I cooked a turkey breast roast yesterday, because I like turkey and this is one of the occasions that my relatives celebrated with enormous meals. So I sliced up the turkey that didn't get eaten yesterday, and made myself a turkey sandwich on a ciabbatta roll with a couple of slices of bacon tucked in between the turkey slices (microwave bacon has less fat per serving than pan-cooked bacon), and that tasted so much like REAL FOOD I almost wept.
I hope soso! They came out pretty well all things considered. I love the gravy from the recipe and I think it could totally be made with mushroom or veggies brothth: 2 cups broth, 4 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp flour, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp apple cider vinegar [1 tbsp oyster sauce, optional], 2 tbsp heavy cream. Salt and pepper.
I can't imagine a prop department so lacking in imagination that they make MEATBALLS to represent alien food. (And the recipe sounds similar to "Swedish meatballs") I have a Star Trek cookbook with notes from the propmaster about alien foods and drinks. And a whole fresh Buddha's Hand sitting on a plate looks pretty alien. Or Asian dried seafood. Or a roasted tongue.
If we do encounter other life forms, their biochemistry will most likely be completely incompatible with ours, and vice versa. If they've invented cooking, we'll never be able to swap recipes. It would be fun, though, if one of their spices turned out to be safe for us to eat, and delicious by our standards. Or if it gets us high as fuck - or if one of ours gets THEM high as fuck :-)
Oh, Babylon 5 had some entertainingly alien food https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Yogtree But mysteriously, every space-faring species has a version of Swedish meatballs.
Gonna nitpick on my ancestral cuisine here; I can't really tell how big these are, but Swedish meatballs are supposed to be smaller than golf balls, about 1-2 tablespoons of mixture (which of course makes them annoyingly time-consuming). I'm sure they're awesome though.
I did recently have what were billed as "Swedish meatballs" as the lunch special at Saddleback ski area in Maine; they were the size of billiard balls and didn't have what I consider the signature taste (which comes from white pepper and allspice), but they were in a mushroom sauce over rice and were far better than ski area base lodge food has any right to be.
Bwee, please feel free to advise me as I cook the food of your people.
These were 2 tablespoonn balls -- I used a disher. Also, they're kind of
wide because they're more slumps than balls.
I used mace instead of allspice for the general warm spice thing (because
I could find the mace), but next time I'll go to the trouble of powdering
some allspice. I know I have some around here...
I was thinking that mushrooms would taste really good with this.
It's always amused me that in the Babylon 5 universe, every sentient species has a dish identical in appearance, taste and smell to Swedish meatballs but are called different things, while in the Hitchhiker's Guide universe, every sentient species has a drink pronounced "gin and tonic", which are all completely different.
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Date: 2023-04-11 04:31 am (UTC)Flarn was green Minbari tofu, that's right.
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Date: 2023-04-11 04:50 am (UTC)Gods, I can eat bacon again!!!
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Date: 2023-04-11 12:48 pm (UTC)I hope soso! They came out pretty well all things considered. I love the gravy from the recipe and I think it could totally be made with mushroom or veggies brothth: 2 cups broth, 4 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp flour, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp apple cider vinegar [1 tbsp oyster sauce, optional], 2 tbsp heavy cream. Salt and pepper.
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Date: 2023-04-11 10:02 pm (UTC)If we do encounter other life forms, their biochemistry will most likely be completely incompatible with ours, and vice versa. If they've invented cooking, we'll never be able to swap recipes. It would be fun, though, if one of their spices turned out to be safe for us to eat, and delicious by our standards. Or if it gets us high as fuck - or if one of ours gets THEM high as fuck :-)
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Date: 2023-04-12 03:24 am (UTC)Gonna nitpick on my ancestral cuisine here; I can't really tell how big these are, but Swedish meatballs are supposed to be smaller than golf balls, about 1-2 tablespoons of mixture (which of course makes them annoyingly time-consuming). I'm sure they're awesome though.
I did recently have what were billed as "Swedish meatballs" as the lunch special at Saddleback ski area in Maine; they were the size of billiard balls and didn't have what I consider the signature taste (which comes from white pepper and allspice), but they were in a mushroom sauce over rice and were far better than ski area base lodge food has any right to be.
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Date: 2023-04-12 03:30 am (UTC)Bwee, please feel free to advise me as I cook the food of your people. These were 2 tablespoonn balls -- I used a disher. Also, they're kind of wide because they're more slumps than balls.
I used mace instead of allspice for the general warm spice thing (because I could find the mace), but next time I'll go to the trouble of powdering some allspice. I know I have some around here...
I was thinking that mushrooms would taste really good with this.
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Date: 2023-04-12 03:30 am (UTC)It's always amused me that in the Babylon 5 universe, every sentient species has a dish identical in appearance, taste and smell to Swedish meatballs but are called different things, while in the Hitchhiker's Guide universe, every sentient species has a drink pronounced "gin and tonic", which are all completely different.
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Date: 2023-04-12 03:31 am (UTC)This may say something about the two fictional universes, yeah.
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