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  1. I was glad that everyone eating got to vote.  So much is determined by the judges, it's good to get the perspective from other people for once.  Especially when they went against the judges conclusions.

    Looked like a good approach to the challenge was to make a dish you might eat at a movie already, and jazz it up.  The popcorn, milkshake, and hot dog would be examples.  I loved Tom taking Gail's extra popcorn and just pouring it into his mouth.  It must have been great.  Are any of the recipes going up on Bravo's website?

    The quickfire was my idea of hell - I love roses but hate the taste of rosewater. It's like soap.

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  2. This is fiction, not history.  It is written to put the most flattering light possible on Princess Marthe.  I doubt she was involved in any of the politics, other than trying to get a meeting between the ambassador and the President.  FDR was known to flirt with any  woman around him, but his marriage was successful intellectually.  They also had 6 children.

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  3. 6 hours ago, Haleth said:

    I thought so too at first but there were none around the doctor, only Maladie from every camera angle. 

    I think they were flies, attracted to her gunshot wound and wounds around her mouth.  Sorry.

    I am starting to dislike the gratuitous female nudity.  It wasn't necessary for Maladie to be nude under her dress.  Alternatively, she could have been shot in the arm or leg.

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  4. I hate to tell you this but the first season of True Detective is like the Flying Nun compared to the second season of True Detective in the misery porn department.

    I agree with you about this being red herring week.  

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  5. On 4/24/2021 at 6:05 PM, snarktini said:

    The pulled pork style jackfruit really made social media rounds due to Tabitha Brown. There was a few weeks where I saw that constantly!

    They sell it at my local football stadium - how new could it be?

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  6. 1 hour ago, seltzer3 said:

    But chawanmushi isn't uncooked eggs.  Its steamed.

    My definition of uncooked eggs is anything that is not well done.  I want every part of my eggs cooked all the way through.  Chawanmushi is mushy at best.  And Padma's question to Shota and his admittance that they didn't turn out as expected seemed to indicate that his dish was underdone.

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  7. I'm with you in the chawanmushi hatred.  I can't stand uncooked eggs, so any dish where they top with a sunny side up egg is out for me.

    Avishar had plenty of time to make risotto.  What was he trying with the cheese?  And did he use any fruit other than a dime's worth of diced apple on top?

     

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  8. The Rooseveldts were much more concerned that no photos showing that the President was crippled were ever shown.  Rumors about him having affairs would push his image as a virile vibrant man.

    I've heard that remark from Queen Elizabeth about not leaving before, but stated that way to a king and crown prince in exile, it was particularly stinging.

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  9. 11 hours ago, Bastet said:

    What's it made out of?  Is it tasty, or just something you've learned to live with in order to have tacos?  I pay moderate attention to carbohydrate intake and love tacos, so I just make sure not to eat tacos too frequently; I haven't given it any more thought than that.  But if there's a good low-carb tortilla to be had, I'd make the substitution, so I'd love a link to what you buy/make. 

    I buy Mission Carb Balance tortillas.  They're sold in grocery stores.   It's a flour, not a corn tortilla.  I use net carbs and they are 3-6 grams per tortilla depending on the size and flavor, but also have a lot of fiber.  And they taste like regular flour tortillas to me.

     

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  10. 15 hours ago, kieyra said:

     

    If the formula for this kind of show holds, whoever killed Erin is the same person who killed the girl who has been missing for a year. That’s if we’re going serial killer. We might not be. I could see the show doing some trope busting. But I don’t see it being Erin’s father, or her noxious baby daddy and lowlife girlfriend. I do hope they get arrested, though. 

     

    I thought that Erin is the girl who has been missing.  That they are using the now tiresome two timelines approach to story telling. 

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  11. 22 minutes ago, Cheezwiz said:

    On a completely unrelated note: you know you're getting old when people a bit younger than you are suddenly playing grandparents. Jesus.

    There's a movie starring Sean Penn where his actual mother was cast as his grandmother.  Hollywood hates the actually old with a few exceptions.

    So Roy from The Office is Mare's ex?

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  12. My new favorite commercial is for some kind of exercise bike* that let's you simulate riding fast on curvy roads by leaning from side to side.  The best part of the commercial is when the guy on the bike starts leaning back and forth, his neighbors are watching and start leaning with him.

    *It's too bad that I never am aware of what is actually being advertised.

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  13. 1 hour ago, carrps said:

    I think the Pinot Noir was with the berries. He put the chanterelles in the whipped cream.

    Smoked chanterelles!

    I guess he does like mushrooms, but then so do I.  

    I still don't understand how the Talenti things work.  They are in the frozen food section and appear to be ice cream/gelato with layers of other things, but Padma was explaining how they had to be cooked for 45 minutes.   ????

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  14. I wish they had used more footage of the restaurant chefs' reactions to the EC dishes, and less on the judges.  It did look like some of the cheftestants went over to talk to them afterwards - Jamie, Dawn, and Kiki at least.

    What was in Dawn's green sauce that got so many raves?  I know she pickled things, but that wouldn't have been that color if it was pickled.

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  15. I watched this wanting to know how anyone would come to believe that Joe Biden has a submarine full of children to eat.  I wish he had spent more time on that, and less on "who is Q?"  It seems that half the country has gone down a rabbit hole and I'd like to know how they got there.

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  16. I assumed that production had given the judges their orders.  If you waited until the end, then you'd get stuck making the order from hell.  I'll rag on Blais for mispronouncing "immunity" but not for the corned beef hash and hollandaise order.

    I think Sasha and Brittany were bottom two because even if they'd made what they originally intended, the separate dishes would have been terrible.  The hazelnuts would have been burned and the romesco would have been spongy and neither coffee or beer would have been celebrated. 

    I hate challenges like this where they don't have the ability to shop for more ingredients to make two separate dishes more cohesive when combined.

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  17. On 4/1/2021 at 8:53 PM, roctavia said:

    Poor town doctor guy... I wonder how long it will take them to figure out he's not an alien.... Though it might be quite obvious with Harry's ship gone. 

    You know there's going to be probing......some of us can't forget that he played an alien on another show.

    On 4/3/2021 at 3:44 PM, Dewey Decimate said:

     

    *Just realized that some youngsters might not know what a phone book is: it's a massive collection of all phone numbers of a certain area, listed alphabetically. Extremely thick and extremely dry, one would figure. In the olden days, an insecure muscly-man might demonstrate his strength by ripping one in half against "the grain", while today you might find one used one to create a papier-mache model of a rotary phone for sale in Anthropologie.

    It was also what the very youngsters would have to sit on to reach the table at Thanksgiving dinner.

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