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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 14, 2025, 02:14:56 PM »
I used to like various ice cream treats, mostly stuff that I used to buy from the Good Humor man when the truck came through our neighborhood.  I doubt that happens much any longer.  Dreamsicles were my favorite.

I went on a cooking tear today:
blueberry muffins, turkey chili, and a pot of vegetable soup.  I'll freeze a bunch of this so I can have it when I don't feel like cooking.  It would really help if we had a larger freezer.  I bought more ground turkey so I'm conflicted as to whether to make and freeze turkey burgers or a second batch of the chili.  When we were on the island, the temp. was around 80+ degrees year round but we often had soup for dinner.  You'd have thought that such warm meals would be too much in a warm climate like that, but no.  It became quite normal.  I don't know about warm American summers, though.  Today is a lovely rainy day with cool temperatures.  My tomato garden is really happy for the water.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 13, 2025, 11:27:41 PM »
I'm sorry I do not see myself becoming a chickpea fan.

On reddit there was a discussion on "vegan cheese" and I argued there really isn't a good "alternative" to the real thing. You can get lactose free in a strong cheddar, and cabot is like the best for that, but if your line is rennet... well cabot still does that.

I have never once enjoyed a dairy free "cheese" and have actually been horrified when accidentally buying a queso that isn't actually cheese. Especially when it is in small print.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 13, 2025, 11:25:27 PM »
Nerds popsicles.
I can't really eat nerds anymore. They're chunks of sugar. But the popsicles have nice flavor.
I had a recent health unpleasantness and the nerds bomb pops are fantastic. golly the regular bomb pops though, they suck.

It's also sad how small they have made these things. I remember as a child realize they were making popsicles smaller, and I wondered then, who the golly gets to do that?

I still wonder who the golly gets to do that. And wish someone could make them stop.

Dinner was tacos. Nothing fancy. Ground beef, sauce packet, cheese, small tortillas, some mild guacamole. The prepackaged stuff I find the medium has seeds and I don't get that.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 12, 2025, 08:15:52 AM »
Those muffins are like crack.  They turned out really well. And there's only one left so the temptation to bake another batch is pretty strong.  I'll have to rummage around in the fridge and see if it makes sense.  We take the paper off them and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes to heat them before we eat them for breakfast.  I'm going to have to take up jogging to counteract the calories.

And I use less sugar than is called for in the streusel and they're still plenty sweet.  Stuff like this makes one understand how gluttony became one of the seven deadly sins.  https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/blueberry-muffins/
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 10, 2025, 01:23:55 PM »
I think some falafel is made with fresh ground fava beans.  A lot of the falafel you get in middle eastern restaurants in the US is made from dried ground chickpeas and it's like eating spicy fried sawdust balls.  You need to lube it up with tahini paste to choke it down.  So I get why you'd balk at it.  But there is some falafel that is pretty palatable.

I generally make hummos with canned chickpeas, and add tahini, garlic, and lemon juice, salt and ground cumin.  It's delicious and it freezes well.  It's good on wraps with sliced fresh vegetables like garden tomatoes and cucumbers.  There's a good deal of pretty crappy commercial hummos available with all kinds of weird additives.  But it's so simple to make, I don't get why one would bother unless you don't have cooking facilities.  It's best made in a food processor since blenders usually struggle to puree the beans.  I generally run the garlic through a press before chucking it into the food processor.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 08, 2025, 02:26:12 PM »
I made blueberry muffins today.   And then I was exhausted.  So now I'm on here.  I should do something productive, but beyond laundry and the muffins, I'm beat.  I attribute this to some kind of Covid hangover.  I feel so much better but I'm just tired.

Apparently, white button mushrooms are known as cogomelos de Paris in Portugal.  How these common grocery store mushrooms became associated with Paris is a mystery to me.  But I had the best mushroom risotto of my life at the "Monastery of Piglets" (Mosteiro de Leitão) near Batalha.  It was so creamy and the mushrooms seemed like wild large brown ones.  Not crimini, not portobello, but I'd love to know the recipe so I can replicate it.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 6pairsofshoes on June 08, 2025, 08:38:08 AM »
I once really liked cream of mushroom soup, and also cream of celery.  Now, I give them a wide berth.  There's so much gum and flour in those cans.  They can't be good for you. 

I have no idea what we'll eat for dinner.  I really should cook but post Covid, I have no desire to cook and have been slowly emptying out the freezer.  The prospect of chopping vegetables for an hour or baking something just seems like too much trouble.  But I really should get with the program and make something.
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Food and Drink / Re: What are you eating / What did you eat.
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 07, 2025, 04:02:42 PM »
Yeah, I don't think I've ever really tasted the vodka in vodka sauce, but Simek's has something special going on there. Also a woman run business, which surprised me. They do a lot of good works as part of their business. Apparently when I bought my ziti, another was donated to food banks. I like that.

They're mostly a meatball company but I guess I got lucky. I got mine at publix. I didn't post in the plant based thread, but so far of the michaelangelo frozen ziti, I prefer the meatless one best, it's more like mac and cheese than a lasagna. For me, Ziti is about cheese.

We got a frozen green bean cassarole for next week and I joked about how we never have green beans and those crispy onions at the same time. My aunt said she has the same problem! The crispy onions sit and sit and then they're past date and you're left wondering why you bought them if you never used them.

Cream of mushroom soup has been a massive "no" for me from childhood. I once heated up a can for "lunch" when I was maybe five or six. I ate WAY too much of it, and the obvious happened. Since then I can't stand the smell or flavor. Mom said she once had that problem with ketchup.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by 8ullfrog on June 07, 2025, 03:57:28 PM »
I admire your discipline. This is a decent thread.

The thing is, I think a lot of the meat alternatives are trying to be "just as good" instead of being their own thing. Like when I've been "budget limited" I've made a refried bean and cheese "sandwich" and that wasn't half bad. I don't need a science experiment. In fact, a lot of pushback beyond and impossible got hit with was how incredibly unhealthy their formulas were.

I will say one time when I was food limited, a friend talked up falafel to an unreasonable amount. I was expecting like croissant mixed with cheese in a nugget form, and instead... it was falafel. He never once mentioned chickpea. I don't care for chickpea.
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Food and Drink / Re: Plant based alternative products Review
« Last post by smokester on June 07, 2025, 03:47:54 PM »
Just noticed this post and I'm posting so it shows up in my list. I haven't the time to reply right now but this topic definitely interests me considering I haven't eaten meat for 33 years.
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