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Would love to do the brussel sprouts and cauliflower gratin with pine nuts.
Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'
Her sugar cookies are really classic. I use that one a lot.
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Oh crap, the dog ate the....
We have a Siamese mix that is a chicken fiend. I can't tell you how many times he's dug through the garbage in the kitchen for chicken, and only for chicken. If we have guests, there's a choice, don't serve chicken or lock him up for the evening. Not only will he steal it when you're not looking, but he'll jump into your lap or onto the table while you're eating, put his face right in yours, and commence Siamese-style howling until somebody hands over some meat. Very disturbing, especially for people who aren't too fond of animals.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
Would love to do the brussel sprouts and cauliflower gratin with pine nuts.
Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'
Her sugar cookies are really classic. I use that one a lot.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
OK, I know I'm behind on the brining craze, but I'd like to try the Cook's Illustrated roasted brined turkey.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
Brussel sprouts and cauliflower gratin with pine nuts -- definitely on my menu.
Blood For Breakfast? Fear Not!
@BananaMonkey:
A Trinidadian here, I know exactly what you're talking about. Now that I live in the States, I eat those blander versions, but they just sort of remind me of home.
Served: Every Night Waiting Tables
On the bleeding cuts ... my boyfriend used to work in a cafe in Israel, and the last time I cut myself cooking he grabbed my finger and dunked it into our cannister of Arabic coffee grounds (I would have poured some of the grounds into a cup or large spoon before shoving a bloody limb in it, but whatever). Instant seal, washed off easily once dinner was in the oven and healed perfectly even though I am the most infection-prone person on the planet. It's my favorite new trick.
Who's Hotter? Young Colicchio vs. Young Bourdain
Bourdain, obviously. But would we actually go to prom or just hang out in the parking lot, being delinquents? I hope the latter.
Time for a Drink: Queen's Park Swizzle
This sounds a whole lot like Trinidad rum punch gone fancy... so it's probably delicious! And the Queen's Park Hotel was apparently the place to be back in the day, so obviously they would have known how to make a drink. Thanks for the recipe.
Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'
I have so many favorites... but I have to admit that any shellfish in a cream sauce pulls me in.
Divorce Cakes
Everybody over on the actual site this was taken from is all up in arms about the fact that only the men are being brutally murdered on these cakes. I tend to think that this has less to do with a predjudiced society (which is the general rationale), and more to do with the prevalence of female cake decorators and my hunch that women are more likely to order cakes. What do you guys think?
Cook the Book: 'Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin'
All the time... this week it was the bastard child of picadillo and Bahamian style steamed tuna. It was sauteed onions, carrots, tomatoes and can of tuna, with a good squeeze of lemon, some capers and olives, all tossed around with ketchup, and some cilantro sprinkled over the top. Sounds odd, but it really was delicious over white rice.
Menu: A Multi-Cultural Rosh Hashana
My Jewish boyfriend also seems to be pretty insistent that we eat the head of a fish for Rosh Hashana... any comments or recipe help on that one?
How Food Porn Is Like Real Porn
Even thought that's not actually her body... ewww and grossness.
Chile Pepper Magazine Presents: The Fiery Food Challenge
For shame, using styrofoam cups!
Father and Daughter Visit the Farmers' Market
Well, I'm not American, and my mum still had trouble getting me to eat quite a few things when I was a child. However, she kept insisting, and I kept getting left out of family dinner, and by the time I was a teenager I loved everything. When I visit home now, she always reminds me that many of the things I'm dying for her to make for me, I used to refuse when I was 7.
Anyway, wherever you're from, branching out food-wise can be harder when you try to do it later in life. Whenever I meet people with a number of very specfic and strict food preferences, and I ask about their background, inevitably they've had a limited amount of experience with different foods in the past. Sometimes a new taste is difficult. It took my Israeli boyfriend quite a few tries to get accustomed to my favorite Caribbean foods, and there are still a few things that he just can't get down with. And, although I have managed to get gefilte fish down the hatch, I'll never attack it with the same gusto he does. It's what we've been exposed to.
Hostess Fruit Pie, One Less Thing For Me to Eat Before I Die
I'm so glad everyone is as weirded out as I am by these little square pies. These are not the Hostess pies that contributed so well to my freshman 15...
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'
I also want a warm brownie, but I want mine with chocolate icecream, a sprinkle of walnuts and raspberry and chocolate sauces with a dollop of whipped cream. It's my last time!
Group of College Presidents Wants to Lower Drinking Age to 18
I'm from a country where the drinking age is 18, but came to the US for college. We definitely have a more relaxed attitude towards alcohol at home, and I consumed much less, and knew how to drink responsibly (not too many drinks, water between drinks etc.). My American friends learnt to drink sneaking around with friends, not sitting at home sipping wine or beer at family functions (like I did), so their idea always seems to be to get as much alcohol into the body as possible. Maybe in their minds, mom, dad or the police are still waiting to catch them, so they'd better drink it quick.
In my mid-twenties, now in grad school and back in the States, it's so weird to me that in my current group of friends, one beer or glass of wine at lunch is completely odd, but stumbling home blind drunk at three in the morning to puke almost every weekend is routine.
As foodinmouth mentioned, it may be over-simplfying to simply lower the drinking age, but it would be nice to see a change in the drinking culture start somewhere.
Olympic Volleyball Player Kerri Walsh Eats a Banana, Wins Gold
so much better than all the olympic athletes in the constant mcdonalds commercials. i'd be surprised if even mr. calorie vacuum phelps ate at mcdonalds.
NectarineGate: Zuni Cafe's $8 Nectarine Dessert Is Actually $4.50
this is the most ludicrous thing i've ever seen.
at least cut up the bloody thing, throw on some garnish and add a dollop of whipped cream. at LEAST.
"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon....."
hey Blue Iris,
A friend of mine passed away recently and his family posted on a website a list that he wrote on a napkin in a cafe entitled "Instructions for Life". Some of the instructions were quotes, and some were his own so it's possible that it's not the same list you receieved... but I find it odd that the last instruction on his list is exactly the last instruction on your list.
Would you mind forwarding me the e-mail you got? My address is chiqlette@hotmail.com, and if in fact this is the list I bet his family would be absolutely tickled to know that its affecting people that he never met! Thanks a bunch, it would mean a lot.
In Videos: Jerusalem Street Foods
Well, that was certainly charged with bias and politically polarizing.
Macaroni salad for tomorrow
I'm with brooke29 on the olive oil, but instead of lemon I use a salad vinegar. In the past, I've used red wine, white wine, balsamic and even pomegranate with great results. Sometimes for protein I'll add a can of beans (usually chickpeas), and shredded spinach really adds nice texture and flavor. Besides that I use some variation of olives, tomatoes, corn, diced cucumber, green onion, bell peppers and whatever else I can find in the kitchen. I've also thrown in some crumbled feta and that also works really well.
Served: Every Night Waiting Tables
This blog is great!! Check out www.stuckserving.com for similar stories!!
Time for a Drink: Queen's Park Swizzle
@likeswords -- Oops, sorry, thought I'd included that. Rich simple syrup is simply two parts sugar dissolved in one part water over medium heat and then cooled. In this drink (and many others), using Demerara sugar will give it a nice little flavor boost.
Time for a Drink: Queen's Park Swizzle
Okay, please distinguish between simple syrup and rich simple syrup - I am assuming you mean more sugar, but how much more - what proportions sugar and water? Otherwise, you join the ranks of my dear departed great-grandmother, whose recipes often called for a "large cup" of sugar, which is hard to translate when you are baking.
Served: Every Night Waiting Tables
This is a great blog, you should also check out www.86BadTips.com
Served: Every Night Waiting Tables
^^Which means you're kind of a tool. Do you realize that the base wage for many servers is around $2.33 per hour?? What we take home in tips is what we earn. It's not like we're making 8 bucks an hour and your $10 is just an added bonus.
Hostess Fruit Pie, One Less Thing For Me to Eat Before I Die
i just posted a website for ordering the pies but after a little more research i found that the company is bogus. They don't ship anything, they take your money and run. F them for that
DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING FROM THAT WEBSITE OK...................
Hostess Fruit Pie, One Less Thing For Me to Eat Before I Die
I used to eat all kinds of the pies as a kid and i loved them. I am 27 now and just recently discovered the delicious nature of the pies. I do agree with you guys about the half moon pies as opposed to the square ones. Don't get me wrong the square ones do the trick, but the whole pie is the daddy of fruit pies. the reason im writing this blog is because i found a website in which you can order the old school half moon pies and have them ordered to your house. This is the website. http://www.freshchocodiles.com/hostess/fruit_pies.html
Hostess Fruit Pie, One Less Thing For Me to Eat Before I Die
I HAVE BEEN READING ALL OF THESE COMMENTS ABOUT WHICH PIE IS BETTER. THE SQUARE ONES OR THE HALFMOONS AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE ALL GOOD, BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.
Who's Hotter? Young Colicchio vs. Young Bourdain
But the question really is: Jew-fro or wench?
Who's Hotter? Young Colicchio vs. Young Bourdain
Bourdain makes the perfect slacker, semi-stalkerish ex-boyfriend you just can't quit!
Who's Hotter? Young Colicchio vs. Young Bourdain
Tom for sure. Tony looks to much like my dad...both young tony and current tony!
Hostess Fruit Pie, One Less Thing For Me to Eat Before I Die
I signed up just to comment on Hostess fruit pies. I was eating one a while back and had to ask myself why or if I liked it. The fond memories of them fell away as I evaluated the one I was eating and found that the crust smelled like Play Dough. I don't remember making this connection as a child (which seems odd to me), and I can't help but wonder if the recipe has changed over the years. At any rate I was eating another one tonight and had to stop and see if anyone else thought they smelled like Play Dough (my wife agrees that they do) That brought me here.
It is probably too late to get a reply about this because the last post was from november, oh well.
By the way, my favorites groing up were cherry and apple and were, as was the one I ate tonight, half-moon shaped.
I still find them edible, but will tell my wife not to buy them for me again.
I can't get past the Play Dough thing.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
My beloved, late, dainty and ever-so-ladylike Siberian Husky adored wine and coffee. A wineglass or cup of coffee on the table was not safe...mind you, she never knocked over a glass or cup and never spilled a drop. We took to placing wine and coffee on the top of the rolltop desk in our living room. Her Spaniel-Poodle cohort, on the other hand, was "he-of-the-cast-iron-stomach", ingesting anything and everything he could find. My stepmom's dog would eat jalepeno peppers straight off the plant with no ill effects.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
Thanks all for the laugh at work!
This thread reminds me of a collection of similar stories I read about in the Washington Post a few years back around Christmas time - my favorite being the dachshund who ate a box of caffeine pills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101366.html
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
Once had a lab who ate an entire bowl of Hershey kisses, foil and all.
He also ate a string of black cat firecrackers that had fallen down from a shelf in the closet. That had to burn coming out.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
When we had our old cat, we had to eat in shifts...one would eat, while the other restrained the cat, who was focused laser-like on whatever food the other had. The same cat refused to eat unless you watched her. If you put her food down and went into the other room, she'd follow you and make a fuss until you went back.
Also, my childhood dog ate our World Series tickets. That wasn't fun.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
I can attest to how quickly greyhounds can eat unsupervised food. My mom had purchased an entire filet mignon strip, had cut 4 beautiful 3" steaks from it (leaving them on the cutting board in the middle of the kitchen), and proceeded to answer the phone - turning her back for literally 2 milliseconds - only to turn around and watch Nate finish off the last of all 4 steaks. His thanks for such an incredible meal? Throwing them up in the yard 5 minutes later. Believe me when I say that I gathered it up to try and salvage a stew out of the semi-digested pieces - of course my gag reflex brought me back to my senses.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
My 10 year old Ridgeback and my friend's Greyhound mix worked as a team to eat 5 lbs of salmon cream cheese.
The pug puppy once ate $74 worth of 12 year Hook Cheddar. He CheezWhiz'd all over the backyard. I almost had him put to sleep I was so pissed.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
An entire tray of nanaimo bars went down the stomach of our family springer spaniel. She never stole food from the counter again - the nanaimo bar chocolate was weak enough to not hurt her (honestly I don't really think there's any real chocolate in that stuff across the top of the storebought bars), but enough to make her spend an unhappy night staying very close to the back door.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
My in-laws' miniature schnauser ate a 3-1/2 pound bag of Gummi Bears one Thanksgiving weekend. Now that was a mess!
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
I had a Siberian Husky that used to corn off the cob...... which I thought was a cool thing for a dog to do....... but then he would eat the cob after all the kernels were gone...
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
My old cat had an affinity for Starbucks Caramel Cappuccino Swirl ice cream.. couldn't keep it in the house. Even thought he was frail and 19.. you could not eat a bite in peace.
Current cat will climb up your leg to get tomatoes or canteloupe and will swipe the peanut butter or homemade blackberry jam right off your toast. At least he's civil to guests, but to me he has nailed down the art of pulling my hand towards his mouth while I'm trying to eat.
Oh crap, the dog ate the....
Not holiday related-
We had an elderly persian cat that got into the garbage can and fished out some hot wing remains. He had diarrhea for two days.
Growing up we had some neighbors who must have stored some of their food outside. My dog regularly would drag home boxes of cereal and milk.
Now that I know how to make ___ I will never buy it again.
I've never not made my own/not had my grandmother's own red sauce, so I guess that would be it? If I do run out in the dead of winter I buy canned crushed tomatoes and season myself, but I've never ever bought pre-seasoned red sauce. Same goes for pesto! If I need some in the dead of winter I'll buy basil, but mostly I just make it myself.
BREAD! It's a new addition, but if I ever buy bread, it'll be a nice, fresh-baked, locally made loaf, none of that preservative-filled pre-sliced stuff.
I WISH I could say pasta was on this list, but I haven't learned it yet. Sigh. Maybe when I get a bigger kitchen.
And also, applesauce.
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We have a Siamese mix that is a chicken fiend. I can't tell you how many times he's dug through the garbage in the kitchen for chicken, and only for chicken. If we have guests, there's a choice, don't serve chicken or lock him up for the evening. Not only will he steal it when you're not looking, but he'll jump into your lap or onto the table while you're eating, put his face right in yours, and commence Siamese-style howling until somebody hands over some meat. Very disturbing, especially for people who aren't too fond of animals.