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[moominmolly]

My top six happy foods? Huh.

1. Runny raw-milk camembert on whole-grain bread
2. Creme brulee
3. Oshitashi
4. Ume plum paste maki
5. Fresh hot black bread with butter
6. Almost anything that starts with onions and garlic sauteed in butter

Now, those might just be the first six great foods that came into my head, but it seems close to right.

Comments

[tcb.livejournal.com]

mmmm! oshitashi! creme brulee! garlic! I need to stop looking at these before I post my list..

[amare.livejournal.com]

You know what's really good, a piece of nigiri made with tuna, ume paste and a really thin slice of jalapeno. yum.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds *fabulous*.

[amare.livejournal.com]

There are deffinitely some things I miss about dating an experimentally minded sushi chef. *sigh*

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I actually had to ask the internet what oshitashi is :) Sounds yummy!

[harimad.livejournal.com]

May I recommend creme anglaise made with eggs warm from the hen? We got some when we visited our CSA a couple weeks ago; wow. Bet those eggs would do wonders for creme brulee as well.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Is creme anglaise just the same, from the makin'-it end, as creme brulee, just not set? What's the difference between them?

Mmm, hen-butt eggs.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Creme anglaise is a stirred custard rather than a set one; like creme brulee it has no starch. The technique is deceptively simple. Beat egg yolks and sugar till thick and yellow. Add hot milk (or half and half, yum), stirring so as not to create air bubbles. Heat over LOW heat, again stirring so as not to create air bubbles, till mixture thickens. (Why no bubbles? They form a cooked foam and get in the way of seeing the sauce itself.) If it gets too hot you get scrambled eggs in very sweet whey.

If you use wine or champagne instead of milk, you get zabaoinesabayone.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Sabayone!

Ooooh.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Hey wait - there's no chocolate on this list. Are you human?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Nope! I mean, I like chocolate, but it's not my favorite. Dessert in general, actually!

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

Nope!

i knew it!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Crap! I mean...

Hey, wait, are you human?

[catya.livejournal.com]

mmmmm. ume shiso maki!

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of ume onigiri (even if some people say there just big fat riceballs with a little bit of something in the middle wrapped in seaweed).