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Cakespy: Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookies
I think these sound perfectly intriguing!
My Mom is in her eighties and has been cooking with bacon grease for her whole life. She even bakes cookies on a pan which has been greased with it! Not only that, she has never refrigerated the grease. So for that reason alone, Licoricewhip, I'm sure your cookied bacon bits in the cookies would be fine for 10 days on the way to Iraq - and once there, to boot! :o)
Thanks for this interesting recipe!
Cindy H
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World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
@redfish, I agree 100% about the McRib. I seriously wondered who their taste-tester was at the time, and if I had received a mistake with all fat.
@sky full of bacon, I laughed outloud at the Margarita which tasted like Pez.
At our Calgary Stampede - besides deep fried mini-donuts, we also have deep fried Coke, deep fried Oreos, and this year - deep fried jelly beans in batter. yikes.
Cindy H
Brown Sugar
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
Oh my, these were hilarious!
I personally love to drink any Olive juice out of the jar or can. It's my Mom's fault, and I'm sticking to it.
After visiting Buenos Aires, Dulce de Leche (like katylesser) is another fave!
Traveller, I hope your Director changed his mind. That seems unfair to me.
Cindy H
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jazzing up white rice
Lots of wonderful suggestions!
My brother in law lives with us, and he hates white rice, but I love it.
So, what I do is break an egg into a frying pan with some butter.
Stir it madly around.
Add some chopped onion.
Add some frozen peas.
Set them all aside in a bowl.
Fry the rice in a bit of oil and then add the egg, onion, and peas.
Voilà, and he eats it!
Cindy H
Pots Boiling Over?
Cakespy: Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookies
I think these sound perfectly intriguing!
My Mom is in her eighties and has been cooking with bacon grease for her whole life. She even bakes cookies on a pan which has been greased with it! Not only that, she has never refrigerated the grease. So for that reason alone, Licoricewhip, I'm sure your cookied bacon bits in the cookies would be fine for 10 days on the way to Iraq - and once there, to boot! :o)
Thanks for this interesting recipe!
Cindy H
Brown Sugar
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
@redfish, I agree 100% about the McRib. I seriously wondered who their taste-tester was at the time, and if I had received a mistake with all fat.
@sky full of bacon, I laughed outloud at the Margarita which tasted like Pez.
At our Calgary Stampede - besides deep fried mini-donuts, we also have deep fried Coke, deep fried Oreos, and this year - deep fried jelly beans in batter. yikes.
Cindy H
Brown Sugar
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
Oh my, these were hilarious!
I personally love to drink any Olive juice out of the jar or can. It's my Mom's fault, and I'm sticking to it.
After visiting Buenos Aires, Dulce de Leche (like katylesser) is another fave!
Traveller, I hope your Director changed his mind. That seems unfair to me.
Cindy H
Cookie Stamps
How to Politely Take Food Photos in Restaurants
Whoa, I had no idea lights bothered so many people. I don't have a food blog, but I love looking at a picture of a meal I've had at a restaurant because it just doesn't happen much! I usually just take a quick one of my own plate, and put the camera away. My son took pictures of his meals when he was in Europe, so when I went to Buenos Aires for a trip of a lifetime, I had to do the same, and it was great fun! Where else can you take a pure 'Dulce de Leche' picture and drool later?
I'll certainly work on that 'non-flash' vs 'flash' aspect, though...
As far as 'getting over myself'? I've never thought of people taking a picture of their meal as singularly arrogant! Maybe if the chef came out and took a picture of one eating said creation....lol
Cindy H
Warm Bread?
Serious Green: Plastic-Less Ways to Transport Your Lunch
Oh, this is a GREAT post! I'm forever washing and hang-drying little sandwich bags, etc. I'm not much of a browser or shopper so I didn't realize there are so many other alternatives! Not only that, but my tupperware/ziploc containers are really getting old! I'm definitely going to follow up on these suggestions!
Thanks!
Cindy H
Pots Boiling Over?
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
Oh what great stories!
I personally love Hellman's mayonnaise AND butter (sigh) with freshly sliced un-refrigerated homegrown beefsteak tomatoes, a whole Haas avocado chunked up, and S&P, all on thick toasted white bread - preferably homemade!
This is definitely a hot summer day sandwich....Haven't seen many hot summer days, yet! ;o)
I love sandwiches like Homer Simpson loves doughnuts!...come to think of it, I love doughnuts, too, but that's another thread!
Cindy H
Brown Sugar
The English Muffin Experiment: Homemade vs. Store-Bought
What a great article and a lot of effort to make these English Muffins.
I also very much liked this phrase as part of the intro! "a taste for brioche and a budget for Wonder Bread"... ;o)
It never occurred to me to make English Muffins, but I'm now very interested and glad there is a link! Our family loves English Muffin Pizzas!
Thanks!
Cindy H
Hard Brown Sugar
Impress Your Valentine With Cookie Stamps
Amanda,
This is very good information. In fact, I think I'm going to have to change a few words on our website in the cookie stamp section!
I seem to have a hard time when I use oil, so I dust them with the icing sugar, instead, which works for me.
You gave great advice, and everyone can use what works best for them!
Thank you!
Cindy H
http://www.jbkpottery.com
Cook the Book: Butterscotch Pudding
This reminds me of how long it's been since I had butterscotch pudding!
What a great sounding recipe!
Thanks!
Cindy H
http://www.jbkpottery.com
jazzing up white rice
I like to cook rice in chicken broth with slivers of onions, a can of drained mushroom pieces and some caraway seed. I have done this for years and it has always gone over well with my family. Some folks might not like the taste of caraway, but it is well liked here in my house in recipes featuring sauerkraut and apples, rye bread and in white rice. Try it, you'll like it.
jazzing up white rice
My favorite way to jazz up white rice is to fold in onion tarka and minced green onions at the end. For the liquid I use either stock or coconut milk...it is delicious!
Here is a recipe if you like - http://rouxbe.com/recipes/64-pilau-rice/text
jazzing up white rice
@sugartoast, Its called Tahdig and you get the crusty rice at the bottom by adding oil before the cooked rice, then heating it slowly and very carefully so it doesn't burn.
jazzing up white rice
I love the Lundberg dark rices, but I am in the minority in our house. So we usually eat their basmati white (the smell is inscrutable!). It is perfect as is (I only salt it at the end, not during the cooking). Occasionally I'll add a little toasted sesame oil at the end for a smoky nutty thing. I've also cooked it with a very small amount of dried herbes de provence to give it a delicate floral nose. I've found that with good basmati, less jazzy is more.
jazzing up white rice
As kids, we always ate our hot white rice with butter and sugar. Still yummy to this day.
Cakespy: Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookies
I just made them and the flavor is phenomenal. But mine came out cakey too. I am definitely going to make them again and I think I'll squish them down a little, like peanut butter cookies.
They didn't spread out at all so maybe more butter?
Any other suggestions?
Cakespy: Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookies
Made them and they came out very cake-y. Why?
Cakespy: Bacon, Cereal, and Orange Juice Breakfast Cookies
A cookie with bacon...I don't know about this one.
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
I cube my tomatoes, toss them with olive oil, basil, and pepper, and then stuff them into a hot dog roll. Avocado is nice, but not essential; thin sliced red onion is a plus.
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
Crusty baguette style bread, sliced lengthwise
Over-ripe tomato squished up and down
So the insides are slathered over the bread
Olive oil generously drizzled over all.
Salt. Pepper.
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
Grilled sourdough bread...nice slather of homemade pimento cheese made with Duke's mayo (holla. NC!)...thick slices of a homegrown heirloom tomato, sprinkled with salt.
Perfection
Serious Green: Plastic-Less Ways to Transport Your Lunch
I buy chinese food containers as packaging for the Ukrainian eggs I make, but they also make great take along containers. They have the advantage of being biodegradable (and the little metal handle doesn't need to biodegrade) while being sturdy and reasonably water proof for gloppy mixtures. I've even removed the handle and opened up the box into a bowl and microwaved to warm, not hot. They cost about 8 cents apiece in boxes of 500, but you might be able to split an order with a co-worker.
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
@lunchblock:
I've had tunnbrödsrulle! I liked the concept. I had no idea it was sweedish; thanks!
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
@ Ms. Carey Jones: "...Tuna Pie (erk) at Jollibee in the Philippines..." -- don't knock it 'til you've tried...it's quite good. "...and in the Philippines, sweet tomato pasta with hot dogs is sold as "McSpaghetti."" -- McDonald's didn't sell spaghetti when it first opened here in the 1980s but Jollibee did. Jollibee sold Filipino-style spaghetti (sweet, with hotdog slices and "ham") and was selling a lot of it, which is why McD got on the bandwagon. But McD's first spaghetti offering was "Italian"-style (a bit sour but also with hotdog slices), which didn't go over well with 99% of the population, which led McD to reformulate their spaghetti sauce to it's until it got to its current formula...sweet and with hotdog slices. ;-)
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
You can get fried herring burgers in Stockholm in Sweden, though they're not all that common. They've also evolved a bunch of strange things to do with hotdogs; you can get two boiled frankfurters in a flatbread wrap with mashed potato and shrimps in mayo (tunnbrödsrulle). Langos, a (I think) Hungarian speciality is common too. It's a bread dough that is deep-fried and topped with your choice of sugar and cinnamon, or lumpfish roe, creme fraiche and diced red onion.
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
ShawnaAdora had it right...and I guess we're the only ones....
MIRACLE WHIP right from the jar! I eat it sprinkled with black pepper. If I feel fancy, I spread it on crackers!
Cold Chef Boyardee ravioli's from the can ( a childhood vice)
Peanut butter
Eagle Brand milk
Garlic stuffed olives captured with a fork
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
I just got back from Thailand and at the soft serve counter at a KFC they had a sweet corn sundae! Cold creamed corn on the bottom, a layer of ice cream, corn kernals and more creamed corn and a top layer of ice cream. yeah, it was pretty bad, but made a good photo opportunity.
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
@Traveller - you MUST have been upset. I can't imagine eating a jar of grainy mustard by itself! No, capers would be my choice, I love em.
BTW, congratulations on getting that dissertation over and to an old broad like myself, a "B" sounds pretty damned good.
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
Peanut Butter; Olives; Pickles; Baked Beans; Chef Boyardee; Condensed Soup; Vegetables; Ice Cream; & Almost anything that doesn't require removal from the container for cooking. If it's cooked or sufficiently prepared in the container, I'll eat it right from said container.
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
When I worked at McDonalds:
I thought it was strange that we had to call the dehydrated flakes that turned into onions with water: "recons"
They smell very strange.
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
Altoids? You must be kidding!
I eat ______ out of the tin/jar/bottle...
I love to eat my own canned whole tomato's a quart size, right out of the jar. Reminds me of my mom and grandma and the farm in Ohio, great comfort and memory food for me. coco
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
@winkyj
They're called "cinnamon twists" :p
World's Strangest Fast-Food Items
There's a pizza chain in Thailand that has the most disgusting pizza I've ever seen. Remember the cheese stuffed-crust pizza? Okay, it's like that but imagine inside the crust is a sausage/hot dog with a tube of neon cheese running through its middle.
The ads showing the cut-away of the crusts used to give me the shakes. They looked sooo gross.
To top it off, the pizza usually had corn on it!
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Lots of wonderful suggestions!
My brother in law lives with us, and he hates white rice, but I love it.
So, what I do is break an egg into a frying pan with some butter.
Stir it madly around.
Add some chopped onion.
Add some frozen peas.
Set them all aside in a bowl.
Fry the rice in a bit of oil and then add the egg, onion, and peas.
Voilà, and he eats it!
Cindy H
Pots Boiling Over?