Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Sorry the plating is trash.
Spaghetti with Italian sausage
Salad with green peppers, cheese, cucumbers, and sweet stringless snap peas. Sorry Jason. Dressing was some sort of extra virgin olive oil with roasted red peppers. I don't know much about it but I like it
No toast. Wife wanted crescent rolls.
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Sorry the plating is trash.
Spaghetti with Italian sausage
Salad with green peppers, cheese, cucumbers, and sweet stringless snap peas. Sorry Jason. Dressing was some sort of extra virgin olive oil with roasted red peppers. I don't know much about it but I like it
No toast. Wife wanted crescent rolls.
Originally Posted by cdcox:
Snow peas are flat and peas are tiny. Sugar snap peas are more tubular and taste sweeter.
Sugar snap is a purposeful hybridization of snow and English. So you get the plump peas inside from English peas but retain the sweet edible pod of the snow pea. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Sugar snap is a purposeful hybridization of snow and English. So you get the plump peas inside from English peas but retain the sweet edible pod of the snow pea.
Originally Posted by cdcox:
Snow peas are flat and peas are tiny. Sugar snap peas are more tubular and taste sweeter.
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah. I'm not cultured enough for that. I had to look it up.
Like I said, I hadn't heard of it myself until Lecter prepared it for Crawford on an episode of Hannibal last year.
Evidently it's a controversy in France akin to goose liver pate here, and Jeremy Clarkson characteristically raised eyebrows by eating one on one of his shows for the BBC a while back.
In the French preparation, they're captured alive, boxed [like veal] to prevent movement, stuffed with wild grains, drowned in Cognac, and cooked and consumed whole. Also, when you eat it, you do so under a napkin. First in order to 'hide you indulgence from God' and second to trap the aromas as part of the consumption.
Supposedly, here's what it looks like when consumed
spoiled for the EXCESSIVELY squeamish, not all that wild really, but still