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Chewing the Fat: Batali and Bourdain's Final Bites
Indian, hands down
I don't have a ___ in my kitchen and I don't want one.
Waffle maker. I know I'd use it once or twice when I first get it and then it would be something I just have to find room to store.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I had no idea they were even off the shelf.
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My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
So last year, I dragged my Australian husband out to get a Shamrock Shake, due to the nostalgia factor for me. I thought he should experience this as a newly minted American citizen. No trouble finding them here in CA. However, the one's we got were somehow strawberry mixed with the tiniest amount of mint. I was so angry. I wrote a letter to the manager of that store and got some free Big Mac coupons. Whoo hoo. (note lack of !).
The biggest memory I have of Shamrock shakes from when I was a kid, was having green bowel movements after drinking them (no joke). I'm sure/hope they are using less toxic dyes now.
Chewing the Fat: Batali and Bourdain's Final Bites
Indian, hands down
I don't have a ___ in my kitchen and I don't want one.
Waffle maker. I know I'd use it once or twice when I first get it and then it would be something I just have to find room to store.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I had no idea they were even off the shelf.
Dinner Tonight: Grandmother's Egg Salad (Sandwich)
Funny what an individual taste issue this is, I just like it simple, with celery and mayo, I feel any kind of onion or shallot adds way too much tang and relish, don't even get me started. Egg salad is such a simple pure food....I need to make my own mayo soon, I've never done it and I just made butter this past weekend, so mayo is next.
New Food Documentary, Food Inc.
I saw it at Toronto. It was depressing and fascinating. It actually made me cry for the future of our country and it's families for many reasons. It did not tackle the obesity problem - that wasn't the objective but it's obviously related. One of the most heartbreaking scenes was watching a low income family try to by vegtables at a supermarket when it's more cost- effcient for them to go to a drive thru and order off the dollar menu.
Photo of the Day: What Is This?
donut was my only guess, boy was I wrong!
Fresh & Easy? Not So Simple
I've been to two different ones, Eagle Rock and Van Nuys and the experiences were completly different. Eagle Rock was well-lit and well stocked with few customers. Van Nuys location was dark, crowded and everything seemed to be either on it's expiration date or ready to expire the next day. The bread we bought there was due to expire within a day of buying it, how is anyone going to eat a loaf of bread in one day?
Restaurant Shirts Are the New Concert Tee
Resto T-shirts not cool, don't be a tool.
Paula Deen or Serious Eats Trying to Kill Us?
I was too busy eating my ice cream and missed the article about the deep fried bacon. I can't imagine anything better fried + bacon = heaven.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
I tried these last night. They were extremely tasty but because I didn't measure the sweet potato (I just used two medium ones and assumed it was one cup), they came out very flat...not biscuit-like at all but we loved them. They were more like pancakes that you could pick up with your hands :-)
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 23: What's Your Ideal Diet Breakfast?
If that's what you like, who is anyone to tell you not to.
I'm on a homemade smoothie kick lately. Frozen blueberries, banana, non-fat milk and non-fat yogurt. I whip it up in the blender and drink it on the road. It does however lack the salty factor. :-)
Cupcakes in LA
Leda's is unique. Most of their cakes are minature (two bites), except for the kids cupcakes that are regular size - funny right? The flavor of the adult cupcakes are out of this world and often special like key lime and blood orange. The ccakes I've had from the famous Sprinkles were dry and not impressive to me. I think the Leda's cupcakes benefit from being smaller in that they don't dry out and most of them contain a small amount of excellent filling. Biggest negative is their new and extremely ridculously limited operating hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
Open for pre-order pick up only
Orders must be placed 24 hrs in advanced
24 cupcake minimum per flavor
Friday and Saturday
Open 10:30 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday and Monday
Closed
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I really hope Mother's Butter Cookies make the reissue. I'm down to my last half dozen.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Dang!!! Kellogg is taking over the cookie industry!!! Wish they would do it right though. Gaucho's are better then Nutter Butter by Nabisco. Recipes can be duplicated... if the ingredients are the same i.e. flour, sugar, butter, whole mike. But when you start cutting corners by using HFCS, margarine and such to make it...Safe and better for you.. LOL. Cookies are desserts not health food. The name Mother's Cookies instilled home made goodness and taste not artifical stuff. My Mother used the basics. We did not have margarine or High Fructose Corn Syrup. Back to basics, please.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I'm hoping for the return of Flaky Flix, Choc. Chip Angel, and those heavenly peanut butter Gouchos
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I used to deliver railcars to Mothers Cookies, flour and corn oil I think, in Oakland in the early 90's and about once a week my conductor would come back to the engine with a box of Circus cookies which I would eat until I was sick. Got all excited when I went into a store the other day and saw my precious Circus Cookies!!!! I have a reason to live! Oh and did I mention the Iced Oatmeals?
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I was so happy to see them back. I love the vanilla cream and english teas. I tried other cookies, but nothing even came close. They were on display in the checkout line, I purchased 3 pkgs. The taste is a little different, but still just great. Thank you Kellogg
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
I am so glad to see Mothers Cookies again!!! They are the best! I hope they will bring back the original Flaky Flix and the shortbread Chocolate Chip cookies!
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
We bought the Circus Animals and the Taffy cookies at Save-Mart. Considering we had zero, these were real close. I had purchased all I could find when they went bankrupt and while the animals are not quite right, the Taffy passed muster. My husband is still mourning the loss of the Gaucho's though. Maybe the cookies need the Bay Area air and Michigan just doesn't cut it for the exact taste.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Well, I just bought a bag of the Circus Animals and they're not the same. They're actually pretty damned close, though, and if I hadn't just eaten a bag a few months ago, I might be hard-pressed to tell the difference. I actually think they're better, though: Less-waxy icing, and a slightly more-vanilla cookie taste. And zero trans fats. (Still loaded with HFCS, though... not that you were expecting health food.)
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
"Come on they're fine" is what my mother used to tell me back in 1968 when I wanted only Levi's and she insisted on shopping Penney's for jeans!
(Our Penneys didn't carry Levi's then)
You can have all of mine!
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Oh come on...they're fine. They aren't the same thing, but they're close.
I have found them at local Safeway stores in San Francisco, but their store displays SUCK. In fact, the local store Andronicos had every single one of the products available and well-stocked before Safeway did.
Safeway's selling these for $3 while Andronicos seems to average around $4.50.
My point is simple...the Mother's Cookies we all know and love is gone. Get over it. Kellogg's has come VERY close...and they're still around.
God Bless Iced Oatmeal. :-d
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Don't bother!! I just bought and tried (5 minutes ago) my favorite Mothers
"Taffy Cookies" and my second favorite " Circus Animal Cookies", they aren't even CLOSE to the real Mothers Cookies. How sad, except that I hate Kelloggs, and now don't have to worry about buying Mothers from them. The cookies aren't terrible, just not as good as before!
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
O No what about Mother's Sugar Cookies!
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Double Fudge, please, please...
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
They have a multi cookie small pack on the shelf already, like you'd use for kids lunches. It has frosted circus animals in it, which are pink and white and have sprinkles.... they taste NASTY!
I hope this is just a test run and when the big bags come out it'll be better.
Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Thank goodness! I need their English Tea cookies. We've been settling for the Famous Amos and Oreo "Golden" sandwich creams, but they're just not the same. My grandmother used to call the English Tea cookies "vomit cookies," because they don't seem very filling, so you just keep eating them all day long, until you vomit.
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
Definitely a fond childhood memory... not so much as an adult... Only try one if you've never had one, otherwise just keep the memory...
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
I live in Western NY. SO far I have been to 2 Mcdonald's for these Shamrock Shakes.. one location was out - meaning ran out of the shakes, and the other had it! so I had my one for the year.. They are delicious!
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
i went on a similar sojourn, and finally went DIY: http://flavorwire.com/14132/mchack-we-shamrock-ourselves
have to say, shamrock shakes are even better w/ the addition of a little creme de menthe!
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
They're not the best shakes in the world, but I still have fond childhood memories of the McDonald's Shamrock Shakes and wish I could find them too!
While we're on the subject, does anyone remember the cherry pies that McDonald's would sell to celebrate President's Day (previously called "Washington's Birthday?) Now those were delicious!
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
I had one this weekend in NJ.
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
My high school would sell our own version's of Shamrock shakes as a fundraiser for one of the clubs. They didn't have any mint in them, but we waited al year to taste those shakes. So good!
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
If you want one with a kick, there's always this...
http://www.food2.com/blog/2009/03/06/weekend-cocktail-the-irish-pirate/
My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster
FYI... I grew up on Shamrock Shakes in the great city of Chicago. To the person who thinks this is an inappropriate topic for SE'ers... you clearly have not had one. You probably don't know that an Egg McMuffin is one of the best breakfast sandwiches ever made either.
I moved from Chicago to Miami and also got nasty looks when asking for a Shamrock Shake. I thought it was a the norm come March. I then moved to NY where they don't have them either.
I'm going to give you a little tip to quench your taste buds that I discovered when I was craving one...., but it sure isn't a Shamrock Shake......
Go to your local Starbuck's and order a green tea frapaccino (no whipped cream)- have them add mint flavoring. The green tint and the mint is all you need to appreciate a Shamrock Shake if you cannot have one this St. Patrick's Day season. I know what I'm having today.
New Food Documentary, Food Inc.
I just saw this at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO. It will show in NYC/LA in June and wide release the end of that month. This should be required viewing for EVERYONE ... especially the politicians in DC.
Restaurant Shirts Are the New Concert Tee
"I still go to concerts but rarely buy the shirts anymore. I'd like to claim I've outgrown this, but in all honesty, the obsession remains—only now restaurant shirts have replaced the concert tee."
I'm still a fan of rock tee shirts. I wear some restaurant shirts but all that often. But I agree, restaurant tee shirts are replacing rock tee shirts in some areas.
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So last year, I dragged my Australian husband out to get a Shamrock Shake, due to the nostalgia factor for me. I thought he should experience this as a newly minted American citizen. No trouble finding them here in CA. However, the one's we got were somehow strawberry mixed with the tiniest amount of mint. I was so angry. I wrote a letter to the manager of that store and got some free Big Mac coupons. Whoo hoo. (note lack of !).
The biggest memory I have of Shamrock shakes from when I was a kid, was having green bowel movements after drinking them (no joke). I'm sure/hope they are using less toxic dyes now.