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pizza - one of the best foods in the whole world... straight cheese pizza with a great doughy crust always does it for me.

Do not do not do not enjoy mock meat. Read the back of the package on some of the stuff and shriek at the reality of what you're eating. You're better off eating a hunk of dead animal flesh in some cases.

Tofu and tofu products are not mock meat, they are a food in themselves and aren't supposed to be imitating anything, so I consider tofu edible. It should be appreciated not as a substitute but as its own entity with its own NOT meat like qualities. (I have the same rage over people drinking soy milk as "imitation" milk. No, soy milk isn't supposed to taste like melted ice cream. It's supposed to be beige and taste like beans! If you really want milk that bad, drink the milk!)

Regarding KarynMC:
You can NEVER say that only a family member would try to poison a child. Get real, there are sick people out there who get off on doing their dirty deed.

Also,please let me know where those chocolate chip cookies are being handed out so that I'll miss that house. :)

Liability, Liability, Liability great idea but the reality is that if a child gets sick and the lawyer came knocking at your door then it truly ends up being a situation of “no good deed goes unpunished”. I will agree also with Heartofglass there are a lot of towns that have laws prohibiting distributing food without a health permit.

Having said that I am quite older and when I was young in the late 50’s and 60’s the most popular treats were homemade. There was this woman that gave out candy apples to die for, I’ve never been able to find another candy apple that is just like the ones she made.

What I think is so very sad is that children have to be protect from adults and we as a society don’t see how disturbing that really is

tmj529 - i think your comment is pretty sad. You obviously didn't read into it.

Downtown Campbell has a few good restaurants. Cyprus has delicious Mediterranean dishes (get the Mahummarah dip, it's terrific). Tigelleria is fabulous and very authentic Italian which is also organic. La Pizzeria makes the closest thing to Italian pizza that I've had Stateside. In south San Jose, go to Grand Century Mall which has an impressive food court of Vietnamese food and desserts (and 1 Thai stall, pretty good too). Think rice plates, bowls of pho and assorted noodle dishes, iced Vietnamese coffee, fresh-pressed sugar cane juice and desserts like che. Grand Century is located at Story and McLaughlin, inside a plaza that is all Viet. There's a bakery called Saigon Bakery outside of the big 'mall' building, right next to the Hai Thanh supermarket. This is one of the better places to go for fresh baguettes and the increasingly popular banh sandwiches. If you want something other than Asian and Italian, go for Ethiopian at Zeni on Saratoga Ave. A few stores down is a good Persian place called Deezi Cafe. My favorite Thai restaurant is on Winchester Blvd, called Krung Thai, a few blocks from Santana Row. If you are a sushi fiend, TGI Sushi on Hamilton in Campbell is pretty good, though the rolls can get really pricey or Michi's near Winchester and Campbell Ave.

Have a great time eating your way through San Jose and Campbell.

PS. If you manage to be in Campbell on Sunday from about 9:30am to 1pm, the Farmer's Market has some incredible food. They close off the car traffice in the downtown strip. Check out the Oaxacan food stall and have their freshly made food. The cook actually rolls out and cooks the tortillas as it is ordered.

Cooking makes me happy, but if I'd worried or distracted it's best if I'm not trying to follow a new recipe.

My mother used to like chopping things when she was mad, and she liked chopping things for soups. I may never forget the day I came home from school and there were three different pots of soup on the stove, and she was working on the fourth.

Moods tend to affect my patience. So if the pizza dough I'm rolling out keeps shrinking on itself, for example, my mood will get worse and worse and I'll become less and less patient. I've learned when that happens I have to put down what I'm doing and/or hand the task to someone else. On the other hand, making bread has always done wonders for my mood.

"I'll make it every night this weekend if it helps to cheer him up."

Where have you been all my life, dhorst?

Happy Birthday! Pizza was always a treat for us in the 60's. We might have had it three times a year. Now a days it's like a staple and I just don't get that excited about it anymore. But enjoy.

I think my love for pizza is based on the same thing as my love for snow. As a child it meant less school, either school was out (snow) or it was Friday (pizza).

My favorite pizza to order so far is onion, garlic, green peppers, and eggplant.

my mood definitely affects my cooking.
when i get pissed i make bread.
nothing like pounding the crap out of some dough to release some anger.
also, eating chips and salsa seems to help my anger-something about the crunching, i guess. it's better than just grinding my teeth, though.

You guys all rule. I'd completely forgotten about "Like Water for Chocolate," which is a fantastic book - good call with that, @pooch.

And, @dhorst, a weekend of pizza should cheer anyone up - but I think I might take @redfish's advice tonight :)