"challenge the chefs for this cherry misunderstanding? The blossoms have petals, not fruit". Perhaps the writer should also be challenged. All fruit trees have blossoms which need to be pollinated to produce fruit. Yes some are planted for there blossoms rather than there fruit but they still produce fruit.
When I first moved to the town I'm by now I stated to my coworker that I wished this town had a good Italian restaurant. His response "Fazoli's is coming". Nough said.
I don't know which I miss more, trout fishing or trout eating. Oh well, guess I'll settle for the bluegills I caught through the ice. I'm awaiting spring for green onions and asparagus to kick off the garden harvest. Especially since the seed catalogs are coming in by the ton right now. Oh man, fresh strawberries with balsamic and pepper, mmm. I'm getting hungry. Better get back to work.
Wild blueberry jam from The Jampot on the Keweenaw peninsula in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. These monks make the greatest wild fruit jams and we are addicted to the wild blueberry. The cookies are excellent also, but I think the cakes that are soaked in liquors are overwhelming.
I second Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. Most used cookbook in my kitchen, even over Silver Spoon, which I got as a gift yet rarely use.
Holy wah! You definitely need rutabaga in pasties, dere eh. Also I love to eat them raw after the first frost as this brings out the sugar in them
I was wrong about the one I use. This is the recipe, should have known cause I usually use Mario.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_25619,00.html
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cookbook/uncle_junior_sunday_gravy.shtml
I use this one from the sopranos cookbook. Its quite good, just use a pot you can brown the meat in and make the sauce in like a dutch oven.
Apple dumplings with whipped cream or strawberries with balsamico and pepper.
A friend and I had been sharing vegetarian recipes online and one day a lurker asked if we could post something for people who eat meat. I replied that one reason we posted vegetarian is that anyone can eat plant-based meals. Something seemed to click for her because about a month after that she was talking about how she'd been discussing with her doctor about limiting the meat in her diet and eating meatless meals more often. Apparently she ended up losing 40 pounds.
I know the author of "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" mentioned something about being at a talk highlighting meatless meals, before she came out with that book, and a guy came up to her after to tell her it all sounded so delicious and how sad he couldn't eat any of it since it wasn't a vegetarian.
Certainly my daughter had no problems among her friends when she went vegetarian but the parents were a different story. Almost everyone looked at her stunned and asked, "What do you eat then?" Days later a parent will proudly serve her a meal when she's visiting, pointing out they'd remembered she was a vegetarian. However the meals are often chicken, fish or shrimp based. One was sprinkled heavily with bacon.
My best friend in high school was making dinner for her family (probably for the first time). She called to ask "is the meat supposed to be green?"
As a kid my mom told us we didn't like dark chocolate or coconut. As a adult, years before she passed, I said, "Mom why did you tell us we didn't like dark chocolate or coconut? I do to like them." Typical mom response, "It's the only way I ever had to get a piece away from you kids." I still have not told my sister she probably does like...
My mom would have loved the "warm cookies will make you sick" and I use to hear that Mayo was dairy!
My mom was from Galveston, Texas and I grew up in New Jersey....fresh fish everywhere in the 60's. So I do appreciate the comments on Red Lobster. I was asked to go to one in Fresno, California. Saved my money.
The checker at the grocery store as she's ringing up my purchases: "You must have very happy bunnies or very happy horses."
Huh? Bunnies? Horses?
It took me a moment, but I realized she was referring to my purchase of a 5-lb bag of carrots.
Overheard in a supermarket:
You get the flea dip, I'll get the chips.
(Yum!!!)
Someone told me once that St Agur cheese turned poisonous after it had reached it's best before date......I guess they thought that there must have been a tiny timed-release poison pellet in there or something. Who knows?
Oh, and once when I was waitressing many years ago, a customer claimed to be allergic to bones, so could only eat meat off the bone. It was apparently OK to be cooked on the bone...still trying to figure that one out.
my bf's mom swears she is allergic to tomato skins. so she will peel them and eat them. i find this weird as i have never heard of it before. seems ridiculous, as does the apple skin thing.
my little sister claims she is allergic to every food she doenst like
My grandmother always insisted that her beef be cooked well done. When it was a rib roast, she always had to have the end cut, grilled if it was at all pink inside. It was kind of dirty pool, but her last Christmas I made rib roast, medium rare. She had macular degeneration and was almost totally blind by this time. So, I cut the end cut (probably medium) for her and cut it into bite sized pieces when I made her plate. She said it was the best tasting, juiciest, and tenderest rib roast she'd ever eaten. Sorry, but... DUH.
Oh, and she was allergic to apple skins, but not the flesh.
we grew up kosher, so when my sister was little and went to a friend's house for dinner and was offered cheeseburgers, she explained she couldn't eat them because she was "allergic" - guess it was easier for her than trying to explain jewish dietary laws :-)
@Stufsocker- My father has allergies to certain fruits when raw but not when cooked. He's also allergic to untoasted almonds, but toasted is fine. There's something about breaking down enzymes during cooking that prevents the reaction, which is quite severe.
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