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What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
My high school's cooks made some fantastic homemade breads and pastries. Donuts and donut holes on chili days. Cinnamon rolls with any breaded meat and mashed potatoes. But the best were the peanut butter twists. Over 8 inches long, a sweet yeast dough, twisted with this delicious peanut butter filling, and icing on top. They were soooooo good. The cook who had the recipes died not long after I graduated, without giving up her secrets. I've looked for years for some kind of approximation of those twists, to no avail. They were the perfect mix of sweet and savory, and made the whole school smell like a bakery. Mmmmmmm.
Reality Check: What's the New Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Pan Pizza Like? We Try It
This looks about as bad as the original stuffed crust, redeemed in just the slightest way by the fact it's on the pan crust instead of the horrible "hand-tossed". I just wish they'd resurrect the triple decker. That was such gooey fatty awesomeness. What's this under my mushroom pizza? Why it's a cheese pizza!!!
When Is It Socially Acceptable to Share Food?
I'd love to share more than I do. Unfortunately, the only times I really go out to eat anymore are with my family, where I'm the only vegetarian, and rarely can I find something I'd like to eat on someone else's plate. The one (and only) time I can remember us sharing was when we went to a Thai place and I connived my mom and sister into ordering their noodles with tofu and veggies instead of meat. Yay, three dishes for me to try!
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What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
My high school's cooks made some fantastic homemade breads and pastries. Donuts and donut holes on chili days. Cinnamon rolls with any breaded meat and mashed potatoes. But the best were the peanut butter twists. Over 8 inches long, a sweet yeast dough, twisted with this delicious peanut butter filling, and icing on top. They were soooooo good. The cook who had the recipes died not long after I graduated, without giving up her secrets. I've looked for years for some kind of approximation of those twists, to no avail. They were the perfect mix of sweet and savory, and made the whole school smell like a bakery. Mmmmmmm.
Reality Check: What's the New Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Pan Pizza Like? We Try It
This looks about as bad as the original stuffed crust, redeemed in just the slightest way by the fact it's on the pan crust instead of the horrible "hand-tossed". I just wish they'd resurrect the triple decker. That was such gooey fatty awesomeness. What's this under my mushroom pizza? Why it's a cheese pizza!!!
When Is It Socially Acceptable to Share Food?
I'd love to share more than I do. Unfortunately, the only times I really go out to eat anymore are with my family, where I'm the only vegetarian, and rarely can I find something I'd like to eat on someone else's plate. The one (and only) time I can remember us sharing was when we went to a Thai place and I connived my mom and sister into ordering their noodles with tofu and veggies instead of meat. Yay, three dishes for me to try!
Cook the Book: '100 Best Vegetarian Recipes'
If it's something I eat at a restaurant, it's tofu with chinese curry sauce, mushrooms, snow peas, and basil. Add on the veggie dumplings, and it's heaven!
Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'
If it has to be a recipe, tomato sandwiches. Otherwise, sitting next to vines full of ripe heirloom tomatoes with a salt shaker and a towel.
Tofu (For Carnivores...) ?
Marinating will add some moisture, but you don't marinate tofu like you would a london broil; think of it more like fish, with a rather quick marinade of maybe an hour. In addition, you don't really want *all* of the liquid to be pressed out of the tofu, otherwise you'd be stuck with curds of hard crumbly soybean paste, not very appetizing. Marinating it essentially pulls some of the packaging liquid out and replaces it with flavorful liquid.
This Can't Be Tofu! has a helpful section on the different types of tofu and how to use them.
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
nacho cheese doritos with cottage cheese, and fritos with baked beans.
I rediscovered _______, and now I love it!
Cole slaw. I had a bite a month ago, at the behest of my mother, then ate the rest of her and my father's bowls. I've now been searching for different slaw recipes to recreate the yummy sweet/salty/vinegary flavor. But man did I hate it as a kid.
Cook the Book: Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook
Christmas eve, this year, at my dad's family's gathering. I made a salad that consisted of spinach, radicchio, red onion, goat cheese, honeycrisp apples, and candied pecans. It all got eaten, by a family that hardly eats anything, let alone salad. And the MEN came back for seconds, said how good it was, how they wanted to put it on the menu at their restaurant. Yowza!
Cook the Book: 'Martha Stewart's Cooking School'
Lemon curd and pie crust. MMMMMMMmmmmmm
Blood Sausage Gang Sign
That first "a" in sausage has 4 joints. An extra metacarpus? Maybe an extra phalange?
Does Activia Yogurt Offer Any Health Benefits?
Not to mention that the taste kinda sucks.
Thin-Crust Pizza in Chicago? Yes, and It's Outstanding at Vito & Nick's
So what's the difference between this and St. Louis-style pizza à la Imo's?
Do you know any swedish desserts?
Ostkaka, which is usually called Swedish cheesecake, but is nothing like American cheesecake. It's traditionally made with raw milk, to which rennet is added so the milk coagulates, then after the whey is drained off the curds are baked. It's served warm with lingonberries and whipped cream.
Risqué Japanese Boob Pudding
Not naughty, Adam, just sexist.
Vegetarian Crock Pot recipes
I definitely second Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker. In addition to great recipes for soups, stews, chilis, and casseroles, it also includes appetizers and desserts.
Cook the Book: 'The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without'
This is a trick question, right? All of them, except borscht and sauerkraut.
Cook the Book: 'The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics'
Lots and lots and lots.
Cook the Book: 'The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics'
Oh god, more than I can count.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in my high school we had 4 stations and a decent amount of options, yet i would only get 5 things - ever! friday was pizza day and i would always dip my pizza in the mini salad and dressing it came with.
wed was chicken ranchero day - chicken patty topped with bacon, american cheese and the obligatory lettuce and tomato slice and you top it yourself with ranch dressing on a kaiser roll and it usually came with baked mac and cheese - the line on wed was always rediculously long!
the other days i had a bagel with cream cheese, fries and an arizona iced tea. or cheese nachos loaded with toppings (i don't eat beef) or a cheese sandwich on a kaiser as i have always been adverse to lunch meat.
i am very surprised i have normal cholesterol these days - i can't imagine what it was back then...although growing up in a vegetarian household my other meals must have cancelled out the cholesterol loaded fest during the school week.
Reality Check: What's the New Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Pan Pizza Like? We Try It
FYI
While stuffing the pan crust with the cheese does sound delicious, it is logistically impossible.
The traditional stuffed crust pizza requires dough of a different texture, a more classic hand-tossed feel, so it can be stretched out over the pan far enough to tuck the cheese into the dough with enough room to stretch the excess dough on top of the cheese.
This feat is impossible with pan pizza, at least the Pizza Hut brand of pan pizza, because the dough is too fluffy and porous. If one were to stretch the dough, it would sink down and upon baking become a greasy crispy mess.
To perfect the cheese-in-the-crust plan, Pizza Hut would need to do a lot of research and development, and they're not into that.
But there are those breadsticks...
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in both HS & college (Tokyo), noodle stations (ramen, udon and soba) were pretty good. but in HS I rarely had time to eat lunch at the cafeteria, so I'd buy chicken karaage and yukari onigiri combo if I didn't bring bento.
My favorite dish from the college cafeteria was Bang bang ji tofu.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
In elementary school i loved the cold triple decker PB&J's... Also i loved the taste of the sloppy joes with melted kraft cheese but i didnt like the chunkiness of it so i would scrape it all out and eat what became a sloppy joe flavored cheese sandwich mmmmm.....i've tried to recreate it but to no avail.
In H.S. we had open campus so i always left for lunch. lucky me
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Ooh - someone reminded me of the chili and chicken noodle soup my elementary school used to serve. I don't know what it was, but both were fabulous. As I got older & I was able to participate in my church hosted blood drives, I always looked forward to the half a peanut butter sandwich & the bowl of chicken noodle soup they'd serve to anyone that donated. MUCH better than the Ritz crackers & Lorna Doones I make do with now.
And yes - totally looked forward to the Thanksgiving & Christmas lunches, mostly because in addition to actual pumpkin pie, we got to choose a little container (paper peel-off lid) of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate swirl, or strawberry swirl. I always went with chocolate. Always.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Growing up in Singapore it was Szechuan Chicken, Beef Kway Teow, with fat rice noodles, beef and greens, and Mee Goreng, Malay style curry noodles. All made fresh while we sat there patiently waiting, watching the woks sizzle and Mr. Ho flip in bits of this and that. Mmmm.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
After graduating I really missed cafeteria food. I loved drinking carton milk over ice and eating halved kiwis. The turkey a la king was so good back then and students would actually run to the lunch room for it. I also miss enchiladas on Wednesday, Mexican food day. Oh, and the lunch ladies used to offer Frito Pie on the side. Chili and cheese served from separate crock pots would be ladled into a bag of chips of your choice. I chose Hot Cheetos! It was so gross and delicious and would leave you with heart burn afterwards.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
This one is pretty simple. Number one is the rectangle pizza served on top of fries. I would take the cheese off the pizza, put it on the fries, eat the pizza dough, then mix the cheese and fries together and eat them. Very healthy.
Second was pita bread pizza. I would always get cold and wet in the middle, so it was much preferred to have a fresh one.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
1955-1958. Lawrence High School, Lawrence, L.I., N.Y.
Sausages on top of mashed potatoes with gravy.
I still think about it after all these years.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I wasn't too big on cafeteria food but I always loved when they would have the special "holiday" hot turkey meals right before vacations. An ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes, a slice of turkey with that brown canned gravy and the always random slice of white bread to soak it up. Old fashioned yum.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
In grammar school, they made kickass french toast sticks. Then the problem was that they started out giving each person five, but a few years later it dropped to four, then three. Cheapskates. I also always looked forward to chocolate milk in the tiny carton.
I never bought lunch in high school because the food was revolting, but I occasionally indulged in one of those underbaked cookies.
My college cafeteria isn't much better. They do awesome wraps, and any form of potato is hard to mess up, but the produce is atrocious. They reuse the same batch of vegetables for days, the salad bar is continuously wilted and brown, and the "vegetarian station" always, ALWAYS consists of lukewarm bean burritos. Ugh.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
A few of my favorites: Tator tots, soft buttered roll (almost like White Castle bun) with mashed potatoes, tacos, chicken and noodles, rectangle pizza, and T-Bolt sandwich...Texas toast, mozzeralla cheese, marinara and pepperoni...yum.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I'm a vegetarian now, but I used to love Hot Ham and Cheese days. Was that a universal lunch item? Ham and cheese melted on a soft roll.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Apple crisp. Oh, mama!
Greasy-crunchy grilled cheese.
Tuna Melts that had buttey salted buns too long under heat so they were gnawable hard in which melted cheese enveloped tuna salad. God-awful and awful good.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved reading all of these--it really took me back.
Elementary school:
"taco pie" It was a mix of ground beef, beans, probably american cheese, lettuce and fritos! All scooped onto your plate with an ice cream scoop.
Macaroni and Cheese with two little smokies. I guess they added the little smokies to meet the protein requirement.
Junior High:
I don't remember a lot, but I ate salad bar and that rectangular pizza
High School:
I would eat lettuce and tomato sandwiches on white bread with yellow mustard (yuck!) but would also eat nacho bar.
College:
Breaded Chicken Sandwiches, Taco Pizza, Pasta Bar, Baked Potato Bar, the breakfast was always the best, "premium night" always the absolute worst.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
They called it vegetable-beef soup, but what it really was was leftovers from everything they'd made the previous few days - hamburger, veggies, and even spaghetti sometimes. I always loved it and the obvious layers of grease on top.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
The Turkey A La King served on top of a scoop of boxed mashed potatoes!
Before taking off for Thanksgiving they would serve this with a roll and a piece of "pumpkin pie", which was nothing but pumpking pie filling with a thin layer of Cool Whip frosting.
The only other thing that was remotely edible was the grilled cheese sandwich. I have yet to find one that comes close to that neon, buttery monstruosity.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
At my rural southern Virginia school, the lady that was in charge of the lunches for all three elementary schools, one middle and one high school had several recipes for homemade bread that were staples on our menu - delicious rolls/buns for hamburgers, hot dogs and most other meals, Italian bread for spaghetti days, and the weekly treat of her yummy homemade cinnamon rolls.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved the beef stew and the sugar cookies. This was when there were lunch ladies who cooked the food and served it lovingly to you. I was a picky eater (I would be skinnier if I still was) and I remember eating many things that I would not have eaten at home. In high school I ate a lot of salads and saltine crackers with butter.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I don't know if it's just the province of Canada I live in: but we really didn't have cafeterias. We had food you could buy: but not like on the movies.
That being said: High School French Fries were Nasty...but I craved them :p
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I have the sloppy joe recipe from the high school I attended from 1954 thru 1958, the best. The ladies who cooked were mothers of students and when they got busy serving lunch the janitor would help serving. Great hot beef sandwiches too.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Chicken and mashed potatoes. The chicken was shredded in gravy, served over a scoop of mashed potatoes, all on a styrofoam tray. In high school, they used to sell 2 huge chocolate chip cookies in a waxed paper bag for something like 50 cents. I would just eat those for lunch.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
I loved the tuna puff. Basically a tuna salad mounded on half of a homemade yeasty bun, topped with cheese and baked. The lunchline lady always let me have the sandwich that had been made with the top half of the bun. Also, sandy sugar cookies. Five cents for a cookie bigger than my whole hand. I detested the white milk which was always too warm. It was in a completely square carton with a bit of tinfoil at one corner that you peeled back to open. In junior high my favorite was meatloaf with brown gravy mashed potatoes and English Peas. In high school Taco Doritos had been invented and I used to have a bag with a Dr. Pepper or a bag of Ozark BBQ potato chips. They were so thickly coated with spice your fingers were stained for the rest of the day.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
The best cafeteria food in Junior High or High School were these great chocolate/peanut better/oatmeal no-bake cookies. I finally tracked down a good recipe for them. Depending on the cocoa, peanut butter and milk you use, they may not be as nutritionally devastating as they sound.
Another great one was breakfast cinnamon rolls!! To die for and totally worth getting to school insanely early for! Dunno how many kids they ended up killing with all the saturated fat in 'em, tho.
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Favorite foods: tomato sandwiches, cheese & onion enchiladas, salsa & guacamole with tortilla chips, mashed potatoes, cashews almonds and walnuts, ginger snaps, steamed broccoli, pad thai, vegetable korma& naan, scrambled eggs and toast, tofu and black bean sauce, dumplings, pizza, yogurt and granola, bread, cheeeeeeeeeessssee.
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