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Pizza: A cure for the blues?
Happy Birthday! Pizza was always a treat for us in the 60's. We might have had it three times a year. Now a days it's like a staple and I just don't get that excited about it anymore. But enjoy.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
@trilby I love to do that too. I remember when I was young I loved the cool little bags with two or three items in them. Fun stuff. They where always the first thing I checked out. Sadly the days of homemade popcorn balls and carmel apples from neighbors are over. But like the above posters said, make something for coworkers I know mine love it when I just bring in a plate of brownies.
What Did You Eat Today?
Pot roast it has finally cooled down here
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Carrots and Celery
All good idea's thanks. I throw out so many carrots and celery I almost considered getting a rabbit. But i have two cats so not a good idea.
Pizza: A cure for the blues?
Happy Birthday! Pizza was always a treat for us in the 60's. We might have had it three times a year. Now a days it's like a staple and I just don't get that excited about it anymore. But enjoy.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
@trilby I love to do that too. I remember when I was young I loved the cool little bags with two or three items in them. Fun stuff. They where always the first thing I checked out. Sadly the days of homemade popcorn balls and carmel apples from neighbors are over. But like the above posters said, make something for coworkers I know mine love it when I just bring in a plate of brownies.
What Did You Eat Today?
Pot roast it has finally cooled down here
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Those greasy tacos from Jack in the box if we have a d.d.around. Or else it's something that can be microwaved in case some one passes out. I don't like uses the oven or stove when i'm a bit tipsy or smashed.
What's for dinner tonight - 10/5?
Meat loaf, Mashed potatoes and green beans. Also some fruit salad for desert. Bye summer.
jazzing up white rice
I like plain white rice with half a bottle of soy sauce on it.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I don't mean to sound negative but the elementary school lunches where nasty. In High School we didn't have a cafeteria. We had vending machines so I would have to say Doritos.
Eaten what's not food?
I used to love going to this local Mexican place. Great people etc. My friends hubby who is a bug terminator told me not to eat there anymore. He said the kitchen was so infested with cockroaches that when he sprayed there they were jumping out of the cuffs of his pants when he left. agh! I make my own tacos now.. I also remember when I worked at Burger King back in the day and a mouse ran across the lobby, A customer said something to the manager and the manager said yeah we get them. I quit that day.
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day? Really?
If I eat breakfast though I eat all day.
Portland to San Francisco
If you happen to pass through my neck of the woods, Redding CA. Do try Jack's Grill on California St. It's a real gem if you like steak.
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
Rachel Ray's husband.
Best Mexican food in LA ?
Can I go with you? I love mexican food and LA.
Food network...try food competetion network
What's Food network? J/K I completely agree.
Do you have a recipe you won't share?
I have recipes no one would want.
Should Junk Food Help Pay for Health Care?
Way to much government.
Worms in fish!
Yikes! I think i will stick to fishsticks.
SERIOUS help: convincing someone to change their eating habits
My grandparents are very old school. I try to give them what I call helpful hints. Like please don't eat that food after it has been sitting on the counter all night in 100 plus weather. But sigh to no avail. I just love them and let them be. That's the best we can do.
How many times a day do you eat?
I start out good in the morning. Yogurt and some grapes or something. Then off to work. A nice cold Redbull and a Slim Jim for lunch along with a couple of cigarettes. Dinner.. I eat like a Truck Driver.
How many times a day do you eat?
Two snacks a day. Like cheese and crackers or some nice fruit like cantaloupe.
Dinner is off the hook, whatever is around from pulled pork to shrimp I always overeat.
how much would you pay for a pot pie?
Depends on the pot.
Rye with seeds or w/o?
Props to you Tapioca for making your own bread. I love rye bread anyway I can get it.
Pizza: A cure for the blues?
pizza - one of the best foods in the whole world... straight cheese pizza with a great doughy crust always does it for me.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Regarding KarynMC:
You can NEVER say that only a family member would try to poison a child. Get real, there are sick people out there who get off on doing their dirty deed.
Also,please let me know where those chocolate chip cookies are being handed out so that I'll miss that house. :)
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Of course you can go back to the houses that give good candy, but always remember to go back at the end of the night to the houses that didn't get a lot of visitors. Why? They'll have left over candy, and they'll be willing to get rid of it.
Only give pre-packaged candy to trick or treaters. You can make special packs of home-baked goods for those you know well, but most parents will not allow their children to eat homemade goods. Them's just the breaks.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Liability, Liability, Liability great idea but the reality is that if a child gets sick and the lawyer came knocking at your door then it truly ends up being a situation of “no good deed goes unpunished”. I will agree also with Heartofglass there are a lot of towns that have laws prohibiting distributing food without a health permit.
Having said that I am quite older and when I was young in the late 50’s and 60’s the most popular treats were homemade. There was this woman that gave out candy apples to die for, I’ve never been able to find another candy apple that is just like the ones she made.
What I think is so very sad is that children have to be protect from adults and we as a society don’t see how disturbing that really is
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Years ago I heard someone say that they simply threw away anything that was not professionally packaged. It could have been the best cookie ever made, but it went to the landfill. It was their concern for safety. It would make me sad to think all that work you did was for nothing.
I can up one on @arm1970 My granddaughter's school doesn't want parents to bring cakes, cupcakes or cookies for birthday celebrations period. It is encouraged to bring fruit (grapes are the fav, but what if your child doesn't like them), raisins, nuts or other healthy items. The kids that might eat carrots might choke on them. Can't win. I get it-most kids get too much of sugar and fats. There is a child that has a peanut allergy in her class, therefore, we are asked not even to bring that item. Understandably so, but it sure knocks your options down another peg. Some parents buy trinkets and that is a much greater cost than a batch of cookies prepared at home and I have noticed that the trinkets are floating around the house with little or no attention.
My daughter decided to skip the school ritual last year and my g-daughter was very sad. Looks like raisins!
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
When I was a kid there was a house in the neighborhood that gave out homemade candy apples - but they only had about 2 dozen of them. We used to come home from school, get in our costumes, go to The McHarg's house, get our candy apples, go home, do homework, eat supper and THEN go out and do the rest of our trick-or-treating. We just HAD to have those candy apples - they were the highlight of our Halloween treats. On the other hand - another family gave out popcorn balls. The only reason we went to their house is because we knew them really well and HAD to go to their house. When we got home we would throw the popcorn balls away. We HATED those things.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
"I don't have kids." Just read that again now.
Which explains the whole idea of "pumpkin chocolate chip cookies" or the whole idea of home-made goods to kids on Halloween in the first place.
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies? Do you even have your own kids? lol
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
the only thing homemade that you can get away with is crafts like a toostie pop wrapped in toilet paper so it looks like a ghost. seriously thats the only way
Carrots and Celery
I always freeze my veggie scraps, unless I have immediate plans for them. Frozen and then unfrozen carrots normally aren't good if you want a dish with carrots in them, but they're perfect for soup/sauce bases. Unless you use liquid nitrogen to insta-freeze them, and how many of us have that sitting in the cupboard at home?
you may not want soup now, but when it comes time to make stock or soup and you have to go buy your mirepoix ingredients just for that you'll kick yourself for tossing the scraps.
Carrots and Celery
Steamed carrots with butter, honey, parsley, S & P.
Celery with peanut butter makes a great snack, or with blue cheese dressing.
Carrots and Celery
I'm with making a mirepoix and freezing in measured amounts for future soups etc. If frozen cooked then a fresh soup would be just a few minutes away. Add some rotisserie chicken, broth, noodles, and you've got chicken soup in 10 minutes.
Pizza: A cure for the blues?
dhorst Fan Club in the making.
Pizza: A cure for the blues?
"I'll make it every night this weekend if it helps to cheer him up."
Where have you been all my life, dhorst?
Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?
Again, I would repeat my concerns more for you with 'liability'--but I am still shocked that kids would vandalize or litter simply because they got a treat they didn't like/couldn't eat. That is really sad.
When I was young, weirdly everyone had dire warnings about homemade treats, but many (bad!bad!bad!) houses gave out APPLES--with foil-wrapped coins stuck in them. Usually little old ladies yet somehow those were 'okay' to eat because apples were healthy. But that's really more sanitary than a cookie in a cellophane bag from someone you know. ;P
Pizza: A cure for the blues?
I am not a big pizza person anymore, but as a kid, sometimes if we were 'good' we would have pizza parties in school. Those were the best! As a kid, color me happy with a slice of 'za, a cupcake, and a festive paper plate.
Carrots and Celery
For the celery, here's another idea from epicurious.com, burgers with celery apple slaw.
Five Burger Joints CNN Wants You to Visit
Hodad's serves a darn fine burger, that's for sure.
http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/hodads/
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Days of college, days of youth, six parts gin to one part vermouth
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919716
What's your favorite food when drunk?
This must be the dumbest question I've ever seen on this site. Get serious.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Actually ANYTHING with a Side of Hot Man is good... drunk or sober!
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Whataburger taquitos: bacon, egg & cheese (with picante) or a Philly cheesesteak. Depends on whether I am in Texas or NJ/PA at the time of said drunk.
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All good idea's thanks. I throw out so many carrots and celery I almost considered getting a rabbit. But i have two cats so not a good idea.