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Katrina Oniseki
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2012.02.04 12:34:00 -
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Call me jaded already, but I for one am a bit tired of the worthless mud-slinging and name-calling ever present on the IGS. It always seems to be the same old re-hashed arguments. Slaver this, terrorist that. Caldari vs. Gallente, New Eden vs. Sansha. Sure we're all set in our political affiliations, but let's set that aside for a moment and talk about something [most] of us have in common.
Food!
Now, before you go calling me a fat little overeating chubber, allow me to explain. I have a passion for trying new things, and new foods have been something of a personal affair for me ever since I left my sheltered life in the State. Really, when I lived in the State, I didn't even experience much of my own culture's cuisine. Did you know I've never actually tried authentic Achur food?
So, imagine my shock when after being deployed to the Placid region following my employment by Revenent Defence Corporation, I encountered the Gallente concept of 'Caldari Take-Out'. I was homesick for a good Caldari meal, and saw the ad for it on a local holoscreen, deciding it can't be any worse than the advertisement itself was.
I think that was the spark that lit the fire for me. Caldari Take-Out was something so unhealthy but so good. Let it be known that it's nothing like actual Caldari cuisine, except for maybe the use of certain ingredients ubiquitous to the entire cluster. This stuff was greasy, loaded with chemicals, probably added at least a kilogram after the first meal, and didn't even keep me feeling full for two hours. I was hooked.
I suppose I'm lucky I work out and I can clone, because otherwise I'd probably have trouble fitting into the pod. I've sampled Intaki desserts, traditional Amarr breads, plenty of Gallente 'knockoffs', and some thick Matari stews. The capsule, for all the evils that seem to have come with it, have allowed me to try things I otherwise wouldn't be, and I am grateful for that.
Lately I've begun learning how to cook. I'm still fairly new at it, and the most advanced thing I can make is fresh bread and a roast bird. Soups are much easier, as they tend to cook easier.
So tell me, New Eden... what are your favorite dishes? What do you prefer after a long day, or on your time off? Do you subside mostly off the capsule's nutrient injections, or do you cook at home? Do you go out to eat, and where do you go? What are some of the traditional or popular dishes of your affiliates? |
Norrin Ellis
Venture Racing
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Posted - 2012.02.04 13:03:00 -
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I have a fondness for food, but I usually prefer not knowing what I'm eating, lest some cognitive prejudice cause me to reject something that is, by its merits, absolutely delicious. When I visit restaurants, I frequently neglect to read the menu and ask the waiter to surprise me.
If I had to pick a favorite, though, I'm going to have to choose starcakes. I love them so much that I went to the Lirsautton system a while ago and hired a Jin-Mei pastry chef. She has been a fantastic addition to the crew. CEO, Venture Racing Banker, EVE Online Hold'Em |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2012.02.04 13:15:00 -
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I have a friend planet-side who farms and hunts and gardens. He and his wife have taught me a great deal about cooking. My favorite dish is a small piece of venison loin (venison is the meat of wild, split hoofed mammals hunted for meat). The loin is cooked together with a dark purple cabbage and orange colored tuber. The sauce and seasoning consist of a salted brew made from wheat, a sweetened spice concoction, and an assortment of herbs from the garden. When done, the textures of the venison and vegetables together and the sweet spicy saltiness of the herb/sauce combination is very satisfying. They also squeeze out a tart, astringent kind of berry juice that is marvelous to drink with a meal. I visit my friend whenever I can for this dish that has become a treat that I happily return to enjoy. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Lyn Farel
Extropian Technologies
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Posted - 2012.02.04 13:20:00 -
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This is good to try new things.
I like pastries. But when I cook myself, it always ends up in a disaster... |
Mikkel Lybecker
Gradient Electus Matari
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Posted - 2012.02.04 17:06:00 -
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I was going to do a thread like this at some point, but you've saved me the trouble which is excellent.
I don't have a lot of time to contribute to this right now, but I can say that I worked for Native Freshfood for years and there isn't much I can't do with a tin of roes. As the slogan said, we were "those who knows where roes goes". |
Masatoshi Hamada
The Everyshore Examiner
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Posted - 2012.02.04 22:51:00 -
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Lyn Farel wrote:This is good to try new things.
I like pastries. But when I cook myself, it always ends up in a disaster...
I'm the same. I could never cook anything that well. It got to the point that I had to hire a personal chef for home meals! But it's worth it. Speaking of food... |
Simca Develon
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2012.02.05 00:26:00 -
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Aside from your cooking Caldari Take-Out is probably my favorite thing to eat after a long day. Mom always cooked more traditional meals, and here lately I've been trying to mix the two together and make...Caldari Take-In. I'm also highly addicted to pretty much anything sweet especially if it has icing on it. Lots and lots of icing. Je suis le commencement de votre fin. |
Kithrus
Defensores Fidei Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.05 00:49:00 -
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I always enjoyed a good ale with the men after a hard training op back in the khanid navy. Good company with people you can trust makes the bitters all the better. |
Sakaane Eionell
Intaki Liberation Front
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Posted - 2012.02.05 04:23:00 -
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When I was young, my mother used to send my brothers and I out into the forest to collect the wild sweet pod melons which grew there. She'd make a few different things with them, but I enjoyed the ice cream the most. I've not found any place which makes melon ice cream the way my mother did.
Whenever I disconnect from my pod I find I have an immediate craving for 'real' food. There is just something about sitting down and consuming a good meal over conversation and drinks with friends or loved ones which is immensely more satisfying than just subsisting off the goo's nutrients.
I'm not much of a cook myself. A gentleman I've known for many years now, Njal, owns an Intaki bar and grill currently located in Dodixie called Deck 17. He often does much of the cooking himself and everything on his menu is scrumptious.
I'm not a drinker; I don't enjoy the effects of alcohol nor see much point in it. But there is a non-alcoholic drink, a nectar, produced in southern Intaki called Payloqan k'Adharnam which is very pleasing to the senses. It's rare and quite expensive, but worth a taste if you can obtain any. Sakaane Eionell, ILF Isha-Sainika
- Solitary Pilot | @ILFCorp | @Sakaane - |
Yoshito Sanders
Corp 54 Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.05 05:13:00 -
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I, too, am a food lover. I've tried more food than I can remember, honestly. I've gone all over the place to try local dishes and have even had things imported from remote planets to try out. And as anyone who's seen me outside the pod can attest, I've got the pounds to prove it.
Back when I ran the Drinker's Cathedral, we had fried cheese that was a favorite of almost everyone there. It was nothing fancy. Take a block of cheese, cut it into cubes, and then deep fry them. You would preferably eat them while the cheese was still gooey inside. I'm not sure if I had a favorite type of cheese to use. I think all cheeses have their own charms.
A traditional Ni-Kunni dish I've always appreciated is hot peppers stuffed with millet and recchi. The hot peppers are very spicy, so people without a Ni-Kunni's stomach should probably avoid them. The recchi are slightly salty and very crunchy, but if you get it, make sure you get them with the heads pulled off first. It costs more, because removing the heads without yanking out the entrails is difficult, but recchi have a parasite which infects their brains which can cause nasty stomach cramps in humans if they aren't cooked properly. The millet is really just there to hold everything together. Some people enjoy it with a squirt of lemon juice, but I've never really cared for that. Lemon isn't native to Mishi IV.
I also recommend against Gallente cuisine. I tried some at the Impetus Holoreel Convention. That stuff is gross. Especially whatever it is that they pull from their toxic oceans that they call "calamari". I've been told it's some sort of mollusc, but I am pretty sure it must not have been fully dead and is capable of amazing regeneration, because it crawled back out of my stomach about an hour after I ate it. |
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Aris Tarchos
Labcoats Anonymous
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Posted - 2012.02.05 07:21:00 -
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I approve of this thread. Explosions are not (quite) everything.
Personally i'm a fan of spice, give me some variety of meat cooked over flame and basted in some kind of peppery sauce, and i'm happy. |
Guthris
The Shard Restaurant
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Posted - 2012.02.05 11:37:00 -
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Im a big fan of Achurian Sushi platters, their finesse at making maki-¦s, handrolls and nigiri-¦s is undeniably unquestionably unreal.
On a sidenote, if you ever feel like coming over to learn some things about cooking, feel free to drop by my restaurant in Nourvukaiken. |
Bluejacket CT
Percussive Diplomacy
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Posted - 2012.02.09 22:50:00 -
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Calamari! SLAPD - CEO |
Simca Develon
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2012.02.09 23:38:00 -
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Guthris wrote:Im a big fan of Achurian Sushi platters, their finesse at making maki-¦s, handrolls and nigiri-¦s is undeniably unquestionably unreal.
On a sidenote, if you ever feel like coming over to learn some things about cooking, feel free to drop by my restaurant in Nourvukaiken.
It's been to long since I've had some good sushi. Don't suppose you serve it in your restaurant do you? Je suis le commencement de votre fin. |
Uraniae Fehrnah
Viziam Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.02.10 08:40:00 -
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I wholeheartedly approve of this topic. So nice to see something a bit lighter in tone and actually somewhat practical on the IGS. I've personally grown up with a bit of a high amount of exposure to Ni-Kunni cuisine and I've come to be very fond of most spicy dishes as a result. Now then, I learned this little recipe from the mother of a childhood friend and I have to say it's easily one of my favorite meals. I'm sure it has other names in other circles, but the woman who taught me to make it simply referred to them as "Buried Skink Eggs."
What you'll need: 3 onions, finely chopped 2 large Steppe Skink eggs, beaten 1 kilogram ground skink meat 1 tablespoon cooking oil (Ni-Kunni dew blossom is preferred but use what you have) 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 3 tablespoons Tegari sauce (Ni-Kunni concoction again, but any "hot and spicy sauce" should do) 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1/2 a cup of dried bread crumbs 1/3 a cup of poultry stock
Preparation: Preheat your oven to 175 c, and start heating your cooking oil in a saute pan. Add stir in the onions and ground pepper (and any other dry spices or seasonings you like) over low heat. Remove from heat when the onions are translucent (a bit before they genuinely brown) and stir in the tomato paste, tegari sauce, and poultry stock. Let that cool then lightly mix the ground skink, bread crumbs, sauteed onions and the eggs together in a large bowl. Don't mash it or after cooking you're going to end up with too solid and dense a texture. Now the fun part, reach right in and start separating the mixture into 5 or 6 egg like shapes. Set the "eggs" on sheet pan and put them in the oven to bake for about 40-45 minutes.
You'll know they're done because the skink meat will brown as it cooks, going from it's normal off-white color to a light golden brown. The cooked color is reminiscent of freshly uncovered skink eggs, hence the name of the dish. |
Alain Kinsella
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Posted - 2012.02.11 07:53:00 -
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Most anything that's relatively bland (or *very* lightly spiced), non-seafood, and non-alcoholic. I've leaned toward poultry-based soups recently.
I make up for that with my taste in exotic teas, particularly ones that have caffeine or natural alternatives. I may have come here from Myst Online, but that does not make me any less bloodthirsty than the average Eve player.
Just more subtle.
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Guthris
The Shard Restaurant
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Posted - 2012.02.12 00:45:00 -
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Simca Develon wrote:Guthris wrote:Im a big fan of Achurian Sushi platters, their finesse at making maki-¦s, handrolls and nigiri-¦s is undeniably unquestionably unreal.
On a sidenote, if you ever feel like coming over to learn some things about cooking, feel free to drop by my restaurant in Nourvukaiken. It's been to long since I've had some good sushi. Don't suppose you serve it in your restaurant do you?
Well I could, however I could also interest you in our new menu, it starts this week.
Im sure ill find an excuse to get the apprentice start prewashing the rice for sushi amuse-bouche's |
Simca Develon
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
15
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Posted - 2012.02.13 14:49:00 -
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Guthris wrote:Well I could, however I could also interest you in our new menu, it starts this week. Im sure ill find an excuse to get the apprentice start prewashing the rice for sushi amuse-bouche's
I think Katrina and I will have to come visit this restaurant soon. The menu looks delicious though I do see a problem with deciding what to try first. I've never had any of the dishes you serve. Any recommendations? Je suis le commencement de votre fin. |
Repentence Tyrathlion
Tyrathlion Interstellar
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Posted - 2012.02.13 19:49:00 -
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I have a terrible weakness for Sebiestor food - a lot of the spicy things from the Republic, in fact. Hits hard, without overloading on tastes like some Gallente dishes. Morwen has introduced me to Intaki cuisine, which is also a favourite of mine.
I'm not much of a cook myself, mind - despite her efforts, my pancakes still never fail to set off the smoke alarms, which can be... interesting on board a Chimera. It doesn't help that I've somehow managed to get banned from the kitchen in every single place that I've lived - including my own estates, unless I'm giving instructions and leave right after. Holder or not, never cross the head chef. |
Katrina Oniseki
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
331
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Posted - 2012.02.13 21:14:00 -
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Repentence Tyrathlion wrote: Holder or not, never cross the head chef.
This made me laugh, as I completely understand where you're coming from. I had to install my own separate kitchen in my estate, otherwise my head chef refused to work for me. He claimed that if I used the same kitchen as I expected him to work from, I would be 'disturbing the garden'. He's an odd one, but eccentricities usually come out very tasty in food.
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