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How do I make this awesome looking meatloaf?

web-goddess — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:54:16 -0800

I was just idly googling for "meatloaf leek" trying to find a recipe to make for dinner, when I found this stock photo. FANCY! Unfortunately I can't find a recipe for it at all. How would you go about making something like that? It looks like a fairly normal meatloaf, topped with bacon. I'm guessing (based on the title) that's a carrot stuck in a leek buried in the middle. Can any of you find an actual recipe for it? Or, failing that, have any ideas or spot any potential pitfalls?

What do you think it'll do to the cooking time, to have something stuck in the middle like that?

Help me use up these carrots!

missuswayne — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:51:46 -0800

I got a boatload of carrots from our farm pick-up today. Aside from eating them as-is or making carrot muffins or cake, all worthy uses, I'd like a recipe for cooking them into a side dish. The catch - I've never liked cooked carrots much. Do you have a recipe for something carrot-y that is so divine that I could never not eat it? Please share.

Picklers of the world unite!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:28:26 -0800

What's your favourite pickle recipe, and why? And what advice can you offer to a novice pickler? I've embarked on a cautious foray into the world of DIY pickles. So far I've mostly limited myself to trying to replicate the ones I grew up with, i.e. Dutch-style gherkins and onions. They're nice, sure, but not very imaginative.

So in the interest of adventure, let's hear it! What's your favourite pickle? And if you know how it's made or if you've made it yourself, please share! I know I'm not alone in my pickle frenzy, so let's not be coy about these things, shall we.

Some personal quirks:
-I like pickled vegetables. Fruit... not so much. Previous successes include gherkins/cucumbers, onions, carrots, sweet peppers, and celery. I'm very open to pickling other vegetables.
-I really, really like strong tastes. Anyone remember boo_radley's story in MeTa a while ago? That's me. Basically, the pickles I've made so far have come straight from hell. This does not please everyone, however, and they don't have to be super hot or sour or garlicky or anything. But I do like strong flavours. More specifically, I'm looking to add some meat to my pickles, or say a darker / more umami flavour.
-Most of what I've made and/or read about concerns European- and American-style pickles. I'd be interested to hear about other varieties, such as those from our Asian cousins.
-Relishes to relish! Let's not forget about these pulpier, more spreadable citizens of Pickleland (which I'm pretty sure actually exists).
-I'm also interested in advice a pickle master would give to a novice, such as "cold infusions are for total wusses" or "the amount of mustard seeds should never exceed the square root of the amount of coriander seeds". Of course, I'm totally making these up, but I'm sure you catch my drift.

Then again, feel free to ignore the above, as certainly your suggestion will benefit someone.

Thanks in advance, fellow pickle freaks, and stay sour!

French phrase for celery, carrot, onion soup base?

cda — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:34:25 -0800

Martha Stewart prepared a soup base using only carrots, celery and onion and then she said there was a French phrase for this method but I couldn't catch it.

carrots to good home

ITheCosmos — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:43:56 -0800

What in G-d's name am I going to do with ten pounds of carrots? I bought a ten-pound bag of carrots because it was two dollars. Baking carrot cakes scarcely made a dent in the orange empire. I've been eating them raw as snacks, but I'd appreciate any carrot-intensive recipes that you've enjoyed.

Japanese Noh documentary on PBS?

felix — Thu, 26 May 2005 12:24:05 -0800

In an interview in The Comics Journal, Dirk Deppy is talking about surrealism with Flaming Carrot author Bob Burden, when suddenly a remembered moment from a public television Japanese Noh Drama documentary leaps off the page... "DEPPEY: I think if I had to pinpoint the most surreal thing I've ever seen it would have to be a PBS special I saw as an early teenager on Japanese Noh theater, which is sort of the grotesque version of Kabuki. The special opened up with what seemed like this eight-minute shot of a woman who was bare from the middle of her breasts on up. It was a very tight angle, close-up shot of that, with her head tilted way back, looking over her shoulder at the camera with this utterly maniacal gleam in her eyes -- like she was about to devour a kitten or something. After about a minute of this, a little patch of saliva began slowly sliding out of the side of her mouth, slowly running down her chin, slowly running down her neck. Everything else was absolutely still..."

OK, where the heck is this from, and does anyone have either a source for the documentary, or the visual which it documents, or the play which contains the visual? Because I remember this too, and it's driving me mad. (small patch of saliva drools down chin)