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Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

white bread, grape jelly, slice of american cheese (only white american from the deli would do)

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Dinner Tonight: Lemon Chicken with Rice

Could this be made without milk or dairy of any kind? What would be a good substitute?

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Hershey's Chocolate Bar Recipe Ideas?

I suggest Anna's S'mores Cookies on cookiemadness.net. I make them all the time and ALWAYS get compliments.

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what are some of your favorite go to sites?

I find allrecipes.com extremely useful. I like to read the reviews, not only for the rating of a particular recipe, but to read what people used in the way of substitutions. Very handy

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From Talk

Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

white bread, grape jelly, slice of american cheese (only white american from the deli would do)

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: Lemon Chicken with Rice

Could this be made without milk or dairy of any kind? What would be a good substitute?

From Talk

Hershey's Chocolate Bar Recipe Ideas?

I suggest Anna's S'mores Cookies on cookiemadness.net. I make them all the time and ALWAYS get compliments.

From Talk

what are some of your favorite go to sites?

I find allrecipes.com extremely useful. I like to read the reviews, not only for the rating of a particular recipe, but to read what people used in the way of substitutions. Very handy

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Strange combos

Oh man. My mom used to eat tuna salad (tuna & mayo) and canned baked beans, slightly warmed. She wouldn't mix them together but put them on the same plate and take alternating bites.
I NEVER tried this or understood it!

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Migas - What's your favorite version?

Well thanks for the responses. There seems to be no "wrong" way to do it so . . . wish me luck!!

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles'

I don't know about memorable BUT, whenever my boyfriends gets Chinese food, he gets these hilariously upbeat, complimentary fortunes like "You are the greatest man alive", "Everyone things you are awesome" and "Your life will improve in the next 10 seconds".
If I open a cookie in his batch, it will invariably say "You are about to enter in to the worst 4 weeks of your entire life. It is unavoidable."

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Would you rather give up eggs or cereal?

You can't put eggs in a baggie for a mid-day snack! What would you get if you mixed eggs, marshmallows and butter? Certainly not Rice Krispie Treats! And, if I'm stumbling around the kitchen at 1 a.m., I'd certainly rather pour a bowl of cereal than take out a pan, a spatula, the butter, etc.

So, bye bye eggs

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What Totally Embarassing Food Products Do You Love?

I Can't Believe it's Not Butter . . . and I can't believe I just admitted that!

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I eat ____ with cottage cheese

Ok, this seems weird but I started eating because of dietary restrictions and then grew to like it -- cottage cheese and rice that has been warmed up with margarine and kosher salt.
Put a scoop of each side by side in a bowl. Don't mix them, just eat a bit of one and then the other!
I swear, its really comforting.

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Bone-in Chicken Breasts - are they the anti-chicken?

Try keeping kosher!!! Boneless chicken breast can be up to $7.99 a pound!!! It is insane. We try to buy the bone-in, which can be half as much money. I skin it, and if I'm feeling energetic, take it off the bone.
But, yes, the bone-in breasts definitely "taste more like chicken" than their boneless counterparts.

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What do you love to make?

Cookies . . .Even though I can never eat anything I bake (food allergies) I love the feel of the dough coming together and I love to watch the transformation that happens in the oven.
In addition, there are an endless variety of cookies out there and lots of ways to experiment. Unlike in high school and college, this is a chemistry that I actually excel at!
Most importantly, there is something wonderful about watching people take a big bite of cookie (or cake, or bread, or brownie) and smile!

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Color...what are your favorite white foods?

Hah! Couldn't believe when I saw this question -- I eat an almost entirely white diet:
Rice
Rice Krispies
Mashed potatoes
Stonyfield's Organic Vanilla yogurt
Breyer's Vanilla Ice Cream
Swiss Miss Vanilla Pudding
Cottage Cheese
Rice Pudding
American Cheese (none of that yellow dye for me!)
Chicken breast

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Cooking Mags

Ok, since no one else had the guts to do it, I'll say it -- I subscribe to Rachel Ray's magazine, and I like it.
Yes, I get Gourmet and Bon Appetit and they are great mags as well.
What do I like about Rachel's mag? The recipes are like a canvas -- they can easily be built upon. Also the ingredients she uses are easily substitutable, something I don't find in other cooking mags. You can cook some really nice dishes without having that "gourmet" pantry.
And, she has pictures with EVERY recipe, something I find extremely helpful.
So, sue me, hate me, call me "simple", but . . . I subscribe to Everyday with Rachel Ray . . .and I like it.

From Talk

Annoying food habits...

Hey Library Lady. My boyfriend always, always leaves one bit of food on his plate.
Doesn't matter what he's eating -- a sandwich, pasta, a candy bar -- one bite gets wasted.
I ask him time and time again why he does this and he says the same thing you did "I guess I just have issues"!!!
It isn't exactly annoying; it is just . . . weird!

From Talk

What to do with canned or fresh artichokes?

This might be very pedestrian BUT whenever I make it, the bowl gets licked clean!
Thawed chopped spinach, chopped canned artichokes, cream cheese, mayonaisse, sour cream, garlic powder, salt, red pepper flakes, parmesan cheese . . . TADA. Spinach-Artichoke Dip.
I suppose you can serve it hot, but, I tend to serve it room temperature or even cold. Doesn't seem to matter, it gets housed no matter what!!!!

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Question of the Day: What weird things did you like as a child?

Grape jam and American cheese on squishy white bread . . . Pickles and iced tea (I would take a bite of pickle and wash it down with iced tea made from powdered mix) . . .

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What is your favorite kind of cookie?

Chocolate chip cookies made with a flour AND graham cracker crumbs; during the last few minutes of baking, push mini marshmallows and Hershey bar pieces into the top. Finish baking and you've got gooey S'mores Cookies.
Check out the Cookie Madness blog. She's got a great recipe; every time I make them, for family, friends, enemies, co-workers, they are a huge success.

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Dinner Tonight: Lemon Chicken with Rice

A new favorite! The ingredients are kitchen staples, both my husband and 4-year old love it, and it's a snap to prepare. Love it!

From Talk

Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

Mashed banana, grape jelly, and milk. In a bowl.

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Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

Strangely, a big old bowl of Uncle Ben's converted rice with tons of butter and salt.

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Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

@gentlyferal: I LOVE beansprouts raw and unadorned!

I used to eat Wonderbread, barely toasted with Miracle Whip for breakfast before school. Sometimes with pickles, sometimes with a piece of American cheese, but usually just plain. In my house we also liked to nuke cheese on tortillas after school and then wrap it all around a pickle. Bologna around a pickle was good too. I've always loved pickles - still do.

Last one: my mom usually bought vanilla ice cream in gallon buckets so to make chocolate, we mixed it with Nestle from a can until it was the consistency of soft serve. I still like to stir my ice cream until soft...

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Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

Growing up in the Ucraine, often had this snack with my grandma : LARD, straight from the fridge, cut in little pieces, with some raw garlic and a bit of dark rye bread. Could't touch it now!

From Talk

Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

@wednesdayvail, maybe it tastes the same as removing the salt and eating them. so hate the amount of salt on crispy pretzels. i just wish they would do a low salt version like they do for nuts.

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Strange but Tasty Childhood Snacks

My mother's favorite after-school snack, circa 1945, was a sandwich of thinly sliced red onion soaked in vinegar. I never tried it myself, but I'm tempted now.

As a child, I preferred fried-mushroom sandwiches. Simplicity itself - slice, fry in butter, and pile on good sturdy white bread. When I was younger, though, I loved ketchup sandwiches - just ketchup and bread. Can't stand ketchup today; won't have it in the house. I also loved licorice jelly beans; I was in hog heaven when one of the local markets offered them in bulk for a while.

My daughter, when she was young, would eat tofu straight out of the box. Also beansprouts, raw and unadorned.

My son, as a small child, loved popcorn with Taco Bell's taco sauce.

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Dinner Tonight: Lemon Chicken with Rice

Unsweetened hemp milk is a good substitute. It has a lot of body and a creamy mouthfeel. Unsweetened almond milk would work as well, providing another layer of flavor to the profile.

From Talk

I eat ____ with cottage cheese

I eat cottage cheese plain as well. However, it tastes super yummy with tuna. I though it would be terrible, but it's great! It's easy and quick, which is helpful for those of us with pain and fatigue issues. I also like to mix pineapple with my cottage cheese. There is a brand (I can't remember which one, and that tells you how much I like it lol) that already mixes the stuff, and it's gross. Therefore, I just add my own pineapple if I want it.

From Talk

Hershey's Chocolate Bar Recipe Ideas?

I'm going to stray a bit here; the following is not a baked good at all. Melt the chocolate, dip bananas in then roll the chocolate-coated bananas in flaked coconut, nuts etc. and freeze until serving. Notes: You may want to cut bananas in half (width) and insert popsicle sticks or something similar before you dip your bananas in melted chocolate. Be sure to place the finished bananas on a cookie sheet (or baking pan) lined with waxed paper before you freeze.

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Strange combos

B Que potato chips dipped in apple sauce.
Mac and cheese with ketchup on it.
Pizza with small canned smoked oysters on top
Onion rings dipped in soy sauce
French toast with salt on it, nooooooo sweat stuff on it

From Talk

Strange combos

Peanut Butter and Egg Sandwiches.


My boyfriend's mother also told me recently that her father used to put peanut butter on burgers...not sure about that one, but the egg combo DEFINITELY works...

Fries in a Frosty (I don't know how other chocolate milkshakes compare...)!

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Strange combos

I like tabasco on vanilla ice cream. DO not ewww till you try it. Hot and cold its sooo good.
I like horseradish bacon dip on BBQ potato chips.
Honey mustard dressing on french fries.
Peanut butter/fluff/seedless raspberry jam on banana bread.
I would rather have a melted slice of cooper sharp on my bagel than a schmear unless I am having fish on bagel, them it must be a shmear.
Cranberry sauce on a turkey sandwich.
When I was a kid I only would eat a bologna sandwich if it had crushed fritos on it and yellow mustard.

From Talk

Strange combos

raspberry jelly, cream cheese, and turkey on a bagel
bologna, butter and peanut butter sandwich
my friend and his brother would eat ketchup and swiss cheese sandwiches

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Strange combos

@Perky: It is a must try. :)

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Strange combos

@Butrflygirly - cream cheese on a tuna sandwich
@cowprintrabbit - added cucumbers and onion.

I WANT!

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Strange combos

@Butrflygirly - Yay! I was almost embarrassed to write about that one:-). I have no doubt it would be spectacular with strawberry sauce!

@Susquehanna - I'm just glad you tried it and liked it, because the watermelon and feta combo is truly a match made in heaven:-) Now, have you tried watermelon with balsamic vinegar, or better yet, balsamic vinegar reduction? It's incredible!

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Strange combos

No one thought that the chocolate-dipped bacon on last week's revised "Dinner: Impossible" seemed a bit odd???

From Talk

Strange combos

@brooke29: I saw you mentioned the watermelon and feta combo above on 7/12. I need to give you extra propers for encouraging me to try it! I really like it. :)

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Strange combos

@brooke29: That sounds great! But I want Strawberry Sauce on mine..Garlic makes everything great I think. :)

@cowprint: YAY! So glad you are a fan too. I like plain cream cheese or the veggie cream cheese on that sandwich...So yummy. I know what I am having tomorrow for lunch. :)

Which reminds me of some other combos:

~Plain Brownie: I will eat plain but do like to spread Creamy or Chunky Peanut Butter on Top
~Plain Brownie: I like to spread Cream Cheese on top too (Plain or Cinnamon are good)

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Strange combos

I guess I came up with a new one two days ago - I spread a thin layer of sour cream with dill & roasted garlic over a pineapple pancake and poured blueberry sauce on top of that. It was absolutely delicious!

From Talk

Strange combos

@Butrflygirly - yes! Cream cheese on tuna with sliced onions and cucumbers. I think I'd better go to the store before lunch - good thing it's right next to the gym!

From Talk

Strange combos

sea salt and chocolate.
cheddar cheese and apple pie.
blue cheese and anchovies.
curry and bananas.

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