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which_chickToday, I have an eatery review (for the massive number of you who live in the greater metro Baltimore area and are unable to locate interesting foreign food on your own...), some relinks (for my mom, now that she has broadband and thinks lolcats are funny), and like that.
Eatery review: Kumari Restaurant and Bar, 911 N. Charles Street, Baltimore Md. They do a buffet, Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan cooking. Not sure as to the authenticity of the food, but damn, it's tasty stuff. Eleven bucks for the buffet, well worth a shot and will be making it into our pre-opera rotation of acceptable eateries. Their prices slightly beat the Akbar (really good indian food, also do a Sunday buffet, also on N. Charles Street, about a block down from the Kumari, same side of the street) but I think that's mostly because they have more meat on the buffet than the Kumari does. I have no objection to meat-free dishes and so this is not a major point against the Kumari.
It's smallish, quiet, has decent service for buffet lunch eating. Food is foreign but not overly spicy for Merkin palates (recall that I do eat spicy food, though, so this isn't a guarantee that lovers of the bland will be able to chow down with impunity) and has interesting combinations of flavors. The buffet comes with free tea and water so that you don't need to buy drinks extra. Their handout menu also says that they will do carryout.
Relinks for my mom: LOLcats are located at ICHC. LOLfed is located at lolfed.com. The Japanese show with the weight carrying cats, it is here. Also, books about sheep fur from Linda, they arrived safely today, look to be very interesting. (However, I had to watch Don Draper continue his midlife crisis today, so didn't read up on them much yet.)
Ganache, it is a thing you make of spreadable chocolate and some sort of milk product (frequently cream but also possibly milk or butter). I apparently suck at making it, totally fucked it up the last go-round (it's for on top of the eclairs) and am giving it another whirl here tonight. Instead of buying expensive nice chocolate, this time I am using the special dark minis from the assorted hershey miniatures at cousin Heather's house. It's not like we eat them as Hershey's miniatures, after all. (We do. Eventually. With much complaining. We really like the Mr Goodbar and the Krackle ones. I will eat the plain chocolate ones as penance. Nobody eats the Special Darks except out of desperation. My entire family is made of people who root through the jar for "the good ones".) For the record, five Hershey's miniatures make 1.5 ounces. (The recipe has the amount of chocolate in ounces, so this is something I need to know in order to melt Hershey Special Darks in lieu of actual chocolate for ganache.)
Research on that front continues. I don't see how I can possibly be deficient on ganache when I can make choux pastry (dead easy, totally fun and surprising) and vanilla pasty cream from scratch... both flawlessly and happily, with ease. It can't be that hard. It can't.
Eatery review: Kumari Restaurant and Bar, 911 N. Charles Street, Baltimore Md. They do a buffet, Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan cooking. Not sure as to the authenticity of the food, but damn, it's tasty stuff. Eleven bucks for the buffet, well worth a shot and will be making it into our pre-opera rotation of acceptable eateries. Their prices slightly beat the Akbar (really good indian food, also do a Sunday buffet, also on N. Charles Street, about a block down from the Kumari, same side of the street) but I think that's mostly because they have more meat on the buffet than the Kumari does. I have no objection to meat-free dishes and so this is not a major point against the Kumari.
It's smallish, quiet, has decent service for buffet lunch eating. Food is foreign but not overly spicy for Merkin palates (recall that I do eat spicy food, though, so this isn't a guarantee that lovers of the bland will be able to chow down with impunity) and has interesting combinations of flavors. The buffet comes with free tea and water so that you don't need to buy drinks extra. Their handout menu also says that they will do carryout.
Relinks for my mom: LOLcats are located at ICHC. LOLfed is located at lolfed.com. The Japanese show with the weight carrying cats, it is here. Also, books about sheep fur from Linda, they arrived safely today, look to be very interesting. (However, I had to watch Don Draper continue his midlife crisis today, so didn't read up on them much yet.)
Ganache, it is a thing you make of spreadable chocolate and some sort of milk product (frequently cream but also possibly milk or butter). I apparently suck at making it, totally fucked it up the last go-round (it's for on top of the eclairs) and am giving it another whirl here tonight. Instead of buying expensive nice chocolate, this time I am using the special dark minis from the assorted hershey miniatures at cousin Heather's house. It's not like we eat them as Hershey's miniatures, after all. (We do. Eventually. With much complaining. We really like the Mr Goodbar and the Krackle ones. I will eat the plain chocolate ones as penance. Nobody eats the Special Darks except out of desperation. My entire family is made of people who root through the jar for "the good ones".) For the record, five Hershey's miniatures make 1.5 ounces. (The recipe has the amount of chocolate in ounces, so this is something I need to know in order to melt Hershey Special Darks in lieu of actual chocolate for ganache.)
Research on that front continues. I don't see how I can possibly be deficient on ganache when I can make choux pastry (dead easy, totally fun and surprising) and vanilla pasty cream from scratch... both flawlessly and happily, with ease. It can't be that hard. It can't.
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Date: 2008-10-21 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-24 05:40 am (UTC)Also, last night I managed to burn beans. Worse, I burnt them while doing the "quick soak" part of the bean cooking. EPIC fail!
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Date: 2008-10-21 12:36 pm (UTC)Try taking a bite of the regular chocolate or the Special Dark with a bite of pretzel. It's interesting.