[Sca-cooks] Snow and Storms

[Sue Clemenger]

So...what's in the "garbage plate" or the tournedos Rossini ?
Our local "eeuuuw" foods are "brains and eggs" at the Oxford cafe, or the
rocky mountqin oysters at the Testicle Festival held every Fall.  No, I have
not eaten either one.
--maire

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Snow and Storms


>
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Betsy Marshall wrote:
>
> > Had to Google this one, but...
> > Gravy cheese fries?!?!
> > Must be a regional thing
> > Pyro (Mystified at best)
>
> I confess I'm with you on this one: not just gravy cheese fries, but
> gravy COTTAGE cheese fries. My initial reaction is that food is
> supposed to look like that _after_ leaving the stomach of a massively
> drunk college student, not before entering it...
>
> But then one can't be too judgmental when there are things out there
> like Nick Tahou Hots' Garbage Plate in Rochester, or even the quasi-
> Ukrainian borscht I made the other day...
>
> An old adage says something to the effect of, it was a brave man that
> tried the first oyster or lobster, but I can't help thinking some of
> this stuff is conceived by people going for shock value first (or
> possibly chemically-induced "munchies") and culinary virtue second --
> in its day, tournedos Rossini was one such, reportedly served under a
> napkin because it was deemed so repulsive to look at. Sometimes (as
> in the case of the aforementioned tournedos) such dishes turn out to
> be great.
>
> Adamantius