In-n-out
Damn you double-double with onions and extra sauce...the saucy korean bbq had no sway over me but you, with your two patties, hand torn lettuce, melting cheese, onions, and that sauce....
OMG Robyn thank you so much for this and introducing me to a fabulous website where I laughed til I cried, much to the amusement of my french coworkers.
Dorie, I LOVE cheesecake, but since I've been in France, the closest to cream cheese I could find is Kiri (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiri) and it only comes in little squares. Looking at your recipe, that would be a lot of little squares. Do you know what other cheese can be used?
As much as I know how bad soda is bad for your health, etc there are some things I NEED soda with : pizza, hamburgers, fast food of any kind. And no diet soda won't cut it then, need the full power of the high fructose corn syrup to make the meal complete.....and did I mention it needs to be coke? Sigh.
Then of course I drink copious amounts of water the next day in a sad attempt to combat the calories when I know it'll be soda again if I have another fast food run. Luckily I eat it maybe about once a month.
That "eat five servings of fruits and vegetables everyday" print (or manger bouger which literally translates to "eat move") has been on every fast food, junk food, cheese commercial on TV. Looks like the the french aren't so skinny after all!
ARGH. I hate this website. Now all I want to do is eat taquitos and corndogs which of course is IMPOSSIBLE to find where I am!
I would love to make it, but of course, being the ONLY one in a french household that will even drink it, I need only enough for 2 servings. How many servings does the recipe above make?
1. Kimchi
2. baguette l'ancienne
3. chocolate
4. In-n-out (a double-double w/onions and extra sauce)
5. Rice
Crap this was hard. How could I not include gooey brie, pasta, prime rib, cornbread, bacon, a crisp salad w/ my boyfriend's vinaigrette, and taco bell's hard taco supreme?
In Korea, alot of the delivered food is served in reusable plates and silverware that you leave outside your door for the driver to pick up once you're finished. A viable option for delivery but I'm assuming for takeout it might depend heavily on the honor system
Taking out pumpkin pie out of thanksgiving dinner is like going to a Dodger's game and not eating a dodger dog. It won't kill you or ruin the game, but you'll be missing out of the entire dodger experience.
But I am a bit biased as I love pumpkin pie, store bought or homemade. This is something I can eat even when it's not thanksgiving!
I was a vegetarian for a while, maybe around 8 years, one of which was spent in India, where it is supereasy and superdelicious (if you love Indian, especially South Indian, food like I do) to be a vegetarian. A few years later, I moved to Brasil where it is a lot harder to be a vegetarian, but I lived in Liberdade (Asian neighborhood) in Sao Paulo, and with all the access to cool mushrooms, noodles, seaweeds, etc., I was pretty happy.
I remember reading that book "Eat Right for your Type" which theorizes that people with type A blook do better with a predominantly veg. diet and people with type O blood do better with a carnivorous diet, and perhaps there's some truth to that.
Later, I was taken to a Brazilian rodizio (meat until you can't no more) place here in NYC and all that beef was delish, although my stomach rebelled.
Since then, I still don't eat much meat - small portions and lots of vegetables. Eating meat in huge amounts seems to only perpetuate the dominant model of a few lucky people getting the lion's share of the world's resources, and the factory farming of animals to be eaten still continues to be inhumane and motivated solely by profits. Mad cow disease is still much more of a problem than the major media and the government will cop to. I'm careful where I get my meats from, and still ya never know.
"I was a vegetarian from age 6 when I was a stubborn brat and declared myself a vegetarian to avoid having to eat a hamburger one meal."
Wow, Megannesta, your story is just like mine. Only I was 13, and the meal was the ubiquitous Sunday roast beef dinner. And like you, I'm making up for lost time. I had a cheeseburger for breakfast today.
The meal that flipped me (at age 19) was a hotdog at a fireman's picnic. Didn't get sick.
I becamse a vegetarian for a while in high school, but it was really only to annoy my grandmother, who I was living with at the time. She only had 4 stock dinners that she rotated over and over every week: meatloaf, green beans, mashed potatoes; roast beef, salad, baked potatoes; broiled salmon, broccoli, roasted potatoes; and spaghetti. She liked her meat and potatoes. There's only so long one person can deal with that if they're more adventurous. So I went veg.
These days I still only really eat meat twice a week. I feel like the US has a serious meat overindulgance problem.
I can't wait to make this cheesecake! I think the unflavoured goat cheese idea might work well. If you use it, add a little more sugar and a touch more vanilla to counteract the tangy 'bite' of goat cheese. I'm lactose intolerant but comfortably enjoy goat cheese.
Kraft sells Neufchatel here as a lowfat alternative to cream cheese...and it's packaged exactly the same way (8 oz. bricks) so I would think it would work OK in France as well.
The culinarily adventurous might try unflavored goat cheese...?
@embolini9 - that's what I thought when I saw your post! I'm telling you, I hadn't met anybody else with the same occasional milk cravings before, so it made me almost giggly to realise there were other "weird" milk drinkers out there:-)
@brooke29 - I'm so glad I'm not alone on the milk thing! It goes especially well with the hearty dishes of my childhood (pot roast, apple pie etc,) and hey! It does a body good!
Renzata....I made the orangeade on Sat....and I loved it! Thank you again!
I added just a touch of my homemade vanilla to the simple syrup, and it added a nice flavor to the orangeade. I made it Sat. night for a dinner party, and we finished it up...it was a refreshing change from some of the flavored waters that are out there. I'm trying to get my friends to get away from the artificial sweetners....the small amount of simple syrup that I added to the orange juice gave it just enough sweetness, without being too much sugar.
I can't wait to try the technique with other fruit juices. :-)
Hi all -- Hope you've been cheesecaking. I know, RYNGSDL, you won't be doing cheesecake until you get the bacon-infused bourbon with maple syrup down...
Jooree, I know exactly what you're saying -- those Kiri squares are teensy. Kiri seems to be the substitute that's always given for American cream cheese in France. That, or neufchatel, which I've never tried. I've seen Kraft Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese in some of the French markets, but it's soooooooooooooo expensive. I wish I had another alternative for you, but I really can't think of one. "Desolee."
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About: On the quest for the perfect croissant
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Last bite on earth: My mother's kimchee stew, fresh baguette l'ancienne, and a good bar of dark chocolate.