If Obama and McCain were food... What food would they be?
Obama is a chocolate-vanilla swirl soft-serve ice cream
McCain is a rootbeer float
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Favorite summer food- now and from childhood?
I have to agree. I grew up in RI and worked summers at a farm stand and my parents had a garden. I loved and still love fresh corn on the cob. Now, tied with corn on the cob is fresh tomatoes. Yummy!
Smell-O-Vision: what movie would you choose?
Harry Potter where the magical feast appears or Peter Pan for the same reason.
How was your school's hot lunch?
In elementary school (K-6 in my town) the most memorable meal was square cardboard-tasting pizza. One girl use to peal the cheese off and lick, yes lick the red sauce off the "Cardboard". Along with the pizza, there would typically be an over-cooked, can-tasting, mushy vegetable, and a fudgey brownie with nuts (I'd pick the nuts off).
In high school, the cafe had pizza, bagels, fries, potato-puffs, and otis spunkmire cookies. Most people ate either the potato puffs with ketchup OR 3 cookies.
How could I forget the most memorable (but not tasty) thing served in grade school, middle school, high school, and college: Playdough-textured mashed "potatoes."
What lunch box did you have - what was in it?
For preschool I has a Rainbow Bright plastic lunch boc and in First grade I had a Care Bear don't specifically remember what my mom packed for me, but I do remember the sandwiches were typically soggy from either jelly, lettuce, or tomato.... AND I also remember that no one wanted to trade with me.
Cold Cereal Confessions
Snack Cereal: Reeses peanut butter puffs (no milk)
Healthy: Special K Protein Plus (10g protein in 3/4c) (no milk)
Growing up: Complete Cereal, Frosted Mini Wheats, or Craklin' Oat Bran left in a little milk until soggy!
Birthday Cake
I do not really like cake, cookies, or bar treats. I do enjoy a variety of pies. However, I LOVE ice cream. I always get ice cream on my birthday (as well as every night). I'm from RI, and the Ice Cream Machine in Cumberland, RI makes the best peanut butter ice cream. I get three scoops of pb ice cream and chocolate jimmies on a waffle cone for my birthday~ YUM!
Mmm.... Fiddleheads!
I enjoy fiddleheads a few times each spring. Typically, I steam them and then toss them is a little garlic and olive oil. I add the S&P at the table. Yum
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Fresh Corn on the Cob: Your Favorite Preps and Recipes?
I live in Florida, and have always had locally grown, and imported corn on the cob, grilled, steamed, boiled, I've even had it cooked inside the husk in tar (that was really tasty, seriously). But the sweetest, and most flavorful corn I've ever eaten came from the Connecticut valley in Massachusetts. A friend of mine had a vegatable stand in Massachusetts at one time, and he told me that the best corn came from the Connecticut Valley. So when the crop came in, I rode along with him to score some corn. We ate some of it raw off the cob, I have never tasted corn this sweet, and delicious ever, and it was even better cooked. I can't wait to get some more.
Fresh Corn on the Cob: Your Favorite Preps and Recipes?
This isn't really a recipe but is our kids' fave way to butter their ears of corn:
We take one slice of bread, THICKLY butter one side, then each one uses it to butter his/her corn. You just curl it up sorta and rub it up and down your ear (of corn), the pass it to the next guy. It is a very neat way to get the job done, but then you fight over who gets to eat that lusciously flavored slice of bread at the end....
Fresh Corn on the Cob: Your Favorite Preps and Recipes?
my parents are from Egypt and a favorite summertime treat is one they bought from street vendors as kids. The corn is shucked and put directly on a low flame grill until it's pretty charred. A good, midsummer ear of corn will become sweeter than candy when grilled this way!
Cooking by Sound -- Anyone?
I definitely use my ears just as much as my other senses in the kitchen. I have a music ed degree as well as a passion for the kitchen. So, cmtigger, I hear you on the water bottle thing. My roommates, also musicians, don't share my cooking prowess, but at least they don't think I'm crazy for knowing how different foods sound.
Cooking by Sound -- Anyone?
I realized the other day that I do a lot of stuff by sound. It's no surprise, since I'm a music teacher. Not only do I listen to the sound of stuff cooking (I just was listening tonight to see if the turkey tenderloin and potatoes were cooking right) but I listen to the sound of filling things up. I realized the other day that I know that my water bottle is about full from the way the pitch of the water changes.
How was your school's hot lunch?
My high school's food was unfathomably bad--rubbery chicken nuggets and pizza soaked in grease. College food, on the other hand, while tiresome, is much better. We have salmon, flank steak, ribs--all good stuff. :)
How was your school's hot lunch?
I am so the outlier. I can say that most of what everyone describes was totally absent on my high school's lunch menu. I gruadted less than five years ago, so the whole "healthy lunch program" was just going into effect.
We had buffalo chicken sandwiches on Wednesday and chicken tenders on Thursdays. French fries, pizza and wraps too...sounds like standard fair, right? It was all air-fried, low fat and whole wheat. Mostly the least popular too...we had a sushi chef come in on Tuesdays, and we had a daily stir fry station. The salad bar was enormous, and they had a make-you-own smoothie bar. Grilled/roasted veggies were always an option and never soggy. The hamburgers, grilled chicken sandwiches and veggie burgers were also tasty. I do miss the make-your-own nacho bar with fresh salsa and avocado slices!!
I also went to public school, in case anyone was wondering. I've heard that they now accept credit and debit cards in the cafeteria and/or an ID card with stored dining dollars that's controlled online--and subsequently allows parents to SEE what their children are buying. Kinda Big Brother-ish.
Favorite summer food- now and from childhood?
The memories of hand cranking ice ceam in my grandparents' back yard flood over me. The "ice cream" sold in stores today is no comparison. My favorite was fresh peach. Everyone raves over Georgia peaches; but growing up in central Alabama, you can't get any better than Chilton county peaches.
If Obama and McCain were food... What food would they be?
Obama would be a Moon Pie, no one's totally sure what's in the middle but it just sounds soooooo darn appealing. McCain would be a Lorna Doone, not as offensive as some, but still kinda meh and grandma-y.
Favorite summer food- now and from childhood?
From my hot and steamy St. Louis childhood summers:
barbecued ribs, made in the old stone grill in our back yard
watermelon
Corn on the cob
tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes...
"Bomb pops" from the ice cream man
and frozen custard from Ted Drewes! (Preferably a hot fudge sundae, jumbo size!).
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