Misa
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I don't have a dishwasher, so I microwave my sponges - wet. Usually, I microwave them for 3 minutes, sometimes up to 5 if I'm particularly worried.
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Tonight's dinner had to be quick... DH didn't get up until 9:30pm and he leaves for work at 11pm. So I made steamed veggies with lemon, served over parmesan couscous and black beans.
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Breakfast this morning was an apple with peanut butter for dunking, which is one of my favorite food combinations. And I need to double-check what kind of apples those are... they're quickly becoming my favorite.
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As a kid, my babysitter served me cottage cheese in the middle of having the flu. It has the same texture coming back up.
I can occasionally eat it, but generally... it makes me gag.
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There is one that I recommend to Ben and Jerry's but they didn't bite...
Green Tea with Crystalized Ginger bits
That's funny.... it is the exact same flavor that I suggested to them! I really wish that they would start making it. I think it'd be fairly popular.
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Actually, dunking an empty spoon into a jar of peanut butter to coat the spoon, then rolling it in chocolate chips is the easiest way.
Not that I've tried it or anything.
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Those ravioli look very delicious!
I live in Capitol Hill (just barely... I'm right on the other side of the freeway) and I keep saying that I want to go down to shop at the market instead of shopping at the grocery stores that we have up here... it really isn't that much farther. But, alas, I never do.
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You can reserve them online, however, and pick them up at any location, which I do sometimes.
Having said that, the downtown library does, indeed, have a TON of cookbooks. Since I like to look through my cookbooks before checking them out, I usually make the trip down there if I'm looking for "Hmm... what sounds fun?" as opposed to "I want something specific."
And, if you look online to find the book you want, but don't want to wait for it to be reserved, you can always go to the specific library that it is located at.
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It floors me when people expect me to bake something for them because "you like doing it." While I do enjoy doing it, I'm not rich. So, when somebody asks me to make them something that would cost me $30 or $40 (because I might not have the ingredients on hand) and I tell them I wouldn't mind doing it, but they'll have cover the cost of the ingredients (and I don't add on labor or anything like that), they get mad. "But I thought you liked doing this. Why should I have to pay for it if you enjoy doing it?" Nevermind the fact that they usually ask on short notice and I still try to do it, even if I'm busy.
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You could also try the Seattle Central lunches, with their constantly changing menus you could hit a lot of different things without having something familiar available also.
I would love to do that, but I'm in school myself (in the bakery there) during that time. I'm seriously considering it for after I graduate though.
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Wow! Thanks for all of the suggestions!
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My little sisters (who are ages 18, 16, and 12) all have a distinct lack of any real "culinary experiences". I became extremely frustrated at hearing "um... what's that?" when talking about various different foods (as in "Um... what's hummus?") last weekend when one of my sisters was over, so have decided to attempt to fix the problem. A lot of their meals come straight out of a box, and they seem to consider Safeway as a good source of Chinese food.
I want to give them some good experiences, but I can't afford to spend much (not to mention that they wouldn't really feel comfortable anywhere that's high-priced).I live on Capitol Hill and don't have a car, so it'd have to be somewhere accessible by walking or by bus. Since they come up to Seattle on a semi-regular basis (they live in Federal Way), we could try several different places over the next year or two.
Any suggestions?
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You could get a small container of milk, bring some cereal (maybe in a baggie), and a disposable spoon. Pour cereal into the milk, and eat. Or drink... I used to drink it like that sometimes.
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I like Nutella as a "dip" with hard pretzels. It's really good spread on fruit or toasted bagels, too.
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I used to be a busser in a restaurant that tipped out the cooks and bussers, but not the dishwashers.
My mother works as kitchen managaer/cook at a tavern. She had worked for the owner at his previous tavern, which he sold. At that tavern, there was a counter/window that people could go up to and talk to her. It also had her tip jar. The second tavern didn't. They actually do a lot of business just because of the food, so the owner started requiring his waitstaff/bartenders to tip out the kitchen staff. For a while, they had to pool all of their tips because they had problems where some waitstaff would pick up not only their tips, but they'd go to other sections and pick up other peoples' tips.
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Macaroni and cheese with cheetos, smooshed between cheap-on-sale-store-brand-white bread. I used to eat that all the time when I was a little girl.
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I've been told that the thing about the canned condensed milk method is that if it doesn't stay covered in water, the sucker could explod on you. I'd rather not find out the hard way. ;o)
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I really like the idea of a "cooking diary." I've also considered keeping track of my groceries - what I purchase at the beginning of the week, what I use daily, and what is left at the end.
Never been motivated enough, though.
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It's been "that time of the month" for me almost non-stop for the past three months (yes, I've got "interesting" female issues). I've eaten a lot of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream (that new Dreyer's TollHouse is really yummy) and a lot of ice cream. Every couple of weeks, I start really craving meat (usually a steak or a hamburger). If I eat one, I feel okay again and get some energy, until a week or two later...
I should get frequent buyer points from ice cream companies. Really.
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I like the Caramel Apple, Strawberry Shortcake, and Cherries'n Cheesecake varieties the best. The orginal are ok, but I like these flavors better.
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Baked potatoes with chili, cheese, and sour cream
Black cherry chocolate chip frozen yogurt w/ Cadburry Dairy Milk pieces
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My folks have one of those. (Or something similar. Their burners are rasied ceramic stuff.) I hate it. It retains heat for 15 minutes after you turn it off.
Living at home, I ruined so many of my mother's plastic bowls by setting them on a hot burner that she finally drilled it into my head that I needed to check the temp first.
So, in college, I did. Tapped the burner with two fingers. I heard my skin sizzle before I actually felt the pain.
Hate that stove.
Ouch. I do that sometimes... with my hand.
A couple of weeks ago... I had cooked something on the stove. My cat, no matter how much I tell him not to, likes to climb onto the stove and the counter. So, I turn off the stove and put the kettle on top of the burner to protect kitty paws (though it would be a good deterrent, no?) and go into other room. Twenty minutes later, walk back into kitchen to make something for my husband. I move the kettle, start to climb up onto counter to get something from the top shelf and... nearly put my hand onto a glowing orange burner. Luckily, I felt the heat right in time to lift up my hand with just a flicker of a burn on it. It seems that the husband was boiling water for tea.
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That reminds me of a server I worked with. Very studious, deep in thought, dead pan serious. He stunned me on the second week of work with his tip for the day: "Don't cook bacon in the nude."
Another thing I'll try not to do again. Funny enough, I did it because I didn't want to get grease on my clothes.
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When I worked at Jack-in-the-box (ugh) I would routinely stick my hand into the fryer to retrieve something I'd dropped into it. I was operating on two or three hours of sleep a night, at most.
But, I will never again decide to microwave water for tea, go to computer, go back to kitchen thinking "It is probably cold," restart microwave, repeat several times. Notice cup doesn't have as much water as you'd like, so add some cold water. Watch cup explode into bits, cutting AND burning you.
Breakfast! The most important meal of the day (2004-2011)
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I had lentil soup for breakfast. It definitely lasted longer than the banana bread I've been having for breakfast all week.