Cheerios's, Special K and Kashi Go Lean Crunch are my current go-to's...
As a child, whenever my Brother and I visited our Grandmother she made us Rice Krispies with TONS of mini-marshmallows mixed in - I haven't though about that in years! I was pretty amazing if I recall correctly.
Don't worry if you don't like them, cheese is very personal! Just eat more of the ones you like :)
I have loved 99.9% of the cheese that I have tasted BUT:
The other night about 6 of us were out to dinner and we got the cheese plate to start. There was one cheese on that platter that, to me, tasted like cat urine (or at least how I would imagine cat urine to taste). I actually had to spit it out. Everyone else loved it. Go figure.
we wanted to take a co-worker out to dinner to celebrate her birthday... when we asked her what her favorite restaurant was she responded, without missing a beat, 'Olive Garden'... so sad.
Malatesta Trattoria (Washington & Christopher) is wonderful. Great service, low prices and very cool atmosphere... when I lived in the city this was our goto for 'special' dinners that we didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for.
I will also second Otto.
Frederika: It's funny you shoud ask about Fish, they're doing the catering for my wedding! It is very good and is quite romantic, espicially if you can sit upstairs on the balcony... J. Bistro is great for Mt. Pleasant, but since Red Drum opened we always go there when we're over the bridge ( the best Steak Frites I've ever had in my life hands down is at Red Drum)
FYI our Food and Wine Festival was this past weekend and they've finally worked out the kinks... it's worth planning a weekend around it next year if you're looking for another excuse to visit!
Are you coming to my wedding? I'm getting married at the William Aiken House on April 26th, stop by for a drink if that's the weekend you're in town!
Anyway, okay the pressure is on! I have been living in Chas for 10 years now and we go out to dinner A LOT - so here are my recs:
Brunch:
Hominy Grill- Be prepared to wait, but it's worth it. You have to try The Big Ugly, trust me.
High Cotton- Great atmosphere, high end brunch.
Lunch:
Cru Cafe-This is also a fantastic dinner spot but so nice for lunch too, truly one of our favorites.
Gaulart & Maliclet Cafe (or as the locals call it 'Fast & French')- fantastic croque-monsieur, the seating is crowded/ community tables, but it's a unique atmosphere that I enjoy.
Jestine's Kitchen- this is kind of a tourist trap, but for a super southern lunch this would be my suggestion.
Dinner: (UGH, there are so many fabulous places not on this list, but here are my top 5)
FIG- my pick to experience local ingredients, this is my go to when I have out of towners visiting.
Fat Hen (John's Island)- this is kind of a hike, but so worth it. So good!
McCrady's- to my knowledge this is the only place in Chas that you can experience the molecular gastronomy trend... so if that's not your thing, be warned. The food is excellent but different that what your going to find in the more traditional places in Chas, I also think it's the most beautiful restaurant downtown.
Grill 225- best for steak
The Wreck- now, I haven't been here since college, but I'll go out on a limb and put it as my rec for bare bones, fresh & local seafood. It is not easy to find so make sure you have good directions from your hotel (or googlemap it before you go. This also serves as your warning to NOT go to Hyman's, enough said.
Hope you enjoy!
I have been completely addicted to Splendid Table for at least a year. I love it, love it, love it. Jane and Michel Stern crack me up every time.
Microwave 'baked' Sweet Potato w/ low fat cottage cheese, salt and pepper. YUM.
Or just pasta w/ olive oil, fresh garlic, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper and some parm... I have to have made this at least 1000 times.
I'm 27, love to cook and I tell anyone who will listen about it. One thing that has worked for me is to use food mag subscirptions as gifts. In particular, Everyday Food, it's un-intimidating and totally manageable. One of my best friends, who had never cooked in her life, now makes it a point to cook every recipe in every issue! It's a great inexpensive birthday/Christmas present. It's also great because we can talk about this recipe or that recipe and how it went. It's funny how impressed some of my friend are when I cook them a meal... my standard response is: if you can read, you can cook.
I'm so glad this came up, I just got a full set of Cutco for Christmas from my future mother-in-law and they are amazing!
I had never really heard about them so I'm curious:
What what is the anti-Cutco argument?
I too missed this, and it's fun!
When I was in fourth grade I was seated at lunch where there was a sort of protrusion in the cafeteria wall just behind me. Other kids had to squeeze by to get to their seats. I made some wild gesture, hit a tray passing behind my head and ended up wearing a bowl of tomato soup just like a hat.
"Tomato head" in the yearbook eight years later -- guess who?
I doubt I can come even close to the cleavage [silver]wear... but here's my worst food moment:
For several weeks last year I attended class with my daughter.
One morning just before school the girl was putting the milk back in but pushed out the Palek Paneer (spinach & Indian cheese) leftovers. I had tried this one shelf stable brand but it was icky. I'd put it in the fridge because that's where things go to rot; at which time I can feel okay about tossing them but, until then I try to convince myself I'll be eating it soon. So, with the child's help there was green stuff everywhere including all up and down her legs just before we needed to leave and we were already running late. But really, we had to clean it up, and we did, but what a comedy of errors. I pulled the garbage out so it would be right next to her and after I did that she went over and dropped things under the sink not realizing the garbage was no longer there. In the car I told her she'd done me a favor because I hated that spinach. Will I ever stop blowing her mind away?
For lunch while she was in math class, I ran down to our store that has a great organic deli section with fresh hot food that changes seasonally, each day's selections even depending on what the farmers bring in that morning. It was a special delight to find out what veggies they were having everyday. Apparently that day though there was a bounty of mushrooms as everything had them in it so there was nothing I wanted.
Anyway, no hot veggies for me so I put together a salad, putting some bleu cheese dressing in a little plastic container. Then I went to the check out lines because the one by the food was backed up. I managed to get behind some lady apparently confusing the store for the bank because she wanted something like $25 in ones and a roll of quarters but handed them $40 which the checkout girl couldn't conceive that meant $5 left over so she was short-circuiting. I was about to move to the next line but someone scooped it before I could so I was freaking a bit on the time left to get back before 4th period ended.
Finally, my turn and I stepped forward. That's when the dressing container flung itself out of my hand over to the next checkout I had wanted to jump to, up against this lady's shoes where it exploded and went all up and down her legs and shoes. In slow motion no less. It doesn't look like much when it's in one of those little containers but when it's on a person it seems like so much more. I'm just grateful she was wearing a skirt rather than pants because I would have destroyed those. It was awful. I'm still horrified.
She was really nice about it but it's not like I could help her get clean; that would have been completely creepy. She said, "It's not like things such as this happen everyday." at which point I told her about the spinach not 4 hours hours earlier.
Thanks for reviving the thread. I'd missed it earlier and this gave me a bunch of giggles. Great stories. :)
We were in Beaune, France, when my moment occurred. It was in 1988 and my first trip to France. The restaurant in our hotel (Hotel de la cloche) was very famous so we had dinner there one night. It was the off season and only one other couple was in the place, so it was very quiet. Nate and I were conscious of the fact that we needed to add to the quiet, so we spoke in whispers. That's the back story. I decided to order les escargots because they were traditional to the region and I'd never had them. The waiter handed me a device that looked like an eyelash curler. I had no idea what it was for but took a guess that maybe it was meant for holding the snail. I picked it up, closed it around the shell, and then the device snapped out of my hands, clattered across two tables and finally fell on the floor. I would gladly have climbed into one of those shells if I could have. The other couple looked up at me and the man said..."It is a different way of life, is it not?" We all laughed....and then gabbed away for the rest of our dinners. PS, no harm was done to those snails...the waiter brought some pate for me, something I could handle!
8 yrs old. I was in charge of the mashed potatoes for the Sunday dinner. Company coming -- had to make it good. My first ever anything in the kitchen. I used 1 CUP of salt rather than 1 tsp. HORRID. 30 years ago and my family STILL won't let me bring potatoes to dinner.
I used to work at a coffee shop.
Our milk came in normal 1 gallon plastic jugs and we had a trick for conserving space in the trash can when we threw away the empty jugs... we'd steam it and then stomp it (the heat would make it easier to compact them).
So one night I was steaming and stomping a bunch of jugs and for some reason, my co-worker put the cap back on a steamed-but-not-yet-stomped jug. I didn't realize it so I put the jug on the floor and jumped REALLY hard on the jug.
It was like a gun went off in the cafe! The cap flew about 30 feet and hit one of our customers. Luckily it didn't hurt him but boy did I feel like an ass.
thought it was time to revive this thead; another one got me thinking how young I started cooking unsupervised...
I started wearing glasses in 6th grade, but was never happy how I looked in them. It wasn't until high school that I wore them at home, I figured I already knew where everything in the house was. So this was sometime between then.
I had made a chicken stir fry for my parents, and they commented on the fresh lemon seasoning I had used. I didn't think about the fact that I hadn't put any kind of citrus in until my dad's tongue started to go numb, followed by mine and my mother's. I had grabbed the Lemon Pine-Sol instead of the Mazola oil - in a certain size they come in the same bottle! We called poison control and he assured us that a few tablespoons between the 3 of us didn't warrant medical attention and made a point to tell me to always cook with my glasses on from now on.
I always did after that! Just after I met my husband, though, I brushed my teeth with antibiotic cream, so he got me LASIK for my 30th birthday this year. It's safe to eat at my house again!!!
I still love PB Cap'n Crunch. When I was pregnant it was corn flakes with bananas and whole milk. I love the original giant shredded wheat biscuits, too, with cinnamon and sugar. I leave them whole and cut bites off with my spoon so that the top stays crisp.
Blood sugar issues, be damned!
It's ALL about the Golden Grahams. I could eat them every single day. I think I may have to purchase a box this weekend, in fact-- I love eating cereal for dessert!
Life. I like it, Mikey likes it, what isn't to love?
As a side note, not matter how exciting they try to make Kix, it is just terrible. It may be kid tested, but no kid would approve.
Kashi Heart to Heart is my favorite, and I like their Heart to Heart blueberry oat clustery cereal too. Also Puffins -- love the peanut butter, and have been known to mix the PB and cocoa varieties... yum...
Loved sugar cereals as a kid -- mom never let us have them, but I chowed down many bowls of Capn Crunch (crunchberries please, or crunchberries mixed with PB capn crunch), cocoa krispies and all the cereals in the fruity pebbles-boo berry-count chocula family at friends' houses. Haven't had them in decades but I suspect I wouldn't like them anymore, too sweet.
One thing I cannot stand is raisin bran. Love raisins in anything else, don't mind the bran flakes, but together and with milk it's -- my new favorite word, thanks PerkyMac! -- hurlicious.
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