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The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Vess Peach Soda
Vess Cream Soda (if it's not bright pink it's not really cream soda)
Jones FuFu Berry Soda
Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float
Putting my hand in this one:
For rootbeer floats, nothing will do but Fitz's rot beer with any high-quality vanilla ice cream (pref. Haagen Daaz)... for a change, orange soda (also from Fitz's) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
On brown cows: I always thought that a brown cow was a Coke float. Kosher-for-passover Coca Cola makes the best ever.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
Favorite was also the first - I was on my first big "away from the parents" trip, in DC for a social justice seminar. We ate at this tiny place in DuPont Circle. My parents aren't terribly adventurous eaters, and so this was my first attempt at most of the foods and flavors I encountered. Baked brie, calamari (in retrospect, probably a faux pas, since I was eating with a rabbi), and duck sausage!
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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
Triumph: Oreo ice cream layer pie!
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Vess Peach Soda
Vess Cream Soda (if it's not bright pink it's not really cream soda)
Jones FuFu Berry Soda
Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float
Putting my hand in this one:
For rootbeer floats, nothing will do but Fitz's rot beer with any high-quality vanilla ice cream (pref. Haagen Daaz)... for a change, orange soda (also from Fitz's) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
On brown cows: I always thought that a brown cow was a Coke float. Kosher-for-passover Coca Cola makes the best ever.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
Favorite was also the first - I was on my first big "away from the parents" trip, in DC for a social justice seminar. We ate at this tiny place in DuPont Circle. My parents aren't terribly adventurous eaters, and so this was my first attempt at most of the foods and flavors I encountered. Baked brie, calamari (in retrospect, probably a faux pas, since I was eating with a rabbi), and duck sausage!
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 63: Do All Doctors Want to Be Food Writers?
@ReneeRobinson, you and me both!
I stress bake, but do my very best not to stress eat, and so I bring most of my goods to class the next morning. My advisor just happened to be teaching on a morning in which I brought a dozen muffins and a batch of cookies to class, and her first remark was "I didn't realize this class was catered!"
Is Organic Food Necessarily Safer?
@djwackfriz: Try finding a locally grown apple in Chicago in January. I just got back from South Carolina, where there were still local tomatoes being sold in grocery stores. I'd eat local if I could, but it's not an option available for all of us. It'd be lovely to have more control over what I could put in my mouth, but the simple fact is, you have to eat the food that's available to you.
St. Louis Trip Next Month
hmw0029: Provel is definitely an acquired taste, to be sure. I grew up on Imo's, and a salad wasn't a salad in my house if it didn't come covered with a layer of Provel. I live in Chicago now, and the lack of Provel in my life is a sad, sad thing - whenever I come back to STL, the first thing on the menu is sausage and mushroom pizza :)
Sorry you weren't wild about Zia's... I've never had a bad experience there, dining, service or otherwise.
How do you make your fave brownies?
The recipe in Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" is my new base brownie recipe - it is the first recipe I've ever tried that beats the box. I usually add a little bit of extra cocoa powder to it, and throw in chocolate chips and/or walnuts. They come out really fudgy and amazing!
Alice Waters Proposes New School Lunch Program
Get rid of vending machines in schools. Get rid of the "snack lines," where schools sell the junk food that is, unbelievably, worse than anything they are selling in the cafeteria. Those are good first steps in solving this problem.
I don't care so much about organic and local food in this case. The only good rationale for choosing organic produce is that it would be a boon to the organic growers, and also provide a reason for the FDA to more strictly regulate what can be called organic. But, food needs to be cheap and nutritious. It's just hard to serve nutritious food on that scale.
We always had the option of pizza or whatever the hot meal that day was. The pizza was horrible - it took 4+ napkins to blot up the grease, but it was still better than what was probably considered the nutritious option. Kids want to eat what looks and tastes good... unfortunately, the pickings are slim, so it's easier to go for the vending machine.
St. Louis Trip Next Month
Zia's on the Hill is excellent. Blueberry Hill is worth the experience, if nothing else, and there needs to be at least one Imo's Pizza experience. You'll probably hate the pizza, but you've gotta try it.
Creative Lasagnas
Flat Branch, the microbrewery in Columbia, MO, had a fantastic white lasagna on the menu a few years back, a white lasagna with artichoke. This recipe looks to be relatively similar:
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/23182/artichoke-lasagna.html
'Culinary Slumming'
Bad Chinese food, Lipton Pasta Sides, and the Ultimate Cheeseburger from Jack-in-the-Box. Totino's Pizza Rolls. Lucky Charms.
Luckily, there are no Jack-in-the-Boxes in Chicago, the Chinese buffets near here breach the line between "bad" and "disgusting," the pasta sides are justifiable, and pizza rolls and Lucky Charms are only allowed during exam weeks.
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
There's a stellar white cake recipe in Joy of Cooking that has apparently been used as a wedding cake recipe. I made it for a friend's birthday last year with honey whipped cream icing, and it was excellent, but I've also made buttercream and meringue icings for it and they've all turned out equally well. PM me if you'd like the recipe.
Hard to believe; I found a new spice
There is a store in Old Orchard, in Skokie that sells oil and vinegar... appropriately called "Oil and Vinegar." I've lived here for over a year, and it's survived that long, but Old Orchard is inhabited with rather upscale shops and shopped by rather affluent people. I did get a bottle of pomegranate-infused olive oil for Christmas from a friend - it's quite good!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
When I have money? Ribeye, no question. But, I like a good flank steak when I'm nearing the end of my student loan money for the term!
What kind of Candy or Cookies do you make for Christmas
When my father became a police officer in 1987, at a newly-incorporated city, my mother made boxes of cookies for all of the officers and their families. It was fine when there were only 30 officers... now there are over 200. Every year, after Thanksgiving, my parents' house turns into a cottage cookie baking operation. When I moved out, I swore I'd never make Christmas cookies. They make thousands of cookies - chocolate chip, double chocolate, and oatmeal raisin. Nothing too fancy, but still nothing I want to be around.
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
I make "Lasagna in a Bowl" from time to time: pasta shells, cottage cheese, a little tomato sauce and some frozen spinach. It's my favorite comfort food!
Does Your Grocery Store Have You Crying Tears of Joy?
I moved from Columbia, MO and St. Louis to Chicago about a year ago. St. Louis is a strange place to grocery shop because it is a very colliquial place. We have a couple of chains that are all over the place, but none of the big national chains - I had never seen a Kroger until I went to college, or a Safeway until I moved to Chicago. Dierbergs and Schnucks are still, in my mind, everything a grocery store should be: lots of local vegetables in the summer, lots of local food lines, and people who work at those stores their entire lives.
I despise Chicago grocery shopping, and Dominick's and Jewel. Whole Foods is special treat shopping, but I try to do lots of shopping at Woodman's, which is a veritable Mecca of grocery shopping. It really is everything a grocery store should be.
Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float
I made a rbf for my student from Ghana--his response-- "This is why I love America!!"
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I am not really big on soda anymore BUT last summer I was in Nags Head, NC and found the famous Cheerwine, a NC thing. It is fizzy cherry-flavored soda, not cherry cola, just cherry soda. It is out of this world delicious.
Last week when we were close to the border of NC and leaving for WV, I hit a supermarket and bought myself a 12 pack to take home to NJ. We can't get it here. It is my favorite soda in a really long time.
Otherwise I really like Cherry 7Up but they don't sell it in cans around here, just 2 liter bottles, which I have no room for in the refrigerator. I also love Crystal Light Wild Strawberry (comes in a powder that you mix with water) and their Citrus stuff too. Excellent mixed with some green tea! I make fusions of all kinds of things.
I have never liked Fresca. When I was a child, all the skinny cool girls drank the Diet Fresca and that was all they drank (that and lots of folks drank Tab) - neither of which I could get a tasting for. My favorite soda at the time was Pepsi - just plain Pepsi. To this day, I prefer plain Pepsi over anything Coke, don't know why. BUT I prefer Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I'm a firefighter, and our rehab vehicle would always have a dry mix powder of something called Squencher, it was sort of a generic Gatorade knock-off. There is nothing that tastes better than that stuff after a structure fire. It was randomly citrusy and just spectacular.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
First of all, I love this post & reading all the comments - so many unknowns to me!
Fresca, LOVE! Just tried the Black Cherry which was excellent! Never thought to use it as a mixer!
Polar Orange Dry, which we picked up when our usual Lemon Seltzer was out; we didn't realize it was pop but loved it!
Tahitian Treat, good memories with this one! Somehow delicious with its sickening sweetness!
Ale-8-One, I can't believe it hasn't come up yet! It's an excellent ginger ale with a pun-y name. Maybe just a regional thing but you could only find it in KY where it's made forever. Then a few years ago, they started to allow it to be sold "'cross the river" in Cincy and southern OH. I loved this stuff!
Canada Dry Green Tea, a new favorite! Great combo (though a bit sweet) & such sparkling goodness!
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
honestly, none..
a few years back i used to drink vanilla coke almost exclusively, and root beer every now and then, but i can't even finish a soda (or pop as we call it here lol) anymore because they're just too sweet to me.. after drinking mainly water for so long now, anything else is too much
the closest thing to soda i drink now is sparkling naturally flavored water.. i usually just save my calories and flavor for actual food
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
BobbieAnne, it's TAHITIAN Treat and is made by Canada Dry. I know this because I, too, used to love it!
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Here in southern California we are fortunate enough to have Jarritos brand soda, we love tamarindo, mandarina, pina (pineapple), toronja (grapefruit), fruit punch and my own personal favorite - mango. Delicious and always in bottles and in my opinion, soda tastes better from a bottle.
We also have a wonderful store in Los Angeles called Galco's Soda Pop stop. They carry EVERYTHING in soda. For instance, they have 46 kinds of root beer, alone. Brands that you didn't even know were being made anymore. Website is galcos.com and it's fun to visit.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
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Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
dropping the entire casserole on the oven door
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
I made walnut brownies with walnuts that had secretly gone bad...it was a giant inedible pan of musty, nasty brownies. Sick and so, so sad.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
As a kid, my best friend and I made sugar cookies. She read the ingredients as I incorporated them. She read off 1/4 cup of salt, I then asked her if she read that right because that was a lot of salt. She insisted she was correct and I added that amount in. Once the cookies had baked, we couldn;t wait to try them, we each took a bite and spit them out. She was wrong, it was 1/4 tsp salt!
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My most triumphant baking success was making brownies for my friend.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My biggest success was baking my husband's favorite pie, a Lemon Meringue Pie. garrettsambo@aol.com
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I love Barq's diet root beer - but they've stopped making it! (At least in the 2-liter bottle - I can still find the 12-packs of cans occasionally.) Everything I love eventually disappears. Companies should pay me not to like their fringe products so they won't fail.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
no disasters but I haven't tried to make anything that seems too complicated for me, I guess the triumph would have to be making pound cakes, just because I had to make them with a hand mixer
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My most disasterous was when I was about 8 or 9, I deceided to make my mother a surprise cake. I got up about 4 in the morning and decided to make of all things a chiffon cake. Well it calls for lots of eggs and etc. When that cake came out it was flat as a pancake and I cried and cried, but my mother said it was the thought that counted, but she was not happy I had used so many eggs.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My greatest success was the first time I made bread. I was inspired by a retired pro-wrestler (yeah, a "wrassler") interviewed in the student newspaper. He baked bread, read classic literature and was a tour guide at the local zoo. If he could do it, I could do it. And it did.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I love Fresca. When I was a kid my favorite thing in the world was an ice cream soda made with Fresca and strawberry icecream. Hmmm, I haven't had that in years, but you know, it doesn't sound half bad.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
In South Florida/Miami there are three sodas in particular that I'm nuts for, and now that I live in Arizona they are pretty hard to find (though I've occasionally found them): Jupiña (pineapple soda), Materva (yerba mate soda) and Ironbeer (I have no idea what kind of soda this is, it's dark like cola but is kinda fruity with a bit of a bite). And since I, too, prefer to CHEW my calories, I was thrilled to find diet versions of all of these (in Florida of course). So those are my must-haves when I visit my parents in Miami.
OH! There is another one that is really good too, Coco Rico - a coconut-water soda.
Seriously - no amount of Fresca, Sierra Mist, Diet Mt. Dew or Diet Sunkist will ever top my South Florida favorites.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Fresca is definitely my favorite soda. I like the original, Peach, and Black Cherry Fresca flavors.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
I was a Fresca addict for a few years, and I still enjoy it occasionally. Then I discovered flavored selzter. When I lived in Colorado all I drank was Canada Dry Cranberry-Lime Seltzer. Sounds odd, but was it refreshing, and as I've gotten older (alas!) I don't enjoy sweet drinks as much as I used to. Now I live in St. Louis now I can't get it here. However, I've found LaCroix "Pamplemousse" seltzer, which has the grapefruit taste of Fresca, but without the sugar or artificial sweetner. Does anyone out there like flavored seltzers?
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
Oh, just pick me, I always enter and never win, but this book I REALLY want. I now live in the south (KY) and really need to show up my next door neighbor, she's just a little too cocky about her pies. And I'm telling you, they aren't that good. This old lady needs to be taken down a couple of notches!
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
I made an apple pie in college from apples grown on my parent's farm for a girlfriend. It came out quite well.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
my friends and i were obsessed with fresca when we were about 13... useed to put pez in it to make it fizz vary the flavor, and drink it out of shot glasses to be "cool." now that im a semi-grown up i should try it with alcohol :)
squirt is also good... it has a weird flavor and seems more "juicey" than other sodas to me. every once in a while i get this weird craving for orange soda [and speaking of being 13, does that remind anyone else of keenan and kel?]... when youre super thirsty and orange crush tastes SO GOOD, like nothing else.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My baking disaster was the time I made a red velvet cake and forgot to put in the baking powder. I ended up with a 1/2 inch thick red, tough cake. It didn't taste bad, but the texture was horrible.
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Location: Lake Bluff, IL
About: I'm a medical student in the north Chicagoland suburbs. I grew up in St. Louis, and did my undergraduate studies in Columbia, MO - home of both cosmopolitan cuisine and low-brow college chow. I started writing recipes as a stress-reliever.
Favorite foods: Middle eastern (especially felafel prepared in the Israeli style, and burekka), stereotypical Jewish cuisine, sushi, good hamburgers, salmon, key lime pie, and pomegranates.
Last bite on earth: Triple chocolate pomegranate cookies.
Triumph: Oreo ice cream layer pie!