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12-Feb-2025 Dave

14 No Cookbook Needed

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Canon Image Challenge17-Feb-2025 10:35
Fingers work fine for greasy peanuts...lol...my Chopsticks are also bad to awful...but I force myself to use them despite my ineptness. Traveller
Canon Image Challenge17-Feb-2025 05:22
Chopsticks - somewhat country dependent. I was in Asia a lot over twenty years, so I got pretty good with them. The Japanese squared off the ends for regular meals, but went to more of the Chinese style for more formal affairs.
The toughest for me was using the thinner formal Chinese rounded chopstick to pick up a oily (and slippery) peanut out of a dish.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge17-Feb-2025 04:09
Ahi tuna steak cooks up nicely. This was broiled in our air frier.

I'm pretty adept with chopsticks as long as the pieces of what I'm eating are bite-sized. I have tried using them to eat spaghetti (close to a fail) and scramble eggs (more successful if more than two chopsticks are used).

Yes, condensed milk. Thai and Vietnamese coffees have their own distinct tastes. Maybe spices or some other kind of flavoring. I found a pho broth (organic and vegan) I really like. I doubt I could make better, even if I had the patience. They also make a ramen broth. Unfortunately, both are salty.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 15:36
Is Vietnamese iced coffee like Thai iced coffee? I love that, made with sweetened condensed milk. I use condensed coconut milk. I've never made pho, but I keep meaning to. I make ramen (not the instant kind out of a packet) occasionally, and use chopsticks for that (and bowls suitable for tipping into one's mouth). Tuna and salmon are pretty much the only two foods that I actually miss, after many years of being vegan. For everything else, I've either found a really good plant-based substitute, or discovered that it wasn't that important to me after all. But tuna and salmon. Ah, well. I'll enjoy it vicariously through you!
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 13:01
Being fully transparent about chopstick I’ve been banned from using them in public. People watching me are laughing so loud and hard it created a disturbance.

Did you know I’m the luckiest guy alive? My wife isn’t into jewelry and neither of us drink coffee. I used to enjoy the pleasant aroma of the Folgers plant roasting coffee when traveling through or working in downtown KCMO. Paul
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 03:47
Ahhh, that's Tuna. I have only ever eaten it raw...I thought it was a pork chop...lol

Now, with further explanations, I approve of this dinner...(grin) Traveller
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 03:41
Do they have beef stew on the menu? It's one of the best things I've ever eaten. A restaurant in Rochester, NY has a good rendition. They also have Vietnamese spring rolls. Much better than their Chinese counterparts.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 03:38
We have a decent Vietnamese restaurant not far from us. Excellent food, including Pho and iced coffee.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 03:32
Unfortunately, I used the wrong kind of bowl for chopsticks. I more or less drank some of the leftovers tonight. Your daughter-in-law probably wouldn't approve of the way I made it. The less said, probably the better.

Has your daughter-in-law introduced you to Vietnamese iced coffee? We got addicted to it when we visited in 2015. If I had known how many calories I was consuming, I would have shifted towards beer.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 02:29
Pho….. the real question is did you use chopsticks or fork/spoon? Did I ever mention my daughter-in-law is 100% Vietnamese? Paul
Canon Image Challenge16-Feb-2025 01:25
That was a big piece of tuna, there was honey on the carrots, and I had a second helping of redskin mashed potatoes.

The night before I served pho. Has anyone here attempted that? Back to sloppy joes this week.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge15-Feb-2025 13:34
Or maybe on a diet trying to drop a few Holliday lbs, the vicious never ending cycle. Paul
Canon Image Challenge15-Feb-2025 04:52
Nice, but not enough food...lol....(Just finishing a serving of my bouillabaisse...and even at 3/4 of a liter, there wasn't enough!!! I am not a bird, like Jim's gorgeous gold finches, though I am gorgeous). A smaller diet would be better for me...so insists my doctors.

Dave, you must be slim...Traveller