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Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
I'll just go with what we had tonite--french vanilla pound cake with fresh blueberries, strawberries, peaches, and bananas, topped with whipped cream. Simple and fun!
Dear Whole Foods,
Open a store in Iowa! I don't understand it...do they think we Midwesterners aren't "progressive" enough to appreciate healthy, organic, REAL food?? C'mon people! We approved gay marriage....I think we deserve some real food! I have to stock up everytime I visit Minneapolis (which of course means only packaged food that will survive the trip and the storage). Same goes for Trader Joe's...what I wouldn't do for a TJ's less than 4 hours away!
Dinner Tonight: Beet, Avocado, and Goat Cheese Salad
I've had a salad pretty much identical to this at Biaggi's a few times (they use dried cherries instead of cranberries, and coat goat cheese rounds in crushed walnuts)--it is unbelievable! I've got arugula growing like mad in a container on my deck, some goat cheese in the fridge, and cranberries & all the dressing ingredients in the cupboard...think I need to pick up the avocado & beets tomorrow! I could eat this all weekend...
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The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
I'm with Perkins--grew up with fried egg (but the yolk was fully cooked), on soft white bread with lots o' ketchup. These days it's basically the same, but on whole wheat bread, and sometimes with a slice of whatever cheese is on hand. One of my favorite sandwiches!
Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
I'll just go with what we had tonite--french vanilla pound cake with fresh blueberries, strawberries, peaches, and bananas, topped with whipped cream. Simple and fun!
Dear Whole Foods,
Open a store in Iowa! I don't understand it...do they think we Midwesterners aren't "progressive" enough to appreciate healthy, organic, REAL food?? C'mon people! We approved gay marriage....I think we deserve some real food! I have to stock up everytime I visit Minneapolis (which of course means only packaged food that will survive the trip and the storage). Same goes for Trader Joe's...what I wouldn't do for a TJ's less than 4 hours away!
Dinner Tonight: Beet, Avocado, and Goat Cheese Salad
I've had a salad pretty much identical to this at Biaggi's a few times (they use dried cherries instead of cranberries, and coat goat cheese rounds in crushed walnuts)--it is unbelievable! I've got arugula growing like mad in a container on my deck, some goat cheese in the fridge, and cranberries & all the dressing ingredients in the cupboard...think I need to pick up the avocado & beets tomorrow! I could eat this all weekend...
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
Warm chocolate pudding w/ chipotle powder mixed in
Not so much a snack food, but peanut butter on burgers...mmmmm
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Oatmeal Molasses Bread--no rising time required!
Healthy & Delicious: White Chicken Chili
I have made that Cook's Illustrated chili several times, and it is good, but very time-consuming. I've never had that issue with the peppers, though! I'll try this recipe next--it sounds great and *much* quicker!
What are your favorite products from Trader Joe's?
The closest TJs to me is about a 4-hour drive (WAAAAA!!), so when I do get there I really stock up. Here's what's always on the list:
-dark chocolate edamame
-choc-covered espresso beans
-those little tins of traveler's chocolates
-blue corn chips
-gyoza sauce
-huge jugs of green tea
-nuts/trail mixes
-mini whole wheat pitas
-cashew or almond butter
They also had a mango sauce once that my kids loved, but I haven't found it since that first time. ;o(
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
A flourless chocolate cake from a local restaurant called blend. Amazing.
What do you put in your oatmeal?
I cook it with water, skim milk & a little buttermilk--make a big pot so there's enough for the week (I actually like it better reheated the next day, when it's much thicker and chewier). I usually eat it with natural PB, sliced banana, and a little splenda, honey, or agave. Sometimes some cinnamon. And always a splash of soymilk.
Photo of the Day: Flying Dumplings
Great photo! We also made these on Super Bowl Sunday--the kids loved helping with them. We found they worked best when we fried them first, then added some water to the skillet and covering it quickly, to steam them the rest of the way. Tried frying them after steaming, and they just fell apart. But LOVED the finished product, and am now wishing we had made a double batch...
Cook the Book: 'Baking Unplugged'
The first time I tried making cookies on my own (grade school?), I mistook powdered sugar for flour...umm, yeah, I had one giant flat "cookie".
And to show that even experienced bakers screw up sometimes, I'll share this one...Last week I was making bars with the kids, and went to break the egg into the batter that was already mixing (rather than into a separate bowl--call me lazy)...got clumsy and dropped half the egg shell in with it! The mixer was running, so of course the shell got quite broken up before I could turn it off. I didn't want to throw out all my hard work, so I spent the next 10 minutes digging through the batter picking out eggshell bits...Lesson learned!
'Culinary Slumming'
Oh! And I forgot chocolate chips melted in the microwave, eaten with a spoon...mmmm
'Culinary Slumming'
Oreos soaked in milk til they're mushy
Chicken in a Biscuit crackers
Kraft mac-n-cheese (powdered cheese sauce kind)
Jalapeno poppers (cream cheese filled) with pepper jelly
My husband would definately agree on the Nutella!
Cook the Book: 'The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook'
Spanakopita, hummus on anything, and a big Greek salad with lots of feta!
Baking with Dorie: Lemon-Lemon Lemon Cream
I made this for dessert this past Thanksgiving, and it is amazing. REALLY buttery and rich--in fact, when I smelled it I really smelled butter more than lemon!
If you could have any chef cook you dinner, who would it be?
After having an amazing meal at Frontera Grill on a recent trip to Chicago, I'd have to say Rick Bayless. It's food I can't get anywhere in my "neck of the woods".
The Cupcake Controversy Lives On!
I agree with klg, and pretty much everyone else as well. My kids' school lunches are hideous (which is why they bring their lunch 4 out of 5 days/week), and the "new" snack policy is even worse--according to that, fruit roll-ups are an "approved, healthy" snack, while any homemade food is not allowed. The only exception is birthday treats. They're just kids, let's allow them a little old-fashioned fun once in awhile. And while we're at it, let's teach them to make their own healthy choices, rather than dictating everything they are allowed to have and not to have.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
toasted multigrain bread, slice of cheddar or american cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. i love a dill pickle on the side!
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
I never had egg sammiches as a kid. I was a fried egg and rice w/parm girl. BUT i have discovered the beauty of the egg sammich.
Mine is toasted wheat bread, 2 fried eggs with semi-runny yolks, 2 slices american cheese and losta mayo!!
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
I don't see the sandwich that my grandma introduced to us as a child. It's pretty close to the others, but has one additional ingredient- sliced dill pickle. It's a comfort food to me too, and my mom can't stand the thought that we put dill pickles on our egg sandwiches.
Basically, it's whatever bread we had around- usually sourdough- toasted, with best foods/hellman's mayo and whatever mustard we grab (usually I use stone ground, but sometimes I use brown or yellow), an egg with a broken yolk fried until it's no longer runny in butter, and a sliced dill pickle.
Now I really want one, but don't have any bread in the house
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
When my brother and I were young, my father would make fried egg sandwiches before we went fishing. He would put over easy eggs on broke assed toasted white bread with a slice of American cheese. I plan on making them tonight, and I wouldn't change a thing... Thanks Dad...
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
cheap + simple + delicious = my go-to meal in college
no matter how you make it, egg sandwiches can sometimes be sublime
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
My perfect fried egg sandwich:
Egg fried in butter, runny yolk, little salt and pepper. Lightly toasted sourdough bread with mayo. A little cheddar on top. It's a delicious mess.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
avaryne, you have challah bread and eggs, and arent making french toast? do you not like french toast? a couple weeks ago i made some challah and i stopped because we kept eating french toast and *so* filling. so very yummy, but i felt like we were going to balloon if i made more challah.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
i use thomas english muffins, split and *lightly* toast it. then drop some cheese on top. swiss, american, monterey, is all good. fry egg. if i am using bacon or sausage, i use the fat from that, but otherwise, dab of olive oil. if im in charge, i crack the egg, break the yolk, but not smear it so it stays soft and oozes a little. then i flip the egg for 15 seconds and onto the muffin. i prefer bacon or sausage on the side. canadian bacon can go on it though.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
I've never had a fried egg sandwich, but I love scrambled egg sandwiches!
2 pieces of white bread toasted, miracle whip on both pieces of bread and piled high with scrambled eggs. YUM!
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
Sometimes I use quail eggs and make 7 or 8 mini sunny side ups. Put them on a toasted baguette with goat cheese and arugula.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
Growing up it was toasted white, hard-fried egg, cheddar cheese and Miracle Whip. I make them now on toasted wheat with light mayo and also some Black Forest ham. Still one of my favorites for a weekend breakfast.
But, the best one I ever had was in London at a little coffee/breakfast place (one of those that serves the traditional English breakfast). It was two medium-fried eggs, English bacon (wish I could get it here!), good sharp cheddar on ciabata. It was so good, cheap, and kept us going all day.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
misterhee is closest to mine. Never actually had a fried egg "sandwich" when I was a kid. grew up on over easy with buttered toast and jam. Grape jelly or strawberry jam. soak up the yolk with the buttered jammed toast.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
Sliced English Muffin bread (local Bakery), lots of mayo (I used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches as a kid), egg yolk broken and fried until firm, three (3) slices of bacon. If no bacon is available, a thick slice of extra sharp cheddar (preferable Tillamook) melted on the egg. Now I'm hungry.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
Oh, egg sandwiches... for me, it's gotta be a toasted bagel or English muffin, an egg cooked til the unbroken yolk is hot but not solid, two strips of bacon, pepper, and a slice of American cheese. If the yolk runs down your chin during consumption, it's perfect.
The Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich
I grew up eating fried eggs over garlicky wilted spinach. My mom would yell at me for eating around the yolk and eating all of the egg white first, piercing the yolk and watching it run all over the spinach. Then I would sop uo the yolk with whatever bread we had on hand.
No egg sandwiches in my house. My mom is from Spain and she thought foods like corndogs and mustard were weird. I can imagine her horror if we had ever dared to squirt ketchup on our eggs.
Healthy & Delicious: White Chicken Chili
I realize this post is a bit old, It seems to me that turkey could make a reasonable substitution for the chicken. I've got some leftover turkey that I roasted in my BBQ sitting in the freezer. Anybody have any input before I try it and possibly ruin it? Thanks!
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
I used to go to the LA Reader office on Friday mornings to collect my mail, then I'd stop in the chain drugstore nearby to pick up a piece of beef jerky, and a package of vanilla creme sandwich cookies, which I'd eat while driving to my day job. Not together, just back-to-back. Can't remember if I ate the jerky or the cookies first, nor why I thought those would make a good breakfast.
Dear Whole Foods,
Once you bite into a Great A&P 150th anniversary chocolate chunk cookie, that taste will make you forever foresake Whole Paycheck.
Head on over to any A&P Fresh and rediscover the origins of foodie paradise, great food at fantastic savings.
Can't beat that A&P!!!
What are your favorite products from Trader Joe's?
Is the Pomegranate Glaze really discontinued? My mom tried to buy it in Atlanta but they didn't have it. Can it be found elsewhere???
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
Frosty and Fries (not weird)
Dunking Chocolate chip cookies in Orange juice... YUMM!
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
French bread!!! YUM!
Dear Whole Foods,
I tried to like you, I really did. But Trader Joe's and Wegmans will always be my first loves...
Dear Whole Foods,
Dear Whole Foods Santa Fe,
Please do not lecture me about "looking around me, and remembering where I am, and asking myself if the product in question has dyes in it" if I inquire if you might have the new dark chocolate m&ms for my homemade trail mix, especially not if I have 3 bags of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) in my hands. OBVIOUSLY I KNOW WHERE I AM.
And then to Whole Foods Union Square--
Please bring back peppermint bark during the holiday season. Even if you run out, your staff will at least have seen it (and hopefully experienced it!) and will not stare at me in befuddlement when I ask if they have any in stock.
Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
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Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
apple crisp. peach cobbler. berry buckle several of my favoriters I love to cook and bake but more inportant I love to eat
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I'm with Perkins--grew up with fried egg (but the yolk was fully cooked), on soft white bread with lots o' ketchup. These days it's basically the same, but on whole wheat bread, and sometimes with a slice of whatever cheese is on hand. One of my favorite sandwiches!