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Every time i have to make 20Ib of pasta at work i think "LOTSA SPAGHETTI"
Half of my job in an Italian restaurant is viciously mocking the Italians.
Ayyy we make a da pizza ova heah
The owner apparently was pissed one of the cooks made chili for the soup special cause it's 'not italian' and like...our stuff is Italian American at best and our most popular pizzas are very much fusion, out top seller is tomato sauce, half mozzarella half smoked cheddar, bacon, sausage and caramelized onions garnished with fried rosemary and maple. So we've been saying all the very not Italian ingredient names as a made up Italian translation. Instead of maple, mapoli for example. Pineapples for the Hawaiian pizza are called appleinis.
Man i have 0 respect for traditional cuisine outside of as a source of ideas. I want to try new things and be creative y'know
I was just reading today about this confluence of american racism and immigration laws resulting in a good number of Punjabi-Mexican marriages in the early 1900s and how it led to a unique fusion of cultures and i'm like fuck yeah fuck me up with some Punjabi-Mexican food, I bet that shit's unique af
But certain people would be all "noooo you can't put curried chicken on a taco 😰😰😰😰" (i don't think curried chicken tacos are a thing, I just remember it saying a punjabi Mexican american restaurant had curried chicken and roti on the menu)
It is literally reactionary in the political sense. It's retvrn mindset applied to food and it's bad. Now, you do also need to learn the rules before breaking them but that's like you gotta be good at curried chicken and tacos before going for a curried chicken taco. I can also add, if we were going full in and genuinely making shit you'd otherwise have to go to Italy to eat, I could understand being a stickler, but being trad brained on recipes invented in the 60s is dumb as hell. Also I do think being open to experimenting with different culinary traditions vs being full on trad recipe (this mostly applies to French and Italian food. Colonized people holding onto traditional recipes is a big part of maintaining culture) does reflect on your values outside of food. Food is possibly the most political thing and it's history is historical materialism.
I put teriyaki chicken in a taco all the time, I don't know how to make curry.
A very non traditional idea i had was like I made this chipotle/red bell pepper/pimento puree with basil and cilantro and seasoned it in an attempt to approximate piri piri sauce (the chipotle was too smoky but otherwise it was very good), and that was for some chicken that I made at work as like a last minute condiment to go out on the side. The chicken was marinated in a lot of chili powders and lemon juice. It was supposed to be piri piri chicken but like idk if you can call it that without piri piri peppers
Anyway, it was all really good, and I wanted to take the pepper puree and use it as a pizza sauce, top it with the pizza cheese blend we have, chopped chicken, red onion and idk mushrooms or something else, maybe some parmesan, and finish it with a drizzle of the pepper puree at the end
Idk i think it'd be really good but with all the prep and cleaning i had to do I never got around to trying it out with the leftovers I had
That sounds interesting. I did a vodka sauce but instead of tomato roasted red pepper recently and holy fucking hell did that go over well. I'm Beethoven out hear with this stuff cause I can't taste my own food.
the sauce I made tasted very much like this roasted red pepper coulis my sous chef made a while back, except smoky because of the chipotle, and not overpowered with what I think was him putting in wayy too much sumac. That might be something you could look into
I think the real sauce is more spicy because of the piri piri peppers and less smoky, it's just got whatever smoke from the bit of chili powder/paprika put in, but idk
it'd probably go good with vegan meat like the seitan chicken strips we get, or like as a way to marinate tofu or vegetables for pizza
yeah that's me with seafood, I don't like any seafood so every time i get good feedback on a shrimp/cod/salmon dish I am like "yes thank you cooking jesus for letting me not fuck this up"
Sometimes I like the smell of the shrimp roasting but idk there's just something so off about seafood, can't like it
Pinball Wizard
So beans on pizza will be "beanis"?
I already call em thst when I make hummus. Beanis is commonly said
Isn't it just "ananas" in Italian? Like in 90% of languages? They couldn't even be bothered to just google the Italian word for it?
It's us making fun of the owner
Oh, I see. I thought these names were all the owner's idea.
It's just what we've nicknamed stuff.in the kitchen