Requested by Romana2, who wrote:
could we have a cooking thread? Like, to share recipes and stuff? We could share our favorite pies-for-pie-throwing recipes, LOL!
We added “and Food” because not everybody cooks, but everybody eats.
Patience, Please
This site is under reconstruction and will look strange for a while. We regret the inconvenience.
Can we talk about things we like to eat, or just recipes? *is a bit confused*
Both.
I like to eat:
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Mac and Cheese
Meatloaf
Chicken Wings
Chicken Fingers
Chicken
Pie
Pie
Pie
Shnecken
Zuchinni Bread
*drools*
Third post?
I like to cook, but only when soemone else is cooking too.
For my fourteenth B-day, I’m going to have Tea, with all sorts of recipes from the Tea section of Great British Cooking: A Well Kept Secret.
4- Yea, I do too. But usually it has to be another kid. I dont like cooking with my Mom. On my B-day (three days!!! :idea:) Im going to help my friend make me a cake!!!
OK, here’s a list:
Food I like:
Normal food: Pasta, subs, veggies, veggie-meat, mashed-potatoes, etc.
Sort-of un-healthy food: Veggie burgers, veggie hot dogs, etc.
Sweets: Anything from cake, ice cream, candy, or coton-candy to cadbury eggs and peeps.
Sorry, got 2 go soon.
6-I forgot to add peeps!!!!!!!!! Thank you for reminding me!!!
5- I haven’t actually hung out with a kid my age since last July, so I cook with the grown-ups. My best friend is my mom. I’m a bit weird. But that’s totally off topic.
Foods I like:
Spaghetti.
Caesar Salad.
Hamburgers.
Crepes.
French toast.
Miso soup.
Mashed potatoes.
And numerous other things.
Desserts:
Ice cream, preferably Ben&Jerry’s, preferably chocolate.
Cake, practically any kind, but preferably chocolate.
Pie. Not in the face, thank you very much. Is there such a thing as chocolate pie?
Cookies, preferably chocolate chip.
You can see where this is going, can’t you?
Thanks for the cooking thread, GAPA’s!
I like using spices in recipes. I use freshly ground cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, but have yet to use fresh ginger, so I don’t use it at all. I’m also a big fan of very fresh herbs from my tiny new garden (herbs from the grocery store are comparitively low quality). I have fennel, chocolate mint (it smells vaguely chocolately, but mostly spearminty), peppermint, rosemary, basil, lime thyme (sounds weird but is cool), lavender (I got cheaped off on that because it’s not cooking lavender, it’s pot-pourri lavender), and a teeny weeny chive plant. Sorry to go into so much detail, but I love it.
“Great British Cooking: A Well Kept Secret” sounds pretty good. I’ll have to find it at my library.
My favorite things to eat:
Pizza
Garlic Bread
Frosting straight from the bowl
Multigrain pancakes
Steamed broccoli
Olive oil (on bread and pasta)
The expensive prime rib we had at Christmas (it was cooked very, very, rare and leftovers reheated in the new toaster oven lasted me a week)
Red Zinger tea (from Celestial Seasonings)-it’s a hibiscus and rose hip tea and it tastes so tangy
Poppyseed muffins (I’ll post the recipe later. It’s kind of my mom’s signature recipe)
Peanut butter cookie dough
Bye!
8-Yes there is such thing as a chocolate pie. I ate one, it had strawberry fiilling and chocolate chips on the top and whipped cream and…. *drools*
Cooking is lovely, I wholy enjoy it. Of course, my diet consists of vegetarian dishes. You would be surprised just how little a vegitarian diet consists of steamed vegetables. For dinner, I had: asparagus with lemon and pinenut sauce, sweet potato maple syrup delight, and couscous. It was delicous. I don’t worry about missing out on a meaty feast on easter eve, I will be having a beef substitute. It tastes like marinaded steak. even my totally carnivorous brother says it tastes better than his real steak.
11-Im not a vegitarian, but I use beef substitute when I think up my Ramen Noodles are not flavored enough. It does taste better. Oh, speaking of noodles, add Ramen to my list. Ramen lovers put you hands up in the air!!! *puts hand up in the air*
10- Oh, thanks a lot!
9- Ahhhh….. Now I want to cook!
My mom’s signature recipe is what we call “rolls” and they’re basically just that, bread rolls.
I like Lemon Zinger, but I’ve never had Red Zinger. It sounds good.
We made the most wonderful peanut butter cookies for a road trip two years ago. They were so delicious, I shall never forget them. We used that super-sweet peanut butter – it was something called Jif, or Jiffy- and we cut down on the sugar. I can’t remember it very well though.
Spinach is good. Very, very good.
I’m not a vegetarian, but I do eat meat that wasn’t raised in a factory, and it tastes way better, not to mention being better.
Double post, but I’m sorry, if that helps any. I just wrote down a recipe.
Crepes:
Serves two hungry people or four politely interested people.
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
4 eggs
Mix together the eggs and milk, then slowly add the flour. Let sit for 15 minutes to 2 hours. Fry on a hot oiled griddle.
Eat with topping of your choice.
I like:
Jelly or jam.
Powdered sugar.
I don’t generally eat them savory, but they’re good with spinach and cheese.
We cooked a ton for passover. You’d have thought we were feeding an army. My mother answered the phone with “Pesadik Central.” Ahh, it was great though. We had turkey and brisket and matzo farfel and potato kugel and matzo ball soup in addition to the required seder items. Anyone else cook for the holidays?
15- We cooked a thanksgiving feast, even though we don’t celebrate thanksgiving. We had pork roast, and yams, and cranberry sauce, and bread, and lots of other things.
Cranberry sauce is easy to make, and delicious.
I made blue cornmeal muffins for thanksgiving, and then found out that the recipe called for the cornmeal MIX rather then just the plain cornmeal. I think we ended up feeding them to the birds.
13, spinach is very good! I don’t like it in salads but I do like it in stuffed pasta shells (ricotta cheese, tomato sauce, etc.). I like Lemon Zinger too. I have to get my Red Zinger from Central Market (like Whole Foods, only bigger), etc. They don’t have it at normal grocery stores.
Did anyone here about the Peter Pan peanut butter salmonella epidemic? Apparently a certain product code had salmonella in it. I heard about it on the radio. Very interesting. In fact, someone my mom knows about supposedly got it, although I never heard about how that ended up.
17- It’s ok. I once put 1 3/4 cups of cream into a cheesecake instead of 3/4 cups. It turned out very rich, and very mushy.
Not everybody eats. Some people are fed through feeding tubes and IVs.
17 – Yeah, I heard about the salmonella. It was in the Peter Pan and Great Value (or something like that) peanut butter.
zomg! i know all you people probubly don’t care, but when i get older i want to open a tea shop (kinda like starbucks but only ONE) i started goofing around and found a christmas recipie!!!
take a vinilla or apple flavored tea bag (if you have any) and brew in 2 cups piping hot water (allmost boil)
make sure you stretch the tea bag for all it’s worth!!!!! !!!! !!! !! !
add:
pinch cinimon (sp?)
tea spoon vanilla extract
tea spoon hazel-nut syrup
add cream as desired
just for fun add whipped cream and sprinkle with nutmeg! yay!
is there a recipe for little brothers? are they better grilled, boiled, or fried? can you eat them raw?
dead serious.
“Serves two hungry people or four politely interested people.” lol that made me laugh.
This would be an appropriate place to ask: What’s a cadbury egg?
22, it’s a sickeningly sweet addictive chocolate egg with a weird really sweet supposedly creme (those candy manufactorers thinks the average person is about as smart as a dead kangaroo) which is actually artificial colours and corn syrup. Somehow, they are still completely addictive…
When I said “creme” I meant “creme center”. Sorry!
OK, now I’m hungry… and I just got a new thing in my mouth from the orthodontist so I can’t eat much.
On the subject of chocolate pie, chocolate pie with lots of coconut filling in the middle is very good.
23- I’ve never had/heard of a cadbury egg. Based on your description, mentioning artificialness and corn syrup, I don’t think I’d like them.
Anyone ever heard of Spruengli chocolates? Or Teuscher chocolates? I think there is a Teuscher store in Rockefeller square. Yum. Other chocolate lovers may also want to go to the chocosphere website. I know there are no links allowed, but if you google it it’s the first link.
8-Yes, there is! And it’s commonly known as French Silk Pie…lol…man, that stuff is rich, though!
27-Im just droooling at the thought of French Silk Pie……….. *drooooooooooooooool*
what’s bubble tea?
The first time I ever had bubble tea was in Berkeley, California, with Rosanne. It was an unforgettable experience–all those little blobs of tapioca sliding down my throat like tadpoles.
I ADORE bubble tea.
29- It’s tea with tapioca pearls in it.
OH! OH!!!! !!!! I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!! XDXDXD
THANK YOU !!!! i will now die happily knowing what bubble tea is, oh you wonderful person (30) !!!!!
Why do they call it bubble tea? Causea the tapioca pearls? Never had it, but Ive had tea, and Ive had tapioca.
33- Yeah, I guess the tapioca pearls are the “bubbles.”
It’s not really like tea or tapioca at all. More like Thai Ice Tea (Yum!) with big black chewey starch balls in it. It’s so good.
I had banavoasco today. It’s a Y-Mo dish: you whip up lots and lots of banana and avocado, then drizzle Tabasco sauce (the red kind) over it. Great. I also really like poutine (yes, I eat like a Canadian), which is a Canadien dish of french fries, gravy, and bean curd. Really good. I used to live on it in NS.
Bubble tea is DELICIOUS. My favorite flavors are mango, papaya, and coconut.
Oddly enough, I’m not a big fan of pasta. I don’t know why. I think it has something to do with the blandness. Ick.
For lunch yesterday I had a burger. It was okay. Just okay, though. Nothing special. God, I miss In-N-Out. Jesus Christ. But other than that I am okay with Culver’s for my burger fix.
25-Meh. Teuscher’s is okay. I do like Cadbury’s, though. I remember when I was littler my brother told me about Easter, which didn’t bother me, and then he told me about the bunny and I couldn’t sleep for a month. Creepy!
I am making easter egg cupcakes!
*checks for hot pink frosting*
i will make one with a
hpb 
on it if my mom will let me!
i just reserved a cupcake!
yay!
it will be flamababulous!
and i will send a picture to the gapas to put on this page and then…
i will EAT IT WITH GLORY!
thank you
please make a thread for easter and easter candy! >OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HUZZAH!
Finally, an excellent excuse to stop lurking and post!! I love to cook, I’m most at-home in a kitchen. ^^
My favorite foods are…
Lemon curd
Curly fries
Carrots
Fresh green beans with almonds (can’t wait to have these tomorrow for dinner)
Fried chicken
Chocolate
Ice cream (Ben & Jerry’s! Their phish sticks are reeeaaally good. *drool*)
Chocolate
French toast
Chocolate
Pineapple
Foccacia with red peppers and rosemary
Potato salad
CURRY! With homemade cherry-raisin chutney!
Ramen
Curry
Reuben sanwiches
Currycurrycurry…
Peeps
Cadbury eggs
Peppermints (I melt them into my hot cocoa)
Almond Joy bars
Earl Grey tea with honey
Frozen fudge bars
Cookies
Pie
30-Ooh…bubble tea, you say?? I’m very intrigued.
33-I just read something that mentioned how it’s mixed. Apparently it’s shaken and foam/bubbles form on top, so maybe that’s why…?
38: I love Earl Grey! I have this incredibly fragrant loose-leaf Earl Grey, and it’s so beautifully scented… And cocoa with peppermint! Don’t get me started on the wonders of peppermint extract. And I have an inordinate fondness for fried chicken skin. Sorry about the rant, but it all sounds sooooooooo good…
sent an email to the gapas!
38- Lemon curd! Oh the delightfulness! Once I had a layer cake with lemon curd in between the layers, and for frosting there was whipped cream mixed with vanilla yogurt.
I also like Reubens. They are how I learned to like Swiss cheese and Suaerkraut.
39- I drank cocoa with peppermint stick fragments in it once.
Our oven is broken, so we can’t bake anything except bread (in our bread machine). But we really wanted some cupcakes, so my mom steamed them. They turned out remarkably well, especially with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.
39-
Hi kt. Make it out ok with all of those storms? I’ll look forward to seeing the picture, but it might not be up for a while. I think the GAPAs are really busy right now.
When I was small, we used to freeze pudding cups with a popsicle stick inside!
41-Cake! *faints* And…steamed muffins? Wow.
Mmmm…frosting…
Here’s a recipe for very simple and easy lemon curd:
5 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
4 lemons, zested and juiced (sometimes I use part lemon, part lime. The bits of lime zest can look a little strange, but it’s tasty. ^.^)
1 stick butter, cut into pats and chilled
Add enough water to a medium saucepan to come about 1-inch up the side. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Meanwhile, combine egg yolks and sugar in a medium size metal bowl and whisk until smooth, about 1 minute. (this takes me a while to do, and at first, it looks like there can’t possibly be enough liquid. It’s finished when it looks lighter) Measure citrus juice and if needed, add enough cold water to reach 1/3 cup. Add juice and zest to egg mixture and whisk smooth. Once water reaches a simmer, reduce heat to low and place bowl on top of saucepan. (Bowl should be large enough to fit on top of saucepan without touching the water.) Whisk until thickened, approximately 8 minutes, or until mixture is light yellow and coats the back of a spoon. Remove promptly from heat and stir in butter a piece at a time, allowing each addition to melt before adding the next. Remove to a clean container and cover by laying a layer of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the curd. Refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. (yeah, like it’s actually going to last that long. xD)
I wonder if they make hot pink marshmallow bunnies…
*gasp* It…it cut my post…? I was just saying the world would be a better place if everybody had a cup of tea…
34-Sounds GREAT!
43: i am ok!
lots of awesome pictures on the news about roofs being ripped off! but i am ok hawk!
I like all sorts of food. Really, I do. Just not pasta.
Weird Foods I’ve Eaten:
Squid
Shark
Dolphin
Squirrel
Dog
Cat (I think)
Rat
Pigeon
Quail
48-Most of that is absoulutly diskusting. Ewww. Cept for the squid Ive had squid.
i love calamari and sushi!
13-Jif! I lovve it but we always get the organic, all-natural peanut butter.
16-I make cranberry sauce for thanksgiving too!
I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t eat all that healthily…
We have this awesome brown sugar- its a natural kind which is like straight from the sugar cane, not some granulated sugar dyed brown, and I put it on toast-tastes SO GOOD! Another snack I’m into is extra sharp cheddar cheese with wheat thins. YUM!
once me and my friend tried to make butterbeer. We used root beer, and first tried heating it with real butter in the microwave but it tasted really bad.
Later, my dad helped me make butterscotch sauce, (he is a chef, by the way) and I tried that and it worked! all I did was heat it w/the root beer and then stir it afterward. Pretty cool. *reminisces*
Glad to hear that, kt. Were you in the storm or just near it?
48-DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Argh. I wouldn’t eat a cat either, though.
I really liked that article about Vegetarianism in the Jan. 2007 issue, becuase I am a Vegetarian and I dont think my friends ever really understood how important it is to me. I love being a Vegetarian (no offense to non-vegetarians) becuase it makes me feel good about animals and I like being different. My mom raised me as a vegetarian, but when I became old enough to understand she gave me a choice and I decided not to change becuase the people at most slaughter houses are VERY cruel and do horrible things to the poor animals. I wouldnt mind eating meat if they treated the animals nicely and then slaughtered them, but you just cant be sure becuase there are so many out there who are cruel. Is anyone else here a Vegetarian? More and more people are becoming them now. i find it interesting. Have a happy Easter everybody!!!!!
53-You new on the blog? I’m a vegetarian too!
ya I am new. Cool!!!!! Do you have problems with people asking dumb questions too? They ask me like what do you eat? what is it like to be a vegetarian? it is really annoying. I have actually had people hate me becuase i dont eat meat. It was horrible, i had panick attacks once becuase of that. It was scary. But now i love being a vegetarian and i want everyone to know that i am one, so i dont have to deal with telling them later after we are good friends. but i am proud to be one.
I’m a vegetarian, also. People have been generally accepting about my decision, especially my family. I was actually kind of nervous to tell them at first (because I’m paranoid like that). It really annoys me when people say “OMG YOU ARE A VEGETARIAN!!! I COULD NEVER DO THAT!! WHYWHYWHY??”
They don’t realize that in today’s world it is becoming much easier to be veggie and still be healthy and “normal”.Well, I’m not that normal…
What kind of dance do you dance, Dancergirl13?
please put the picture of the cupcake that i emailed to you (gapas)on this thread!
please please please!
I am paranoid like that too. It IS annoying when they do that. they just dont think about it i guess. I dont know, but i dont like it when people say they want to be a vegetarian but that they cant becuase its too hard for them to give up meat or becuase their parents wont let them. I think if someone doesnt want to eat meat you shouldnt force them too. I think thats horrible when people do that. It should be someones own decision what they eat. I also hate it when people refer to vegetarians in a way that makes us sound like objects. But that is just how i feel. No offense at all to any non-vegetarians!!!!
56- i have been taking dance since i was two years old, and i take ballet, tap, jazz, modern, jumps and turns, and pointe. It is my passion!!!
53- I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat good meat for the most part.
i used to be a vegetarian, but i’m not now. all my vegi friends were like “NOOOOOOO!!!!!”
i just told them “i eat what i’m meant to eat”
34- do you like thai coffee? it’s SO GOOD!!!!
honeydew mellon bubble tea is awsome. (i now know what it is)
60. thats ok.
59. thats cool
My family makes sure we buy cageless eggs, so that we feel better about the chickens.
Do you guys like starfruit? I love it!!! Have you ever heard of kiwanos or liche nuts? they are also awsome!!!!
61. that sounds good!!!
61- I’ve neveer tried Thai Iced Coffee, but I heard about it for the first time today, and someone said it was even better than the Tea.
62- I love starfruit! Even though I’ve only had it once.
We raise our own meat a lot. Sheep, once upon a time chicken, and once pork. Pork is just an elegant way of saying Pig, used long ago by the nobility, until us peasants adopted it. We buy beef from people we know.
58-I do ballet, pointe and one jazz class. I’m not very good at jazz, because I just started the class this year, but it is still fun.
I love the Tangerine Orange Zinger tea (I think that is what it is called…), but I have to put in some honey, most of the time.
I read The Jungle for extra credit, and it made me very glad to be a vegetarian, even though I know the conditions are not quite that bad anymore.
I’m not vegetarian because I feel that we were meant to eat a combination of meat and plants. I would be happier if there was meat available where the animals aren’t in terrible conditions. For that reason, I don’t eat meat at fastfood places or at school. (Come to think of eat, I don’t eat ANYTHING at fast food places or at school, because I bring lunch when I go to the mall and for school everyday. But I stopped eating meat at those places before I stopped eating their food altogether. And I do occasionally eat school food. Not much, because it’s greasy and terrible for you.)
49-Why, though? Why is it gross? Clearly you’ve never had musk ox. It’s amazingly good.
62-Ah, lychee nuts. My favorite. A man my dad works with has a brother who owns a lychee farm in Asia, and he always gets me some.
64-The Chicago meatpacking industry is gone.
I have absolutely no time to read all of this thread so I’m going to just post my favorite food: Beef-Tomato-Bellpepper
Ingredients:
-beef
-tomato
-bell pepper
-sauce
You stir em all around in a big pan and when they are cooked you eat em with rice
I LOVE Bubble Tea! I also like Thai iced tea, star fruit, and lychee nuts, but I haven’t heard of kiwanos. Are they little orange things?
I like to cook and bake, but it’s hard to find enough time. Recently I made this Hawai’ian pancake thing from the NY Times Mag, and i can’t figure out if it’s baking or cooking, because you use a pan to cook it in, which you then place in the oven.
I’m not vegetarian, partly because I eat free range meat that hasn’t been treated cruelly, and partly because my one vegetarian friend is so missionary that i can’t believe someone would be that close- minded about their beliefs.
kt the gr8 asked us to post this picture:
Anyone like matzah? Ugh….don’t even talk about it…I’m soooo sick of it!
66-Because… oh I dont know. I guess I would never think of eating an animal I talk to everyday. Cat would be ok I guess but they can be cute sometimes. Rat is just nasty. Theyre dirty little creatures.
69: So cute!
70- Me too
71- Actually, many rats are very clean.
Nice cupcake, kt
I anyone else likeinsanely obsessed with the food network like my family? We watch good eats and iron chef america and have a hatred of Emril Lagasse. We are strange.
66-I know that… I meant conditions in general.
I am in awe of the edible pinkness represented in the cupcake.
73-Really? Wow.
74-My mom lurvies to watch cheffs and stuff like that.
69-COOL!
74-I love Food Network, and (pardon the capitals) ALTON BROWN ROCKS. Good Eats is probably the best show on Food Network.
I like Iron Chef America, too. We’re watching it right now, in fact. My 9-year-old sister likes Bobby Flay, for the sole reason (she says) that he hosted a show about food in Ireland. She is obsessed with Ireland. She’s very weird. Of course, not as weird as her older sister…
yay! thank you gapas!
i love food network! (my parents scold me for zoning out on it in chinese restraunts!)
74- My family LOVES food network!!! Alton Brown is my favorite, he is really good. We also like Iron Chef America. Have you ever seen the original Iron Chef? It was good too. I dont like Emeril either, he is on too much, and just kinda took over. Do you like Rachel Ray? she is ok, but i think she is a little too bubbly. On fourty dollars a day, if she doesnt like the food when she tries it she talks about the perportions. Wierd huh? Anyway. TTYL
79-We seem to have at least three (including me) Alton Brown/Iron Chef fans on here. I like Rachael Ray but I watch 30-Minute-Meals partially to make mild fun at her. My dad found an article that says how annoying she is and about there’s this blog that makes fun of her. They called her ‘raytarded’. Now that’s not fair… but it’s true that she says “EVOO” and immediately follows that with “extra-virgin olive oil”.
I’ve seen the original Iron Chef, and my dad thinks it’s hilarious because it’s so dramatic and it has random words dubbed in.
EW. Canadian Food Network is much better. Though Gordon Ramsay isn’t bad. And Rachael Ray is annoying. She’s way too hyper.
Bobby Flay is just kind of…boring.
I love Alton Brown, and we TiVO Good Eats every evening. Rachael Ray is annoyingly happy. The oringinal Iron Chef is soooooo boring! There is one lady on there who always says the dish is too salty, too greasy, too dry, or too moist. She always complains! I swear, she doesn’t like anything.
I don’t like Bobby Flay that much; he dropped out of highschool and college and gets to be on TV? Rewarding bad behavior maybe?
80- Alton Brown! Probably my favorite guy on the channel. Good show, lots of science worked in.
Wasn’t there a recipe for ‘invisible pie’ somewhere around here?
82-Yeah, Bobby Flay is awful. Me and my sister have fights over who’s best, Bobby Flay or Alton Brown. My mom is on my side-always a good thing
I just can’t understand WHY my little sister likes (I’m just gonna abbreviate Bobby Flay to BF) BF.
I watched one episode of The Iron Chef, and just made fun of it because it was sooooo overdramatic.
dancergirl13- I take ballet, pointe and modern. I was pretty much a total bunhead, but I started taking madern this year and its really fun…why am I saying this on the cooking thread?
Alton Brown is sooooo much better that Bobby Flay (BF)
We should have a dance thread. Or, if that is too specified, um… somthing else.
i like chocolate!
74-YUP! I liked the original Iron Chef better, though…it had that neat weirdness factor…
I think Sandra Lee deserves a hate-blog more, though. 
I haven’t seen Iron Chef for a while… 
They should put it back on.
80-Four! *raises hand* ALTON RULES!!!
I don’t like Rachel Ray.
85-That’s why it’s so much fun! xD
86-I agree.
Anybody else love Paula Dean??
87- yes! yes! dance thread!
*begins chanting*
dancethread!
dancethread!
where is the dance thread? i dont remember seeing it
89-I like Paula Deen as well. I’m not a huge fan but she is pretty good.
I HATE SANDRA LEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She uses organic milk but she uses like, 30 pounds of sprinkles in her cake-mix cake. And that is both gross and hypocritical.
Does anyone else like Ace of Cakes?
I happen to have serious vitamin deficiencies, due to my diet of sugar, cheese, and beef. Although it’s funny ’cause mom always tells me I will GAIN WEIGHT and yet… I’ve weighed about 98 pounds since 7th grade.
oh wow. i like sugar and cheese but not beef so much
We should have a dance thread!!!! Good idea you guys. Or we could have some kind of physical activity thread or something if its too specified.
Bobby Flay is ok, but he is a bit boring.
Paula Deen is ok too, but pretty much everything she cooks has lots of unhealthy stuff. Like once she said she had a recipe for parents who have trouble feeding their kids vegetables, and she put in like a whole stick of butter, and a whole cup of baken grease just for like two bowls of green beans!!!! But she seems very nice and does have some pretty good recipes
ooh a dance thread would be cool but i dont dance much so i wouldnt post much. throwdown with bobby flay is ok. paula deen cooks really unhealthy but it looks like it would taste good
I think a dance thread would be a good idea because there are so many different forms of dance, and people could learn about them from each other. Also, non-dancers could learn about dance. So… can we please have a thread for dance? I think it would be a great topic for discussion.
yeah that would be cool
i am officailly pieing this thread
I think this is the 100th post!
ATTENTION FOR ANYONE STILL READING THIS THREAD: THE FOOD NETWORK AWARDS ARE COMING ON IN LESS THEN THIRTY MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100- That was pointless.
In [the city were I went to sailing camp], there was a chocolate shop! All sorts of kinds of chocolate and hot chocolate, and coffee (with chocolate, I presume.) For the hot chocolate, they actually melted chocolate. I had a marzipan chocolate. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……
Whoa! I just discovered how to make one word really long! I’ve never been able to do that before. But don’t worry, I won’t abuse it.
I like the Swedish Chef.
23- Not always. That is a Cadbury’s cream egg. They also do lots of chocolate bars, buttons, plain eggs, ect. They are lush.
Love Cinnamon. Cinnamon. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……..
i hattte cabbage soup
zuchini bread’s good though
Ooh, zucchini bread is wonderful.
23- I’ve been thinking, and I’ve decided that the US equivalent is probably Hersheys.
Purplefinch, dancergirl13, pie parade:
let’s go discuss dance on the Random thread. Maybe if we get a good discussion going they’ll give us our own thread.
My friend hit me when I told her I’ve never had a cadbury egg. It hurt.
On another note, the only thing I’ve eaten in the past 18 and a half hours is a pickle. I’m not hungry either. Hmm. My stomach is weird.
I like coffee. I’m not supposed to drink a lot of it.
Tomato soup and grilled cheese is very very good.
We have lots of oysters. I ate one raw. I didn’t like it much.
110:
I’m not supposed to drink much coffee, either, although I don’t get hyper. What happens is I get insomnia.
My dad likes grilled cheese and tomato soup too. The only way I like tomatoes, however, is raw or in sauce. For some unknown reason my friends dislike raw tomatoes, and also one is supposedly allergic to tomatoes. I don’t buy it.
I don’t drink coffee near bedtime. It’s mostly in the morning, when my mom makes it for herself. The coffee thing is less my parents saying I shouldn’t as me saying I shouldn’t, though.
I adore raw tomatoes. Especially the little ones. My mom and I sometimes do gardening for this woman we know, and in the summer she lets us take home a bunch of tomatoes.
I have decided not to eat store-bought meat. It has a different taste, texture, and color, and frankly, it isn’t very good at all. It may not even be entirely meat. I’m a bit freaked out, actually, when it feels squishy. Ewwwww.
All right. Can we have a dance thread now, please, if it is not too much trouble?
I love cherry tomatoes!
112- store bought meat usually comes from factories, and and they treat animals horribly there. i am just telling you this becuase they do aweful things there, just so they can make more meat which turns into more money for them.
114- I am well aware of that fact, which is another reason why I will try to stop eating it.
113 – There already is a dance thread! Search “dance” in the search box.
70 – YUMYUMYUM *drools*
116- It appeared after purplefinch requested it.
115- sorry…
*Weeeps*
Dead threads are always sad!!! 
120- But you see, by posting here you are bringing it temporarily back to life, therefore it is no longer a dead thread.
W00t!!!!!!! That_IS_THE_POINT!!!!!! YAYAYAYAY! It worked!
*dead thread syndrome*
I like pizza.
And spaghetti.
What would be your favorite type of pie or desert?
I adnit it- rhubarb and black cherry pie. *slobbers*
I want bubble tea. Just thinking about it and rereading this thread makes me want bubble tea so badly!!!!!!!!
What is bubble tea????
127- It’s like Thai Ice tea with tapioca pearls in it, and it’s soooooooooooooooooooooo good!
This thread just can’t seem to stay open, can it???
I just went to this resteraunt called GG’s Cafe, and they had the MOST DIVINE pesto pasta. DIVINE. I felt like I died and went to heavan, and died and went to heaven AGAIN.
I have made the greatest sandwich known to mankind. Here is the recipe:
Recipe for the perfect sandwich: The Ultimate Trev
Ingredients (in this order)
Sourdough bread (2 slices)
Right slice:
Mayonnaise
Lettuce
Mint
Cucumber
Chives
Left slice:
Mayonnaise
Ham
Feta cheese
Mozzarella cheese
Flip left side onto right. Serve with iced drink and sliced apple.
sorry, I’ve made a meatier, better one.
Fine. Bring your sandwich to school and C++Darkmage will determine the better one. On the lighter side, if it’s that good, l have to try it.
130- Can you please mail me one of those? We only live a couple of states apart.
On second thought, it might spoil in the mail. And if it didn’t, then it would absorb the flavor of the cardboard box.
Darn…
Well, in theory, l could mail it so that you could eat it, but l don’t know your address. Does it sound good? Could l sell the recipe to a local restaurant?
BTW, did you know that l live in CA? l’m in the SF bay area.
134- There is that. But it sounds so good!
Yup, I know you live in SF. Or at least around there.
I’m thinking turkey… with… um… mayonaisse and maybe some chives? I dunno.
I just mentioned on the random thread my dinner tonight!! YUMMMMMMIE.
It would be c00l to sort of post what you have been eating. Especially now since this thread is dead…
I am eating…*looks at container* strawberry yogurt.
This concludes this update.
Red-tailed HAWK
l’m eating a throat losenge.
I like to eat:
pizza
pasta
certain kinds of sea-foods
most things chocolate
apple pie
I also like to get strange mocha flavors on occasion:
Lemon – Lime
Root-beer – Watermelon
Kiwi – Cinnamon
Vanilla – Cherry
Peach-Raspberry
Those are just a few of the gross drinks I like. That’s the sick thing, I like all of those.
I just ate pesto penne pasta. With shrimp. *licks lips*
I just had a bite of havarti cheese. Yum. It’s been years since I’d had this and I’d forgotten how much I like it.
142-I like cheese, but I don’t know of many different varieties, as the one you mention is not one I recall trying. *Eats cheese*
What I really had for breackfast was this natural cereal that came in a free pouch in the newspaper a week ago. It was good, truly natural, though. Lots of raisins and cranberries and such mixed in with the nuts. It might have even been vegan, I used soy milk….
Red-tailed HAWK
138 (Rt-H) – I used to like yogurt, but I kind of stopped liking it because I used to take this medication which was a powder that you had to mix in yogurt. And it tasted really bad, so after taking it for 3 years I kind of stopped liking yogurt.
142 (Rosanne) – I like cheese, but only mild kinds. My favorite kind of cheese is Monterey Jack.
142- (Rosanne) I only like cheese melted. Non melted grosses me out.
I never have anything interesting for breakfast; only toast or granola.
(145) Sounds as if you need to make some glop.
My latest batch contains sliced grapes and bananas and finely chopped dried peaches and apricots (Californian Blenheim variety, not the sickly-sweet Turkish/Mediterranean ones). Pure breakfast bliss.
144: I love Monterey Jack cheese too! Yum.
145: Melted cheese is so good. I like it melted on crackers. I had that just yesterday…
This is not a good thread to be on, though. Side affects from going on this thread can cause hunger. Eeek.
143 and 144 (Rt-H and PP): Havarti’s soft and mild. If you like Monterey Jack you’ll probably like Havarti too. So if you happen upon it, take a taste!
I just finished a mug of warm spicy tea.
145 and 147 (Lillers and Momo):
Yay, melted cheese! The same cheese can taste so different if it’s melted. There are a few kinds that taste icky to me in their non-melted state but flamablamablous when melted.
148 (Rosanne) – I’ll ask my parents to get it at the grocery store if they see it. Spicy tea? I don’t think I’ve ever had spicy tea.
My grandma likes cheese melted on Celery. I don’t really see how it would taste good, though. But I can’t eat celery so it doesn’t really matter anyway. I really like macaroni and cheese, though, which has melted cheese.
150 (Purple Panda):
It’s funny that your grandma likes melted cheese on celery. Me too. I make it in the office microwave sometimes and get weird looks from my colleagues. It’s sort of like macaroni and cheese but with celery instead of macaroni. I just cut the celery up into little chunks, put them in a microwaveable bowl, tear up some slices of cheese and scatter them on top. Then I zap it and the celery gets all juicy and the cheese melts.
Lunchtime!
My mom melts cheese sticks and puts pizza sauce on them.
Velveeta cheese is great melted on crackers. I personally like wheat thins, as they are “thin” and so you get mostly melty cheese and less thick cracker.
I go to the grocery store with my mom. But I’m hungry most of my life, despite possibly a dozen little meals throughout the day, and so we may end up picking more up than if I hadn’t been there thinking about what I would want to eat when I got home.
Food, I love thinking about what to eat next! I should build a little hut next to Feather’s and share recipes or something.
Certainly the best place to live in kokonino county for food, unless you like licking your food off of your face instead of using plates
Red-tailed HAWK
Hi!
It’s me.
Do you recognize me?
Sorry.
I LOVE to cook. So Pan convinced me to stop by the MB I love so much and talk about food.
I can’t talk right now, (I have to clean up after the gingersnaps I just made) but I’ll be here later and I just wanted to let you know that I’m sorta back.
151 (Rosanne) – That sounds rather interesting. I’d try it if I could eat celery. Want to get weirder looks from your colleagues? Mircowave Peeps
154 (THF) – YAY!!! Welcome back! And thanks for making gingersnaps, by the way. They’re delicious.
I like cheese on crackers, but one kind of cheese never ceases to nauseate me: the spray-on kind. You know, the stuff that comes in a can? I’ve never tried it, and I never plan on it either.
my favorite cheese type thing, although very fattening, is cheese fries. My brother liked it so much that he named his MB Handle after them (Cheezfries, who got banned after two posts by my parents)
My mom fries cheese and then eats it. Like, half of a cheese block and then eats it for lunch. The next day she says, I just can’t get these three pounds off me! I’ll try to eat less fatty foods. OOH, CHEESE!!!
I learned how to make cheese this month–actually, just a few days ago. I was writing about Cheese Making class for my NaNoWriMo, so I researched how to make it. It was actually really interesting! In my novel I have them making cheese out of really strange types of milk–for example, they make cheese from the milk of blue whales and three-toed sloths!
On the whole I think I’d rather milk a whale than a sloth, but it’s a close call.
159- Why a whale rather then a sloth?
Volume.
161- yes, but a sloth would not move.
Robert (159) – Well, I think Paul Baker was the one who milked them, (in my story, at least), so you’ll have to take it up with him. Maybe you can ask him for some tips. He also has milk from dozens of other strange animals–even some extinct ones! (Yes, you’ll have to as him how he did that, too)
161- And a whale is underwater. That makes things rather complicated.
(164) That’s all right. I’m a certified scuba diver.
(163) Paul is indeed a man of many talents.
165- really? cool!
146–Robert, that glop of yours sounds like something my grandmother and grandfather eat. They place high-fiber cereal, frozen blueberries and banana slices in a bowl, then pour just enough Lactaid milk over it so that it gets all mushy.
Foods I like are:
Nectarines
Chocolate
My mom’s homemade pizza
Any non-fast-food pizza (the regular greasy stuff makes my stomach bubbly, which feels weird)
Goat cheese
Egg
Peanut butter and jelly
Nutella
Sushi
Anything served at Europea, a fabulous restaurant in Montreal
Salmon with dill mustard sauce
Salad
My mom’s homemade oatmeal bread
Every dessert my mom makes
General pasta, especially lasagna
Meatloaf
Reese’s peanut butter cups
Avocado
Guacamole
Taquitos
Coconut
Omelets without mushrooms
Strawberries you pick yourself
The list goes on and on. I really like food. A few months ago, I found a website with nothing but pictures of gourmet food, and I have spent hours drooling over it. (This probably indicates starvation in a past life.)
Here’s something I just read that really amazed me. It’s from a translation of a German book about cooking from 1832. It’s called “The Essence of Cookery (Geist der Kochkunst)” by Karl Friedrich von Rumohr. It’s a serious book of advice for home cooks.
Here’s the excerpt:
“The French, particularly the Parisians, use pigeons’ droppings to raise their bread rolls. They are filled with air bubbles and, after they have expanded in the oven, this results in particular development of the upper surface, which bakes into a hollow crust. This crust obviously becomes very dry and a little overcooked and, for this very reason, most tasty and digestible. Doctors may also like to decide whether continued consumption of heated pigeons’ droppings might impair the health.
!!!
So, I’ve been thinking about this. If I knew that the pigeon droppings weren’t carrying any infectious agents, would I like this bread?
Do you think the writer had first-hand knowledge of this bread? Or was it just a Rumohr?
168: EEWWWWWWWW! That’s gross!
168-I would not eat that bread.
That is a little too…much. I might eat a whole pigeon, but that’s another matter. 
Red-tailed HAWK
Robert (169): Ha! It might’ve been a Rumohr. I can’t tell from the text whether he really saw the loaves bread dough being made.
Or maybe it was sabotage: “Darn those French bakers! Their bread is so much better than ours. Well, I’ll show them…”
“Heads up!”
“Aww, there goes another whole loaf!”
“I won’t tell if you don’t.”
*they shake on it*
Thanks for….sharing….
OK, I’ve now discovered something somewhat shocking — to me at least — about Stilton cheese.
More details to come tomorrow!
::waits patiently::
I’ve been waiting for the right weekend to try to make Caramelized Sugar Bubbles, maybe during holiday break
they look fascinating in all of the pictures I’ve seen! And perhaps I can go on a trip to a Papa Bubble shop in a major city nearby.
Breakfast-
*looks in cupboards* *looks in fridge* Ah! A tiny bit of yogurt! *eats* Here’s a banana, but I don’t really think it’s fit to eat… Let’s see… I could make eggs, which might take a while, and I don’t really like eggs without carbohydrates… or I could just eat some cheese. *opts for cheese* It was goat Mozzarella. Much better than it sounds.
My sister then produced a loaf of bread, but by that time I was done with breakfast.
Lunch-
Peanut butter and jelly in the auditorium, and then an ice cream cone. Yum. Sort of. Not worth the dollar.
Fourth period-
*comes into classroom* ¿Que es esto? SNACKS? *eat tangerine* *drinks soda* *drinks Peruvian purple juice* Yum. *drinks more* *eats cracker* *eats chocolate* *eats more chocolate* Yeah, that was nice.
Dinner-
The only good-for-me meal all day, lentil stew (yummy!), bread and butter.
I like tea. I think I could live on tea, if it weren’t for the fact that it has no nutritional value.
I think I’ll go drink some tea. I can’t breathe through my nose. And my throat hurts.
Alice (179): I could live on tea as well. We have a small, friendly food co-op down the street, and we get all sorts of dried flowers and other leaves to make our own tea, and it’s really quite good. It has been especially helpful lately, with being sick and such. And I highly suspect I have an allergy to cats, which is sad because we have two of them. But that’s okay, I’ll just live on loratadine and sudafed and whatever other decongestant/allergy medications they make.
One of my mom’s friends brought dinner for us a few days ago, and it was really really really good. It was some kind of bean soup, with a zillion different types of beans in it, and it was really good! She also brought a sweet wheat bread, which was still warm.
175-That’s funny!!!!!!! That post really doesn’t imply you must say anything, don’t let people say otherwise! I’ve seen that sort of thing elsewhere. Every day you come, and it says “tomorrow”! Well, I’ll come back tomorrow!
, laughing! 
There are all sorts of chips and dips and bagel chips and crackers in the house, for New Year’s Eve, and I don’t know where to start!
Same with the Christmas Chocolate.
I’m going to go to the foraging grounds, I. E. the kitchen
Red-tailed HAWK
After the holidays I always make an effort to skip over to my vegan friend’s house, and help her get rid of all the chocolate she can’t eat
182 – How generous of you.
I made mushroom soup last week. It was yummy!
Hi!
I’m not allowed to cook until the 16th because my dad was mad and, well, it’s a long story… Anyway, he banned me from cooking for two weeks. It’s odd – some kids get grounded, I get punished by not being allowed to cook/bake.
I’m designing turtle truffles – I will make them as soon as the ban is lifted.
I have to adjust and merge a few caramel recipes I have, but here’s the general recipe (NOTE THAT CHOKLIT IS SPELLED CHOCOLATE – THIS IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THIS RECIPE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE, NOT REAL AWESOME MB PEOPLE):
Ingredients:
1. Pecans
2. Cream
3. Sugar – I’m not sure whether I want regular granulated or brown
4. Butter
5. Chocolate – I don’t know if I’ll just melt semi-sweet and be done or if I will add some things.
6. Toffee, consisting of butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar
Directions:
1. Roast/toast pecans
2. While they roast/toast, make the caramel sauce.
3. Put the caramel sauce in a small-ish tall-ish bowl.
4. When the pecans are done, put them in small tongs and dip them, one by one, into the caramel, then put them on a baking sheet.
5. Let the caramel cool, then [technique undecided] – either dip them in the caramel again, or drizzle it on top. Repeat, um, to taste. Be sure that the caramel is completely cool before step 7.
6. Do whatever is going to end up being what you’re supposed to do with the chocolate, or just melt a Hershey bar.
7. Either drizzle chocolate on or dip truffle thingy in chocolate. Let chocolate set, and add as much chocolate as you want.
8. Turn the truffle over and add any necessary caramel and chocolate.
I eat honey straight. Like, pouring it onto a spoon straight. I know, I have tried to warn you, I’m strange!
It’s good for a sore throat. But I just like the taste, too
Red-tailed HAWK
185- Me too!
185 – I love eating honey plain!
181 – I was reading through a Foxtrot book, and there was a comic about the tomorrow thing. Maybe that’s it?
185- Mmm I love honey. It’s good for you too, especially allergies.
187 – Which comic was that?
I love honey plain, too!
I also eat sugar packets at restaurants. Granted, that’s only when I’m starving, but still.
Have you ever eaten those packets of “raw” sugar? They’re so yummy!
I also eat sugar packets. But only the raw ones.
Wow! So I am not so strange as I thought!!!
I don’t eat sugar packets (well, the sugar I mean)
Red-tailed HAWK
175. Rosanne Spector (Administrator) �|� December 11th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
OK, I’ve now discovered something somewhat shocking — to me at least — about Stilton cheese.
More details to come tomorrow!
—–
::still waits patiently::
194- *joins Pan in patient waiting*
And now for the much-delayed shocking thing about Stilton cheese. It’s an excerpt from the author Daniel Defoe’s book “Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain.” Defoe is better known as the author of “Robinson Crusoe.” Here’s what he said about Stilton:
“It is called our English Parmesan, and is brought to the table with the mites, or maggots (blue mould) round it so thick that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese.”
So, the part that shocked me was the cheese mites! I didn’t realize people ate them on purpose. It took me a while to post this because I wanted to find out if the Stilton we get nowadays also has cheese mites in it. But alas, I did not find out … yet.
196- Er…
I’ve never eaten Stilton. And now I never will.
I think Stilton’s delicious, though. So I now must adjust my attitude toward eating insects. Cheese mites = yum?
Though perhaps the cheese mites are absent, at least in Stilton imported to the United States. (Stilton comes from England.)
I found this bit of info in “A popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada” (1908). I kind of doubt it’s still accurate since the info is 100 years old:
A ripe Stilton has a heavy rind, commonly
infested with cheese-mites for the outer one-
half inch. As brought to America this rind
is usually carefully trimmed off and the
cheese painted over with a greasy, red or
yellow substance.
198-Thanks for sharing…
I don’t cook, but I like to eat. Does that count on this thread?
Cheese? Uuh, I’ve never had the “real” stuff. I’ve tried plenty of soy, rice and heaven-knows-what-else vegan alternatives. I like some of them because they are good, even though I doubt that they taste like dairy.
I don’t think I’d be brave enough to eat cheese mites. Or any kind of insect, for that matter.
I wish I could be vegetarian (I won’t even try vegan) … I just don’t have the willpower not to eat meat. If I had the choice/money, I would not be vegan/vegetarian, but I would only eat free-range animal products.
I got a release from my probation! I can cook!
I’m baking my friend’s birthday cake (hopefully) It’s going to be chocolate layer cake with whipped-cream frosting and chocolate something-or-other decorations (chocolate chips, shavings, sprinkles, or possibly *gasp* something not chocolate) on top/on the sides.
Yum, THF. With all that chocolate, I don’t see how that dessert can be anything but delicious.
it could be delicioso
Fried Spaghetti
A tasty breakfast from yesterday’s dinner
Spaghetti sauce
Pasta
Eggs
Oil (Olive is best)
Salt (optional)
Pepper (optional)
Parmesan cheese (optional)
Throw the sauce, pasta, and eggs together in a large pot with oil and stir over medium-high heat until eggs for several minutes. Add Parmesan, salt, and pepper to taste.
204- I like pasta!
On another forum I visit, a thread about the movie Cloverfield has morphed into one about unusal breakfasts!
It’s a wierd world out there.
205 – Ohmygawd, when I read that in the recent comments sidebar I freaked out. On another forum I visit we have a thread about the movie Cloverfield as well, and it has also morphed into an unusual discussion. Except ours is about what we would take with us into a nuclear shelter.
207 – Nope. Is that where it was?
The cake (ages ago, yes, but whatever) was a bit too rubbery, but they didn’t complain. It’s probably something only the cook can detect. The whipped-cream chocolate frosting was perfect, although I frosted the cake using a less-than-perfect technique. She likes baseball/softball, so I alternated semisweet and milk chocolate chips in a baseball shape. It looked awesome.
Taiwan Hippo Phan:
Did you use cake flour? Supposedly that helps make cakes more tender. I always end up just using “all purpose” flour since that’s what I’ve got handy. But it might be better with cake flour. It has less protein in it and as a result forms a more delicate dough. But like I said, I’ve never actually tried it out! Chewy cakes are very tasty too
208- *pokes THP* Etheterre needs you.
My favorite food would have to be the All- American cheesburger with french fries and ketchup.
My favorite foods would have to be tacos, any kind of pasta, salad, potato soup with sausage, and Swiss chard with vinegar and garlic. I also like fresh veggies out of my grandmother’s garden, such as fried zucchini.
I can never decide on a favorite food, because it varies all the time. I love spagetti, potatoes, squash, kale, dolmas, chinese food…it goes on. The only thigns I really don’t like are brussels sprouts, oatmeal and grapefruit.
I made bread today: it was French bread, but I had to use a little bit of whole wheat flour because we ran out of white. When the dough finished rising I separated it into 5 strands and did a 5-strand braid. It was really yummy
I love the way bread smells as it’s baking.
When I was in college I was in a food co-op and one of my jobs was baking bread once a week for the whole group. (I think there were about 100 people.) I didn’t know how to bake bread when I started but I learned from the other bakers.
I think baking bread is one of the most important things I learned there
213- I tried dolmas once, and they were okay. My mom loves them though because her friend introduced them to her. The same friend of my mom’s also introduced us to a seaweed, papaya, and noodle salad, which was delicious. So I guess I like alot of different foods too.
I posted a while ago, and I must have x-ed it out or something before it finished loading.
Essentially, I said:
Rosanne, the recipe called for all-purpose flour, but I should have used cake flour anyway. Although, it was Cook’s Illustrated, and they always go by quality and not, um, easiness. And, yes, there’s more gluten in all-purpose flour, making whatever’s being cooked tougher.
Papaya tastes like puke to me, but I like a lot of other tropical fruits. I love seaweed, especially plain. And only on rice and stuff. Seaweed crackers and stuff are gross.
My favorite fruit would have to be pineapple, especially when it is grilled. I also like melons, apples, oranges, and peaches.
217- I have never had seaweed crackers. That would be somthing different to try.
216~ Some of them are really good, some are really horrible. It all depends on who makes them. They can taste totally different.
215~ Twice a year my mom makes a ton of bread. Really. Several hundred loaves in a day, all different kinds, and then she sells tham at the historical events we go to. She usually starts early in the morning and ends late at night, baking all day with a few stops to do other things (like eat and sit down). the whole house and outlying vicinties smell like bread, and it’s all over the house. I get to grind flour, so I’m always all white on those days.
It’s fun.
218 – I love grilled pineapple.
219 – I was introduced to them by my gluten-free friend. She likes them, so I don’t see why you couldn’t, but I think they are repulsive.
220 – I would love to do that and hate it at the same time. I could never be fast enough. And grinding flour would be awesome. If I could do it.
220- My mom and I like your mom’s breads, especially the ones with fruit in them.
221- Have you ever tried grilled pineapple with teriyaki chicken? It’s the best! My family and I love it.
221~ I’m sure you could grind flour, all I really do is sit next to the little mill and pour cupfulls of grain into it. It’s pretty boring, actually.
I think on those days Mom clones herself and has them all running around the kitchen. Actually, she plannes it a few days ahead, so she has a schedule of how and when what bread will be in the oven, and then she does it.
People ask if I help, I just smile and say that I stay out of the way. I have no culinary talent whatsoever.
Midnight Fiddler: your bread-making day sounds like so much fun! Grinding flour sounds cool too, though probably not if you’re doing it for an entire day.
224~ It is fun. I think a lot of it is just the excitement- it means that we’re getting ready for rendezvous, which is always special. Also, it only happens twice a year, so it’s a big event and tradition.
Grinding flour is okay for a little bit, but once you are totally covered in it, in your hair, clotes, nostrils, gritty between the pages of your book and the constant noise, it’s not particulay exciting.
Tawian Hippo Phan (217) –
I think papayas taste pukey too, now that you mention it. But weirdly enough I really like them. Same with peaches.
I just got the biggest craving for ice cream with french nugat chips. Or, a white water dog soda ice. Yes! a white water dog soda ice!!! *raids freezer*
I have now found an icecream cone and an unknown ice cream on a stick. Hmmm. That ice cream has been in there for a while….. Oh well. *digs in*
You know what food is very odd: bacon chocolate chip cookies.
Two of the members of my MathCounts team are a bit obsessed with bacon, so one of them found a recipe for bacon chocolate chip cookies and made them for the state competition. They were actually quite good. The bacon just added a bit of salt.
I really like vanilla ice cream (soy or rice, of course) on triscuts. It’s so good, even though it sounds really weird.
I also love pickled beets. Just about anything pickled, really. But not with ice cream, now that would be disgusting!
Mm. Mother and I are going to make kasha varnishkes, something I have never had before. But I’ve been nibbling the roasted buckwheat for a while, and it’s good.
My fingers are so cold I can hardly type.
229- Ok. Unusual. Very unusual. And not very apetizing.
You know it’s getting a bit too warm and spring-like in March when you’re already waiting in agony for the town’s amazing ice cream place to open. Seriously, you just walk up to the window, order, and either take it home or sit on one of the few picnic benches there. But the ice cream is sooo good. It’s the soft kind that they just pull a lever on a machine and it swirls out into the cup/onto the cone. MMmmmm… *In a dream over ice cream*
Red-tailed HAWK
I’m very proud of myself at the moment because I made crepes for my dinner tonight. From scratch, and I made up the recipe. Frankly, I’m amazed that it worked out as well as it did.
I made candied almonds today. Tricky. You have to stir quickly, so the sugar doesn’t bvurn, and then pour them out, seperate the almonds from each other, while not burning yourself on the sugar that’s hoter than boiling. BVut if you stir too quickly, the sugar will cool too much and you end up with caramel. And you have to roast the almonds all the way through. Fun.
234-Wow!
235-Wow! You all are very brave and smart in the kitchen!! .
*Hands pies
he bought at the store because he was scared to cook them himself*Red-tailed HAWK
I was trying to make fried potatoes, but I failed.
1st mistake: Boiling the potatoes too much. They were all mushy.
2nd mistake: Too many onions.
3rd mistake: Well, there’s got to be one, but I don’t know what it is.
So I ended up with mashed-potatoes-and-way-too-many-onions.
Heinz makes chocolate covered pickles. I never know what to think of that. I suppose I have to taste it before I judge that.
234 – I didn’t know there was a way to make crepes that weren’t from scratch. Making up the recipe, though – sweet. I have severely modified many recipes, but I don’t think I’ve ever made something up totally in my head. Not something as precise as crepes – I can easily make up a recipe for fried vegetables.
I said this on the MA site:
I am going to make up (well, seriously modify a sugar cookie recipe) a recipe for thumbprint cookies, because we just had them and I decided that I could make them way better.
I made dinner last night for my family. It was pan-seared then baked chicken breasts and lemon-cheese pasta. The sauce for the pasta was from a Giada de Laurentiis cookbook, if anyone knows who she is. It was olive oil, romano cheese, lemon juice, and lemon zest. On Fettuccine. It was really good.
Lemon pasta sauce recipe:
2/3 cup grated parmesan or romano cheese
2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
zest of 2 lemons
juice of 2 lemons
instructions: combine
I had cottage cheese and strawberry jam for breakfast. It was store-bought, low fat cottage cheese, (I like the low fat better, actually) but it was still delicious.
I am going to try to make lactose-free cottage cheese by using Alton Brown’s recipe (which is probably exactly the same as many other people’s recipes, but this is the one I know) with Lactaid milk. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
It’s been almost a year since this thread was established. That’s a while, especially for only 237 comments.
238- Your recipe for lemon pasta sauce sounds delicious!
240 – Yeah, it’s really good. I forgot to put basil in the list, but I actually think it’s better without it. Maybe not, I don’t really know. I can’t really imagine how adding a spice that compliments the flavors of something can make it worse, but from the two times I made it, the first time was better. Of course, there were other factors that were different the first time.
May I request a part two for this thread? It seems about through.
I didn’t get around to cookies this weekend. Maybe I’ll make some on Wednesday.
I think a part two would be a good idea, too.
Our mom made lemon bars, cookies, and cream cheese bars yesterday! There was a book-group-party-thing at our house, and there are a lot of leftovers. *eats too much sugar*
Estoy en acuerdo con Pan y THF.
Or is it “Estoy de acuerdo”…?
(242 ff.) I believe that would be appropriate. Request granted.