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[GiglameshDespair]

Sometimes I wish I was a carnivore. Meat is always the tastiest part of a meal.

[Caz]

Re: Mashed potatoes, I just add a knob of butter, a splash of milk, and then a healthy dash of white pepper. It provides a bit of depth and bite, a little like cheese does. Much easier though!

Nutmeg on potatoes is damn good. So is crushed garlic and herbs.

[Blargityblarg]

Sometimes I wish I was a carnivore. Meat is always the tastiest part of an animal.

This is how I read this post.

I was... confused for a little while.

[MaximumZero]

Sometimes I wish I was a carnivore. Meat is always the tastiest part of an animal.

This is how I read this post.

I was... confused for a little while.

Well, the meat us usually tastier than the offal.

[Telgin]

Being asked to bake stuff for the family for Christmas has taught me that I don't really like doing it all that much.  I now have even more respect for my mother and how she used to cook all of this stuff every year.

Seems just about everything went wrong that could, and somehow still produce edible food.  The highlight of the night was my attempts to remove the cheesecakes from their pans, which I did by deforming the pans by beating on the bottoms with a hammer.  I ended up damaging a book cover in the process, but about 3 minutes of that removed the cheesecakes in pieces.  I squished them together again in the layer cake, so it's only kind of noticeable.  That is, after the frosting was put on, which was really white chocolate ganache.

I have learned that I detest making white chocolate ganache.  I can never get the consistency right, and I ended up putting something like 2 pounds of white chocolate in less than a pint of heavy cream.  Even then it was still a little too thin, so getting it on the cake was a mess.  Of course, I know I'm doing it wrong.  You're supposed to whip it with a mixer or something, but I didn't, so funny cake ahoy.

Then the cupcakes.  Oh, the cupcakes.  They look like little green volcanoes with white frosting just kind of tossed on there.  I hope they taste good, because with the way they look I'm not convinced I'll be presenting them to the family.

Maybe next year I won't get asked to do this.   

And now, to clean up...

[Avis-Mergulus]

I just had a horrifying revelation.

It goes sort of like this: I wanted to share a recipe for pastry made with what Wikipedia calls quark. Now, in my country it's called tvorog, and it's a staple food. I often wondered why I don't know the English word for it, but now I know. People in Western Europe and America don't eat tvorog. According to the article, they all think tvorog is cheese!

Are they all stupid or something?

[Sappho]

I just had a horrifying revelation.

It goes sort of like this: I wanted to share a recipe for pastry made with what Wikipedia calls quark. Now, in my country it's called tvorog, and it's a staple food. I often wondered why I don't know the English word for it, but now I know. People in Western Europe and America don't eat tvorog. According to the article, they all think tvorog is cheese!

Are they all stupid or something?

Mmmmm, tvaroh...

Nope, it doesn't exist in English-speaking countries. Shame, right? Not really their fault, though, for not knowing what it is, since they've never seen or heard of it before. I was a little frightened of it when I first moved to Europe and was offered it for the first time.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I just had a horrifying revelation.

It goes sort of like this: I wanted to share a recipe for pastry made with what Wikipedia calls quark. Now, in my country it's called tvorog, and it's a staple food. I often wondered why I don't know the English word for it, but now I know. People in Western Europe and America don't eat tvorog. According to the article, they all think tvorog is cheese!

Are they all stupid or something?

Mmmmm, tvaroh...

Nope, it doesn't exist in English-speaking countries. Shame, right? Not really their fault, though, for not knowing what it is, since they've never seen or heard of it before. I was a little frightened of it when I first moved to Europe and was offered it for the first time.

Well, that's right, but why does the article say it's cheese? The two have nothing in common.
The fact that somebody used to find it frightening is also a revelation. It's like I was eating hakarl all my life, and then somebody told me eating rotten shark is wrong.

[scrdest]

Uh, cottage cheese? It's pretty similar, I guess.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Uh, cottage cheese? It's pretty similar, I guess.

Well, yes, it looks slightly like it.
Basically, the recipe I was talking about involved taking 200 grams of tvorog, an egg, four tablespoons of sugar, eight tablespoons of flour, baking soda, stir everything together, shape into balls, fry in oil. Sugar powder to taste. Pretty quick, and generally delicious.

[Sappho]

I just had a horrifying revelation.

It goes sort of like this: I wanted to share a recipe for pastry made with what Wikipedia calls quark. Now, in my country it's called tvorog, and it's a staple food. I often wondered why I don't know the English word for it, but now I know. People in Western Europe and America don't eat tvorog. According to the article, they all think tvorog is cheese!

Are they all stupid or something?

Mmmmm, tvaroh...

Nope, it doesn't exist in English-speaking countries. Shame, right? Not really their fault, though, for not knowing what it is, since they've never seen or heard of it before. I was a little frightened of it when I first moved to Europe and was offered it for the first time.

Well, that's right, but why does the article say it's cheese? The two have nothing in common.
The fact that somebody used to find it frightening is also a revelation. It's like I was eating hakarl all my life, and then somebody told me eating rotten shark is wrong.

I found it frightening because I was worried it was cheese - at the time I wasn't a fan of cheese. The softer types of tvaroh don't resemble cheese, but the thicker types do have the texture of a soft cheese. Depends on which one you see, I think.

Uh, cottage cheese? It's pretty similar, I guess.

Well, yes, it looks slightly like it.
Basically, the recipe I was talking about involved taking 200 grams of tvorog, an egg, four tablespoons of sugar, eight tablespoons of flour, baking soda, stir everything together, shape into balls, fry in oil. Sugar powder to taste. Pretty quick, and generally delicious.

Actually, that sounds pretty amazing.

EDIT: Anyone have any last-minute tips for making battered fried chicken? All I know is to cut the chicken into strips, then dip it in soft flour (maybe with some spices mixed in), then into a beaten egg, then into bread crumbs (also maybe with some spices added). I sadly don't have any beer and it's a bit late to run out and get some, so it'll have to just be simple batter. I'd like to make it spicy with some chili powder, but I'll have to see if my Xmas dinner guest is okay with that first!

[Sirus]

Well if "tvaroh" isn't cheese like Wikipedia claims, then what the hell is it exactly?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Well if "tvaroh" isn't cheese like Wikipedia claims, then what the hell is it exactly?

It's...tvorog. Can't explain. It's like asking a Westerner to explain why donuts aren't bread. But cheese can't be soft, white, and composed of grains, right?

[majikero]

In my experience, soft white cheese are made from carabao(small water buffalo) milk. All other cheese is yellow to me.

[Avis-Mergulus]

In my experience, soft white cheese are made from carabao(small water buffalo) milk. All other cheese is yellow to me.

Exactly. And tvorog is made from cow milk, and isn't homogenous - more like a grainy mass-thingy. So there.