So I'm stirring my pot of breakfast chili and singing to it...
Me: "Umami! Umami! You're my favorite flavor of all!
I like you better than salty, and even better than sweet!"
RX: "See, that's why we can't keep straight MSG in the house, because you'd eat it right from the shaker."
Me: "You can get straight powdered MSG?"
It's the truth. I probably think about a rare steak with a side of fried eggs slathered in Worcestershire sauce the way most people think of a banana split piled with fresh strawberries and chocolate sauce.
Just wait till your favorite chop suey take out jumps on the Umami bandwagon. They'll be putting made with MSG in neon!
ReplyDeleteYes, you can get your hands on pure MSG.
ReplyDeleteYou'd better have a lap belt on that crapper, though, if you intend to eat it straight up.
WV: Mornan. I ate a whole teaspoon of MSG, and in the mornan I shat myself inside-out.
They sell it in bags at my local oriental grocery store. If you bagged it in little baggies, the cops would shoot your dog.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I view a rare steak with eggs much the same way.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast chili? Can haz recipe, plz?
ReplyDeleteRemember "Accent" meat tenderizer? That stuff was basically pure MSG.
ReplyDeleteWhy have a rare steak and eggs instead of a bowl of ice cream and syrup, when you can have a rare steak and eggs AND a bowl if ice cream and syrup?
ReplyDeleteUmami rules but MSG makes my teeth ache like I just grabbed a power line.
ReplyDelete" a rare steak with a side of fried eggs slathered in Worcestershire sauce."
ReplyDeleteModeration, Tams. Moderation.
"Accent wakes up food flavor!"
ReplyDelete"breakfast chili"
ReplyDeleteSo much win in so few words.
"Moderation, Tams. Moderation." In all things - ESPECIALLY "moderation".
ReplyDeleteI'm with Woodsman...
You can have the steak, eggs, and the banana split for the same meal.
ReplyDeleteI'm right with you on the steak and eggs, but I'd have to go with medium instead of rare ;p
ReplyDelete>They sell it in bags at my local oriental grocery store. If you bagged it in little baggies, the cops would shoot your dog.
ReplyDeleteThat must be why the smallest amount you can buy seems to be a half kilo.
That does not explain why you can only buy red pepper powder in one kilogram bags, but we're coming up on kim-chee season.
Mmmmm...carnivores...my kind of people...
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"...a rare steak with a side of fried eggs slathered in Worcestershire sauce..."
ReplyDeleteA woman after my own heart, there.
You want some MSG? I know some people who can help you out, for a small fee.
ReplyDelete+1 breakfast chili recipe, please?
ReplyDeleteI surprised myself years ago when I had the realization that I would rather have more steak and eggs (or pot roast, etc) than have dessert. I thought it was just me.
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting me know that I am not alone in this. I don't think we need a support group or anything though, I think we are the sane ones!
My Grandparents, however, have taken to having strawberry shortcake for supper at least once a week (and sometimes twice). We don't bother them about it as they are old as dirt and they might as well live a little before they kick off.
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Ah, I remember well. That was the moment my young life went off the rails when, as a 16yo yout', free and easy on the street, with brass in pocket to spend as I listethed, and I discovered that greasy spoons served this dish called steak and eggs. I was a-goner for sure. Nothing in my mama's cooking prepared me for this gustatory delight, and I wallowed in it.
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TW: ploperie -- indeed
" a rare steak with a side of fried eggs slathered in Worcestershire sauce."
ReplyDeleteI love it when your talk like that!
And: Moderation is for monks. = RAH
Rare steak? Check!
ReplyDeleteFried eggs? Check!
Runny yolks? Oh ... absolutely!
Regards.
PS: See profile pic.
OK, I feel better now. It's always good to know that you are not alone, which I was feeling as I grilled a steak and fried two eggs for breakfast today.
ReplyDeleteThis discussion and the arrival in the mail today from Amazon (just before I logged on) of my copy of "Monster Hunter Vendetta" indicates the start of a good day.
I surprised myself years ago when I had the realization that I would rather have more steak and eggs (or pot roast, etc) than have dessert. I thought it was just me.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to discover that other people don't feel that way.
More steak for me. Let them eat cake!
Tam's breakfast chili is plain, high-quality chili, no beans.
ReplyDeleteBut gimme a minnit -- you could start with with 3-4 slices of bacon, fry up some good rice (plus mushrooms/veg of choice), scramble 3 eggs, and then toss in a can of that chili, already heated, and it'd be umm-umm good!
Yeah, I'm another with nearly no sweet tooth at all but a raging addiction to that umami goodness. The powdered stuff just doesn't really do it for me; it sings best when it's in a choir of its natural flavor companions. The idea of the banana split actually makes me feel vaguely ill in anticipation of the insulin shock.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of a cheeseburger with blue cheese and a fried egg with slightly runny yolk and onions grilled in butter just makes me hungry.
Bobbi: Would it work with fakin' bacon?
ReplyDeleteSo Tam, how many can your table seat for Sunday brunch?
ReplyDeleteAnd you're emailing the invitations when?
Owen: You can still buy Accent, lots of grocery stores stock it in the spice section.
ReplyDeleteI have a shaker in my kitchen. Makes steaks taste even better.
OK Bobbie,
ReplyDeleteI regret that I ate the last of some leftover chili last week (for breakfast of course) but now I'll have to make some more just to try that recipe, sounds like my kind of breakfast!
Ah, there is another one of those arguments of epic proportions. Me and my family are nekkid meat people. The only thing we put on a steak is salt. A good steak doesn't need anything else. My ex-wife (the second one) and her family are marinaters. Once they are done soaking the meat (seemingly for days sometimes) in a funny smelling goo you could be eating cardboard for all that you actually taste of the steak. It was terrible!
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wv sodent. Her steak was sodent with funny smelling goo!
That messes with my established dietary plan, to wit:
ReplyDelete"Pig every morning, cow every night."
So you're saying...cow in the morning, pig at night?
Well, this is highly irregular, but...yum!
AT
Definatly a woman after my own heart!!! Steak and eggs are a wonderfull breakfast!!
ReplyDeleteI do the chili thing on breakfast huevos rancheros. Then again, I throw a ton of my home-grown jalapeno peppers into the mix, too.
ReplyDeleteWV - "Hemenes": He had chili with his huevos rancheros for breakfast this morning. Hemenes to do some serious harm to all downwind...
1 flank steak (thin and fatty) spiced with fajita seasoning.
ReplyDeleteCovered with
2 eggs over easy
Covered with
Mild green chili sauce.
any meal any time.
Nevermind MSG. The best thing on steak is chardonnay smoked sea salt
ReplyDeleteThat's it, I'm goin' back over to Brigid's. I only need one woman to make me fat.
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Jerry
When I lived in Malaysia, I could buy straight MSG in 25 lb bags in almost any grocery store.
ReplyDeleteI didn't, but I could.
I'm with Stuart the Viking - if your steak needs additives, then give it to the dog, and get some decent meat.
Look at your local Asian market--they have 'em in Indy, right?--for Ajinomoto. (Which is actually a trade name, like Accent.)
ReplyDeleteCommon on tables in Asian restaurants around here, alongside the soy sauce and rice vinegar.
Stuart,
ReplyDelete"Me and my family are nekkid meat people. The only thing we put on a steak is salt. A good steak doesn't need anything else."
Depends on the steak.
Yes, I never put anything on a real steak (filet, ribeye, NY strip, T-bone.)
A little flank steak cooked up for brekkie? I won't mind if I accidentally splash some of the Worcestershire from the eggs onto the steak...
With apologies to The Music Man...
ReplyDeleteUmami, umami, umami
The savory taste of meat
Umami, umami
It's neither salt nor sweet
Pour it on when you get to cookin’
Add a bit more when no one’s lookin’
A dash more when it starts to simmer
That meaty flavor is sure a winner
M S G fa so la si
Do si la sol fa yum-my do
Umami, umami, umami
The savory taste of meat
Umami, umami
It’s neither salt nor sweet
WV: exter - Get exter MSG on it, I love that stuff.
After reading this blogpost, I went to Amazon.com and they have 34 oz. jars of powdered MSG for about $4.
ReplyDeleteYa know, in case your steak doesn't taste steak-y enough. :P
-Mongol
Verify word: beraces
Once upon a time I couldn't eat steak for breakfast. Now I have my beraces off, and I eat it daily!