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The discussion revolves around a vibrant exchange of food-related topics, with participants sharing favorite recipes, culinary experiences, and kitchen mishaps. A notable focus is on lentil recipes, with suggestions for dishes like chocolate lentil cake and lentil lasagna, as well as creative uses of lentils in various cuisines. Participants also share recipes for pasta with pesto, grilled shrimp marinades, and Indian dishes like dahl and gulab jamun. There’s a strong emphasis on improvisation in cooking, with many contributors discussing how they cook "by feel" rather than following strict measurements. The conversation also touches on cultural influences, such as the appreciation for Lebanese and South Indian cuisine, and the importance of traditional meals like the Indian sadya. Additionally, humorous anecdotes about kitchen disasters and the challenges of cooking techniques, like frying mozzarella sticks, add a lighthearted tone to the thread. Overall, the thread celebrates the joy of cooking and the communal sharing of food experiences.
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Then maybe it is the former *ashamed* lol

I am a pb pig :cry:
 
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My savior

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  • #3,993
I've been eating so much red meat lately I feel like a lamb/cow
 
  • #3,994
HeLiXe said:
I've been eating so much red meat lately I feel like a lamb/cow
I told Evo Child just the other day that I wanted light vegetables because I've had a diet of mostly meat for the past couple of weeks, and I could feel it. :eek:
 
  • #3,995
I totally understand Evo. Last night dinner consisted of a toasted pita with tzatziki sauce only lol (made at home from yoghurt, cucumber, salt and pepper)
 
  • #3,996
HeLiXe said:
I totally understand Evo. Last night dinner consisted of a toasted pita with tzatziki sauce only lol (made at home from yoghurt, cucumber, salt and pepper)

Next try adding a few veggies (raw or sauteed) be sure to include green pepper, onion, and tomato.
 
  • #3,997
WhoWee said:
Next try adding a few veggies (raw or sauteed) be sure to include green pepper, onion, and tomato.
Thanks WhoWee :biggrin: I usually have it with raw lettuce, tomato, and onion--but wasn't in the slicing mood last nite. Next time I'll try it with sauteed veggies.
 
  • #3,998
One of my favorite treats as a kid was a root beer float. I had to give those up fifteen years ago when I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome [blood sugar problems]. In the past I couldn't stand the taste of diet drinks or diet ice cream, but I find that products sweetened with sucralose [Splenda] are pretty good. It dawned on me the other day that I could use diet root beer and low-carb ice cream and see how it goes. So last night I got some diet A&W RB and Breyers low-carb vanilla ice cream. Woohooo! It was pretty good! After fifteen years I can finally enjoy a tasty root beer float again... and without passing out when I'm done!
 
  • #3,999
Evo said:
I went on a peanut and peanut butter binge once, ate peanut stuff all day every day and lost 5 pounds.

Could i make peanut butter with peanuts and soft cheese?

Would it be as healthy?
 
  • #4,000
wolram said:
Could i make peanut butter with peanuts and soft cheese?
Peanut cheese :biggrin: lololl
wolram said:
Would it be as healthy?
Definitely not but it sounds good...with celery mmmm or apples :D:D:D:D
 
  • #4,001
Ivan Seeking said:
One of my favorite treats as a kid was a root beer float. I had to give those up fifteen years ago when I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome [blood sugar problems]. In the past I couldn't stand the taste of diet drinks or diet ice cream, but I find that products sweetened with sucralose [Splenda] are pretty good. It dawned on me the other day that I could use diet root beer and low-carb ice cream and see how it goes. So last night I got some diet A&W RB and Breyers low-carb vanilla ice cream. Woohooo! It was pretty good! After fifteen years I can finally enjoy a tasty root beer float again... and without passing out when I'm done!
I used to order root beer floats at places like McDonalds or Burger King - before I more or less gave up on them. They really had a hard time with that.

The Deluxe Burger Bar with it's selection of multi-national beers spoiled me with regards to great burgers and a great beer selection. Friday night was usually spent at Deluxe.
 
  • #4,002
We had an A&W drive-in shop two towns away. They had great RB floats.

Not as good as our home-made root beer, but still pretty good.
 
  • #4,003
I'm cooking down a big batch of marinara today, with onions, basil, and mariana (Roma-style) tomatoes and jalapenos. I'm going to thicken it quite a bit, since it will form the basis for batches of chili. I'd like to be able to wait until the sauce tomatoes ripened en-masse to start making sauces, but unfortunately my plants are being damaged by late blight. There is no chance of saving them, so I'll salvage as many fruits as possible, before pulling and burning the plants. Sad.
 
  • #4,004
:( sorry turbo
 
  • #4,005
HeLiXe said:
:( sorry turbo
It happens, but I wish it hadn't happened. I love making up nice sauces and stocking the freezers with them. I feels great to go to a freezer and get some marinara, instead of heading to the pantry to open cans of store-bought tomatoes and try to dress them up. It's a matter of quality. I'd prefer to cook with my own produce, if at all possible.
 
  • #4,006
wolram said:
Could i make peanut butter with peanuts and soft cheese?

Would it be as healthy?
If you have peanuts and a mortar and pestle, you can make your own peanut butter and get quite a workout at the same time. Peanut cheese? well, I've seen cheese logs rolled in nuts like pistachios before.
 
  • #4,007
Oh, my neighbor is grilling steaks on his electric grill and they smell fabulous!

They've upped the fine for charcoal & propane grills to $200. The police went through the neghborhood posting notices on everyone's door last month.
 
  • #4,008
I made chicken and dumplings last night. I didn't have milk for the dumplings and thought buttermilk might be too strong, so I substituted water.



Don't do it, my dumplings, although light and fluffy, were completely bland.
 
  • #4,009
Evo said:
Oh, my neighbor is grilling steaks on his electric grill and they smell fabulous!

They've upped the fine for charcoal & propane grills to $200. The police went through the neghborhood posting notices on everyone's door last month.

I smoked a case of ribs with charcoal and hard woods for about 6 hours yesterday - my son said he thought the house was on fire when he turned onto our street.
 
  • #4,010
WhoWee said:
I smoked a case of ribs with charcoal and hard woods for about 6 hours yesterday - my son said he thought the house was on fire when he turned onto our street.
LOL!

(send me some)
 
  • #4,011
I've never had chicken and dumplings :cry:

I bought the cheapest whole wheat bread at the store and just had a slice with some peanut butter. It is called Sara Lee Soft and Smooth something or other lol...I've never thought of bread as being smooth, not even this one...
 
  • #4,012
HeLiXe said:
I've never had chicken and dumplings :cry:
awww, when you come here, I will make you real old hashioned chicken & dumplings, the kind Jimmy Fallon raves about. His mother also seems to have made biquick dumplings.

I bought the cheapest whole wheat bread at the store and just had a slice with some peanut butter. It is called Sara Lee Soft and Smooth something or other lol...I've never thought of bread as being smooth, not even this one...
Ack, I've Sara Lee whole wheat bread, I ended up feeding it to the squirrels, so cloyingly sweet. It was like a desert bread, when the list list of ingredients is "flour, high fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, honey, molasses...
 
  • #4,013
Evo said:
awww, when you come here, I will make you real old hashioned chicken & dumplings, the kind Jimmy Fallon raves about. His mother also seems to have made biquick dumplings.

Ack, I've Sara Lee whole wheat bread, I ended up feeding it to the squirrels, so cloyingly sweet. It was like a desert bread, when the list list of ingredients is "flour, high fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, honey, molasses...

eeew, sugary bread! A lot of store-bought spaghetti sauces are way, way too sweet too. Yuck.
 
  • #4,014
turbo said:
We had an A&W drive-in shop two towns away. They had great RB floats.

Not as good as our home-made root beer, but still pretty good.

As kids, we had a good old-fashioned A&W drive in within bicycle distance. On a hot summer day, a race to A&W for an RB float was always a good option. And they had the BEST tacos back then. I have never been able to figure out the source of the flavor but they were most tasty; esp with a RB float! Mmmmmmmmm. Almost makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

I've wondered if it might be that everything was fried in lard back then... I know it did provide for a different flavor for fried foods, as compared to the vegetable oils used today.

There was also a local, small, Mexican restaurant, back then, that created a lifetime taste mystery for me. They used some spice, or pepper, of combination of things that created the most wonderfully Mexican flavor - absolutely unique and highly addictive! This was our favorite place in all of Southern California to eat. And I have never been able to figure out what the spice was. Thirty-five years or so later, Tsu brought home some home-made salsa from a Mexican woman at work, and that salsa had exactly the same flavor. I recognized it in an instant - no doubt about it! After all this time I had finally found it... I thought. The woman who made the salsa couldn't remember which batch we got or what it was. She thought it might be one type of pepper providing the unique flavor, but I tried some and that wasn't it. Soooooooo close! :cry:
 
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Evo said:
awww, when you come here, I will make you real old hashioned chicken & dumplings, the kind Jimmy Fallon raves about. His mother also seems to have made biquick dumplings.
Thx Evo!
Evo said:
"flour, high fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, honey, molasses...
:bugeye: are you sure it wasn't one of their cakes? lol j/k *gets package to compare* Ah the label says no high fructose corn syrup...ingredients: Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, wheat gluten and yeast...and then 2% of everything under the sun -_- maybe the "soft and smooth" breads are an improvement + 2% of the kitchen sink
 
  • #4,016
HeLiXe said:
:bugeye: are you sure it wasn't one of their cakes? lol j/k *gets package to compare* Ah the label says no high fructose corn syrup...ingredients: Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, wheat gluten and yeast...and then 2% of everything under the sun -_- maybe the "soft and smooth" breads are an improvement + 2% of the kitchen sink
And it's the 2% of every inedible ingredient under the sun that really stinks! Well, you can eat them and most people do, but they don't appreciably contribute to the nutrition of the subjects, IMO.
 
  • #4,018
I like to eat noodles and also like pizza but don't how to make pizza there are so many types of pizza but i don't like all types of pizza some favourite pizza i like is cheese garlic
 
  • #4,019
For those who love http://www.tarladalal.com/" cuisine!
 
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  • #4,020
For the last couple of days, I have been trying to salvage my sauce tomatoes (Marianas, hit by late blight) and freeze up some marinara. I use a food processor to pulp the tomatoes, chilies, green peppers, onions, fresh basil, and garlic, then simmer down to about 1/2 volume. Add salt and pepper to taste. With good sauce tomatoes, it should not be necessary to add any sugar, but that is an option if you have to contend with some tomatoes that are not fully ripe.
 

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