What's for dinner?
Leftover meatloaf; I put it in a whole wheat wrap with shredded cabbage, carrots and red onion and dressed it with a mixure of mayo & srihacha sauce!
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Holiday Baking - what are you making?
I'll be making:
Sugar Cookies
Gingerbread
Birds Nest Cookies
Pistachio & Chocolate Chip Biscotti
Double Chocolate Biscotti
Pistachio & Cranberry Biscotti
Pecan Tartlets
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Peppermint Candy Canes
Truffles
Your favorite Thanksgiving dish: If your holiday table had only one dish on it which would it be?
It would be this awesome maple sweet potato puree pecans that I make every year...yummy!!
Favorite Wines?
If you like Pinot Noir, there's a fabulous one from Oregon...A to Z. It's a little difficult to find by me (but it may be between vintages) and it runs around $17 per bottle.
Are you a "dunker"?
Cookies or Biscotti in to milk
French Fries in to a mixure of Srihacha sauce & mayo
Veggies or pita chips in to hummus
Chips in to guacamole
Veggies in to spinach dip
I am a dipping fiend!!
What is your favorite soup to make from scratch?
My favorite homemade soup is Lentil Soup.
Desserts I don't like...
Lemon meringue pie
Commercial cheesecke
Rum balls or rum cake
Pudding
Cherry Pie
Any kind of cream pie
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Desserts I don't like...
Icing with way too much sugar. I'm usually the one scraping icing off of cake at parties.
Banana bread or cooked bananas (plantains don't count). I love bananas though.
Most corporate baked goods; you can taste the lack of love and care in them, and I can't remember ever reaching for carrageenan or sodium benzoate when baking.
Sugar-free anything. Sugar substitutes taste nasty.
Most fruitcakes. I'm bored with them.
Adult-sized slices of chocolate cake. I usually find it too rich to eat in large quantities. I love chocolate, I just prefer it in small doses.
Most donuts, except for cake donuts.
Crunchy cookies. Just not a fan of the texture.
Desserts that make me go meh:
Red velvet cake? I mean, it usually tastes OK (vaguely reminiscent of malted milk, like Wendy's frosties), but I always feel odd eating so much food coloring.
Sock-it-to-me/7-up/insert soda here cake. Common in Southern cooking, and almost always too sweet.
Re: buttercream icing: unless you had it on a homemade cake or cake from a wedding party, it probably wasn't made with real butter. 'Buttercream' icing made from vegetable shortening is pretty disgusting.
I'm surprised so many people here don't like tiramisu, but I've had my share of bad tiramisu. I'll second the cannoli though. Highly overrated and just not that tasty.
Overused Food Words
"Yummy" - it should be prohibited for use by anyone older than 12. When grown men and women say "it's so yummy!" (especially about something they just made themselves) - ewwwwww!
Also, "reduce down" as in "we'll add some wine and reduce this sauce DOWN for 5 minutes". As opposed to what, reducing it UP?
Overused Food Words
It used to drive me insane to see "x" at the end of the word until I started to work at a hospital 10 years ago. Everything ends in x to abbreviate -- history = hx, diagnosis = dx, etc. I still hate seeing "u" for "you" and "ur" for "your/you're," which propagates the erroneous use of your and you're. ARGH! I've gotten better about "tho" and "thru."
Back to food.
- "special blend" -- yay for vagueness
- use of the word "sushi" for anything raw. FFS, sushi doesn't even mean raw!
- innards
Overused Food Words
"Gets" for "understands," especially with the adverb "really." For instance, "so and so really gets the New York restaurant scene," or "really gets food," or "really gets service." It's a lazy, imprecise and charmlessly colloquial locution, and I hope it heads to the blogosphere tar pit as quickly as possible. Even worse when reduced "so and so gets it."
Overused Food Words
I can't explain it, but I really hate the word "unctuous."
As for "foodie," it would be nice to come up with another simple word we could use to describe ourselves. I don't love it, don't hate it. When someone says, "she's a real foodie," about me, it has a very specific meaning. Sometimes I say "food is my hobby," but it may not be clear that I mean I like thinking about food, shopping for it, preparing it, eating it, serving it to friends and family, etc. I'd love a simple word that could convey all that.
Overused Food Words
@thebrokedown - I am guilty of using an "x" it is a habit developed from working in kitchens for 10+ years and before that college training to use it - chix for chicken etc. it is a shorthand and yeah it carries over to my every day life.
I always crack up at the way wines are described "oaky, smokey, fruity (duh, they are made from grapes) musty, lively" etc. all that from a beverage? I like wine too, but wow.
What's for dinner?
Spaghetti and homemade foccacia. What is Jagerschnitzel? Weinerschnitzel, I've heard of. Jagermeister as well. Is it a combination of the two?
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