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Fear and loathing in the groceries
Any "dinner" that comes premade in a box - frozen or shelf stable either one. Just can't handle the fact that people actually eat that stuff and think it's "food."
Beer Cola-Can Chicken
I've heard about this for years and never tried it. But OH MY SOUL!! I have GOT to try this now! Well, I'll assemble it and have my Honey grill it. The MEN do the grilling in this house. LOL It's time to do something new too! This is now on the menu for Saturday!
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
Most weekdays I'm a coffee and peanut butter toast kind of gal. Once in a while I'll live dangerously and add honey and bananas to my PB toast! LOL
Occasionally my Honey will want eggs, oatmeal or French toast for breakfast, then I will eat with him.
Weekends are WAY too crazy busy to even think about breakfast. If I have a batch of fresh, homemade muffins on the counter, I'll grab one of those though.
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Meals per month not cooked at home
We eat out once every week for our "date night."
I work hard on preparing meals for my family. But there are those occasional nights where it's gotten too late, or I've been too busy to think about dinner and we'll order out. So at the most, twice a week. But we try to keep it to just the date night.
Fear and loathing in the groceries
Any "dinner" that comes premade in a box - frozen or shelf stable either one. Just can't handle the fact that people actually eat that stuff and think it's "food."
Beer Cola-Can Chicken
I've heard about this for years and never tried it. But OH MY SOUL!! I have GOT to try this now! Well, I'll assemble it and have my Honey grill it. The MEN do the grilling in this house. LOL It's time to do something new too! This is now on the menu for Saturday!
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
Most weekdays I'm a coffee and peanut butter toast kind of gal. Once in a while I'll live dangerously and add honey and bananas to my PB toast! LOL
Occasionally my Honey will want eggs, oatmeal or French toast for breakfast, then I will eat with him.
Weekends are WAY too crazy busy to even think about breakfast. If I have a batch of fresh, homemade muffins on the counter, I'll grab one of those though.
Muffins!
Oh man I LOVE muffins! I actually contemplated starting my own muffin business and had a name picked out. I would still love to do that. I make them a lot to give as gifts.I never tried a blueberry / lemon combo though.
Yours sound delicious.
Picky eaters confess all (Oh, help me!)
I AM an in-law and have a precious daughter in law that is a wonderful cook. I would be devastated though if I knew she was miffed at me for something as small as my food preferences. I believe since they are your husband's parents, you ought to do what you can, while he still has them, to make them happy and comfortable in your home. His food preferences aren't something he's got against you, it sounds like it's just what the man likes. They won't always be around, and one day you'll want to look back and laugh about your FIL's love affair with green beans. It's an old person thing, I'd say - let it go, and stick with pork chops and green beans as your best bet. You'll be his favorite daughter in law, and he'll love coming for dinner! ;-)
Please help me find the perfect knife!!
My daughter just bought me one of those for my birthday and she got it at Steve and Barry's. It's a sports store in Midwest MI. My Honey is a knife collector and when he saw it, he said, "That looks like an Ulu knife." But it's actually called a Mezzaluna. It came with a small cutting board w/ a slight well in the center. It's mostly designed for cutting fresh herbs, but I've used it to chop other things as well. I'm sure it didn't set her back any more than $20.
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
Wow this list makes me seem like a heart attack waiting to happen!
Milk
Butter
Eggs
some sort of leftover
Fresh veggies
Beer Cola-Can Chicken
What would be the specifics for cooking this in an oven?
Thanks!
Beer Cola-Can Chicken
This is a spin off of the original Beer Can Chicken that is absolutely fabulous!!! Why would you want to stray from the original?? I suggest you try this with a half a can of beer with some onions and peppers added, rather than a "cola." That is unless your religion prohibits the use of acohol, but then that never stopped you before. HA HA
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
I'm generally not a breakfast person. I usually have to be awake for a few hours before I want to eat anything. And then, if I have something, it must be savory, not sweet. Cottage cheese, eggs, toast, cold pizza all do the trick. I don't like pancakes, waffles, french toast, maple syrup. Call me a freak--my family does.
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
Weekdays is a couple slices of toast with butter, perhaps of the peanut variety, or some yogurt with juice. Now that I am working days again, I need something to eat to keep me going, but not too much or I feel sluggish and have an upset tummy all day. Weekends, if I sleep in, or the family wants something nice, I will make brunch, going all out. Omlets, poached eggs, french toast, bacon, fried potatoes, pancakes, some sort of mix of these things. :)
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
just had a muffin split in 2 (English as you Americans would say!) bottom half smeared with hot chilli sauce, a fried egg, crispy bacon, maple syrup, topped with avocado mashed into the top half of the muffin - that should keep me going until supper-time. Oh yes, and a proper black coffee.
Beer Cola-Can Chicken
I'm trying this recipe out tonight. Wish me luck!
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
Fage 2% Total yogurt
Eggland's Best eggs
4% cottage cheese
water
fresh fruit
plus:
empty mugs ready for ice cold milk to be poured in :)
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
champagne
beer
milk
cheese
butter
condiments that need to be refridged after opening
sour cream
leftovers
veggies/fruits
Please help me find the perfect knife!!
Target has a great selection of economy knives that won't run you more than $50. I've seen Cuisinart, Henckels, and Wusthoff. Also, although I'm not a fan of Rachael Ray, I've tried the Furi knives that she endorses and they're pretty good. My aunt bought a set and she really loves them.
I've a fan of Wusthoff Classic, which are a little pricier, but well worth it. For me, it was worth it to spend $100 on a knife that I love and I know I'll have for a long time. Think of it as an investment. (Plus, they just look sort of cool!!)
Meals per month not cooked at home
We love to eat. And we especially love to eat out. However, we usually have at least two of our six kids living home with us, most of whom are teenagers. Satisfying those adolescent appetites can start to resemble the feeding of an Army, so the vast majority of our meals are prepared by me. Of course, since we love good quality, interesting food, even eating at home doesn't necessarily save us much money. It varies quite a bit, but I'd say, when we've got kids at home, we eat out and/or take-out about once or twice a week on average.
But we're also lucky enough to get weeks at a time where all the kids are away, and it's just the two of us. That's when we tend to eat out a lot, especially fine dining. At those times, we often find ourselves eating out 10-15 times per week.
We've noticed that eventually, we reach the point of eating out so much that we suffer from restaurant-food burn-out. It gets so neither one of us can abide the thought of another meal that isn't home cooked.
Does anybody else who goes on those high-frequency dining-out jags experience that?
Meals per month not cooked at home
Wow, I'm in the camp of a lot by comparison. I live on Long Island so the dining options are wonderful. Monday to Thursday, I prepare all of my meals, cereal and fruit for breakfast, bagged sandwich for lunch and home prepared dinner. Friday-Sunday, up to 2 meals a day are out. This always includes a stop at our local burrito bar where everything is prepared fresh and mostly organic, brown rice, whole wheat tortillas and tofu are also on the menu. It is my favorite meal of the week and I look forward to it and for less than $8.00 I am full for at least 8 hours with organic healthy and delicious food. We often have breakfast out one weekend day as well. We have a few local places that serve fresh healthy food always under $25 for 2 people and we are always too dull for lunch. The other meals are random (sushi, boulder creek, pubs, mexican, casual Italian but not expensive, always under $50 for two, unless its a holiday/b-day or anniversary and we go to a special (expensive) place. My boyfriend's apartment does not have a stove or an oven and we have a ton of delicious and reasonably priced options nearby so on our weekends together we enjoy going out. His birthday is next week so I asked him to pick a special place for dinner and he jokingly asked "What's wrong with Salsa Salsa"?
Please help me find the perfect knife!!
oxo makes a terrific six and a half inch santoku for 20 bucks.
Please help me find the perfect knife!!
This is the knife I use the most in my kitchen. http://int.jahenckels.com/453jahenckels_international
I do get annoyed with the people who say you only need "one knife." I'm sorry, but I don't use the same knife for chopping veggies and herbs as I do for peeling fruits, slicing bread or carving meat.
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
Weekdays and weekends for me are pretty much the same: either Nature's Path Kamut Puffs or pumpkin spice french toast with cranberry sauce. Odd, but tasty!
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
My sourdough starter
Savoy cabbage
Spicy salsa
Almond milk
Margarine (not mine but my sister uses a tub every two weeks [!!])
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
During the week I try to set a good example for the kids, I'm big on having some protein for breakfast so I always try to get an egg, in some form, down their little gullets. I also have, at any given time, 6-7 tupperware containers full of washed, cut-up fruit in the fridge, which makes it easy to toss some on our plates in the morning. I love cheese omelets, oatmeal, chocolate malt-o-meal, hotcakes and turkey bacon...those are our weekday staples.
On weekends we usually head to out to eat for breakfast and we eat a lot heartier foods, corned beef hash, hash browns, eggs, turkey sausage. Sunday is always hotcake day with either turkey sausage or turkey bacon....I like to try a different hotcake every Sunday....last Sunday we had strawberry hotcakes, next Sunday we'll be having buckwheat with apple topping (or chocolate chip, pumpkin, sweet potato, blueberry, peach, whole wheat hotcakes, hotcakes made with cornmeal, banana pecan, german, pb&j hotcakes, buttermilk hotcakes....we are a family obsessed with our Sunday hotcakes.)
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
@Josdean - I'm from the Pgh area and I never knew that EnP was a family owned gig! Since there were so many around the way Denny's was (my first job :P), I just assumed that they weren't a regional chain.
Picky eaters confess all (Oh, help me!)
I believe the inlaws are just trying wield some power and have some sort of control over you (which it sounds like they do). Personnally, I wouldn't give in to their demands and make whatever you want. If you don't break this power-trip, they will control you forever, and in other aspects of your life where your husband is concerned.
If you are uncomfortable with this, try making something along the lines of what they have served you in the past, then gradually break the vicious cycle.
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
a chunk of parmesan
eggs
milk
plain greek yogurt or skyr
limes
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
Flavored coffee creamer
eggs
Skim milk
Condiments (mustard, soy sauce, pickles, etc.)
Beer
Muffins!
@Perk - Sorry! I ran out of broom fuel and with the rising costs of said fuel, I had to walk back home. :-(
Name 5 THINGS ALWAYS in Your FRIDGE!
Dijon mustard
Deli mustard
Thai Sweet & Chili Sauce
Chinese dumpling vinegar
Saucisson de sic
Picky eaters confess all (Oh, help me!)
@Heart Oh, believe me, we've had lots of conversations about food, and quite often it's a discussion of what one or the other doesn't like. Onions, cucumbers, anything in the cabbage family, aspargus, artichokes, black pepper, celery seeds, mint, olive oil, anything spicy or vinegary, etc. Every time I see them, it seems another item is added to the list, and I do keep a list. But this is the first time she's said "this is what he DOES like."
She said something along the lines of how he's not really a picky eater, it's just that there's a very short list of what he likes, and it makes her shopping and cooking easier because she doesn't have to deal with a variety of things. No need to use recipes, because most of what's going to be there, they don't like. For example, neither of them likes any spices at all, so when she makes pork chops, she just cooks them plain in the George Foreman grill.
I don't think she meant it in a mean way about my cooking, but a short time before, DH had been talking about some spices I had ordered online, and shortly afterwards, she made the comment about how they don't like any spices at all. I really think it was an around-the-block way of telling me that they're prefer it if I would cook differently for them.
DH is going to have coffee with them tomorrow morning. He'll probably get more info, considering I've asked him to find out for sure that FIL likes steak, and to find out if there are any particular steaks he doesn't like.
Fear and loathing in the groceries
My hubby brings a lot of questionable items home to eat; but then again, since I am not eating them, why judge? However, I thought I could vent a little =) Number 10 cans of nacho cheese, that he eats cold with chips. Frozen Chicken Pot pies are stocked up in our freezer like they are the next life saver no one knows about...I don't even remember why he bought so many...I think there was a sale; go figure. He also loves to douse his pizza products (slices or calzones or stromboli) in ranch dressing; not just dip a piece into the dressing...drowns it!
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
@Josdean........I just knew there was a great story behind that name and I was right. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be on the lookout and I'll think of you when I get my first strawberry creme. ;-D
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Website: http://cookingwiththepreacherswife.blogspot.com/
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About: I am a Baptist preacher's wife / foodie! That makes a good combination since Baptists love to eat so much! LOL
Favorite foods: BBQ ribs, Ribeye steak (medium please), Hot wings, Roasted veggies, fried green beans, Hot fudge pudding cake over ice cream, hot apple dumplings... Man, I have to stop, I'm gaining weight just listing all this!
Last bite on earth: Would have to be a nice tender rack of BBQ Baby back ribs.
We eat out once every week for our "date night."
I work hard on preparing meals for my family. But there are those occasional nights where it's gotten too late, or I've been too busy to think about dinner and we'll order out. So at the most, twice a week. But we try to keep it to just the date night.