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Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I want to go shoe and bra shopping with Giada! She seems like the nicest person!!

I may have to add her to my make believe friends list!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Where the heck does Ina find all those guys???? It's not that she manages to find them, but that she finds them with great talents and they stop by for lunch or dinner and fix up her backyard or her dining room all pretty. Giada would stress me out I think. She looks like a gal who takes her shopping pretty seriously!

Frittata and strata sound good. Especially with veggies thrown in. I saw Giada do a panini and it looked good.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Tish, that strawberry strata sounds incredible!!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Geez, now you guys have given me questions to ask! Who is Ina? I know who Giada is but not Ina. War, I've known you long enough to know the answer to the next question, but somehow I don't know it. Does meat make your tummy hurt because of what your mind thinks when you eat it or because of the way it tastes or because it doesn't digest well?

Oh, and now I'm starving after reading this thread! Thanks a lot, War! ROFL

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Ina Garten ... the Barefoot Contessa

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Landi
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07-29-2002

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
my make-believe friend rachael ray and i do lots of things together. i even have a pic of us at a cooking store.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Kota's favorites are a toss up between Rachel (cuz she cooks quick) and Sandra Lee (cuz she does the semi homemade stuff and has recipes that are easy for an 8 year old who's not allowed to cut stuff or cook over a flame yet.)

Twinks, part of it is that I am just not a big meat eater. Given a choice, I'd eat like Costa's list above 2 meals a day. Most of it is the IBS, my stomach can't handle anything the least bit greasy (like pork, fatty ground beef, even chicken is sometimes hard to handle.) Sometimes the meats I don't have much trouble with like ground turkey or extra lean beef or grilled chicken can make me uncomfortable so I only eat small portions of those. There's still a list of veggies I have problems with, but theres also so many choices of stuff I can eat and I never feel that uncomfortableness I feel even after a small portion of meat I can handle. I could very easily slip into a vegetarian diet (except not so much dairy) if it weren't for my family. I try not to cook to my diet, because it's much easier for me to skip the meat and whatever veggies I can't eat and just eat what I can and grab some fresh veggies out of the fridge.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Twinkie, I don't eat meat for a variety of reasons. I don't like the way I feel after eating (which is partly due to not being used to having to digest that type of food), I'm against the way the meat is raised, and its impact on the environment. A lot of my friends are the same way... they just feel better when they DON'T eat meat! It is a healthier lifestyle choice. I also don't do fried foods (my splurge is to oven bake "french fries") so except for the dairy, I probably have a very similar diet to Wargod. I do eat a lot of cheeses and nuts and beans, though (gotta get that protein).

I cannot STAND Rachel Ray (can she ever stop that damn giggle, or EVOO, or even worse, "yum-oh"!) and Sandra Lee drives me nuts (in one step she'll say "I want YOU to do this and this" and then in the next step she'll say "So, I'll add this and this" -- make up your mind, are you showing us or is it a hands-on less?).

BTW, my list above is pretty close to two of my meals. Usually, lunch is my big meal. Breakfast will be yogurt and fruit with homemade granola and sometimes a hardboiled egg. Dinner is usually lighter, and sometimes it'll just be a few crackers with cheese and fruit, or a handful of veggies and nuts. Lately, I've been lazy, and b'fast has been yogurt and fruit all whirled into a smoothie, with a handful of granola to munch on.

War, there's lots you can do with the kids and get 'em involved in cooking too. English Muffin pizzas are easy and fun, and they can put their own toppings on. Helping you doctor up a bottle of pasta sauce, and making the cheater lasagna (doesn't take too much precision to make a layer of ravioli, a layer of veggies, and so on), and the super tostadas are also something they can build themselves (once you bake off the tortillas -- and DO bake them, not fry them).

One thing, Wargod. Do be sure you're giving the kids enough protein, in one way or another. The daughter of a close friend of mine decided to go vegetarian, and she didn't really eat well. She was getting tired and run down and alot of it had to do with not enough protein. Once I convinced her to boil a half dozen eggs on the weekend, so she could run outta the house with an egg and some fruit and granola bar, she started feeling a lot better.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, Dakota's too much of a meat eater to let me not cook it for more than a meal or two a week. We do eat a lot of beans (I actually have no problem with any types of beans) and nuts in salads. Caleb's allergic to peanuts and feels like he's missing out on something big and important, he makes up for it with every other kind of nut and seed he can (he's recently gotten into soy bean nuts...are they called nuts? They look almost like peanuts anyways but they are soy bean.)

I do see what you are saying though. Despite my restrictions and desire to eat more veggies and healthy type stuff, I really do have a terrible diet. I skip breakfast most mornings, this family breakfast thing is gonna kill me or have me eating a ton of fruit, lol, and I tend to eat lunch only a couple days a week. That's not to say I don't grab a piece of fruit or a handful of brocoli during the day, but all in all I know my diet is terrible. I've had so many problems related to food that eating just isn't a very exciting thing for me most the time.

Ya know what ticks me off about Sandra Lee? The place settings. Ya got 3-4 people coming to eat do you really need name cards??? And her coordinating outfits to her table scape. Don't know why it irritates me but it does. I do like a lot of her recipes though for the same reason Dakota does, they are pretty simple and something my little cook can do with minimal help from me.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Coordinating outfits to her coordinating kitchen to her coordinating table scape. ACK! And sometimes, there's so much sh*t on the tables, how the heck do you see the person across from you???

Tell Caleb he's not really missing out on anything. He's still not allergic to the really GOOD nuts like macadamias and cashews and almonds (which are also really good for you). Roasted soy beans are yummy, as are pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. And all of 'em are great tossed into salad or pasta or rice.

And um... War? You can't live on just fruit and veggies. You have to have protein, and some carbs!

For Dakota, a lot of meals you can prepare without the meat, and then add the meat later. Make pasta, split it into halves, and add meat or sausage to one half. Make salads and top one with a piece of chicken. Make tacos and cook up a 1/2 lb of beef for those beef eaters! The rest can go all veggie if they like!

I've been a vegetarian for most of my life. And most of my various beaus and fiancees have been meat eaters. I've managed to convert quite a few into going meatless on occasion, and most often they suddenly realize they went a WHOLE WEEK without eating any meat. And they didn't miss it!!! And they didn't DIE!!! :-)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I'm glad to see so many of you have make-believe friends from the Food Network. Mine is Paula Deen (and both of her sons).

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I became a vegetarian in 1987 after reading "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins. It opened my eyes to how livestock was raised and treated for our consumption. It changed the way I looked at food. I only began introducing meat back into my diet when I was pregnant & told by my doctor that I needed more protein. These days, I eat very little meat, mostly chicken or fish and not on a daily basis. I'm lucky because my BF has the same eating habits as mine. The hard part is convincing my son to eat healthier.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I absolutely love the Kashi granola bars. They're my breakfast every morning (almond crunch is my favorite) -- unless we splurge on the GoLean Krunch by Kashi. I'm not a breakfast eater, but having these "quickies" around made it a lot easier, and after only a month of eating breakfast every day, I find myself actually hungry now when I skip it. :-)

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I have a collection of Moosewood Restaurant cookbooks. All organic and vegetarian. Love them! They have recipes at their web site.

http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/recipes.html

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Hukd, I love Paula and her boys! Though I do call her the butter lady, lol. We watched her make something one day where she just kept adding more and more butter and I kept saying, "she's gonna stop now, she's gonna stop now." She did teach me to make mini mexican pizzas which is now a family favorite cuz everyone can make them there own way.

Nick, some of those recipes looked really good!

Costa, I love my carbs, lol. Caleb loves his roasted soy beans, but he still thinks he's missing something big without peanuts.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I'm always curious about why folks are vegetatians since I lived with one for 5 years when I was fairly young and had to learn to cook for him. He was a veggetarian for conscientious reasons. He did't believe in killing animals for any reason. But he sure didn't mind living with an animal eater. LOL I could never give up meat but I didn't mind cooking enough meatless stuff in each meal to satisfy both him and my daughter and myself. Interestingly enough I haven't ever watched the Food Channel but I love to cook and I'm a very good southern cook, I've been told and I enjoy my cooking. I learned from my mom and dad who were both fabulous cooks and they both learned from their moms who were from Mississippi and Georgia many-acred, produce farms. A few animals, too, but mostly cotton and produce so they were great cooks also. Oh, I do watch a lot of HGTV shows, just none of the daytime craft shows and no Food Channel shows. I also have a lot of very old cookbooks and a very precious one to me; my mom's personal recipe collection. Occasionally, I even share some of the recipes with friends. AND, here's a great food tip from a book I just got from Dr's Oz and Roizin. They are on Oprah a lot and they've been on other shows, too. Eat 6 walnuts, 12 almonds, or 20 peanuts 30 minutes before you eat a meal. That way you will eat for pleasure and not for hunger which ensures you'll eat less. Also, never allow yourself to get hungry. Eat very often even if its only a little bit. If you get hungry your body goes into survival mode and makes you hungrier and also makes you hold onto fat. This is a really good book. Lots of great tips. They are fantastic doctors.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 6:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I refuse to eat meat of any kind (including soups made with beef or chicken broth). But I am not going to foist my opinions and lifestyle on others. It's interesting how people think I'll freak out when they eat whatever next to me (although I appreciate their concern). When I was in Utah in January, we went to a steak house. Everyone was wondering what I'd say. I'm fine, really, just don't make ME eat it. It's like religion... everyone's entitled to his/her own. I'll not push my lifestyle on you, and you don't on me. (But I really do appreciate people being concerned that it'll bother me. I mean, it does bother me, but I'm not gonna tell 'me that!)

Wargod, do you do cashew butters instead of peanut butters for him? You can *almost* fake it with a good nut butter! :-)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 6:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I talk all the tv cooks with a grain of salt. There isn't one that i just love every single thing about and could find a flaw with each one, BUT i get so many good and different ideas from each of them.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Soy nut butter, Costa. Up until a couple years ago we rarely kept pb in the house, but once he was old enough to pay attention to what he's doing in the kitchen, we started buying both. I'm still a little nervous about having peanut butter but we keep that and the soy nut butter in different cabinets and he's good about paying attention to rather something has peanuts or not. The last time he had them he broke out in hives (that was when he was about 2-3) but I really don't want to check and see if its gotten any worse since then!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Annie, that grain of salt you mention....is it sea salt or kosher salt? And if it's sea salt, is it gray sea salt, fleur de sel, or what?

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
LOL Tish..well it depends on what i am making!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Is sea salt healthier than regular table salt? I'm not a big salt person, rarely even cook with it, and I'm always amazed watching cooking shows and they're using it how they put tons of it in whatever they are cooking. I'm thinking it's got to be healthier and maybe a totally different flavor?

Kaili
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08-31-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
It has more minerals in it, Wargod, so it *may* taste slightly different- and since it does have more minerals in it, I imagine that would make it better for you. I'm not a salt person either.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i know lots of cooks like to use kosher salt cause it's coarser and it makes it easier for them to 'measure' with their fingers.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Sea salt really does have a milder flavor....but it's very expensive, so I almost always use kosher salt.