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Cook the Book: 'What's a Cook To Do?' Giveaway
My favorite tips are from my dad, I think I just remember the fun nights when he would spend hours cooking some amazing dinner.
The first is how to peel garlic by lighting crushing with a knife.
The second is clean as you go...
I somehow missed the class on knives and sharp instruments in general. I have been banned from my friend's kitchen for managing to cut myself with a mandolin, knife, then cheese grater in the course of a week.
Question of the Day: Fresh avocado, share your love
I use them in any tacos, fideo, tostadas - sliced, not mushed. Plus they are amazing on sandwiches, in salads, alone...
Cook the Book: 'Happy in the Kitchen' Giveaway
Glass of wine, cooking some sort of thing that will be much better in an hour or so and includes everything stinky and wonderful - onions, garlic and cheese. Surrounded by friends and family, laughing while still keeping an eye on the pot.
Or... having some coronas and hanging out near the grill smelling steaks, giddeous in the sun.
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The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Ok, I sooo know what I am having for dinner tonight. :-)
Cook the Book: 'What's a Cook To Do?' Giveaway
My favorite tips are from my dad, I think I just remember the fun nights when he would spend hours cooking some amazing dinner.
The first is how to peel garlic by lighting crushing with a knife.
The second is clean as you go...
I somehow missed the class on knives and sharp instruments in general. I have been banned from my friend's kitchen for managing to cut myself with a mandolin, knife, then cheese grater in the course of a week.
Question of the Day: Fresh avocado, share your love
I use them in any tacos, fideo, tostadas - sliced, not mushed. Plus they are amazing on sandwiches, in salads, alone...
Cook the Book: 'Happy in the Kitchen' Giveaway
Glass of wine, cooking some sort of thing that will be much better in an hour or so and includes everything stinky and wonderful - onions, garlic and cheese. Surrounded by friends and family, laughing while still keeping an eye on the pot.
Or... having some coronas and hanging out near the grill smelling steaks, giddeous in the sun.
Question of the Day: How do you like your hot dog?
Pure Chicago Dog - relish, onions, tomato, celery salt, mustard.
Otherwise I love a very burned campfire dog with just ketchup.
Cook the Book: 'The Silver Palate Cookbook, 25th Anniversary Edition'
My first cookbook that I went to was the Manilla, Iowa Centennial celebration cookbook. It was full of farm recipes from the small town that my dad grew up in. It had some of the best recipes for roasts, potatoes and pies. It also had the standard small-town, every-other-recipe-with cheesewhiz or campbells soup, but it was fun to look at and started my cookbook obsession.
Cookbook Giveaway: 'Super Natural Cooking'
Cauliflower roasted in foil in the oven or on the grill, fresh berries and yogurt, granola made with molasses and lots of raisins and healthy nuts, fresh trout in the summer - prepared simply with a bit of garlic, butter and lemon then grilled after a day of hiking, pomegranate berries, fresh leafy salads with carrots, celery, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes, glass of milk with ice cubes to comfort you on sad nights, bowl of peaches drizzled with honey, ants on a log, ok, that was way more than one and now I am hungry and have way too much work to do. :-)
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
Russell's BBQ sauce from Chicago, IL.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground of course!
Question of the Day: What do you eat at the ballpark?
Hot dog with ketchup, warm peanuts and beer.
Question of the Day: What's the worst diet you've ever been on?
My worst diet was the divorce diet. You know, never hungry, always nauseous, way too much wine, way too little water. Although I became somewhat of a rail, I don't recommend it to anyone. :-)
Question of the Day: What's the best cheese for your grilled cheese sandwich?
American Cheese on wonderbread, dipped in ketchup or tomato soup.
Now if I am feeling fancy it is extra-sharp cheddar, muenster and tomato on sourdough dipped in tomato bisque.
What is the best food you have ever had while on vacation?
Eggs Hussard and Bananas Foster at Brennan's in New Orleans. Ettoufee, gumbo, turtle soup and any meal in New Orleans actually.
Street tacos in Mexico City - wow. Cafte MP in Mexico City - I had the best, the best ever duck tacos, wow.
from whom did you get the foodie bug ?
My dad was always an amazing cook, plus both my grandmothers were great cooks. One lived on a farm in Iowa and the other in the city - both cooked Polish and Czech along with the best Iowa corn-beef-potatoes type. I grew up around great food.
There were two events however that I remember vividly. One was a week long vacation in New Orleans in college - I fell head over heels in love with that city and it's food. The other was around the same time - I was working at the hotel Boulderado and the chef at Q's had me try foie gras for the first time. That should explain it.
Do you like 'chunks' in your ice cream?
I love chunks. Eating something with completely smooth texture is torture. It drives me CRAZY when I don't have peas or corn or something to mix in mashed potatoes or mac and cheese even. I maybe am OCD about this. :-)
Now, the slimy elastic film that develps after you open a container of ice cream - that is something I cannot tolerate.
Is there a food you love that you won't buy?
Haha, I saw this and immediately thought of nutella. It is the devil!
Question of the Day: What foods will you eat way after the expiration date?
Haha none. Not after the time in college that I made a chinese chicken salad with dressing that had expired two years ago. My roommate and I were near death for a few days. You know how there are some items that stay good until you open them? Salad dressing is not one of them. :-)
What can't you cook after, trying over and over again?
I can never make a decent cake. They always always fall. I live in Denver and I do the high altitude adjustments but cakes - they hate me.
Question of the Day: What are your hometown favorite eats?
In Des Moines, IA it is Gino's Restaurant. They have the best steak de burgo - it is a regional thing - a tenderloin sauteed mr with tons of butter and garlic. Yum.
In Chicago it would be Luke's hot dogs and Russells BBQ.
Question of the Day: The five-second ruleis it OK to eat food you've dropped?
It is fine. The problem is that we are so guarded against "germs" that our immune system gets lazy and then we need pills to work what should otherwise work on its own.
What to put on which kind of bagel?
Everything bagel and veggie cream cheese - plus a slice of munster. That is truly heaven.
whats the one snack you would eat which turns a bad day to good
Grilled cheese or fried ice cream.
Question of the Day: What's your earliest food-related memory?
I remember being about 6 or 7 and my mom had made (or gotten from the store, knowing my mom) a cherry pie. At one point in the night I had taken my grubby little finger and scooped out a bunch of the cherry filling, leaving the pie. To teach me a lesson my mom made me eat the rest of the pie (I think it was half gone) crust and all. I tried a bit, then sat there and just started at it.
I was allowed a half hour break to do my homework or read and came back and the pie was gone. I just knew that God had taken pity on me and finished it for me.
But... it was my dad. Either way, I'm still not a fan of pie to this day.
Question of the Day: What food can't you live without?
Another cheese fanatic. I put it on everything...
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
add one more peice of cheese and some crispy bacon and youre set to go.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
I sang this one in elementary choir and it's still sticks!
"In today's noodle soup, alphabetic;
there's a fly looking weak and pathetic.
In the noodles he spells out a message!
SOS, send a raft, or canoe.
Look the fly still continue's the message!
And PS, I did not like the soup."
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
I love "Lunch Lady Land" too, by Adam Sandler. "Sloppy Joe, Sloppy-sloppy Joe...." classic.
But, in a nod to a post I did a few days ago, who can forget Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang?
"like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood
like goin up and not comin down
is just like the beat without the sound no sound
to the beat beat, ya do the freak
everybody just rock and dance to the beat
have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that you're full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind
starts to dreamin'
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin'
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i dont care what these people think
im just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while its still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
and then you call your friend two weeks later
to see how he has been
and he says i understand about the food
baby bubbah but we're still friends..."
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
"Prepare yourself and you know it's a must...gotta have a friend in cheese sauce..."
What? What's that you say? 'Gotta have a friend in Jesus??" Oh, whoops. Well, whatever, it works my way, too!
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
Spam monty python
If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake Andrew sisters
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
"Grandma Put Summer In A Jar." Great song, I think sung by John Brown.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
Peel Me a Grape - Diana Krall.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
Green Onions, by Booker T. and the MGs.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
A second vote for "Cheeseburger in Paradise!" It's my dad's favorite song---I've always told him we'll dance to THAT at my wedding!
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
"Kitchen Man" by Bessie Smith, but I think it might not really be about food.
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
Come on a-my house (Rosemary Clooney)
Party on the Mountain (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Question of the Day: What's the best food song?
"Eat The Rich" by Krokus
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
My husband says I make the best grilled cheese sandwiches. You know my secret?? Parmesan cheese sprinkled on the buttered slices before they go into the pan. Just sprinkle then pat down with a knife. Creates a lovely cheese texture on the tops and bottoms of the sandwiches. Try it!
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
My boyfriend makes his grill cheese w/italian bread. After grilling it he sprinkles powdered sugar on it. He recently made it for me and i loved it!
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
Dinosaur's Wango Tango here too!
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
We order Big Bob Gibson from Alabama.
Also Rudy's BBQ in Albuquerque has a really tasty sauce.
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
i love sweet baby ray's. i gonna try stubbs.
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
dinosaur...rawrrrr
or pierce's pitt barbeque from williamsburg va
Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?
You never know what you have been missing in a great BBQ Sauce until you have tried Benny's BBQ Famous Sauce.
Benny's BBQ found the secret of what BBQ sauce lovers have been looking for years. Benny's sauce is vinegar based with, of course, their special secret ingredients making their sauce "Simply the Best."
Benny's BBQ also makes Benny's Famous Texas and Benny's Famous Peanut sauces that also enhances any BBQ on the planet.
Benny's BBQ is located in Richmond, VA and has been a Richmond tradition for over 15 years.
Visit BennysBBQonline.com and ask them to ship a bottle of one of their sauces to you.
Question of the Day: What's your favorite breakfast?
@BigD I want to marry you!
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Use Jarlsberg. It's heaven. Especially with a Roma tomato and red onion.
Question of the Day: What's the best cheese for your grilled cheese sandwich?
I had a daycare for 28 years, tried everything on those kiddies but their favorite was american. Adults, like to try it with their favorite cheese. I like monterey jack the best. But tomato soup to dunk is the best.
Question of the Day: What's the best cheese for your grilled cheese sandwich?
You haven't had a grilled cheese sandwich until you have had one with smoked gouda. I even make them at work. Toast your bread in the toaster and put butter on it. Lay gouda on the buttered side and top with other buttered side facing cheese. Put in microwave for 30 seconds and you have a delightful grilled cheese sandwich. Now at home of course I put in in a frying pan and I like mine burnt also. And it is heaven dipped in tomato soup. If you have never had gouda it is the best.
What to put on which kind of bagel?
Montreal sesame seed bagel, toasted with avocado smushed on top
Cinnamon and raisin bagel, toasted, with crunchy peanut butter
Everything bagel, toasted, with herb and garlic cream cheese
What to put on which kind of bagel?
mmmm....let's see...a toasted cinnamon bagel with peanut butter smeared on top (so it melts slightly because of the warm bagel), a sliced banana, and drizzled with honey. filling, nutritious, and delicious.
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Ok, I sooo know what I am having for dinner tonight. :-)