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Arey

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  1. Arey

    Thanksgiving (US) 2023

    This afternoon my niece called to discuss Thanksgiving dinner which she usually gets from a restaurant and brings down here. She wants something a bit more elaborate than a Wawa turkey sub. I refrained from reccomending Stouffer's frozen turkey breast dinner which I rather like. (Hey,I'm 83 years old with arthritis and use a walker.Most of my kitchen equipment is either too high or too low for me to reach) While checking out what's available she came across one restaurant that charges $200 for a thanksgiving dinner that serves 6 people, but does not include a turkey.
  2. I don't know what rou jia mo means but going by the picture it doesn't look like it means mean green bell peppers .
  3. Unless the article was in a Hardy Boys mystery or the Saturday Evening Post I might not have come across it, but if I had come across it I might have read it, and if I did read it I certainly would have hidden it from my mother. Lima bean haters are legion. They are right there along with brussel sprouts haters. The difference being that brussel sprouts are despised usually because cooked wrong whereas lima beans are vile in and of themselves however they are cooked. And, raw, they are poisonous. Note - I am not shaming brussel sprout haters I have sympathy for them because they've never had the opportunity to encounter any of the many delicious ways brussel sprouts can eaten cooked or raw.
  4. Having experienced lima bean shaming as a child I might have appreciated an article on how to cultivate a taste for lima beans. I might have started small such as vegetable soup with a few lima beans in it and gone on to succotash and then forward to lima beans as a vegetable side dish. No longer would I sit at the dinner table for what seemed hours contemplating a dinner plate with a mound of the vile beans in front of me
  5. best with a fried egg on top
  6. Staff note: This post and subsequent responses were split from the Mac and Cheese: Defining and Pushing its Boundaries topic, to maintain focus. (a)Macaroni is the macaroni product the units of which are tube-shaped and more than 0.11 inch but not more than 0.27 inch in diameter. (c) Spaghetti is the macaroni product the units of which are tube-shaped or cord-shaped (not tubular) and more than 0.06 inch but not more than 0.11 inch in diameter. (d) Vermicelli is the macaroni product the units of which are cord-shaped (not tubular) and not more than 0.06 inch in diameter. Thus sayeth the in fedgov one of its regulations. So you could have Mac and cheese, Spaghetti and cheese or Vermicelli and cheese It'smuch easier tnan saying you are having pasta which is tube shaped and between 0.11 inches and 0.27 inches in diameter and cheese for dinner. Somewheres there may be a very bored beaurocrat with a set of calipers and a box of pasta praying that his agency will offer its employees an early out. in one of its cost cutting frenzies.
  7. I suppose it's better than putting "Don't eat or play with raw flour,dough,or batter. It'll give you worms." on the label'
  8. My sympathy is with the customers having her sitting close by.
  9. Arey

    Food Funnies

    Barney and his friends agreed it had been a great picnic. "And"said Barney as he picked his teeth with Dipsy's antenna "the teletubbies had been especially delicious".
  10. Caviar.The really good and prohibitively expensive stuff.
  11. Probably beef spleen.It was so long ago I can't remember for sure.
  12. years ago in Philadelphia PA at a kosher restaurant I had stuffed spleen for a starter. I don't remember what it was stuffed with,but I'm pretty sure it wasn't pork.
  13. olive pits in the garbage disposal
  14. .Both doves and pigeons are members of the family columbidae and the rock dove is not the father of the family. The use of the terms dove and pidgeon is not based on Linnaean classification. The Mourning Dove could be called a Mourning Pigeon, and the Passenger Pigeon a Passenger Dove but you'll never check those names off on your birding Life List.
  15. Arey

    Costco

    I use instakart a lot, and one time I ordered frozen spinach.Apparently there was none so the instakart shopper substituted a frozen medly with spinach, kale , and chickpeas. I gave it to a vegan I knew. Had I eaten any of it, they would have heard me in Longport (the far end of the next island down from Brigantine Island) and the weather bureau would have been issuing air quality alerts. I'm also more careful now to specify "no exchanges" on my instacart orders.
  16. I always prick potatoes before baking. An exploded potato can make a real mess in an oven . If the pricks don't go deep enough the potato might explode any way. I use a fork now but originally I used a mattress needle which I also used for trussing a chicken. It was very strong, and if the potato was small enough, it could go clear through the potato, which is how I learned to not hold the potato in my hand while pricking it.
  17. But everybody knows that you need some amanita virosa to put in your Coq au Nyquill
  18. And, at my age(82), if I did know about it 40 years ago,I probably wouldn't remember it now unless I was orthorexic.
  19. the USA declared its neutrality in the 1930s in several acts of congress the most recent in 1939. People In a movie studio cafe in Burbank CA in February 1941 might well have arguements while eating over how much the US should be involved ,if at all, in those conflicts in Europe and Asia. After all,even the national hero Lindy was opposed to getting involved. As long as that man in the White House and his "New Deal Democrats" didn't do anything to seriously antagonize the combatants then everything should go on just pleasantly as ever.
  20. well, it they were ironstone manufactured in the Potteries you were eating off of authentic traditional chinoisserie willow pattern dishes. If they were bone china you were eating off of authentic traditional china chinoisserie willow pattern dishes but if they were manactured in China you were eating off of unauthentic traditional chinoisserie willow pattern Chinese china. I think my set was made in Japan.
  21. Id rather eat chocolate covered Swedish fish than Surstromming
  22. If you have a cat he's likely to decide that your precious favorite ever vegetable peeler that you left on the counter while you left the kitchen for a minute belongs under the fridge. So, being the thoughtful that cats are,he'll put it away for you and you won't find it until you buy a new fridge. And,despite its filthy disgusting condition, you''ll give it a good cleaning and put it in the drawer where you've been looking for it for the past several years.
  23. Isn't a chicken tender the breast part called.the tenderloin which has a white tendon running through it? I think Julia Child called them supremes and I made her recipe where they were poached in clarified butter. It was the best chicken tender I ever ate and did not involve breading or soup mixs or dried spice blends or frying. The only hard part was getting the tendon out without mangling the tender.
  24. Arey

    Food Funnies

    Not only that, but for octogenarians like me you need space to the left of the napkin for the crossword puzzle and ballpoint pen.
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