Rebecca263

The all white phase! My sister did that when she was about 5! Bare macaroni, Hydrox middles, mashed potatoes and white rice, for months! I remember that my parents accomodated her, everywhere, even in the best restaurants. How did I forget those days? Oh, wait, now she's the skinny one, hmmm.

Bacon and strawberries accompanied by an orange sorbet studded with bits of sweet chinese barbecue pork.

I feel like such a schmo. I have absolutely no taste or scruples when it comes to rum. Rum is my favorite alcoholic drink. OK, here's the level of my ignorance. My 2 favorite drinks are: dark rum with raw sugar and lime cut into it, OR dark rum with raw sugar and milk cut into it. Disgusting, I know. I LOVE both drinks! Just had a milk rum for lunch, ha! I just don't like white rums at all, and I don't get the appeal. I need a knowledgable guy to show me the whole white rum thing. White rum, WHY???????? I even prefer Castillo Gold (that cheap Puerto Rican rum) over white rum.

What... Bux was not being satirical? He was making a joke, dry humor, no? C'mon Bux, tell us, I thought you were being witty, not serious, right? Maybe in the provinces we can't all tell. Maybe I'm wrong, but please, say it isn't so! (Rebecca263 goes back to her 78 record cataloguing with a befuddled expression on her face.)

ROFL!

My daughter made Shabbat dinner. We had the most delicious meatloaf, half ground turkey, half ground lamb, and she put a minced onion and a minced tomato in the loaf as well as fresh oregano, then she planed a zucchini and used it as a base and garnish for the meat. It was really a nice presentation, and she plated beautifully, too. The challah was, well, she made it with love! Nothing has ever been better than the Shabbat I had with kiddle this week.

Wow, these sound great! No corn syrup? I'll go to Target and have a look see tomorrow. And, Gifted Gourmet? I'll try the brussels sprouts for you.

So, how long before we can grace your door and eat your dogs?

I have 2 regrets that come to mind immediately. Firstly, kiddle and I only ate one meal at Muriel's during our New Orleans trip in April. Admittedly, kiddle DID order almost the entire menu, and we had left overs and fun with the management (the kitchen had to meet the big eater, who turned out to weigh only 120 pounds). Secondly, eating 6+ ounces of caviar right before New Year's Eve a few years ago. There was no New Year's Eve for me, and no accompanying fun for the next 4 days and nights. To this day I am leery of eating more than a few nibbles of the stuff in one seating, a pity! And I am a gluttonous girl. Such self control is difficult!

A dictionary at hand, add in a belief that snobbery equals correctness, and I've described the horror that is Bruni. This lady has my affection.

My opinion is thus. I don't care what your name is. It's all about the content. There are various points to be made in either direction, but I think that by registering our identities with the eGullet staff, we have done enough. I adore "insert many names" all equally. And, not knowing Melkor's name gave me less impetus to stalk him, his life being so attractive, after all. Also, I'll cop to my delight in my online name, Rebecca263. Easy to pronounce, easy to remember, nothing of note other than gender. As you see by my new signature, my last name is many things; easy to pronounce it is NOT. Yes, yes, I know, no bologna here, it's just us Salames.That, BTW, is NOT the pronunciation. And, on an online forum about food, well, it just begs to be thought of as a nom de plume. I've recently dropped the 'when I was married' hyphenate(a nice Russian name), which I had always liked, because the last name was, albeit long, easier to pronounce properly. And, also, I've been stalked, it wasn't pleasant either time, but I don't think that internet presence had anything to do with it, either time. Some of us simply have the kook attracting factor. Hmm. Perhaps because I AM a kook, therefore I attract the kooks? So, here's MY name(and there's my opinion), bring it on, cosmos!

We (not the royal we, kiddle and me) usually eat apples while moving along in the car, I've almost always got a few in my car bag, somewhere! Tea or coffee sometimes come along as well. Now, as for eating in the car on the side of the road, in a parking lot, etc. well, it's usually a baked good or a to go meal from some interesting looking place we've just found.

Nelson is my misspelling of Nielson, because we sometimes say that in order not to be using the name in an unacceptable way. N*elson ( http://www2.acnielsen.com/site/index.shtml ) is a large firm that follows people's shopping, tv watching, or news reading habits and then uses the accumulated information for marketing purposes and to inform film and television businesses, retailers and manufacturers. You know, the good old fashioned marketing research bit! You can probably attribute the sudden surge of availability of decent Balsamic vinegar at Foodtown to me, since I buy enough of it to drown a family of four almost every month. I find it odd that I was recruited and then kept, because our family viewing and purchasing habits are actually very different than average folks', but hey, if it gets decent ketchup more popular, I say yay! If you're so inclined, go to the website and look for homescan.

Listen, I'm poorer than a nonfat macaroni and cheese recipe. I've got a small but useable kitchen. Very little cabinet space. So, what's where? On the countertop:9 microwave(makes tea, heats leftovers and defrosts things, often!) Nelson Homescan(Yep, I'm a Nelson family!) cooking utensils in a tomato can blender(we use it almost every day, fruit shakes, ice/tea combos, bean purees) coffee maker(for guests and coffee milk for kiddle) mortar & pestle(used every day) huge antique black glass hand painted vase(yes, I SHOULD send it to Sotheby's already, I know.) platter of fruit platter of vegetables In the cabinets:6 ibrik(used almost every day) hot air popcorn maker (pulled out at least 3x a week) mini blender(used every week for grating cheese, etc.) coffee grinder(used every day) toaster(used once a week, maybe) juicer(used every couple of weeks) I am renting, so all I could really do to the kitchen was paint it(a deep pine green) and line the shelves. I dream of renovating it, though. I'd completely demolish the wall between the dining room and the kitchen and rework the entire space, floor to ceiling waxed pine cabinets, matte grey marble counters, a smaller European refrigerator, a larger freezer, new gas range and oven with the microwave atop it, better dishwasher, HUGE steel double sink under the window with a new, thicker ledge for plants, a butcher's block topped floating island, with barstools, cork flooring and an appliance garage! 30k would give me the ULTIMATE in a useful tiny kitchen, but I could get by on 9k too. Easily. Heck, I redid my kitchen at Five Palms for 7k, and that place was huge! edited because I changed my mind about the butcher's block! 'm SO off topic this week! Yipes!

7UP has always had a flavor of lemon cleaner to me. I have to admit it, I don't know why, but I prefer Sprite. And Splenda, I've noticed, loses it's sweetness completely when I eat anything with sugar as an accompaniment. Has anyone else noticed this? I rarely drink soda, so I tend to go for it in a glass bottle or a can, anyway. What I really like is Passover Coca Cola in a glass bottle, when you can get it made with sugar instead of corn syrup. Oh, well, I'm off topic, I know. Back to my corner.

Oh, I live with my kiddle and kiddle has definite ideas of meals being 'romantic', you know, so there is a lot of plating and such going on at our house. We have had a number of, um, singular, centerpieces over the years, as well. Legos or macaroni/glitter sculptures were big in the early 90's, now it's tape sculptures. You should see the hollow hand that we have this week, it's, um, singular. edited to add: kiddle has quoted that Lucullus bit to me , MORE THAN ONCE! and: PS: we only use cloth napkins, paper is for coffee shops and bakeries.

We're pulling for you, Eric!

My favorite knife is a small Cutco I got a dozen years ago when I was feeling sorry for a local starving artsy type. Actually, the best 50 bucks I've spent on a knife, so far! 12 years later, it still cuts like a speedboat through the ocean. Gorgeous, too, and I've never cut myself with it. Not once. ME!

Thanks, Lou, I'll have to look Parsipanny up on a map tho', Florida girl still hasn't figured out NJ. And, BTW, in my house we pronounce Zagat "useless", 'cause us girls try not to cuss.

geez, did you see that post? Man, can I talk... chatty AND batty, I must be recuperating!(she walks away, muttering, too much time away from the work, need to find a job...)

OK, folks, I've just got to take a shot at this, my 'positive service' training chops need the workout, I've been ooc since February, ya' know?

Brilliant, Trishiad, in more ways than just the chocolates, which are, the vibrating bit is also brilliant! I've always wondered about using cocoa butter, i'm going to do that with my next batch of chocolates, THANK YOU!

Thank you, Kathleen! Sam's blessed to have you, in his life, drinking his booze. We've all thoroughly enjoyed your blog, even us lurkers (me and kiddle). Brava!

No problem

In our house we can easily resist those double egg yolks, we mostly eat only the whites!