Are You Getting Enough Ketchup in Your Diet?

[Zkribbler]

Ask Lancer about banana catsup.

No, really.

[Peter Triggs]

It's a Thai chile sauce, sold commercially in a mild or hot form, which is similar to an orangish-red ketchup and used in cooking or as a condiment. Google also reveals that there's a Vietnamese-American version. Here's a recipe (should you find yourself with a pound of hot red chiles in your fridge that you want to use up):

Sriracha Sauce
A table condiment similar to ketchup--but much more
pungent--sriracha sauce is named after a seaside town in
Thailand. Increasingly popular, this sauce is found on the
tables of Thai and Vietnamese restaurants all over North
America. Fresh red chiles are the key to the flavor of this
recipe.

1 pound fresh red serrano, cayenne, Thai, or chile de arbol
chiles, stems removed
2 1/2 cups rice vinegar (or substitute white distilled
vinegar)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon salt

Remove the stems from the chiles. Place the chiles and vinegar
in a saucepan and heat to boiling. Turn off the heat and add
the sugar and salt and stir until dissolved. Place the
saucepan contents in a food processor or blender and puree
until a smooth thin-paste consistency. Add additional rice
vinegar if the mixture is too thick. Allow the mixture to
steep for several hours, place in glass containers, and
refrigerate. The consistency should be slightly thinner than
ketchup.

Optional: Strain the sauce through a sieve and discard the
solids for a smooth, seedless consistency.
Yield: 3 to 4 cups
Heat Scale: Hot

[Lancer]

"Ask Lancer about banana catsup.

No, really."

I've been waiting...hoping...:sniff:

My post has been ignored. Depressing.



I've sustained myself in my grief only through the consumption of mass quantities of ketchup. I use...alot of ketchup. I NEED ketchup now...It all started at a party. All my piers were doing it, passing around a bottle of Del Monte and taking hits. When it got to me, how could I refuse? I really didn't want to but there it was, and I did it too. That was the beginnjing and it's been doewnhill ever since. Now I can't pass a BKs or McD's without ordering a small burger and extra ketchup. Lots and lots of extra ketchup. They say that realizing you have a problem is the first step towards rehab, well...I'm a ...
... ... a ...ketchup abuser...

[Zkribbler]

And tell it! Tell it all!! Maria Heinz Kerry makes catsup out of bananas! They eat it in the Philippines.

[pchang]

And they put it on scrambled eggs (yechh!)

[Lancer]

From pg 1 of this thread...D)

In the Philippines we sometimes use bananna ketchup. No, really. Tomato ketchup costs more and tastes about the same. I like the consistancy of tomato ketcup better and bananna ketchup tends to chunk and then you can't pour it. They color it red for whatever reason.

[Odin]

It find it annoying when people say "catsup" instead of "Ketchup."

[BlackCat]

I have forgotten it - can someone please tell me where Ketchup is placed in the Periodic table ?

[Lancer]

Same as the dinner table, next to the salt.

[BlackCat]

Are you sure ? I would have thought it would have been closer to spagetti and canned tomatoes.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Lancer
Same as the dinner table, next to the salt.