Super Eagles or Les Bleus?
Never tried this, but it sounds good: Pork Tenderloin Diane:
1 whole pork tenderloin, cut into 8 crosswise pieces
2 teaspoons lemon pepper
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
1 tablespoon minced parsley
Directions
Place each piece of tenderloin between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Flatten slightly with heel of hand. Sprinkle surfaces of pork with lemon pepper.
Heat butter in heavy nonstick skillet; brown pork evenly, about 3-4 minutes on each side. Remove to serving platter, keep warm.
Add lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and mustard to skillet. Cook, stirring with pan juices, until heated through. Pour sauce over medallions, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
I found this Nigerian recipe, but have no idea how it would taste. If you’re adventurous, give Plaintain Moi Moi a chance:
Ingredients
2 pcs of overripe plantain (Even if the skin is now black, as long as the inside is not decomposed)
100g plantain flour
1-2 cooking spoons palm oil
1 teaspoon ground crayfish
1 onion
Pepper and Salt (to taste)
1 Knorr cube
Cool water
Containers
Uma leaves (Thaumatococcus Daniellii)
Aluminium foil bags
Bowls
Before you cook Plantain Moi Moi
Prepare the uma leaves for the Plantain Moi Moi using the method detailed at: How to prepare uma leaves for Moi Moi.
Put the plantain flour in a bowl, add a small quantity of water and mix till you get a medium consistency.
Wash, peel and cut the overripe plantain into small pieces.
Grind the crayfish, cut the onions and pepper into small pieces.
Cooking Directions
Blend the overripe plantain pieces, plantain flour batter, onions, crayfish, pepper and stock cube with just enough water to allow the blades of the blender move.
Pour the smooth blend into a sizeable bowl.
Add salt and palm oil. Mix thoroughly till well combined.
Set a small quantity of water in a pot to boil. When the water boils, place a base for the Plantain Moi Moi wraps into the pot. This can be scrap pieces of aluminium foil, a stainless steel stand or leaf stalks from the uma leaves.
Scoop the mix into folded uma leaves, just as you would with beans Moi Moi.
Gently place the wraps in the pot of boiling water and cook for 20-25 minutes. Add water along the way if necessary.
Leave to cool down completely and set before serving.
Serve with Custard, oat meal or akamu (corn starch meal). It can also be eaten with a chilled drink as a quick snack.
raven
Keep the crafters out of this thread!
Chris
Les Bleus, sacrebleu!
Gin & Tonic
That happens at the end of Kill Bill, right? Uma leaves?
Richard Mayhew
Go Geiger (he’s the referee and from New Jersey… First US ref to get a knock-out round game in a generation, and rumors are that if he does well and the US gets knocked out in this round or the quarters, he is on the short list for for the Semi-finals)
Richard Mayhew
And yes, I cheer the referees as much if not more than I cheer the teams.
raven
I’m interested to see if my Univision feed degrades over time like ESPN online does.
Omnes Omnibus
Allez les Bleus!
Amir Khalid
Both sides have come out punching. That and a pair of slightly iffy defences will make for a good football match.
Alex S.
wohohoaa, almost..
Amir Khalid
Disallowed goals are always fun to argue about, n’est-ce pas?
JPL
The pork tenderloin recipe sounds interesting.
Amir Khalid
Always good to see the underdogs take the fight to the “bigger” team.
richard mayhew
France got lucky in 28th no yellow on aerial challnge dfk
Alex S.
France: mostly harmless
Steeplejack
@raven:
You git.
raven
@Steeplejack: :)
raven
Dude screwed the pooch on that one.
Alex S.
The game is almost as exciting as this thread.
raven
@Alex S.: No shit, can we get some vitriol here? Fuck dem cheese eating surrender monkeys.
beer time somewhere
@Alex S.: BJ’s resident referee is here. Everyone’s leery of getting a red card.
Alex S.
@raven:
Why are there no white people in the Nigerian team? Racists.
RSA
@Gin & Tonic:
Better than that. “Uma leaves for moi. Moi!”
Butch
Ground crayfish?
SRW1
Valbuena’s colleagues are a bit wasteful with the chances he sets up for them.
Also too, Is Benzema best used so far to the left?
Elizabelle
Don’t understand soccer (yet!), but appreciate the recipes. Bookmarking them. Thanks Randinho.
Play ball!
Randinho
@Gin & Tonic:
@RSA:
Wikipedia is your friend.
Randinho
@Butch: Come on guys: it’s called Google.
mali muso
So I missed all but 10 minutes of the first half. 0-0 doesn’t tell me much. Assuming it has been pretty boring? Normally I would root for the African team, but no one in Mali much likes Nigeria. And there are actual Malians playing for France. Ergo, allez les Bleus!!!!
raven
The univision feed now sux.
SRW1
Should have been a straight red !
raven
Blown ankle.
Amir Khalid
@mali muso:
Lots of attacking football, but less than perfect finishing.
mali muso
@Amir Khalid: Thanks for the succinct summary. Allons-y!
I wonder if we’ll go to penalties yet again….
Alex S.
The french defense isn’t bad, but also not really good.
SRW1
I take that replacement as an indication that Didier Deschamp has come around to my view on the best role for Benzema.
mali muso
Giroud was an asset in the last few games I watched, but not so much in this one I guess.
Amir Khalid
BBC live-blog announces that Hannibal Suarez has said he’s really sorry he bit Giorgio Chiellini, and he’ll never ever do it again, honest.
ETA: Quoth Luisito:
mali muso
arg! so close!
Gin & Tonic
@Randinho: I know. Just trying to have a bit of fun.
You’re probably the guy who stands up in the movies and says “he didn’t *really* jump off that bridge, and it was a stunt man anyway, not Tom Cruise.”
Alex S.
Those are the chances that the A teams usually exploit to beat the B teams in contested matches. That doesn’t look good for France.
Amir Khalid
No mere mortal has the faintest clue how this match will end, and I of course am not telling.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Listen at you!
Tripod
Well if it goes to PKs, I’m pretty sure these teams didn’t practice them.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
And the game tilting ever so slightly in France’s favour is only the rising action before the climactic collaps, am I right?
ETA: Goalie should have punched that one.
mali muso
Woot! Finally!!!! France has been stepping it up and it paid off.
Steeplejack
Why doesn’t the Nigerian goalie punch that out instead of trying to one-hand it?!
Paul W.
Man, this goalie has just had to put in yoemen’s work. He could only hold out so long considering how strong the French offense is….
Alex S.
Whoa, that replacment was effective.
Tripod
Small favors. I don’t think I could stand another thirty minutes of this game.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: Thrice bitten, once shy?
Amir Khalid
@SRW1:
Maybe, maybe not. ;)
Butch
@Randinho: I live way, way out in the country, and at the stores around here even asking for an ingredient as “exotic” as lemon grass will get you a look like you’ve asked for skinless, boneless pterodactyl.
Amir Khalid
Idle thought: Dates are a cheap, tasty and nutritious snack. Why don’t supermarkets here sell them all year, instead of only during Ramadhan?
Randinho
@Gin & Tonic: No, I’m more of an art film person. I would be the sort of person who would stand up and say while watching Aguirre: The Wrath of God, “He didn’t say stupid; he said asshole! I know my German!”
;-)
SRW1
Looks like Nigeria has surrendered.
SRW1
@SRW1:
And now they have.
Tripod
Own goal.
Amir Khalid
Five mins of injury time for Nigeria to save themselves.
ETA: Nope. Na ga happen. Antoine Griezmann just gave them a two-goal deficit to make up.
Randinho
@Butch: Understood. When I was looking at recipes, I noted that ground crayfish was a pretty popular ingredient in several West African dishes.
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: looked like an own goal.
mali muso
Oui, les Bleus avancent!
Tripod
I think the French will have a bit of trouble with the Germans.
Amir Khalid
Allons, enfants de la patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Amir Khalid
@Randinho:
Let’s spare Yobo a few blushes.
japa21
Looks like Altidore will play for US tomorrow. See an upset coming.
NotMax
Perfect timing. Was wondering what to do with all the uma leaves and plantain flour gathering dust in the pantry.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
The French guy on The Guardian WC football podcast stated that in his opinion 2014 may come too early for the French team to go all the way. After today’s game I think he has a point.
pete
@Amir Khalid: Your illuminated greatness, thou hast ordained a replay of the World Wars hast thou not? Or dost thou have a surprise for us on behalf of Algeria?
Amir Khalid
@pete:
I wish I could tell you, but my illuminated greatness has a policy of playng his cards close to his chest. I can promise you that it will be interesting.
Alex S.
@pete:
Well, France is definitely going to face one of their most prominent enemies of the 20th century. But which one?
Chyron HR
Congratulation, Mr. or Mrs. France;
Please provide your bank account and routing number to assist me in delivering your World Cups speedily and soundly.
Very Trurly Yours,
Nigeria