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Doublepost-here's how to get good smoked bbq ribs:

Get your grill going with your choice of charcoal(no gas grill you heathen!), and add some good oak branches. Meanwhile, get your bbq sauce, mix in a splash or two of a good whiskey(jack daniels is a good choice), and let the ribs marinate in it(along with some garlic salt) while the coals get nice and while. Spread the coals, put the ribs on the grill,close the lid and cook until done, and enjoy!

[Sappho]

Whoa, so many Polish players! Anyone else in the Czech Republic?

Interestingly, if I hear a Polish person speaking, I can understand most of it, but I can't read the writing. The special letters and letter combinations are so different that I don't know where to start.

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Nerozumíte třeba česky? Umíte česky číst?

In food-related news, I rehydrated some dried soybeans. It takes longer than many other types of beans, and it turns out they look almost exactly like peanuts! I'll be doing this more often, though, because a friend warned me that there's a lot of salt in canned beans, and I'm trying to avoid that. The cooking water from the beans is even tastier than the beans themselves, full of vitamins, and makes good stock for soups and such.

I used half the beans to make Asian noodle soup, which was good but not easy to eat with chopsticks. The other half I used to make a sauce for pasta (sautee onions, garlic, and mushrooms, add lots of basil, beans, and some soy sauce, plus a bit of potato starch for thickness, boil until desired texture is achieved). That was really nice.

I've heard that if you have a food processor you can make soya milk from the beans really easily and extremely cheaply. I still don't have a food processor but I'm very tempted to finally go get one. I have lots of recipes that I can't make because I don't have one. And I'm lactose intolerant, and soya milk is about 3 times more expensive than cow's milk and full of all kinds of chemical additives and extra sugar. Has anyone here ever made soya milk? Is it as easy as it sounds?

[Parsely]

I've never heard it called soya milk before. Thats cool.

[Sappho]

I've never heard it called soya milk before. Thats cool.

What is it called where you live? I've never heard it called anything else.

[Parsely]

Just soy milk, and I don't know why its different. Thats odd, but in a pleasantly interesting way.

[Haspen]

It is soy milk in english... Sappho prolly added 'a' because, I assume, in Czech soy is feminine and thus needed 'a' at the end

_{just like in Polish :3}

[Sappho]

In Czech the word is soja. My English friends also say soya, and the English writing on the packages says "soya." Maybe it's a European/American difference? We also say soya meat - is it just called soy meat in America?

[Parsely]

I wouldn't know. I've heard of soy hamburgers though, but I haven't tried one.

[Sappho]

I highly recommend soya (or soy) meat for people who like the taste and texture of meat. It's the closest thing to actual meat I've found. I'm not a vegetarian, but most of my friends are, and I rarely eat meat because it's expensive. Soya meat is much nicer than tofu in my opinion. Next time you get a chance, try a "soy burger." You might be pleasantly surprised.

[Parsely]

Sounds good! Usually when I've got the chance to try one there's also normal meat, and normal meat is just sooooo gooooooooodd.. *drools*

[scrdest]

Interestingly, if I hear a Polish person speaking, I can understand most of it, but I can't read the writing. The special letters and letter combinations are so different that I don't know where to start.

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Nerozumíte třeba česky? Umíte česky číst?

Polish and Czech languages have a history together. When they were developing, they alternated between Polish borrowing from Czech and Czech borrowing from Polish. I can read Czech and I think that when a Pole and a Czech want to talk, they can reasonably resort to the ancient art of Speaking Slowly And Loudly At Foreigners.

As for special letters/combinations, it is pretty simple for the most part:

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adding -z after C,D,S,R (cz,dz,sz,rz) transforms them into, respectively, Č, Š, Dz (duh) and Ž (pronounciation-wise, it mutated from the equivalent of Ř)

adding a dot over Z (Ż) also transforms it into Ž - there are rules when you use one or the other, but it, like U/Ó (which are pronounced EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, Czech Ů), exists mostly to piss off children learning how to spell

adding an apostrophe over C, N and Z (Ć, Ń, Ź) transforms them into Ť, Ň and something between Ži and Š

Ą and Ę are a bit 'rounded' A and E, pronounced kinda like 'oh' and 'eh' in English except more nasal.

And now you know...

Anyway, the thing I found out and posted about yesterday - I'm getting the chemicals, and I just might post the photos when I'll manage to do it.

[Mesa]

Derailing a thread about food into a thread about linguistics. (and revealing of middle-Europeans)
Stay classy, Bay12.

In any case, I'm sure most of you ate spaghetti/pasta at some point. Bolognese, Carbonara or Napoli, I care not.
In my family we kind of generalize and name them the "red spaghetti". Mostly because we also have a "green spaghetti" variety.

I don't know if it has a proper Italian name, but in general it goes...

Creste di gali (or some similar sort, I'm not a pasta expert) pasta is the base here.
The sauce consists of diced and fried chicken, finely-chopped spinach or broccolis and a few good chunks of processed cheese (not American cheese, though), 3 of which are cream and 1 or 2 "flavored" ones (herb one is a common choice for us).
If you happen to stumble upon it, Hochland cheese is the best option. But to be honest any would work, really.

Sorry for lack of a more proper recipe, but I haven't actually cooked this (yet), but I've eaten this more than enough times (and bought the ingredients) to know what's in there.

[Sappho]

I have just stopped eating mid-sandwich in order to share this new delight with you all. I will never again make a turkey-avocado sandwich, now that I know of this.

1. Mix cream cheese and chopped chives/green onion/minced red onion, plus chopped fresh parsley (or dried) and a bit of pepper.
2. Butter 2 pieces of bread and grill them on a frying pan.
3. Spread the cream cheese on both pieces of grilled bread.
4. Fry an egg (break the yolk) in the butter left on the pan from the bread.
5. Slice up some avocado (the more the better) and layer it onto the sandwich with the egg.
6. Foodgasm

[MonkeyHead]

Gammon.

Dry fried with sea salt. OMFG.