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Holy crap, what an awesome run of meals! I'm still in a food induced coma.. no pics, but we hauled out the Webber kettle grill and made BBQ chicken, hot dogs, and mixed grill of portobella mushrooms, corn on the cob, onions, tomato slices and mixed peppers. Served along with pasta salad, cheesy potato gratin, deviled eggsand fruit salad. Pop to drink. (we're not wine at dinner drinkers.)

I once had an amazing burger, it was on a toasted english muffin and topped with a basic cheddar cheese sauce and a slice of grilled canadian bacon. It was different, in a good way!

Small world, Rockdoggy, that's exactly what I plan on eating tomorrow, blt with egg and cheese on a good kaiser roll.. not sure I'll last til dinner time, your picture has me drooling already!

so you passed up the chance to let forth with a spew of curses? This is such a fun topic. My mother made some glop out of a Paula Deen cookbook for Easter. It consisted of canned soup, boiled chicken, some cheddar cheese and I think mayo. It was gag worthy, But the worst part? My mother, who by the way is a vegetarian and didn't try it, argued with me! "It's good! There's nothing wrong with it!" Ok, mom.... sheesh. Mothers. next year, I'm team Ham for Easter since she can't be trusted anymore.

I always make a simple potato cheese gratin, and mix in chunks of leftover ham.. wonderful dinner in one bowl.

First thing my lucky man got was my southern fried chicken, cream gravy over mashed potatos, stuffing with pecans in it, and corn. no complaints, then or now.

For a starch, how about a Potato gratin? lovely layers of thinly sliced potato, with butter, onion slices, flour and milk.

Miz, forgive me it this was already mentioned, by my mom suffers from joint pain and her Dr. steered her towards omega3 pills for relief, told her to take up to two a day. have you heard of that?

Chufi,those are so beautiful. I'm so making them this weekend. Thank you for sharing them

Thanks for replying! I have found that eating whatever I want in the morning works for me, because if I'm hungry at night I just remind myself that I can eat what I want when I get up. I agree about the night munchies hitting, but I can usually put myself in bed. again, I say you're the only person I "know" who lost that kind of weight without surgery. Treat yourself to a burger,you deserve it!

Mizducky, I love your tips, and want to thank you for sharing them. My current diet is the pyramid ( I eat most of my calories before noon, hence the pyramid shape) and I have dropped forty pounds since last july. In fact, I'm currently on the verge of being a tad underweight for my height ( damn, typing that felt good!) My roadblock with asian food is the fact that I have a violent shellfish allergy, and in addition, cannot have fish sauce/paste, oyster sauces, etc. But I cannot agree more about the vegetable thing, how healthy and tasty all veggies are, and how you can cook/eat them in ways that make them seem 'meaty". Mushrooms especially, are an excellent meat substitute. major, huge congrats on your weight loss, to lose that amount of weight without surgery is amazing, you should be very proud of yourself! I know how hard it was for me to lose forty pounds, you are a true inspiration. thanks for the fun blog!

There is no BAD way to enjoy marmite... none.

more and more often, I've notice that no matter what I order, I can't seem to finish it.. so this is not that surprising to me. the portions in the places around here are just off the hook. Last time I ordered a rueben and fries, it took me three meal to eat it! doggy bagged, of course.

I keep mine in the fridge, but mostly because mom does too, I guess! ohhhh Marmite..(insert Homer Simpson drool) On hot, buttered toast, usually, or buttered saltines.. yum

My dad was non-practicing catholic, and mom's from england, and we never skip the hot cross buns! every good friday, with coffee. she usually makes them for all of us, although we do have a great bakery that does a nice job with them. as for the meat, we did have a meatless good friday, but not the entire lent season.

Butter, thinly sliced tomatos and cheddar and more toast.

Wow,small world snowangel. I awoke this am to Five degrees about zero, having shoveled out both myself and my mom, and as a reward, she gave me some homemade splitpea soup to enjoy today. I just have to bastardize it with some bacon as she's a vegetarian.. Really looking forward to a very timely blog!

Racheld, Kinsey, as in the alphabet murders is one of myall time favorite writers, and you're right, her neighbor Henry would have baked those awesome stickey buns on anyday!

OHH Daniel, thanks for reminding my why quiche is one of my all time faves... I like to pull the quiche about ten minutes from done time, top it with thin slices of fresh tomato and return it to the oven.. and the sticky buns. I have an elderly neighbor who will make these for me sometimes.. old school, huge buttery buns. Awesome!

I must say, I ADORE Huntsman cheddar, aged blue, Switzerland swiss, etc, et all. However, having said that, the grocery that gets my business has a deli that sells the most rich, melty inviting american cheese... perfection for grilled cheese, scrambled eggs, and my favorite lunch of all in the summer, a whole wheat pita covered in butter, thin sliced tomatos and american cheese, microwaved to a melted perfection. If something tastes good, it just does. I see no point in being snobby. Oh, and it's also the only cheese I eat on a burger. ever.

Butter, blue cheese and raw onion.

Damn you Fresser, get me a ham cheese mustard,mayo, lettuce, dill pickle, onion tomato sandwich, STAT!

The Woman's day cookbooks I have (published 1964), site the following items as pure americana: maple syrup corn in all it's various uses blueberry muffins the big honking beefsteak (mywords) strawberry shortcake certain pies, i.e., cream pies, oyster pies it seems that some of the foods are native to America, and some of the foods, while served elsewhere in the world, have a certain American twist to them. The author points out that pies are served elsewhere in the world, but it's the American spin on ingredients that makes them unique to the U.S. But, there's a reason they call us the melting pot, we have adapted and made our own foods from all cultures.

Go to Burger King and get a double cheeseburger and small fries. put the fries inside the bun and squish. get a dollop of mayo on your plate , and dip your burger/fry sammy in it.. I think they put crack in the food at our BK> Yeah, this could also go under PMS too!

jkonick, christmakuh is a wonderful holiday! This blog is so cool. I have neighbors living this experience so this is very informative to me. She's catholic, He's jewish, and their beautiful little baby was adopted from Korea! I love the blending of the cultures/religions, it's wonderful to see the way the traditions, food, etc, can go together in harmony and the love within a family. Thanks for sharing your life. And your sister's cute as a button.