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One lovely part of this recipe is you can make enought to feed four - or just one person.

And, it's terrific with just a salad and a bit of bread.

A little fun fact: Sushi grade fish is always previously frozen to kill any potential harmful parasites. There really is no such thing as fresh seafood when you buy it in stores. And many of us have never tasted fresh shrimp since we don't catch and cook it ourselves on the same day.

@sticky ~ this is how we often used up leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. My mom would lightly flour the cakes after forming so that they would get even crustier.
Nowadays, I often cook minced carrots and garlic with my potatoes for mashing, so that the cakes are even more flavorful.

It's funny how the people who are against a public health care option either have insurance or can afford health care. I for one cannot. I got laid off and COBRA would cost me almost $500 a month, which I can't afford to pay. How come we are supposedly the best country in the world (ha) but can't provide its citizens with health care? Every other industrialized country in the world does. We're behind Costa Rica in health care for goodness' sake! I think he did a really stupid thing by stating his opinion on this, considering tons of Whole Foods shoppers are liberals. I will still be shopping at Whole Foods because I love the food, but I am saddened to be supporting this rich, entitled jerk.

in both HS & college (Tokyo), noodle stations (ramen, udon and soba) were pretty good. but in HS I rarely had time to eat lunch at the cafeteria, so I'd buy chicken karaage and yukari onigiri combo if I didn't bring bento.
My favorite dish from the college cafeteria was Bang bang ji tofu.

Ooh - someone reminded me of the chili and chicken noodle soup my elementary school used to serve. I don't know what it was, but both were fabulous. As I got older & I was able to participate in my church hosted blood drives, I always looked forward to the half a peanut butter sandwich & the bowl of chicken noodle soup they'd serve to anyone that donated. MUCH better than the Ritz crackers & Lorna Doones I make do with now.

And yes - totally looked forward to the Thanksgiving & Christmas lunches, mostly because in addition to actual pumpkin pie, we got to choose a little container (paper peel-off lid) of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate swirl, or strawberry swirl. I always went with chocolate. Always.

Growing up in Singapore it was Szechuan Chicken, Beef Kway Teow, with fat rice noodles, beef and greens, and Mee Goreng, Malay style curry noodles. All made fresh while we sat there patiently waiting, watching the woks sizzle and Mr. Ho flip in bits of this and that. Mmmm.

This one is pretty simple. Number one is the rectangle pizza served on top of fries. I would take the cheese off the pizza, put it on the fries, eat the pizza dough, then mix the cheese and fries together and eat them. Very healthy.

Second was pita bread pizza. I would always get cold and wet in the middle, so it was much preferred to have a fresh one.

I wasn't too big on cafeteria food but I always loved when they would have the special "holiday" hot turkey meals right before vacations. An ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes, a slice of turkey with that brown canned gravy and the always random slice of white bread to soak it up. Old fashioned yum.

A few of my favorites: Tator tots, soft buttered roll (almost like White Castle bun) with mashed potatoes, tacos, chicken and noodles, rectangle pizza, and T-Bolt sandwich...Texas toast, mozzeralla cheese, marinara and pepperoni...yum.

I'm a vegetarian now, but I used to love Hot Ham and Cheese days. Was that a universal lunch item? Ham and cheese melted on a soft roll.

I loved reading all of these--it really took me back.

Elementary school:
"taco pie" It was a mix of ground beef, beans, probably american cheese, lettuce and fritos! All scooped onto your plate with an ice cream scoop.
Macaroni and Cheese with two little smokies. I guess they added the little smokies to meet the protein requirement.

Junior High:
I don't remember a lot, but I ate salad bar and that rectangular pizza

High School:
I would eat lettuce and tomato sandwiches on white bread with yellow mustard (yuck!) but would also eat nacho bar.

College:
Breaded Chicken Sandwiches, Taco Pizza, Pasta Bar, Baked Potato Bar, the breakfast was always the best, "premium night" always the absolute worst.

The Turkey A La King served on top of a scoop of boxed mashed potatoes!
Before taking off for Thanksgiving they would serve this with a roll and a piece of "pumpkin pie", which was nothing but pumpking pie filling with a thin layer of Cool Whip frosting.

The only other thing that was remotely edible was the grilled cheese sandwich. I have yet to find one that comes close to that neon, buttery monstruosity.