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proPIGanda
I grew up in pig denial. I tried to convince myself that I didn't like ham, or pork chops, or pork loin, or BBQ.... I said, "I only like bacon". I don't know why. It's all delicious, and I actually choose pig over chicken quite regularly. Even my 2.5 year-old daughter asks for ham about every other week...we just had english muffins & Canadian bacon for breakfast. :)
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
I got an iced mocha on my way to work on Sunday morning as I was running too late to make my own coffee at home. I thought it was swill... and for almost $3, was NOT worth it. It was completely full of ice so I probably got about 5 ounces worth of actual beverage. Like the article mentioned, I too thought it tasted more like chocolate milk than anything else.
I noted this morning though, I got a 32 OUNCE vanilla iced coffee at Einstein Bros for $1.79 (which is mad cheap for coffee around here - Philly 'burbs). And their coffee at least tastes half decent, as far as chains go.
coveting kitchenaid
Congrats! I've had mine since Mother's Day 2007, it was a total surprise from my in-laws. They brought it to my house and I thought for sure they just packed their own things in the big KA box!
Find yourself a simple recipe for good buttercreme frosting. You'll never eat frosting out of a can again! YUM :)
@TeriN - I'm totally going to bust out the KA book and check into these cinnamon rolls. Sounds fantastic!
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What's Inside a Slim Jim?
LOL This seriously made me gag a little. I had to sit the coffee down for a minute. To think how many 'Jims my dad and husband have consumed over the course of their lifetimes thus far... I never could eat them, the consistency skeeved me out, even though I always was intrigued by the smell.
proPIGanda
I grew up in pig denial. I tried to convince myself that I didn't like ham, or pork chops, or pork loin, or BBQ.... I said, "I only like bacon". I don't know why. It's all delicious, and I actually choose pig over chicken quite regularly. Even my 2.5 year-old daughter asks for ham about every other week...we just had english muffins & Canadian bacon for breakfast. :)
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
I got an iced mocha on my way to work on Sunday morning as I was running too late to make my own coffee at home. I thought it was swill... and for almost $3, was NOT worth it. It was completely full of ice so I probably got about 5 ounces worth of actual beverage. Like the article mentioned, I too thought it tasted more like chocolate milk than anything else.
I noted this morning though, I got a 32 OUNCE vanilla iced coffee at Einstein Bros for $1.79 (which is mad cheap for coffee around here - Philly 'burbs). And their coffee at least tastes half decent, as far as chains go.
coveting kitchenaid
Congrats! I've had mine since Mother's Day 2007, it was a total surprise from my in-laws. They brought it to my house and I thought for sure they just packed their own things in the big KA box!
Find yourself a simple recipe for good buttercreme frosting. You'll never eat frosting out of a can again! YUM :)
@TeriN - I'm totally going to bust out the KA book and check into these cinnamon rolls. Sounds fantastic!
Grocery Ninja: What to Do With Condensed Milk
I have to sincerely thank you all for this thread! For quite some time I've been trying to find the perfect balance of creamy & sweet to my coffee, without taking away from the coffee flavor itself... I've made dulce de leche for a favorite cookie recipe dozens of times, but never in a million years would I have thought to use sweetened condensed milk in coffee! It is absolutely perfect. Thank you, thank you!
What are your strange, secret and personal cooking tips?
I love the idea of asking future-MIL for some teaching-time in the kitchen! I should do that myself! My MIL is pretty cool too... I'm surprised I haven't thought of that yet!
I totally agree with all the tips above. The only thing I would add is to make sure you take the time to sit and read and understand the recipe. I can't tell you how many times I'm just skimmed a recipe to find that I've either not whipped an egg, or added sugar too quickly, or not creamed the butter for *exactly* three minutes... just because I thought a recipe looked "easy" & I could wing it. It's taken me a long time to realize that certain aspects of recipes are not always open to interpretation! Good luck to you!
Serious Grape: Sweet Wines for Your Sweetie
I'm always looking for new dessert wines to try. Thanks! Very helpful!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
For years I drove by the Nabisco plant in NE Philly smelling Oreos being baked. Much later my husband ended up working there making the Oreos so the smell came home with him (and cocoa powder all over him) too. I don't even like Oreos but any chocolate smell is welcome to me... which is why I love driving through Hershey, PA. They actually put chocolate mulch around the plants & trees... You can't escape the chocolate.
Back where I grew up in central PA we lived near a Strohmann's bread bakery too.. Oh there is nothing like the smell of bread...
@tangentrider - I don't know if I could handle riding past King's Hawaiian... those are irresistible to me!
Puxatony Phil
Very cute!! But... um... it's Punxsutawney...
Fries with That Salad?
I feel like there have just been fries on salads all my life, and I'm 32...but grew up in western PA... so... that could be it. :)
Also, plenty of liquor stores in PA are open on Sundays, & 6-pack shops are never a problem... you just have to check. It's not Prohibition 2.0...
S.O.S. (...on a shingle): Way or No Way?
WAY!!! Grew up in PA, Mom called it "dried beef gravy". Oh dried beef gravy night was the best... the toaster came to the table for dinner & my brother and I got to make our own toast (we were sheltered, alright?!?) and we thought it was AWESOME.
I still make it sometimes. But I can never find the perfectly round Armour dried beef anymore, it came in a little glass jar. I have to use the refrigerated packets now... not quite the same. :)
What scares me though is that you can actually buy (in my stores anyway) prepared pouches of "creamed chipped beef". That's moderately disturbing. That's one of those things that HAS to be homemade, IMO.
My Shocking Food Confession: What's Yours?
Ohh I too hate cilantro. It makes me so sad when I'm all psyched for a yummy looking salsa or guac & someone's gone and ruined it with cilantro...
I will eat a whole package of dried beef without even batting an eye.
When I was a kid, my dad and I used to cut up radishes & dip them in salt & eat really salty radishes.
My dad and I also (he's obviously a horrible influence.. love ya Dad!!) will sit and eat cheese puffs/curls dipped in horseradish mustard. It should not taste good but it does... uh, to us anyway...
Pittsburgh and Phoenix regional food?
Oh my mouth is watering at the sheer prospect of a sandwich from Primanti's.... it's been too many years! And you can't go wrong with the Mrs. T's, & wash it all down with an IC Light! Go Steelers! :)
Store-Bought Chicken Stocks, Reviewed: Which Are the Best?
This was a really informative article! Thank you. I've always wanted to do a side-by-side & had my hunches... glad to know I was pretty close. Your control stock looks scrumptious.
I'm not the stock-maker in this house... husband makes a delicious stock from a turkey & a chicken & makes the most wonderful soups... ahhhh I picked a winner. :)
The Great Fast-Food Wings Taste Test
Wow. Good wings + chain restaurant = oxymoron.
I understand why you chose who you chose for this, but I'll be ordering my wings Sunday from the biker bar down the street...I mean, even "Wings to Go" (a chain, but only wings) at least gives you a reasonable facsimile to a Buffalo wing.
Store-Bought Chicken Stocks, Reviewed: Which Are the Best?
everyone see that "top chef" is using swanson stocks for most of teir challanges???
Grocery Ninja: What to Do With Condensed Milk
My favorite recipe consists of a couple of spoonfulls of sugar, condensed milk and 7up.
Put the sugar in a tall glass add some condensed milk. Stir the mixture and then add the 7up or coca-cola.
Enjoy">http://www.coffee-makers-review.com/espresso-machines.html">Enjoy your coffee drink!
What's Inside a Slim Jim?
Slim Jims are one of my guilty pleasures......
What's Inside a Slim Jim?
I didn't see high fructose corn syrup. That's a first in processed food. I have never had a Slim Jim, but I have had Vienna Sausages and I imagine that you eat both for the same reason...you are starving and there isn't anything for miles.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.
proPIGanda
@mollykate - I'm not sure why you are suspicious about my post. It's an honest question and I was curious to see what others had to say.
@buffy - I didn't know that SDAs don't eat pork. I learn something new everyday. :)
@morgancain - LOL. I think you could be right. These friends of mine are the same ones who don't think twice about consuming empty calories in the form of alcoholic cocktails.
proPIGanda
@mollykate678- I'm with you on this one, may be a low life swine.
proPIGanda
@Martini Me - Seems like an, IDK, forced question. I've thought that about more than a few random posts lately. I should probably lay off the paranoid sauce on my filet de pork loin.
proPIGanda
@ mollykate - what's got your "spidey senses" up about this post :)
proPIGanda
I think the girls who eat only chicken sausage believe they have less fat and are more healthful than pork. That's the only non-religious reason I can think of to do it.
I think they are announcing it to seem virtuous, or to attract guys (like the girls who think eating delicate meals or only salad is more attractive), or to justify the calories on the double-fudge molten chocolate a la mode dessert they are about to order.
proPIGanda
@ogirl--Seventh-Day Adventist Christians do not eat pork for the same reasons Jews do not eat pork--because it is an unclean meat. It is classified as unclean because of pigs' eating habits. In fact, many SDAs are vegetarians altogether if not vegan. We subscribe to the "our body is a temple" principle and stick to a diet where everything is taken in moderation--in other words, a sensible, healthy one. I'm not vegetarian but my diet is much more healthful than a lot of the vegetarians I know whose diet consists of cheese and pasta. LOL
That said, out of curiosity, I have tried pork in various forms and discovered I wasn't missing out on anything.
proPIGanda
I'm pretty sure these women I speak of are not dissing pork for religious reasons. As far as I know, Christians are allowed to have pork. But even if it were for religious reasons or flavor aversions, I don't understand why it's an automatic reflex for these girls to announce that it's not pork. But, like some of you have mentioned, maybe it's just the girly girls that I know. Perhaps I need to find some more pork loving lady friends.
proPIGanda
Didn't know it had a bad rap with females. Not myself or the ones I know.
proPIGanda
Well, lesbians don't like pork.... Ahhh, I crack myself up.
I don't eat pork for religious reasons, flavor aversions, and the fact that pork is very high in saturated fat.
proPIGanda
I have not heard of or observed the social phenomenon of a gender-driven aversion to pork. It must be because I live under a rock.
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
I tried the Iced Mocha and it was a complete waste of nearly $3. It was WAY too sweet and although I could taste the coffee, I wouldn't want to because it had a harsh, burnt flavor.
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
I'm from Australia and I work at a McDonalds here. The McCafe looks totally different to what we have here. McCafe in Australia is more closer to a traditional cafe, where the barista is more involved in making the coffee (steaming the milk etc). If you're lucky, you'll get a properly trained barista (like me...) and a pretty decent coffee.
The McCafe in the US looks more similar to what we call 'EspressoPronto'. All the drinks come made from the machine and the iced coffees come pre-prepped, all we have to do is either press a button or pour it straight into the container. The coffees are not filled to the top so that customers who get it through drive thru don't have it spilling everywhere as they drive (that's what I think anyway, seems to make sense). I haven't tried it yet but I don't expect it to be the same level of quality as McCafe.
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
Make your coffee at home, put it in a travel mug (preferably stainless steel---I got a nice one at Target) and have your coffee or espresso exactly the way you like it while saving money and the environment (all those throw-away cups and lids)
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
I like McD's REGULAR coffee .. alot. But their McCafe stuff is horrid!
McCafe: McDonald's New Fancier, Pricier Coffee
You may as well seek out some really good coffee, there is barely a price difference between McCafe and a good cafe and the quality and flavor is obviously worlds apart. In NYC, Gimme!, Joe and 9th Street Espresso all offer the same drinks in the same price range--and it will be a drink to savor.... otherwise, check out http://www.espressomap.com to find quality obessed coffee shops in the US.
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Location: PA
About: Small-town white girl from Central PA whose palate until age 20 consisted mainly of chicken fingers & instant potatoes... met & married a lovely Chinese boy from NYC & a whole new world of delicious foods opened up right before my eyes.
Favorite foods: Anything Mexican, especially tamales... although I'm not brave enough to make them myself. Chinese egg custard tarts, homemade bread, coconut ice cream, strong coffee, anything cheese.
Last bite on earth: Surf & turf. Tuna & salmon sashimi, alongside an oversized filet, medium-rare, with a big ol' dollop of goat cheese on top. Followed by a giant slice of German chocolate cake.
LOL This seriously made me gag a little. I had to sit the coffee down for a minute. To think how many 'Jims my dad and husband have consumed over the course of their lifetimes thus far... I never could eat them, the consistency skeeved me out, even though I always was intrigued by the smell.