Lilija
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I would rather delegate every other household chore, to free me up and let me focus on cooking all day. That would be great. Can I hire a private driver for the kid, general housekeeper, gardener, and personal assistant, instead?
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I was raised on diet soda too, but I can't get into the Jazz flavors. They leave this slimy-sweet aftertaste that I can't get over. I wanted to love them too, the concept is great, and the bottle looks good.
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Ugh, my condolences...the berry flavor Jazz tastes like floor cleaner, to me, I can only imagine what the caramel one is like. Let's hope it stays local.
Maybe get some vanilla ice cream and make it into a float? Try brining a ham in it? I'm sorry, I got nothin...caramel soda, though? *shudder*
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We had so few leftovers this year, tonight I'm gonna chop the scraps and throw them in a beer-cheese-potato soup type thing. That, or ham and cheese omelets, not sure yet.
Normally, when I have a bunch of leftover ham, I use Gourmet Cookbook's recipe for Deviled Ham. I omit the chutney, add a bit more butter, a glug of hot sauce, and a dollop of spicy mustard. It's great, and we fight over it for sandwiches for a week.
The bone always gets saved for bean soup.
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My grandmother's recipe for stuffed mushrooms, handed to my father, and now to me. He added Tobasco, I added a bit of shredded cheese, early on, but I've made them hundreds of times, with never any variation, from that original one.
Key lime pie, too. My aunt's recipe, and absolute perfection, I wouldn't mess with success, there.
The recipe on the Sun Maid raisin box, for their "Raisin Oatmeal Cookies". The first from scratch cookies I ever made, and still one of my all time favorites.
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I'm another Zero convert. I've been drinking Diet Coke for years, but the Zero reminds me of what Coke tasted like when I was younger. Not the same, but close enough to make me happy. Plus, it mixes better with alcohol, and that's important. No cloying aftertaste to fight with the rum.
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Lately, for me, it's been Cadbury Mini Eggs. No other chocolate, in any form will do.
A friend was over the other night, and stuck his huge fist in the bag, stealing about two dozen. I snatched the bag, and said "Get offa my happy pills!" My husband reported that my lip curled back in a half snarl, when I did it.
Best Husband Ever went out later that evening, and purchased two more bags, just to make things ok again. They're now hiding in my desk.
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-eggs. i'm fine with them as ingredients (use them by the dozen when baking) but they gag me, both from taste and texture, by themselves. this is a real handicap at brunch. and omelettes LOOK so good, and are such a great idea. i wish i could enjoy them.
Wow, you totally nailed that one, I couldn't have said it better myself! I try them once in awhile, but am always dissapointed.
Other things:
Mushrooms. (if one more person tells me "There's some mushrooms in this, but I swear you can't taste them!" I'm gonna go postal. I can SENSE the slimy little bastids.)
Shellfish/Mollusks. Texture, again. I like crabmeat in stuff, and the flavor of shrimp, but the texture of all of it (plus the idea of eating oceanic bugs, or the entire whole of an animal digestive system and all, just kinda turns me off).
I'm not so into veal either, it always felt kinda mushy to me, and bland.
There's very few chicken preprations that I really love, maybe a perfect roasted chicken, or some great barbecued or fried chicken. Outside of that, I can think of 10 other proteins I would rather have. Mostly, I eat chicken as an excuse to eat whatever sauce it's in, or whatever's accompanying it. I think it's just dull.
Same with tofu. The texture and un-flavor bugs me. Too close to eggs? Maybe. I like the really dense chewy kind, or dried fried tofu, but the snowy white blocks are kinda spongy and bland.
I feel kinda eh about eggplant, too. It always feels like I'm eating a mouthful of slimy fat. If it's chopped fine, in with a lot of other stuff, then fine. If its in cubes or chunks, then I pick around it. Breaded fried eggplant is the exception, because somehow that doesn't get that slimy fatty texture.
I know I've replied to a thread like this before, but I love it. I always feel less alone, when I see other egg or mushroom haters. I think it's because we go through life getting the "you hate EGGS?! What the hell? Who hates EGGS!?" treatment.
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I have a few quirks...
First of all, I'm a dipper. I pour a dab of syrup on the side of my pancakes, waffles or french toast, never on top, and drag the corner through. Same with fruit and whipped cream toppings, all on the side, please, let me assemble each bite, else everything gloms together and gets soggy and mushy.
I also don't like whipped toppings on my ice cream, for a similar reason. Plus, it kinda 'dilutes' the flavor of the ice cream.
I dislike pie, or cake and ice cream on the same plate. I love them together, but again. Let ME assemble each bite. Or else, what, by the end of it, you have cold pie soup.
Sometimes I like my salad dressing on the side, depending on what kind, what kind of place, and what kind of salad. If it's a creamy heavy dressing, I dip my fork in the dressing, then spear a forkful of salad. A little dressing on a huge bite of greens...perfect! Or else, the dressing gets overwhelming. Vinagrettes are a different story, the more tossed, and evenly distributedm the better, as far as that goes.
I rarely, if ever, finish a burger, (unless it's really small) from first bite to last, without disassembling it. Same goes for subs. I've been that way since I was a kid. I get about halfway through, start getting full, and discard the bread, finishing the innards with a fork. My mom used to say "getting full? Just finish the inside, skip the bread, and you can go, ok?" Old habits die hard.
I can't have soup or chili without toast, bread, or crackers of some sort. I have to alternate bites, too, or else I get wicked palate fatigue. Soup is not soup without something crunchy alongside. Add me to the special spoon category, too. I have a perfectly round soup spoon that I love love love. Everything tastes better from my round spoon! Except yogurt.
And finally, the weirdest thing, that everyone notices, that I simply cannot help. If I am dining alone, even if I'm just having a snack, I must read something. I can't eat, without reading something. I have open books and magazines all over the place. It's the weirdest habit. Earlier, I grabbed some mixed nuts out of the pantry, then stood there while I ate them, and read the recipes on the backs of all the pasta boxes.
But then, I'm OCD about reading too, so it's not just an eating quirk, it goes way beyond that.
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I've tossed it in the usual baked goods, pies, pumpkin based things, cookies, breads...all delicious. I've used it chopped mixed with nuts in a syrup, to glaze a basic lemon poundcake, too, that came out well.
My favorite current use, is speared on a cocktail pick, alongside a maraschino cherry, marinating in a Dark 'n Stormy, or a Jamaican Firefly. It gets all soft, afterwhile, and half the sugar dissolves, what a treat to eat it once it's soaked with a good dark rum.
This thread has given me a million awesome ideas, too!
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My Great-aunt Ceil makes THE best, but I'm pretty sure she's not going commercial anytime soon. But, it does give me the idea that the best are homemade. She won't give me the recipe, though.
I think she uses peanut butter, butter, confectioner's sugar, and some other stuff, in the filling. It might be worth looking up, old cookbooks from the 40's and 50's might even have it.
It certainly would be a fun trial and error run, trying to make the best peanut butter eggs ever.
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Excellent, thank you! That's just the kind of answer I was hoping for. I'm going to try these very soon now, with your variation, and maybe some of these fresh strawberries I have laying around.
I guess I was scarred by the bad one, feeling apprehensive about the dish ever since.
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Are these sort of eggy tasting, and kind of dense? The recipe intrigues me, for sure, and the comparison to Yorkshire pudding and popovers furthers the intrigue, but I'm a little hesitant.
I had this only once, at a diner (sort of a mediocre place,to begin with) and it was a crusty, somewhat rubbery very thick omelety construct, with lots of pure egg veins running through it. I know this couldn't be right, but I'm curious, is it very richly eggy flavored and textured? I would love to make this, but I'm not a big fan of the flavor or texture of eggs...
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Our first meal together, I remember it like it was yesterday. May 19, 1997 our first 'date' was a three hour afternoon drive all along the shore, talking and talking and talking. We stopped for Burger King, for some reason, and I had the Italian Chicken sandwich, onion rings, and a Coke- no ice. He had a Whopper meal.
The first meal I cooked, was when I moved in with him, 10 days later. I fixed grilled steak on a stick, yellow rice, and a simple tomato-cucumber salad from fixins I pilfered out of my mom's garden. I was 19 years old, when we met.
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Siricha, it's that popular for a reason! My favorite all purpose.
Frank's, the only sauce worth making buffalo wings with. Also fantastic with southern foods, beans and rice, nice and vinegary.
Cholula, another favorite with beans, Mexican, bbq
a good Jamaican scotch bonnet sauce, something hot-hot, I like to add a few drops of this, when my basic stuff won't quite cut it, like to barbecue sauces, chili, and as a little extra heat to wings, and stuff.
Thai garlic chile paste This is my ketchup, I spread it on everything, sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs.
Cheapy random sauce I like a lot of these, all flavors, the 99 cent kind. I've tried Buffalo brand, El Yucateco, Crystal, Goya any one of those is damn good, all different, all have flavor along with varying levels of heat. I guess call this entry the Wild Card.
Tobasco doesn't make my list, I'm not big of that aged flavor, I find it overpowering, but the green or chipotle Tobascos should get some kind of honorable mention for uniqueness.
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Only big breakfasts. Nothing washes a pancake down better than some icy milk.
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Camping! The only time we buy stuff like Doritos, canned chili, Yoo Hoo, and Little Debbie snackycake chemical enhanced goodness. Somehow, eaten outdoors, in between meals (as meals...) it's fine. Really, it's ok.
(This isn't the only stuff we bring camping, but it has its place)
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We knew we walked into the wrong place, one Friday evening in autumn, when they had to turn on the lights, for us.
An Indian resturaunt, fairly new to the area, we decided to give it a try. 7 pm, on a Friday night, we walked in, and the 3 host/waiter/cooks came jogging across the frigidly cold, incredibly empty, very dark (I mean not one friggin FOH light, pitch black.) to flick some switches in one small section. They lit up a 4 table block for us, and were SO happy to see us, they practically sat with us. We kept asking, are you open? I mean, we're not here during some Indian holiday? You -are- open right? Not one other patron, from the time we sat down, till the time we left. It was kind of creepy. The waiters/cooks/whatevers chatted happily with us for the whole meal. The place warmed up some, too, but what a bizarre experience.
The food was overpriced, and meh. Not horrifying, but definitely not good. They closed down about 6 months after they opened. Shame, too, it was an enormous space, and we're in desperate need of some good ethnic food in this area.
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For me, I didn't snack much after school, unless I stayed with my grandmother, which was a few days a week. My little Polish grandmother would always have some popcorn, or homemade soup, potato pancakes, a bit of kabanosi and some rye bread, or a few pierogi, for me. Some real treats were the Polish doughnuts, honey candies, or some chocolates from the butcher shop.
In high school, I would often stop at the corner store by my bus stop and grab half a sub, or something from the deli.
My son eats, but not right after school. We had to stop that, when he would linger over his snack for so long, that he neglected to get anything done. Now he does his homework, and then gets a snack. Usually popcorn, a granola bar, a few handfuls of nuts, pretzels, a few slices of lunch meat on a piece of bread, half a sandwich, or some choice leftovers.
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What is the drink that makes it all better for you? Makers Mark Manhattans are the perfect comfort food at our house. The number of cherries depends on how rough the day was.
What about you?Yes, exactly right. Makers Mark Manhattan. I'm pretty fixed on two cherries. The roughness of my day determines how many Manhattans, though.
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Over the years, work sorta dictated when and where I would eat. When I was in college, I worked midnights at a convienience store, so I would not eat all day, or subsist on vending machine goodies, then gorge myself all night on free hot dogs and burritos (doughnuts, bagels, ice cream, cookies, whatever you can find in a 7-11, I ate it). Ah, to be 18 again.
For awhile, I was going to school, working at a deli in the morning, and as a janitor at night. I had exactly one hour to eat, during the day, and I often did the drive thru thing, or grabbed something from the deli. Dinner would come at quitting time, after 11 pm, from the diner. I gained 42 lbs that year.
That was years ago, and I still have weird eating habits, though for the sake of my family, we normalize things as much as possible. Now, I have a very light breakfast of tea and a piece of toast or a few crackers, in the morning, just to get something in me. Lunch comes around 3:30, when I give the kid his after school snack, I get hungry too. That's when my real appetite hits. Due to work schedules, we don't often eat dinner till 8-9 pm. If it runs too late, I feed sonny-boy an earlier dinner, and have a few bites myself, then I sit down with my husband when he gets home, and finish my bit of dinner.
As for -what- I'm eating...it's not out of vending machines anymore, that's for sure. I haven't had a 7-11 hot dog since I worked there, either. Age has both given me real tried and true wisdom about food choices, as well as altered my tastes, and my body dictates what I can, or cannot eat now. No more KFC, or Taco Bell, in the parking lot. My tummy does a flipflop spinny thing at the mere idea. We still indulge in a late-night diner run, from time to time, because a reuben sandwhich doesn't taste any better, that at 3 am, after an evening partying. But now it's a treat, instead of a necessity.
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We're big on milk here. Milk on cereal, milk with cookies, milk as a snack itself. Soemtimes, in the afternoon when I'm dragging ass, instead of eating something, I'll have a huge glass of icy milk, maybe with some vanilla or chocolate syrup, as a great pick-me-up. I can't do milk with a meal, though, unless it's pancakes. Milk IS a meal for me, heh. We drink 1 or 2% mostly. Whole milk...that stuff is heaven. Sometimes I buy a pint of it, and treat myself with a fresh brownie from the bakery.
I've seen my husband down half a gallon in one sitting, with a fresh pan of brownies, or a box of Cheez-its (a very rare treat). I like milk with salty things, like pretzel rods, as a snack. Very comforting.
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I'm suprised to see how widespread this is. I've always loved cereal, "grown up" boring cereals. I eat it late at night, or for a quick lunch, rather than breakfast.
My favorites are corn flakes, raisin bran, and grape nuts. Sometimes I like them the conventional way, with milk and banana or raisins (or seasonal fresh berries) in a bowl. Most times I'll eat handfuls of dry cereal, and wash them down with gulps of milk. I love the cereal, hate the soggies.
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The government cheese of my youth was so bad, it stained your teeth orange. Vile stuff. Gooey and greasy even at refrigerator temperatures.
Pepsi Jazz
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I'm, uh, easily succeptible to dares? I was really poor in college? Hmm...
I should have said "tastes like my floor cleaner smells".