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trying times, never forget

Nutella on your puckered

addition, you should remember

Do you remember in PQ2 when you make the drug bust at that dope house and a huge tank roles in and out to bust the door down? I’m sure that’s procedure but even as a kid I remember thinking “what, Sonny Bonds can’t kick a door in?” Also, remember Keith the chain-smoking partner?

Back to topic - one of my favourite games is Little Big Adventure. Not sure if it could be remade because a lot of the charm was in the clunky 3D world (which it actually did quite well for its time), but the whole exploring and confronting a planet under totalitarian rule where you didn’t always know who your friend were gave a lot of great suspense, plus the mix of a handful of species throughout the world was a cool dynamic.

to remove corn from the cob.

Yeah, you got it!

Bent knife?

Actually, you’re not far off with this one. Can you identify a specific use with a specific food?

Nope!

^That video is 9 years old.

If you could breathe new life into Maddog Williams, that would be really cool. I guess part of its charm is its dated indie spirit, but it had a cool premise and pacing and the puzzles were pretty good.

Another game that was great and could be given adventure elements was X-COM 2: Terror from the Deep. I think the setting of deep sea science/alien encounter gone wrong has really been underexplored and would be a cool backdrop to a slow buildup of bizarre discoveries. (Original is not adventure, though ~ sorry!)

-Doomsday Gun on VHS

Eminem's Without Me in Klingon.

a hat out of

A garbled radio sputtered

You can keep all your fancy stuff. This hit's the spot every time 

+1 need this in my life from time to time. Totally forget about blood sausage. Should pick some up sometime.

I always found the tomato a bit funny though - I mean, cmon who are we fooling. There’s nothing healthy about what’s going on here.

Though for Swedish food, I'm not sure what salmon paste you are referring to...

Is this some prank Sweden is playing on the rest of us? "Hey let's get foreigners to eat mashed fish out of a tube!" IKEA Dubai is loaded with different varieties of these. Comes in crab flavour, too!

As for the rest of the Swedish kitchen, I'm afraid it's not terribly interesting, as until the last few decades spices and imported food was rare and hard to come by, so most tend to be simple dishes mainly based on plain meat and potatoes. One typical traditional dish for example would just be roasted pork chops with peas and boiled potatoes with some brown sauce made from cream and the grease left in the frying pan after cooking the meat in it. Personally, I think the best Swedish cuisine has to offer is Kebabpizza, which came to after immigrants from the Balkans in the 90s who worked in fast food places came up with the idea to add kebab meat and the accompanying sauce onto pizzas, and this was the result:

It's a real treat if you're looking for a spicier pizza, though I've no idea what Italians think of this addition.

Awesome ~ yeah kebab and pizza sound like a natural fit; I bet that's good. It seems most cultures have improvised with pizza in one way or another. My friend in China runs a little pub and they do Peking duck pizza and pig face pizza (I know I know, but if you try it it's actually really good!) Here in the Gulf you can order pizza with laban (thick Arab yogurt-y spread) and honey, which is really amazing:

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Totally trying this version ~ thanks for sharing the recipe. I can’t remember the last time I had jambalaya. We had paella ages ago at a Spanish restaurant here, which I think was 100% seafood (was really good!)

Cool! Let me know how you liked it if you make it btw, dahi puri looks amazing. I don't think it's possible to find it around these parts, but I'll be looking out for it!

I am 100% sure we’ll have this in the roster in the next few days. Ingredients are pretty easy to get, so it’s nice to try something new.

Dahi puri is probably more available than it may at first seem. Any Indian grocer would have the shells and spices (those parts are sold in a kit). You can sort of expect a mess, but it’s worth it!

[jambalaya]

My go-to comfort food lately is jambalaya. It's a dish from Louisiana inspired by Spanish paella, and it's basically rice with chicken, shrimp and smoked sausage. The "creole" version uses tomatoes, while the "cajun" version that I make doesn't. Traditionally bell peppers are also used, but I'm not really fond of them, so I leave them out (which is why my version is not as colourful as others you'll see online).

My version uses:

- A whole onion, chopped and fried.
- 2 cloves of garlic.
- 1 chicken breast chopped into bite-sized bits seasoned with smoked paprika, oregano or thyme, and cayenne pepper or dried chili flakes.
- Handful of shrimp.
- 1 fresh sausage such as Italian salsiccia or saucisse de Toulouse.
- 1 splash of Worcestershire sauce.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Chopped green onions as garnish, if I happen to have any.
It's important to cook everything in the same skillet so that all flavours combine well. First the onion, then the garlic, chicken and sausage, then the rice, then the water, and lastly, when like half of the water has evaporated and there are like 10 minutes left, the shrimp (you can stick them in there while still frozen, as they'll cook in no time). It's also important to allow the dish to cool down and rest for 20 minutes or so, covering the skillet with a kitchen towel. The results are just amazing.

Totally trying this version ~ thanks for sharing the recipe. I can’t remember the last time I had jambalaya. We had paella ages ago at a Spanish restaurant here, which I think was 100% seafood (was really good!)

Looks tasty!
Has anyone here tried slices of Knödel? German and Austrian AGSers might be more familiar with the ball-shaped versions with pork in them,
but there's also the Czech variant cooked in loaves and sliced like bread:

I know lots of people think boiled dough sounds unappetizing, but when done right it basically tastes like
freshly baked bread but capable of soaking up all delicious sauce on the plate without falling apart.

Those look great! No, I hadn’t heard of it, but I’m not surprised ~ this whole thread could become an ‘amazing German food pic’ thread if we’re not careful. My wife steams dough to make those Chinese ‘Mantou’ and other things, so I can picture in a roundabout way how boiled dough would taste.

How about Sweden? Any amazing foods you can post that use the salmon paste I keep seeing at IKEA? I need to know how this salmon paste stuff works!