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Look Who's Talkin': Comments, Quips, and Tips We Have Known and Loved
@Amandarama--I know!! The "Look Who's Talkin'" section used to be all about the funny, but not so much anymore. And there was some friggin' hilarious stuff in the "Sex is like pizza" thread. Of course, then maybe they would've had to just post all the comments.
Why We are Losing the Battle of the Bulge
*sigh*
@Grumpy Old Man--it's flint-knapping, not flint-napping!
*smacks GrumpyOldMan's knuckles with a ruler*
Why We are Losing the Battle of the Bulge
Faux maple syrup? *shudder* Perish the thought! Only the genuine grade B stuff for me. And what is "plane corn syrup"? Corn syrup you serve on a plane?
One of the purposes of the compass mirror is to use as a distress signal.
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Undercover Investigation Reveals Non-Vegan Food at Vegan Restaurants in Los Angeles
Of all the problems in today's world, this is cause for immediate concern? Excuse me while I don't panic.
Look Who's Talkin': Comments, Quips, and Tips We Have Known and Loved
@Amandarama--I know!! The "Look Who's Talkin'" section used to be all about the funny, but not so much anymore. And there was some friggin' hilarious stuff in the "Sex is like pizza" thread. Of course, then maybe they would've had to just post all the comments.
Why We are Losing the Battle of the Bulge
*sigh*
@Grumpy Old Man--it's flint-knapping, not flint-napping!
*smacks GrumpyOldMan's knuckles with a ruler*
Why We are Losing the Battle of the Bulge
Faux maple syrup? *shudder* Perish the thought! Only the genuine grade B stuff for me. And what is "plane corn syrup"? Corn syrup you serve on a plane?
One of the purposes of the compass mirror is to use as a distress signal.
Alton Fans: How about some metal for breakfast?
@Jerzee-- "I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."
Alton Fans: How about some metal for breakfast?
I dunno, but I loved the Dune reference in his last show on making punch: "He who controls the spice controls the universe!"
*sigh*
I heart Alton Brown.
Need suggestions for food for mission trip
Alton Brown has a great recipe for energy bars that are very nutritious and tasty, and would keep well under those circumstances. They consist of a whole wheat flour, wheat germ, soy protein powder, oats, lots of different dried fruits, and nuts. You could use nuts that are safe or just leave them out as you like.
Sex is like pizza...or is it...
Some people like to have pizza 7 days a week.
Food-Related Idioms from 'I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears'
How about the classic: "In vino veritas"?
Paula Deen's Husband Will Write 'My Delicious Life with Paula Deen'
I'm sure the book includes details about how many bypass surgeries he's had.
Shift in Beef Buying Habits - better taste / great cost!
I would love it if my grocery store started doing that. I hardly ever buy red meat because the taste compared with the price just isn't worth it.
Cooking hazards and other unpleasant side effects.
I've clogged up the garbage disposal with vegetable peelings more than once, and on another occasion had to fish tiny pieces of broken glass out of it. Not fun. So now, I save my vegetable peelings for stock instead. Problem solved.
@huneybumper--you poor thing! I'm holding my sides and giggling picturing you in an apron and half-melted wig, like a scene out of a bad horror movie. LOL!
What's Your Favorite Ice Cream Flavor
I think vanilla is underrated. I'll take a nice, rich french vanilla over other ice cream flavors a lot of times.
I also love Thrifty's strawberry cheesecake, and our local dairy's fresh peach in the summertime.
Not big on all the custom mix-ins at Coldstone, though. Also, I sampled their "Chocolate Cake Batter" last time we went there, and it tasted....just like chocolate cake batter. And not in a good way. In a raw, goopy way. *shudder*
Tomato Sauce outta can? Gross!
Trader Joes' jarred marinara sauce isn't bad--it's actually a little underseasoned to my taste, so I can do what I want with it if I need tomato sauce in a hurry.
What is your opinion on Pampered Chef products?
I have the chopper and love it, especially for chopping nuts. They don't go flying all over the place that way. I also love the mini muffin pan. It's thicker than other ones I've seen.
One of my very good friends used to sell PC and thereby acquired all the stoneware and cookware just about free, and it was all good stuff--the knives too.
A lot of the other stuff, though, is silly unitasker-type items, like the apple peeler/corer that takes up half the kitchen counter, the avocado knife (seriously?), egg separators, garlic press (sorry, @moibec, it takes me longer to clean one of those things than it does to mince garlic with a knife), etc.
Breakfast/Meal Bars: Way or No Way?
Homemade energy/meal replacement bars--WAY! Or breakfast cookies. Mmm-mmm good.
Store-bought energy/meal replacement bars--*gag* Clif bars taste like tree bark, and most others I've tried taste like chalk, and have a list of ingredients which I'm pretty sure aren't food.
proPIGanda
@ogirl--Seventh-Day Adventist Christians do not eat pork for the same reasons Jews do not eat pork--because it is an unclean meat. It is classified as unclean because of pigs' eating habits. In fact, many SDAs are vegetarians altogether if not vegan. We subscribe to the "our body is a temple" principle and stick to a diet where everything is taken in moderation--in other words, a sensible, healthy one. I'm not vegetarian but my diet is much more healthful than a lot of the vegetarians I know whose diet consists of cheese and pasta. LOL
That said, out of curiosity, I have tried pork in various forms and discovered I wasn't missing out on anything.
proPIGanda
Well, lesbians don't like pork.... Ahhh, I crack myself up.
I don't eat pork for religious reasons, flavor aversions, and the fact that pork is very high in saturated fat.
Food Funnies!
I too love the muffin joke. I've heard it before only it was two sausages in a pan: "Holy crap! A talking sausage!" Funny either way.
Ever try the recipes on the sides of packages?
I use the brownie recipe on the Ghirardelli's cocoa can. It is the bomb. I remember making them at 11 P.M. when I was pregnant. LOL
@andshewas--I started refrigerating my cookie dough overnight too. Such lovely results! I use Ghirardelli's semi-sweet chips, though (the recipe on the bag is almost identical to the Nestle's recipe, as are just about all chocolate chip cookie recipes).
Truffles
The only kind of truffles I'll get near are the chocolate variety.
Bad Kitchen Habits
It annoys me to no end when my hubby doesn't put away the dry dishes before adding more wet ones to the drying rack.
Food Funnies!
@rdrnr44--Here's my version.
Q: What do you call a cow with three legs?
A: Tri-tip
Neat Cooking Tricks/Shortcuts
A pressure cooker is the ultimate shortcut, especially for making stock or cooking beans.
Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'
I disagree about a lot of the candy items mentioned here.
I, for one, LOVE the fun-sized (or mini, if you prefer) candies. It's a tiny bit of something insanely tasty, enough to give pleasure without causing tummy pains. When I was a young'un and I went trick-or-treating, one house gave out mini Clark bars. Yum-o-delish! I polished those off first.
I think the chewy peanut butter kisses taste absolutely divine.
Candy corn, I think is plenty of tasty, as are the candy pumpkins made of candy-corn base. Think little dollops of hardened cake-frosting.
As for apples and raisins, those I didn't mind in the least.
However, some items, I do agree about.
Toothbrushes -- a boring reminder
Religious pamphlets -- disappointing and WEIRD to boot.
Packages of "normal" food -- oh, for crying in Manhattan, what kid wants to receive a can of baked beans or a box of oat bran in his little plastic jack-o-lantern.
One time I received cough drops -- and not the Ludens or Pine Bros or Smith Bros or F&Fs, which are tasty and could pass as hard candy (as can the Ricolas). These were nasty little green pellets that were -- and tasted like -- MEDICATION. Like I said, for crying in Manhattan! For crying in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco
Oh well. At least I didn't get a ROCK
Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'
If I didn't live in an apartment building with no kids in it I'd be giving out and full sized candy bar AND a red bull to every kid. HAHAHA!!! HALLOWEEN IS FOR KIDS! SUCK IT PARENTS!
Are we Freaks?
You know what I find much stranger than being into food? Being into fantasy basketball.
Are we Freaks?
Hi soozm32,
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Thanks! Taryn
Paula Deen's Husband Will Write 'My Delicious Life with Paula Deen'
Yep, they're so fat, they're so ignorant, they use so much butter, and they're so Southern, and they have money in their pants pockets than anyone here has in their 401k. Envy can be so ugly.
Indulging Your Inner Colicchio: Judging a Midterm at the FCI
Susan, Goode luck with your mid term.
I know you will do great
Mike G
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 Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Burger with Two Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Its Bun
Lettuce? Whaddya, crazy? Why? It adds nothing. Maybe some arugula (strong flavor) under the burger if you need a built-in salad, but plain old lettuce would just disappear.
But tomato in the grilled cheeses sounds good. Gotta have tomato on a cheeseburger.
I'm thinking maybe blue and swiss/Gruyère/Comté for the cheeses (one each), if not all extra-sharp cheddar. If using jalapeño cheddar (or better yet, habanero cheddar), only in one sammy, plain cheddar on the other. Otherwise the chiles will overwhelm everything else.
Bacon only if using cheddar. And not too much. Still have to taste the burger. Balance is important.
Homemade yogurt -- my first attempt
I've never used powder for my yogurt. Just leaving it in the incubator for a long time (8+ hours) does the trick for me. Try this recipe! It's the easiest and tastes amazing.
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/yogurt_making/YOGURT2000.htm
Uncommon food allergies that nobody believes?
I am allergic to raw mushrooms, can't eat anything that has been cross contaminated with it. I ate some fresh veggies that had a few flecks of mushroom in it that I didn’t see and within 5 minutes it had triggered my asthma, my mouth swelled up and the lips, tongue and all the rest of the symptoms that go with it. I can eat them when they are cooked though and I now love canned mushroom, since I can’t eat the raw thing anymore. I can’t even handle raw ones (my husband hates mushrooms) so I can’t eat them freshly cooked unless I go out.
I have found that since I have given birth to my twins 3 years ago that my allergies and asthma have gotten exponentially worse. I can’t even be in the same room with cats, dogs, any animal with hair. My allergies to the great outdoors have had the same consequence. I also have developed an allergy to Celery, I have the same reactions as I have to mushrooms but I stopped eating it, so I haven’t found out if it gets worse with every exposure.
My main concern right now is that I have a reaction when I eat in combination tomatoes and bread. I can eat bread alone and tomatoes but when they are eaten in the same meal I get an overwhelming reaction to throw up. It can be as mild as a slight queasiness or I can start to throw up. I have looked and looked but I can’t find anything anywhere that mentions allergies when foods are combined. Since the birth of my twins the tomato and bread reaction has gotten worse as well. I have never cared for pizza because it always left me feeling sick afterwards which I just thought that it was the grease in it.
I feel like an idiot when I say anything about the t&b thing....I know it is not in my head but nobody has heard of it and people just think I am being picky. Since I was about 13 apples have made me feel the same way. Sometimes the reaction is worse than other so I will every once and a while eat a bit of an apple but never a whole one. The T&B reaction is worse than the apple one though because my mildest reaction to T&B is the worst I have had to apples.
the best cookbook for beginners
Well I just married 2 weeks ago and I bouth the book Taste of Home cookbook I love it. It gives you picture for every recipe and give you "how to" and "why". Every recipe that I have tryed has been great.
How important is a gas range top vs. electric?
I find the comment about the resale value well-meaning. It's really not worth arguing this issue further.
The Science of Ice in Sodas
Lambowner, the fountain can cut off when the cup is full, I'm guessing by some kind of backsplash sensor like a fuel pump. Taco Bell machines have paddles so you just put the drink under the spigot and it fills it.
I want to see an analysis of dilution, carbonation, and final temperature. Styrofoam cups have a 2 thin lines in them, a lower one for ice, and a top fill line. In my experience, these are actually ideal guides.
How important is a gas range top vs. electric?
I find the comment about resale value odd. I actually passed on purchasing a home a couple weeks ago in part because it had an electric range. The home is in an area with no natural gas, so I could run a LPG line to it easily enough, but for other, additional reasons, I decided to build instead. I will definitely be having an PG tank and line installed so I can have a gas range - I could never go back to electric. I plan to have a small wall built around it on 2 sides so it won't be visible from the street, and I'll plant flowering shrubs around that.
I don't understand why propane would be considered any riskier than NG. It is a much more stable fuel, and there is a limited amount of it on your property, whereas NG is piped in and once it ignites, there's an almost infinite supply to keep burning.
Some Hershey's Chocolate Using Cocoa Butter Substitutes, Not Real Cocoa Butter
Hershey's was good for what it was when it started: bringing chocolate to America and by combining it with more sugar and milk they made it cheaper for people without tiaras to enjoy, but man, its been hundreds of years since that! sometimes I'm so embaressed for our country. its so obvious all we care about is profit. we make the worst chocolate in the world and not only do we not know, but most of us don't care. : ( its sad.
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. :) )
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My hubby made these for me for me all the time when we were in college - we call them Eggs in a Basket.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
@Ed Levine - My mom called them "Egyptian eggs" as well. I think me, you and Embackus's friend were the only one. It seems to be the least known name for them.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
Eggy in a basket, from V for Vendetta.
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Of all the problems in today's world, this is cause for immediate concern? Excuse me while I don't panic.