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Ok, I actually made the Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie. Now can I have the turkey?
That's Nuts: The Easiest Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie
I just made the pie. It's in the freezer and I tried some of the mousse as I was cleaning up. Sir, your peanut butter product is such that one can not actually taste the Cool Whip. Excellent work!
Now if I can just stopping beating myself up for buying Cool Whip...
Thanksgiving Letter from a Control Freak
I think the thing that was most disturbing about the letter, if you follow the link from AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com back to the letter contributor, is that the letter is supposedly real. The author of this letter is walking around somewhere. And she's planning this year's Thanksgiving. Right. Now.
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Beans, Beans the magical fruit.---- What's for dinner Nov. 20?
Pizza! And I made the Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie that was posted here earlier this week. That will be dessert!
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Ok, I actually made the Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie. Now can I have the turkey?
That's Nuts: The Easiest Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie
I just made the pie. It's in the freezer and I tried some of the mousse as I was cleaning up. Sir, your peanut butter product is such that one can not actually taste the Cool Whip. Excellent work!
Now if I can just stopping beating myself up for buying Cool Whip...
Thanksgiving Letter from a Control Freak
I think the thing that was most disturbing about the letter, if you follow the link from AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com back to the letter contributor, is that the letter is supposedly real. The author of this letter is walking around somewhere. And she's planning this year's Thanksgiving. Right. Now.
Cheeseburger Pizza at Nite 'N Gale: Too Much Pickle
I tried the cheeseburger pizza at California Pizza kitchen. It didn't have ketchup, mustard or pickles, but it did get topped with lettuce, tomato and avocado. I liked it. [/ducks]
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Sticky Rice with Smoke Oyster Stuffing in Lotus Leaf
I can has turkey?
Serious Heat: What's Your Secret Chili Ingredient?
Coors Light and a spoonful or two of fine cornmeal.
Favorite SE recipe?
The couple of recipes for pasta cooked in wine. Those are awesome and I find excuses to make them at least once or twice a month.
Fresh Food on TV: Weekday Edition
I don't watch Guy Fieri, but the Attleboro, MA diner he goes to (having looked on the FTV site) - Morin's - is an awesome place to eat. And it used to be just across the street from where BF was living at the time. We miss eating there!
Trying to perfect a blue cheese cheesecake
For dessert cheese cake, I tend to favor the more fluffy/less sweet versions. I'd rather the sweetness come from the topping than the cheesecake, because I like the contrast.
Savory cheesecakes are awesome. Somewhere on the internet I found and printed a crab and goat cheese cheesecake that I need to get around to actually trying one of these days...
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Sticky Rice with Smoke Oyster Stuffing in Lotus Leaf, ftw!
Wine suggestion please
Some "Super Tuscans" can be mighty expensive (although you said no price is too high). Look for wines that are a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot (possibly with some Cabernet Sav in there). Wines from nearby Umbria would also be a nice complement to the meal.
Favorite Pizza Condiment??
Sometimes I'll add extra red pepper flakes or Parmesan. That's it though.
The Nasty Bits: Turkey Neck Gumbo
I do believe I will be making this in the near future!
I like Alton Brown's roux method. He heats the oven to 350 F and then parks equal measures of oil and flour (stirred together) in there, stirring every 25-30 minutes or so, until the desired color is reached. It takes about 90 minutes for me to get to a brick/brown stage that I use for my etouffee. I use the time that I don't have to stir the roux to prep all my trinity and other ingredients (my knife skills = not so fast).
Need ideas and inspiration for the weekend's leftovers.
Since you've got the kale and bread, how about this:
Bread Soup of Leeks and Greens with Cantal Cheese
You could sub in other veg and cheese for some of the ingredients called for.
Dinner Tonight: Baked Shrimp and Feta Pasta
I think I want to make this tonight! What size baking dish? Also, would I have to make any changes to the cooking time if I double the recipe?
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Sticky Rice And Smoked Oyster Stuffing in Lotus Leaf!
Is this a new thread on this?
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 93: Can Pizza Be Diet Food?
We usually get pizza as our Friday treat. I like a thin crust white pizza with broccoli and eggplant lately plus garlic and sprinkling of feta. As long as I don't eat the whole pie, I feel like I'm being reasonably healthy (ish).
Good work on the serious diet, Ed!
Should We Keep Chocolate Milk in Schools?
Leave the chocolate milk. Remove the daily offerings of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fried chicken patty sandwiches, pizza and fries and the vending machines with the ice cream, Doritos and other chips.
I'm not a parent, and this I recognize this is a total knee jerk reaction on my part, but I'd be more likely to home school my kid to make sure they eat properly then send them to a public school that fed them poorly. But at least I'm of the means to make that kind of choice.
Pre-Thanksgiving Cocktail, what's it going to be?
No booze for me until anything involving knife work is out of the way for the day. That's a house rule. I think after that we'll open a pinot noir, probably Chalone (but I might splurge on something pricier).
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I'm not a stuffing person, but I could be tempted by Gourmet's Smoked-Oyster Sticky Rice Stuffing In Lotus Leaf. I have a weakness for sticky rice...well, any rice really. And oysters.
Flavored Flakesalt...what are your favorites?
And if we respond with "Oh, no we haven't but here are these other salts we like" it becomes free market surveying for them to check out competing brands.
Yes, I'm a horrible cynic.
Flavored Flakesalt...what are your favorites?
If it's the first time a poster has posted and the post is about a specific product, it looks suspicious. Why? Because he or she is hyping a product by brand name. Furthermore, the poster hasn't been back yet to continue in the conversation - in this thread or elsewhere on the site. If the poster wasn't a shill, they'd have been back to, at the very least, allay concerns.
Video: How to Make Kimchi on 'Nyam Nyam'
@Robyn Lee - Thanks! (and the Korea ep. is one of my favs!)
Video: How to Make Kimchi on 'Nyam Nyam'
Cool video! Isn't this the woman who was Tony Bourdain's sidekick/production assistant in the Korea episode?
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Still the Cook's Illustrated Best Drop Biscuits!! I guarantee that there will be NO leftovers.
Should We Keep Chocolate Milk in Schools?
the days they ran out of chocolate milk before I came through the line were the days I didn't drink any milk at school.
I did sometimes drink plain milk at home, generally with ice cubes, because really cold was the only way I could stand it. (Or, over cereal. Mom bought only unsugared things like shredded wheat & grape nuts, but we were allowed to add sugar or honey. so, yum.) the milk at school was never cold enough for me.
My weight gain didn't begin until I was nearly 20 years out of school. When I no longer habitually drink cow's milk.
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pumpkin cheesecake
Is dating a picky eater a dealbreaker for anyone?!
it sounds as if the problem is as much how his pickiness presents itself Vs the actual fact of the pickiness.
you need to negotiate how he goes about tasting and reacting. instead of filling his plate hiding the uneaten, he should take a bite only, then only take more of what he will actually eat. He also must accept that if he rejects what's for dinner, he makes his own substitute.
You, OTOH, have to deal with adjusting your daily cooking to reflect some of his opinions. Cooking can be fun, but the day in day out feeding of your partner & family isn't so much about the fun for you as about the fact that people need to eat. Plus, if he rejects your food in favor or cornflakes or PBJ for days on end, you can't be hurt.
if you someday are having kids, he needs to have learned to reject in a low-key fashion so as not to 'teach' his pickiness to them. I won't go so far as to expect him to sometimes noticeable eat something he is known to dislike, to model polite behaviour. But it would be handy.
PS I was in a relationship in which we had very different food cultures. our inability to appreciate each others standards was but one of many problems. But 3 times a day one or both of of us being annoyed or mad or disappointed sure didn't help. If you cant fine some way to enjoy meals together, some compromises, then hang it up now.
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pumpkin pie brulee
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pumpkin cheesecake
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Pumpkin Cheesecake!
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Cranberries with currants and champagne, please!
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Cornbread Stuffing Muffins with Ham and Sage ♪ mm
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Pumpkin cheesecake sounds good to me!
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the brussel sprouts shall grace my table soon.
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pumpkin pie creme brulee
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Pumpkin Pie Brûlée
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Mark Bittman's Potato Gratin!
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Oh my goodness...pumpkin cheesecake!
Beans, Beans the magical fruit.---- What's for dinner Nov. 20?
Chinese buffet with sushi and Mongolian bar-be-que included. 8)
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Wild mushroom stuffing, please... even if I'm the only mushroom eater in the house.
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The wild mushroom stuffing looks just amazing.
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Pumpkin cheesecake!
Beans, Beans the magical fruit.---- What's for dinner Nov. 20?
Four cups kale skilleted with tempeh bacon and shallots and mushrooms. Then I was still hungry, so I went for some toasted curry chickpeas.
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I would try The Silver Palate's Corn Bread-Sausage Stuffing With Apples...YUMM
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It's only recently that I actually put some cream into my mashed potatoes.
Man, what a difference! Maybe I'll do the Perfect Mashed Potatoes just because it's T-giving.
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brussels sprouts and bacon
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Pizza! And I made the Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Pie that was posted here earlier this week. That will be dessert!