Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. I’ve enjoyed since I was a kid. My cooking habits have been influenced by where I’ve lived. I’ve lived across the US in places where cooking styles and cuisines is so different: from the seafood shacks of New England, to the southern-style Mambo fare of DC, to the steakhouses of the West, and the sweet desserts of Appalachia.
So to foster some discussion here in the Lampshade Bar and Grill, let’s start a food/cooking discussion (hey, this is a bar and grill!).
I’ve always wondered, what would South Pacifican cuisine look like? We have SPIT as our regional drink, but what about the regional dish?
Anyways, here’s a place to talk about any and all things food and cooking!
Favorite summer food?!
A cob of sweet corn
Burgers fresh from the grill
A bowl of pesto pasta
Barbecue chicken
A fresh slice of watermelon
Potato salad (who even eats potato salad anyways?)
Hate to play the role of the snobbish middle-class citizen, but I enjoy a fine London Broil, marinated in the finest of McCormic marinades and cooked on the grill of American patriots (propane).
Fresh halibut or salmon. Dungeness crab fresh out of the trap. I get dragged around for various things. We can buy the salmon from the native fishermen, and we can buy the halibut right off the boat, but we go crabbing ourselves.
Is that salmon from the PNW? They have some darn good fish up there.
When I lived in the Mid-Atlantic (for nearly two decades), fresh crabs from nearby Maryland waters were a delicacy. And then there’s a lot of Old Bay seasoning too.
I prefer lobster over crab. But man, lobster is real expensive!! I had a friend who worked in Maine as a commercial fisherman and he would sneak me a lobster or two when I was in college. I would make my own lobster roles which were pretty good and were a lot cheaper!
I like white fish so halibut, cod, and tilapia are up my alley. In fact I just made a tilapia dish with these roasted cherry tomatoes, garlic, shallots, vineagr, and a tad bit of honey and it was real good. I toasted some orzo and soaked it in warm chicken broth on the side and it made a pretty good dinner.
Yes, from the Columbia. You can drive the entire stretch through the gorge and the tribes are selling huge fresh caught salmon that just came out of the river that morning.
I’ve been down the Salmon River in Idaho a couple of times (did some guiding during college summers). It’s the largest in-damned river in the Lower 48, if I remember correctly. I remember learning that the Columbia had a lot of dams and the salmon were dying in said dams. That’s true, right?
Not really, corn ruins food for me. I made a shepherd’s pie once (didn’t look great, but it tasted fine), and I had to meticulously remove all the corn so I could actually enjoy it
