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ah okay - you're right. the greens are on the side. i jsut don't recall ever having hoppin john without the greens served for money.

fatty meats - think goose, duck, pork nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, ginger - the warm spices oranges and pomegranates chocolate, the rich kind - fudges, souffles, truffles gingerbread, shortbread eggnog, brandy, brandy sauce mulled apple cider red wines chestnuts, and nuts in general - particularly almonds and hazelnuts. peppermint

i thought hoppin' john was collards, black eyed peas and rice?

*gasp* now i'm going to have to color coordinate the aga and the hot pink kitchenaid. i wonder how close the claret is to match? if not, i shall have to decide on another color. *goes off to fantasyland to think about this for a while*

An apple. that's not a meal, that's a fruit. bacon double cheeseburger - now that's a meal. ;)

thanks fifi - i'm all about one pot cooking myself. i might give it a go this weekend.

perhaps the smell is coming from the sugars burning? what does the ingredients list on your package say?

packaged coconut? the sweetened kind?

both are ideally good but the spoon has a well for checking consistency and seasoning. howeve rit doesn'thave the spatula's sharp edge. so i think one needs both. oh yeah a cutting board - preferably two - one wooden for veggies and bread, one plastic for meats.

can i ask a question? can you make gumbo in a crockpot? i've never made gumbo before at all, and about the only step i know is the roux.....

i keep mine in a ziplock bag in the freezer, and cut off what i need.

Perhaps we should have grocery cart driving school. I will be happy to teach it for a small fee. I would be doing my part to make the world a better place and making a handsome profit. Upon course completion the students will be able to step up and have their id's made. On the next trip to the store they will be able to strip their card through a machine and a cart will then be released to them through the opening of a highly advanced locking mechanism. These id's will be issued in the same building where my new id (working along the same lines as the grocery cart license) for potential purchasers of spandex is located (it will be much easier to get a cart card than a spandex card ) as an old coworker at the last gym i worked at was fond of noting...."spandex is a privilege. NOT a right." but yes there definitely needs to be grocery cart school. i love it when the card-carrying grocery-shopping professionals are doing their thing (usually a weekday afternoon). It's like a well-choreographed ballet, with lots of smiles and nods and excuse me's and thank you's. then the amateurs roll in and the needle on the record screeches to a halt.

oh yeah - plastic mixing bowls. good call.

what is this "non-fat meal" you speak of?

vogue and bazaar. and saveur.

hmm....i think my personal collection of pots (for the single, rarely cooking, always out and about female) is a good starter set: 1 medium saucepan 1 small saucepan 1 small non-stick skillet 1 large non-stick skillet 1 cast-iron skillet 1 stock/pasta pot 1 super large sautteeing pan thing. (don't know how to describe it, but it's big and it's handy) 15 pc anchor hocking glass baking set 1 set of whisks 1 set of knives and knife block. wooden spoons, teflon flippers, a strainer and a colander i still can't get out of the habit of prepping vegetables with a steak knife tho.

this sounds like our "kruisy kroger".....

i hate when it's amateur night at the grocery store, and it's filled with people who don't know how to negotiate aisles and carts. happenned last night, as a matter of fact. i was stuck behind a sunday driver and his girlfriend. in the tight corners he's periodically stop his cart right there to amble off and look at food. finally i politely said excuse me, and maneuvered around him. then i heard him say "GOD. some people are in such a rush..."

i don't understand why she pitched a fit. honestly, i felt that particular restaurant was quite unobtrusive on that strip of st. charles.

oooh..nescafe jar - i've got that at home!

Something ghetto-FABULOUS! *lol* well it is sporting a little bling-bling. kinda beats out the plastic striped straws. those would be really ghetto.

first off - thanks for the excellent post. secondly - couldn't you use a martini shaker, and then pour it into the old-fashioned glass?

is he a paranoid schizophrenic?

there's something very ghetto about drinking wine through a straw.

i guess so. i needed a xanax after reading that. and i still don't know why???