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The Ten Most Recent Posts By choc_puddin

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Annoying food habits...

I have a repertoire of habits that deeply annoy my family at meal times
I 'dissect' food (eat it in parts and not as a whole, even sammiches)
I slurp my soup
I take hours to finish as i 'savor it too much' (which apparently is 'taunting them')
Anyone else with the same problems?

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Sharing Food?

When out to dinner with a group , are you happy to let everyone have a taste of your meal, or are you 'gollem like' and refuse to share? ("my preciousssss..."
I'm very happy to share and I'm afraid that people take advantage of this. Its quite rude when you offer someone a bite and they hoe into it like its their last meal. Its also doubly rude when people start taking bites of it BEFORE I HAVE OFFERED.

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Crunchy or Soggy Cereal?

I have to have it soggy. With warm milk. Its so comforting in winter ^^

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Does this make you feel sick or hungry?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/TaliRenee/DSC_0074.jpg

Personally, I found myself oddly tempted. Then again, I hadn't eaten for 12 hours, so maybe thats just from sheer hunger...

The Ten Most Recent Comments By choc_puddin

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I Hate Chocolate -- Anyone Else?

I think i missed the chocolate loving gene
I think I just missed the sweet tooth gene as I rarely eat sweet things, except fruit.

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You'll never see ____ on my grocery list

I'm a vegan, so the obvious dairy/egg and meat products are out.
I try to avoid supermarkets and stick with my local farmers market where I can get pretty much everything I need
I may be fairly healthy but there is a lot of crap that finds itself in my cart as well. I confess to enjoying canned fruit. And pre-packed cereal

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What would your restaurant be?

I think there's a market for spud joint. With catchy names like "ciao bella" (Italian style) "spuds ahoy" (tuna mornay spud) and Jackie Chan (Asian style)
I have given this some serious thought.

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What kind of kick are you on?

Stir fried vegetables with hoi sin and sesame seeds. Nothing else. Its so quick and easy for dinner when I just can't be bothered cooking

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where in the world ARE you ???

I'm an Australian (or 'aus-tray-yan' as we like to say)
I live in south australia, the driest state in the driest country in the WORLD. Currently experiencing bad times with drought. I'm a farm girl. So foodwise, have always been surrounded by fresh food and produce. Want milk? Milk the cow. Want eggs? from the chook yard. Veggies and fruit? From the garden. A side of bacon? Slaughter a pig. Not that we did that too often :D
My background though is German/Eastern Europe, so food was heavily accented with potatoes and meat ^^ I'm vegan now, but thats my own personal choice.

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What Five Foods Can't You Live Without?

1. Soyghurt
2. grains (rice or barley in particular)
3. Muesli/granola
4. Vegetables
5. Fruit

I cheated :D

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What words are most often heard in your kitchen?

I live with hungry college boys and mostly I hear 'you gonna eat that?' (cue staring at my food)

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Food to help heal

chilli
pasta bakes
moroccan style stews
curries

All freeze well

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What recipe or dish are you best known for?

my apple crumble. The secret is huge amounts of butter and sugar ^^

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What do you do when you're not doing food?

I go to uni (studying animal science and hope to get a job in the agricultural industry)

I am a fanatic exerciser- cycling, walking, hiking, long distance running, competitive horseriding and next year i'll be taking a personal training course so I can do it all the time - I love it that much!

I'm a horse geek

I love my music

I love reading and writing (anything that takes my fancy)

I dabble in photography

Responses to Comments by choc_puddin

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Good things come in cans...

tomato paste
whole peeled tomatoes
pineapple (for dairy-free pancakes)
corn
tuna (only because my husband buys & eats it. I have no idea if it's packed in water or oil though)

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Good things come in cans...

chickpeas or black beans
corn
amy's spicy vegetarian chili for the nights i'm not home so that hopefully my husband will eat something

man, i think that's all my cans. sometimes light coconut milk makes it's way in there. i'm pretty boring in the pantry i guess, most of the food goes in the fridge. usually buy westbrae, eden or goya...it's what the corner bodega stocks.

@tommyok...you ate one what? i'm so confused by your comment.

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Good things come in cans...

Tuna
Tomato products for homemade sauce (paste, stewed and sauce)
Pinto beans
Vegetarian baked beans
Corn

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Good things come in cans...

Haha ~_~!
Come here for more canned foods what you love'n www.fuboon.com .
Who can tell me where can I buy one here in my downtown,I ate one at my friend's house that he bought from somewhere,it's tasty.

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Help, I am dating a vegetarian!

i love lorna sass's vegetarian cookbooks, and if the tassajara recipe book is still in print, everything i have ever made from it has been delicious.

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What would your restaurant be?

@PerkyMac....All food is my passion, and I will never have a single theme. I guess that would make my cookbook a bit of a challenge! I will think on that. I am all over the threads tonight. I am trying to catch up with the interesting topics! I live in the Ambler/Montgomery County area.

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What would your restaurant be?

Peruvian bistro. Very few items on the menu. It would reflect a Limeño influence. You'd see typical items like sancochado, causa, empanadas, ceviche, quinoa, lomo saltado, ají de gallina and roasted chicken with screaming green salsa de ají.

Most recipes would be adapted from this.

Without funding from some wealthy patron, I couldn't afford a liquor license, so no chicha or pisco sours. That's life.

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What would your restaurant be?

I grew up in a restaurant. My parents and my mother's two brothers opened a restaurant/cocktail lounge in 1963, and I can tell you that operating a successful restaurant is about much more than the food, which is why I went to work for a newspaper (BTW: a newspaper is second on my list of businesses I never want to own.) When you think about restaurants, think about cooks calling in sick, wait staff calling in sick, health inspectors, liability insurance, the rising cost of food stuffs, and employees with their hands in the till. My favorite restaurant story involves a friend of mine whose parents also owned a restaurant: He was called out of bed to fill in for the breakfast cook who wasn't sick, but had been shot dead by his wife a few hours earlier.

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What would your restaurant be?

comfort food and home cooking all the way! sweet and sour brisket, roast chicken with tarragon and bread sauce, leg of lamb, noodle kugel, spaghetti carbonara, chicken matzo ball soup, roasted potatoes, very homey desserts like pumpkin spice cake, chocolate layer cake, cheesecake...

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What would your restaurant be?

Californian Fusion..San Francisco

OR!

some kind of burger place..also in SF

all upscale stuff.. =D