VaporDaddy- Foodies are weird! =p

[stinkyattic]

Oh hell, I never waited until the place was broken down, tequila shots were in effect the moment the front door got locked. lol I'm glad they waited until after I left to tighten the purse strings and switch from Sauza to *gasp* DURANGO GOLD... blech.

[VaporDaddy]

Tequill-ya?! No thanks, I'll just sip my Guiness and vibe on the herb thank you.
I only use hard liquor when I wanna date rape my wife. J/K.

[Fengzi]

Is that a cast iron wok I see Stinky? I've been wanting to get one of those for so long but haven't found one I like yet. We've got a bunch of woks, wife is Chinese and we eat Chinese food about 5 nights a week (usually I'm the one cooking though), but I've wanted a cast iron one for so long. I should have gotten one the last time I was in China but was an idiot and didn't want the extra weight in my suitcase. Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

Fetid Ass huh? I wonder what the customs guys would think of that? I always have a hell of a time coming back into the country with my stash of ingredients as those fuckers want to check out everything. I can just imagine though.. "What's this sir?" "Oh, just a jar of fetid ass" LOL

Nice cookbook collection too. We have a number of them in common. Cookbooks have always been my thing. I collect them like some people collect glass pipes. Drives my wife crazy.

[stinkyattic]

Yeah I hear ya, I'm off that shizzle myself these days. Back then I was working 7am to 1130pm and needed to do everything, including get my drank on, very efficiently... If I wasn't lit by the time I got home, my schedule needed adjustment.

It's better now that I finally got a raise at my 'real' [read= benefitted] job and don't have to cook for anyone but myself these days, but someday..... ahhhh....

[VaporDaddy]

wow that brings back memories for me too. Getting up at 6am still smelling like grease and smoke, jumping in the shower, off to school wondering what assignments I absolutely needed to do the night before and how I was going to copy them from someone else before class. Sleeping through the soft classes, warm oatmeal chocolate chip cookies or Fries for lunch, a little hacky sack, race home get changed for work and head out. Work till close slam a few beers at the bar, home to bed. Start all over.

Itwas still a lot easier than having kids.

[stinkyattic]

Haha OMG I just realized I never responded to this... long time but here's a bump!

Is that a cast iron wok I see Stinky?

Yup, the thing weighs over 10 pounds. I paid $9 at Ocean State Job Lot for it. Wouldn't you know. But I still keep my thin traditional steel one for vegetables. Teh cast iron I feel is more suited to searing meat and making the masala for Indian stews. Lodge makes them, so does Le Creuset, if you have a couple hundred smackers kicking around for the pretty enamel...

Fetid Ass huh? I wonder what the customs guys would think of that?

lol I brought back 2 pounds of unground garam masala spices when I went to visit the Yeag in KC this spring. That combined with the fact that I store my luggage in the room that my grow exhausts to... lol how much you wanna bet my luggage got tossed at the airport?

Nice cookbook collection too. We have a number of them in common. Cookbooks have always been my thing. I collect them like some people collect glass pipes. Drives my wife crazy.

Used to drive my ex crazy too.. "another one? don't you ALREADY have enough?"
Never.

[FakeBoobsRule]

Stinkyattic even has plants in her kitchen sink. I bet there are plants everywhere at her house! It looks like cornbread in the skillet on the stove and I owe you one for that. I gotta make chili for the 4th of July party tomorrow and that reminded me to make some cornbread, if that is cornbread. Either way thanks!

[stinkyattic]

Yup, actually I can not currently use my kitchen, as I inherited 7 large mother plants from a friend and until I finish converting a crawlspace, they are living on the kitchen island and counter. I seem to have a slight biomass problem.... There are vegging plants in my dining room closet, flowering moms in the walk-in closet, 6 clone domes in the spare bedroom, tubs of soil on the porch, rooted clones on the back of the toilet, and homeless girlies in the kitchen. I think there's one in the shower atm too that got flushed this morning and never got taken out... hahahaha I'm a disaster. I need a bigger house dammit. Apparently 2000 square feet is not enough for a single woman and her dog...

The cornbread has cheddar, jalapenos, and extra corn in it. Yummy. Gotta have cornbread with chili!!

[psteve]

asafoetida. (Ass-a-foot-eat-a) AKA 'hing'.
It's used as garlic, since garlic is not found in Vedic recipes.
Do you also have Galanga?
I'll be using both tomorrow.

[stinkyattic]

asafoetida. (Ass-a-foot-eat-a) AKA 'hing'.
It's used as garlic, since garlic is not found in Vedic recipes.
Do you also have Galanga?
I'll be using both tomorrow.

Yes, and find that it smells less unpleasant.
Asafoetida is also added as a digestive agent to foods that tend to um give one 'the airs'...
I find it interesting how strict some Indian cuisines are in their extreme vegetarianism, avoiding root vegetables (including garlic) for risk of killing soil creatures during their harvest.
So what do you make that includes those ingredients? I find them PERFECT to add complexity to a nice dal, and I have a recipe for green beans and mustard seed that definitely takes a bit of fetid ass to be just right!