Today is Miso's day to post, but I can't remember if she was encouriging us to take her posting days, or if that was somebody else. Miso, I will happily pul this post down if you have something to put up, and I will appologize for getting it wrong.
Today is Hot & Spicy food day. I remember going to a BW3's during my freshman year at college, and going with the nukular flavor wings. They were great, but I was warned about the "ring of fire" the next day. I wasn't sure what that was, but long story short, your body doesn't process the heat and it is almost as spicy coming out as it was going in. Ouch!
I did some growing up in Mexico and they train their kids to eat the heat from the get go. I remember chili flavored candy, and Doritos that had a lot of spice. I loved it all... then I got old. Nowadays my mouth still wants the heat, but my belly protests. It's a hard battle to fight, but usually the belly makes a better case. Sometimes I do side with the mouth and get the spiciest thing I can find, and it is good... until the ring of fire kicks in the next day.
So I submit to you, what hot & spicy thing will you be having for lunch today?
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If there is not a long ass line at Potbelly's today, I think I'd like to get a turkey & swiss with the pepper medley on it. that mix of hot and sweet peppers is sooooo good.
Damn, I want something hot now. Maybe I'll make my jambalaya tonight with my leftover roasted chicken.
FL I'll be having my leftover Cobb salad at my office meeting. Sigh. I hope that QUIZNO'S FLATBREAD is still as good after I heat it up in the toaster oven. Oh, and that the salad hasn't gotten all wilty.
Trivia: I heard Preperation H was making a play for Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire' for a commercial. Wisely, his estate turned him. I like to think, with a big old 'Fuck no!'
Mmmmmmm... wings.
BW3 ain't got shit on Quaker Steak and Lube's Atomic wings. Except BW3's actually have a taste, whereas QSL's are just painfully hot.
Once I ate a long, skinny, green pepper that looked like a green bean at an Indian friend's party. I was pretty sure I was going to die, as all of the old men laughed and looked on.
I could go for spicy food for lunch today b/c it's so cold out. Any suggestions in Old Town? Any that deliver would be even better.
LT - is there Indian delivery around these parts?
his estate turn them down. Damn. Can't type today.
Um . . . I don't think I've ever gotten indian delivery. Sorry I can't help. Whole foods usually has some indian in their hot food bar. It's not bad!
In high school a few of us went for chinese after graduation & pre-party & someone got this dish that had this weird looking stuff - kind of like overcooked spinach & they were like "woah, those things are really hot" & I was all "Wussies! Bring it on!" so I had one & as long as there was no air in my mouth, it was fine, but as soon as I opened my mouth to speak, I go "This isn't that . . . HOT! HOT!! HOT!!! WATER!!! WASSER!!! SCHNELL!!!!!!!" And the little old chinese waiter just stood there and laaaauuughed.
Oh no...did someone say WINGS???!! Oy. I. Want.
HT- if you get the motivation to drive go to crystal city do the Kabob Palace, right next to 7-11 and the stripper chinese food joint. If you take the pkwy through airport it's easy shneezy to get there.
PeeP, I do what I can for this community.
I likes me the heat that is derived from peppers, not so much the heat that comes from ginger, cinnamon (flavored), Wassabi, or many other sources.
I've had Quaker Steak's wings, and they're pretty good. However, if we're talking about wings, I have to put in a plug for the Pic a Lilli in Atsion NJ. The world's best wings. I know that's surprising considering that they are called Buffalo wings and you'd expect the best wings to come fromt he Buffalo area. But check it:
I can't relate the fantastic flavor through the use of words, but I'll take anybody who wants to go for some wings, as long as they have a car and are willing to go to the pine barrons in south Jersey with me. But the thing that sets these wings apart is that thy give you whole wings. when Every other place I've ever been gives you 10 wings, you;ll get a few of the 2 bone models, and a few of the 1 bone models. Well at the Pic, they give you the whole wing, which has both 2 boners and 1 boners connected, like inature intended, so your 10 wing order is equal to a 20 wing order at the discount places.
A cursory search has revealed that Taj Palace delivers.
Lunch today is packed from home: Ham n' provolone sandwhich, baby carrots, and apple sauce. So well balanced, it's almost as if mom made it! My sandwich includes some spicy horseradish sauce.
My best spicy food story involves wasabi. I was seated in a restaurant next to a table including someone who was clearly a first timer, sushi-wise. After that table's food arrived, Mr. Sushi Virgin pointed to the wasabi on the plate and asked "what's this?" but didn't give their dining companion time to answer b/f plucking up the entire blob of wasabi w/ their chopsticks and plunking the whole thing in his mouth. Dude turned purple. I was laughting so hard I nearly choked on my spicy tuna roll (which probably would have served me right for laughing at someone in pain.)
I love spicy foods.
I was drinking virgin mary's from age 6 up and over compsensated the spices for the lack of vodka.
Going to a work lunch at Olives.
I'll get the spiciest thing on the menu.
Helio- we need to put an HH@BB on the OWFL social agenda for this Friday.
GG, I used to be an exclusive Provolone user. I remember liking it one time and ever since then that was my cheese of choice. It got a little stale on me. I then tried swiss, and it had so much more flavor that I am not more apt to go with that vareity.. at least until swiss gets stale for me, then who knows, havarti, american, feta?
All I'm trying to say is, beware of repetitive cheese. I made that mistake and it all started with provolone.
Friday is a day off from training for me, what a wonderful time to get a drink on.
I propose that we use that as a preliminary fact finding mission for the Pitt Conference discussion to take place on Tuesday next week.
Mark your calander. Happy Hour at Bravo Bravo, Friday January 19, after work.
There will be a no reply post on the main OWFL page announcing this.
Helio--I'm actually normally a swiss person, but got the provolone to switch things up a bit. Too much repetition is bad. Which is also why I switched my usual dijon mustard for the horseradish--an awesome substitution, by the way.
OK Czar. No-Reply post is up. Could you sidebar that succa.
GG you are an inspiration. Keeping lunch from getting stale is a fight and you are at the tip of the spear.
helio, blogger is not being very cooperative today so the HH@BB post will have to rest on it's own laurels without the sidebar for the time being.
Plus to all of you waiting with baited breath for the TV Lunch blog, blogger is similarly not cooperating on that front. Stay tuned.
I like spicy foods. I didn't know that until I moved to San Antonio right out of college. I learned to love the hot pepper burn when I had to not lose face in front of the jail crew I worked with. The first crew boss I worked with would always bring fresh or pickled jalapenos or habaneros in from his farm, and the inmates would get all fired up about something that wasn't out of the bland jail mess hall. It didn't take too long before I wasn't just acting like it didn't bother. Shortly after that, I realized that I really liked it.
For lunch today, I am having leftover pasta and sauce. I made a shitload of spaghetti sauce last night, and it is pretty damned good. I decided, after a three-day weekend of facing the fact that I don't have any food in the house, it was time to make some food in the house. So, I guess it isn't really leftover.
Tonight, I'll warm it up again and have it for dinner. Then, I'll freeze much of it in meal-sized portions.
I also started a pot roast yesterday which, even as I type, is simmering in my Crock-Pot brand slow cooker. I'll turn that off when I get home tonight, refrigerate it overnight, and put it back on tomorrow for dinner.
While my sauce has both sweet and hot Italian sausage, I don't think it counts as Hot & Spicy Food.
On an unrelated note (can you tell I've gotten distracted about ten times while typing this comment?), I went to the dentist this morning, and my mouth looked like a crime scene for much of that hour. I fuckin' hate the dentist.
Good story EQ.
Good story Quake.
I had potbelly ham & Swiss with the hot peppers, salt & vinegar chips, and a cricket micro brew cola. It's kind of freaky for a cola, but it sure beats the hell out of RC.
EQ, I bailed on Olives. I was on th efence to begin with and then I looked at the lunch menu and I didn't see anything that jumped out at me to go and spend the obligatory two hours with work people.
I of course regretted this decision immensely as I ate the california roll special from the lunch place downstairs. At the very least I am full.
The sauce is good. I put an awful lot of wine in it, but I am confident the flavors will mature with a little resting and reheating. Good work, earthquake.
Thank you, earthquake. By the way, you look fantastic today.
So do you, you sexy beast.
helio: Let's make a big wings run to Jersey some time. I like the idea.
Speaking of hot food stories, the first time I ever had Thai (which was also during that year in San Antonio), I woke up at 6AM the next day (my day off) and had the following thought: "I can either get up and go to the bathroom right now or I can go back to sleep and get up in three hours and go buy new sheets." That was how I learned about the Ring of Fire.
Quake, i like your liking of the Jersey Wing trip. I'll even go as far as to set it as an OWFL road tasting trip... Perhaps a side trip on the way to Pitt.
NJ is nowhere near on the way to Pittsburgh, Sunshine. Unless, instead of a 4 hour drive, you'd like to make it a 6+ hour one.
I have no idea what I want for lunch. I've gone around to my coworkers' offices to see what they're having, and I still don't know. I hate when I'm this indecisive.
Also, LT and I and Bon Bon will be getting drinks after work tomorrow on this side of the river at Vermillion in Old Town, if any OWFLers are interested.
eq, that was disgusting.
i love hot food. there was a irish restaurant in perinton back home that had "glow in the dark" wings. they didn't really hurt at all, you just kinda went numb for a bit. they were great. i still will attempt to overly spice any meal i can regardless of whether it is appropriate (have you ever had chili pepper mashed potatoes?)... there is a bar in Hoboken that has "distilled habanera sauce" for their wings and it is wonderful. Let’s go there now.
for lunch i went out indian and had chicken korma. it was beautiful.
kill me kill me kill me
M. I refuse to kill any OWFLers... unless it is somehow related to me cooking for them and doing an awful job (or putting peanuts in something for one of yous who are allergic: wasnt there an El Azteca story about that?)
HT, I am as aware of US geography as any 7th grader, so I know that NJ is not on the way to PITT, but I figured if we're already on the road to an eating conference... why not start out with the best?
So does that mean that you can not find Vietnam on a map?
Some friends of mine borrowed my car to take Ms. Mary Jane on a trip from my house in San Francisco to Tahoe. They called lost in Napa. Napa is nowhere near on the way to Tahoe.
As far as Jersey, I for one do not like to spend more time on the Pennsylvania Turnpike than is absolutely necessary, but you sir, are welcome to go for it, with a bucket of wings for the road.
So Quake, does that mean you bought new sheets? You conspicuously left ending of the story out. Note to self: do not ever accept offer to sleep in Quake's bed.
Ha ha - a lady in my office (who grew up around italians, and was married to one, and might as well be one) was making spaghetti sauce, and I suggested she put in hot red pepper flakes, b/c yum, spicy spaghetti sauce (what's it called? spaghetti diavolo or something?). She said "how much?" & I said "I dunno. A lot. Shake 'em in." Well, she proceeds to come in on Monday all mad at me, b/c she used almost half a jar of red pepper flakes. I laughed so hard. Can you imagine the ring of fire??? Or, as my friend calls it, the hot butt? She said the next time she used that pan that it had enough pepper residue to make it all spicy, even though she had washed it. Hee hee!
Srichara is the bomb.
EQ makes a number of excellent points. I hereby move that any pre-Pittsburgh stopping for wings in Jersey or otherwise should be submitted for a vote by the group.
First off, Vietnam was a war. It wouldn't appear on a map. Duh. That's like saying find me the Civil War, World War 1, or Grenada on a map. Geesh.
Secondly, this regulation of wingage reeks of the "Bong Hits for Jesus" Supreme court case being heard this session.
Quickly: An 18 year old high school student in Alaska was watching the Olympic torch run by his insignificant Alaska town and he made a banner saying "Bong Hits for Jesus" and he held it up for the cameras and townsfolk to see. The principal of his school tore it down. The questions raised are:
The kid was an adult
He wasn't on school property
What right does the principal have to censor this guy.
I bring this up because, the proposed wing trip, which may not even happen on the way to Pitt, will not be on OWFL property, we are adults and what right does the principal have to censor us in our wing eating?
We may have to see how the court rules on this case.
Lady A's car will be stopping for wings en route to Pitt mos def'.
Bong Hits for Jesus!
Bong Hits for Jesus!
Bong Hits for Jesus!
I mean
Pic Wings for all!
Pic Wings for all!
Pic Wings for all!
I just moved it to be so, I didn't decry anything. Yet. Did I ever tell you how I once wrote a paper about how Democracy is an overrated form of government?
Plus, the house has plenty of outdoor space for camping and cornholing, for those of you having issues which may affect the rest of us.
I went to Whole Foods because I had no idea what I wanted. Can't say that helped any, but I ended up with sushi and a salad. Indecision at Whole Foods is expensive.
Let me point out another erroneous assumption in this proposed (and totally unenforceable) moratorium on pre-Pittsburgh conference Jersey wing runs: I didn't shit the bed that fateful morning back in San Antonio. Thus, there is no precendent of this hot-butt-inspired sheet-fouling of which certain vociferous opponents of the Wing Run are making so much hay.
From a strictly practical perspective, my intimate knowledge of my gastric system leads me to believe that a six-hour drive (with however many, non-OWFL-affecting-in-the-least emergency truck stop evacuations may or may not be required) will even things out before any non-Wing Runner is forced to spend any time with me.
Besides, my shit smells like a peach orchard.
A-Men!
A-Team!
Oh my lord. I'm so getting fired for this thread.
You might think your shit don't stink, but lean a little bit closer, roses really smell like poo-poo-pooooo. Yeah.
Damn you all. I'm jonesing for wings now & all I have is the making of jambalaya. Well, it's pretty faux jambalaya, but it'll hot if nothing else. Is it kosher to put hot italian sausage into jambalaya? The recipe I have is totally fake, so I don't know (it doesn't even have okra in it). It is jamba-liar (don't pronounce the 'r').
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