Oh God, what am I gonna do?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Japher
Did you make your mashed potatos from scratch?

Always.

[Japher]

maybe there's something in the water?

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


No, I used this recipe from Good Eats. The wife loved it, and I must admit it was quite good. I'm actually surprised she liked it because she's not really all that into strange combinations of food and spices.

Good Eats is the best cooking show ever!

book marked Looks frickin' good.

[Japher]

Alton Brown is my hero

[chequita guevara]

I used cider vinegar instead of balsamic di Modena. I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean real balsamic, which costs $60 for a tiny little bottle. I also used tomato sauce instead of juice, cuz the smallest tomato juice was way more than I'd ever need.

[Japher]

There's cheaper Balsamic than blasamic di Modena. It's not as good, but still better than cider vinegar.

[chequita guevara]

Balsamic di Modena is the cheap stuff. You can get it for like $4 a bottle. It isn't anything close to the same as real balsamic. Real balsamic is like a desert syrup: sweet, tart, and thick.

It's confusing because both types of balsamic are from Modena, but by European law, only real balsamic vinegar can call itself balsamic, so the industrial kind has just a slightly different name.

[Lancer]

What do you drink with the meal? You know it's red wine with red meat and white with fish/chicken, right?

Also, don't drink diet soda. That crap really screwed me up a couple of years ago. Instead, find a spring near you and go get your own spring water. Boil it just in case.

I doubt it's the garlic, but just in case toss your garlic and get new somewhere else. Could be pestisides, or poison from that odd looking pimply produce guy with the thick glasses.

[Provost Harrison]

Re: Oh God, what am I gonna do?

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I think I'm allergic to garlic.

Whenever I've eaten garlic in the past few months, it's given me terrible upset stomach. I feel sick for days.

That would be seriously rotten - all the nice foods have garlic in them

[Ramo]

Take allegra daily. If that doesn't work, consider allergy shots.

[Seeker]

I would suspect the meat before the garlic. Did you have any symptoms pre-roast?

[chequita guevara]

Like I wrote in the OP, this also occured a few weeks back with my garlic mashed potatoes.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Lancer
What do you drink with the meal? You know it's red wine with red meat and white with fish/chicken, right?

Actually, it strong with strong and light with light. A hardy chardonnay will not go well with fish but will with steak. A weak merlot (is there any other kind?) will go well with fish but not with steak.

[Japher]

I agree with Lancer, if you used garlic from the same bulb/jar... toss it

[chequita guevara]

I didn't.