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Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
If a banana is even remotely green-ish, I'm nowhere near it. I love bananas with mostly brown peels. Bruised flesh means banana pancakes, my Tuesday-morning tradition!
In Gear: Flour Sack Kitchen Towels (An Old-Fashioned Staple for Modern Kitchens)
My girlfriend buys these in bulk from crafting stores and embroiders them for gifts. I received the "Happy Kitchenware" pattern, featuring dancing plates and cuddling spoons. She also found a pattern called "Tropical Babies". It's wonderfully/horrifically un-PC.
Bacon as a Bookmark: More Common Than You'd Think
I am in the habit of using a piece of fruit leather to hold my page. It's always still sealed in plastic, though, so it's hardly scandalous.
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Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
We have about 10 pounds of Butterfingers and 100 Grands. One of the 100 Grand bags 'accidentally' popped open, so we had to make sure the 'candy wouldn't go bad', and polished that bag off. We're keeping the rest out of eyesight on top of the fridge.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
If a banana is even remotely green-ish, I'm nowhere near it. I love bananas with mostly brown peels. Bruised flesh means banana pancakes, my Tuesday-morning tradition!
In Gear: Flour Sack Kitchen Towels (An Old-Fashioned Staple for Modern Kitchens)
My girlfriend buys these in bulk from crafting stores and embroiders them for gifts. I received the "Happy Kitchenware" pattern, featuring dancing plates and cuddling spoons. She also found a pattern called "Tropical Babies". It's wonderfully/horrifically un-PC.
Bacon as a Bookmark: More Common Than You'd Think
I am in the habit of using a piece of fruit leather to hold my page. It's always still sealed in plastic, though, so it's hardly scandalous.
Cakespy: Chocolate Peanut Butter Special K Bars
Classic Fargo fare. We usually use 6oz. chocolate chips and 6oz. butterscotch chips for the frosting. There isn't any better comfort food, in my opinion!
Can I Substitute Old Fashioned Oats For Steel Cut In This Recipe
I just tried this recipe, too. I also omit the sugar. My crock cooked the oats quickly, too. I threw in some star anise to boost the flavor. On low, I think it took about 4 hours instead of the 8. Yummy!
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
North Dakota makes a mean Bison Burger!
Baking With Dorie: Creamy Cream Cheese Cheesecake For Passover—Or Not
I'm currently living on a mountain campground with 55 other actors, and have taken to making this cheesecake for birthdays, etc. People started requesting various flavors, such as bailey's, oreo or disarrono, so my challenge lately has been to figure out the variations without compromising the cheesecake. So far, so good. I absolutely love this recipe! Thanks, Dorie!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
I've started making tacos using Moong Dal instead of meat, I just throw on some extra hot sauce or salsa!
Cook the Book: 'Real Cajun'
My older brothers always ate the good flavors of instant oatmeal before i had a chance, so my G-Ma would squirrel some strawberries-n-cream away for me!
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
The (seemingly) most digusting sandwich on the planet (really it's the most delicious):
Toasted bread, red pepper hummus, american cheese, yellow mustard, dill pickles and salt & vinegar potato chips.
The best remedy for salt-cravings, EVER!
She Who Shall Not Be Named...
I have always enjoyed the way her set kitchen magically changes to coordinate with each "tablescape" (ugh!).
She did make a tasty Indian pudding on a Thanksgiving episode, once. That's the only thing I've been brave/lazy/hungry enough to try.
Incorrect Fast Food Memories
I recently discovered the veggie burgers at the King. So few people eat them, they always have to make them fresh. In the long run, they're still pretty gross, but SO much better than the rest of the menu.
I was heartbroken when I got this year's Shamrock Shake at McD's. It wasn't minty. It was barely even green. Now McD's has not only ruined their own products and much of the world's health, but they took away my St. Paddy's day treat! Jerks.
Good cook, loves food, how to diet and continue to cook???
My mother recently was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes, I went vegetarian, and my sister-in-law constantly diets. Thus, my father and brother are stuck with 'rabbit food'. I do most of the cooking, so it's been my challenge to find happy mediums. For us, we make a lot of assemble-yourself meals, i.e. taco bar, stir fry/ mongolian grill night, kabobs and rice, etc. Have lots of variety available, and maybe only one 'bad' dish. That way, everyone is bound to like something at the table.
If you still have picky eaters, maybe try a hidden-diet. Switch to that whole wheat bread that looks/tastes white. I've started putting sweet potatoes in pretty much everything. Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica put out a book that I'm sure you're familiar with, Deceptively Delicious. While most of the recipes are too time consuming (I can only puree for so long!), she has really good ideas for a happy, healthy balance.
In Videos: Paula Deen's Fried Mac and Cheese Bacon Bites
@pooch: yummy! deep-fried brownies?!?!
I'll get back to y'all with the deliciously gooey results!
What are you planting in your garden this year?
Cilantro and serrano peppers!
What do you miss? (to: expats and others!)
I'm not an expat, but I move to Ohio every summer, and always long for Dill Pickle-flavored potato chips. They're a big deal up here. And ridiculously delicious.
Baking With Dorie: Creamy Cream Cheese Cheesecake For Passover—Or Not
@ jooree: I've used the neufchatel regularly in cheesecakes, and it works well, the only major difference is a slightly drier cake. I usually just add a couple more tablespoons of cream. Also, it tends to crack more than regular cream cheese.
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
Hummus, provolone and salsa!
Broccoli Brainstorming
Broccoli fritters!! This recipe is incredibly delicious. ( http://projects.eveningedge.com/recipes/broccoli-fritters/ )
Try them with a dill-ranch dip. I combined 1/4 C. Ranch dressing, 2 Tbsp Sour Cream, 1/2 tsp white wine vinegar and 1 tsp dried dill weed.
I wanted crispy biscotti ... not rock hard
Womandingo makes an excellent point. The Italians of the world don't eat biscotti without something to dunk 'em in!
For a softer crumb, I usually use fine yellow cornmeal in addition to flour. This also produces a heartier taste. Giada De Laurentiis has a few recipes that do this. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chocolate-citrus-biscotti-recipe/index.html )
I, too, would recommend chilling the dough for an hour or two before baking.
What Do You Like to Read When Eating Solo?
I rarely eat out alone, I'd rather stay in and cook for myself! When I do eat alone, I like to read plays, usually comedies, especially Nicky Silver.
Seriously Delicious Super Bowl Party Giveaway: Snow's Barbecue Brisket
tundra of fargo
rarely sees good B.B.Q.
ND wants brisket!
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
i never get trick or treaters....someday.
i usually wait until after halloween to buy up all the leftover candy on sale.
personal stash. lol.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
Who gives a shit?! Just put in your fucking mouths!
Idiots!
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
This is our first Halloween in this apartment. There are definitely kids nearby, but we live on a pretty busy road near a very busy intersection, so I'm not sure we'll get trick-or-treaters. I really hope we do, though, since Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.
We were never allowed to open the Halloween candy when I was a kid and my mom usually hid it. This is my first year buying candy and I've been holding off because I'm not sure about my self control. I'll probably get it next week, though.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
Some years I get 50, and some years none, which makes it kind of hard to plan. I get something I wouldn't mind having left over, and or that will keep a long time. Strangely I don't have a real problem eating ahead, and may eat one or two bars (good thing it's not mini bags of potato chips). It's not unusual for me to throw some out mid-spring when it's gotten too old and/or I know it's not going to get used. Last year I bought little boxes of white and orange pop rocks. They lasted a looooong time. When it looks like I'll only have a few kids I let them take hands full.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
Halloween was always my favorite holiday as a child. We would start trick-or-treating right after school and stay out until 9:00 PM, or until our pillowcases became so heavy that we couldn't carry them anymore.
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, with the tiny, cheap-ass, mini candy bars, so I still hand out full size Hershey bars on Halloween (although they seem to get smaller every year). This has resulted in our house acquiring something of a reputation amongst the area's children, and we get more and more trick-or-treaters every year. Some even comment to their friends after they come to the door, "Wow! you weren't kidding about this house!".
Last year I bought about 120 candy bars but ran short, and had to make a run to the store. This year because it falls on a Saturday, I bought 180 candy bars, but, unfortunately, I could not help myself, and already cracked into it. Next year, I will wait until the very last minute before buying the candy.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
i am sad. we are in an apt so kids never come here... :( we usually bag or 2 just in case, but disappointment every friggin year.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
In the 12 years we have lived here we have never had a single trick-or-treater, but that doesn't stop me from buying some candy (my favs of course) "just in case". Every year I say I'm not going to do it, but I always do. I have the same problem with candy corn that I have with Peeps at Easter, I can eat enough to make myself feel sick and then could do the same thing all over again the next day. I know, it's a problem:{
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
...We've never had more than 5 trick-or-treaters, so we usually just buy a bag the night prior..
When I was younger, it was awesome, because most of my neighbors knew they'd only get about 5 kids, so they'd buy the whole candy bars (no mini's!) and I'd make out like a bandit! It was just a bummer that there were no kids around
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
REESE'S CUPS!
I'm with CJ. . .Halloween candy goes into the trunk. (Christmas and birthday presents go to a neighbor's basement.)
I only buy good stuff, meaning candy bars that I like, just in case the weather's awful and only 10 goblins show up. I'd rather be stuck with Reese's Cups, Butterfingers, Almond Joys and KitKats than suckers, smarties and individually-wrapped bubblegum nibs. I do like Mary Janes and bull's eyes and those banana taffy things, too, and I am lucky to have kids and now grandkids who will share with me their entire bounty of those candies. I cannot get them to share their chocolates, though.
One Chicago Halloween (I think 2002) was 33 degrees with 20 mph winds. My 8-year-old granddaughter, her mom and I lasted about a half hour. When we got back home, my sons said hardly anyone came, but the candy bowl was half-empty because, they said, they gave every trick-or-treater a handful. Right.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
I buy candy about two weeks before and hide it somewhere in the kitchen but I buy enough for the people to have some too.
Stashing your own candy only around Halloween, though, is very amatuerish. I stash all year round. I only need one itsy bitsy piece to get me through the day and as the people got older and taller they found all my stash spots SO I have finally found the perfect place......my bra drawer!
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
My taste for Halloween candy has kind of ebbed--I haven't bought it yet, hoping for sales.
I usually buy stuff for the kids I would have liked as a kid, and insanely expensive dark chocolate that is 87% by label for me and me alone, which I stick in the freezer and desperately try to make last as long as possible.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
I've already gotten 2 of the big Costco bags and 2 smaller ones as well as some Ritz mini crackers with PB. I love that they're selling pretzels and crackers in individual servings to give out now along with the candy. I also bought some favors like yo-yos and stickers.
But yes, I have opened 2 of the bags and started eating the junk. We get a lot of kids too so I may need more. I'm hiding the candy in the guest room and my 3 yr old has started calling it the "candy room" cause she knows it's there!
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
We don't get many kids in our neighborhood so we go a few miles away to where our grandkids live and we bring candy. I buy it ahead of the day and hide it from everyone (except me of course) but hiding is easy in my house. I'll put it behind the vacuum cleaner in the corner or under a blouse on the ironing board - you know - places where no one else will ever look. Also I bring a special treat with me to the grandkids. Last year was a graveyard cake decorated with modeling chocolate to make a falling down fence, gravestones, a dead tree that a skeleton hung from, and of course ghosts. One year it was a plastic fish bowl half filled with blue jello into which I suspended some Swedish fish. This year I'm making a pumpkin cake "carved". I think it will be very cool.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
We do not get many trick-or-treaters at our house. Besides, I am usually not home on Halloween night. My parents don't really bother giving out candy.
This year, I have the option of giving out candy from my dorm room to the city kids as a "Safe Trick-or-Treating" program. However, I will be away at a regatta so I won't be able to do it.
If I stocked up with candy this early, it would all be gone by Halloween. I couldn't hide it from myself because I would know where it is.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
We have cold weather in our area, so I leave it in the trunk of my car in a bag....tucked behind other stuff.
Stocking up and stashing Halloween candy. Do you?
We went to a dollar store about a week ago to buy a few bags of candy.
We're in a new neighborhood and it's full of kids but I'm a little concerned, we're the only house with decorations up!
My last neighborhood we were always the last to get decorations up. I'll have to wait and see what happens I guess.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
I'm so glad there are people in this world that care about this kind of stuff. Thank you for being alive fellow Serious Eaters.
As for bananas? I can wait until they're between dalmation and black lab. The black labs get put in banana bread.
*slurp*!
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
Once it starts turning brown and gettting spotty it goes to bread. I really don't think I could eat the overripe bits otherwise.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
wow, i had no idea some people actually cut out bruised spots of bananas lol.. for me it's always been a total non-issue, i don't even think about it, i just eat the banana
now if it's to the point where the whole thing is brown and starting to get gooey, that's when it's time for the freezer for smoothies, or, if it's too far gone, just time to compost it
still can't believe some people cut bruised chunks from bananas lol
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
Brown spots are slimy and disgusting to eat straight up! However, I wait until they are ultra-soft, brown and slimy to freeze. These guys make the best banana bread and smoothies. For eating out of hand, for me, they have to be all yellow-even one freckle is too sweet and soft.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
I can't bring myself to eat the bruises - have to cut them out! They're probably fine to eat, but the way they look... just can't do it. I trim off as little as possible, though - hate to waste any of it!
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
I love the bruises! They're sweeter than the rest of the banana. I've been eating them for years with no negative effects, so I'll go ahead and say they're safe.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
@ Marxy - I'm with you.
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
My mother always used to use the brown bananas to make flaxseed and chocolate chip banana muffins!!!
raw over-ripe though?
no thanks.
im not down with the flavour profile.
Im not wasteful: I buy my bananners as I need them :) (dont worry happymuncher!!! I agree with your theory)
Do You Eat the Bruised Parts of Bananas?
Absolutely. With so much starvation in the world, I would have a very heavy conscience if I decided to chuck a bit of fruit because it doesn't look perfect...as long as it's not rotten or off (if it's a banana that has been forgotten for ages and turned completely black), I will definetely find some edible purpose for it.
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Location: North Dakota
About: I'm a food, theatre and baseball junkie. I bake compulsively. I don't feel right unless there are at least 2 baked goods in my kitchen at all times.
Favorite foods: All things Italian. Or Indian. Or Thai.
Last bite on earth: Cheese! A good Parmesan, or maybe Dubliner.
We have about 10 pounds of Butterfingers and 100 Grands. One of the 100 Grand bags 'accidentally' popped open, so we had to make sure the 'candy wouldn't go bad', and polished that bag off. We're keeping the rest out of eyesight on top of the fridge.