chezlamere

why anyone would add raisin to anything is beyond me. I can't stand the way they slither around my teeth. Who ever decided that raisins had any value. must have been a desperate grape grower with a really bad crop. The dam things are everywhere. ruining cinnamon buns, cookies, pilaf, carrot cake, banada bread, I'm forever picking them out of things.Give me a dried cranberry over the crappy raisin any day. Don't get me started on mushrooms.

when your sick you should have chicken BROTH not chicken noodle. Chicken broth, clear apple juice and jello, that's it.

the only tomato soup that's worth eating is Heinz tomato soup, really hard to find though. I use it in cabbage rolls and manicotti etc. And even eat it once in a while as soup. Others are all crap as far as I'm concerned. I don't eat any other canned soup. I once read an article about fifteen years ago or more ( I don't remember really) in a consumers report magazine at the doctors office about the parts per million of mouse droppings and mouse hairs, and fly parts etc that are acceptable in canned soup. That was it for me. My family eats canned soup though. But they're just too lazy to make something else probably.

i have to much stuff on top of the fridge to move to even begin to look at what might be in the cupboard up there, but if i remember correctly, the juice jugs are all up there.

my sister's knives are a joke. hate cooking at her house. But I love eating there. my mother has an amazingly equiped kitchen being retired from the business an all. but she put in CARPET when she renovated. Just because she didn't want to put in a new sub floor. Can you believe it? Carpet in the Kitchen ugh.....

any knife stuck between jar and lid and turn the tip either left or right. breaks the seal everytime especially on those jar lids that overlap the top of the jar. Sometimes you need a really thin steak knife to get between the lid and jar but works everytime.

Raspberry village Blueberry creek

you obviously haven't ever seen Nigella. Talk about having an orgasim while she's cooking. Really annoying ooohs and ahhhs.

when i was pregnant way back.... i craved yogurt, yogurt and more yogurt, raspberry flavored. I usually cleaned the coffee truck out at work. My son was born allergic to milk. go figure. and then when I was nursing him i must have eaten twenty + apple upside down cakes nuked with vanilla ice-cream. It's a good thing it was late september and the apple tree was full of the stuff. But my other two pregnancies had no such cravings that I could remember.

send me some, never heard of chocolate covered gummy bears. yum

I get cravings for "whopper Junior's with cheese please" God help me but I do. About once a month I"m on the look out for a burger king. My daughter swears that a junior cheese at wendy's is better, but after trying one, whoppper juniors is so much better.

Maggie is arranging a shitload of peameal bacon for the new eGullet restaurant. (Shitload is a Canadian term for enough, or close to.) We are backward in these parts and frozen food is only available in most of Canada from November to April. just what part of canada do you live in. frozen food only from november to april???as if. Where are you exactly on an ice flow or something.

i used to hate brussel sprouts too, but one day when I was in school we were deep frying everything in sight. Can't remember why exactly. Someone plunged brussel sprouts into the batter then into the deep fryer,AMAZING. This is the only way they should be eaten. I made a pig of myself.

chilantro is the worst

over ripe narly apples work best. Just make sure you take the apple out if you have several avocado's, or they will ripen too quick.

made cabbage rolls tonight for dinner tomorrow

Maggie, is this the recipe you followed? It sounds great, and I like the idea of not having to fuss over the roast for most of the duration. I wonder if it would work with a rolled-and-tied pork butt (I picked one up tonight). I'd skip the high heat at the beginning and end since presumably that's for the benifit of the skin side of the roast. That sounds wonderful, it's even on sale this week here. I was humming and hawing about buying some, I'll have to go tomorrow and pick up a roast. I can smell it now just thinking about it

ovaltine??????????? canned salmon, mushed up with bones and skin Uggggh raisans, mushrooms tripe= I used to work for a ship chandler and most ships are asian crew and this is the crap that must have been eaten all day every day. I used to supply tons of this stuff. I don't understand why people go weak at the knees at the site of crisp turkey neck or ox tail or pigs feet? someone explain this to me. The whole turkey is sitting there on the counter, all cut up nicely ready to serve, and the staff is fighting over the neck.

when i'm really lazy and hungry around midnight I make a miracle whip sandwich. When I was a teenager, my parents had two peach trees and one tree was earlier than the other, so I had peaches for two months ripe off the tree. Just thinking about the peach sandwiches, on fresh home made white bread, (thick slices) with mounds of miracle whip and sliced peaches. I'm drooling, just thinking about it. I can remember the juice running down my arm, as I ate the sandwich. I lived on these in august and september. I used to eat these all day long. Ever tried a coleslaw sandwich? About three days old is the best I never ate potato salad until my sister"s wedding, The day after the event, at the present opening thing I pigged out on potato salad that her new mother in law made on kaiser buns. I love potato salad now. I don't know what got into me that day, must have been all that booze. Any day old left over stir fry between two slices of bread and globs of miracle whip.

phew, your busy

no kidding. I was looking in the cupboard the other day for regular corn and found 8!!! cans large and small of the stuff. It's my husband's comfort food. That and lumpy mashed potatoes and salisbury steak. I don't make any of the three. refuse on principle. I hate the stuff. It always goes to the food drive. But the last xmas hamper I had to donate towards, i just couldn't bring myself to inflict this stuff on the needy family.

Hey, we're in agreeance. I just didn't want to be too unilateral. well if I want to make "Stinky Salad" ( doctored greek salad) I need the tomato, in january, there's no way around it.

I'd agree with you on most of this stuff, but dried pasta is, I've found, one of those things where you get what you pay for, more or less. The real commodity stuff is not worth eating. Pay just a little more for good pasta, almost always imported from Italy, and the difference is amazing. Friends whose judgment I trust on food have recently tried Kobe burgers and say that there is a world of difference between Kobe and not. But they are, as I recall, quite sparing in their use of condiments. except for the spagettini the imported italian pasta that i've tried was a major dissapointment

there ought to be a site called "I'll trade you my sucky cookbook for your's" I have so many. Most of my books are in storage now for a year (still looking for a permanent res.) and I cringe everytime I have to pay the 80 bucks a mnth. Of coarse there's lots of other junk but it's the overpriced stupid books that particularly annoy me. That's why i do the library thing now, and only buy it after i've had it for awhile. That new Jamie Oliver one really sucked. Almost bought that one. And I don't for the life of me understand why anyone would pay that much money for "Aquavit" It's a cookbook for heavens sake.

I copies that into my "site prep" file, thanks