Sitting here idly contemplating going shopping -- Dirk's coming over for some tunes, and I usually have dinner on the stove for when we get hungry. But what to buy? I am undecided...it's been a little cold and rainy recently (most unusual for Colorado, and we're not complaining), maybe the makings for beef stew, with a crusty bread and cheese...
What's your favorite food for when you're playing tunes? Besides the alcohol, is there a food that seems necessary alongside the tunes? Is there a food you can't bear to eat and play? Different foods when you're playing out then when you're playing at home? Are the various lists different for strings than wind players? Inquiring minds!
Well, as a flute player, I prefer any nice and chunky foods. It adds a nice little vibrato and can also provide a pleasant treat for the person sitting next to me . Sorry, had to say that. Seriously, that's the one thing that kinda annoys me about being a woodwind is feeling that I can't eat while playing unless I take the time to make sure the mouth is clear before I start playing again.
After the sessions though, nothing is better than kebabs and curry fries. Unfortunately, the US hasn't caught onto widespread kebab houses open all hours of the night, so I'm stuck left reminiscing about Galway. So yeah, that my 2 cents.
Curry fries! Yummy! But impossible to play while eating them. Def a "eat instead of play" kind of food. (Thanks to the gorgeous and thoughtful Jeff Lindblade, I now have curry powder for those midnight urges.) Chocolate, on the other hand, is easy at almost anytime. Even right now I have gourmet (the label says they're gourmet, so therefore they must be) chocolate raisins in the pantry, which I can't eat, being on a diet at the moment (getting ready for the Xena costume, you'll remember). So all visitors are welcome to polish them off.
in no particular order, but vastly dependent on season:
the home list: green chili, pots du creme, fresh yeast-risen bread,
local artisan cheeses, guinness ice cream and warm brownies,
hand chopped pesto on warm pasta
the away list: anything but Casa Bonita
BTW my ears are still ringing from the Richard Thompson concert
When our friend Joey comes over to practice/play I usually have some kind of hearty soup going. Most likely lentil of some sort, either Italian style or Indian stlye. He usually brings samosas from his favorite Indian place, and Ed brings home bread from his work. The rosemary bread is my favorite. And if we're lucky, there's homemade chocolate chip cookies (made by me).
If it's one of my girlfriends coming over, it'll probably be hummus and chips and carrots, cookies, or if I hadn't made cookies, then we'll just eat the chocolate chips straight from the bag!
Chocolate covered coffee beans are great. Easy to grab while playing. Would certainly keep the tunes going; might have an effect on tempo/speed after a while though.
LOL -- oh, well -- DRINK...that's a different matter. It's quite complicated when I have a lot of people coming over, because one friend will like Guinness, another prefers a lager, there's a slew who prefer hard cider, and soda for when people have decided that drink is going to impair the playing.
I always have coffee, tea and apple cider around as well, and everyone knows where the bar is. We do have a small fridge for drinks in the bar closet, but it never fits everything, so people have to wander between the two fridges to see where there drink of choice ended up...
My music buddies love my Guinness Beef Stew, but I like to serve it during the winter months. (that sounds so cliche, but it's a sure party pleaser) For munchies, they like Cape Cod Kettle chips, Cabot cheese sliced up and hickory farms sausages. Of course, they are not picky and are usually happy with whatever I serve
Guinness Beef Stew! Yummmmm. Mike Henry makes a great Guinness ice cream for over brownies (and his pots du creme are the much-anticipated dessert of any session party we hold). Let's see, I wonder if there's a way to work it into a sauce for veggies?
Hey Zina, would it be possible to get that recipe for the Guinness Ice Cream? I'm still debating on whether or not I'm going to have people up for tunes this weekend. Seems like it would go over well on a nice summer afternoon with my music buddies.
Def serve it over brownies, too, with real whipped cream and chocolate syrup of some sort. The cold ice cream makes the brownies go all fudgy and sort of extra-chewie....yum!
I like to chew bubblegum when I play my box. I don't blow any bubbles for someone might think it to be a correlation from that Lawernce Welk Show. For this reason we recommend you take Geritol immediately before, during or after a meal because this will reduce the possibility of stomach discomfort.
Anna one, anna two
Ray
hey Z, another night, another show
just e-sent the Guinness Ice Cream to Joyce
for all, here's a link to the Emeril Lagasse version I made ... boiling 12 oz of the nectar down to 4 oz took patience at 7 in the morning ... but, I think it was worth the effort http://www.leeners.com/icecream.html
make the brownies while the ice cream is setting/freezing
The favourite after a day and night long session in O'Donoghues used to be to drop or stumble into the Kentucky Fried Chicken next door and have chips, coleslaw and fried chicken and a taxi home. My fluter companion always brings bananas and milky bars to the session with her and when the playing has ended has a mini feast. Now she has to bring something for everyone in the session.
There's a great place called Pete's Kitchen in Denver; it's open 24 hours a day over the weekends in the summer. When I used to regularly go out clubbing, I'd go to Pete's on my way home, sit at the counter if I was alone and watch the short order cooks cook up the tabs, wait for ages in a line for a table if I was with others (it's where everyone went after bar close). If I'd picked up a stray, Pete's was where I'd go to make sure he was an okay "take home". ;) They have the best "hot hamburger" in Denver (a thick hamburger patty on a thick slab of texas toast, chips/french fries on the side, the whole thing smothered with regular ol' American red chili on the spicy side. Yuuuum, yum. But you couldn't beat 'em for a greasy spoon breakfast, either.
Jim,
never been to The Manhattan but have been to The Gig's Place - same area, do you remember it - you're old enough? Great big steaks and chips at 3/4 in the morning and lashings of tea
If food be the fuel of music, play on...
If food be the fuel of music, play on...
Sitting here idly contemplating going shopping -- Dirk's coming over for some tunes, and I usually have dinner on the stove for when we get hungry. But what to buy? I am undecided...it's been a little cold and rainy recently (most unusual for Colorado, and we're not complaining), maybe the makings for beef stew, with a crusty bread and cheese...
What's your favorite food for when you're playing tunes? Besides the alcohol, is there a food that seems necessary alongside the tunes? Is there a food you can't bear to eat and play? Different foods when you're playing out then when you're playing at home? Are the various lists different for strings than wind players? Inquiring minds!
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Zina Lee
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What the heck is kebab trifle!? LOL
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Zina Lee
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I decided on cheddar cheese, beef stew, but I forgot the bread. Oh well.
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Zina Lee
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I'll be there if you serve chocolate.
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by rocking bow
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Well, as a flute player, I prefer any nice and chunky foods. It adds a nice little vibrato and can also provide a pleasant treat for the person sitting next to me
. Sorry, had to say that. Seriously, that's the one thing that kinda annoys me about being a woodwind is feeling that I can't eat while playing unless I take the time to make sure the mouth is clear before I start playing again.
After the sessions though, nothing is better than kebabs and curry fries. Unfortunately, the US hasn't caught onto widespread kebab houses open all hours of the night, so I'm stuck left reminiscing about Galway. So yeah, that my 2 cents.
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Jason G
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Curry fries! Yummy! But impossible to play while eating them. Def a "eat instead of play" kind of food. (Thanks to the gorgeous and thoughtful Jeff Lindblade, I now have curry powder for those midnight urges.) Chocolate, on the other hand, is easy at almost anytime. Even right now I have gourmet (the label says they're gourmet, so therefore they must be) chocolate raisins in the pantry, which I can't eat, being on a diet at the moment (getting ready for the Xena costume, you'll remember). So all visitors are welcome to polish them off.
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Zina Lee
Re: If food be the fuel of music, play on...
in no particular order, but vastly dependent on season:
the home list: green chili, pots du creme, fresh yeast-risen bread,
local artisan cheeses, guinness ice cream and warm brownies,
hand chopped pesto on warm pasta
the away list: anything but Casa Bonita
BTW my ears are still ringing from the Richard Thompson concert
ZLS are those the chocolate covered ginger bits?
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by mike henry
Re: If food be the fuel of music, play on...
When our friend Joey comes over to practice/play I usually have some kind of hearty soup going. Most likely lentil of some sort, either Italian style or Indian stlye. He usually brings samosas from his favorite Indian place, and Ed brings home bread from his work. The rosemary bread is my favorite. And if we're lucky, there's homemade chocolate chip cookies (made by me).
If it's one of my girlfriends coming over, it'll probably be hummus and chips and carrots, cookies, or if I hadn't made cookies, then we'll just eat the chocolate chips straight from the bag!
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Andee
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Eggs & ham, bread & jam, buttered cram & a plate of Irish stew
(From the old song "Johnny McEldoo"
Joe
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Joe Quinn
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Anything you don't have to chew for too long, it's so awkward otherwise when you're playing fiddle.
# Posted on June 30th 2004 by Cath
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Chocolate covered coffee beans are great. Easy to grab while playing. Would certainly keep the tunes going; might have an effect on tempo/speed after a while though.
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Agnes Nutter
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
~Alex Levine
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Agnes Nutter
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LOL -- oh, well -- DRINK...that's a different matter. It's quite complicated when I have a lot of people coming over, because one friend will like Guinness, another prefers a lager, there's a slew who prefer hard cider, and soda for when people have decided that drink is going to impair the playing.
I always have coffee, tea and apple cider around as well, and everyone knows where the bar is. We do have a small fridge for drinks in the bar closet, but it never fits everything, so people have to wander between the two fridges to see where there drink of choice ended up...
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Zina Lee
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Munster Bacon with a Bag of Spuds and Buttered Peas.
Brown Bread and Cheese
Some of Gillan's Apples
The Cup of Tea or maybe The Juice of The Barley.
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Pied Piper
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My music buddies love my Guinness Beef Stew, but I like to serve it during the winter months. (that sounds so cliche, but it's a sure party pleaser) For munchies, they like Cape Cod Kettle chips, Cabot cheese sliced up and hickory farms sausages. Of course, they are not picky and are usually happy with whatever I serve
Joyce
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by JMH
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And for my friends who no longer drink alcohol, I serve fresh apple cider from the local farm stand.
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by JMH
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Guinness Beef Stew! Yummmmm. Mike Henry makes a great Guinness ice cream for over brownies (and his pots du creme are the much-anticipated dessert of any session party we hold). Let's see, I wonder if there's a way to work it into a sauce for veggies?
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Zina Lee
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Oh my, Guinness ice cream sounds heavenly! Especially on a lovely warm summer day
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by JMH
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Hey Zina, would it be possible to get that recipe for the Guinness Ice Cream? I'm still debating on whether or not I'm going to have people up for tunes this weekend. Seems like it would go over well on a nice summer afternoon with my music buddies.
Joyce
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by JMH
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Mike! Mike? Where are you, buddy...? Recipe? Recipe?
He probably has to be at home to get it, though, Joyce, so give him a few hours.
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Zina Lee
P.S.
Def serve it over brownies, too, with real whipped cream and chocolate syrup of some sort. The cold ice cream makes the brownies go all fudgy and sort of extra-chewie....yum!
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by Zina Lee
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I'm not sure if I'm ambitious enough to make brownies too, but that does sound wonderful!
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by JMH
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I like to chew bubblegum when I play my box. I don't blow any bubbles for someone might think it to be a correlation from that Lawernce Welk Show. For this reason we recommend you take Geritol immediately before, during or after a meal because this will reduce the possibility of stomach discomfort.
Anna one, anna two
Ray
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by day-glo pirate
Re: If food be the fuel of music, play on...
hey Z, another night, another show
just e-sent the Guinness Ice Cream to Joyce
for all, here's a link to the Emeril Lagasse version I made ... boiling 12 oz of the nectar down to 4 oz took patience at 7 in the morning ... but, I think it was worth the effort
http://www.leeners.com/icecream.html
make the brownies while the ice cream is setting/freezing
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by mike henry
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no question,tato tato crisps.cheese&onoion flavour of course- although i do stray into salt&vinegar sometimes.
btw to avoid transatlantic confusion i'm told that you call them chips in the states
# Posted on July 1st 2004 by biggus dave
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The favourite after a day and night long session in O'Donoghues used to be to drop or stumble into the Kentucky Fried Chicken next door and have chips, coleslaw and fried chicken and a taxi home. My fluter companion always brings bananas and milky bars to the session with her and when the playing has ended has a mini feast. Now she has to bring something for everyone in the session.
# Posted on July 2nd 2004 by MollyB
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There's a great place called Pete's Kitchen in Denver; it's open 24 hours a day over the weekends in the summer. When I used to regularly go out clubbing, I'd go to Pete's on my way home, sit at the counter if I was alone and watch the short order cooks cook up the tabs, wait for ages in a line for a table if I was with others (it's where everyone went after bar close). If I'd picked up a stray, Pete's was where I'd go to make sure he was an okay "take home". ;) They have the best "hot hamburger" in Denver (a thick hamburger patty on a thick slab of texas toast, chips/french fries on the side, the whole thing smothered with regular ol' American red chili on the spicy side. Yuuuum, yum. But you couldn't beat 'em for a greasy spoon breakfast, either.
Wow. Haven't thought of Pete's Kitchen in ages...
# Posted on July 2nd 2004 by Zina Lee
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Jim,
never been to The Manhattan but have been to The Gig's Place - same area, do you remember it - you're old enough? Great big steaks and chips at 3/4 in the morning and lashings of tea
# Posted on July 3rd 2004 by MollyB