Fiore's Kitchen

[Dragon Knight Fiore]

As I sit here and smell my dinner in the oven. I thought Id share my hunger with the rest of you.

These are from a few years back, but they still look good.

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and theres plenty more where those came from ;)

[Zervun]

Pretty impressive - is that at work, or is that at your house?

All 3 look yummy. First is obviously lobster cocktail - 2nd gotta be a play on sushi with fresh vegtables/fruit, very inventive.

The beef wrapped enoki mushrooms and what looks like chinese chives & red peppers looks delicious - I notice the Dark Soy in the background <3.

I'm a serious food fanatic, when I was like 14? Got hooked on Yan can cook on PBS. During my college years I was watching between 8 - 10 hours of cooking shows and food network a day. I still hit up food network but also split my time between hell's kitchen, kitchen nightmares, bizarre foods (one of my favs), no reservations, and some food network ones.

I'm a bit dissapointed in the food network, they have a plethora of seriously crappy chefs now. Ones that I still think are the cats meow are Giada (do I need to even express my facination), Alton Brown (always a standard but you only see him on iron chef now), Tyle F, Flay now good -Throwdown (I used to hate Flay after he jumped on the cutting board, but he's really pulled out - still dunno if I could ever do throwdown, ya know people think they have made it to the bigtime and the WHAM throwdown).

Seriously don't know whats up with Paula Dean, Sandra, Rachel, Aaron, the Neelies or whatever they are called. It's like a breeding call of chefs that are either excrutiatingly simplistic or dousing everything in lard/butter or deepfrying. I mean WTF - and seriously WTFWTF is up with a ton of these "world best burgers championships hosted by Sutter Home" or the like. There are like a million and one of these on, and they never go into what is really important, the recipe. They focus on the contestants and like their struggle/time. Any idiot can do a recipe decent after they have done it 100 times - it isn't like the food is that imaginitive. Although I cracked up at the burger winner a few years back that just made a good regular old burger but painted his buns with red food coloring. Super simple, he was a exec. chef though.

WTF happened to like Ming, Marrio Bat., Yang, Jamie Ol (he's on some still), or some of the other shows. Seems like they are trying to cater to stay home moms that are migrating away from the fucking freezer. I mean out of my wife and I, I cook nearly every meal, and I love to cook - I'm not a stay at home person, and I don't use freezer food but as fill in. I don't need to know how to cook some gimp ass chicken bento from Rachel Ray. or to deep fry some fucking chicken. You can hit up a gazillion websites for it. When I can whip up tagliatelle bolognese in about an hour off the top of my head I don't need some instruction on how to cut corners in 30 minutes or less for a crappy meal.

I want to see more of the old cool shit.

[Dragon Knight Fiore]

I wish that was my house... but Im not that presentation perfect at home. Those were work pictures.

I would take pictures of things that I or my chef had created for specials, events, and things that made me just drool. As they remind me of things I can do in the future as well as a general reminder of how its made since the photos will also trigger my memories of the recipies.

I can agree with you on the food network though. But I never really watched a whole lot of it. I used to watch Hell's Kitchen in its first season, but never got into the subsequent ones. My favorite show though was Surreal Gourmet. Bob Blumer was a great character and interesting. He was making very practical foods using common household appliances (heck his kitchen was a tiny little trailer, he didnt have room for much else). And the best thing about the show was he focused on the cooking and food, but it was never muddied down in details.

Any chef will tell you, unless your baking, recipies need nothing more than a list of ingredients and maybe approximations. I always hate the shows that sit there and spend 5 seconds showing you the ingredient and displaying the exact meseaurment on the screen so that everyone can write it down... talk about boring.

If everything is prepared, cut, cooked, measured and sitting there waiting before the show even goes on the air and all your doing is displaying the recipie. Then it doesnt appeal to me.

[arnold.from.oregon]

LOL, got a little passion Z? Karen said we are too much alike and that I should read your post. Too funny. I'm still laughing. I cook a little too.

[karenhasit]

Yeah, right,....he cooks "a little"!!! I hate the kitchen!!!! Did I mention I HATE it!!! I do however enjoy buying a bunch of silly kitchen gadgets that I get bitched at for spending money on until they are used and then I get love and adoration for making life in the kitchen even MORE fun...I think you are all just SICK!

[Ripskin]

I love cooking :o good thing since my wife sucks at it :p

[SATAn]

z, i can't believe you said "the cat's meow".

[-={ICE}=-Cobra]

z, i can't believe you said "the cat's meow".

Do I need to once again post a picture of Z's murse?

He loves the reverse steamer, *******NSFW******post 35 (http://community.phlorph.com/showthread.php?t=57&page=4)

[SATAn]

right, i forgot he's feminine

[Dragon Knight Fiore]

Yeah, right,....he cooks "a little"!!! I hate the kitchen!!!! Did I mention I HATE it!!! I do however enjoy buying a bunch of silly kitchen gadgets that I get bitched at for spending money on until they are used and then I get love and adoration for making life in the kitchen even MORE fun...I think you are all just SICK!

How can you hate a kitchen? I mean sure it may burn you on a regular basis and the cuts and bruises require band aids sometimes. But those will heal. But after all that youve created a nice meal that satiates a pallette, tastes based on what your feel like making. A perfectly enjoyable meal.

Tonight for instance, A couple of center cut boneless pork loin chops cooked up with a nice caramel apple sauce... Some carrots boiled and then tossed in a frying pan with some honey and brown sugar... (Yes I had a bit of a sweet tooth tonight) A couple of potatoes peeled, boiled and mashed and topped off with a pork gravy.

[Dragon Knight Fiore]

And heres some more from the archives...

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[Rhazjk]

I've been known to be quite the cook as well.

Tonight I made a succulent Italian dinner. I used a recipe I've had for a while, which I got it from a friend of a friend. He hinted that the original recipe for this dish was created in Pozzuoli, Italy, around 1884, by a member or members of a family who later emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and acquired the name Kirby (I'm not sure how accurate this story is, I've also heard it was invented by guy named Kurt Erbling Jr.). I started by getting 3 types of pasta: anelli, anellini and occhi di pernice (While it seems somewhat redundant, it's quite important to use all 3). Then, topped it off with a nice fresh tomato sauce and let it simmer. I then breaded some meatballs and threw them in as well. Finally, it was topped off with just a hint of chedder. All in all, it ended up tasting great.









The good thing was that it only took 2 minutes in the microwave! Yay for Spaghettios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaghettiOs)!

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[Zervun]

And heres some more from the archives...

http://www3.telus.net/dragonknight/food/n512904497_207650_6471.jpg




Note to self - do not look at this picture after reverse cleaveland steamer

[Mephisto]

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Bucatini all'amatriciana

the noodles were $12/lb

Edit: oops. used the orignal camera file instead of the .25 one

[Zervun]

Holly massive picture needing resizing

[-={ICE}=-Cobra]

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[General Herpes]

I went to WCI =O I love to cook

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this is a strawberry salad with a raspberry vinaigrette

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this is a Poached chicken appetizer, set on top of crustini's

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this is a grapeleaf salad that honestly does not taste too amazing, it just had so many ingredients you would think the taste spectrum would be more sophisticated

[SATAn]

I've got quite the refined palette as well.

Candy as well as pabst blue ribbon
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chocolate praying hands
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the Sandvich
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and of course my own wrist and face!
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