Forum: Eat, Drink, and be Merry

Broth and bread.

You read that correctly, in America, pizza is classified as a vegetable because it has a smear of tomato paste across the top of it. It counts as one of your five-a-day according to Congress who have turned down a challenge to the existing rule...

... but really, really do. Right now I am eating rice with a sauce I made. The main ingredients are butter, roast wattleseed powder*, and nutmeg. Tuna and corn are thrown in, too. These flavours work brilliantly together. It should be more of...

Wait for it... Diet Coke Hard to remember a world without it.

We're going to a chili potluck this weekend, and I've been charged with bringing some with no beans. Anyone have a good recipe they could share?

I just mentioned in the appliance thread that for years I didn't own even a manual can opener, as we never consumed canned food. Things have changed, though. As much as I hate to admit it, I keep the following canned food around: tomato paste,...

I just found this gem, which is new to me, and I think it's about time to start thinking about stuff with words again. True to my thoughts, the only stuff I packed in my little shoulder bag (besides some sheet music, because I have brain damage...

Someone, just gave me a packet of Kendal Mint Cake and I had forgotten just how gorgeous this stuff tastes. Is this a pecularly British food or are the equivalents abroad?

It exists. This holy mecca of foods has been created. Seriously, is there any way it could get any better?

In chat this morning, we were discussing pineapples. Someone--possibly ivan asikov, but I wasn't paying attention--commented that it's hard to imagine how anyone ever thought to hack through the outer shell to find the tasty goodness inside;...

Mine is, two thick cut slices of poppy loaf bread with, lettuce, tomato, pickled gherkin, cucumber and white cheddar cheese with mayonnaise. I'll never be able to rear my head in the weight loss thread ever again.

What a gloriously elegant idea. You fill a small canning jar with pie crust and pie filling, then freeze it. Whenever you're feeling like just a bit of pie (or an adorable gift to give someone) you just take it out and bake! I need to find...

I am thinking of doing the Melt Challenge when I'm next in Cleveland. The Melt Challenge consists of 13 different cheeses all held in place by 3 pieces of grilled bread, a pile of hand-cut fries & slaw. It weighs in at over 5 pounds of...

You didn't know we were having monthly cooking contests? Well. That's probably because I just decided we are. Also this month is actually more of a baking contest. Anyway. December's cooking baking contest challenge is.... MAKE AN EDIBLE...

I love Polish sausage and sauerkraut, but my husband is not a fan of the latter. So, I'm trying to come up with recipes and ways of using the sausage that don't involve the kraut. One thing I do with it is make sort of a mock cassoulet thing...

How do you feel about a nice bagel with cream cheese? Also, what kind of bagel do you like? What kind of cream cheese? Do you like your bagel toasted? Bonus questions: When did bagels come out of the closet?

Mine's an Ulster Fry minus the meat. Something like this, with a mug of tea. Eggs either fried or scrambled. fried tomato. potato bread. soda bread.

Let's see who wins out in the breakfast bread battle royal.

Not much more to this than the title. It's just that question, what of your food dislikes surprises people when you tell them you don't care to eat it? For me it's maize. I love cornmeal foods, but corn itself - the kernels or on the cob,...

it is a truth universally acknowledged that kids are weird, and do weird things. It is for this reason that they sometimes make up odd foodstuffs. Sometimes for the purpose of being gross and sometimes ... just because. Kids. Weirdness. My...

Dominos are now considering how to build a franchise on the moon for when it becomes settled by pioneering astronauts. Is it April already?? Don't believe me? Here you go. What on earth could you order, the Margharita with asteroids and...

Heinz have dusted off one of their better ideas. Being able to personalise a Can of Tomato Soup with a "Get Well Soon" Message and have it sent to someone ill. Admittedtly, it costs £1.99 and takes 3 days to deliver, by which time the...

Summer is coming and with it warm, weather, blue skies and the chance to eat outdoors on the lawn. Would you stick with sandwiches and fruit squash. How about a few savoury dishes and maybe a bottle of lemonade. For the refined perhaps a...

The gods have been cruel, and besides water have limited your beverage choices to the following. Which do you choose?

A charity competition in Edinburgh to eat the hottest dish that a curry house could make has ended up with two of the contestants going to hospital as their bodies were not able to take the heat. Ok, they ramped up the heat by using hottest...

There is a large online campaign developing due to the change in recipe of one of Britain's favourites HP Sauce. The owners have changed the recipe slightly and reduced the salt content. Just a simple little change, but it appears to have had a...

Anyone else a fan? Really enjoyed his show. Especially enjoyed the books, and am reading through them again now with my daughter. The circumstances surrounding his dropping out of the public eye are disturbing, an seemingly true, as he...

Well?

I was just looking at Sociological Images, and one of their posts today is this breakdown of the ingredients in a Snapple Iced Tea. Frankly, getting excited about it seems odd to me, since it seems to me that most sweetened teas are obviously...

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1221/guinness.html

Apparently they're illegal in the USA. They are chocolate eggs with a shell inside that contains a toy. Fun for all the family, just don't choke on the toy.

I really fancy an Apple and Blackberry flavour Ice Cream about now. No idea why? Anyone know where I can find one?

Yesterday for my birthday I went to a local bakery that is so freaking wonderful I only dare to go there once or twice a year. It's too dangerous otherwise. Last night, I saw something in the display case that instantly caught my attention. It...

Its strange but when younger, on those occasions where I had to drink wine, it was invariably white, couldn't stand red, it just seemed to taste dry and wrong. Nowadays, I seem to have almost grown into the taste of red wine and will enjoy it on...

I don't know why it is but brand name foods usually taste just that little bit better than the shop's own equivalent and so if I can, I always prefer to get the brand name products. Kellogg's Cornflakes always taste better than the other brands,...

Milk?

When I first got into the web, it was for stuff like food and music and stuff. Like there is these whole things about that stuff. Full of knowledgeable people and whatever, and just like IRL some handles got to be like ridiculous and lots of...

Gotta pick one.

A scottish brewery have claimed to come up with the world's strongest beer which should be treated like a spirit. The beer, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, is apparently 32% proof. Anyone want one? The band of twelve drummers is looking...

Thank you Thorntons, thank you. A 4 metre square chocolate bar. Now where is my invite?

I'm not talking about the cost of a Manhattan at the W hotel lobby bar($17! You bastards!), I'm talking about things that I buy at the store that are stupidly overpriced for what they are. Things like Red Bull. It's a tiny can and there really...

Fall always seems like time to bring out the slow-cooker...such an easy way to make comfort food for chilly days and football! I made this recipe today; it was super easy and tasty. You will never eat more tender chicken! 4-8 chicken thighs 4...

Friendly Flotsam(tm) Ingredients: 1 shot vodka 4 oz lemon lime soda 1 tablespoon finely crushed dried yard waste 1 drop olive oil (optional) In a wide-mouth glass combine the vodka and soda. Carefully distribute yard waste over surface...

The weekend after next my nephew (he's an adult, fwiw) is coming up to visit me, and the last time we spoke, he mentioned having become a vegetarian. One of the two nights he'll be here I've invited some other people over for dinner, and I'm kind...

Garlic!

Everyone should "rep" their cultural heritage.What would you bring to the table? (recipes encouraged) Collard Greens - for my AA heritage About 3/4 pound of smoked turkey necks or wings or legs Big bunch of collards (2 or 3 of those x...

I'm finding or coming up with something new a couple of times a week, but I never have anybody to really inflict my discoveries on. To that end, I am inflicting them on all of you. Of course, you're welcome to inflict right back. Vegetarian...

If the POTUS says it's horrible, its horrible. It doesn't matter that Julia Gillard thinks its ok. And the US Customs are trying to prevent the spread of this vile stuff. Only the convicts complained and Kevin Rudd was allowed to take it into the...

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