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Post by Phalon on Sept 15, 2007 5:48:36 GMT -6
"Chicken in the Rough"...no chicken bones about it; I like the name. And the food...Oooo, sounds good, Siren. But what are yeast rolls? Doesn't all bread contain yeast to make it rise from the deadpan in the oven?
Hoping you get some of that fair fare this weekend: cotton candy, bear claws, elephant ears and such. Sheesh, can they make these thing sound any more appetizing?
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Post by Siren on Sept 17, 2007 21:12:18 GMT -6
I think folks around here call 'em yeast rolls as opposed to sourdough or biscuits. But that's just a guess.
My dinner tonight: peaches and cottage cheese. Yum!
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Post by Siren on Sept 18, 2007 22:53:11 GMT -6
Finally made my first trip to the state fair, and am off to a grand start. A scrumptious, piping hot corn dog, a free sample of a Spamwich (spam sandwich), and ~oh bliss~ a Wonderbar (a homemade Eskimo pie covered in chopped peanuts). I'm just getting started - received 4 free tickets to the fair today! Thanks to your "prescription", Dr. Phalon, I'm feeling much better. kat, do y'all have Eskimo Pies Down Under? How about you, MG?
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Post by moonglum on Sept 18, 2007 23:38:48 GMT -6
Yes we do. They call them 'choc-ices' over here. There's one brand called a Magnum, which is the smoothest, creamiest ice cream, covered with dark Belgian chocolate. Absolutely to kill for. Never seen one covered with chopped nuts though.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 20, 2007 2:00:25 GMT -6
Yep, Moonglum is lucky....they have not only Eskimo pies, or choc-ices, but Hobnobs too! Dang, I love those things.
This found its way into my head while I was grocery shopping today, Siren, and I had to get some cottage cheese. I'm the only one in the family that likes it, (gotta be small curd though), so I rarely buy it because the tub usually goes bad...or at least looks bad; can something already curdled turn curdled? I miss those single serving containers; my grocery store stopped carrying them.
Lunch for the week now: cottage cheese with cherry tomatoes and lots of pepper.....maybe some croutons for crunch.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 20, 2007 2:04:37 GMT -6
Oh, and also at the grocery: Annie's Naturals Cowgirl Ranch Dressing. It cracked me up in the aisle; I recently read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and the name of the dressing reminded me of the book.
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Post by Siren on Sept 21, 2007 9:56:46 GMT -6
Gams, your cottage cheese / tomato / black pepper lunch brought my sis, GG, to mind. When GG was in 4-H, many years ago, she learned to make a tomato salad. You cut the top 1/3 off the top of a tomato (angle the cuts like this /\/\/\/\/\ if you wanna be fancy), then scoop out the tomato innards, chop them up along with the tomato top, and mix with cottage cheese and lots of black pepper. Spoon the tomato and cheese mixture back into the tomato shell. Chill. My dad LOVES this. So Gg makes it for him whenever she feels like spoiling him.
Anyone here like Indian tacos? As the name indicates, they started with Native Americans. Indian frybread is patted out into a 6-inch circle, and deep-fried till crispy. They, it's topped with pinto beans, beef, and the usual taco toppings, and sprinkled with hot sauce. Every year, Dan's Indian Tacos has had a long line of hungry folks waiting outside their little booth. Their popularity has spawned a bunch of imitator booths, as well. Silly me, I went to an imitator at the fair the other night. Their "frybread" was, in fact, pizza dough. No beef at all. And they topped the taco with sour cream. Now, I love sour cream. But do you think the original Native Americans had sour cream? "Only if the buffalo they milked got really hot," my sis Gg replied.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 22, 2007 7:43:40 GMT -6
No, I've never had an Indian taco, Siren....although I did have a "traditional" Native American stew last night at a pot-luck gathering. A friend is an Ojibwe, and the stew is the dish she brought to pass. "Traditional" in quotation marks, because she said she cheated making it - using pork roast instead of bison or venison, and store-bought veggies instead of roots from the wild. But she did cook it for four days, as is how it is traditionally made. Mmmmm - it was great; perfect for a outside gathering on a not-quite-autumn-yet-but-close-enough-to-want-something-warm-to-eat night.
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Post by Siren on Nov 2, 2007 8:50:25 GMT -6
I spent Halloween with my sis and brother-in-law. While we watched "The Wailer" wreak havoc on-screen, we enjoyed my sis' hand-dipped caramel apples. And sis made sure that the apples were Fujis so they were tart-sweet, and contrasted beautifully with the *mmmmmmm* caramel. What a treat!!
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 3, 2007 20:17:26 GMT -6
Doesn't anyone else like to talk about food? Moonglum and Voxy Lady; where have they been lately - I'd like to hear what is good to eat in the Motherland, (I know about Hobnobs - I love those things!) I wanna tease Katina about his Vegemite. Where are Scrappy's Southwestern feasts she keeps promising she's gonna cook me one day. Maeve does it Southern style, I bet. Joxie? You started this thread. Errrrr yep, but I prefer eating it then talking about it Lady P, plus I'm a "basic" food kinda person so wouldn't have a lot to contribute to the conversation I'm afraid, though I have to admit reading some of the posts here makes me drool a lot, not a pretty sight I can tell you. And teasing about Vegemite is verboten, not allowed to poke fun at an Aussie national icon ........... not that that's ever stopped you in the past. Sheesh just over three months to get a reply, now that's what I call tardy. <You oughta be ashamed of yourself>
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 3, 2007 20:22:23 GMT -6
kat, do y'all have Eskimo Pies Down Under? How about you, MG? Yep we sure do Siren, Chocolate covered Ice-Cream that would knock your socks off as I recall, boy it's been a long time since I devoured one of those. I think this is what you mean isn't it? www.nestle.com.au/Products/IceCream/PETERS_Eskimo_Pie/PETERS_Eskimo_Pie.htmGee "just" six weeks to reply to that one, guess that's an improvement at least. My apologies to you both, I'm making an early New Year's resolution to read around more, so this won't happen again .......... hopefully.
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Post by vox on Nov 6, 2007 14:51:32 GMT -6
Mmmmmm! Magnum's, now there's a chocolate covered ice cream!
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Post by Siren on Nov 6, 2007 21:26:27 GMT -6
No worries, kat. Yup, that's the Eskimo Pie I'm talking about. Mmmmmmm! We have a square, thicker bar, brand name Klondike, too. The chocolate coating is thicker than on an Eskimo Pie, too. How about ice cream sandwiches? Do you have those? Hi, Vox! Nice seeing you.
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Post by katina2nd on Nov 7, 2007 23:58:38 GMT -6
Ice cream sandwiches, first heard that term on "The Wonder Years" TV show as I recall, and a few times since and always wondered exactly what they were, and now I know at last, ummm don't look half bad either.
Not really sure if we have them down here Siren, don't recall seeing them which doesn't mean they aren't kicking around somewhere.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 10, 2007 21:39:25 GMT -6
Oh, the Wonder Years! I loved that show, almost as much as ice-cream sandwiches, which have to be eaten by squeezing the chocolate cookie part so that the ice-cream oozes out the sides requiring licking all around, then eating the cookie part last.
Some food is made to be played with.
And shoot - I've had just about everything in the last month except an ice-cream sandwich....everything from grilled cabbage, courtesy of Scrappy, to the best Reuben I can remember eating - a Black and White Turkey, all oozy with slaw and fresh turkey breast on marbled rye, up in a small, picturesque town called Glen Arbor near Traverse City. Mmmmm. Halloween candy - the chocolate stuff the girls won't eat - has been a nightly can't-walk-by-the-jar-without-reaching-in treat. Then there are those chocolate Bailey's filled bon-bon thingies that Scrappy brought me, which frozen and plopped in a mug of coffee make a gooey-ooey, creamery mess of heaven in a cup.
Shoot, and Thanksgiving is around the corner, then Christmas with all those cookies that seem to end up in my house because my friends feel compelled to bring them to me and my poor homemade cookie deprived family.
I'm sensing there is going to be a lot of roller-skiing in my near future......right after I finish off the last of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and the left-over Thanksgiving turkey.
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Post by Siren on Nov 10, 2007 22:35:08 GMT -6
I can't wait for Thanksgiving turkey!! It's my favorite meal of the year. But I can't decide what's better - the hot turkey meal with all the trimmings, or the cold turkey sandwich with a side of plain Lay's potato chips, enjoyed while watching football, later in the day. *grrrrr* That's my stomach growling, just thinking of it!
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Post by Phalon on Nov 21, 2007 0:30:58 GMT -6
Tonight, it's spinach. How much more stereotypical of a food to get stuck in your teeth can you get? Spinach dip and crackers - I love that stuff, and bought it this past Saturday to munch on, (as if there should be munching going on), while Hubs and I cook Thanksgiving dinner. Between he and I, it's already gone. And for dinner, I made homemade pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, and spinach. Mmmmmmm.
But nothing in comparison to that Thanksgiving turkey! I'm with you, Siren....dinner or raiding-the-fridge-after-the-meal left-overs? What's better? Can't wait to read your Thanksgiving meal (and left-overs) description - you always have the best food commentaries that leave my stomach growling just reading them!
Speaking of the power of suggestion, we watched Ratatoullee with the girls this past weekend. What a cute movie!!! It's one of those kid movies that I didn't have to suffer through, and one I wouldn't mind watching again. The "lead" rat as "Little Chef" was adorable, and his french cooking throughout actually made me hungry!
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Post by Siren on Nov 22, 2007 23:45:44 GMT -6
Oh, yum - spinach dip. I love that stuff!
We did have a great meal, Gams, but without turkey or much ham, if you can believe it. My sis and my mom, who prepared the turkey and the ham, respectively, both had oven trouble at the same time! A tremendous disappointment, as you can imagine, and embarrassing for them. But we had plenty of other things to eat - my mom's home-grown green beans...my uncle's home-grown sweet potatoes, smothered in brown sugar glaze and marshmallows...a broccoli & cheese casserole, heavy on the sour cream and cheese...mashed potatoes and gravy...my sis' homemade fresh cranberry salad, full of pecans and orange...green salad..Watergate salad, a delish Cool Whip/jello/cottage cheese concoction...corn/squash/onion stirfry...plus pies - chocolate, pumpkin, and pecan...and my sis' cinnamon-pecan bundt cake. And my sis prepared oyster crackers with a ranch/onion/garlic coating. Oooooh man, I love those! We munched on those while we prepared dinner.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 23, 2007 8:38:14 GMT -6
Those coated oyster crackers - I love those too. Xena-Sis always brings them over for our annual fall bonfire, Hub's Famous, (Infamous) Chili gathering....mmmmm.
For our feasting before the feast, I made stuffed make-it-up-as-you-go-along mushrooms; quite a tasty experiment. Our feast consisted of turkey, dressing, (we never stuff the bird - a hold-over from Mom's paranoia of food-borne illness; everything has to be cooked until there is no evidence that it was once alive, to include cooking the greenness out of any vegetable until it is dull-gray in color), brightly green colored green beans which if we were eating dinner with Mom would be considered undercooked because they were green instead of gray, mashed potatoes with gravy, rolls, and a yummy concoction of roasted and herbed sweet potatoes, parsnips, onions and mushrooms.
No pumpkin, apple, or sweet potato pie; the girls were "in charge" of dessert. They "made" cinnamon rolls, (out of a can), and a fruit salad of apples, grapes, pineapple, oranges, and bananas, (not the traditional dessert, but we did have a nice breakfast this morning). I cut the fruit.....Hubs decided we did not have a knife sharp enough for carving the bird, ("these knives couldn't find their way through hot butter"), and rigged up a contraption in the garage for sharpening: his electric drill with a sharpening stone attached, and held to his workbench by vises. He gathered every knife in the kitchen....at least twenty of them, (and all we needed was a sharp carving knife?). Hands full, on his way out the door to the garage, I said, "Do you really think this is a good idea on Thanksgiving? The emergency room at the hospital will be packed today with the Kitchen Accident Prone." He hesitated with look of agreement on his face before it dawned on him, "That was a joke, wasn't it?". I suggested he take the cell-phone, just in case I couldn't hear his cries for help. Some time later, I peeked in to see how the sharpening process was coming along....it seemed to be taking a long time. There he was, knives sharpened, but having too much "I Am Man; I Need To Use Power Tools" fun, going to work on his fishing knife, chisel, and axe. "Want me to do your scissors? Please?" I gently led him back into the house.
BP cut the bananas with a butter knife, which I'm surprised wasn't sharpened to the point of being a deadly weapon.
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Post by Siren on Nov 23, 2007 9:07:55 GMT -6
LOL! Aw, Gams, thanks for that! What a great post. From your mom's overcooked veggies, to Hubs' manic knife-sharpening, it's a gem. You really need to submit this one for publication. Great!
My late Aunt Tommie used to complain about my uncle, her hubs, over-sharpening all the knives in the house. He was a former restaurant cook, and could not bear to use a dull knife. He'd whip out the sharpening stone, and hone the knife to razor sharpness, which was hazardous to most other cooks, including Aunt Tommie. Her nicked-up fingers were a testament to this.
I heard an interview on "Today" with the lady who runs the Butterball Turkey Hotline, which awaits with a bank of phone volunteers to answer quesitons from panic-stricken cooks during the holidays. The lady said that the most unusual call they'd taken this year was from a man who wanted to carve his turkey with a chainsaw, but worried that the machine oil might be hazardous to his dinner guests. Actually, I'm betting it was his wife who was worried about the machine oil. I'm betting the man was so enamoured with the thought of playing "Thankgiving Turkey Massacre" that actually eating the mangled bird never crossed his mind. The Butterball Turkey lady said they recommended vegetable oil. She probably left it at that. I wouldn't want to argue with that man, either.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 23, 2007 10:34:19 GMT -6
I hated when my dad sharpened knives and I wasn't informed. I was so used to wiping the knife off with a paper towel and wrapping my fingers around the sharp edge, and once in a while I'd end up bleeding all over everything. You'd think I'd have learn not to do that, but the knives were rarely sharpened and I forgot over time.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 27, 2007 22:27:32 GMT -6
I made chili from scratch last night. AND cornbread....
Ok so the cornbread was not up to my usual standard but boy did it taste good under the chili.
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Post by Siren on Nov 27, 2007 22:31:52 GMT -6
All right - another controversy: cornbread - sweet or non-sweet? I will eat sweet cornbread, but only with a glass of milk, or after everything else on my plate. Eating sweet cornbread with something savory, like chili, is a weird combination to me. I was raised on non-sweet cornbread.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 27, 2007 22:33:33 GMT -6
Oooo....sounds good, Scrappy. Hubs kept saying this past week he's going to make cornbread, but hasn't had time yet. Maybe I can get him to make chili too.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 27, 2007 22:35:38 GMT -6
Dang Phalon we forgot the cornbread battle while I was there!
Howdy Siren!
I prefer and was raised on sweetish and soft cornbread. NO grit. Lot's of butter no matter what "extras" are in it.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 27, 2007 22:35:51 GMT -6
Oh, missed your post there, Siren. I like it sweet; Hub's calls that cake. He likes the non-sweet variety.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2008 22:33:19 GMT -6
Hob Nobs! I'd forgotten I'd stashed them away, to put in my stocking for Christmas, (Santa's gotta treat herself every now and then). I found where I'd stashed them today....I wonder if they'll last until tomorrow.
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Post by Siren on Jan 7, 2008 21:58:01 GMT -6
My friend Davey called and invited me for dinner - Mexican casserole and chocolate pudding. Lovely, both. And how wonderful, to have a hot dinner waiting for you to arrive.
Hobnobs all gone, Gams?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 13, 2008 23:49:51 GMT -6
Tonight, we had baked chicken - lightly breaded with fine, herbed bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. I make the best baked chicken; LX says so. I made a great salad too....baby spinach and green leaf lettuce, with thinly sliced beets, feta cheese, chopped walnuts, and served with Greek dressing. Looking for something a bit different, I saw the recipe in a magazine, forgot which magazine, exactly what ingredients to use, and ended up winging it. It turned out extremely tasty though.
Unfortunately the Hob-nobs are gone, Siren. I did use extremely self-constraint though, limiting myself to only two a night, until, (sniff), the container was empty.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 18, 2008 2:12:15 GMT -6
I love, love, love salads, but I hate, hate, hate the taste, (there is none), of winter tomatoes, and have been doing all kinds of things to my traditional tossed salads to avoid using them.
Broccoli-slaw is a favorite. I bought some once at the grocery's deli, but at $4.99ish a pound, I've been making my own since. Good stuff. Shredded broccoli and carrots, (though I usually end up chopping the broccoli very fine because my kitchen is devoid of cool kitchen gadgets, and hand shredding broccoli is difficult), raisins, sunflower seeds, and shredded cheddar. Toss it all together with some kind of creamy dressing - I like Vidalia onion dressing. Serve it as a side in place of cole-slaw, or a lot of times I mix it in with lettuce as a salad.
The combinations seem endless of what you can toss into a tossed salad. Anybody got any favorites?
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