Hello what is the dish at the end of rat chef movie called
I'm so glad you asked
It's what my family called "vegetable tian", while the internet calls it "Provence tian". A tian is a large and shallow clay dish from the south of France, and it's the name for dishes cooked slowly in a low oven (traditionnally, in a bread oven after the initial high heat was used for bread).
It's exactly like the Ratatouille dish : you slice colorful round vegetables (eggplants, zucchinis, onions, tomatoes), you cook them for hours, and you get tender, caramelized, confit vegetables. My grandmother put a paste of bread crumbs-garlic-parsley paste on top for texture... So easy, absolutely amazing, and absolutely not a ratatouille.
A ratatouille is cubed vegetables sauteed separately on stove top then brought together to finish cooking. It's the same "summer" vegetables : eggplants, zucchinis, onions, tomatoes, and peppers which are essential, (and not included in tian). Also very good, can be served hot or cold, completely different from the Ratatouille dish.
There's so many people on tiktok making "the ratatouille from Ratatouille" and it's not! it's not! it's a tian with a fancy pepper sauce!!
Objectively it doesn't matter, recipes evolve when they're adopted in other cultures, and French people can't complain (you won't believe what we call tabouleh). But still!
Apparently the recipe in the movie is confit byaldi by Michel Guérard/Thomas Keller and Keller suggested it to the movie team as his gastronomic reinterpretation of ratatouille. The way my reinterpretation of spaghetti and meatballs would be using flat, very large spaghetti and instead of forming balls I would layer the meat mixture with the tomato sauce and lasagnas I'm describing lasagnas. A completely different dish that already exists.
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really understanding my very old recipe books where theres one weird ingredient thrown into everything, for no clear reason... like i get it now. my mom sent me home with a jar of lemons she pickled and im putting those guys in salads. im putting them in polenta. im putting them in rice pilaf. why ? cause i have it. and its good. if i had few spices but one specialty thing i could reliably get ahold of id go apeshit with that one thing too
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when it comes to ~forty year old songs about women having babies out of wedlock sung by male artists who show up in my spotify top 5 every year, oh no not i by stan rogers always makes me scramble for the skip button and think about how good spare parts by bruce springsteen is
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something about sanji saying missus gives me butterflies and i NEVERRR would've expected to like that name so much
aw 🥹🥹 it sounds like Sanji just charmed the socks right off of you 🤭 🧦
I think you like it so much (I’m guessing 🫣) is because of the way the Sanji is using it. he’s not being overtly aggressive or over the top about it (maybe like he would in the anime! idk 👀🫣). instead, he says it during the quieter moments where he’s genuinely showing his love for you, so you can’t help but just 😩 swoon over it! 🤭💖
the Missus nickname is by far my favorite thing I have ever come up with, so I’m so happy other ppl feel the same way 🥹���🏼
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