The Food and Drink Thread

[urnofosiris]

That's a lot of work for a shrimp. Thanks for the recipe. I am no lover of cooking (too lazy), but I might just try the tofu version sometime.

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[Alia16]

I let my microwave do the cooking! hehe

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[cattwoman98111]

sounds like a lot of work, but it actually is not. and well worth what work is required.

[BytrSuite]

You know, I think I might actually like sweet potatoes, or yams, whatever you want to call them. I'm under the impression that they're basically the same thing.



I spent so long saying that I didn't like them that it'd been a while since I actually tasted them. I tasted a tiny bit tonight and it wasn't horrible.



That happened with mushrooms too. I wouldn't even give them a chance and I just did one day, on a whim. Now I love them.

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"...the sharks got smarter."

[xita]

Go mushrooms and yams too!



*down with the mushroom haters!

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[maudmac]

Hee, I hate mushrooms. *spits* They taste like dirt to me. Then again, there are some pretty gross things out there that are perfectly acceptable to my palate. *cough*kefir*cough*



The way I understand it, yams and sweet potatoes actually are two different species. But what Americans call "yams" are a kind of sweet potato. It's kind of confusing.



I just had grits today. Mmmmm!

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[xita]

oh , you suck go eat tofu!

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[maudmac]

I will! Tofu is gooooood. Tofu!



I'm especially fond of stir-fried tofu, best if it's spicy. On the bland side, I like tofu salad (which is like egg salad). Tofu is very versatile. Now, I wouldn't just eat a big ol' hunk of tofu by itself. Even I have limits.

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i got a dance ain't got no steps  /  i'm gonna let the music move me around

[BytrSuite]

So you'll eat dirt but not mushrooms?



I don't think I could bring myself to try tofu on my own. Someone would have to talk me into it.

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"...the sharks got smarter."

[xita]

I would eat tofu if it was stuffed with meat and fried

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[BytrSuite]

tofu probably gets a bad rap.



Even though it's only pure fluffy sugar, I love cotton candy. Some of the flavors are interesting. They have a bunch of flavors nowadays. Strawberry, blue raspberry, apple. Yum.

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"...the sharks got smarter."

[cattwoman98111]

Darn you Kathy, now I want cotton candy.



I did a bad, bad thing today, I treated myself to a nice lunch, and not just nice but very fattening as well....Mmmm… Nan, Chicken Masala, Spiced Chia. Yum!



Now I must find a way to work it all off, good thing it’s Friday! Look out dance floor here I come!

[maudmac]

My beloved tofu definitely gets a bad rap!



I had some weird cotton candy thing a while back. It was a big bag with lots of little different-flavored cotton candy balls in it. They looked like those Star Trek things. Tribbles? But smaller. Heh, and not alive.



Ooooh, Indian food is my favorite! Aloo bengan and paneer pakora and vegetable curry and...oooh!...mango lassis are soooo good.



Fuck you all! I'm hungry now!

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Edited by: maudmac  at: 3/5/04 6:25 pm

[good2cats]

Hi Maudmac,

I happen to think tofu is great also but being an unrepentant carnivore and also being from the south where the women are sweet and the food is tasty I don't feel I have eaten unless an animal has died.I don't want to upset the vegetarians and if I had to kill the animal myself I would only eat plants(I know I'm being hypocritical)I hate cotton candy and Indian food(allergic to curry powder.

Take care,Karen

I also wanted to say I love your avatar.I'm a big fan of cats.

Edited by: good2cats at: 3/5/04 9:41 pm

[maudmac]

Howdy, Karen. I'm in the South, too, and it's mighty hard to be a vegetarian here sometimes. Especially when travelling. I don't have to venture too far outside my little bubble to find people who have no idea what tofu is and who think there's something that just ain't right about people not eating meat. Meat's important to us and I can't deny feeling a little bit of a sense of loss that I'm not getting to clean out the chitlins like my parents and grandparents did.



Please don't worry about offending vegetarians. This is the Food and Drink thread and meat is food to the overwhelming majority of folks, so you're sure in good company here, no matter what you do or don't eat.



Oooh, my avatar. Thanks! That's my boy! He's baaaad, but I love him a whole lot. I keep thinking my girl cat deserves to be my avatar for a while, but she hasn't mastered that "Look at my claws, you think I can't kill you? You just wait til I'm done laying around and I'll show you" look that I'm fond of.

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Edited by: maudmac  at: 3/5/04 10:02 pm

[good2cats]

I did try the vegetarian lifestyle and I like fruits and vegetables and assorted grains.I lasted for about six months.I love to cook and bake bread but I suck as a vegetarian.I have an overwhelming desire to put side meat in my greens.And I once heard the three southern food groups listed as sugar,fat and alcohol so I also have a tendency to pour liquor in to many things.(myself included)



That is one fine looking baby.My cat Holstein(black and white like the cow) is large but not very intimidating does not have a single thought in his fuzzy little head.His sister,Isis,can however shred flesh with the best of them.

Edited by: good2cats at: 3/5/04 10:24 pm

[whitewiccan]

my favourite meal is mashed potatoes and beans on a roll with crisps. Absolutly brilliant! my second favourite would be fries from anywhere, i can't get enough of fries.



i'm a vegatarin but i don't really eat meat Substitutes, cause i don't miss the taste of meat at all.



I Absolutly love chocolate, especially chocolate orange.



So that's pretty much all i eat.



not really very healthy is it?

Edited by: whitewiccan at: 3/9/04 9:45 am

[ohtrustysodamachine]

not the healthiest person in the world but

i have wicked cravings for peanut butter and chocolate spread sandwiches every now and then.......well and now lol.....

oh and sometimes i add cheese to that little mix

yes im very gross lol

[hot monkey luv 66]

i'm a vegetarian (but only since june last year) and from the south too! :-) woot.! just wanted to put that out there incase anyone cares. lol.

sometimes, i have huge huge cravings for a big mac. i have no idea why, i don't even like them that much, nor do i crave the taste of meat, but the commercials are sooo very appealing, lol.



i'm also probably the worst vegetarian you'll ever meet, i don't like tofu, at all, and i don't like most veggies. *le sigh* oh well.



the cutest things ever!!!!!!

[BytrSuite]

Asparagus kicks ass. I had some the other day and it's just really good. I over-cooked it a little but, oh well.



Way too much chocolate because there's a ton of it in the drawer right next to me. So, whenever I'm too lazy to go look for something not as bad for me, I just have some chocolate.

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God: Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.

[maudmac]

Mmm, I like asparagus, peas, green beans, corn... Now, about corn...did you know that there are studies linking corn consumption with cross-national homicide rates? I shit you not! Corn! I love corn. (Of course, there are studies linking everything to everything, so your mileage is guaranteed to vary.) I like potatoes, onions, and eggplants best of all. Tasty!



Wait, I forgot tomatoes. Tomatoes are good. Mater sammiches are 'specially good.



And chocolate is good for you! Only dark chocolate, though, I think...right? Antioxidants or something. I don't like dark chocolate, though. It's odd to me. Bitter.



I have a confession. I found some mushrooms I like. What is the world coming to?

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[BytrSuite]

Tomatoes kick ass, too. I don't think I'm allergic to corn.





Were those the "special" mushrooms, Holley?

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Bender: Y'know, I was God once.
God: Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.

[maudmac]

OMG, no! OMG! No! I can't believe you'd think such a thing of me, Kathy. I would never eat a "special" mushroom! "Special" mushrooms are against the law!



No, actually, it was just regular mushrooms, but in this weird lemony shit that sounded gross to me, but turned out to be very good. I couldn't eat a big ol' bowl of them, but a few mixed in with other food was nice.



So I'm not completely a reformed mushroom-hater yet. But if I ever start loving black olives, someone please flag down the mothership and ask them to return my original brain, please.

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[wilgen]

What color should the flag be?

[maudmac]

This would be a good mothership-flagging flag, I'd say: (And if it didn't flag down the mothership, surely it would flag down some lesbians. )



Spamming this thread has made me hungry. Since it's after 6 a.m. and it's light out, I think I'll just stay up and go make biscuits. There are some really good veggie sausage things on the market. Gravies, too. Now, gravy is a mighty fine food, ain't it?

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[Urn of Osiris]

Yum! Food!



I was just eating my breakfast of Spaghetti and meatballs (shredded mushrooms, tofu and veg balls) Totally meatless! This made me so hungry I had to toast some bread to go. I'm completely carb loaded and ready to start the day.



I don't really understand why people don't like tofu. Sure, it is ugly coming out of the box, but once you cook it up and blend it into veggies its delicious! I make everything with tofu. My poor family, they never get meat and they are huge carnivores. I'm not big with dairy foods, which is ironic living in the Dairy state of Wisconsin. So when we dine out the kids load up on charred flesh and bovine boogers.



I just came back from vacation. I am calling it two weeks of binge eating. I had the most delicious Chili & Salt tofu on earth. I've eaten sinful Mud cake. My ass hates me but it was all so worth it. I saw some sites too, but Yeah for food!

I think by now most of you know that chocolate is totally a food group for me. Nothing like a big chunk of dark chocolate with roasted almonds. *licks lips* That and a cup of coffee. The breakfast of champions. Who needs wheaties.

Urn of OsirisA new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. Charles Brower

[vix84]

Ah, Urnie, you and your food.



I have that image of you walking down Katoomba Rd, wanting to throw up your chilli and salt tofu (and don't forget the vegetarian fried rice, mmm) into a bush. Poor thing!



Chocolate is totally a food group. Mudcake itself is a foodgroup. Gloria Jean's mudcake. Oooh Chinese Garden's mudcake (now that is a mudcake).



My personal fave food is vegan yum cha. Being able to sit on your rapidly growing ass and being brought plate after plate of delicious things (including tofu in various shades and colours ) is just so fab.

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[mollyig]

The other week I had my first experience of choosing from a menu in an Indian restaurant in England. Couldn't believe the choice available as compared to the ones in Ireland. I mean 8 different kinds of naan bread!! I can definitely say that my favourite food in the world is bread (except the stuff I had in Merica). Although potatoes and chocolate come a close second (but not together!).

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You're the one true thing I know I can believe in - Sarah McLachlan

[tybee317]

Mollyig, I have heard that England has great Indian restaurants, you just confirmed it.



Let's hear it for shrimp and grits, this is a Low Country favorite. It's better when you catch your own shrimp, and I can throw a cast net, except for I threw myself off the boat one time. I am all about the grits, but they have to be yellow and stone ground, none of that instant white pasty yucky stuff.



My other love is oysters on the half shell (or steamed) with Lousiana hot sauce (not Tabasco) limes and crackers. Satan's appetizer,as I say.



Maudmac, with you on the veggies, but I would like to add the misaligned okra. I love okra fried, steamed and pickled. Saw two lesbians get into a fight one time over pickled okra, it was awful....The fight, not the okra. Anyway, okra looks like it is in the hibiscus family when it is growing. Ode to Okra. Now for a sidebar, in Sierra Leone, okra means something like ingumba (spelling may not be correct), which later translated into gumbo. Food history lesson for the evening.

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Edited by: tybee317 at: 3/15/05 6:01 pm

[FineyMcFine]

I was going to start a thread but used Search and lo and behold this thread existed already, joy! So I'm going to revive it.

For our quiet, relaxing New Year's at home tonight I made artichoke dip, which is a familiy tradition. Here's the recipe:

1 can artichoke hearts
1 can green chiles (Old El Paso, chopped)
1 cup lowfat mayonnaise
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
smallish but healthy dollop of jalapeno sauce (optional)
1 loaf small party rye bread (Rubenschlager, found in the deli section)

Mix it all together and bake uncovered at 350 for 30 minutes. Serve hot on party rye.

ETA: I forgot to say bake in a large Pyrex baking dish, the biggest one you have like 10x13 or 9x13 or whatever size you would cook a lasagna in. If you cook it in something smaller it gets too thick and doesn't cook thoroughly; you want it thin so it cooks all the way through.