chezlamere

My instructor from school gave me a huge box of gourmet and bon appetite from the 60 - 90's. Can;t seem to throw them out, but don't find them too relivant.

The ones I've seen are mostly held in open fields. They are called car boot sales because the items are transported in - and sold from - the boot of one's car, i.e. what we in this country call the trunk. we call that a flee market. Used to go to one years ago in an old drive-in theatre another at a k-mart parking lot on sundays. It's like they swept up the garage or basement into a couple boxes at brought it all down to the flee market. I heard they have a really good one in paris called La Pouce. Someday.......... When My daughter was in high school her best friend went on a Field Trip for Paris (of all places, can you believe it) and I begged and pleaded with her to go to La Pouce, but she spent her free time in a bar, apparently no age requirement. Thought it was a really dorky think to do, go to a Flee market, when there are all these bars to go to for heavens sake.

i read somewhere, don't remember where, that the boiling temp is reached faster, or the boils hotter (can't see that being possible) something about the boiling point.

cinnamon buns, anything with yeast makes my anxious. If coarse I make really good wine though from a kit. my mother usually makes a huge batch of buns and sends them to me for my birthday, hey that's coming up soon too, geez i should make room for them in the freezer

I cook in longterm care. The staff pay $1 for soup of the day, (of coarse they insist on the BIG bowl) and $4 for full lunch and $5 for full dinner (again the BIG portion) we pile on as much as we can on the plate. But of coarse the kitchen staff rarely pay or fudge the meal sheet. (what can i say, it's going to be thrown out anyway-right). We have some students working the afternoon shift and I feel sorry for them, because I know this is probably the only good meal they've had all day. I'm writing this as I'm sitting here (my day off) with a plate of wings that somehow found their way into my tupperware container. There was a large banquet the other day, and the next morning the kitchen staff kinda helped themselves to leftovers. Nothing stays in the cooler past 24hrs. It's garberator or garbage can. My daughter (who is also a student, though not starving, because she only lives less then a mile away and uses my fridge and cupboards as her personal grocery store) works for a very large hotel chain as a banquet server and this hotel chain (shall remain un-names) has a staff cafeteria, ALL FREE OF CHARGE TO EMPLOYEES. Can you beleive it. She loves working there, because she gets to eat for nothing, and most of the other banquet staff are all students as well. Some of them live on campus, well i'll just say that if i was 20 or so and a student, I would move heaven and earth to work in this place too. She usually works three days a week sometimes more. Of coarse she picks her classes so nothing starts before 10 am, because she usually works until 3 or 4 AM.

oooooooh another thing to eat with my tzatziki. Once I didn't have any sour cream and my mother dropped some fresh home made perogies off, found some tzatziki in the fridge and haven't been able to eat perogies with anything else since. Although my husband complains that I really really stink after indulging in the stuff.

who cares what you do with the root, just cook the damn thing. It's the tops that are to die for. Cut the leaves off the stalk and steam them, then pour white vinegar, and a dash of balsamic and salt. Viola. I don't know what's better fresh from the garden, the first lettuce, the first peas, or the BEET TOPS.

I make my meatloaf the same. It's much easier to slice for sandwiches that way. I like to slice the meatloaf as thin as possible and then use about three slices. With mustard between one slice and carmelized onions between the next slice and then add the bread.

I can't count the times I've blackened pots boiling potatoes. If I leave a kitchen (at home) for just a second, I usually forget about the damn things. I'm not a big fan of the boiled spud, expecially hate mashed potatoes, but my family LOVES them. I love the steamer at work though. The only thing I burn with the steamer is usually my right hand. DUH

pesto, lea & perrins, balsamic vinegar, white wine, I put the first three in EVERYTHING. In fact I don't know if there is anything that I don't put it in. And lately I've been adding tabasco too

yesterday steamed broccoli and asparagus tossed salad with shredded cheese an amazingly good combination of sauted purple onions, large chicken breast chunks when meat was pink added cut up fresh tomato, slopped in some white wine and onion salt. Cleaned the pan with many pieces of bread crusts. I don't know which was actually better today fried rice with chicken chunks, red peppers, zuccini, baby carrots cut on the diagonal.sauted purple onion, soya sauce, lea and perrins i think that was all. tomorrow something else with chicken chunks probably. Skinless, boneless breasts are on sale this week, bought lots. Maybe chicken barley soup.

In my book, that is one of the best things you can eat. On gpod white bread, of course. My parents had two peach trees, you ought to try a miracle whip and peach slices sandwich, but you really have to stand over the sink. And it's best on home made white bread

when one travels with kids, you learn to appreciate sours. Now i go to the seven 11 and get my own bag of about $5 - 10 bucks worth.

when my husband was at a loss at meal time when I wasn't around he used to make spagetti in tomato soup with weiners for the kids. I wonder if they would eat this now that they are all in their twenty's. I should make him make it for them the next time they are all here hmmmmmm, maybe for xmas. As a side dish

<p>Oh, all right. It's KraftMacaroni&CheeseThereIsaidit.<p>Cats i have found that only guys seem to know how to make this stuff "properly" Both of my daughters boyfriends, plus a male guest that stayed for six months all lived with us for varying degrees of time. And they insisted that their kraft mac and cheese was the best, and anytime that anyone tried to make it for them-well it was just never the same as they made. It's a guy thing. Did you know that kraft mac and cheese is OK as far as the glysemic index diet is concerned, (better than atkins diet) it's the only pasta that makes the grade. go figure

you take a baby dill pickle, put a piece of swiss cheese on top of it, and wrap the thing up in a thin slice of honey ham. Like a jelly roll leftover coleslaw sandwich on white bread especially the marinated one as appossed to the mayo one pickled beets smoked oysters pickled asparagus, or dilly beans

i remember when my daughter went for the first time to a BIG FANCY RESTAURANT for a wind up dinner for soccer or field hockey (can't remember) That's what she ordered, because it was the "only safe thing to eat" as far as she was concerned,I think she must have been 14 or so

you must be a TAURUS i bet. I"m one, my daughter is one and several friends are also. We all can eat the same thing three times a day for weeks. It's a taurus thing. That and argueing.

just as a little change of topic: how about best food in a novel? i remember being stranded at a old boyfriends house on a sunday (he left for work without telling me and left a note and I was stranded for 2 days - anyway) I was desperate after about an hour after I woke up. It was in the sticks, and he had no tv (this was the mid 70's) . I snooped around but that got boring so I picked up a book that he just bought. It was "the first deadly sin" .I think It was laurence saunders first book. That has to be the worst book to read when your all alone with NO FOOD IN THE HOUSE. The main character was forever making sandwiches. I spent two days reading this thing with only peanut butter in the house. After all It was a guys foodless house. peanut butter and beer.

and then there's Friends. Joey eating the whole turkey The thanksgiving that everyone wanted something different and they locked themselves out of the apartment joe and his sandwiches the turkey sandwich that ross's boss ate out of the staff fridge etc etc

i wonder if google was inundated with "avocado mousse" searches yesterday. I never did find one like this one though ... thanks. I know i'll be adding avocado's to my grocery basket this weekend. And keep your eyes on the fridge door for all of us.

No, in fact I am not. Please adhere to eGullet's policies when posting recipes. Copyright Policy i don't see how the mousse recipe violates the copywrite rules.

Good going. And now wouldn't you like to add it to the eGullet recipes? You know, I think I will! The wonderful thing about this recipe is that it looks nice for a long time, even with the avacadoes. People love it and you can serve it with all sorts of things. Um guys......it can't be posted into recipegullet unless it's been adapted enough to comply with our copywrite policy. you must be joking!!!!!!!!!!!

so why aren't you sharing the recipe here hm...........

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