I am having some friends for late lunch on Sunday. She is a vegetarian. Eats eggs, most cheese, and milk products. and an incredible sweet tooth.
We are all breakfast food fans.
I have fresh eggs galore. (My own chickens)
What is your best ideas for lunch?
(no wines involved)
I used to live in the city and drank distilled water all the time. The chlorine and flouride in the municipal water system made me very sick. I constantly had rashes and intestinal issues. Then came the whole house filter to remove chlorine and junk. AHHH. Nothing like taking a shower and not having to pour room temperature distalled water over you to rinse off the chlorine. Nothing like a safe shower.
If I lived in the city? I would get another filter system.
Now? Thank God, I have my own well. Delightful!
Sounds like a mistake to me. If I go to Starbucks, I am after coffee based items. Not nutritional, over-banana-ed, tryi not to be a duck smoothies! ugh.
If you freeze corn, you need to blanche it first. It continues to .... mature for lack of a better word, and gets waxy if you do not blanche it first. This gizmo works splendidly UNLESS you want whole kernel corn. link Yes it takes a muscle or two but the results are so delicious.
We boil water, drop the ears in for about 3 minutes, put them in cold! water, and again and then cut it off. You want the kernels cooled pretty well. Not only is it easier to handle during cutting, if you put it in the freezer too warm, it will spoil.
Be warned: there are lots of cool looking tools out there that really dont make you any cooler. They take up a lot of space and ... that's about it. I totally second the good mixer (always KitchenAid), a good blender, and good knives. Even with the knives, until you know what you like using, you dont need to feel pressure to have a whole fantastic set. A couple basics will do quite nicely.
Also to you ketchup makers: If you can leave the skins on and skip the blancheing step if you are going to run it through the blender. You never know the difference.
My ketchup recipe is npot that spicy but you can flavor it a ton of different ways. My favorite thing to do with a little homemade ketchup is make frie sauce. 1/2 kethcup, 1/2 mayo. O and homemade mayo can last a while if you keep it cold.
I have a lot of patience for baggers from a developmentqally disabled agency. Seriously. Plus, they usually do better than those who claim to not be developmentally disabled.
I recently got home to find - to my dismay!!!- Works Toilet bowl cleaner, a magazine and candy bar all in the same bag. I almost always put my stuff on the belt in a like-items-together fashion. Not only does it let me see what I got for sure but it is easier to scan and bag. (been a cashier, done that) I recently had a cashier who picked and chose from my belt of stuff and bagged any old way and mixed EVERYTHING up. I was wroth. I complained to management. I had ruined food and she was a dolt.
I dont mind umpteen different bags bc I reuse them and recycle what I cant reuse.
O. my. word. I make killer asparagus. That sounds so good!!
And round out the meal with a strawberry shortcake if I can scrounge enough berries. otherwise maybe a friut and nut pancake....
Where can I get some?!??
I love Dr Pepper but drink very little of it bc the HFCS does not like me.
Is it very cool here in the NW. The strawberrys are not ready yet bc it is too cool. I wish...
I do have fresh lettuce greens from my garden. hmmm.
Hey. Dont diss real butter till you try it. :) and for what it's worth... Some people eat more butter than you care to imagine all their lives and NEVER have issues. It's a fact.
Yah! (good comment butterface)
From the other side of the fence, I work at a store that has self checkout but we often help the customers bag their groceries. Just like you all get annoyed that the checker just throws the items down to the bagger, we get annoyed when customers place things on the belt in an order that guarantees squishing unless we jump up and move things aside. I saw a women scan a watermelon and a cantaloupe directly after a loaf of bread and another scan a gallon of milk right after her eggs and bread. Not to mention the people who stand their bottles of wine (or other things) upright on the belt when there is obviously a problem when the item gets to the end of the belt.
Most of us have no problem bagging to your specifications as long as you let us know before we start bagging. I've seen the people who are incredibly interested in avoiding cross contamination as well as the people who don't care and just want as few bags as possible. If you tell us, (especially let us know you have your own bags before we've bagged half of your order) you'll save yourselves the anger or annoyance you've been expressing here.
And can I give a big thank you to people who scan (or place on the belt) their groceries in a logical bagging order, I love you all.
Calling someone a bimbo is not the most effective marketing method, nor is blatant misspelling.
I cut corn off the cob before I freeze it, and I always freeze the corn raw. It only takes a few minutes to cook, and no one wants tough corn. To make it easier to cut the corn from the cob, you could try one of these. I've never used one, but they're pretty cool-looking.
I'd say tomato/pasta sauces would be a good thing to have on hand, or how about homemade doughs for bread, pizza, etc. I bet your kitchen is going to smell wonderful!
Hillary
Chew on That
ok, I'm a partner at Statbucks so here's the low down...
1) the sign says 'today is a new smoothie'
What they mean by new smoothie is that its more than fruit juice blended with ice, which is what most blended drinks at Jamba Juice and the equivalents are. It's more than a smoothie because it not only has juice and ice, but really fruit, the banana, and a added mixture of protien, fiber, vitamins and minerals. Corprate simply doesn't want the public confusing Vivanno with the Jamba Juice smoothies that typically have just as much sugar as the frappaccinos.
2) Starbucks is trying to go back to its roots as a coffee shop, you should look at their training on coffee beams alone! On the other hand they are a business and need to maximize their profits and they realized that they needed to capitalize on the health food/fruit smoothie demographic.
3) I'm sorry... Bananas are fruit, I'm not even going to argue that point... And they're going to be the same price or cheaper than the Jamba Juice smoothies, which are juice and ice blended unless you pay for for their boosts... I'm sorry tzm13 but you're a bimbo and should try thinking before you type...
4) When we were told about the new health line (oh.. There's more to come) we laughed about starbucks and healthy in the same sentence too. Vivanno isn't about changing starbucks into a health joint, we still are serving those sinful delights, but we want to offer a better choice for those people who want to be healthier. There won't be any more 'sorry guys, I cant go hang out at starbucks with you all because of my diet'. Its going to be 'you get whatever you want, I'm watching what I eat so I'm getting a Vivanno'.
For everyone who's curious, go into your local starbucks Tues the 15th and you'll get a sample. The starbucks goal is to give a sample to ever customer from opening to close.
If you freeze corn in volume, you appreciate any tool/gizmo that contributes to simple, fast and slick. The angel food cake pan trick prevents the kernels from flying around and is far more stable than, say, balancing each cob on a kitchen towel. As for the electric carving knife, it's my saving grace when I'm up to my a** in corn during corn season. Kind of a knife "snob", I wouldn't have one in my kitchen otherwise!
I'll second dakotarose's angel food cake pan suggestion. I can't remember if I learned that from Rachael Ray or Cooking Light magazine. Either way, it's made getting corn off the cob so much easier!
And 200 pints of corn? So jealous!
I had the banana chocolate Vivanno today and it was surprisingly good and filling! It was not too banana-ey, and the texture was really nice. You could have one for breakfast and be full because of the fiber(6g) and protein (21g). Also, it's cheaper than a smoothie at Smoothie King.
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