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Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

Didn't Cool Whip used to come in a bellows-like squeeze tub with a star-shaped piping tip?

juliec at 1:23PM on 05/05/08

From Required Eating

Pity the Food Snob

I might be a food snob, but I don't see why I need to justify the amount I spend on food, or anything else for that matter. As far as the environmental impact of Italian olive oil, I'm not sure that it's greater than the Wesson that non-snobs are buying. The local [non-snob] mega-supermarkets are full of cheap Chilean fruit and Mexican vegetables and New Zealand lamb. That's evidence of a problem that has nothing to do with food snobs.

juliec at 4:38PM on 04/30/08

From Talk

Pre-school memories

Every Friday in nursery school, we had challah so we could practice the Hebrew blessing over it. Once, we had cinnamon-raisin challah, and every week after that I looked forward to having it again, but it never came.

In kindergarten, I remember making Stone Soup (from the storybook) and Rice Krispies treats.

juliec at 10:45AM on 04/28/08

From Talk

SE users: please introduce yourselves.

I'm Julie. I am 40 and live in a Maryland suburb of DC. I'm so jealous of those of you who have easy access to real butchers and fishmongers, not to mention local produce all year long. I make do with the local Whole Foods and a tiny farmers' market from May to October. I believe that heaven will be like the Ferry Plaza farmers' market.

I enjoy cooking, but it's almost always just for me. I would like to cook for my friends, but most of them were raised on extremely plain and bland food. No onions! No mushrooms! No non-orange cheeses! Heaven forbid I should set fish or seafood before them. Since I grew up in the Baltimore area, nothing hits the spot like [insert shellfish here] covered in Old Bay.

Last summer, I decided that (for health reasons) I just couldn't eat processed food or fast food anymore, so I've been forced to expand my repertoire. Also forced to buy some new clothes, because scratch cooking seems to equal weight loss. Next step is to improve my knife skills so I can be faster and more efficient in the kitchen. I read SE for hints, tips, and recipe ideas. Cheers!

juliec at 4:12PM on 04/27/08

From Required Eating

Paper or Canvas? (Adios, Plastic)

Whole Foods sells non-woven fabric or recycled plastic reusable bags for $1.00, and they often have promotions where they give them away w/purchase. The canvas-and-burlap Feed 100 bag is a fundraiser for charity. That really should have been explained in this entry, link or no. The way it reads suggests Whole Foods is going to make customers buy $30 canvas bags.

For the record, I've been using the non-woven bags for three years now, and they're still in great shape.

juliec at 1:44PM on 04/24/08

From Talk

TV chefs and black pepper

I add a lot more pepper than do the TV chefs, but then again, I add more pepper than almost everyone I know. Re: the TV chefs, I think the point is just to season to taste, not to add any specific amount. Does the audience want to watch the chef stand there and twist the mill 27 times? It would probably be boring.

juliec at 8:16AM on 04/22/08

From Talk

Skyr yogurt

I've tried it. It's actually cheese, believe it or not. Whole Foods sells it in a couple of flavors, but not plain. I'd probably buy it occasionally if they did.

juliec at 12:03PM on 04/19/08

From Talk

Bittersweet chocolate vs. semisweet for Passover cake???

I make flourless chocolate cake with bittersweet. The recipe calls for 8 oz. chocolate and 1-1/4 cups sugar. You could always adjust the sugar in your recipe if you want it a little sweeter.

juliec at 12:49AM on 04/19/08

From Required Eating

Kosher-for-Passover Coke and Pepsi Are Back!

Just a small correction. Corn is not chametz, it's kitniyot, and it's not forbidden to Sephardic Jews. It couldn't have been one of the five grains (you've got the five listed) because corn is from the New World, and the rabbis could not have been aware of it. Somebody said, "You know what the problem with this holiday is? Not enough rules." The rest is history.

juliec at 12:18PM on 04/18/08

From Recipes

Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies

According to the article about her in yesterday's Washington Post, this lady has entered the contest every year for the last 15 years. She came up with this recipe because it uses five of the sponsors' products. Her husband is a financial planner, so I'm sure they will figure out what to do with the money.

juliec at 11:12AM on 04/17/08

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From Talk

SE users: please introduce yourselves.

I'm Rosezilla (named for my three year old daughter and the giant lizard thing that stomped Tokyo...it's what I call her when she's being...how you say...willful). My real handle is Mandy. I live in Santa Barbara County again after growing up here, but lived for 11 years in western Sonoma County...home of fabulous food and wines. It spoiled me rotten, to become an adult surrounded by all of that luscious produce and foodie opportunity. I managed a microbrewery's kitchen for 6 years, and have SERIOUS opinions about ales, should anyone care for them. Now I'm a home cook primarily, although I do a little catering here and there. My daughter's favorite foods are salmon and broccoli, so I feel as though I've triumphed a bit over the three-year-old beige-food diet. We do, however, eat at McDonald's every Friday after school...it's our little Happy Meal indulgence...and those tiny cheeseburgers are SOOO good. I live with and cook for my mother, as well. I am dating a high school band director, who has actually LOST weight being with me, as he's eating more asparagus and less fast food. I think that size 14 should be the new size 6. I am curvy, healthy, happy and active...and think that excellent foods should be part of everyone's diet. I am active in the "S'Cool Food" movement here, which tries to bring local and sustainable healthy food into school cafeterias. And I love, love, love this website.

rosezilla at 1:31PM on 05/09/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

@embolini9 - Was it Robin Miller, perhaps? She's a brunette Sandra Lee with bug eyes.

Lee's just got another ingredient she can list in her "cookbooks" with a circled "r" next to it.

There used to be a video on youtube that I can't find for love nor money. It was a guy breaking down the components of cool whip, sort of a "guess the mystery food" thing. It was hysterical.

chiff0nade at 5:05PM on 05/06/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

Sandra Lee will find all kinds of semi-homemade gourmet-ish things to do with the stuff!

Who knows, this may have saved her career.

Brownie at 4:33PM on 05/06/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

I love the idea of using cool whip for finger paints! I'm going to suggest that to a friend with small kids. @juliec yes many moons ago cw did come in a bellows like tube with a star tip, that was so we could "decorate" a cake or pie with it, my mom actually bought it once, unfortunatley it still tasted like cool whip:( my ex used to love cool whip, he'd freeze it and eat it like ice cream. Now you know one of the myriad reasons he's an ex ;)

huney_bumper at 7:18AM on 05/06/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.


The Cool Whip finger paint idea is, dare I say, Cool!

srhcb at 7:25PM on 05/05/08

Better-tasting than shaving cream but more calories.

Karen Resta at 10:11PM on 05/05/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

The Cool Whip finger paint idea is, dare I say, Cool!

srhcb at 7:25PM on 05/05/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

Astonishing.

We used to have to go to the library or bookstore to find things to read, too. (That is, beyond what snail mail could send us.)

Now we can just sit here and stare at a screen. Thinking about the horror of it all.

Karen Resta at 5:23PM on 05/05/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

Speaking of Sandra Lee, I know this isn't TOTALLY relevant to this thread, but I flipped to FN on Saturday and one of those blonde ladies (Sarah? Sandra?) was "making a salad." Here were the steps: Rip open bag of arugula, put in bowl. Open can of corn, put in bowl. Slice grape tomatoes in half, put in bowl. Put Newman's Own dressing on salad. Mix. I'm serious this was considered a recipe. Kraft would be proud, but probably suggest she buy the tomatoes pre-sliced.

embolini9 at 4:48PM on 05/05/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

I'm pretending I didn't just read that article, it's too depressing to think about. Cool whip. COOL WHIP? Nobody wants to wait for JELLO to congeal?!?!

I'm back. Thanks for this thread, though, Serious Eaters prove there might be some hope left!

embolini9 at 4:45PM on 05/05/08

From Talk

Kraft Simplifies Snack Food. No, really, I mean it.

Oh for crying out loud! ... Sandra Lee is dancing with glee! Kraft has found a way for her to use her most favorite ingredient even easier!

This is exactly what the world needs - a more convenient delivery system for sweetened whipped petroleum-based product. (Groan.)

chiff0nade at 4:40PM on 05/05/08