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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
PWC and Serious Eats
What desserts do you crave?
apple pie with cheddar cheese and vanilla ice cream
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Regulars around here are chili with fritos and cheese, eggs scrambled in peppered bacon grease and served with the eggs with a side of cinnamon toast. I won't mention Martha Stewart's mac and cheese. I live in Texas and we eat Tex Mex and barbeque. Everything is incredibly bad for us but we eat small amounts and work out like fiends.
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What have you done with your garden bounty so far?
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Eating quirks
Are any of you folks in therapy because it sounds as if you have some serious control issues! For years I had to eat my last bite off my husband's plate. We moved and got a bigger table and now I can't reach his plate. Hmm, maybe i need that therapist's name.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
PWC and Serious Eats
What desserts do you crave?
apple pie with cheddar cheese and vanilla ice cream
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Regulars around here are chili with fritos and cheese, eggs scrambled in peppered bacon grease and served with the eggs with a side of cinnamon toast. I won't mention Martha Stewart's mac and cheese. I live in Texas and we eat Tex Mex and barbeque. Everything is incredibly bad for us but we eat small amounts and work out like fiends.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
pumpkin bread pudding with caramel sauce
Buttermilk
I make buttermilk gingerbread and use buttermilk to marinate chicken for frying. Buttermilk biscuits go with the chicken.
What's hot in the pot? Dinner Tuesday Oct. 6th?
Pooch, I am so envious of both you having your Mom and aunt still with you, and that they can still fry a great chicken!
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
Bread Pudding Souffle from Commander's Palace in New Orleans
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved the beef stew and the sugar cookies. This was when there were lunch ladies who cooked the food and served it lovingly to you. I was a picky eater (I would be skinnier if I still was) and I remember eating many things that I would not have eaten at home. In high school I ate a lot of salads and saltine crackers with butter.
Honeycrisps Are Here!
I use them for everything while they are around. We dont have them yet, but I am watching.
Your Fast Food Urge.....just had mine...tasty.
Gosh I hate to admit this: my gym is across the street from a Wingstop and I swear I can smell it when I walk out the door. About once a month I am overwhelmed and dragged in the door by my lack of self control to order the original hot wings and their phenomenal fries. I am so ashamed.
Making ketchup
Williams Sonoma has the one I make. If it isnt on their website, I will post it.
What Should I Make to Accompany Mac and Cheese
We always had bacon and peas with mac and cheese when I was a kid. Honestly, that Martha recipe is so rich and wonderful and filling that I could make a meal of just it (and it costs $30 to make) but last time I had it with frozen fruit salad and a honeybaked ham.
Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'
Bailey's in Fort Worth.
Saving Bacon Fat
I keep it in a bowl on the stove but am careful to use it within a few days. My mother and grandmothers did the same. Anyone remember when everyone received a bacon fat keeper as a wedding gift? Mine said Bacon Grease right on the front.
...Makes me think I've died and gone to heaven
Any food someone else is cooking for me! Roasted anything, garlic, apple pie, chili, cookies.
Meatloaf!
My very favorite is one by Tyler Florence called Country Meatloaf with Tomato Relish. The meatloaf is very subtle and the relish is tomatoes and red peppers cooked down into a yummy fresh relish.
I could eat ______ every day and not get sick of it.
vietnamese noodles or pho
Who Likes Grape Soda?
There was a rock service station on the road from Wichita Falls to Greenville, Texas when we were kids. They had one of those big boxes full of almost frozen water in which were suspended glass bottles of Grape and Orange Nehi sodas and Coca Colas. These were the best things ever when you were driving the 1955 Chevy with no AC in the summer to see Grandmother. They also had a nifty cage with squirrels in it and of course.
Favorite foodie iphone apps?
Locavore tells you where to find locally grown food.
Compiling recipes for a family cookbook - advice?
This may not be what you are looking for, but I put our family cookbook together using all the recipes I already had written down. It became a patchwork of my mother's and grandmother's handwritten recipes, mine, those from other family and friends, some cut from magazines as far back as the 30's, printed ones from newspapers, etc. I didn't redo all of them to be formatted the same way because I wanted the memories of the people who gave me the recipes. I just organized them into sections of food types, copied them using both sides of the paper on 3 ring paper and put them in binders with an original watercolor on the cover. Then I handwrote the index. I have printed a dozen of them so far and each time someone marries they get a copy of "The Cookbook".
Heirloom Tomatoes Help
We just planted the fall garden and this one has one grape tomato, two Romas, and 4 Celebrities. I have picked off two of those nasty ugly tomato hornworms but we will be vigilant. I am so sorry about the blight ...would just break my heart to see that!
The power's out for days at a time. Survival preparedness
It was gin for us after Charley and the other 4 that year. We solved some of the problem by installing a whole house generator that comes on 30 seconds after the power goes off. However, i have been hurricane ready all my adult life as we lived in Houston and then south Florida and i always have several cases of water, nutrition bars, chunky soups, chili and stew, canned fruit all for use after you and the neighbors have eaten every thing from the freezers and fridges. If the power still isnt on, you can flee to family up North or a hotel ( if you can find one that isnt full of electric company workers). Charley was a moveable feast as we ate our way through the neighborhood. It was a good time for a while.
I CAN do it - Favorite Canned Foods
I think there is a law against making frito chili pie with anything except canned chili (although when I have the homemade stuff I do use it).
Heirloom Tomatoes Help
@lemonfair speaks truth. My heirlooms gave me far less than my hybids this summer. One plant produced 3 tomatoes and another around 20 while my Celebrities gave me over 100. The cost of growing them would necessarily make them pricier. I will still grow them because they are wonderful, but I don't buy them at the store.
Eating quirks
@BananaMonkey--I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a comment---bugt only because I don't think I ever realized I probably also look like a demented squirrel while going at the chocolate on my kitkats...
wow.
I am a save-the-best person--Middle of my pizza, wafers in the kitkat, and actually the OUTSIDE of the reeses--I like to take out the middle and save the outside for last. Stopping this save-the-best nonsense has, however, largely helped me drop 40lbs, lol...if you eat the best part FIRST you can skip the rest!
Eating quirks
@TurkeyandPickles and wasliche, glad to hear I am not the only one who completely denudes Reeses of chocolate before savoring the peanut buttery goodness!
I also need to save the best for last, especially when it comes to salads. I eat all the greens first and am then left with a wonderful pool of cheese, nuts, fruit, and dressing.
When I was a kid, I would only eat the dough part (la mie) of baguettes. A family friend who is no longer alive indulged me in this quirk by eating only the crusts. We'd trade them indiscreetly at otherwise very proper dinners. It's one of my favorite memories of her/food memories in general.
Eating quirks
I do the pizza thing to! Although I don't bite into the crust, but rip it off in pieces as I eat it.
Eating quirks
yup, glad to find I'm not so weird after all...
reeses: around the rim, then peel the chocolate off the top and bottom, then the PB
kit kats - nibble chocolate from all sides, then layer by layer
what messy freak doesn't eat their m&m's in color order? I eat the yucky colors first (brown, yellow).
popcorn, chips, etc all must be eaten one piece at a time... people who shove multiple pieces of popcorn in their mouths at one time should be shot.
remember the hostess butterscotch krumpets? I peel the butterscotch frosting off and eat the cake first, then butterscotch. Actually, I do this with anything that can be peeled and eaten in layers.
but the weirdest one, that people have actually commented on... I refuse to put anything in my mouth without looking at it first. Apparently this makes me weird... watch me eating a sandwich and I supposedly go cross eyed right before each bite. It's not enough that I saw the sandwich before the last bite, I must inspect each one.
No, i did not grow up with older brothers who put nasty stuff in my sandwiches.
Eating quirks
I used to peel the cheese off my slice of pizza and eat that first, but now I eat it from the point to the crust. I don't eat meatballs with the pasta, I wait until I am done with the noodles. Then, I have meatballs, other meat, bread to dip in sauce, and salad.
Eating quirks
@nagella and @gweels - ditto on the pizza.
@prettynicola, @kmgagne, @wellred, @nagela - ditto on the kit-kat by layer, though i haven't eaten those things in ages.
With meals in general - I try each item on the plate individually first and then I always go for the combo bite with an equal portion of each item.
The oddest thing though is in coffee preparation - I grind my beans for 20 seconds to get the right grind for the coffee percolator. And rather than count to 20 in my head, I go over the Lavern and Shirley theme song, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated", then let it go for an additional 4 seconds.
Eating quirks
@lemonfair--I so miss the tans! *le sigh!*
As a wee tot a loooong time ago, I would separate my Oreos, eat the "plain" side, then put the two frosted sides together to make one lovely, ooooey cookie. Then "they" "invented" Double Stuff. So now, I separate my Oreos, eat the "plain" side, then put the two frosted sides together for an insanely thick nibble. You KNOW than when Nabisco releases the "Quad", I'ma hafta ratchet that sucker up, too! C'mon, you know it will happen...SNL mocked the trend in extra blades on razors, and now we have, what, is it 5 or are we up to 6 now? bladed razors...
Eating quirks
Can't think of any at the moment. I often take oreos apart, but just as often dip/break them up in milk.
When I was a child I always ate m&m's in a particular order. They ruined if for me when they did away with the tans.
Eating quirks
when eating a frosted cupcake, I split it horizontally, flip the top and make a "frosting sandwich" out of it.
Eating quirks
Have to have A-1 Steak Sauce on super x-x-xtra crispy fries!
Or realll Mexican Hot Picante Sauce on Onion Rings!
Eating quirks
Kit Kats by layers.
Swiss roll frosting, then unrolling and licking the frosting out, then eat the cake bit last.
Peanut Butter Cup rims, then the chocolate off both sides of the middle, then the perfect peanut buttery insides last.
Nutter Butters insides first, then crispy bits.
:) Good topic.
Eating quirks
I refrigerate my candy bars first. Oh, the delectableness of that cool first bite...
Eating quirks
Skittles and jelly beans are in color order from favorite to least favorite so if I get sick of eating them I don't miss out on the ones I like.
I prefer mini Reese's cups to the normal size because you can break them open and eat them filling first.
I also break frosted cupcakes in half horizontally and flip the top so that the frosting is sandwiched in between the two halves of cake. It's a lot less messy this way.
Eating quirks
Whenever I eat anything (pretzels, cookies) I always eat the broken pieces first.
Eating quirks
Um, hungrychristel... I share ALL those quirks-- Reese's rim before middle, one Oreo cookie side before the side with the icing, and the crust of the pizza first always (although I eat the middle of the pizza last, not the end).
In general, I always save the best for last-- I eat a little bit of everything on the plate, rotating different tastes, then save a final, perfect last bite of the best flavors!
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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats & Chocolate & Zucchini.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
I like Serious Eats of course. I also like Smitten Kitchen.
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Are any of you folks in therapy because it sounds as if you have some serious control issues! For years I had to eat my last bite off my husband's plate. We moved and got a bigger table and now I can't reach his plate. Hmm, maybe i need that therapist's name.