Archive through August 12, 2002
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Archive through August 12, 2002
Bmh | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:19 pm     I always think that restaurant food is better than my own..thanx Aus..I will def. check out that website |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:20 pm     I'll only go there if they have the recipe for Krispy Kreme donuts, Aus! Seriously, I'll have to check out that site; sounds interesting! |
Aus10 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:25 pm     teehee....I guess I shouldn't tell you Costa that we've got a Krispy Kreme factory about an hour from here......Oh.....Donuts! You can make them yourself....but they are a true pain.....it's a whole lot easier to just go buy em. Nothing like a Krispy Kreme sugar rush! |
Wiseolowl | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:40 pm     This thread has gotten me to thinking-- if they are so bored-- why not have some fun and set up a basic cooking school. There must be a couple of them -maybe even Josh who could participate -am thinking of that new PBS program where people pay good money to go to a Scotish castle to learn the basics? How about learning the basics of bridge - if one of them knows the game - one of skill and luck that could provide hours of enjoyment -even a tournament- how about an old fashioned game of cherades..showing my age but these people seem to have no imagination |
Avery | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:40 pm     I am glad to live in the day and time where you can just order out what ever you want, I raised 14 boys during the days of mother always makes huge homemade meals. All my sons, grown now, are always asking for homemade meals, I tell them to close their eyes and go to their happy place. Convenience food products came way too late in life. |
Wcv63 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:42 pm     Avery!!! Love that! Close your eyes and go to your happy place! I just use, "You feel like eating a homemade meal? Heckofa feeling isn't it?" |
Aus10 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:44 pm     LOL@avery......*Aus10 clicking her heels together* There's nothing like Apple Pie...There's nothing like Apple Pie......dam* I should have specified not Hostess! |
Lurknomore | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:48 pm     There was one thing Nicole made that I actually web searched, and have yet to find her technique. She made a purple colored rice. Said it was a chef's secret, real easy and she wouldn't say how. ARGGHHHH. I AM a good cook (with or without a book honest) but I've never heard of this. Now onto the donuts. I FINALLY had my first Kristy Kreme earlier this summer. I came close about a year ago in Florida but the line was long, we were tired and said we'd go back HA. IT was, um, interesting. I had a sugar rush going for a few days lol. But I do want to try again. This was a Krispy Kreme in midtown Manhattan, and they were cold. If I understand the concept right one of the things that make them special is they are warm. We'll see. Rumor has it they are opening in MA soon. |
Car54 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:48 pm     LMAO,Avery. 14 boys! Really? OMG, I would live in a hotel and order room service every day if I had cooked that much! I think Nicole's big dinners gave the HG's day a focus last year. There wasn't a lot of participation, she did most of the work, but they all came together in the evening and shared a nice meal. The planning, prep, cleanup all helped pass the time. It does not seem like they have been as organized with meals this season. |
Lurknomore | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:50 pm     OMG FOURTEEN BOYS? We have a saint among us LOL. A very good friend of mine is one of four boys, and having been around that household I often want to send his Mom flowers (and a valium). LOLOL. I don't know how she did it. I can't even fathom 10 more in the mix (I'D need the valium now for that hehehe) |
Avery | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:51 pm     Lurk I ate at a restaurant last weekend, my entree came with purple rice, I know that they it had a name, am trying to call them and ask you for ya. I did try it and it was too crunchy for me, but I am sortof a food snob. LOL, yes, 14 boys, and THEY did live in a hotel and I was maid and room service! |
Bmh | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:53 pm     I have never had a krispy kreme in my life..and I have been longing for one..I live in Mass..so I have never come across one..I always hear from my friends in different states how good they are..I want one!..They better be opening one in mass soon! |
Drpepper | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:55 pm     AVERY YOUR MY HERO! |
Aus10 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:56 pm     How does one become a food snob Avery? Yell demeaning words directed at your plate? |
Avery | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 05:57 pm     Puhleeze, nothing hero about it, was back in the day where birth control was a rolling pin under your pillow. Lurk, no answer yet! |
Ladytex | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:00 pm     I know that I'm coming into this late (as usual). We eat Frito Pie at football games regularly. Seems to be a big seller down here. It also can be as quick as you want it to be. We eat chili over the fritos with lots of cheese. For frito salad, we use ground beef cooked with taco seasoning, lettuce salad (usually bagged from the grocery) cheese and honey french or catalina dressing. Yum!! |
Pagal | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:02 pm     14 boys! Bless you Avery! |
Webkitty | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:08 pm     You are a saint! Avrey 14 boys, holey moley! No wonder you tell them to go to their happy place! LOL! I love to cook,(not bake, that's something different) I don't use cookbooks. Tonight we had broiled swordfish, sauted baby shitake mushrooms finished off with a wine glaze, zuchinni sauted in olive oil, and a few jumbo shrimp on the side. One of my favorite things to eat is homemade potstickers. Yum! I like my own cooking better than most restaurant food, but there is one restaurant down here, Carrabas Itialian Grill that has the best wood fired meats and the best crabcakes I have every had! I don't eat donuts, but have tried Krispy Kreme once, too sugary for me! I would seriously suffer in the BB house, but then I would never go in there! |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:11 pm     Car54 and Wiseolowl, I agree with both of you. Nicole's dinners made it seem like the house was a family, even if they bickered all the rest of the time. And I, for one, would be so bored outta my mind that I probably WOULD be cooking up a storm, just for the heck of it. I wonder if BB would provide stuff that you'd need? For instance, did they "win" garlic, or would that be included in the baking/cooking category. Do they get to request want they want for condiments (catsup, butter) or is it just supplied? A BB3 cooking school would be a kick, though. Ya think Food TV would be interested? |
Yllek | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:11 pm     I don't think that I have ever felt so innadiquate in all my life! I cook mac and cheese with hot dogs at least once a week! How sad is that!!! LOL |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:13 pm     I'm really not a big Krispy Kreme donut eater. I eat one maybe once every six months. I'm not a big donut eater at all. But for those of you "new" to Krispy Kreme, there's two secrets: 1. Yes, get 'em while the "HOT" sign is flashing! When they are warm, they literally melt in your mouth. 2. For those chocoholics, get a real sugar rush. Get a chocolate glazed KK. They are glaze like normal with a regular glaze, and then they go thru the machine again for a chocolate glaze. Ohmylordylordylordy. I guarantee you will ONLY eat one, though! |
Tabbyking | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:14 pm     you can make purple colored rice by putting in the skin of the bermuda (purple red onion). i use water with boiled bermuda onion skins to dye eggs at easter. they aren't a bright purple, but a nice pale shade. maybe that was part of her secret? |
Costacat | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:14 pm     Yllek, I learned to cook as soon as I could peer over a stove top. And I was baking before that. I've taught myself most of what I know. My mom even calls me up and asks for recipes, or how to's, or what do you use's. I think I'm a good cook for two reasons: I'm creative, and I love to eat! |
Webkitty | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:15 pm     Yllek, everyone is good at different things. For instance, I wish I could sew like Car does. Other people can paint, some people can even get the hang of a 'puter, which I am still scared to death to have in my house! Don't feel bad! |
Aus10 | Monday, August 12, 2002 - 06:15 pm     Somehow I don't think Emril and Roddy's snotty nose would get along? He'd probably make fancy chicken livers and brussel sprouts...... |
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