[ SECRET POST #4536 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4536 ⌋

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[Stargate: Atlantis, John Sheppard and "Todd" the Wraith]


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[Johnny Depp]


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Comments

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

the more I cook the more I realize that luxury foods, aside from a few actually expensive seafoods and meats, are just cheap food with fancy names. slap a french name on it and it's not just slow cooker beef with mushrooms.

so really I've mastered Japanese street food that you'd pay $18/plate for in a hibachi restaurant but is literally just cheap as fuck street food.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about gourmet food to dispute it.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

Partially? High quality ingredients usually cost a fair bit of money. You can make really good food without high quality ingredients, but you have to figure out ways to work around that. You have to do things that are more complicated, and take a lot more time, or there are some things you're going to have to choose not to make, or you have to compromise on the end product. But it's definitely not impossible. And there are a lot of things that we think of as "fancy" that are completely achievable on a budget.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—It’s not only seafoods and meats that are expensive. Fresh herbs, especially in quantity. Good cheese. Wild and cultivated (other than button) mushrooms. Fresh shell beans and peas. Grass fed/pasture-raised meat/milk/eggs. Single origin/controlled origin anything. Non rancid-olive oil.

And maybe I just grew up poor, but anything that takes a long time and lots of ingredients to make seems fancy to me, whether that’s pho with homemade stock, or anything involving mole, or laminated dough, or something with lots of fresh fruit or veggies that don’t keep/ship well.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

you're not wrong, and add to that out of season vegetables and fruits at the wrong time of year. I routinely watch the price of asparagus fluctuate wildly between $1 an $4/pound depending on the time of year and which country will import it at a marketable price. And then go cut some out of my backyard patch but y'know...

don't even get me started on laminated dough. there are a lot of cooking techniques where it's not the cost of ingredients but the time involved that pushes something from staple into luxury. now that we don't have dedicated cooks spending all day in the kitchen (or wives, for that matter) and can buy quick shortcuts like premade dough, it's kind of blurred the line, but doing it "from scratch" takes so fucking long that I don't blame artisans for wanting to be compensated.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I’m jealous you have an asparagus patch! I always wanted to try growing it, but I think I’d have to make an artificial bog or something first. And yeah, local in season stuff is usually better and cheaper, so it’s pretty easy to get good avocados and citrus where I am, but compared to the Pacific Northwest, raspberries and blackberries are shit quality and expensive as hell.

Re: Fancy cheap food

[(Anonymous)]

... I'm a little bit confused because what I know from hibachi restaurants isn't the same thing as Japanese street food. I mean sure, if the restaurants are overcharging for yakitori, I guess that applies. But they're not serving takoyaki or anything. It's usually stuff like grilled chicken and steak with fried rice.