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Food OCD

Posted by stickychewygooeyjen, August 4, 2008 at 2:18 PM

I came upon this topic last week on smitten kitchen and it's urked me ever since. It was regarding dunking cookies/biscotti into a liquid.

I've come to notice that alot of people, like myself cannot deal with the crumbs that are left behind in the milk/coffe and find it just plain gross.

My food OCD is

dunking cookies into milk. Can't deal with a soggy cookie and crumbs.
digestice cookies in tea. They disintegrate, it's just plain gross.
a plate that is served on one side hot pasta and the other salad. Can't deal with the 2 temperatures. Salad must come in a seperate dish!

Lets hear about your food OCD, cause I know I'm not the only one out there.

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Old cookbooks

Posted by stickychewygooeyjen, May 13, 2008 at 4:11 PM

So in my never ending quest for baking recipes, a co-worker of mine lend me "The Lily Allen New American Cookbook" published 1944. Very impressed with the selection of cake/dessert recipes, personally I hate cake mix and refuse to use it, so am always looking for alternatives as I bake at least 1 cake a week.

So as I'm flipping through the pages , absorbing all of these wonderful recipes, I notice some of them are calling for yeast cakes. What the hell is that? Have you ever encountered something in an old cookbook that just makes you think what is it?

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Sourdough Bread

Posted by stickychewygooeyjen, April 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM

So, I'm cruising my regular foodie blogs and come across the sourdough bread recipe on thekitchn.com

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/baked-good/recipe-beginner-sourdough-loaf-048192

So, I'm thinking to myself I can do this. But I have a fear of yeast and killing it, and instead of warm, soft, chewy, sourdough-y goodness I will get a lump.

Are my fears justified? Please share horror/success stories or words or advice for my FIRST sourdough bread.

4 Comments | Tags: baking, recipes, sourdough bread, yeast

The Ten Most Recent Comments By stickychewygooeyjen

From Talk

How many stores do you shop at for your food?

at least 3.

Grocery Store/ Costco for all the package stuff (flour, milk, sugar etc)

Farmers market/vegetable store for ALL produce

Butcher shop / Local meat shop for all meats and eggs

stickychewygooeyjen at 11:26PM on 05/20/08

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Top Ten, On-Hand, Not Embarrassed

1. Non-fat milk / cheese / yogurt
2. Coffee
3. Canned tomatoes
4. Canned beans
5. Unsalted butter
6. Sugar (icing, yellow, dark brown, fine, I bake alot okay...)
7. Frozen veggies
8. Quinoa / Brown rice
9. Flour
10. Prewashed Salad Greens

stickychewygooeyjen at 11:24PM on 05/20/08

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Guily Pleasures and other Embarrassing Pantry Items

@melinda ~ the missing skin off the roof of your mouth is NOT a deterrent for true Cap'n Crunch lovers

Morning Star Burgers
Salt & Black pepper Chips
Purchased Rugelach ( my DH brings them home, and sometimes I'm lazy)
caramel rice cake & pb & banana sandwiches
nutella

stickychewygooeyjen at 3:47PM on 05/20/08

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Top 10 ingredients I will never have in my kitchen

1. Canned Meat
2. Cheez Whiz/ Velveeta / Faux cheese slices
3. Cake mix
4. Artificial Vanilla extract
5. White sandwich bread
6. Bottle lemon juice
7. Boxed mac n cheese/hamburger helper
8. Beef
9.Pineapples
10. Canned fruit

stickychewygooeyjen at 7:31PM on 05/19/08

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Old cookbooks

I've noticed the abundance of jello moulds and there is a section on frogs legs as well. Fits well with the time as you say.

But I love how everything is so simplyfied. There's no 100 item list of ingredients to make something delicious.

stickychewygooeyjen at 11:05AM on 05/15/08

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Old cookbooks

will do!! Thanks :)

stickychewygooeyjen at 4:33PM on 05/13/08

From Talk

Really good cooking/recipe blogs

@renzata.....also love smitten kitchen, am huge fan of baking websites as I bake more than cook, some faves


bakerella.blogspot.com
bakeorbreak.com
simplyrecipes.com


Or do what I do cruise, sites like serious eats and just start going thru all the links they have posted for blogs, do the same at every site you visit you'll start to see the ones that pop up on all the blogs. They usually have some good ideas.

Happy hunting!

stickychewygooeyjen at 11:27PM on 05/12/08

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Favorite Food Network Show and Chef

Alton Brown, Ina Garten and Giada. They always have the best recipes.

stickychewygooeyjen at 4:05PM on 05/07/08

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Sourdough Bread

sounds fantastic!! I can't wait! Thanks for the encouragment!

stickychewygooeyjen at 5:23PM on 04/17/08

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Canadian Cuisine?

@gnomatic - agree with you on the fries. Soo good, must have vinegar on them with salt and pepper. Not exactly healthy, okay once every 10yrs or so.

Coming from Vancouver (born & raised), our cuisine is very blended with the many cultures that are here. It's very asian with plenty of fresh seafood, we're know as the more laidback city in Canada so all the food here is simple with fresh local ingredients.

I don't think there is a Canadian cuisine either, I think you will find things here that most Americans do not use in everyday cooking. But if you ask me what my comfort food is, something that reminds me of my childhood and what I grew up on, it would be a combo of fresh local salmon jerky, authentic chinese cuisine from china town and spicy Chana masala with naan bread.

More and more "traditional" cuisines are getting blended together to form sort of a new tradition of cuisine. I read an article about a month or so ago, saying the British were no longer enjoying their traditional recipes and were now enjoying indian curries and so on as sort of their staple meals. I guess my point is that a "cuisine" is all about embracing the cultures that surrond us and make our city/country what it is.

That to me is Canadian Cuisine. Not that I don't enjoy a good poutine once in awhile lol

stickychewygooeyjen at 2:26PM on 04/08/08

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Best Hangover Food?

it all depends on my level of sickness! :)

1. egg and cheese on a bagel with tons of ketchup (if i'm motivated to go out and get it)
2. oatmeal or ramen noodles (if i can't bear to leave the house - i keep a stash in the pantry!)
3. thai (crab rangoon (for the grease) and chicken w broccoli and brown rice (for protein and carbs))
4. a pina colada or margarita (it's true - the hair of the dog really works!)

amaher40 at 10:49AM on 09/18/08

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Best Hangover Food?

After a HEAVY night of drinking nothing settles in my stomach better than a nice bowl of pho, all that liquid is the only thing that my stomach can handle !!! Sometimes if I can't have that then I go for the all out fatty like a big mac but what I really need is that pho to cure the hangover blues.

ruckus at 9:02AM on 09/18/08

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Favorite Food Network Show and Chef

I love Ina, her recipes are the best.

lilyx5100 at 1:10AM on 08/09/08

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Best Hangover Food?

A nice bloody mary, a greasy burger, and a nap!

aungeinphx at 12:54PM on 07/29/08

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Best Hangover Food?

Try to eat a big bowl of cheesy, buttery rice before you go to bed. Eat more in the morning with cold cola.

robincat at 12:32PM on 07/29/08

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Best Hangover Food?

I go for salt and vinegar potato chips every time. preferably the Dirty brand. My sister's new favorite thing to do/place to eat to remedy a hangover is the Russian Baths, for you NYC folk. (http://mousebouche.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-what-ails-you.html)

The Mouse at 12:30PM on 07/29/08

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Best Hangover Food?

Ohhhhh I'm the Dr. on this one....hmmmm where do I start?
No. 1 Fav. Bloodymary
No. 2 Hair or the dog (beer) just a couple to ease the edge.
No. 3 Menundo
No. 4 Lots of H2o

pjracz10 at 12:15PM on 07/29/08

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Top 10 ingredients I will never have in my kitchen

1. Okra
2. Miracle Whip
3. Whole milk
4. Spam
5. Olive loaf
6. any ketchup but Heinz
7. Plain yellow mustard
8. mango
9. hot cereal (oatmeal, cream of wheat)
10. kale

oddcouple1 at 10:47PM on 06/18/08

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Top 10 ingredients I will never have in my kitchen

Oh, this is fun!

1. Canned entrees (ie. spaghetti-oh's)
2. Cool Whip
3. Miracle Whip
4. Durian fruit
5. Spam (or any canned meat for that matter)
6. Any deli "meat" that you can stick your finger in, and it will congeal back to its original state---I've seen it; it's disgusting.
7. Any creme filled cookies (Oreos or those nasty oatmeal cakes)
8. Bitter melon
9. Sweetened applesauce, and most other canned fruits (I do like the applesauce with no sugar added)
10. Fake caviar...I have to have to real thing.

Tasty Morsel at 1:23PM on 06/09/08

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Top Ten, On-Hand, Not Embarrassed

olive oils/ vinegars
butter
homemade vanilla extract
tea
fresh fruit
spices and herbs
lemons
avocados (you never know when a guacamole craving will strike)
half and half, whipping cream, buttermilk
jams and jelly
+ really good chocolate

that was tough so many to choose from

evilchefmom at 11:15AM on 06/07/08