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What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Fridge door inventory:
Butter saver shelf: carton of eggs, half a lime
Shelf 1: butter, ketchup, small cans of pineapple juice, a pineapple fruit cup, a bottle of fruit smoothie drink, 8 oz glass bottle of Dr Pepper
Shelf 2: spray margarine, peanut butter, sugar free strawberry preserves, bottled bbq sauce, tabasco, cream cheese, box of baking soda in a ziploc, cold brew coffee concentrate
Shelf 3: bottle of aloe vera infused lotion, bottle of sriracha, bottle of balsamic viniagrette, bottle of ranch dressing, bottle of Cristalino, sour mix
Shelf 4: chocolate syrup, sugar free chocolate syrup, hazelnut flavored syrup, 2 kinds of homemade bbq sauce, white vinegar, hummus, maraschino cherries, tapioca pearls
Some of this is undoubtedly completely weird.
Kiwi: To Peel or Not To Peel?
I slice in half lengthwise and eat with a spoon.
Do you put toppings on corn on the cob?
My favorite way is nothing at all, though a little salt or a little lime juice go well too.
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Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
Pringles
Reeses cups (the new dark chocolate ones are out of this world)
Old Bay seasoned potato chips
spicy nacho doritos
m&ms
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Fridge door inventory:
Butter saver shelf: carton of eggs, half a lime
Shelf 1: butter, ketchup, small cans of pineapple juice, a pineapple fruit cup, a bottle of fruit smoothie drink, 8 oz glass bottle of Dr Pepper
Shelf 2: spray margarine, peanut butter, sugar free strawberry preserves, bottled bbq sauce, tabasco, cream cheese, box of baking soda in a ziploc, cold brew coffee concentrate
Shelf 3: bottle of aloe vera infused lotion, bottle of sriracha, bottle of balsamic viniagrette, bottle of ranch dressing, bottle of Cristalino, sour mix
Shelf 4: chocolate syrup, sugar free chocolate syrup, hazelnut flavored syrup, 2 kinds of homemade bbq sauce, white vinegar, hummus, maraschino cherries, tapioca pearls
Some of this is undoubtedly completely weird.
Kiwi: To Peel or Not To Peel?
I slice in half lengthwise and eat with a spoon.
Do you put toppings on corn on the cob?
My favorite way is nothing at all, though a little salt or a little lime juice go well too.
What is your fantasy food business?
Twinwillow I just started working at one of those! It's amazing!
Favorite foods eaten at the 'wrong' temperatures?
Oreos in the freezer, string cheese room temp, dill pickles room temp or warm.
What do you make with your cast iron?
Bacon.
Cornbread.
Jambalaya.
Would You Go to a Chain Restaurant on a First Date?
My guy and I went to a small local chain for our first date. We've also gone to chains like Chili's when we can't think of anything else. I really think it's perception. You can have great first dates bonding over crappy food at a big chain, or you can have horrible first dates at your favorite local place, or anything in between.
The delicacy that is SWEET TEA
I find I can use 3 family size community tea bags to a gallon. I tend to use a scant cup of sugar. I also do not boil the water--I bring it to a simmer, just below a boil, then take the water of the heat and add the 3 tea bags and let steep for 5-7 minutes. Remove tea bags (WITHOUT SQUEEZING: this is important) and mix in sugar till completely dissolved. Pour over ice water to make one gallon.
Nom.
I need a happy, healthly food project
You could take a leaf out of the new movie that's coming out and find a cookbook that looks interesting, and cook everything in there at least once. For a weekend, you could figure out all the entrees in the book that could be frozen, and cook them all and freeze for quick weeknight stress-free dinners. Then, for small related projects, do all the rest of the recipes in the book. You may broaden your cooking horizons and have a lot of fun doing it!
What are you? Recipe Follower or Recipe Deviant
Deviant. I have a high tolerance for garlic, so I almost always double the amount asked for. Same with cayenne or red pepper in dishes that call for them, I use more than called for. In baking, I experiment some, but I'm not totally comfortable running around willy nilly in that particular area just yet. I love combining flavors and changing things to suit our tastes.
Roasted Garlic
Oh, I have also noticed that if you keep the heads of garlic intact and in a cool, dry environment similar to the way you keep onions, your garlic will last a really long time. About a month ago, my boyfriend and I bought a 2lb bag of garlic. We've almost gone through it all by now, but they're still fresh and pungent and yummy.
Roasted Garlic
Smash it up and mix it with an alfredo sauce. It will give a ton of depth to a pesto or tomato sauce as well. Mix it with fresh tomatoes, salty olives, and pasta for a delicious fresh and hearty summer dish.
Rubik's Cube Sandwich
cucumber, hard boiled egg yolk, two kinds of cheese, carrot, roma tomato
or, for a dessert version honeydew, cantaloupe, plum, grape, banana, peach
Local Holidays
Meh. Mardi Gras is fantastic and awesome for the city's budget, but I get so bored with visitors who just come to get rip roaring drunk and have no concept of respect for us or our city.
Rubik's Cube Sandwich
Haha actually, I just realized that isn't possible, since each part has two or more sides of the same "color".
Rubik's Cube Sandwich
Hmm. I wonder if they made it anatomically correct? So that it is solvable?
zuke dinner ideas?
Well, if you lightly saute your zucchini in oil with salt, pepper, oregano, and basil, you can pour a bunch of eggs over it and bake for a hearty, thick fritatta!
Any Bring-From-Home Snack Ideas?
I completely understand why popcorn popping could be banned at a workplace. The number of people who are unable to pop a bag of microwaveable popcorn without burning it is just astounding.
I like plums or cereal or string cheese or chocolate.
Please Read: Serious Eats Self-Linking Policy
Shiny. Looks like you guys are working hard to keep the site clean. We all appreciate it.
what's up with the integrated pop-ups?
Thanks Alaina, the autoplay sound on that banner ad is really annoying and makes it hard for me to browse the site at work :)
5 dozen eggs in the house
meh. make a ton of cookie dough and freeze.
I hate greens...HELP!
nthing fritatta! Try it lightly sauteed, then add cubed cooked potatoes (think home fries) and sliced sausage or cubed ham. In a baking dish, covered with egg, baked till solid.
Dumpster Diving: Yea or Nay?
I once DD'ed behind a drugstore for junk food that had gone past the sell by date but was still in all its shrink wrapped glory. I have thought about going DD'ing for pizza or Starbucks pastries or things of that sort, but I never have.
DD'ing for non-food stuff is kind of a pastime in my family. We have gotten a computer desk, among other things. For the most part we only take advantage if it's already visible, though.
If I were broke (really broke) or homeless and hungry, I would have no qualms about eating the heat lamp burgers at the end of the McDonalds shift or the heat lamp pizzas after Pizza Hut closes for the night.
"dinner" vs "supper"
I think it depends on what's served. We have "chicken dinner," "lasagna dinner," "steak dinner," "breakfast for dinner," "chili supper," spaghetti supper," "soup and salad supper." "Lasagna supper" just doesn't sound right.
"dinner" vs "supper"
I have lived in Missouri (St. Louis) all my life. We always called the second meal of the day "Lunch", and the last meal of the day, "Supper". Although Dinner and Supper could be used interchangeably My husband's family did the same thing.. I notice my older siblings are now calling it "dinner" when they invite us over. I have always used the word Supper unless we are going out to a formal meal, then I will call it Dinner.
We have always used the word soda. My uncle used to call it sodie.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
The usual assortment of American and Asian condiments, pickles, capers, sundried tomatoes and olives. A jar of yellow curry paste and a jar of Jamaican jerk seasoning.
Here's the one oddity: macapuno strings (I make a killer fruit salad of fresh strawberries, a drained can of lychee, and macapuno)
@WIGirl : Try this with your red curry paste. Fry about a tablespoon of paste in a skillet for a minute. Stir in a can of coconut milk and a can of water. Toss in a pound of chuck roast cut into 1 inch cubes. Simmer for about 45 minutes until the meat is done and the gravey thickens - watch that it doesn't get too dry. A simple substitute for Indonesian rendang. Serve over rice.
Best Vegetarian Blogs?
Try The Veggie Space Blog at http://veggie85.blogspot.com for vegetarian and vegan recipes, restaurant reveiws, and other great info. I will be posting new content every day, so check often for new stuff.
Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
on a long road trip, im looking for salt &vinegar chips or cheese popcorn and some high caffeine drink.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
@nightowl, are you suppossed to refrigerate tapioca? i have it in my pantry.
Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
nachos. with the gooey cheese and jalapenos.
I could go for some right now- must be lunch time soon!
Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
Pretzel rods, if I'm driving. Cheetos if I'm a passenger. Twinkies if I want something sweet. Cheerios, if I have no other choice.
Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
When in a strange gas station, I look for a chocolate pudding pie. They're like a Hostess fruit pie but they have chocolate pudding in middle. I never see them anymore but I loved them in high school and look for them now when I'm in strange gas stations because I know the ones I use don't carry them.
Otherwise, I would go for beef jerky, potato chips and Coke. And if the carrot and celery sticks in the cooler look decent, I balance my salt-fest with those. Another old favorite is the frozen chicken patty sandwich microwaved in the store with ketchup and mayo. When I worked in a gas station, I ate that for dinner often with a bottle of really really cold V8.
Best Vegetarian Blogs?
My blog is vegetarian and vegan, I experiment quite a bit and most of the time I end up with great recipes... www.cmacskitchen.com
Best Halloween candy
Ok i have a question. What about Chips? Like A small bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos or Crunchy Cheetos?
Healthy food blogs?
My blog is all about eating healthy but making it taste just as good as the bad stuff! Hope you enjoy!
Healthy food blogs?
Young Living Circle Blog has some healthy recipes, and is getting more all the time. I know one of the authors is getting ready to put their awesome KimChi recipe up.
What Do You Put on Your Biscuit?
I realize this is an old topic but I had to comment. Before I fell victim to a most unpleasant allergy to tomatoes I always enjoyed tomato gravy and biscuits. Now its butter and maple syrup. I also have to agree with many of ya'll....a good plain biscuit is its own type of heaven.
Best Vegetarian Blogs?
I don't have a vegetarian blog, but I just put up a post about the best vegetarian restaurants in Montreal. It might be useful for any tourists coming up. Montreal has so many vegetarian/vegan restaurants!
The Serious Eats Ginger Beer Taste Test
Hey, if you have gotten over your ginger beer shell shock and decide to do another review, please include Jamaca's Finest Ginger Beer from the Natrona Bottling Company. I think it's far better than those citrus-y, honey, pineapple-y, fruity, too-sweet, brew-y beverages you have tried.
Cheers!
Healthy food blogs?
Hello,
I've been working on a personal site of mine for several months now and think it might be able to help. I have a tab within my site called, "recipes". It can be found: www.shar-on-nutrition.com
I'd love to know your comments, questions or suggestions :)
Southern Food - What's your favorite?
I am surprised that only @Divadog mentioned banana pudding - my, my, how well I remember my first taste in South Carolina - would love a real recipe - up here in Canada one can get banana cream pie, but it cannot touch southern banana pudding.
Also, hush puppies, not the mass produced ones, but the lovely crispy, fluffy ones produced in small restaurants - bliss.
Frogmore stew or Brunswick stew - I have seen it called both, but I have reproduced it in Canada to rave reviews - I had to buy my Old Bay seasoning stateside, though I believe if you shop around in specialty stores you can find it now.
Deep fried okra, biscuits, shrimp & grits - need I go on - our vacations in the South necessitate a great deal of restraint.
I have mentioned before how lucky people in the South are, to have both sweet and non sweet ice tea available at almost every restaurant you enter. There is absolutely nothing nicer than to walk in from the torpid heat and humidity and have a large, cold glass of tea!
Southern Food - What's your favorite?
I'm a southern girl..born and raised in Texas.. and my favorite southern style foods are chicken fried steak, biscuits and sausage gravy, real texas chili (no beans) it's gotta be meaty, bbq brisket, cornbread and pintos, hush puppies, ambrosia, pecan pie and I like an occasional crawfish boil :) And I love sweet tea :)
Best Halloween candy
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the mini Mr. Goodbars.
Growing up, it was rumoured that the (ritzy) neighbourhood next to ours had residents who'd give out whole candy bars for Hallowe'en -- tempting to a teenager, but our bag of swag was always good enough :)
Best Halloween candy
Okay, the best candy was the chocolate bar, the bigger, the better...Nestles Crunch, Butterfingers, Milky Way, Snickers, Clark Bar: they were the cream of the crop. The bottom of the bag were the Smartees which were the laughing stock of our hoard. My sister and I would try to trade them, to no avail. No one liked Smartees, and yet oddly enough , we ate them, anyway.
Help me pack my lunch, please - a Super Challenge.
THIS IS COMPLETELY VEGETARIAN. (Fish, though...)
Main Lunch:
How about a tuna sandwich?
Buy a thermos and have soup in winter.
Take a large piece of cold pizza.
Salad with veggies and low fat dressing.
Peanut butter and banana.
Tupperware, tupperware, tupperware!
One tupperware container, have some tuna salad or cheese. A ziplock, have some crackers.
I hope this helps your situation!
"dinner" vs "supper"
Poultrygeist (great name!) was right in citing Webster's that it's the largest meal (but not breakfast). So to the extent it was regional it was because the largest meal was more likely to be at noon in agricultural country, and then the evening meal was supper. As we've become more urban more of us who used to have dinner at noon now have it at suppertime, and have lunch at noon.
My mother grew up in Massachusetts where they called soda "tonic." When my sister had to be taken to the Dr in Texas where they were stationed during the War ('40's) he told her my sister needed some tonic, and mom couldn't imagine why.
Best Vegetarian Blogs?
101 Cookbooks. Done.
Also, Cheap Healthy Good.
Best Vegetarian Blogs?
Hello! I have a vegetarian blog as well. siddhivegcook.blogspot.com
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Location: New Orleans
About: I am 20 years old, living on a small budget but still eating out regularly. I would like to be able to cook more but I can't.
Favorite foods: chocolate, pizza, poboys, gumbo, crawfish, mushrooms, spicy food
Last bite on earth: My last bite on earth would have to be a mouthful of bacon-wrapped filet mignon. Something about the way a butter-textured almost-rare steak just melts in your mouth, coupled with the kingly flavor of bacon, just wins.
Pringles
Reeses cups (the new dark chocolate ones are out of this world)
Old Bay seasoned potato chips
spicy nacho doritos
m&ms