i have done that [brining with pickle juice] with thick grouper filets before battering in vodka batter and frying. the brining gives wonderful depth to the fish, and the vodka in the batter gasses off instantly in hot oil, leaving an airy, super crisp coating.
pickle brining chicken before frying is the chic fil a “secret” (so i’m told).
Wow! Great idea.
Cheers
How long do you brine your grouper? I would like to try that with ling cod!
When I make sablefish karaage, I found that overnight marinading (my standard for chicken karaage) was too much. One hour seems to be about right.
a couple of hours, give or take.
longer than a ceviche, but not overnight.
Ah! I thought my son might’ve been joking when he said, “blame the Aggies” 
…professor and research scientist at Texas A&M University
I think they left a fork off…
Yes, the fork in the road! 
Sorry…
Its not that we Americans don’t reinvent foreign food. #ChowMein
Where do we get a lot of our food:
https://x.com/fasc1nate/status/1931750649391116790?s=46&t=O2oiiWtPtjugWtxist3wDw
with all of the important things going on today; flag day, No Kings Day, and a certain minor, yet over-reported event in DC, it may have been easy to overlook one very important commemorative observance today:
World Gin Day.
something near and dear to my heart!
https://worldginday.com/
G&T for me!
Cheers.
Queen Victoria approves.
“We are amused”. she says, looking at me from the label of my Bombay London Dry.
hey! it’s No Kings Day! nobody said anything about queens!
Well said! I will drink to that.
Cheers!
Saw lots of great signs at the rally in St Paul…
Several of them said: “No kings!”
—and below that, in rainbow colors: “Yas queens!”
well, in Key West, we adore our Queens!
That was one of the favorites I saw here!
Pasta might be Italian, but spaghetti with red sauce is an American classic
I will grudgingly accept this reasoning but why is pizza included?
Except for Americans, nobody in the world thinks of pizza as an American food. It’s quintessentially Italian. And in the case of pizza, they’re not even trying to make a flimsy argument as with pasta. It seems like they just accept that people think it’s American. When people around the world put weird stuff on pizza, they do so in a misguided attempt to imitate Italian food, not American food. And the same holds true for pasta.
