Are pancakes popular in the former USSR? It seems to me that you speak about them very often, and they are made with whole grains. In the US, we have pancakes with simple sugars, but these pancakes with whey and kefir are a new thing for me.
This is my favorite dish in Vietnamese noodle joints. I pity the fools ordering pho.
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Man, I just order pho like a chump because I don’t know what I’m doing, that looks crazy delicious.
You definitely gotta try the bun. It comes with a whole vat of nuoc cham that you dump over everything. Absolutely fantastic. Your breath will smell like fish sauce for days.
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I haven’t tried it, but like, even if it’s so good it becomes my default order, pho is always going to be good enough to be worth ordering when done well.
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I don’t mean to be down on pho. I just really love bun thit nuong. There are so many amazing flavor, texture and temperature combinations happening in one bowl.
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Generally speaking, bun thit nuong is my summer go to in a vietnamese restaurant. Pho winter and spring go to when it’s raining buckets up here in the Pac NW.
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I think some form of pancake is popular almost everywhere.
Whey pancakes should be similar in principle to buttermilk pancakes, as whey is the leftover liquid from making curds/cheese and traditional buttermilk was the leftover liquid from churning butter. Kefir is really just milk that has undergone a food preservation process so that it doesn’t need to be refrigerated.
Pho is my favourite breakfast but buns are good for sunny days if you’re sitting down. I like bun cha hanoi. Obama made it (a relatively obscure regional dish) super famous.
Is this the same as bun nhit thuon except with ground pork patties?
Blini is like the most famous russian dish
You get a larger personal bowl of sauce, perfumed by the barbecued pork patties and bacon, with heaping plain noodles and herbs served on the side. You get a lot of thin smoky sauce slurped up with every bite of dipped noodles.
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My first job out of college, I started the same day as my Vietnamese-American coworker. We went out to lunch together, and he took me to eat bun* at a Vietnamese place for the first time in my life. Fell in love at first bite.
*bun thit nuong cha gio. It’s what fatboy’s wife made with egg rolls added on top.
Crazy how many people I’ve met who like Vietnamese food, but never had bun.
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Me: sauteing onion and garlic
Everybody within 100 yards: wow! That smells great, what are you cooking?
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I cleaned out my refrigerator with a salad. Oven-roasted corn, yellow squash, carrot, cilantro, green onions, and homemade cheese. I made a lemon paprika yogurt dressing.
If that sounds a bit like elotes (which I’ve never actually had), that would be the inspiration.
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Every single time. I just burnt some sunflower oil in a wok and my wife said it smelled good lol.
A few people have told me about a deli in town that sells “ugly steaks”, a cut of meat they won’t name but are apparently delicious and relatively inexpensive. Got some today to try out under the guise of my dog’s birthday.
I suspect they’re some sort of hanger or skirt steak, maybe a meat aficionado can help me out. Grilled them up and they came out great despite being more well done than I meant to make them.
Also got a couple of their fully indulgent twice baked potatoes to go along with it. I was going to make green beans but they were spoiled, oh well.
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My butcher sells skirt, flank, and bavette as three separate cuts. Many places just have skirt and flank, and I’m not really sure what bavette is but it’s similar. Maybe that’s what you got.
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Watching chop junior with my daughter and one of the judges talked about “ugly food”. Apparently we waste a lot of food because it doesn’t pass certain esthetic standards.
I didn’t know and it pisses me off. I will buy all ugly food.
Huge amounts produce are thrown away due only to minor aesthetic blemishes. Some smart companies, like juice makers, are targeting this waste they can buy cheaply.
I doubt very much ugly meat gets thrown away. There are a lot of hot dogs and cans of Alpo that need to be made.
Produce, yeah. Lots of waste there. Plus anything prepared that has a short shelf life.