What Food Is Stuck In Your Teeth?

[Siren]

Mmmm...that sounds good, Scrap.

mine: boiled egg and mayo on wheat bread. Sounds horrible, I know. But it's good, and easy.

[Phalon]

Oh - boiled eggs...that reminds me, I've got to do those this weekend so the girls can dye them for Easter. One thing, (out of many in the kitchen), I have never learned to do well is boil an egg. I cook them to death.

Tomato Basil Wheat Thins - thought they'd be good. They weren't. Bluck. They have an artifical, slightly chemical taste to them.

[Mini Mia]

I start the timer when the water comes to a boil. I let the eggs boil for 10 to 15 minutes, and then I turn them off and let then sit in the hot water for a few minutes more before cooling them down and chopping them up for whatever I'm putting them in.

[LMV's Old Account]

i dont know if it classes as food hehe lol

[Phalon]

Oh sure, Mia. You people who know how to boil eggs make it sound so simple.

mine: boiled egg and mayo on wheat bread. Sounds horrible, I know. But it's good, and easy.

I had the same for lunch today; boiled egg on a crusty hard roll with muenster cheese, baby spinach leaves and Miracle Whip, (mayonnaise - ick). And since we boiled a dozen eggs for Easter and no one else eats them, I'll probably have the same for the rest of the week.

Chere - I'm not even gonna ask.

[Mini Mia]

I wonder if you can freeze boiled eggs? Could give it a try and see. I freeze milk, and it turns out okay if I don't leave it in the freezer for too long.

[Siren]

hot fudge sundae, with nuts and whipped cream

Isn't that first bite, when the fudge is still warm, not absolute bliss??

[Phalon]

Hhmmm.....frozen boiled eggs? Don't know if I'm willing to give that a try; I'd bet they'd be a weird consistency when thawed. Hubs called me at work during lunch today to chat while eating a "bald" egg. A bald egg? Hubs, your southern is showing again. Say 'boy'. Say 'ild'. Boiled. "Bowled?" No, no, no. Teasing him like he does me when I try to say bagel; I can never pronounce it properly.

Mmmm, Siren. I had mint chocolate chip ice-cream with a few Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies thrown in the bowl tonight. I thought that was bliss. But with hot fudge sauce! Orgasmic.

[Siren]

Hey there, Gams. My sis' fiancee does you one better, re Thin Mints. He put them in a blender w/ ice cream and made his own "flurry". The man can eat more ice cream than anyone I know, and more often.

Mia, I've had still semi-frozen chopped boiled eggs at salad bars. A slightly odd consistency, but my sis (who worked in a restaurant) says that could be because of the solution they pack them
in.

Tonight I'm munching on "Monterey Trail Mix" from the health food store: raw sunflower seeds, raisins, almonds, redskin peanuts, Virginia peanuts, oat-rolled dates, walnuts, cashews, and coconut chips.

[LMV's Old Account]

a pie

[Siren]

trail mix: "craisins" (dried cranberries), along with dried papaya, coconut, pineapple, and banana, with honey-roasted cashews and peanuts

But what I'd give for some Ruffles and a tub of onion dip!!

[Phalon]

Brussel sprouts. I love brussel sprouts; I'm the only one in my house that does though, so I rarely eat them. Hubs bought some at the grocery - fresh ones - and steamed them for me for dinner tonight. The girls, of course, turned up their noses, but amazingly, LX actually took a bite before deeming them unpalatable.

I told Hubs he had to eat some too - they are good for you; full of vitamins and such. He complied and ate a few. Then gave the cat a couple, who devoured them eagerly and looked to Hubs for more.

And they say I'm strange for liking them.

[Siren]

I once had a kitty that had to try whatever we were eating. That included Doritoes and lemonade. He would try it all. But brussels sprouts? That's pretty far out for a cat.

tonight: pizza flavored goldfish crackers

[Siren]

Cocoa Pebbles

[Phalon]

Ick, Siren. I suppose you drank the sugary chocolate leftover milk too. <cringe>

Dinner on the run tonight: A chicken and bacon sandwich from Subway, with ranch dressing, spinach leaves, black olives and onions. My favorite Subway sandwich - I like to breathe on Hubs after eating these.

[Siren]

Damn, that sounds good, Gams. I miss bacon sooooo bad. And ranch dressing. I swear, I could eat ranch dressing on ice cream. It goes with everything.

No, the milk is just too sweet, after all that sweet cereal. I don't eat Cocoa Pebbles that often, and don't like Fruity Pebbles at all.

in my teeth: a big ole Sonic burger, which is about to kill me, 6 hours after I ate it

Does anyone here have Sonic drive-ins in their town?

[Mini Mia]

We have a couple of them. We eat there when the weather is just right... not too hot... not too cold...

[Phalon]

Hhhm....I've heard of them, but not here - maybe when I lived in Kentucky? I've never eaten there, though.

But drive-ins are fun. I remember going to the A&W drive-in when we were kids just to get ice-cold rootbeer in served in thick glass mugs.

We have a drive-in here in town; a fifties style place where the waitresses still come to your car on roller-skates. Great burgers and onion rings.

[Siren]

I didn't know Sonic was that prevalent. Great burgers and foot-long coneys.

Gams, we have a few terrific mom-&-pop drive-ins here in the metro: Coit's Root Beer, which, as you can imagine, has divine frosted-mug root beer floats...Classic 50s in Norman, which has all the usual drive-in foods, plus some unusual finds in its extensive menu...and the Sooner Dairy Lunch, a Norman institution, which has served its marvelous, small, greasy burgers for about 60 years. We also have Del Rancho, known for its yummy and incredibly calorie-rich chicken-fried steak sandwiches, with more breading than meat. When I lived in Ft Smith, we enjoyed World Burger, the dumpiest looking place in town, but with absolutely fantastic big bug/thin & crispy meat burgers and home-cut fries. God, they were good! That drive-in supported several generations of a certain FS family. But in the 90s, none of the kids in the family wanted it. So they sold that 50-year-old classic, which was then closed. I don't know if it even stands any more. Probably bulldozed by now. Progress, they call it.

[mabd]

siren said:

Does anyone here have Sonic drive-ins in their town?

Yupe.

Good breakfast sandwiches.

Maeve

[Siren]

For sure, Maeve. Yum!

I ate so much junk today, including a completely delicious Baby Ruth.

[Phalon]

I stopped by the berry farm today; they just opened for the season a week ago. It won't be long now until the raspberries are ready. Mmmmm.

I bought some fresh cracked wheat bread, and asparagus. And for dessert - banana bread - without nuts, cuz that's the way LX likes it, and why Ms. Earl bakes it. She'll do almost anything on request. Gotta love those kinds of places.

Asparagus, I usually steam, but just recently found a new way, (for me), to cook - roasted with pepper and a drizzle of olive oil and lemon juice. Mmmm again.

We had it tonight with a pork roast, beets - I love beets - the wheat bread and salad.

Too stuffed for more, the banana bread came later.

[Mini Mia]

I've read that beets are _very_ good for the heart, but I've no idea how to cook them. I think I tasted them one time and didn't like them at all. Of course, I eat a lot of foods now that I used to wouldn't, so I'm hoping to add beets to the menu at some point should I find a way to cook them that suits my tastebuds.

[Phalon]

Mia - the easiest way I know to cook beets...actually the only way I've ever cooked them - specifically because it's easy - is to boil them. Cut off the greens, (those are good cooked however you like spinach too), the collar thingy at the top and the tail at the bottom. Throw them in a pot and boil until tender.

Drain. Now comes the fun part....grab a paper towel, and rub it over and around the beet. The skin just slides off. Slice, toss in some butter and pepper, and ta-da - you have beets. The small ones are better - more tender and sweeter than the monster-sized.

[Siren]

Gams, my mom has a blackberry patch in the back yard that was planted by my great-granny. The berries are small, but so sweet and good. My mom makes fabulous cobbler from them. Nearly every season, as we're picking them, one of us will cry, "Aaaaha!", as we capture a box turtle and hold it aloft, its mouth ringed in purple.

As for beets, that is one of the crops my folks' garden grows best. Mama cans them each year. They have such a rich color, I bet you could dye cloth with them. At any rate, I never have liked them.

[Mini Mia]

Phalon: hmmmmmm... kind of like when you drop tomatoes in hot water for a few seconds and the skin just slides off. I love boiled potatoes smothered in butter. Sooooo... only pepper? No salt?

[Phalon]

I'm just not a salty person, Mia; my disposition leaning more toward the direction of spicy or sweet, (eye roll).

I started a blackberry patch last year, Siren, and can't wait to harvest them outta the back yard. Dang, I love blackberries just as much as raspberries.

We've got blueberries too, and they are in full bloom now. Lots of flowers and I saw a hummingbird buzzing from bush to bush the other day; the first hummingbird I've seen this year.

Thinking about planting one of the ravine hills with strawberries. I planted a handful of them in the children's garden at work a few years ago, and they are now threatening to take over everything. Not a good thing in the kid's garden - they need to be thinned. But on the ravine hill - perfect! It's a shrew to push a mower up the thing. The bottom of the ravine is filled with wild strawberries - tiny, itty-bitty things that are quite bitter, but flower pretty yellow flowers just as tiny as the berries. It'd be nice to have edible strawberries.

Wondering though, how I'm going to keep the squirrels out of all these berries. Argh! My squirrels are insatiable, ravenous monsters.

[Mini Mia]

I only salt stuff if it tastes like it needs it myself. My sister and dad salt their food before taking that first bite. I don't understand that at all.

[Siren]

Blue Bell Dutch Chocolate ice cream - the only thing that sounds good today *burp* ~green-around-the-gills Siren

[Phalon]

Sorry for your greenness, Siren. Chicken soup is what oughta be stuck in your teeth. Feel better.