I didn't see anything about an avocado hummus, or "guacahummus" it's one of my favorite variations, and probably would work well in a few of the variations you listed too, like black bean or chipotle.
I live on the wrong coast, but I want to try a Shake Shack burger.
(and I'm excited because the Squeeze Inn is opening a location in the town where I work! There already is an In N Out there.)
When I first moved out on my own and couldn't run to my mom when I didn't know how to do something, my grandma told me to buy a copy of "The Joy Of Cooking" and so far it's been tried and true when I need to look up a basic.
Shrubs are basically a fruit infused, sweetened vinegar, so as long as they don't show signs of spoilage they last a long time refrigerated. Think how long you can keep pickled in the fridge.
I like shrubs with ice water on a hot day, or with ginger ale and coconut rum. While doing reenacting last month on a 100+ day, a tiny touch of shrub was very good in cold water.
I am going to agree that it's popular throughout California (I'm from Northern CA). It's pretty normal to have tri-tip for many kinds of barbeque or grilling. My parents have a kamado pot that they often cooked tri tip in when I was growing up. (speaking of that, I have their first one, it's much smaller, but it may be something I want to try this summer.)
I was going to say, when I was a kid at the farmer's market with my mom (in the 70's) one week somebody brought sugar cane, cut into pieces just about a foot long. All of the kids (including my siblings and I) were walking around chewing and sucking on it. It is still a pleasant memory, and if I ever find sugar cane again I may have to buy a stalk to try it again.
Actually the cumin popcorn was my dinner the other night. (I've been having issues with a tooth, so anything that actually makes me eat, and I don't have to use the tooth, it's in the front) has been what I've been eating.
I also have been wanting to try a coconut cinnamon popcorn with coconut oil and cinnamon sugar.
I do the cumin, nutritional yeast, cayenne, butter and salt one often, but I add a little garlic powder too. MMMMMM That and just plain salt and butter are my favorites.
I love teaspoons. I'm not fond of soup spoons or full sized forks, so you can usually find me eating with teaspoons and salad forks.
I'm curious as to why you are approaching this as a "humane" thing if it's only temporary?
I feel that buying humanely produced meat and using as much of the animal as possible, as little waste as possible, is the best way to go. (I have down bedding, down jackets, leather shoes, ect...) If humans didn't use many of these types of animals, a lot of species would start to die off.
I do agree with the other poster about pork products being where you least expect them. It's a migraine trigger for me, but it may also be the nitrates that tend to be added to pork products. I just stay away from both except for the occasional bacon.
What kind of Scharffen Berger chocolate? A chocolate bar, Baking chocolate, Cocoa?
You should try to make your own pickles- it's easy and only needs a little equipment. (even less if you only do refrigerator pickles....) This past year I've done three kinds of cucumber pickles (dill, sweet, and bread and butter), pear pickles, pickled garlic scapes, dilly beans, pickled cranberries, pickled beets, and pickled garlic scapes.
What if you subbed coconut rum for the dark rum?
I have found ladybugs in salads more than once. At least I know that it's not really a foreign object.
A friend once found a metal piece, like part of a blender or something, in her biscuits and gravy when we were at a truck stop near our college.
I have a Henckels chef's knife that I use all the time, but for special knives I've got some of my great grandpa's butcher knives.
For people in third world countries, it can be more ecologically sound to eat meat, than to eat other things. Most ruminants can eat grass and plants that a human couldn't digest, and turn it into food. And it can be done without overgrazing. Stating that somebody doesn't eat meat for ecological reasons is a vast overgeneralization. Even in the US you can purchase meat and dairy from sources that don't pollute, don't overgraze, ect. It is going to cost more and be more work to find, but it can be done.
I put more sugar in it than I should, but also a little milk or cream.
I'd like to make some fruit shrubs- one with the blackberries in my yard, another from peaches, and who knows what else. What would a strawberry rhubarb shrug taste like?
I tend to make a bunch at once with whatever I have on hand that looks good to fill them, wrap them in plastic wrap and throw them in the freezer. Then in the morning I zap one in the microwave not enough to heat it up, but enough to start the thaw process (still in the plastic) and then throw it in my lunch with a sheet of nori.
My mom taught me the basics of baking, then let me free in the kitchen to experiment and figure it out. I've picked up more skills here and there- but that freedom to play in the kitchen as a child and teen taught me the most.
I like to mix it with some garlic and butter and use it to top baked or roasted sweet potatoes or winter squash.
My cat isn't so abnormal. He loves to taste lollypops.
When I was in middle school, my mom once found a diet coke costume for me. It was inflatable, and the hood was the tab... You could make something similar out of cardboard.
I have one cat with corn allergies, so I just feed them all California Naturals (an allergy food made by Innova). If I don't make it to the feed store that orders it for me, I pick up blue buffalo for them. They also get occasional table scraps. The guinea pigs and rabbits get the raw veggie scraps, and the guinea pigs get guinea pig Labdiet (made by Purina) and the rabbits get Purina Advanced Nutrition Rabbit (Show formula in the summer and Professional formula in the winter). They also get whatever grass hay looked good when I picked up a bale.
I just got my wisdom teeth out yesterday, and while I should be able to eat more solid foods in a couple days, I'm still at the "it hurts to chew anything too solid" stage. I'm getting tired of ice cream, pudding, soup and cheese that I can sort of gum.
I've got some potatoes to cook up tomorrow, and some cream of wheat, but any other suggestions? I'm really missing my regular snacks of popcorn and pistachios already.
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Like some of the others, I don't have any issues with vegan food. It can be very good. My issue is with vegans/vegetarians who try to tell me that I'm a bad person for eating meat. (but I think that most in this area have gotten the idea that it's not good to lecture us, I haven't had that happen in years now) I also don't think that everybody can be healthy on vegan or vegetarian meals. I do need my meat and dairy to feel good.