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I love your idea of mixing lime juice and zest with sour cream. Yum! I'll do this next time I make chili.

A pretty funny review of them can be found here.

Coffee, water and asprin. But if my cramped, stressed stomach can handle food it's something very crunchy, like celery or carrots. I've found that eating crunchy foods loosens my clenched jaw and relieves a bit of the stress.

Vietnam, Korea, Thailand and China.

Stick a candle in 'em and relive the hippie days? The bottle-lined garden beds look nice but you don't want to hit them with your lawn-mower. And edging them can be difficult. I've saved a few blue (Not the best of wines..but the color is cool!) bottles to display my shasta daisies in but that's about it.

There's some interesting opinions here Does smoking kill the palate?, Love my Marlboros.....

There's some pretty good ideas on this thread Eating in the great outdoors, What do you do?

A professional kitchen without chicken stock? Huh.

My husband, who knows very little in the way of cooking, has bought me All-Clad pans and Henkels knives for recent Christmases, so I'll stick with those as my Christmas wishes. I can source my specialty ingredients on-line. I've given home-made fortune cookies as a gift. Very fun to make! Also, spiced nuts. Eh. A bit boring. I prefer to make things that really get me excited. My Mom is a real fiend for chocolate so perhaps I'll make her Ling's brownies this year.

Hi Deborah, I adore your gold charger plates. They make everything look extra especially delicious- not that you needed any help!

From Lucy's The Montignac Method, je mange, je maigris - a diary. This is the recipe that I'm dying to make but unless I buy an octopus online (I never thought that I'd be typing THAT ) I don't have access to the creatures.

I don't like spaghetti squash with tomato sauce either. Sooo... Bake and scrape the squash as usual and toss with pesto (your choice- basil, arugula, parsley, multiple herbs, pine nuts, walnuts, pecans etc) and cheese (parmesan, romano, pinched pieces of goat cheese, etc). Or, bake and scrape. Saute crumbled fennel or sage sausage with onions, garlic, maybe some bell pepper and/or red pepper flakes and s/p. Cool. Mix squash with sausage mixture and stuff into reserved squash shells, top with cheese of choice, drizzle a bit of olive oil over the tops and bake at about 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

LOL!!! I've actually posted a link to a kitty-litter recipe in another forum. I have three cats with three litter boxes and the picture makes think that I'm smelling urine. So gross.

Mainly for centrepieces, garlands and wreaths, specially for outdoors since they can survive freezing and thawing. If you bite them though, you will discover that the few bites are crisp, juicy and intensely flavourful. ← huh - so they are tasty....tell me - do you think they'd be good as candy or caramel apples? they seem like a nice treat size. ← From Ellen Shapiros Mongolia to China Part VIII

I prefer to stuff tart apples (such as Granny Smith) with crumbled blue cheese, walnuts and chives. After they're done baking drizzle a bit of your favorite honey (lavender honey rules!) over the top.

You're not the only one! Popeye was also my inspiration for eating spinach, for the same reasons. Mom thought it a bit odd, but she wasn't about to wreck a good thing by questioning it. I still like canned spinach...it's one of my guilty secrets around the house, for an easy dinner, when nobody's looking. ← I love canned spinach too! Popeye certainly wasn't pulling out a bag of pre-washed spinach and a hot skillet.

When I was about 4 years old my Dad "tricked" me into eating my spinach by flexing his muscles and telling me that if I ate my greens I would get muscles like him AND Popeye (my favorite cartoon character at the time). Who knows why this promise of bulging muscles worked on this girl-child but it did.

I love crumbled thyme, oregano, sage or, surprisingly enough, dried mint with squash. If you want a bit of kick (and I often do) add a few pinches of ground chilis or red pepper flakes.

Kitty litter-box cake? click

Would I pay $100 for a turkey? Nope.

And the charred purple phalluses are.............?????? ← [/quote Oh my. Blue balls, er, potatoes, too?

My husband has been schlepping around a large can of Bush baked beans for over ten years. He's still not sure why.

Is it sparkling?! No! It's gewurtztraminer. Fairies on my tongue.

Maple ice-cream topped with crushed, spiced pecans. Spumoni is a favorite of mine and it's so pretty. The pumpkin/butternut squash ice cream is a good idea. You could top it with chopped bits of candied ginger. Rum raisin (maybe add bits of graham cracker for a crunchy texture?) Chocolate gingerbread ice cream served with freshly whipped cream. Then there's amaretto, grand marnier or chambord liqueurs that you could add to either the ice cream or whipped cream.

Jelly Sorbet Mulled wine Wine and spice cookies