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The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
"I would eat ANY of these marvelous burger creations except for the guberburger....peanut butter on beef? Not feeling that one at all!"
lol... This is the most appealing burger on here IMHO...
"How about the "other than beef" catagory....turkey, bison, etc."
and to that, I second HeartofGlass-- I'm vegan. There are a ton of veggie burgers out there, both "fast food" and grocery store options
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_chain.asp
http://www.peta.org/feat/goldbun/1.html
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_can.asp
In any case, I think it's the toppings that make it exciting, and the ethnic variations give you alot of options. One simple one I don't see here is the diner option topped with a big fat onion ring. The best veggie burger I ever had was at Kelsey's, when I had it it was served on a sourdough chiabata-style bun with smoked mozzarella & garlic mayonnaise
Cooking for someone on medical marijuana?
If the question is what to make with the butter-- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are delicious! but any quick breads are great for taste pleasure as well as nutritional value-- try carrot, zucchini, apple, banana, apricot,,, add nuts for healthy fats & protein.
If the concern is what to eat in general-- quite often, sick people do not feel like eating. I am recovering from an eating disorder, and have almost no hunger cues & feel full quickly, so the trick is to consume high-calorie low-density foods to make weight-gain easier. Find tasty ways to pack in calories, fat & nutrients-- smoothies are the best-- include icecream, cream, or high-cal nondairy milks (soy, almond) for easy-to-drink calories, nut/seed butters, flax, walnut, or coconut oil for fats, antioxidant-rich berries, probiotic yogurt...
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Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
Cereal bars are an excellent solution for using up cereal you don't like... My 2 roommates and I had a never-ending bag of Puffed Wheat *gag* and I made them into bars using peanut butter, corn syrup & chocolate chips. Didn't take long for us to devour those!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
"I would eat ANY of these marvelous burger creations except for the guberburger....peanut butter on beef? Not feeling that one at all!"
lol... This is the most appealing burger on here IMHO...
"How about the "other than beef" catagory....turkey, bison, etc."
and to that, I second HeartofGlass-- I'm vegan. There are a ton of veggie burgers out there, both "fast food" and grocery store options
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_chain.asp
http://www.peta.org/feat/goldbun/1.html
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_can.asp
In any case, I think it's the toppings that make it exciting, and the ethnic variations give you alot of options. One simple one I don't see here is the diner option topped with a big fat onion ring. The best veggie burger I ever had was at Kelsey's, when I had it it was served on a sourdough chiabata-style bun with smoked mozzarella & garlic mayonnaise
Cooking for someone on medical marijuana?
If the question is what to make with the butter-- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are delicious! but any quick breads are great for taste pleasure as well as nutritional value-- try carrot, zucchini, apple, banana, apricot,,, add nuts for healthy fats & protein.
If the concern is what to eat in general-- quite often, sick people do not feel like eating. I am recovering from an eating disorder, and have almost no hunger cues & feel full quickly, so the trick is to consume high-calorie low-density foods to make weight-gain easier. Find tasty ways to pack in calories, fat & nutrients-- smoothies are the best-- include icecream, cream, or high-cal nondairy milks (soy, almond) for easy-to-drink calories, nut/seed butters, flax, walnut, or coconut oil for fats, antioxidant-rich berries, probiotic yogurt...
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
Wow, first of all I have to say lay off Tyler for gaining weight. Holy crap ladies, you would not tollerate those kind of comments about a woman.
When I first started watching Emeril I thought he was very sexy/cute. The major determining factor for me is definately personality-- I love Guy Fieri, and I soooooooo love Duff Goldman! These are guys you know would be fun in and out of the kitchen! While Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone and the like are very physically attractive, they lack personality big-time. I think Ramsay is great too-- he is all fire! And isn't this poll about heat?
Unfortunately, none of the FN men compare to the sex appeal of the hottest woman on the network-- Nigella Lawson! She exudes sensuality and emphasises the look, taste and texture of food. Show me a man who makes food that appealing!
Pie Lollipops
This is nothing. On the show Road Tasted on the Food Network the Deen brothers went to The Blonde Giraffe, where they make piepops... chocolate-dipped key lime pie. Yes.
Taste Test: Milks Not From a Cow
I'm vegan, by ethical choice, so I've tried many un-milks... Most non-vegans I know who have tried soymilk prefer Silk for its milk-like texture, very smooth. I like it too but it's expensive so I usually buy President's Choice Organics, which is fine. Almost everyone I know quite likes any kind of chocolate soymilk. And pretty much any plain or vanilla soymilk is good on cereal. Almond Breeze is good, particularly for baking, as are many other varieties of un-milks... I have only ever used oatmilk in baking. I have never tried hemp milk due to my experience with hemp "icecream" (Cool Hemp), which is completely disgusting. Rice Dream is good, it is like skim milk, but the nutritional value of rice milk is no where near that of soymilk, so I stick with that. In any case, it is completely bizarre for human beings to be drinking the milk of other animals... so whatever un-milk you choose, you are better off --both nutritionally and psychologically!
How Do You Define a Grilled Cheese Sandwich?
OOOOOH, I love the "Honey Pot" idea! I love anything that combines savoury & sweet. So with that I suggest...
Good bread is important, something like sourdough...
REAL cheese is a must, it makes a world of difference.
Mozzarella with mango chutney
Gouda with marmalade
Cream cheese with cherry jam
Havarti on raisin bread
Goat cheese with red pepper jelly
Old white cheddar with apricot jam
Old cheddar with Granny Smith
Cheddar with grape jelly
Cheddar with apple butter
Cheddar, dipped in maple syrup...
mbhebert SERIOUSLY... Wonder Bread & Velveeta? That' s not lunch, that's revolting.
I also recommend everyone try cooking a grilled cheese Benny & Joon style...
How many times a day do you eat?
I too am tiny with an insane metabolism... I'm too busy during the day to bother eating, and I'm rarely hungry. I'd rather go through my day doing what needs to be done, work, gym/bike, and social stuff, and then relax at the end of the day with a nice meal. I eat whatever I want & as much as I want at that one meal. I hate the idea of eating all day if I'm not even hungry... By the end of the day I am hungry & food tastes so good. I never feel lethargic during the day & always have lots of energy.
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
When my sister & I went backpacking around Europe we were on a VERY limited budget... many times we arrived by bus in our next foriegn city, late at night, hungry & unfamiliar. I remember eating peas & corn cold out of the can after shopping at the 24-hour food mart in Barcelona... Dining on red wine & dark chocolate and jumping on the beds in our Paris hotel room... Eating Brie out of the package with a Swiss Army knife... Popping Pringles & chugging Fruitopia at 6am after a night of dancing & drinking in London...
Definately pints of icecream, gelato, sorbet, etc, many nights watching movies with my best friend, or doing a late-night "icecream run" with my sister & splitting a litre of Oreo...
I used to bake peanut butter cookies & eat them out of the pan
Pickles, pickled beets, pickled onions, relish, sauerkraut, olives, salsa, pasta sauce, condensed tomato soup, curried spinach, mushy peas, pie filling, peanut butter, jam, whipped topping, salad dressing, eggless mayonnaise, ketchup, bbq sauce... and yes, margarine...
PS I'm totally underweight, so I can justify eating an "entire" anything, including bags of cookies, a McCain cake, a frozen cream pie :)
'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
I'm underweight so I eat alot of things people might find gross...
Margarine right out if the container
Microwaved carrots drenched in salad dressing...
Anything I can eat the whole thing of myself--
a jar of sweet pickles
a pint of soy icecream or sorbet
a brick of soy cheese
a pkg of dried apricots
a bag of gummies
a can of saag...
Finger foods you can eat one at a time--
wasabi peas
raisins
yogurt raisins
carob chips...
Slim Jim Shortage in Effect
I think the two can be veiwed as seperate. It's a tragedy that people lost their lives in this accident. It's beyond funny that the Slim Jim plant exploded. If you sodium nitrate addicts can't wait until August to restock the dried meat snack cupboard, maybe you could consider a healthier option...
http://www.veganessentials.com/catalog/primal-sticks-meatless-beef-sticks.htm
Deep-Fried Peeps
Ewwwwww, they look like squaw. Eeep! Peeps!
Favorite frozen entrees?
Amy's Organics Macaroni & Soy Cheese
Amy's Organics Black Bean Vegetable Enchiladas
Amy's Organics Tofu Vegetable Lasagne
Amy's Organics Vegetable Pot PIe
Amy's Organics Veggie Loaf
Amy's Organics Baked Ziti
Tofurky Vegetarian Feast
Amy's Organics Margherita Pizza
Amy's Organics Ravioli Bowl
Amy's Organics Cheese Tamale Verde
Amy's Organics Brown Rice & Vegetables Bowl
Amy's Organics Cheese Pizza Pocket
Amy's Organics Steel-Cut Oats Hot Cereal Bowl
Who Makes the Best Vanilla Ice Cream?
Natur-a Glace soy ice cream, Vanilla, is organic, creamy, and clean-tasting. I love the specks of real vanilla bean throughout. So good!
Serious Heat: We All Scream for Spicy Ice Cream
There's a gelato place in Vancouver called La Casa Gelato featuring 218 flavours of gelato, frozen yogurt & sorbetto at any time, with 500+ flavours in their history... Here's some flavours I found appealing!
Lemon Tarragon
Ginger Lychee
Red Currant Jalapeno
Red Bean
Curry
Pear & Gorgonzola
Basil Pernod
Apple Custard
Grand Marnier Chocolate
White Chocolate with Sun-dried Cranberry
Fig with Chocolate
Wasabi
Hot Chile
Jackfruit
Pineapple Coconut with Macadamias
Eaters and eating disorders
A brave comment, and an unfortunately relevant one. I have been battling AN/BN for eight years, and it manifested under similar circumstances, when I moved away from my hometown & everything familiar and went off to university. I have been in treatment three times and my weight has fluctuated up & down 60 pounds. There have been "better" times, and other times when I was so psychologically crippled I felt I couldn't possibly face another day. I'm in a spot now where I have a very supportive dietician who is helping me make some significant changes. It is a personal choice for me to eat a vegan diet, and get organic/local products when I can. There are so many wonderful things to experience, and I am so excited to continue to challenge myself with new and different foods. I wish anyone who is dealing with this disorder courage, and an honest love for life. Cling to whatever it is that inspires you, and I hope that food can be one of those things. "Fake it til you make it!"
Sunday Brunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Turnovers
Ah, no. I have one. It's a sandwich maker.
Five Star Meals in Just Four Cans
Check out the recipe book, A Man, A Can & A Plan! It's fun & pretty practical. I have veganized almost everything in there, which tends to increase the healthy-factor :)
Strange home-made pizza
My fave pizza toppings include grilled eggplant, zucchini, broccoli, mango, pineapple, mushrooms, FRESH tomato (not all together though)...
BBQ sauce on Pizza Pizza vegetarian pizza is the best.
I'm going to make an eggplant parm pizza: grilled eggplant on a cornmeal-based crust, with marinara sauce & lots of mozzarella! (soy mozzarella-- I'm vegan). But, ya, I've got great memories of dessert pizza
Help me remember this breakfast cereal
HONEYCOMB? The people who suggested this either have a really bad memory or an impared ability to register sweetness!
To me all the clues pointed toward puffed wheat too. I have a strange love/hate nostalgic memory of this cereal as well. Today, I would suggest making cereal bars from it, as I would most cereals!
The Gorilla cereal is Gorilla Munch, a healthy rip-off of Corn Pops by Nature's Path kid's line, EnviroKidz. Never been big on kid's cereals. I recommend the Heritage Flakes... especially for cereal bars! lol
http://www.naturespath.com/products/cold%20cereals?tid=5&brand=All&nutri=All
For all you cereal freaks out there, check these sites...
http://www.cereality.com/main.php
http://www.cerealicious.ca/index.asp
Long Flights - BYOF?
Fuck what other people think! Hopefully your own food won't give you swine flu or food poisining for one thing. I'm vegan so if I want something I bring my own eats.
How to Make a Choco Taco
This just proves to me what I already suspected. Home Depot fucking ROCKS.
What's So Weird About That?
PS Cream cheese & jam is not weird. I used to pick up lunch for the guys I worked with at a cycle shop & they always got cream cheese & jam on a toasted bagel
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
The pastrami burger that Lexalpha mentioned has been refined to perfection in the Salt Lake City area, where one-off restaurants and local chains started by Greek immigrants have made it their signature specialty. No hamburger aficionado has truly lived until he/she has experienced a Crown Burger.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
A Hole in One!!!! My grandfather used to make these for me when I was a very little girl, visiting him in Lancaster, PA. He was not a golfer. He was first-generation American of Swedish descent, who had grown up in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What about the "cheese skirt" burger? There are several places doing this, one notable is the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento:
http://www.eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/squeeze-inn/
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
HA! HA! OMG! some of these posts are freaking hilarious! Thanks!
okay...I have a serious thing for Chris Cosentino...always liked him on the Next Iron Chef...
Aaron is pretty yummy too....Has anyone seen his tats before???
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
OMG. I am a few days late on this, but have to say- I got this recipe from a friend here in Montana a few years back....and since I have been known to make a pan, and eat nearly 1/2 of it the same day (by myself). When I was recuperating from a hospital stay earlier this year, had no appetit, and lost maybe 12 pounds- the ONLY thing I wanted to eat was these bars- all day long. They are sooo easy it is crazy. BTW, I gained back the 12 pounds.....
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Now that was by far one of my favorite burger posts I've seen! Way to get them all in one blog.
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
Wow, as a lifelong Wisconsinite, I had no idea there were people out there who have never had a Special K bar (or Scotcheroo)! We also used Butterscotch chips with the chocolate in the topping and peanut butter in the bars. But in our family, the texture of Special K is preferred to Rice Krispies or other cereals. These are always snatched up quickly after ballgames and at parties. My husband's Aunt and Uncle are beekeepers and she has a similar recipe that uses honey and is softer and even more addictive than just the regular bars.
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
@figeemom - just so you know, the corn syrup we buy and use isn't high-fructose corn syrup. It's nearly 100% glucose. In High-F corn syrup some of the glucose has been converted to fructose, making High-F corn syrup about 50-50 frustose and glucose, which is what sucrose is. So my guess is that Lyle's is actually closer to HF corn syrup than regular corn syrup.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What a collection!!! I'm partial to steakhouse, kobe and fast food. Quite the variety, I know. :)
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
@everyone: Thanks for the kudos! This was a lot of fun to put together, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm sorry if it made you hungry, but dems da breaks!
@KingT: What would you say makes a '30s-style burger? Given what I've read about burger history, I'd guess it would either be a slider (since White Castle all but revolutionized burgerdom in the late '20s and up to WWII) or a slider-style burger (a little larger but cooked in a similar fashion).
@shanella: I'm only responsible for the first photo; the rest are Flickr Creative Commons–licensed or used with permission of the photographer. I know that any of Nick Solares's or Robyn Lee's are dSLRs (Nikon D300 and Canon 20D, respectively). For any of the others that link to Flickr, you can click through and look to see if the photographer has EXIF data for the photo. That should tell you camera make/model.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
@Adam what type of camera are you using??? These pics are awesome!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What about the 30's style? did I miss that?
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
We make these the same as maribel105 described - maybe slightly lighter tasting with the Rice Krispies than the Special K? They are either Scotchy Bars or Scotcharoos, depending on which side of the family you ask! Completely addictive, I have been known to share an entire pan with my sister (took us 2 days, but still...)!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
This may be its own category...or all of the above.
From my experience it was very difficult to finish both the pint and the burger.
A culinary experience indeed.
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
If you don't want the corn syrup, Lyle's golden syrup makes a good substitute. It is cane sugar syrup.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Very educational for us foodies Adam. Thanks for pointing out the difference between a slider and a mini burger...i always thought they were the same. I like the part about the fast food burger! lol! I think you're right about the kobe burger cause i enjoy the slight rubberiness of the minced meat against the soft bread in a regular burger...the kobe has enough brilliance to stand on it's own! What they call pimento cheese in the U.S. is what we call cheese paste in caribbean, and is often a combination of grated cheddar, mayo, grated onion, diced peppers and hot sauce, and is usually slathered between sandwich slices, cut into cute bite size triangles and served at parties.
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
The Deen Boys, Bobby and Jaime, are adorable! They got my vote!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Noosh: I was starting an entry on them, but got so pooped out by that time (it was about 4 a.m.) that I just ended at bean burgers. Will look for a good photo of an Aussie burger and include it.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
I realise that this is about American burgers, but just for interest: in Australia it's an "Aussie" burger if it has sliced beetroot on it (and probably onions too, though possibly raw). However, the essential ingredient to make a pizza an "Aussie pizza" is egg cracked over the top just before it's put in the oven.
We're a weird bunch.
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
If there's a hands down, all around winner - and I'm not saying there is - it's Alton Brown. He's smart. He's creative. He's talented . And he's adorable. .
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
Aarón Sánchez is just perfect.... he is so funny, talented, and down to business... I love his laugh... and the serious face he pulls on "Chopped" when he has to judge. I wish him the best. xoxox
Cooking for someone on medical marijuana?
For a healthful as well as tasty treat, I recommend a snack that all my crunchy-granola, back-to-the-land friends in Northern California make...they call them "Ganja Goo Balls", and they're essentially a healthy no-bake cookie. Cream the pot butter with some sweet substance (brown sugar, honey, agave nectar) and fold in any number of healthy and yummy things...start with rolled oats and add maybe some flax or wheat germ...add in some chopped dried fruit (dates are really good in this...figs, too)...some good quality unsalted nuts (walnuts are great for Omega-3s)...perhaps a little dark chocolate? I like to them roll the "batter" into a log and slice off into discs...keep in the refrigerator. Good luck, and I hope your friend finds some respite.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
Some great names here - I love Egyptian Eyes especially! But wow: over 200 comments, and apparently no one else calls them "top hats". (And yes, I always thought my mother invented them, too. :) )
Cooking for someone on medical marijuana?
The only thing I would add, which is probably something you totally know already, is, if possible, try to steer clear of simple sugars. This advice is strictly coming from a cancer diet perspective, and not a mm perspective. But since a lot of these tasty treats can be high in sugar, I thought I would chime in.
The way the docs explained it to me was that, a very watered down explanation of what a PET scan is, which is often used in cancer imaging these days, is that it's basically a mapping of glucose uptake. I mean, I guess it's intuitive: cells that are multiplying fast need energy to do so, and the simplest way for them to get it, is from simple sugars. (Yes, they get it other ways, too, but processed simple sugar is the cheapest, fastest way for the cells to get it.) So, if you can provide a diet that is rich in nutrition, and scant on processed sugar, then you're helping the body stay healthy, but you're not making the cancer's growth any easier.
Anyway, this is the theory that I learned from my parents' oncologists and nutritionists, and was a cornerstone of our family's eating habits when they had cancer.
Then again, eating sugar is better than not eating at all! So that advice gets thrown out the window when circumstances require.
I hope this isn't totally redundant to things you already know; and I hope it's helpful! Good luck!
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Cereal bars are an excellent solution for using up cereal you don't like... My 2 roommates and I had a never-ending bag of Puffed Wheat *gag* and I made them into bars using peanut butter, corn syrup & chocolate chips. Didn't take long for us to devour those!