wow looks amazing, love the way you guys put it together.

how did it taste?

Ummm.. It's in the description.

*looks at thumbnail* =

*clicks it* =

Exactly xDDDD

Mmmm...looks actually quite nice. I do love potato and leek soup...

Yummmmm

the thumbnail was absolutely terrifying, i thought it was some kind of sore LOL

but god looking at it close up.. @__@ looks so delicious

lol nice work

Crap, dude. Looking at this makes me sad. I'm trying to stay away from foods like this. All I've eaten recently are boiled eggs, brown rice, and canned beans.

But this shit's good for you! Nothing but vegies and herbs n' stuff. Well except for the sourdough bread and butter.

Fuck. I'll try it then.

Looks good.

Oh, what rain we had. It was delicious!

wow looks good tho Hope it was good as it looks

Heh, random dragon is random.

And the thumbnail is misleading...

LOL!... Yes, I bought him just recently and havn't found a permanent place for him yet, so he dawns my kitchen table. :)

Looks delicious, whar'd ya find the recipe?

Here you go:

http://www.crotonblog.com/archives/.....ouille_recipe/

Suh-weet. Never tried Ratatouliie.. or however it's typed. But I look forward to trying. :) Thanks again!

Looks scrum-diddly-duddly-doddly-umcious!

thats really funny haha i recognized the dish before i read the description. It looks perfect!

Thumbnail looked nasty, but that looks really tasty ^^

Yah, I wondered how many people would actually click on it. :)

It threw me as well, I thought it was a close-up of a horrible bedsore or something. Glad that wasn't right!

Does look tasty, now if I could just manage to make a decent curry on my own. :P

My mom used to make the BEST vurry dishes. Unfortunately I never got her recipies.

My grandfather was the same for spaghetti sauce. Unfortunately, I never got the recipe from him before he passed away. I used to help him make it when I was a kid, but I only have a vague memory of what every "looked" like. I suppose I could try to replicate it from memory, but I am afraid of destroying what memory of his sauce that I have left.

I wish had kept a recipe book of my moms cooking also. She was born and reaised in British Guyana and had some wonderfuy curry dishes I really enjoyed. :(

I am sure you probably already checked, but any chance another family member might have the recipes?

none. My siblings don't like indian type foods and I don't interract with any of my aunts or many cousins.

Feed me. x.x

That looks good.

Potato and leek soup is one of my favorite dishes. Get lots of bread and just dunk away.

NON EDIBLE GARNISH = DEADLY SIN

Sorry but I'm a Chef and when I was in school that was the first lesson you learn to avoid :3

If you mean the chive on top, we ate that. it was also one of the ingrediants in the soup.

Let me rephrase it... RAW garnish :3

Movies can be inspiring ^^
Mmmh, looks tasty...but now I've gotta change my currend mood into "hungry"

*tummy rumbles* WANT..... :(

it looks very nice but the dragon statue looks nicer

Yay for cook furs. I love to cook myself.

You love to cook yourself? But then who would eat you?

Yay for wording.. =P

You did kind of set yourself up for that. And knowing Wookiee, he loves playing with words...

Well he sure as hell doesn't mince them.

As a culinary student, I would say that it looks very nice. The plating is a bit messy. I would make the serving size smaller and let some of the juices from the vegetables drain out a bit before putting it on the plate. But sheesh, not everyone is Chef Simon. Did you know they actually have entire classes devoted to different styles of plating??? It's ridiculous. Anyway, nice looking ratatouille. It 's one of my favorite dishes, despite its simplicity, and just looking at those pictures makes me hungry!

Also. Buy a floppy chef hat. They're so fun! ^^

looks great! it been year since I made Ratatouille

I dunno, it looks pretty good to me. Presentation looks nice to an average joe like me. I'd eat it! And I don't even know what it really is. xD Oh, and I like the dragon on the table :P

mmm ratatouille is so good :3

The dragon centerpiece just pulls off an already awesome looking dinner.

Love pototoe and leek soup!

rattatouile?

were yall spinning the leek?

If I want to see rats cooking, I'll watch reruns of Survivor!

I've tried this recipe before, but there's a recipe for the soup featured in the plot of Ratatouille too?

Terry can't remember where he found teh soup recipe but he said once he goes home he will try to find it and post it here for you.

DO WANT!

Leek and potato soup has many variants. Here's the recipe that was referenced for the Pixar movie:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies.....e-recipe_N.htm

Oh okay, that looks like a variation of the Thomas Keller potato leek soup recipe someone else pointed me to: http://urbanfoodie.tumblr.com/post/253287548 ... I think I like the +garlic +shallots variant.

i NEED to fav this so it'll remind me to cook one somday *_________* Nice presentation though! I just wonder if the curled sliced veggies that they did in the movie is even possible.

In the movie all the vegies were the same diameter. Ours were all different sizes. :)

ooooooh! it would be fun if you could make another batch and place the veggies in a cookie cutter so it can look alike :D

Well, Ratatouille was a peasant dish served up in a bowl. Like a hearty veggie stew. So, presentation wasn't a big important thing. They just glorified it in the movie.

Looks tasty indeed. Yet you should know that the rat's allegedly innovative idea in the film about how to make ratatouille is merely substituting a traditional recipe for another. Intercalating ingredients similar to ratatouille in a dish is called "tian" (or "tian de légumes" or "tian provençal")

http://testeuse-de-recettes.blogspo.....provencal.html

Well, the particular variation on ratatouille used in the move was Michel Guérard's "confit byaldi".

Oh! Well, that's good to know. Nevertheless, that's a fancy name invented by this french chef in the 70s, and I doubt many frenchmen would have heard of it. Or maybe the better-known name "tian" is improperly applied to Michel Guérard's recipe, I don't know

This dinner is what all true warriors strive for!

That looks good, and it is making me even hungrier right now.

The presentation for the traditional rustic style of ratatouille is definitely more mushed veggies stewed together like. :P

*grins* They're both relatively easy to make, and taste phenomenal. Glad you guys tried it!

bahaha! this is awesome! i literally laughed out loud :D

Looks good but my mom does da best ratatouille

Quite the "chefs de cuisine"

Now it's getting warm again, I can start having cook outs!

Indeed rats can cook!

My favorite thing to cook? The rear tires on my chevy!!

Damn, that made me really hungry. Looks very tasty!

No meal is complete without a dragon guarding over it.

I love making Ratatouille. It's really nice when you use fresh local ingredients, mmm organic zucchini the size of my forearm... Sweet huge tomatos... I must make it again soon. It's also good on a Bed of brown rice!

Lovely. That looks quite splendid, I would have to say =)

ooooooo u cook 2 ? AWSOME<3 >//W//<

I LOVE leek and potato soup.

I need to fav this and try the recipe for myself, I always wanted to try to make it like they do in the movie. But I also wanted to try the "flashback" version too, so I can see which tastes better.

Oh mai goooodnesss! This is pure WIN! After seeing this, you have seriously inspired me to want to try and make the dish. Your presentation is actually very beautiful!

I tried this recently, but ended up using spaghetti squash instead. Pretty tasty, but the rinds were a pain.

HECK YEAH

I made this myself a while back too. I just had to when I found out what was in it, LOVE squashes and eggplant.
http://community.livejournal.com/fo.....ated/4225.html

It was like making art! I went to different supermarkets determined to find veggies (roughly) all the same diameter, lol.

Wow! Yours looks much neater than ours. :D