what are you eating today?

[Felix]

^ im coming over for dinner sometime 2008

good idea! i'm sure we will have some cake as well

[geekbonchic]

Home-made lembas.

[tweeds]

geekbonchic - what does lembas taste like? my memory of tokien is dim.

[geekbonchic]

It's like a cross between a cookie and a biscuit. Slightly crunchy exterior, soft, buttery interior. The recipe has lemon juice, honey, and milk, so it's only slightly sweet with a light citrus aftertaste.

[mpcec]

Post the recipe... my friend would go nuts for lembas.

[masuerte]

did u pan sautee those bananas? HOly god wow. U'd love chowing down @ Versailles, it's this awesome cuban restaurant in Venice blvd... remind me when you come down to L.A.

Imagine this but a larger serving:

[geekbonchic]

Post the recipe... my friend would go nuts for lembas.

Home-made Lembas

Ingredients

• 2.5 cups of flour
  
• 1 tbsp baking powder
  
• Pinch of salt
  
• 8 tbsp cold butter
  
• 1/3 cup sugar (less if you want it less sweet)
  
• 2 tbsp honey (if you want, take out the sugar and throw in a bit more honey)
  
• 2/3 cup of milk (or as much as needed for a workable dough)
  
• Juice of half a lemon
  
• (optional: 1-2 tbsp of lemon zest)
  

Directions

1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl
   
2. Add in butter in chunks (pinching it off or cutting off little bits) and knead it into the mixture until the texture is crumby
   
3. Add sugar and honey and mix
   
4. Add lemon juice
   
5. Add milk slowly, stirring as you do
   
6. Roll dough out to 1/4 - 1/2 inch thick
   
7. Cut out 3 inch squares and score them in an "X" across the top
   
8. Bake at 425°F for 10 minutes or until the top is firm and the sides are golden
   
9. Eat as you travel to Mount Doom
   

PLUS RAPE PLEEZ!!!111!!1

[dino might]

i thought hot cross buns was just that song.. hm. tg, your creations like that pancake frankenstein up there trump my cereal concoctions :[

anyway- frosted mini wheatsXfrosted flakes

it works.

[B.oskar]

Had Lamb for Easter too. it was pretty good. Thanks for the Lembas recipe geekbonchic!! gonna try that out sometime this week (: sounds and looks g

[soepom]

finally, my mum's schedule and mine coincided just enough for her to whip up a magic of a meal:

seafood paella - the scallops were gooooooooood

generous slices of raw salmon, drizzled with sesame oil, mandarin oil, ginger paste and crushed herbs

freshly baked brownies with honey roasted almonds

[erictheninja]

^ that sashimi looks dopee

homemade lunch

potato latkes x blackberries

[mojinho]

Peekytoe Crab Fritters, Honeycrisp Apples, Pink Peppercorn Vinaigrette

Smoked Squab a l'Orange, Asian Pear, Candied Tamarind

this is my favorite of all the stuff from this weekend! beautiful! i've been wanting to go to that restaurant for YEARS

[mojinho]

people kept telling me it has the best draft beer in brazil

penne with honeydew melon, prosciutto and cream sauce (the waiter heard me and my friend discussing how to make it and came over and explained it to us in painstaking detail)

cappuccino

at Bráz pizzeria: pão de calabresa (sausage bread)

pizza with house-made ricotta (very sweet!), scallions and tomatoes

some drinks . . . they were named after the waiters and were mighty tasty

[mojinho]

but i am excited to be eating this

because in SP i went to japantown and found this

as well as this extremely comical (to me) asian brand of peanut butter which i fully expected to taste horrible but which is right up there with Jif in my book

i would love to know what it says, but i don't even know if it's japanese or chinese. (i think it's japanese.) any help from asian SuFuers?

[JSebbe]

Euphoria, mmm.

[chocoloby]

but i am excited to be eating this

because in SP i went to japantown and found this

as well as this extremely comical (to me) asian brand of peanut butter which i fully expected to taste horrible but which is right up there with Jif in my book

i would love to know what it says, but i don't even know if it's japanese or chinese. (i think it's japanese.) any help from asian SuFuers?

those are japanese, i am not a japanese myself, but i do study it, i am pretty certain the big fonts are "peanut butter" which is pi-na-tsu ba-ta in japanese pronunciation, and the small fonts are creamy. hope i am correct~

[mojinho]

yeah i bought creamy so that would make sense, thanks

[mpcec]

Home-made Lembas

PLUS RAPE PLEEZ!!!111!!1

Thanks, already raped earlire though it seems.

[n2threw007]

Home made Kare Kare ( Filipino dish)

[erictheninja]

[john11f]

that kare-kare looks pale. where are you from pare?

[Guest sousvide]

pizza with house-made ricotta (very sweet!), scallions and tomatoes

How do you make your ricotta? what acid do you use? and why is it so sweet?

[mojinho]

i WISH i could make my own ricotta (maybe you can . . .?)

no this is from a pizzeria in São Paulo.

it was "sweet" not in a sugary way, but in a "fresh milk" sort of way, if that makes any sense. try getting your hands on some good unsalted ricotta sometime and i think you'll know what i mean.

[DaBestSpoona]

baking fresh whole milk ricotta will always add sweetness

Sometimes it can be cheesecake like in taste.

[mojinho]

mmmmmmmmmmm . . . cheesecake . . .

[Guest sousvide]

I do make my own ricotta.

lemon ricotta.

[B.oskar]

^ what is that on your pizza? looks tasty :9

[B.oskar]

Oh and i wanted to know what this was? rice on a pancake?? interesting.. wait! is that chicken under the rice? but how is so perfectly round

[dave bing]

sandwichhh.

[mojinho]

I do make my own ricotta.

lemon ricotta.

WHOA NEXT-LEVEL SHIT!

do share a recipe. i'd love to try.