Vegetarian Types

VEGETARIAN: Overall term for people who live on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, fruit and vegetables, with or without eggs and dairy products. Does not eat any meat, poultry, fish, or shellfish.

LACTO-OVO-VEGETARIAN: Most common type of vegetarian, who eats eggs and dairy products.

FLEXTARIAN: Eats mainly vegetarian food but will eat animal meant occasionally for cultural, social and nutritional reasons.

PESCO-VEGETARIAN: Eats fish and non-mammalian seafood but does not eat any other meats.

POLLO-VEGETARIAN: Eats poultry but does not eat red meats such as beef and lamb.

OVO-VEGETARIAN: Eats eggs.

LACTO-VEGETARIAN: Eats Dairy products.

VEGAN: Does not eat dairy products, eggs or any other animal product.

BUDDIST VEGETARIAN:  Forbidden to consume the five pungents (onions, chives, leeks, shallots, and garlic)

Source: The Modern VEGETARIAN: http://crystalbyblog.blogspot.com/
Original Source: July27, 2008 thesundaytimes

Trying to Like Preserved Olives Note

NOTE: it did occur to me today that preserved olives may not be intended to eat 'out of the jar', just as some seaweeds are preserved in salt and they are meant to be rinsed of their youth preserving salt before using.  Bears looking into...though I still like the taste of the brine-frosted seaweed out of the bag.

ALSO: for some reason, a part of my brain keeps thinking of these as 'preserved plums', which it would rather I be eating I guess, as I do like the variety named umeboshi, so I have to keep checking that it hasn't led to me typing 'plum'.  This extends to the URL of the first posting even...

Chopped – Bourbon-Malta-Scotch

Mario – Personal Chef, Erica – culinary expert, Sunshine, Warren – Staten Island

Bourbon

Anchovies

Dates

Frogs legs

Warren

Pan roasted frog legs, sweet & sour date, 

Romaine, anchovies,[garlic]

Bourbon, dates, red peppers sauce

Erica

Anchovies melted in braise for frog legs, spicy date ketchup (tangy sour)

Salad: celery, apple, mint

Sunshine

Treat frogs legs like chicken wings, dust with flour

Bourbon, dates, honey garlic sauce to put on legs

Anchovy fries?  Into viniagrette for romaine salad, warm olive oil

Mario

Southern fried frog legs with cornmeal dredge with bourbon cream  sauce with pepper

Vinegar with dates: Date Gastric

Arugula fresh apple salad, anchovies in dressing

Hamachi (tuna like)

Beets

Tortilla chips

Malta (root beer like, malty)

Mario

Hamachi, tortilla-crusted, beet 3 ways: malta beet sauce, crispy beet tops

Bacon red bliss potatoes to tie together

Erica

Seared cooked/part raw hamachi with lime, tortilla chips bed for tartare, picked beets, sautee beet greens

Reduce Malta, cream, butter (like buerre blanc)

Warren

Cumin curry cinnamon cilantro with tortillas, crust fish with tortilla chips

Beet malta vinegrette with mashed potatoes

Clementines

Scotch

Basil

Toasted oats cereal (Cheerios)

Mario

Beignet batter with oats, butter eggs sugar flour, Clementine candy

Clemintine salad, Butterscotch sauce with scotch

Erica

Parfait: yogurt/mascarpone, scotch, cream, O brittle caramel, basil puree, scotch Clementine marmalade, croutons in marmalade sauce

Chopped Champions – RMO – Coffee Liqueur – Peanut Butter Taffy

Madison Cowan

Mackenzie Hilton

Jessica Morgardo

Poppy Yeaple

Appetizer

Tomatillos

Horned Melon

Wonton Skins

Rocky Mountain Oysters (Bull testicles)

Poppy

Sear RMIO in pan with paprika, allspice

Tomatillos salsa in steamed wonton, pan drippings in

Jessica

Dredge RMO in flour and fry

Salad with crunchy wontons?

With tomatillos spicy mayo aioli horned melon

Mackenzie

Fry in flour oil

Tomatillo salsa with horned melon

Napoleon with wonton skins , layered with RMO

Aioli dipping sauce: zesty basil

Madison

Southern fried RMO in buttermilk

Tomatillos fried like Fried Green tomatillos

Potsticker filled with horned melon

Apple salad with cream

Entrée

Dorade (succulent white fish)

Baby beets

Beef jerky

Coffee liqueur

Mackenzie

Dorade with Sautéed beet tops

Sliced Red Bliss potatoes with beets and boil

Cream coffee liqueur beef jerky coffee sauce

Madison

Pan seared Dorade, coated in cornmeal, cayenne, onion powder, smoked paprika

Gastric sauteed beets with beef jerky with coffee liquer

Apple onion with beet tops

Poppy

Pan seared dorade with braised beet greens, beef jerky

Raw grated beet salad

Chicen stock with beet greens

Beef stock with coffee liqueur

Dessert

Yukon gold potatoes

Condensed milk

Pomegranates

Peanut butter taffy (taffy outside, peanut butter inside)

Poppy

Pomegranate ice cream, add condensed milk for gelato, pink peppercorns

Fry potatoes little sticks

Add taffy to condensed milk to make glaze: pb mascarpone gravy

Madison

Roasted potatoes in burnt brown sugar, rosemary, nutmeg, cinnamon

Reduce milk, add pomegranate, rum custard

Almonds in with taffy

Chopped Champions – Dandelion, Alligator, Halloumi

Chopped Champions – Dandelion, Alligator, Halloumi

Michael

Panina

Jon Bignelli

Mark Anthony Bynam

Appetizer

Dandelion greens

Greek yogurt

Liverwurst

Catfish

Jon

Dredge catfish with cornmeal, chipotle sugared yogurt with greens, liverwurst

Ultraflex 3 thickening like cornstarch without heat, liverwurst deglazing with tequila

Marc

Blackened catfish, sautéed dandelion greens red onlon, yogurt cayenne cumin coriander, dijon mustard cornichons with liverwurst crostini

Panina

Slice pocket in fish, stuff w/ liverwurst, caramelize onions with dandelion greens

Spiced yogurt: Add curry paprika to yogurt, dandelion greens in center of plate

Michael

Breaded catfish  w/ liverwurst mousse, on top of brown butter aioli

Liverwurst greek yogurt with wilted vinegared dandelion greens

Entree

Ginger beer

Pickled daikon

Okra

Alligator tenderloin (tastes like veal)

Marc

Pan-roasted alligator, pickled deacon with bacon, ginger beer veinegrette, okra brioche ginger beer bread pudding, Dijon mustard in vinegrette, arugula salad

Jon

Alligator stir fry, Mirin sesame oil, sweet chile, soy sauce with alligator as marinade arborio rice, agar agar into ginger beer, bread okra in panko, daikon sauteed with soy and ginger beer

Panina

Alligator okra ginger beer stew, paprika cumin turmeric, pickled daikon deep fried, use ginger beer to deglaze pan

Dessert

Key lime juice

Pepitas

Halloumi cheese

Hot dog buns

Marc

Halloumi mascarpone cheese sauce and cinnamon buns, caramel lime, apples, whipped cream

Panina

French toast layered w/ seared halloumi cheese, sauce of caramelized apples, pepitas, key lime to apples

Cardamom Chantilly cream (whipped cream), fresh mint on top

Chopped Champions – Sweetbreads - Sea Urchin – Fruit Ring Cereal

Jason Zukas

Michael Siry

Luisa Fernandez

Joe Dobias

Appetizer

Dried persimmon

Phyllo dough

Pepper Jack cheese

Sweetbreads (pancreas (thymus gland))

Jason

Corn-meal crusted sweetbread

Red wine vinegar w/ persimmon

Fry phyllo strips in oil with Arugula pepper jack cheese salad

Joe

Pan-roasted sweetbread, red wine flour (chicken nugget)

Puree persimmon paste, red wine vinegar

Crispy phyllo in oven with cheese

Luisa

Salt pepper smoked paprika

Strudel with persmimmon & sweetbread & jack cheese

Madiera wine with persimmon

Michael

Pan-seared sweetbreads, pepper jack strudel w/ phyllo

Persimmon Raspberry Sauce: veg stock raspberry jam

Entree

Chicken breast

Blue corn tortillas

Tuscan kale

Sea urchin

Jason

Sea urchin sauce

Toasted tortillas ground, w/ bread crumbs, to crust chicken

Sauteed kale

Apple herb salad

Luisa

Pan seared chicken wih sea urchin sauce

Kale sauteed with lemon juice

Potato shoestrings/blue corn tortillas

Save chicken stock

Michael

Blue corn tortilla- crusted chicken

Sea urchin buerre blanc, reduction reisling coriander

Kale and bacon

Dessert

Blueberries

Bread & butter pickles

Saffron

Fruit ring cereal

Jason

Fruit ring cake sour cream

Saffron blueberry sauce

Topped with sweetend crunchy pickles

Orange liqueur, apricot preserves

Michael

Fruit ring blueberry saffron galette

Blueberry sauce (compote)

Orange and julienned pickle salad

Almond orange zest

Trying to Like Preserved Olives: Taste #3

I have actually been putting this off! This is good for me to empathize with others who can't bear the thought of eating certain foods. I can't  remember having that experience for years.
So here goes...a little better still.  That very sweet flavor, bitterish aftertone, woodsy. It is that aftertaste which gets me...makes me wince.  Still need taste #4.