OT: The M-Fing Food Thread

[Habsy]

Dinner tonight. Falls off the bone as you pick it up. Might not look like much as presentation is irrelevant to me when I'm hungry but damn is it good.

Edit: Lamb chops

 

[BeLeafer]

What is that?

Made my first batch of beef bourguigon last night. It was pretty damned good given I haven't made it in years. Prime tonight.

 

[Habsy]

Lamb chops

 

[BeLeafer]

Yum, thought that was lamb. It's hard to tell in the photo - is that a stew?

 

[Habsy]

No, chops in an olive oil based marinade.

 

[BeLeafer]

Nice.

 

[CH1]

I don’t think you zoomed in enough

 

[Habsy]

Too late. Yum.

I'll take a better pic next time. It wasn't a planned thing.

 

[Preston]

I liked the picture. Looks fucking fantastic

 

[zeke]

I don’t think you zoomed in enough

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Now it's a picture of the moon.

 

[Habsy]

Look at that texture

 

[CH1]

zeke's elite photoshopping game makes it so much better -- now I know what I'm looking at!!!

 

[lecoqsportif]

Shorter: wine snobs are frauds, beer snobs >>>

The financial consequences of being a wine snob are far greater.

I think it’s mostly bullshit, frankly. For normal family meals, I simply won’t pay big dollars for wines that are priced due to “regional prestige”. There is plenty of good wine from less famous regions, including old world, that are excellent and inexpensive. I call them my “shoulder regions”, or even countries:

France: Languedoc et Roussillon
Italy: Sicily
Portugal
Austria
(Question: any views here re: Croatian wine?)

There is, of course, Argentina and New Zealand among the New World products.

Another idea is to, say, get IGTs rather than DOCs from the same region. We just had a Toscana blend which was better (and cheaper) than most Chiantis.

Finally, bubbles. Champagne is insane. Get a crémante from Loire or Burgundy. Or cava, it’s a fraction of the price and perfectly serviceable.

 

[anne25]

Don’t overlook that there are some very nice, reasonable priced Canadian and US wines.

 

[Preston]

One of the scammiest industries out there. Perhaps second to only the mattress industry.

 

[Habsy]

The financial consequences of being a wine snob are far greater.

I think it’s mostly bullshit, frankly. For normal family meals, I simply won’t pay big dollars for wines that are priced due to “regional prestige”. There is plenty of of good wine from less famous regions, including old world, that are excellent and inexpensive. I call them my “shoulder regions”, or even countries:

France: Languedoc et Roussillon
Italy: Sicily
Portugal
Austria
(Question: any views here re: Croatian wine?)

There is, of course, Argentina and New Zealand among the New World products.

Another idea is to, say, get IGTs rather than DOCs from the same region. We just had a Toscana blend which was better (and cheaper) than most Chiantis.

Finally, bubbles. Champagne is insane. Get a crémante from Loire or Burgundy. Or cava, it’s a fraction of the price and perfectly serviceable.

There's some decent Croat (Hrvatska) wine.

If you want to try a moderately priced Greek red, try Rodamo. Very good.

 

[lecoqsportif]

One of the scammiest industries out there. Perhaps second to only the mattress industry.

Yup.

 

[BeLeafer]

Every reviewer finds different flavour notes in the same wines. It's very pretentious.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Yup. It’s ridiculous.

I go by three rules/questions:

1 There’s no accounting for taste.
2 Do you know what you like to drink? (That’s the most important question and the most difficult to answer, for me it motivates trial and error. ) If you do, run with it!
3 I am skeptical of value for money above $25. It exists, I’ve had it. But, ya know, convince me.