Bon appetit and salut!
The Texas grocery store chain, H-E-B, has a Mexican Hot Chocolate ice cream from their store brand line. It is fantastic.
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Nats is an institution where I live.
He started out doing joke shows for his friends who couldn’t cook in isolation, now he’s touring the country.
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I’ll trade you for the turkey bacon that has now appeared on the shop shelves except here they’re calling it turkey rashers.
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I did recall. Just to clarify, I meant I’d trade you for a corner of Eighth and West Normal Street with a side order of smiley food cart guy.
I make a very fine Irish fry. As a bonus you can have my boxty recipe for free, and some Tayto crisps or if you’re very good I’ll bring back Moro bars.
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I have now discovered some sort of monstrous Mayo dish from the deep involving pickled wrack and oysters.
Sounds suspiciously slithery.
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Oh honey, she clearly meant you.
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I found a small (50ml) bottle of Macallan Estate Reserve in my cabinet. No idea where it came from or who gave it to me, but thank you. It’s delicious.
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Good to know the whisky fairy is still doing her rounds.
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I love thick yoghurt or quark (not the Ferengi) with honey. I bought a jar of local honey and it is delicious.
Years ago, I started buying local honey and got Christel spoiled on it. She was out of town on business and she put some honey from a packet in her tea. She said she could taste the difference and was missing her good stuff immediately.
Honey is really the food of the gods. I got into honey after a trip to Italy, the bed and breakfast I was in had honey from chestnut flowers, and it was so delicious. Since then I am always trying out different types of honey. There is a huge difference in the taste depending on the flowers the bees get the nectar from. I don’t know how they get the bees to get honey exclusively from chestnut trees though.
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I have lost a couple of inches from my waistline over the last three months. Enough to do my belt one notch tighter, anyway.
The only real change in my eating habits I can think of is that I’m very rarely passing shops and thinking, “Mars Bar time”. It’s the hidden advantage of having no commute.
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I have lost a couple of inches from my waistline over the last three months. Enough to do my belt one notch tighter, anyway.
The only real change in my eating habits I can think of is that I’m very rarely passing shops and thinking, “Mars Bar time”. It’s the hidden advantage of having no commute.
It’s the most basic calorie controlled diet, 230 less a day without the Mars Bar.
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I have lost a couple of inches from my waistline over the last three months. Enough to do my belt one notch tighter, anyway.
The only real change in my eating habits I can think of is that I’m very rarely passing shops and thinking, “Mars Bar time”. It’s the hidden advantage of having no commute.
It’s the most basic calorie controlled diet, 230 less a day without the Mars Bar.
I just hit six months of going without eating cookies, cake, pie, ice cream, and candy. I’ve lost 15-20 pounds. I don’t even miss the stuff anymore. I’ve walked into candy stores and bakeries and nothing appealed to me anymore. I even turned down having a cake for my birthday. I’ve been eating more fresh fruit as my dessert. Lately, I’ve been enjoying cold watermelon a lot lately. It’s been so good!
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Congratulations, what a great achievement.
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I just hit six months of going without eating cookies, cake, pie, ice cream, and candy.
That’s fantastic Todd.
I am eating one cookie a day. Recently I sinned against my diet and scarfed down a whole packet of cookies and I immediately felt sick. It was weird, I was afraid it was something serious. I felt agitated, I was shaky and sweating and light-headed. I am not sure if it was the sugar or something chemical or psychosomatic.
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What do you drink for hydration? Just water? I don’t think I could give up caffeine.
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Good to hear Todd! Congratulations!
I don’t think I could give up caffeine.
I used to think that way until I started a trend to give coffee up a month or two every new years. This year is the third or fourth down and this year I haven’t picked it up again. I don’t steer entirely clear of it, I drink coke, Dr. Pepper and a cup of coffee here and there. But I don’t start every day out by drinking coffee. When I only drink it now and again the effects become rather apparent. I get warm, sweaty and slightly manic, while my tummy gets pretty upset. It’s not something I want to start every day by.
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I was raised in less enlightened times drinking a lot of pop. Packed with sugar. I always found water too boring though. As a replacement I now carbonate water and add a small bit of natural fruit juice to taste. It dramatically reduces the sugar amount.
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I’m eating a Hawaiian-style stir-fry of my own invention.
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Pizza with pineapple: yay or nay?
I’ll eat it on occasion. I think make a WAAAY bigger deal out of it than it actually is.
Pizzas are great because you can be very creative and innovative with the toppings and sauces.
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A true Hawaiian stir-fry would need to have Spam in it.
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Pizza with pineapple: yay or nay?
It’s not my favourite pizza topping by a long way, but I’m not vehemently opposed to it on principle like some people seem to be. It’s pizza, put whatever you want on top, that’s the whole point.
(I love anchovies and I don’t expect everyone else to; but neither do I expect them to act as though eating them is blasphemous like people do with pineapple.)
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I think it is because pineapple isn’t a traditional topping, as in from Italy.
You should see the menu from your standard swedish pizzeria. I’ll bring you some highlights from my local place. These are the actual items from the menu:
44. Adrian Special – Tomato, Mozzarella, Ham, Tenderloin Beef, Chips (fries), Bearnaise
48. Ravena – Tomato, Mozzarella, Chicken, Banana, Curry, Peanuts
Tacopizza – Tomato, Mozzarella, Minced Meat, Nachos, Corn, Taco sauce, Garlic sauce
70. Picasso – Tomato, Mozzarella, Kebab (gyros), Ham, Shrimp, Chips (fries), mild sauce, cheese filled crust.
And yes, these are real. I’ll show you the whole menu. It’s great, there are two number 48s and some pizzas randomly don’t have numbers.
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I think it is because pineapple isn’t a traditional topping, as in from Italy. That’s the only reason I think some are so much against it.
Which is ridiculous. Fusion food exists. I like to make “Indian pizza”- on naan, and with curry powder in the tomato sauce. Sometimes I’ll put curry powder on frozen pizza before I microwave it.
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I got notification that one of my favorite Speakeasy-style cocktail bars, Bathtub Gin (in Chelsea), is offering batch cocktails for pickup. I just ordered two bottles — Passion of the Negroni, and The 18th Room Sangria — each holding 3-4 servings for $33 per bottle, for pickup on Friday afternoon. So excited about this. COVID has messed up our food-and-drink adventures in Manhattan, but this will make things more bearable.
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I think it is because pineapple isn’t a traditional topping, as in from Italy.
I think it’s because pineapple is sweet and doesn’t go. It’s on pizza for kids. Why not grapes? Blueberries?
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Mixing sweet ingredients with savoury flavours is very normal in other cuisines and recipes, though (fruit in casseroles, sweet-and-sour recipes in general), so I don’t know why pizza gets to be this big exception.
It’s fine to have pineapple on pizza if you like it, go nuts, stick whatever you want on there, have peanuts and jam or cauliflower and apple, or a whole nutella pizza like the ninja turtles. Just don’t ask me to eat it.
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You should see the menu from your standard swedish pizzeria. I’ll bring you some highlights from my local place.
I see those and raise you:
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Many non chain pizzerias I have gone to have cheese pizzas for sale and then long list of toppings then you can add so you can be as creative as you like. I have always preferred places that sell by the slice.
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Sell by the slice is pretty rare globally I think, saw plenty in New York but not much anywhere else I’ve been.
On the other hand I see ‘pick your own topping’ quite a lot. Even those durian pizza guys do that.
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Sell by the slice is pretty rare globally I think, saw plenty in New York but not much anywhere else I’ve been.
On the other hand I see ‘pick your own topping’ quite a lot. Even those durian pizza guys do that.
In Italy they sell pizza al taglio, which is kind of like a slice except rectangular. They bake huge rectangular pizzas and then they cut off rectangular bits as big as you want them for takeaway, or eating it right away.
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I have always preferred places that sell by the slice.
Spoken (written?) like a true New Yorker! As I kid I was aware that pizza came out of the oven as a pie, but the baker (George or his brother, from George’s Pizza on West 231st Street in the Bronx) would immediately slice it up into 8 triangles which were then immediately purchased and just-as-immediately eaten burn-the-roof-of-your-mouth hot.
I feel kind of sorry for people who grow up thinking that pizza is supposed to taste like what you get from Domino’s or Little Caesar or, even worse, the frozen food case at the supermarket.
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I don’t get why someone would hollow out fruits and vegetables just to insert a small cake inside.
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I am drinking what purports to be whisky. It’s sickly sweet with a trace of sulfur? Like dairy milk when they changed the recipe and if you then blew out a candle on top and melted it. Artificial-tasting chocolate birthday cake?
Still, it was almost half price at 16 quid. So there is that. (Jeez I wonder why). The bottle is a nice blue colour.
I’m going to try mixing it with something.
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There is no reason to drink bad whisky in Ireland,
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There is no reason to drink bad whisky in Ireland,
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I don’t know about Tesco’s source, but Costco’s “Kirkland” whiskey is actually from Macallan or from Alexander Murray. And a few years ago I bought a 40-year whiskey that had a Kirkland label but came from the Glenlivet distillery.
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Sometimes store brand stuff can be very good. The Albert Heijn which is the biggest Dutch supermarket chain has a store brand called Brouwers which makes good beer.
The label looks good too. I like a bottle with a good label.
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Trying a Greek Bean-and-Vegetable Soup called Fassoladha.
It was very, very good. Actually, my mother doesn’t like beans, but she was willing to try some of the soup I made, and even she liked it, saying it’s the only bean dish she likes.
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When I lived in Cork, I specfically remember reading the table of contents printed on the Tesco Value Whiskey and it said:
Whiskey, Water
So clearly they have a powerful source.
My uncle in West Cork kept a still on his farm for making Poteen. Maybe he was Tesco’s supplier; if so, I recommend you pick up a few bottles for drinking, removing paint, and killing the COVID virus.
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Ethiopian spice blend:
1 part Paprika
1 part Pepper flakes
1/2 part of:
Garlic
Onion powder
Cardamon
Fenugreek
1/4 part of
Cinnamon
And
Cloves
1/8 part
Cumin
Coriander
Nutmeg
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Made a mistake. No cumin, but 1/2 part allspice. Drop the onion powder to 1/8 part. You could put in cumin, but increase the cloves to 3/8 if you do.
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I’ve got nectarines from the greengrocer that are really delicious. I think they must be tree ripened or something, they’re a bit more expensive but jeez they’re good.
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I had my first draft beer since March when my favorite craft beer bar re-opened today at 2pm. Haymaker got permission from the City to put tables and chairs on the sidewalk and in the parking lane in front of their storefront, and (according to the owner) I was their first customer in over four months. Regulations require that I can only be served beer if I order food, so the owner gave me an order of homemade fries on-the-house so I could enjoy my DIPA outside.
It’s good to be back at my “local”.
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Regulations require that I can only be served beer if I order food, so the owner gave me an order of homemade fries on-the-house so I could enjoy my DIPA outside.
I love those kind of regulations and getting round them.
In the 90s in England and Wales pubs famously had to close at 11pm (law that actually came into being during WWI to make sure munitions factory workers were up early enough the next day, it was only repealed during the early 2000s). There was an extension to 1am available for entertainment venues though, that needed you to serve food, have a dancefloor and live performance.
While that’s clearly intended for some kind of cabaret venue a pub near me just put on free fried chicken and chips in baskets, moved the pool table to the side for a ‘dancefloor’ and got some old duffer to play guitar on his own in a corner. Job done, we’re open ’til 1am.
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This is the the kind of delivery I like to get.
Should keep me going until, oooh, the end of the week at least.
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Regulations require that I can only be served beer if I order food, so the owner gave me an order of homemade fries on-the-house so I could enjoy my DIPA outside.
I love those kind of regulations and getting round them.
In the 90s in England and Wales pubs famously had to close at 11pm (law that actually came into being during WWI to make sure munitions factory workers were up early enough the next day, it was only repealed during the early 2000s). There was an extension to 1am available for entertainment venues though, that needed you to serve food, have a dancefloor and live performance.
While that’s clearly intended for some kind of cabaret venue a pub near me just put on free fried chicken and chips in baskets, moved the pool table to the side for a ‘dancefloor’ and got some old duffer to play guitar on his own in a corner. Job done, we’re open ’til 1am.
In Sweden, even if you can’t get a license for serving spirits, wine and beer you can serve folköl (≈peoples beer, 3.5% beer) if you serve food. Or at least you could, laws might have changed.
The local strip club had micro wave food (pirogs and pan pizza) for sale after failing again and again to get a proper license.
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This is the the kind of delivery I like to get.
I am so jealous of you right now…
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Regulations require that I can only be served beer if I order food,
Yea, around here most pubs are selling pretzels and crisps. last time I was at the brewery I let the pretzels float in the beer before eating.
This is the the kind of delivery I like to get.
Yesterday I was watching Toronto play Columbus in Hockey and noticed a Brewdog ad. I think Ronnie said that Brewdog had a place in Ohio.
Apparently they have been partners with Columbus since 2017.
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Ben & Jerry’s reveals why you should store their ice-cream tubs upside down in freezer
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ben-jerrys-ice-cream-freezer-140520715.html%5B/quote%5D
I can’t speak for Mr. Obiwombie, but I have nothing to say on this matter.
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I’m drinking La Trappe Witte Trappist, a perfect crisp summertime beer
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