kbobam Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Recently tried a new macaroni shape. (Seen below. Yes, it's from the same fine people who bring you those irresistible little crackers.) What kind of pasta noodle do you like? Do you prefer standard spaghetti or do you tend more toward the angel-hair or the fettuccine side? How about good old mac and cheese? 'Elbow' or 'shell'? Bacon bits or not? (Ha! That last one was silly!) Or do you have the 'it's all good!' feeling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 I cook Thai rice noodles now and then. http://www.thaitable.com/thai/ingredient/thai-rice-noodles Gave up on traditional pasta long ago. Will eat some of hubby's but won't cook my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 As a die hard Pho eater (Tripe and tendon included please), rice noodles are my current favorite. I prefer Angle hair for spaghetti (garlic Alfredo clam sauce) my current go to. And elbows for mac(which I never have except when my friends that live down the street, mother comes to visit. Makes a mac and cheese that is 10 times better than any other I ever had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 Glad you guys brought up the idea of Asian noodles. More variety to choose from! And they're 'all good' too. Elbows are probably better for mac than shells in most cases. In my experience, it's difficult to drain shells well and you just don't want cooking water remaining in your final product. Although I think I've had a couple shell dishes that got a long slow bake and were great. The Pho looks delicious, but you're definitely both die-hard and hard-core by my standards. I like the wimpier stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 favorite... Japanese yam noodles! in sukiyaki. :-) other wise I am with Galen.lol but I like the sea food pho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I do the seafood about one out of three trips for Pho I didn't think the fish cake would be good but even it tastes great mixed in with all the other goodies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyMarbleBuddy Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I NEED the fishies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 Oh man. I basically ran out of food this weekend. You guys are killing me. (But it looks great!) Which fishies, Ruth? The pasta, fish in general, or the classic cracker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 Might be a prejudice but Dutch think about Americans that they almost never cook for themselves exept Thanksgiving Day,and use ready-made meals and take away dinners,anyway i don't get the impression here. By the way i like Asian noedels and Italian pasta's,but not the elbow and shell things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyMarbleBuddy Posted September 28, 2014 Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 @ kbobam: I meant the new pasta shape... I collect marbles and like new pasta shapes ... obviously I have refused to grow up! but Fish is good, too. Gold fish crackers are a treat, and the Parmesan are my favorite. BTW: You need to sell a marble and go buy groceries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 I haven't had the crackers in ages. Parmesan is a new one on me. Do they have pretzel fish? If they do I'd like to mix them up with the parmesan and cheddar ones. Fish mix! I'd probably eat it all day... ( : Here's the fish-mac product. Available recently at the Dollar Tree. I thought it was particularly good, which got me wondering whether it was the flavoring or the shape. And lead to the original pasta shape question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2014 Winnie, I think you're right. If I could afford it, I'd probably be eating Thai carry-out every night. But with our current economy there isn't much choice. The one lucky thing is that American tastes are such that the healthiest foods are not in demand, so at least they're the cheapest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 I cook almost every night! (and yes I can make the sukiyaki) about the only time I don't cook is at marble shows.lol tonight(should taken a picture) we had buttered angel hair pasta smothered with king crab, sea scallops and shrimp. with garden fresh tomatoes :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Angel hair. Sometimes I use ditilini rather than elbows, just for the heck of it. Fav angel hair sauce "alla capo" copied roughly from a nearby Italian restaurant involves both sausage AND chicken as the meat part. Yum. Don't much care for seafood. But stone crab claws (with a bowl of garlic butter} are acceptable. Also fresh yellowtail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleecee Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Your post made me laugh Winnie..you are not alone re: your views about Americans and food. We were visiting Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, and were chatting with 2 ladies from Poland while waiting in line. Don't recall how the topic came up, but I mentioned cooking dinner and they snickered and looked surprised...said they thought Americans ate Mc Donalds every day. When I told them that I eat McDonalds a few times a year, they did not believe me. Had to go on and on about all the things I liked to cook before they believed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 (There's going to be some mild bad language here if you don't want to see it.) Here are a couple frames from the tv show 'Mike and Molly'. They're having their first Thanksgiving dinner as a happy newly-married couple. I can see how people might think we don't like to cook, if this is the way our tv programs show how we feel on the one day a year we actually do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 LOL that looks cosy Bob,anything to clear,it's not how i think about it,but how people here generally are thinking. I'm not a great cook myself,lucky for me my husband likes to cook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 A husband who likes to cook! You're going to have some people jealous of you! It's always fun to hear how the rest of the world sees us. After all, we're the people who put ethanol in our gas to save petroleum, even though mileage goes down and you need more of it. And require low water use toilets, which need to be flushed twice to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Dani, that was not nice!! I read that while hungry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 How much do Europeans cook from scratch? I use nearly instant foods -- like canned soup and just-add-boiling water soup pouches. So I'm not eating out but rarely am cooking from scratch. My grandmother cooked from scratch so much that she made her own noodles. But she was a home economics teacher in the first half of the 1900's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skycollect Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 I like rigatoni with a robust red sauce with sweet Italian sausage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 How much do Europeans cook from scratch? I use nearly instant foods -- like canned soup and just-add-boiling water soup pouches. So I'm not eating out but rarely am cooking from scratch. My grandmother cooked from scratch so much that she made her own noodles. But she was a home economics teacher in the first half of the 1900's. Can only speak for myself and the people i know. We don't cook from scratch but as fresh as possible. Not much instant food but sometimes it's easy. For example a grilled chicken on a spit is prepared food but fresh isn't it? Soup we make ourselves using fresh herbs and ingredients. If we don't like to cook or in a hurry,we buy chinese or thay take away dinners from restaurants,hoping they're fresh LOL. I don't know how it is where you live Steph but Amsterdam is multi cultural,so you can buy here almost all kind of food from all over the world. I think Dani is a great cook,it looks delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 My small Wisconsin town is not very diverse. It has a thriving Hmong population though, so that's a nice culinary influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 I believe many Urban Europeans may spend a larger percentage of their budgets on food than we do. When I spent some time in Berlin all the locals shopped almost every afternoon for that nights dinner in the local small corner market. Always a quick stroll from their homes(Apts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted October 4, 2014 Report Share Posted October 4, 2014 Amsterdam has about 5 large markets,from my home it's not a quick stroll,i go 2 or 3 times a week to one of the markets for fresh fruit-vegetables-cheese and fish. The choise there is vast much more extensive and usually cheaper than shopping centers. http://www.amsterdam.info/shopping/albert_cuypmarkt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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