it’s the heat from the sambal that does it for me in Indonesian restaurants.
Perhaps one day, I will crave something for which I don’t have an appropriate photo /s
My first visit to The Price Club in 1982 or something like that, found me bringing home a 3 foot high bag of tortilla chips. I wanted them right then, they smelled so good. I ate my fill over a week’s time and then I gifted smaller bags to friends. After that, I took them to the beach and fed the gulls. A win-win for everyone and I have never done something that stupid since. A good lesson in impulse buying and food greed. It’s a good thing I hadn’t eyed a Ferrari or Maserati with that impulse.
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If you can get a Ferrari or a Maserati for $3.99 I would say go for it.
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Sometimes I play a game with the clerks at Costco. As they start scanning my selections, I challenge them, “Guess the impulse buy!” I go there often enough and am on a first name basis with enough of them that it adds a twist to our transactions. They get it right about half the time.
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That long ago I probably could have picked one up; the Matchbox or Hot Wheels version.
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agreed. Once I went in (in the mid 1980s) for a bottle of wine and left having spent $130, including an electric pasta maker. I’ve learned since.
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Did you (do you still) use that pasta maker?
On tv I saw Jamie Oliver, then Mario Battali using Kitchen Aid attachment. Looked easy enough so I bought one, happy with it.
My partner got a Marcato Atlas as a gift and we’ve used it many many many times over the years and love it. Should it ever break, I might get the KA attachment.
If I could “chime in”… I tried an “aftermarket” pasta attachment before purchasing my “Kitchen Aid” brand pasta attachments. The aftermarket one broke almost immediately. Luckily, I was able to return it and get a refund.
I’m very happy with my “Kitchen Aid” pasta attachments, no problems or issues.
When I was cooking for my neighbor (post surgery - last year), she loved my homemade spinach fettuccine (with mushrooms, onions and just a touch of olive oil). I thought she would get tired of it, but she kept requesting it… so I kept making it. My (Kitchen Aid) pasta attachments really got a work out!
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