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Post by Siren on Jun 1, 2006 17:10:15 GMT -6
Thanks, Gams. Am much better today. So it's baked chicken.
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Post by LMV's Old Account on Jun 1, 2006 20:42:55 GMT -6
chocolate lol
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Post by Phalon on Jun 1, 2006 23:06:29 GMT -6
Glad to hear, Siren.
Tonight - Chili dogs with cheddar and cole slaw. Quite messy. And unhealthy. But good.
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Post by Siren on Jun 2, 2006 21:31:31 GMT -6
Mmmmmm, chili dogs. Glad I didn't read that while I was queasy. My computer isn't, um, waterproof.
We have a place here called "Coney Island" which has been in business, I believe, since the 40s. I have yet to try it, because it's in a scary neighborhood. But it sounds so intriguing!
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Post by Phalon on Jun 18, 2006 21:21:53 GMT -6
A new experience for my tastebuds: Hot Wasabi Peas. My friend gave me a handful to try; he then stood back and watched as I popped them in my mouth, not knowing what they were. He laughed at the look on my face.
Dried green peas with a Japanese horseradish coating. Actually, after the initial shock they are quite good; downright addictive. I bought some at the grocery today, and put them on my salad tonight for added zing.
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Post by Siren on Jun 26, 2006 16:50:06 GMT -6
Cantaloupe, bought from a roadside vendor. Yum! It's one of the treats of summer.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 26, 2006 22:16:01 GMT -6
Marble cake with chocolate icing - it's what BP requested for her birthday.
Yesterday evening. Eight neighborhood kids sitting at the picnic table. Hubs with chocolate ice-cream in hand, ready to scoop. Me coming out the door with the cake. Cat between my feet. Slow motion as the platter dips to one side, then the other as I try to make the save. Marble cake with chocolate icing all over the porch.
Ah well. I could barely contain my laughter - in fact I didn't. My now five-year-old didn't even bat an eye - it was as if she's used to such things, (eye roll). We put the candles in her scoop of ice-cream.
But I did feel bad, and ran to the bakery today for another marble cake with chocolate icing, (today was her actual birthday, anyway). Getting out of the car when I got home, my neighbor comes by and says she's baked a marble cake with chocolate icing, sprinkles, and a big number "5" candle, (damn, I forgot candles this time; the others were buried in the wreckage), because she knew I was working and didn't have time to bake another cake, (like I baked the first. Pfft. Yeah, right). Keep the cake for your family, I told her, but give me the candle.
Forty dollars in two days at the bakery, and I've now seen enough of marble cake with chocolate icing to last a long, long time.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 27, 2006 14:28:54 GMT -6
Next birthday, close the cats up in a room when food is being served.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 27, 2006 14:32:26 GMT -6
By The Way . . . .
Happy Birthday!
Baby Phalon
I wave my magic wand and now your parents MUST grant you 3 wishes.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 5, 2006 17:48:26 GMT -6
Mia - keep that wand in check, will ya?
I had to pluck a blackberry from the bush yesterday. It looked so good; big, plump and inviting. Eewww....not quite ready; it was sooooooo bitterly sour.
But the raspberries!!!!! They are in season, and in the last two days I've been through as many quarts. So short a season; so fine a berry.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 8, 2006 17:21:23 GMT -6
OMG!!!!! Stopped at the berry farm on my way home from work today to get the last of the raspberries. The blueberries are starting, and OMG!!!!, (again) - the bakery.......WHITE CHOCOLATE BLUEBERRY CREAM PIE!!!!!
<thud>
Pure bliss; I'm in ecstasy.
Edited to add: I got the last piece!!!!
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Post by Siren on Jul 9, 2006 23:21:04 GMT -6
I'm blissing out with you, Gams. Just now, I ate my first real peach of the season. Not a wimpy, store-bought, only considered a peach because it's fuzzy on the outside. This was a warm-from-the-sun, slightly bird-pecked, so juicy it ran down my arm, farm peach. Unbelievably good!
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Post by Siren on Jul 13, 2006 21:32:42 GMT -6
While watching Jennie Finch and Team USA beat the crap outta Great Britain tonight in the World Cup of Softball, I ate chili cheese nachos. I so shouldn't have. And they were so good! There's just something about that ballpark dust that makes them taste better.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 16, 2006 23:03:51 GMT -6
Not stuck in my teeth; I thought about the possibly, but passed. In the grocery, I saw Lays Dill Pickle flavored potato chips. Not Lays Classic, but Lays Vlasic? I like dill pickles but I thought it a strange combination. Now if it were Lays Bread and Butter Chip chips, well then, that's a different story.
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Post by Siren on Jul 17, 2006 9:26:50 GMT -6
My mom loves bread & butter pickles too, Gams. One of her favorite combinations is sweet pickles with her ham and eggs. She cans terrific homemade sweet pickles, and a dilly of a dill.
In our vending machine at work, I've seen Clamato flavored tortilla chips. Isn't Clamato that clam juice/tomato juice drink? On a chip?? Ewwww!
Yesterday, at a friend's birthday dinner, we had fresh green beans and new potatoes from his mom's garden. Ah, bliss!
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Post by Phalon on Jul 20, 2006 22:52:19 GMT -6
Oooo...fresh green beans. We picked the last of them today; Hubs pulled up the vines - fried in the drought and heat. But dang - sooo good while they lasted.
Picked the first of the acorn squash the other day; seems a bit early to me. I usually think of it as more of a fall-type squash.
And zucchinis! More zucchinis than anyone has a right to have, (please take some). I'd love to share, but everyone I know grows them or knows someone who grows them, and it's one big zucchini trade. I've pawned them off everyone I can, and still have more than I can use.
Long and smooth and firm - yet oh-so-tender, they seem to grow longer and firmer even as I hold them in my hands. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe I shouldn't try to give them all away after all.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 31, 2006 23:50:46 GMT -6
While I was roller-skiing Sunday morning, I spotted a huge blackberry patch with gobs of ripe berries basking in the sun, begging to be picked. Evening rolled around, and BP - always one for adventure, pretty much because she doesn't know better - and I went to pick. The other two - Hubs and LX - claimed it was too miserably hot and humid to tromp through the brush and thorns to pick berries.
BP picks blackberries the same way as the blueberries we picked last week. Lots come off the bush, but few make it into the pail. Fun to watch her face scrunch up when she gets those not-quite-ripe sour ones.
Blackberries over chocolate ice-cream is my latest beat-the-heat dessert.
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Post by Siren on Aug 1, 2006 22:08:23 GMT -6
My mom makes a fabulous blackberry cobbler from the berries that grow on the hill behind their house. It was my great, great granny, I believe, who planted the vines.
Tonight I had the most wonderful summer treat: a root beer float from Coit's Drive-In. Coit's is celebrating their 50th anniversary, a dang long time to stay in business. But they've done it with simple, great food - burgers, grilled hotdogs, wonderful salads - and the best homemade root beer anywhere, served in big frosted mugs. As we ate our floats, the root beer turned to slush against the sides of the frozen mug. It was absolutely divine!
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Post by Mini Mia on Aug 1, 2006 22:10:21 GMT -6
It sounds divine.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 20, 2006 0:36:31 GMT -6
OMG!!!!
I just walked in the door after a late night dinner at friends'. Again, OMG! A feast under the stars. Culinary heaven.
Was going to post the menu, but suddenly I gotta lay down. I'm stuffed.
I'll leave behind just a few of words though: hazel-nut cream cake. I can still taste it.
Sweet dreams tonight.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 16, 2007 21:19:29 GMT -6
Been a long time since anyone's posted in here. What? Everyone dieting?
Cuisine for the weekend: Festival foods; Harbor Fest was this weekend, and in the last two days I’ve had my fill, and though I’m full, my wallet is empty. Four dollars for a plain hot dog on a bun! Sheesh! Greasy french fries, snow-cones, hotdogs, and lemonaide for the girls. A pulled-pork sandwich for me and Hubs. I was able to stay away from funnel cakes, cotton candy, (ick), and those elephant ear thingies though my sweet tooth was yelling at me that I needed to soothe its cravings. Frozen coffee drinks quieted it down. Yum. A mocha coffee slushy – a perfect caffeine and sweet fix on a ninety degree day.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 20, 2007 0:02:23 GMT -6
"I have eaten the first fruit of the season, and I am in love." ~ James Wright
Sigh.....the strawberries are almost done - such a short, short season. The first of the season are always the biggest, juiciest and sweetest of summer. The big fruit market a bit south of here has an invitation only auction for the first case sold - it goes for $300.00-$400.00 and comes with bragging rights.
I've eaten my share....which is not to say I'm not willing to eat more than my share. A customer brought in his annual customary I've-pick-more-than-I-can-use flat, and there was plenty for us all to take home a few pints. Xena-Sis did the same, and gave me a couple more. She freezes them and uses them for baking. Pfft. Strawberries are made to be eaten fresh, I think.
Except.....
....a customer today was telling me how she got all her strawberry-rhubarb pies made, and her strawberry-rhubarb sauce, which she cans and then serves over ice-cream. Sounded so good I had to stop at the berry farm on the way home, and pick up a strawberry-rhubarb pie....possibly the best fruit/veggie-like thing combo-pie ever concocted.
Hmmmm.....Then there is White Chocolate Blueberry Cream Pie - nothing tops that; blueberry season starts next week.
Sometime soon come the raspberries too.
I am in love.
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Post by Siren on Jun 21, 2007 21:24:45 GMT -6
a Lean Cuisine meatloaf dinner *yawn*
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Post by Phalon on Jun 23, 2007 20:58:36 GMT -6
Mmmm....the last of the fresh local asparagus - drizzled in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, with a squeeze of lemon juice.
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Post by Siren on Jun 24, 2007 22:17:07 GMT -6
Asparagus is okay, but I prefer it in a more fattening state - an asparagus dip we get at a local restaurant.
My mom dreamed up another winner tonight: boiled ham, fried potatoes, fried corn, fried cabbage, pinto beans, cornbread, sweet tea, and homemade chocolate pie for dessert.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 25, 2007 23:20:38 GMT -6
You have just described a meal Hub's would die for....or at least salivate over - especially the pinto beans and cornbread, and excepting the homemade chocolate pie. He doesn't do sweets.
That's okay - I'll eat his share.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 27, 2007 5:48:37 GMT -6
Nothing is stuck in my teeth....I had a date yesterday afternoon with the Dental Dominatrix.
Although in the evening, I had a big piece of marble cake with chocolate icing, and a huge scoop of chocolate ice cream - it's BP's favorite, and yesterday was her birthday. HA!! Pppbbbllllltttt! Sugar-coated teeth after they were just cleaned....and I didn't floss afterward, either. Take that, Dominatrix!
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Post by Siren on Jun 27, 2007 21:52:37 GMT -6
Lol - ah the Dental Dominatrix. How I do enjoy reading your posts about her. I'm sure there's an underground comic strip in there, somewhere. Any artists here looking for a new subject?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 28, 2007 22:03:30 GMT -6
BOLL, Siren. Remember Rsine? He was a member here, who in addition to drawing portraits of celebrities, did cartoon drawings - usually of oddly proportioned women. Barbie portions to the third degree - huge bosoms, tiny, itty-bitty waists, and voluptuous hips. I can see the Dental Dominatrix as one of these drawings, (though my Dominatrix looks nothing of the sort), snapping her dental floss whip.
Tonight's Dental Dominatrix floss whip cracking what's-stuck-in-my-teeth: Raspberry Peach Pie.
Mrs. Earl did not start making her White Chocolate Blueberry Cream Pie yet, and I'm anxiously awaiting the moment she does. In the meantime, in addition to the raspberry peach pie slice I ate tonight, I brought home two pints of raspberries, and a pint of blueberries. I'll mix the two berries for lunch tomorrow - already looking forward to it.
Crack!
Damn - there she goes again. Yes, yes - I'll floss the raspberry seeds from between my teeth.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 2, 2007 17:36:07 GMT -6
Just a quick stop in to say hello - odd that I'd do that in a food thread, but busy this week, and where-ever I show up is where I'll say hello. My mom and youngest brother are visiting and I had to stop by the berry farm on the way home from work.
Yep - it's here. A lusciously sinful white chocolate blueberry cream pie! Good enough to serve company as if you baked it yourself. BOLL. No fooling Mom though - she knows me too well.
Later Sweet Taters.
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