WHITE-white people making asian food

Do they/you guys usually do a good job? My SO's English mom.. not so much

I tried to make spring rolls once. My vote is for no, white people don't make good Asian food.

I make okay fried rice and stir fry, but that is about it!

I like stirfry!

Kaela, in a matter of minutes are you gonna make a poll for something along the lines of gender based food management?

GlassOnion wrote:

I like stirfry!

Kaela, in a matter of minutes are you gonna make a poll for something along the lines of gender based food management?

LOL. No, I don't think gender correlates to parrot care.

Mexicans can cook anything.

patdbunny wrote:

Mexicans can cook anything.

LOL.

I'll have to let my boyfriend know that. He knows how to cook, but I'm so used to hearing him say he's going to make something microwavable that I forget he can sometimes.

Also, San Diego was the first time I'd heard of Mexicans owning a pizza place.

Mexicans are in the kitchens of every restaurant. Anthony Bourdain even made a mention about how impressives Mexicans were, that they can cook everything.

Tell him I need a good tamale recipe.

Speaking of recipes - Margaret! Do you have a good European hazelnut torte recipe? I had this great Hungarian hazelnut torte once. Never had it again. Yummy.

His mom doesn't use recipes, just dashes and pinches and handsful of things. But here is a recipe for a Hungarian hazlenut torte: http://www.jewelosco.com/viewrecipe.action?recipeId=33144

I love mexican food. It is my most favorite.

I actually find the question insulting! Can Asian people make a decent Roast beef? Well of course they can, if they've learned how to do it. Yes, even if they are English!

I think my twice-cooked pork, plum chicken on snow, tangerine beef and ants climibing a tree are superior to what we get when we order takeout, the only difficulty is parking in Chinatown to get the ingredients.

I once fed dinner (Indian) to a visiting Indian professor. I made Ras Malai for dessert from scratch. He said "You made this? We don't make this! We go to the store and buy this!"

Defense rests.

I'm sorry if it was insulting!!

I just thought it was kind of funny..

PS- Deb, what CAN'T you do?

GlassOnion wrote:

I'm sorry if it was insulting!!

No worries. I'm having a bad hair day.... I unexpectedly spent 3 nights in Tucson at a review where it was working lunches and working dinners, spent half yesterday traveling and have only today today to get six thousand things at work done before heading to Death Valley tomorrow with Bill for his 4-day training go... my head is exploding even as we speak. (This is how I relax between tasks, believe it or not!)

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PS- Deb, what CAN'T you do?

Dance
Play Softball (spent 6 weeks in high school PE playing daily without every making contact with the ball with bat or glove).
Connect with small children (they either run amok or end up crying)
Play a musical instrument
Paint my fingernails or toenails without making a huge mess.
Deliver jokes or remember them spontaneously.
Keep my big mouth shut!

I can make tamales from scratch, though.

I make, apparently, a really yummy turkey meat loaf - I say it's because I don't know what meat loaf is supposed to taste like.

It's more about - can you cook? The females in my family really can't. All the men on my side of the family are gourmet chinese cooks.

patdbunny wrote:

It's more about - can you cook? The females in my family really can't. All the men on my side of the family are gourmet chinese cooks.

That question is kind of subjective. The women in my family think they can cook but almost everything tastes like cardboard. The men don't really bother cooking, so there's nothing really to judge.

I am pretty good at cooking certain things, but other things I can't make to save my life. Almost anything that requires me to follow a recipe is out. Using measuring cups and spoons and whatever else is just too much work. Oddly enough, I make a mean cheesecake and yummy chocolate chip cookies.

patdbunny wrote:

Mexicans are in the kitchens of every restaurant. Anthony Bourdain even made a mention about how impressive Mexicans were, that they can cook everything.

Tell him I need a good tamale recipe.

Speaking of recipes - Margaret! Do you have a good European hazelnut torte recipe? I had this great Hungarian hazelnut torte once. Never had it again. Yummy.

Sweets are not my best, sorry Roz. Speaking about Mexicans and kitchen, my bf is a baker(from bread to sweet things), but unfortunately he is doing American way(too sweet and too much Cinnamon), that's how clients want it... But when we're making pizza, he's very helpful for base!

Julsiebean wrote:

I love Mexican food. It is my most favorite.

Unfortunately me too, and it's fat like a hell!

ScooterNScotty wrote:

(...)Can Asian people make a decent Roast beef? Well of course they can, if they've learned how to do it. Yes, even if they are English!

Or bake Polish bread, well baked? Every culture have something, that they are good at, and it's good that way. I won't be forcing nobody to make pierogi(it's already plural). I do them from heart, don't need recipe even. I tried to make burrito, and it was good, but never taste the same like from Mexican place, simple...

KayLayUh wrote:

That question is kind of subjective. The women in my family think they can cook but almost everything tastes like cardboard. The men don't really bother cooking, so there's nothing really to judge.

That's why I'm not gonna say that I can cook so great! I make Polish things mostly. For some people I make a great bigos, my boyfriend for example doesn't like it. Subjective too. Everybody likes things different way.

Margaret wrote:

Unfortunately me too, and it's fat like a hell!

Traditional Mexican food actually isn't all that fattening. The Americanized Tex-Mex, everything needs to be covered in a pound of cheese and fried, is the fattening stuff.

KayLayUh wrote:

Margaret wrote:

Unfortunately me too, and it's fat like a hell!

Traditional Mexican food actually isn't all that fattening. The Americanized Tex-Mex, everything needs to be covered in a pound of cheese and fried, is the fattening stuff.

It also depends, from what part of Mexico person is coming and how was traditionally baked/cooked in their homes. My boyfriend's family loves it greasy, cheesy except my boyfriend and his sister. So we can't generalize it too.

Margaret wrote:

It also depends, from what part of Mexico person is coming and how was traditionally baked/cooked in their homes. My boyfriend's family loves it greasy, cheesy except my boyfriend and his sister. So we can't generalize it too.

What part of Mexico is he from?

My boyfriend's family doesn't fry much or leave things greasy. I don't like greasy foods, but I do love cheese.

Take a Polish example. I used to be in Polish homes, when everything was so greesy, that I had a hard time to swallow it. And I'm the odd one, I don't like a lot of oil, fatty things. Some Polish(my parents even-RIP) used to use grease from pat to a sos for potatoes. I can't stand it for example.
The same is I believe with every culture: Mexican, Asian, whatever else.
So please let's not use statements, as our small experiences are.

I cannot cook asian except for making wontons. Does that even count? I have a white friend of German descent (can you get any whiter than that?). If I want asian, I go to her. She cooks like how Deb cooks - GOOD!

Speaking of sweets. . . I just made a tres leches cake. . . yum . . .

patdbunny wrote:

Speaking of sweets. . . I just made a tres leches cake. . . yum . . .

I'm not even gonna tell it to my boyfriend

patdbunny wrote:

Speaking of sweets. . . I just made a tres leches cake. . . yum . . .

I'm fat because I love sweets. Sad, but true.

I don't eat a lot of butter or other bad fats, though. Olive oil is a staple in my apartment. I also don't fry or saute things much. Instead, I opt for baked or broiled.

I think it really does depend on how you grew up for how you cook and what you're good at. I hated the food my grandparents made when I was growing up so I opted to primarily eat fruits, vegetables, legumes and things of that nature. Now that plays a large part in how I cook because I try to load everything up with some kind of veggie or bean.

KayLayUh wrote:

I'm fat because I love sweets. Sad, but true.

Sadly, I'm not different than you. Actually Roz made me have a taste for something sweet, so I'm going to nearest store with Chico right now See you later guys!

I'm fat because I cook!

Not really, but my problem is more portion that eating "bad food". Well, and a 5:00 cocktail habit that snuck in this decade. I drink martinis, so it's not the sugar, but we make them sizeable. I can generally take or leave sweets and eat them rarely. I do love cheese, but the good stuff I can't afford to eat all the time. I will use lard or butter or schmaltz in cooking where it is worth it (say, making hollandaise) and I use olive oil most of the rest of the time, "light" when I don't want a lot of flavor or I'm using a lot of heat and EVOO when I'm going for flavor . BTW, did you know that lard is actually more healthful than butter?! Yeah, the "good" veggie oils are better yet, by a lot, but most people think lard is the devil and it isn't. But all fats and oils have the same number of calories, so they are equal in terms of making one "fat". Very flavorful ones are likely to be better in terms of weight control because you can use less and still get good flavor. I'm not wild about fried foods most of the time because they are almost always indifferently prepared. Properly prepared fried foods should not be greasy, they should be crisp and light and delicious, but usually the oil is too cold and instead of sealing the surface immediately, it soaks in. Then the food is drained carefully. I've actually seen food analyses showing that properly handled deep fried foods absorb far less oil than improperly deep-fried foods. They will absorb some, but the difference can be amazing! I have not yet mastered deep frying because I have enough vices!