Food

[Henry Krinkle]

So, it's funny how tastes change. For years, I hated corn. Now I like it again. Now I hate white onions.

These dishes seemed to be the turning point for me with corn. First is seared chicken atop a corn and pasta salad:


The second is grass fed beef quesadillas with a corn and shishito pepper salsa:

That quesadilla looks particularly tasty.

[Henry Krinkle]

Speaking of portion control this is a big scotch eggAttachment 52284

No kidding. It almost looks like you could fit a goose egg in there.

[meijlinder]

Read a story in Epicurious about the KFC-recipe and their apparent use of white pepper and saw this passage:

After all, who uses white pepper? It's the white sheep of the spice family, the oft-overlooked, much-maligned, pale simulacrum of the gutsy, robust black pepper we all have in our grinders. And around the Epi offices, its reputation wasn't much better.

I was pretty taken aback. Is this a normal opinion of white pepper on the other side of the Atlantic?
Personally I use a lot more white than black pepper.

[geoffbot]

Yes, and that's putting it mildly.

[geoffbot]

I've never used it to be fair.

[meijlinder]

I've never used it to be fair.

wow. Allspice I knew we used more in Scandinavia than in other places. But not white pepper

[Raza]

That quesadilla looks particularly tasty.

It was delicious.

[Henry Krinkle]

Read a story in Epicurious about the KFC-recipe and their apparent use of white pepper and saw this passage:


I was pretty taken aback. Is this a normal opinion of white pepper on the other side of the Atlantic?
Personally I use a lot more white than black pepper.

That might be a bit harsh, but white pepper is far less common here than black. I use white, but I use far more black. It is uncommon to find white peppercorns.

[CanadianStraps]

I love white pepper, but I just don't find it to be as utility as I do black. I would prefer ground white pepper over black for something like a chicken breading or spice rub for grilled meat, but nothing beats tellicherry in the grinder for daily use on hatever I'm stuffing into my maw at the time.

[meijlinder]

That might be a bit harsh, but white pepper is far less common here than black. I use white, but I use far more black. It is uncommon to find white peppercorns.

Interesting. I mostly use ground but whole white peppercorns are great in stews.

For steaks I've stopped using black pepper all together. Plenty of salt and then just a healthy dose of ground white pepper