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What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

In the door of my dorm room mini fridge, I have 1 bottle of beer, 1 coleman bottle filled with milk snuck from the cafeteria (I aint payin fo that sh**) and one bottle of sriratcha sauce.

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Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions

when I was 13 or 14 I was visiting my dad, and he had almost nothing to eat in the house, (I think once I even ate expired bacos and cheese for dinner there) and I needed breakfast. I was starving.

there was cheerios, and the only liquid in the fridge was beer, so I ate cheerios and beer for breakfast. it was actually pretty good.

From Talk

So I'm smoking a pork shoulder tomorow...

Its been in for 5 hours now and DAMN it smells good! My dogs haven't left the smoker since they saw me put the meat in this morning :)

The rub has no salt, I mixed it up myself, so it shouldn't be too salty.

thanks for the info, Remander!


p.s here is a picture of my (stepdads...) smoker
http://www.biggreenegg.com/ ITS AWSOME

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The UK's Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation

maybe all foods should be the consistency of room temperature apple sauce. It would save lives. Wow, save lives? It must be a good idea then!

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From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

In the door of my dorm room mini fridge, I have 1 bottle of beer, 1 coleman bottle filled with milk snuck from the cafeteria (I aint payin fo that sh**) and one bottle of sriratcha sauce.

From Serious Eats

Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions

when I was 13 or 14 I was visiting my dad, and he had almost nothing to eat in the house, (I think once I even ate expired bacos and cheese for dinner there) and I needed breakfast. I was starving.

there was cheerios, and the only liquid in the fridge was beer, so I ate cheerios and beer for breakfast. it was actually pretty good.

From Talk

So I'm smoking a pork shoulder tomorow...

Its been in for 5 hours now and DAMN it smells good! My dogs haven't left the smoker since they saw me put the meat in this morning :)

The rub has no salt, I mixed it up myself, so it shouldn't be too salty.

thanks for the info, Remander!


p.s here is a picture of my (stepdads...) smoker
http://www.biggreenegg.com/ ITS AWSOME

From Serious Eats

The UK's Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation

maybe all foods should be the consistency of room temperature apple sauce. It would save lives. Wow, save lives? It must be a good idea then!

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Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'

I love this book!! I grew up in Vermont, and my dad still lives there. I got it for him for Christmas one year, and he says its his favorite cookbook.

When we lived there we had apple trees, maple trees, (we made syrup) and a huge garden. I miss it so much.

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What Fall Foods Are You Excited For?

I live in southern louisiana, so the local fall crop Im most looking forward to is satsumas! SO AMAZING!! you have to wait for the first freeze, then the next day they are as sweet as candy.

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Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby Renamed 'Hubby Hubby' in Support of Gay Marriage

chubby hubby has always been my favorite flavor. I grew up in vermont, and when I moved to louisiana I was so disappointed to find that by the time it gets down here, the pretzels aren't crispy anymore.

I usually dont care for food with a political agenda, but ben and jerry's is an exception. I love them anyways.

From Talk

What do you eat for all-nighters?

Toast two poptarts, preferably a fruit flavor, and spread them with peanut butter. make sure you have lots of milk or you could clog your esophagus.

From Talk

I wish I may, I wish I might...

Eel. My boyfriend loves getting it when we eat sushi, but it just has this skunky weird taste that just ruins it for me...

Every time I try it I love it for about 3 seconds, then change my mind when the aftertaste hits.

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Teen Foodies

Im about to be 20, but I decided to go to culinary school when I was 16. I go to the John Folse Culinary Institute in Thibodaux, LA currently working towards my bachelors, learning so much!

If you want to enjoy food with your friends more often, I would suggest either going to get cheap, good food like burgers or something, or cook something awesome for dinner and invite them over for a movie or nintendo or something. Thats what I always did.

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Eat for Eight Bucks: Shrimp Rolls with Homemade Chive Mayo

http://www.zapps.com/cgi-bin/zapps/index.html

you can get them directly from the company here...Dean and DeLuca, wow. glad I live where I live.

From Talk

Do you put toppings on corn on the cob?

no. not even butter. fresh sweet corn needs absolutely nothing.

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Eat for Eight Bucks: Shrimp Rolls with Homemade Chive Mayo

yay for zapps! I live in southern Louisiana, so we can buy them in the grocery store. Where do yankees get their zapps?

this is making me drool, by the way. I cant get enough shrimp, and homemade mayo is so amazing.

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general wine question

Estancia Monterey Chardonnay 2005. if its totally spoiled, of course I wouldn't cook with it. if its on the fence I would rather make risotto than drink it.

I will pick up an opener tomorrow, and post the result.

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general wine question

I would make risotto with it, but risotto isnt really a microwave dorm room recipe...

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Banning fast food near schools? Your take.

thats horrible. if you don't want kids eating fast food while at school, don't let them leave campus during school hours. maybe feed them something good at school? oh no. much too difficult for our liberal government who would rather exercise as much power as possible to violate our rights.

From Talk

What does a "Free Range Chicken" really mean?

quote from author:: My preference on purchasing a chicken is that my bird does not have the antibiotics, hormones and solutions they inject into the animal.

well, your in luck because this is illegal. some chicken producers use this as a marketing scheme, that they never, ever do this, but it's illegal anyway. I dont pay more for free range chicken.

From Talk

How much salt is too much salt?

I have noticed that it looks like alot sometimes, but alot of times they are using high quality delicate salt like sea salt. Also, you really can't say if it's too much unless you taste it.

even though it is a matter of personal taste, there is a proper way to season. salt is meant to accentuate the natural flavors already present, not make the food taste like salt. I cant stand it when my mom cooks something delicious, and then goes overkill with salt.

From Talk

OMG! Obama seen drinking in public!

because god knows no president has ever drank a beer and watched a game before. what other normal human functions does this man do that we can shower his with amazement and praise about?

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KFC's Latest Marketing Move: Fixing Potholes

tell them to come to new orleans. our idea of fixing a sinkhole in the middle of the road is to fill it with gravel over and over again until it swallows a car, then maybe do something. maybe it will make kfc more socially acceptable here. popeyes arent be fixin no roads.

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What Is a BeaverTail? An ObamaTail?

I think the obamatail is a little too much. I mean come on.

anyone else?

From Talk

What is your all time cookbook? Just one. What would it be?

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters. My boyfriend got it for me for Christmas, and it's just fantastic. My favorite thing about it is how the instructions are set up. there is no seperate sections for ingredients and instructions. they are integrated into one list. the ingredients are bolded so you can easily prepare everything beforehand.

I guess this book wouldnt be so fantastic for a profesional or very experienced cook, but Im 19. I have been cooking for years, but I know I have a whole world of information to learn in culinary school in the next four years. anyways, I highly recomend it for anyone, not just people new to cooking, that isnt a very serious professional.

From Slice

Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?

How do you get a white trash girl to suck your d**k?

Dip it in ranch dressing.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

I love all of those things. I don't have them anymore at my thanksgiving table, but if I'm served (any and all of it!) somewhere, I go for it and bask in nostalgia for days gone by with Nana and the whole fam!

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

@ mr guy- I agree, the brining doesn't do much for me either. I've done it the past two years, and if you ask me it's a big pain in the ass for little results. Expensive too.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Cans of thick slop and sludge never get anywhere near my cooking. As a matter of fact, Campbell's cream "soup" line is single handedly responsible for making crock pots the biggest laugh in the kitchen. (The crock pot was later de-throned by Sandra Lee as the biggest laugh in the kitchen - ironically a chronic user of cream soups.)

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Don't be hating on me, but Campbell's creamy onion soup is far superior to use in casseroles versus the cream of mushroom. When I took over Thanksgiving duty from my MIL, that marshmallow sweet potato monstrosity was banned from my menu. As well as the canned cranberry "sauce", I make my own SF version from the real cranberries from the produce section.

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

Everything was fair game until you got to the marshmallows.

Marshmallows aren't Thanksgiving food. They're candy.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

The usual assortment of American and Asian condiments, pickles, capers, sundried tomatoes and olives. A jar of yellow curry paste and a jar of Jamaican jerk seasoning.

Here's the one oddity: macapuno strings (I make a killer fruit salad of fresh strawberries, a drained can of lychee, and macapuno)

@WIGirl : Try this with your red curry paste. Fry about a tablespoon of paste in a skillet for a minute. Stir in a can of coconut milk and a can of water. Toss in a pound of chuck roast cut into 1 inch cubes. Simmer for about 45 minutes until the meat is done and the gravey thickens - watch that it doesn't get too dry. A simple substitute for Indonesian rendang. Serve over rice.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

@nightowl, are you suppossed to refrigerate tapioca? i have it in my pantry.

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What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

Fridge door inventory:

Butter saver shelf: carton of eggs, half a lime
Shelf 1: butter, ketchup, small cans of pineapple juice, a pineapple fruit cup, a bottle of fruit smoothie drink, 8 oz glass bottle of Dr Pepper
Shelf 2: spray margarine, peanut butter, sugar free strawberry preserves, bottled bbq sauce, tabasco, cream cheese, box of baking soda in a ziploc, cold brew coffee concentrate
Shelf 3: bottle of aloe vera infused lotion, bottle of sriracha, bottle of balsamic viniagrette, bottle of ranch dressing, bottle of Cristalino, sour mix
Shelf 4: chocolate syrup, sugar free chocolate syrup, hazelnut flavored syrup, 2 kinds of homemade bbq sauce, white vinegar, hummus, maraschino cherries, tapioca pearls

Some of this is undoubtedly completely weird.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

I also have Dianas Spicy Southwest in my refrigerator! I brought it back from a trip to Nova Scotia.

When it comes to strange, hmmmm...strawberry vodka? Habanero Peach Preserves, szechuan salad dressing from the chinese market (I still have no idea what to do with it), yellow curry sauce, tandoor marinade, garlic scape pesto.

I also have a jar of Baconaise, not the stuff you have on the website, the packaged stuff not made with bacon.

Wasabi dressing from my trip to Vermont. I could go on and on...

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

organic plain yogurt
butter
mozzarella cheese
2 types of soy sauce
oyster sauce
ketchup
dried up tahini
strawberry jam
Miracle Whip
Diana's Spicy Southwest marinade
stale Japanese vinaigrette
spare rib sauce
hoisin sauce
General Tao sauce
Italian dressing
Cesar salad dressing
molasses
sweet & sour sauce
yeast
canned cat & dog food

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

Here's what to do with that sorghum: drizzle it over cornmeal pancakes
CORNMEAL PANCAKES FOR 2 ( recipe can be doubled )
3/4 cups cornmeal
3/4 cups boiling water
1/2 teaspoon salt
generous 1/3 cup unbleached flour
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
1 tablespoon light brown sugar or honey
1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup milk
Mix cornmeal with salt. Pour boiling water over and set aside.
Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
Beat egg with oil and brown sugar. Stir in milk till well combined, then add to cornmeal. Mix well.
Stir in flour till just combined.
Cook on hot griddle. Serve with lashings of butter and sorghum. Sausage on the side goes well, as do fried apples. I don't eat meat so use Morningstar Farms links instead.
Now that frosty mornings are here, these should go down pretty good.
The best way to eat sorghum is fried grits but I can't find good white grits anymore....

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

All the usual things plus a jar of Garlic Jelly that I got at the Farmer's Market where my son sells the beef & pork from his ranch.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

just about everything i thought was odd has been listed! i have evian spray
for my hot flashes, but peppermint is a great idea. i live in arizona, so
i keep my lipsticks there, and, i'm embarrassed to say, cigarettes, too...

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

@ jerzee-- how about doing some pineapple in light rum and apricots in the eau di vie?

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What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

Butter section:
-Butter
-baking yeast
-2 soup spoons (for when I have puffy eyes)

1st shelf:
-Brita pitcher
-sm bottle water
-toasted sesame oil
-maple syrup
-aging bottle of blueberry preserves
-Thai red curry paste that I don't know what to do with but it sounded good when I bought it
-aging bottle of horseradish (I keep forgetting to get some more)
-tabasco
-porcini powder (I LOVE this stuff!)
-Joy perfume
-Origins eye depuffer (which I keep forgetting about)

2nd shelf
-club soda
-big bottle of pelegino
-vermouth
-a beer (which will be gone shortly after I get home)
-almond oil
-low-sodium soy sauce (which I hate but I can't quite bring myself to throw it out)
-Pearl River Mushroom soy sauce (THIS is the stuff that I do use)
-HP sauce (fell for an englishman a couple years ago and I thought he'd like it... he's ancient history but the sauce lives on forever)
-A1 sauce
-the everpresent ketchup
-4 kinds of mustard
-taco sauce
-chili sauce

So all in all nothing too terribly odd.

@wasliche-- I didn't know abut storing your birth control in the fridge (was never a problem... still isn't... Viva la Menopause!!!!)

@jerzee-- I have got to try those cherries, they sound wonderful!

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

Great topic!

@Twistie - I too have tonkatsu sauce, aloe vera gel and ponzu sauce in my fridge door! Are we fridge twins?

In addition I have:

-flax oil
-yuzu citrus dressing
-mirin
-hon tsuyu (a soup and sauce base)
-red curry paste
-anko (Japanese red bean paste)
-Patagonian dulce de leche (from a friend who visited Argentina)
-wasabi

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

I have the usual things...honey mustard, grainy mustard, mayo, ketchup, milk - it won't fit on the shelves of my fridge and didn't know that till we got it home! Also, capers, maple syrup, wine, soy and Worchestershire sauce, potassium injections for the cat's fluid treatments, Rose's lime juice, horseradish, jams and jellies, pickles, stuff like that.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

Probably the most unusual things I have in the door of my fridge would be the bottle of tonkatsu sauce, a bottle of ponzu, a tube of aloe vera gel a friend of ours left behind after he did some gardening for us (and since he's moved out of state and fathered two [one at a time with the same mom] children since then, I guess it's probably time to toss it), and a half a packet of poppadoms that Mr. Twistie got a while back and tried to microwave even though said packet had no instructions for doing so and even a legend that said 'for best results, do not microwave' on it. I wonder why he's not so keen on cooking up that second half of the packet.

One day my husband will learn that while the microwave can be a very useful tool, it is not a universal one, even with pre-packaged foods.

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

many bottles of Ranch Dressing with only a half squirt in each, "number" birthday candles, some medicines and a partial bottle of flavored Vodka...the rest is pretty much the same as the other posts... and definitely no kimchi..what the heck is that?

And I used up all of my eye of newt and frog toes this past weekend...need to get more!...lol

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

@CATERPILLARGIRL: "an EMPTY jar of pickles, to which i say "why?" and get no answer."

PickleSickles!

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

@Koalaisnotabear, we keep our milk in the main part of the fridge for two reasons:

1) It doesn't stay cold enough on the door.
2) The gallon jug won't fit on our door shelves anyway!

Yes, we do love our milk!

From Talk

What strange things are in the door of your fridge?

What a great question...it also reminds me that it is time for a Serious refrigerator purge...

7 kinds of hot sauce (no foolin'), 2 kinds of bbq sauce, Brianna's Blush Wine Viniagrette, mayo, 4 kinds of mustard, Gi-Normous bottle of ketchup (small children), fish sauce, soy sauce, wor....-whatever sauce, Sriracha (essential), hoisin, black bean paste, rice wine vinegar, chinese chili-garlic sauce, garlic paste, ginger paste, lemongrass, thai curry paste, Claussen pickles (essential), homemade pickled jalapenos, and...the icing on the cake...anti-vomiting suppositories for when the barfing virus from Hades hits our house...

From Serious Eats

Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'

I disagree about a lot of the candy items mentioned here.
I, for one, LOVE the fun-sized (or mini, if you prefer) candies. It's a tiny bit of something insanely tasty, enough to give pleasure without causing tummy pains. When I was a young'un and I went trick-or-treating, one house gave out mini Clark bars. Yum-o-delish! I polished those off first.
I think the chewy peanut butter kisses taste absolutely divine.
Candy corn, I think is plenty of tasty, as are the candy pumpkins made of candy-corn base. Think little dollops of hardened cake-frosting.
As for apples and raisins, those I didn't mind in the least.

However, some items, I do agree about.
Toothbrushes -- a boring reminder
Religious pamphlets -- disappointing and WEIRD to boot.
Packages of "normal" food -- oh, for crying in Manhattan, what kid wants to receive a can of baked beans or a box of oat bran in his little plastic jack-o-lantern.
One time I received cough drops -- and not the Ludens or Pine Bros or Smith Bros or F&Fs, which are tasty and could pass as hard candy (as can the Ricolas). These were nasty little green pellets that were -- and tasted like -- MEDICATION. Like I said, for crying in Manhattan! For crying in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco

Oh well. At least I didn't get a ROCK

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So I'm smoking a pork shoulder tomorow...

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What is wasabi tobiko?

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emergency cheese question

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WHY did I eat that? What in the name of Ramen is wrong with me?!

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Favorite foods: everything. especially cheese.

Last bite on earth: runny fried egg with melted cheese, ham, and ketchup on toast.