So this night I had some really rad tosti's and right now I am going to show you how to make them yourself.
First of what are you going to need:
Some white casino bread,
Preferably dutch cheese , but anything will do as long as it no cheddar cheese.
Some butter
Dutch curry (no idea what you would call this in america)
As optionals:
Some bacon and italien spices.
And of course the tosti iron ( though a frying pan will do as well)
Start with putting some slices of cheese on the bread, put some bacon on top of that and if possible top it of with some italien spices
Now put the other slice of bread on
top and smear both sides with the butter
Next up you put the stuff in the tosti iron until they become nicely crisp and gold with a slightly brownish tint.
Once that has happened serve the tosti's with the curry (or some other sauce of your liking) and don't forget to add a drink and something healthy, and you are all set for some happy snacking.
@JoMate: Great I needed to work on my cholesterol, though, uncooked bacon, not enough. Plus I think your sandwich could use some chicken, preferably fried of course.
Is that a CocaCola Can glass? From McDonald's like 3 or 4 years ago?
That dutch curry thing kind of looks like this curry dip for nuggets...
What's up with cheddar? And what about pepper jack?
I will have to try that chicken out sometime soon. And yes that is mcdonalds glass, but next to that I have like 10 other ones standing at home ( I used to work there).
And my cheddar comment was actually just ment for those plastic wrapped versions of that cheese that for example mcdonalds always use, if you happen too have real cheddar cheese (that is not made out of plastic) than feel free to use that.
@JoMate: Oh, yeah those floppy things, but it's not really cheddar... it's more like food shaped silicon rubber. I don't think it's supposed to be eaten.
" Calzone. Call delivery service. Order calzone. Pick up at door."
Don't forget the tip.
I just realized something: In France (probably true for all western Europe) Nutella is far more popular than in the US, and that's a little surprising. Probably because there's already so many other junk available...
2 AM snack hunger time for a trip to the konbini and some nikuman. Nikuman is a blessing upon the world. For those who don't know, it's a chinese style steamed bun filled with [pork] meat, onion, spices. Usually they go for like 100 yen (about $1) each and come hot and delicious. We have some other varieties like anman (filled with sweet red bean paste) or pizzaman (pizza sauce and cheese filled).
That sounds delicious, please send me some cause I feel like I will be thinking about that whenever I will be eating more bad kebab tonight. So just coming in there with some Nikuman would be pretty awesome.
@Addfwyn: That sounds nice. There was this chinese boutique in France, they had something like that, it's a rice flour buns, steamed too, with pork meat, onions, spices too, but they added eggs (scrambled). it was sold €.85 (˜$1.20, of course, it France, it has to me more expensive). You could eat that for breakfast too. But I have no idea what it was called.
And from what I've seen on google images, it seems very close to the 'Nikuman', though, it's not a compact ball of meat inside, it's more crumbly. They also had a few other versions, like the marbled red and yellow, but I have no idea what was in there, don't remember.
But still, as long as I'm out, I'd rather go for a big bucket of chili cheese fries (even if I have to puke later), that is a blessing, and probably a curse at the same time.
Also, I googled Konbini, and I've been directed to a TV site, and the very first thing to appear on the screen is a very nice cleavage! Don't thing it's what you were talking about, but still nice. So, what's that Konbini you talked about? Sort of a convenience store?
@JoMate: I'm pretty sure you can find that near you. It's a classic.
So, what I've seen so far is that there is not a lot of DIY aficionados in the the Food and Drugs department here. Too bad.
@Greg818: A konbini is a convenience store such as 7-11 or Family Mart. Konbini is short for konbiniensu, or convenience. They're ubiquitous in Taiwan as well. In Taiwan, I can stand outside one and probably see two more.
@Addfwyn: Are there many night markets around the urban areas in Japan? At night I still go to the night markets rather than convenience stores when I visit Taiwan.
" Calzone. Call delivery service. Order calzone. Pick up at door."
Don't forget the tip.
I just realized something: In France (probably true for all western Europe) Nutella is far more popular than in the US, and that's a little surprising. Probably because there's already so many other junk available...
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It is more about it being culturally engrained. Ferreo primeraly marketed it in Europe in the early sixties. I believe that there are actually factories in northern France that have been producing it since. It's kind of the same case as Oreo's in the US that they have only started to market in Europe some years ago. Stupid commercial drove me crazy...
@JoMate:@Addfwyn: Yesterday night I stubble across a chinese deli and I had to stop by:
It's been a great disappointment! Too much bun, I almost choked on it, the bun was too sweet, they was a bit too much mushroom... long story short: nothing like the ones I used to buy in France...
@Evelgest: Yeah, I guessed so, thanks for the confirmation. Do they sell gas too? :-)
@Rallier: I didn't even know they sold oreos in europe? Are they sold in france? Either way I'm not really concerned about that because I'm gluten intolerant and there's like a shitload of gluten in Oreos... too bad because I love those!
@Greg818: Yeah, they only started doing so a couple of years ago. I was really surprised to see them in the store rack since it was one of those "mythic" American items that I only had heard of on the Internet. I was quite disappointed by how they tasted, nothing out of the ordinary really.
@Rallier: Really? You didn't like it? I guess it's like the Nutella, it works on the addiction. It's not all that good, but over time, you just need your fix. But it's merely an American bite size version of the Prince (Lu). And what about the pepperidge farm cookies? Are they sold in europe? Have you tasted those? I think it's more "iconic" than the oreo... I love the Macadamia nuts/white choco and the oatmeal/raisin ones.
Funny thing: I saw (in the US) some "Petit écolier" on the shelves... somewhere (don't remember which store, but it doesn't matter). But they're not conditioned in the same package, it's not white and blue/red, it's all black and red (for milk and dark choco). I bought a boatload of those (both milk and dark), and offered to everyone, and... nobody really liked it. But what do they know about food, they're american! (!)
@Greg818: It's not really that i didn't like it but it was just not special enough. It has been a while since I had them but i compared to Prince biscuit they are more bitter. I looked up Pepperidge on google but I don't believe every seeing that brand over here. I'm not exactly the biggest visitor of the cookie isle in the store so i might just have never noticed them.
I find Nutella to taste better on some things then others. I really enjoy it on bread (well pain/baguette) but on anything else i find it to be quite unremarkable. Some people love it to death though, I've actually known people who ate it straight out of the jar (insanity!). I'm not sure how anyone can not like a petit ecolier biscuit. It combines two of the most glorious things there are, a butter biscuit and chocolate.
@Rallier: I have a (french) friend who eats straight from the jar too. My sister used to like it a lot a while back (now, I don't know), I remember that one time she polished off the entire jar at once.Also once, coming back from England, I bought a baguette (freshly baked, still warm) and ate the entire thing with Nutella on it, you know, you fold/crush it and it spills Nutella all over your fingers, and dip it in cool milk... Drat! Now I want a baguette!
As for the petit ecolier, I can totally understand it, it's actually just chocolate on a biscuit... I might have oversold it, but it was a piece of France there. I don't know. The Pepito are good too, never seen any here, I even prefer the pepito to the ecolier (maybe because of the coconut shavings, or the better chocolate/biscuit ratio, too much choco on the ecolier)
@Greg818: There must some kind of special coconut Pepito around. The regular ones i believe are just a biscuit and chocolate. I has been a while since i had those but i would have remembered if they had coconut in them. Bounty bars are the devil to me...
@Rallier: Ah no, no special pepito, the normal (milk/Blue and dark/red) always had the coconut shavings. It's very scarce, so you don't necessarily notice it, but it's there, and it brings a little je ne sais quoi that makes the biscuit better (IMO) than those of the ecolier. Also funny, I don't think there are Bounty's in the US either. That, I used to love when I was a kid.
Tested: We test it so you don't have to. It includes SkyNet grade coffee machines, weirdass donkey shoes, buiscuits...
Maybe we should start a biscuit thread on the coffee forum, it would be more appropriate there. (?)
All this biscuit talk made me hungry, I'm gonna have another of those chinese buns...
@Greg818: I'll need to have some of those one day. I'm not that big of a fan of them, too crunchy and since it is chocolate coated a mess to eat, especially when it is a bit warm.
I will gladly sign a petition for all the bounty bars to be shipped to the US if you have one.
Don't forget the tip.
For those who don't know, it's a chinese style steamed bun filled with [pork] meat, onion, spices. Usually they go for like 100 yen (about $1) each and come hot and delicious. We have some other varieties like anman (filled with sweet red bean paste) or pizzaman (pizza sauce and cheese filled).
That sounds delicious, please send me some cause I feel like I will be thinking about that whenever I will be eating more bad kebab tonight. So just coming in there with some Nikuman would be pretty awesome.
usually I just eat kraft macaroni and cheese. I put a lot of milk in it, so it kind of looks more like macaroni soup.
@Addfwyn: Are there many night markets around the urban areas in Japan? At night I still go to the night markets rather than convenience stores when I visit Taiwan.
It is more about it being culturally engrained. Ferreo primeraly marketed it in Europe in the early sixties. I believe that there are actually factories in northern France that have been producing it since. It's kind of the same case as Oreo's in the US that they have only started to market in Europe some years ago. Stupid commercial drove me crazy...