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Chili and fixins

Oyster and sausage stuffing is my pick. Makes me think of my paternal grandmother who passed away nearly 40 years ago. My mother (who now is THE most fantastic cook) didn't really know how to cook when she married my dad. His mother took my mom under her wing and taught her how to cook. Oyster stuffing is one of the recipes that has been handed down to my family. Adding the sausage sounds like an interesting twist.

I can see pros and cons. I am a coupon user, so I obviously enjoy getting a bargain. But I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for these businesses. If you get something for 1/2 price, why would you go back and want to pay full price the next time? I can see people not returning to the business until next time they get a coupon to go back and if the business loses money on these things...I just don't think it's a good idea for them to get mixed up with them. They need to let good food and service be their hook, not coupons.

One of my co-workers is "supposedly" on a lo-carb type diet (after watching her eat pastries out of the vending machine all week, I have to differ, but anyway). She does some really annoying things. Occassionally, we'll have pizza delivered here to the office. She will scrape the top off the pizza and toss the rest. I know...what's wrong with that???? Well, it takes her several pieces of pizza before she gets enough to eat...some folks don't get any. Another thing is that for office birthdays, we get chips, queso and guac from a local restaraunt. While we're all gathered around, she'll scoop a chip in the cheese or guac, then suck it off the chip and throw it away...ugh

In 2005, I was diagnosed with APL. I was locked up in the hospital for the first month of my treatment. That was the first time I had ever experienced 'hospital food'. While I found that most of it was tolerable, one of the things that bummed me out was that if I would order milk with a meal, by the time it got to my room, it was usually luke cool (milk should be drank ice cold in my opinion). Anyway one afternoon, a friend of mine came to see me and she had a back with her from a local brewery. I couldn't believe they let her sneak beer into my hospital room!!! Well, it wasn't beer, but she took one of the refillable glass jugs from the brewery and filled it with ice cold milk for me. I cried when I got that gift. I was so touched.

Ribeye and bacon-wrapped stuffed jalapenos are favorites in our house.

I'm curious about the Blooming onion that Texas Blues wrote about. How do you make them?

I've gotten 4 tubs of them for free (combining coupons with sales). I made tuna & noodles with it, used one in a pasta salad for the dressing. Mixed one with hamburger, beans, corn for a burrito stuffing and still have one left. I thought they tasted just fine. Not sure why all the animosity. Different strokes I guess.

Hot Fudge Sundae with salted almonds

It's one put out by my mom's church.

Mayo, onions and Wickles Pickles

I recently had duck corn dogs and duck fat fries that were pretty awesome!

I used to hate anything BBQ'd. Now I LOVE IT

I'm sorry it's been over 20 years since I've been there, so I don't have any recommendations about "where" to eat, but do have a suggestion about "what" to eat....conch!!! I think I had it every possible way you could have it...conch fritters, conch chowder, conch pizza etc. My favorite was the conch salad though...kind of a ceviche. Conch, onions, tomatoes, jalepenos, lime....simply divine.

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