chezlamere

ahhhhhhhh why did you have to bring up huckleberries and peaches and cream corn. I forgot about those. Every summer up and down the mountains searching for huckleberries, with ice cream buckets tied around our waste. That's probably one of my earliest childhood memories. And huckleberry jam. I remember living through a tornado the first wave squashed my garden (and not knowing it was a tornado) I ran outside and lived through the pelting of monster hail stones and the second wave just to stand the peaches and cream corn back up. Up to my knees in mud and hail stones what a sight I must have been. My family thought I was nuts, but I saved the corn.

i buy flats of skinless boneless chicken breasts and freeze them in sandwich ziplocks individually. I haven't seen those eraser things yet, but toothpaste works on crayon on walls and marking pens, and on too many things to mention. I usually just use a bread knife between the rim of the jar lip and the top of the jar. Just stick it in between and bend your wrist, and viola it pops the seal. I wear white t-shirts to work and usually have to throw them out after a couple months because of underarm stains, drives me crazy does any one have a trick for this. I've tried everything It's amazing how many things i've slopped on them and always manage to get the stains out except the yellow under the arm, and don't tell me not to throw them in the dryer, because I hang to dry

it means that I don't want to see it alive. I quess I'm just wierd that way. Bring it to me dead

well I don't have 4 ovens at home, I don't have 2 gas ranges at home, I don't have 2 steamers, or 2 soup kettles, or a grill either for that matter. And don't get me started on the counter space and the fact that I have to wash my own pots at home. So what's the point? I hate cooking at home. It seems so ........provincial so backwards, like I'm using a campfire or something. If I have a weekend off and a couple of bottles of wine handy I sometimes cook for two days straight and maybe prepare two weeks worth of food. But you know... It just has to be repeated again and again, the people in this house eat it all up unfortunatly. It's like grocery shopping.It would be fine if one has to do it only once in awhile. I buy the stuff, put it away and before you know it they eat it all. It would be great if my family would just maybe look at the stuff and admire it and then go somewhere else. But they don't

ahhh many glasses of wine and the computer , been there, done that.....

i remember one summer when I was about 10 or so I spent the summer with relatives that had a farm. Cows, chickens and lots of other things running around including cougars and bears as a matter of fact. But one night after a particularly delicious meal my aunt asks me how I liked the chicken and I was told that it was the one that I was chasing around the day before. That was the last time (to this day) that I eat any meat at her house and she doesn't even have animals anymore. So I can't see how any of you can eat the stuff that you do. What's the point exactly??? I want my meat on a foam tray wrapped in plastic wrap from the grocery store.

I have a wall full of cookbooks, but the one that is the most beaten up one (besides the community cookbook that the ladies from this area published about 20 yrs ago and is only available at the local book store, ) has to be Looney Spoons-there's two volumes. I always give it as gifts for beginner cooks just leaving home or bridal showers. Has some really good low fat stuff, highly recommend it. Probably only available in Canada though

Just get one, they're cheap at Wal-mart, Zellers, anywhere, you'll never regret it, the cheaper the better. I've Had mine forever.

i have to admit of the collection of books i have i rarely actually use them. Except for condiments and deserts. There's one book that I used alot, and my kids usually still ask for food from (because the titles to the recipes are soo over the top-that they ask for them specificaly) It's call Looney Spoons. The Hungry Guy Chicken Pie is their all time most asked for dish. I just sub'd the cream of mushroom for cream of onion and mushroom. And any left over chicken goes immediately into the freezer, no matter how small the leftover, for this dish. And leftover boiled potatoe is so much better than fresh.

one year i went crazy in my garden with about 20 different varieties that I found. I had 2 different purple tomatoes, 2 black ones.. I can't even remember how many plants I had. 100;s The sauce was to die for. I made so much different sauces that year, that I got sick of the smell in the house so I set up the camp stove on the patio and cooked it down outside. Well i lived about a block away from the high school were my 3 kids went, and they came out of class at lunch and couldn't believe the smell in the neighborhood. I had kids wondering up the back alley looking for the wonderful smell. That's what i miss since i moved into an apartment, fresh garden variety tomatoes and a 30 foot by 4 foot raised bed of every conceivable variety of basil. Ohhhhh the pesto those years.I'm sick just thinking about it.

Maybe you could tell us how you lifted the top half of the skulls off the live monkeys. What I found out later was that they get the monkeys drunk and when they pass out the chef slices through the skull basically using a bone saw. You then just lift the top off and there you go... To be honest it's not something I'm in a hurry to do or try again!!! that's gotta be the most discusting thing i've ever heard How can anyone eat something that has been tortured like that ugggggggg. Sick It's going to take a long time to get that image out of my mind. My most adventurous thing is scallops and shrimp. And only after many bloody ceasars in a bar.

I hear what's her name Water's from chez pannise in california is doing the same thing. Kuddos to both of them. Would be nice to have the cash flow to change the statis quo. I'm jealous.

it's that hair, my god i'm sick of the hair. He always looks like he needs a shower.Don't get me wrong i like his show, but that restaurant this with 15 down and outer's I mean what did he expect. Did he do any research. It seems like a complete set-up to me. Why would anyone invest that much money into a loosing proposition. He didn't that's the point. How many times have I seen the reruns already. It wouldn't have been much of a show without the screw-ups. I hate shows that treat me like i'm stupid. and that's what his restaurant show did. His other's are ok

Don't you all know ---geez "It's not what you know, it WHO you know"

couldn't agree with you more, everything is repeated to death. Both american and canadian. I've got both the american and the canadian, and the canadian is better, less emeral. I wonder if there's a foodtv.uk?

just finished "Found Meals of the Lost Generation" just cracking open "Salt" After reading "Olive" i've become obsessed with finding Spanish Olive Oil. great history lesson on the mediterranean region. I only buy books after reading them from the library, bought too many duds otherwise.

my monthly overdue fine at the library usually pays for a book. Sometimes it's just to hard to let go of the book

Yes, the China Moon book is now on my list of must-haves - the library will insist I return their copy in less than three weeks!

A Better Ceasar I always make the bartenders make my ceasar like this. I call it Bloody Ceasar Lite 1 oz vodka splash lea & perrins celery salt tobasco fill glass with 1/2 clamato juce and 1/2 gingerale garnish with lime if your making them at home, use how ever much ice you want, when ordering from bar, tell them to take it easy on the ice. I don't know about you, but i hate paying for ice, and get it made in the biggest glass they have. I can drink these all night. Keywords: Cocktail ( RG795 )

A Better Ceasar I always make the bartenders make my ceasar like this. I call it Bloody Ceasar Lite 1 oz vodka splash lea & perrins celery salt tobasco fill glass with 1/2 clamato juce and 1/2 gingerale garnish with lime if your making them at home, use how ever much ice you want, when ordering from bar, tell them to take it easy on the ice. I don't know about you, but i hate paying for ice, and get it made in the biggest glass they have. I can drink these all night. Keywords: Cocktail ( RG795 )

how do I get on "beans" xmas list

It's gotta be the WHOLE meal as far as I'm concerned. But then the most annoying part to me is the conversation ...about the turkey, about the stuffing, about the brussel sprouts...how wonderful, tastying or best ever blah blah blah. Maybe I just need to see some new faces at the table, maybe someone with a sordid past or someone wearing something really scanky. I was bored to tears this year. And the kerioke (sorrying about spelling) was only fun the first year , it's old now. But the worst absolute worst part of xmas has to be "It's a wonderful life" and the $&*% scrougesk of all the sitcoms and the at nausiam mentions of "its a wonderful life" When are they going to stop mentioning that stupid movie. But the best part of xmas meal for me is the DESSERT.