Food

[benlehman]

One of the goals I've set for myself over the last few months is to cook and taste new dishes. So far, I've done a lot of poking around with meat, as it is a pretty new thing for me, although I also tried the infamous natto, which I found odd and slightly off-tasting, but not so bad.

Tonight, I tried pasta carbonara. Oh, man that was good stuff. If I go and stay with you, ask me to make it.

Comments

[nikotesla.livejournal.com]

Natto. Egh. I've been told that the relationship Americans have with natto is the same relationship Japanese have with cheese, which is fair enough when talking about camambert or any bleu, but not when you talk jarlsberg or monterey jack. There is no monterey jack of natto.

Carbonara is one of my favorite all-time dishes. It's amazing how easy it is to fuck up, though. The biggest problem I've had with it is making it too oily. Feh.

Hey, I know you were in rice territory, but I've gotta learn to make Chinese noodles. You don't know how to make any of those awesome sauces, do you? In August we'll be moving away from my favorite noodle restaurant (with the possible exception of Menchanko-Tei in New York), and I gotta learn to make good noodles.