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Anyone watching "Jamie at Home" on FN?

Posted by radley24, January 6, 2008 at 11:12 PM

The Food Network has not been a huge favorite of late, but I am sitting here watching Jamie Oliver's new show and it's quite good. Very Alice Waters, using all food grown at his home and if this first episode is anything to go by, it seems like a winner. Geez, please don't think me a total wacko, but it's kind of porn for foodies! He's squishing these lovely ripe tomatos, peppers, onions, etc. with olive oil and then he tops it all off with bacon and sets it in to roast. Yum!

16 Comments | Tagged: Food Network, Jamie Oliver, TV

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Egg Pancakes?

Posted by radley24, January 6, 2008 at 2:25 PM

Help! My husband has been craving a childhood dish and I cannot find my recipe for it. His mom made "egg pancakes" and she gave me the recipe many moons ago, but it is lost and I have not made it enough times to have it memorized. I was never very good at making them in the first place! She passed away four years ago and my father-in-law cannot find her copy either. I know they were a thinner type pancake and nothing I have found online seems right. We are in Michigan and I don't know if it is a regional or cultural dish, but my family never made these growing up. Anyone out there heard of these or has a recipe? Many thanks in advance!

10 Comments | Tagged: pancakes

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From Required Eating

What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?

I recently tried B & J's cake batter flavor and I LOVED it. I then bought it again and loved it at first, but a few spoons later it started to make me feel sick and I didn't finish it. I don't know why the inital love of it faded so fast, but I think it comes down to it being too sweet and too authentic to cake batter - while that should be a good thing, but realistically, who eats the whole bowl of batter? You lick the beaters and the remains of the bowl, not the whole thing~!
I would love to try an ice cream with cake pieces, that sounds great.

radley24 at 11:18AM on 04/20/08

From Talk

Rachel Ray

I think she serves a purpose in that she may make people who think they can't cook at least give it a try. She also can grab the people with hectic schedules who think they have to run through the drive thru to grab their meals, see that they can put together a meal for their family with a little planning and in relatively a short time. I don't watch her much, but I have heard her promote local ingredients and cooking at home vs fast food and prepackaged meals. I disagree about the baking and dessert comments (respectively!) - I have heard many chefs proclaim that the skill they lack is baking and pastry making. If any of you watch Top Chef, all of the contestants and guest chef judges groan at the thought of doing dessert/baking. They don't have the patience for the exact "science" that baking requires. Granted, not all chefs, but I have heard it more often than not.

I don't watch her because I find her over the top annoying. I hate the yummo's, stoup, etc., etc. I soooo hate "EVOO"! Why in the heck does she use EVOO when she ends up saying "extra virgin olive oil" right after it?!? I cannot watch a second of her daily talk show.

radley24 at 9:37AM on 04/13/08

From Talk

Missing JEP's funny questions...

Um...I meant "ready" to join us...but "reading" kinda works too. Ah well...:-)

radley24 at 1:44PM on 04/05/08

From Talk

Missing JEP's funny questions...

Thanks from me as well LoCo, I was wondering about her several times over the past couple weeks...all the best to you JEP, we miss you here at SE, but we'll be here when you are reading to join us again.

radley24 at 10:42AM on 04/05/08

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What childhood food do you wish they still made?

Zots - hard candies with fizzy centers

Sunshine Lemon Coolers

Charms suckers with the mixed flavors - Lemon-Lime....these were the bigger flat suckers

@sbelle - they still make Munchos, same package too!

@ag3208 - I think you are talking about those pink, white and brown coconut candies? They were called Coconut Neopolitan Sundaes here in the Michigan area and I still see them in bulk stores, etc.

radley24 at 11:13PM on 04/02/08

From Talk

Gordon Ramsay

I guess I just don't understand why he wants to be associated with a show like "Hell's Kitchen". The contestants on there barely have any talent of a "great chef", let alone basic cooking skills! I am embarrassed for the contestants and for Gordon Ramsey. I watch the show, but I am constantly confused as to why he is doing it. It's cheesy and beneath him. I love his BBC shows and even though he is tough on people on those shows, he ultimately comes off as caring, intelligent and his talent for both cooking and the business side of owning a restaurant comes through. I just don't understand at all why he does these two Fox shows. I am going to watch Hell's Kitchen, but I think I am waiting for him to walk out on one episode or yell "April Fools!"

radley24 at 6:14PM on 04/01/08

From Talk

_________ gives me heartburn

Oops, I meant to type: Before my first was born, I would complain of very bad heartburn...I need spell check!

radley24 at 6:23PM on 03/19/08

From Talk

_________ gives me heartburn

I too got very bad heartburn with my first pregnancy and it has stuck with me ever since. Before my first was born I wouls complain of the very bad heartburn and women immediately said the baby would be born with lots of hair. I took no stock in that one, I thought it was an old wives tale...that still is probably true, but my son was born needing a haircut! Not joking.

So, what flares up the old heartburn for me are doughtnuts for sure, they are the worst. Ketchup is also a killer. Most fried foods, pie crust, cucumbers, coffee, hot chocolate, acidic juices. Thank goodness I could take Tums when I was pregnant, I would be tearing up sometimes when it would really burn badly. I would also drink warm milk slowly in little amounts.
I hade to sleep sitting up at times~!
Sorry, I sound like a whiner, I was never a complainer when it happened...just brings back the one memory from being pregnant that I didn't like! Everything else was great.

radley24 at 6:16PM on 03/19/08

From Required Eating

Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

My mom's butter tarts!

Chocolate bunny ears are up there too. We have a local candy maker and they make extra big ears only in milk and dark choclate!

radley24 at 5:38PM on 03/17/08

From Required Eating

Recipe: How to Boil Water

Read it, followed it. Whew...no banning for me. I live another day on SE!

great site, many laughs.

radley24 at 10:24PM on 03/16/08

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From Talk

What childhood food do you wish they still made?

You can go to fizzies.com and order any flavor you like! My favorite is cherry or grape. By the case for $12 or 15 - I can't remember. But what I miss the most are those giant Charms lollipops - I was proposed to with a handful of Charms Cherry because I was always seen with one stuck in my mouth! I was in the Army and they were at the ice cream store on base and one day an officer said I should at least take the sucker out of my mouth with I salute!

2kitties at 2:58PM on 07/18/08

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What childhood food do you wish they still made?

I LOVED ninja turtle pudding pies!!! and gadorade gum, jello pudding pops, Mcdonalds FRIED apple pies, Bonkers candy, Ecto cooler, grasshopper cookies, ... i wish i could remember more!!!

bjthorpe3 at 1:04PM on 07/18/08

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Crunchy foods...what are your favorites?

Chinese-Muslim style stir fry thin strips of potatoes! Try to recreate it here at my house. I know they soak them in salt water, but do they blanch them??

salohcin at 5:51PM on 07/14/08

From Required Eating

'Spontaneous' Musical Performed in Mall Food Court

Adam that was sweet. It totally made my day, Thanks!

hungrychristel at 2:42PM on 06/30/08

From Talk

What childhood food do you wish they still made?

Rice Kringles cereal

chaffner at 2:51PM on 05/28/08

From Talk

I eat ____ with cottage cheese

I love how threads get resurrected!
I'm not a cottage cheese fan....I've never been able to get past the squeekiness (yes...that's a word! lol)...when you eat it.

mepolo at 9:50AM on 05/25/08

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I eat ____ with cottage cheese

I prefer 4%, but 2% is... barely OK. I like it plain, with fruits, usually peaches or pears, scrambled into buttery eggs, in kugel with crushed pineapple, with lemon curd, with apple butter and I haven't had it in YEARS, but I used to love it in the lime jello thing with crushed pineapple. It was commonly served with tomatoes (from the garden) when I was a kid, but I haven't served it that way in my home.

My grandmother liked hers with a big dollop of mayonnaise and black pepper from the big, square Schilling or Safeway brand cans. It seems like there were only about three cans and one plastic shaker the whole time I was growing up. Since they were probably one pound cans, that may be an accurate count. Really, it's no wonder I thought I didn't like pepper as a kid.

Calichef at 9:43AM on 05/25/08

From Talk

I eat ____ with cottage cheese

cantalope or canned peaches, or luction noodles.

iliana at 3:58AM on 05/25/08

From Talk

I eat ____ with cottage cheese

4%, small curd, usually the generic conventional brand (although I want to start making my own from scratch, per Alton's recipe). I can't stand Breakstone's, and find the organic stuff to be too sour to me - cottage cheese should be creamy!

I usually eat it plain, although I like it with bananas and raisins, or with chili and garlic powder, or as a cheap substitute for ricotta in Ameritalian recipes, or with sliced cucumbers and a little lemon, or (before I was allergic to 'em) as bell pepper dip, or with my sugar-coated breakfast cereal in lieu of milk (strangely tasty) ... I like cottage cheese.

jenilowrance at 12:57AM on 05/25/08

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I eat ____ with cottage cheese

I love cottage cheese... large curd 4% is best but I'll eat others
Mia Rose- I love it with tuna and sardines
Miss Molly- I love it with Catalina, try cottage cheese, Catalina dressing and grated sharp cheddar cheese- looks gross, but is so delicious
and SRBrooklyn- cottage cheese with egg noodles, cinnamon and sugar is comfort food for breakfast

deefine at 8:59PM on 05/24/08