So I was reading this rudimentary ode to the Brussels sprout, and I thought, “Hey, you know what would be good? Brussels kraut!”
Lo and behold, Michael Voltaggio got there ahead of me:
Pastrami Pigeon
Rye-infused Jus, Brussels-Kraut, Little Potatoes, Puffed Gruyere Cheese
(And, yes, I know, FSU is going to insist it should be corned pigeon.)
Not my cuisine of choice.
I think there’s definitely a place in the world for too-cutesy-by-half haute parodies of comfort food.
Brussels kraut on its own in satisfying quantities would be great.
Hey, to each their own (of course).
I just rank this a distant second in historical wKOTD_NM
It’s a good idea. I love brussels sprouts.
The Voltaggio brothers are starting to really get on my nerves. What a couple of whiny divas. They do seem to make good food though.
Spectacularly douchey whining by one of them last night. Also, bananas are disgusting. Also, cleverness in cookery is overrated. Also, they look like nazis…
Bananas look like Nazis?
Not nazis… something else though.
Prophylactic measures are always advisable prior to anschluss .
Incidentally, I know people who swear by that product (and love the fact stores won’t carry it for penis-related reasons.
Those are AWESOME. I want a Kraut Guard. Or the height of superfluity — a Gourd Guard.
Go, Krauthors, go!
Awesome — Karikter carries them!
Their FAQ is great.
Yes. Yes it is.
So whom are we guarding our bananas from, exactly?
Bruising in lunch bags/purses/etc, and terrorists.
Monkeys.
Balls
I’ve only one monkey left. And she’s a she and…I kinda like her. So I don’t call her a monkey.
mikeA’s vigilante anti-banana patrol
The Bluth family.
There’s always money in the Banana Stand (wink, wink).
I swear to you, I thought they were going to kick off Jennifer last night. And I’m not quite sure why Robin is still there. It reminds me of a few seasons ago–I think they keep the more controversial person around to make “better” television.
Jennifer is losing it. She’s just melting down before our eyes. Poor thing. She seemed hard as nails the first 1/2 of the contest, but now I just don’t know.
It’s weird, huh? She seemed like a fucking ice queen the first few weeks. You know, I’ve watched every season religiously and I’m beginning to think I’ve discounted how difficult it would be living in that environment for, what, four weeks?
It seems like she’s just a perfectionist and incredibly hard on herself. Once things started going badly that’s became counterproductive. I hope she snaps out of it. I thought based on her food alone she would survive last night, but that the judges might send her home for her own good.
As for Robin, she’s just survived because each week someone else manages to be just a little bit worse than she is. It can’t last much longer. And even though she does seem quite annoying (and is overmatched at this point) some of the other chefs have been so abusive toward her that I’ve started to feel bad for her.
I felt that way for Marcel in season two, but upon retrospect (and seeing the way he interacts with other seasons cooks), he was just a douche. And he deserved a good deal of the scorn he got. It doesn’t make me think of Ilan as any better (Sam should’ve won–grr!!!), but Marcel, on second thought, was really an asshole.
I think Robin’s just massively different than everyone else in the house. There’s the age thing, which is pretty big (at least my experience at grad school says so), and the fact she apparently talks non-stop whenever she gets nervous. That strikes a great deal of people the wrong way, unless you stick around long enough to see it a quirky. I don’t think she’s bad. But I do think she a significantly worse cook than at least two or three people that are no longer there.
The last contest show that I watched was the first season of Nashville Star, which was tremendous.
Mrs Monkeyball has me hooked on Project Runway.
Mrs salb918 teased me incessantly for watching Nashville Star. But she did console me when Erika Jo won, which was a travashamockery. (Also, according to wiki, the season that hooked me was season three, not one).
poseur.
that’s a good one, too, though it has been so long since I watched ANYTHING on Lifetime, that the onslaught of women-oriented commercials was actually pretty jarring.
I don’t watch any reality TV (except to the extent MythBusters counts). When the apocalypse comes, I will go to my grave knowing it was not my fault.
Me as well. Mini Volt going after Kevin last night “I could have made that in 20 minutes…” Yeah, but you didn’t, and you’ve been judged, so shut your sunchoke hole.
Yeah, that earned villain points in my book, too. Last week big brother throws a fit cause little brother wins. This week, little brother throws a fit cause beardyweirdy won.
I am FULL-ON rooting for beardyweirdy, BTW.
At this point I think he’s my favorite contestant from any season.
…yeah. Me too. I liked Harold quite a bit…
and strangely, the one who really grew on me after he was actually on the show was Stephen, from the first season. I thought he was a total asshole while on the show, but everything he’s done since then has led me to believe he might not be such a bad guy.
me too.
Love Beardy! He’s by far my favorite. Really talented, seems like a genuinely nice guy, I love him. I hope he wins. I liked Stephanie a lot from the year Richard choked.
Evidently Padma’s preggers. So maybe she wanted to sport that bizarre green number while she can still fit in it.
I haven’t watched the last couple seasons (and only spottily before that). Tuned in briefly last night … she has had, at the very least, some inadvisable Botoxery. Her facial movements don’t all quite coordinate.
But she’s fun when she drinks too much.
Add me to the Kevin bandwagon also. You gotta like a guy who can prepare all kinds of meat perfectly, yet spends each Lent as a vegetarian. More than any prior or current contestant, I can picture myself pushing my chair away from the Kevin Family dinner table (surely a beefy, wide, table high butcherblock) with an utterly contented sigh as I pat my tummy, and perhaps belch.
so, as a collective, we should invite Kevin to join FK.
Not sure if this maybe should wait ’til tomorrow as a standalone, but my Anti-KOTD is Burger Meister’s coleslaw. Not sure whether it was just the Columbus St. location’s problem, but, geez, yuck. Cabbage with unidentifiable/awful glop of a dressing, that didn’t taste like anything at all — even the cabbage didn’t come through.
I can’t speak to their slaw, but I can say that this is a better burger.
So I’ve heard (that it’s good-to-great, anyway). BM’s are … quite good, not great. Their Philly chicken & cheese, though … dayum. (Oh, great. Here comes another FSU jeremiad.)
It’s expensive, but I think it’s SF’s best burger (of course, that’s partly because SF doesn’t really have great burgers)
In the slaw department I highly recommend this, either as a sandwich to buy or as a side dish to make oneself. (For the latter I have found that you should cut the amount of olive oil in the vinaigrette at least in half.)
Whoa. Yeah, that’s a lot of oil.
(sigh)
I want y’all’s lives.
Reading rudimentary odes to Brussels sprouts? Watching Top Chef? I think you’re halfway there.
(I wanna be a city critter, MB, and I don’t think I can this late in the game)
You want to spend weeks planning and painstakingly executing experiments only to find out that chemistry doesn’t fucking work at all?
You’re Mike Scioscia?
I *am* pretty whiny…
…do you resemble the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man at all?
Scioscia is 6’2″
I’m 6″2′
LIES!
Look more closely.
(gasp!)
you ARE a scientist!
BTW, are you all aware that John Goodman does the color commentary for Phillies radio.
I can’t find it in myself to dislike Mariano Rivera, though he’s clearly sold his soul to Satan.
I satisfy myself by noting how aged both he and Kapt. Klutch are starting to appear.