Caesar's salad

The way I like to make Caesar Salad:

Dressing

Olive Oil - 1/2 cup
Red Wine Vinagre - 3 Tablespoons
Egg - 1 raw*
Parmesan Cheese - 3 Tablespoons
Garlic** - 3-5cloves
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Black Pepper - 1&1/2 teaspoon
Anchovy Paste*** - 1&1/2 Teaspoons
Mustard powder - 1/4 Teaspoon
Worchestershire Sauce - A few drops
Lemon Juice - 1/2 large lemon, or 1 small lemon

Finely dice or crush the garlic using a press. Mix all ingredients in a jar, and shake until thoroughly mixed (the more you shake, the better the garlic flavour distributes.)

* (Egg can be poached for ~10seconds if you don't like raw)
**(Garlic to taste. I love garlic, and usually use 1/2 a head, which will inevitably leave you with MAJOR garlic breath. My aunt makes it with just 1 clove)
***(I'm not sure if anchovy paste is a common product world-wide. I tried making it with diced-up anchovies once, and it wasn't as good. Not sure what to suggest

Salad

Pour over bed of torn romaine lettuce & croutons (fried bread cubes). Optional additons include chopped red-onions and bacon bits (homemade, not those weird plastic bacon bits). Top with more parmesan and pepper, and serve.
 
While the greeting may be cheesy, it nonetheless does pay homage to one form of salad perfection. As such, I think it is justified. This comment represents a rare emulsion of humor and greens. Indeed, I think all players should consider having some salad lest they soon find praetors Romaine around their lands. I mean, in all likelihood, Caesar just wants to trade with you, so I say sign the open borders agreement and lemon in. The alternative is winding up with yolk on your face and only a real crouton wants that.

Also: Anchovies.

Bad puns in defense of salad is no vice.


(As an aside, I don't know why gorf suggests using a whole egg. Using 2 yolks is a much better idea, plus you can make a merrgine for dessert. beating the mixture is probably a better idea than shaking it too as it allows air to enter into the dressing.)


gorf37 said:
***(I'm not sure if anchovy paste is a common product world-wide. I tried making it with diced-up anchovies once, and it wasn't as good. Not sure what to suggest
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You can mash anchovies with a motor and pestle as an alternative to anchovy paste. That's how is probably should be made, but usually use anchovy paste in my kitchen. I'm all about fresh ingredients, but it is anchovies we're talking and the difference between paste and fresh anchovies in a dressing isn't as signifcant as, say, the difference between fresh and canned beans.
 
It would be really awkard if Ceasar offerred up a Waldorf Salad. :)

Besides, I've never heard anyone complain about Hyena Tupac serving up a hamster.
 
bestbrian said:
It would be really awkard if Ceasar offerred up a Waldorf Salad. :)

Besides, I've never heard anyone complain about Hyena Tupac serving up a hamster.
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It's guinea pig, and they call the dish cui. They also use the guinea pigs for faith healing.
 
A_Hamster said:
It's guinea pig, and they call the dish cui. They also use the guinea pigs for faith healing.
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I've had it before. Not bad, not great, but the sauce I had served with it was superb.
 
bestbrian said:
I've had it before. Not bad, not great, but the sauce I had served with it was superb.
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Really? What's it like? Anything like rabbit?

To keep things somewhat on topic: Do guinea pigs raise the health of a city with Refrigeration? :lol:
 
Most of the game's diplomacy text seems pretty well thought-out to me. The quotes may not seem as serious as some players may like, but if you look at them as being double entendres it gets a lot more interesting.

Example:

"Care for some salad? I made it myself."

Julius Caesar doesn't just say this because there is a salad that bears his name. I think he says it because he is Imperialistic, Organized.

He could be saying that if you want to play the kind of game where you hope to win by helping some Civs grow and holding others back --playing the global gardener who feeds off the controlled chaos, if you will ("CARE for some SALAD?")-- you're playing on his turf and you're no match for him.

On the other hand, he could be saying that when push comes to shove and the downtrodden Civs of the world decide they're unhappy with what they have in comparison to mighty Caesar that he's willing to let the blame for the huge mess rest squarely on his shoulders and take whatever the united world is willing to dish out to him ("I made it MYSELF.").

It could be a challenge, an offer of friendship, or both. It's all how you choose to interpret it.

Diplomacy in Civ IV / BTS is a lot trickier than it looks, and next to espionage (which goes hand-in-hand with diplomacy), is probably the least appreciated feature of the game. If there's interest, I'd be happy to expand on this topic with an article for the War Academy. I'm not saying I've mastered the topic by any means, but I think I have learned a few interesting things.

Then again, maybe I'm just talking out of my ass... ;)
 
^^^ I agree with everything you wrote. Well, except for the bits above the last line. :mischief: :lol:
 
yturk39 said:
Most of the game's diplomacy text seems pretty well thought-out to me. The quotes may not seem as serious as some players may like, but if you look at them as being double entendres it gets a lot more interesting.

Example:

"Care for some salad? I made it myself."

Julius Caesar doesn't just say this because there is a salad that bears his name. I think he says it because he is Imperialistic, Organized.

He could be saying that if you want to play the kind of game where you hope to win by helping some Civs grow and holding others back --playing the global gardener who feeds off the controlled chaos, if you will ("CARE for some SALAD?")-- you're playing on his turf and you're no match for him.

On the other hand, he could be saying that when push comes to shove and the downtrodden Civs of the world decide they're unhappy with what they have in comparison to mighty Caesar that he's willing to let the blame for the huge mess rest squarely on his shoulders and take whatever the united world is willing to dish out to him ("I made it MYSELF.").

It could be a challenge, an offer of friendship, or both. It's all how you choose to interpret it.

Diplomacy in Civ IV / BTS is a lot trickier than it looks, and next to espionage (which goes hand-in-hand with diplomacy), is probably the least appreciated feature of the game. If there's interest, I'd be happy to expand on this topic with an article for the War Academy. I'm not saying I've mastered the topic by any means, but I think I have learned a few interesting things.

Then again, maybe I'm just talking out of my ass... ;)
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Troy? Is that you? :lol:


A_Hamster said:
Really? What's it like? Anything like rabbit?

To keep things somewhat on topic: Do guinea pigs raise the health of a city with Refrigeration? :lol:
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Rabbit would be a fair approximation; very lean, maybe even more akin to a wild hare. I had it barbecued, and also in a soup; very nice.
 
Well, I actually had Caesar salad for dinner tonight, and it was very good. Guinea pig soup sounds a little too exotic for my locale.
 
bestbrian said:
Rabbit would be a fair approximation; very lean, maybe even more akin to a wild hare. I had it barbecued, and also in a soup; very nice.
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Thank you. Sounds like I would like it: I liked rabbit the one time I had it and have enjoyed the South American cuisines I've tried. My favorite restaurant in college was an unusual South American one that served the cuisines of the countries that either bordered the Andes or contained part of them. Peruvian was very much to my taste. They did not serve cui though: I assume they did not want to weird out their less adventurous American customers.
 
That's one of the benefits of living in New York City; all the different ethnic neighborhoods with their unique cuisines.
 
do you really not have caesar salad in NZ?
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You should'nt believe any rumours about our being civilised... we're really just a bunch of cryptobarbarians down here...
 
A_Hamster said:
Really? What's it like? Anything like rabbit?

To keep things somewhat on topic: Do guinea pigs raise the health of a city with Refrigeration? :lol:
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Guinea pigs should give :yuck: all they do is eat and crap everywhere. When I was about 6 years old I volunteered to look after the school guinea pig for the summer holidays. Which means in effect I volunteered my mum to look after it - she wasn't pleased. She was even less pleased when it stank the place out :lol:
 
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