what can you tell me about barberque?

[kentauros]

outside the tangy sauce, i don't know anything about it...

:P

[catnhatnh]

1. Thousands of books have been written about it...

...you should get one.

Once you do all I can guarantee is that someone else has written a book stating that the book you read is bullshit...

[kentauros]

2. However, there are several factors I left out,

and one was meant left unsaid. That is, this is a copycat thread ;)

The others are that I'm vegetarian, Texan, and grew up with pretty fine bbq by my father :)

[some guy]

4. I like it a lot

but have a hard time, as a vegetarian, finding a good way to make it. bbq potatoes are the best option I have found so far, but lacking, so I'm still searching.

and you're not helping. :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Try grilled asparagus -- misted with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt. HEAVEN!!! n/t

[some guy]

10. I don't see bbq in there.

so how does that help? :hi:

[kentauros]

6. I've often wondered about working with tofu that's been frozen once.

Because, supposedly, it gets chewy, making it more "meat-like" in texture. I've also seen a great vegetarian Chinese place here make sheets of the stuff, layer it, and then roll it or shred it to make a substance that can fool even "avowed" meat-eaters :D

I don't know how well it can be bbq-ed that way, but might be worth trying. Have you asked on the veg*n forum here?

[some guy]

9. I may try tofu again

it doesn't really absorb the sauce though. But neither does anything else. Last time I did potatoes, I diced them and baked them low and slow - 200 degrees for about three hours. That was fairly okay.

I might try the same thing with frozen-thawed tofu. It would have a better texture than potatoes, and might get a good bbq sort of glaze thing going, like the potatoes did.

It's entirely possible that I just need to learn a lot more about bbq before I try to figure out how to make it work for vegetarian fare.

I haven't asked in the veg*n forum.

[mzteris]

15. a Taiwanese friend of mine

used to make "BBQ" with dried mushrooms. Sorry I don't have the recipe - I wish I did! I didn't believe her at first that it wasn't sliced BBQ pork!

[some guy]

11. okay I just had a thought.

I'm going to try slicing the tofu with a cheese slicer, so I can get really thin pieces.

slather in sauce, bake low and slow. We'll see how that works. :bounce:

THANKS for your help!

[kentauros]

12. You're welcome!

Although I'm not sure you can slice tofu that way. I think what the people at the restaurant do is to puree it and then spread it thin on something like parchment paper. Silicon-coated parchment paper would make it easy to remove, so it might be worth trying that way :)

Good luck, however you do it! :hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I gotcher barberque RAHT-CHEER!!!!!

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[kentauros]

7. "Meat. Beer. Rock n' roll."

In Seville?

:rofl:

[HopeHoops]

8. It is a line of guys holding combs and scissors just itching to get at Tommy Chong.

[givemebackmycountry]

13. Low and Slow...

True BBQ requires four simple things.

A good cut of meat.
Low heat.
Smoke.
Lot's of patience.

After living in Kansas City for a decade, and eating my fair share of burnt ends and slow cooked brisket.
I'm a authority.
If I wind up in heaven?
I hope it smells like the parking lot at Arrowhead Stadium in late October.

[BarbaRosa]

16. Yup, two things, Low and Slow

and, If You're Lookin, You're Not Cookin

[GoCubsGo]

30. Yes. Anything else is not "barbecue".

Anything cooked on a fairly rapidly on a grill with higher heat is GRILLED, not barbecued. Doesn't matter if you slap barbecue sauce on it. Here in the South, they cook it, and then put the sauce on right before eating. I'm partial to pulled pork, but I'd never turn down a good barbecued brisket.

[Tabasco_Dave]

14. Charcoal !!!!!!

The only gas i want at my BBQ, is the one that makes an embarrassing noise.

[KamaAina]

18. "Taste the meat, not the heat!"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FXcqRXGs4SA/Sh0Vz_6_TaI/AAAAAAAABX0/hohgVoHPnJw/s320/hank+bbq.jpg

[jmowreader]

17. It's what they should do with half the barbers the PX employs

Soldiers don't get crewcuts because they look good, they do it because it's the only haircut the PX barbers can't fuck up.

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. We were at the Basic Training Receiving Station for a day or two without haircuts.

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It was long enough to start bonding and making friendships and
just plain recognizing people.
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To the alleged "barbershop". Me and this Native American guy... both with the
longest hair in the group and hanging at the very back of the line to put it
off as many milliseconds as possible.
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I get in and there's these two whiskey-smellin' stereotypes from "Deliverance"
standing there with clippers.
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This musta been their big joke -- one they never tired of. "You want it short,
medium, or long?"
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I perked up. "Long... long... long, of COURSE -- as long as you can get away with!!!"
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"Hey, Bubba!!! He wants it LONG!!!!' WWAAHHRROOOWWMMXX!! Right down to the fucking SKIN!
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MUCH cackling and guffawing.
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When we all got outside, NOBODY recognized ANYBODY -- we all looked EXACTLY alike.
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Mission accomplished.
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[jmowreader]

29. The barbershop on my post in Berlin was just a wonder...

For some strange reason, if someone walked into the barbershop and ordered an especially short haircut every customer, for the rest of the day, got that exact same haircut. And every time someone came in for a shorter one, the haircuts got shorter at that point. In the 1980s it was against regulations to shave your head, but if it would have been legal then they would have shaved the heads of everyone who came in after the first guy got a skin job.

We had an MP who really liked crewcuts. He knew, however, that most of us didn't want that haircut--for one thing, it was too easy to be mistaken for a skinhead if you had one, and Berlin is overrun with skinheads. So, he'd go in ten minutes before closing time for his haircuts so he didn't fuck up everyone else's head. I usually went to a beauty shop off post and told 'em "give me a businessman's haircut."

[MiddleFingerMom]

31. Probably '74 in Germany... long before it was popular (& before skinheads were prevalent)...

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..."Cuz" and I were sitting around the Dispensary off-duty with a bunch
of other medics... all of us bored as hell. Before you knew it, Cuz and
I had bet each other a TON of money that we wouldn't get our heads
shaved right down to the bare skin.
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"Mort" (grew up in a funeral home) was our best surgical prep guy, so he
used an electric trimmer to take the majority off -- and then a straight
razor to make our heads SHINE!!!! We found out later that we COULD have
been prosecuted under a fairly vague regulation about "bizarre hairstyles",
but our squad sergeant AND company commander thought it made us look
like the sharpest fucking troops around (we were typical medics -- you
WANTED us to be around in an emergency, but we were pretty ragbag as
soldiers).
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Bonus points... BIG boner...um... bonus points:
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German women thought it was good luck to kiss a bald man on top of the
head... and they had never had the opportunity to kiss young (bald) studs
on top of their heads. We made more, ahem... "friends" that way.
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Drawback: The Hare Krishna guys pestered us to no end about whether or
not we were brothers or believers or something.
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Cool bonus points:
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In several months, my hair had grown out to a uniform length all around to
the point where I really needed a haircut, but I kept it slicked back during
duty hours, washed it and just briskly rubbed it to towel-dry and let it dry
completely without brushing or combing... just fanning it out from my head
with my fingers. I have fairly wavy hair, so my hair looked JUST like flames
coming out from all over my head (no, it's not red).
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For quite a while, Germans called me "Feuerkopf" (Firehead).
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Good times.
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I was quite the lady-killer.
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[ohiosmith]

20. It's man, devouring man my dear.

[kentauros]

25. Thar ya go!

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[trof]

21. How long will you be here?

jeez
I could go on all night.
I don't even know where to start.
Ever heard of Google?

[kentauros]

24. Ever heard of "copycat thread", Mr. Copycat-Thread-Maker?

:P

(copycatting "what can you tell me about albuquerque?") ;)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. 4 things

cow or pig
vinegar or tomato

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzaAxfXQBgA&tracker=False

:-)

[kentauros]

27. I'd forgotten about that movie

:D

Reminds me of two others, in the same "vein" ;)

Eating Raoul (trailer)
Eating Raoul - part 1

Parents (full movie with commercial breaks)

[Sky Masterson]

26. That nobody does it better than Kansas

:)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. let me put it this way, fried green tomatoes is not all that was served at

The Whistle Stop Cafe

[bluesbassman]

32. Here's all you need to know courtesy of ZZ Top

Bar-B-Q/Fool For Your Stockings, Live in Paris 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6WLgI7O5qo

[old mark]

33. We do our barbecue inside-our grill is full of hornets...nt