What are you eating right now?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://brinkmedia.com/~common/mocks/Condimenation/Melinda_s_Habanero_Ketchup.jpg plus fries or anything is amazing.

[Fathom Zero]

That looks extraordinary.

[Zhukov]

I'm going to make some crab cakes tonight, and I'll post the results.

I didn't make crab cakes, and I wont be posting the results.

[Kitsa]

I'll put that in the minutes.

[Fathom Zero]

:lol

[monster_movie_night]

i have a fatass bag of M&M i had bought over at Costco which i had a coupon for 2 dollars off so it a great bargain.

[All Hail Duke]

french toast sticks

[Kitsa]

coke zero with like 3 whiskey cherries in it

[Kitsa]

Fruit Gushers. Delicious, delicious Fruit Gushers.

I like the orange ones. I wish I could get whole boxes of popsicles, whole packets of fruit gushers, etc all in orange.

[executioneer]

kitsa you aren't supposed to eat build grist how are you ever gonna save yourself from the meteors

[Fathom Zero]

Crush them jester fools to get more.

[executioneer]

or whatever you prototyped the monsters as

[Fathom Zero]

:O That's true.

Mine would be booooooks.

[Kitsa]

you have a point

[kahljorn]

what the hell just happened

[executioneer]

homestuck motherfucm

[Pentegarn]

Not a right now thing, but I am goint to whip up a batch of spaghetti with beef and Italian sausage sauce today

[Kitsa]

I am going to a memorial day cookout. I had an idea for layered jello (it worked in the past), but I did not factor in my own impatience. I let the blue on the bottom set (mostly) and let the red cool (a little) before I poured it on, and I thought I remembered that I had to pour the new layer down the side of the bowl. But when I did that it just sort of dug a path under the blue down the side and pooled on the bottom a little. Now I have a bowl of vaguely layered purplish murky jello and I wonder how I ever successfully pulled off the rainbow one in the past.

But I'm also making a Fruit Plate!

And my mom bought the giant bratwurst-sized Hebrew National hot dogs, so I'm pretty stoked about that :onlymoderatelystoked

[Dimnos]

I just ate a brot stuffed with cheese wrapped in bacon and deep fried on a bun smothered in cheese onions and some sort of fancy german mustard with a side of green chili and choizo cheese fries. God I feel like I'm about to die but damn was it good.

Best part is I'm about to hop in the car with the fam for a there hour ride home. :lol

[elx]

strawberries with nutella & sliced green apple with peanut butter! best summer snacks.

[Zhukov]

That sounds tasty. In a sandwich?

[executioneer]

PUSSY HEH HEH HEH :thrasho

[Esuohlim]

Leftover pasta

Loading up on carbs at 3am thank you chojin for the tip

[Fathom Zero]

BRATS AND METTS BECAUSE I AM KING OF GRILLED MEAT

[Kitsa]

I made the old mommy standby of cupcakes in ice cream cones instead of paper. The mommies knew what they were doing...no mess. They're difficult as hell to transport, though.

[captain516]

rainbow brownies :O

[kahljorn]

fag

[All Hail Duke]

allergy tablets

[Kitsa]

I had vegetables and rice for lunch. Currently trying to figure out what to do for dinner. Thinking tabouleh and veggies.

[Fathom Zero]

TABOULI :O

[Kitsa]

Yeah, had to nix that because it had dried honey in the mix and I'm allergic to honey.

Who the hell puts honey in tabouleh? :(

[executioneer]

chicken methi malai :d

[kahljorn]

METHI HEAD

[Mad Melvin]

SELF MADE BEEF JERKY, BITCHES

[Esuohlim]

IS IT FOR THE BEEF JERKY JERK OFF


EDIT: whoops, slow on the draw

[Guitar Woman]

I didn't have enough instant oatmeal packets for lunch, so I crushed a couple of honey-flavored granola bars and mixed them in with my shit.

It was kind of fantastic.

[Kitsa]

spice drops. One got stuck to an area of exposed tooth over a crown and I did one of those just-electrocuted jigs.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I wanna get some of this fried kool aid
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jun/14/fried-kool-aid-hit-fair-chicken-charlie-says/

[Kitsa]

I was very good for dinner (fruit salad, cauliflower, veggie corndog), so now I am eating a warm chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven.

[Kitsa]

peach ice cream that our local dairy only sells in July and August.

[All Hail Duke]

doritos

[Nick]

Too much.

[Chojin]

I didn't have enough instant oatmeal packets for lunch, so I crushed a couple of honey-flavored granola bars and mixed them in with my shit.

It was kind of fantastic.

2011
eating instant oatmeal
i seriously hate this meme

[Chojin]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267500_10150300789370907_670255906_9488302_8211513 _n.jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/262137_10150300790295907_670255906_9488307_2942350 _n.jpg

[george]

i ate some pub mix.

and barqs root beer. i lived in MS and was friends with the kid whose parents sold the Barqs brand to coke. he was nice, we shot guns at his house and i stared at his sisters tits.

[Pentegarn]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267500_10150300789370907_670255906_9488302_8211513 _n.jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/262137_10150300790295907_670255906_9488307_2942350 _n.jpg

What is the sauce?

[executioneer]

my guess is wasabi + soysauce

[Pentegarn]

I was thinking wasabi and ginger myself

[Fathom Zero]

ham, taters, and green beans.

Myself, not the sauce.

[bubbles]

im drinking ice house and george is making chicken and rice. I love food!

[Chojin]

my guess is wasabi + soysauce

10 points for griffindor

[executioneer]

http://www.angriestmonster.com/blarg/vagrantpotter.jpg
aw yiss

[Dixie]

So a few months back I found out I was allergic to wheat. We're not talking "oh i have a tummy ache. I must be gluten intolerant.", i get horrible skin rashes from eating wheat. this wasn't a sudden thing either. i've had severe eczema most of my life, i just figured out what triggered it in february.

so, now i eat gluten free. most of the time it pisses me off because the replacements for the things i like to eat taste fucking horrible. the tasty-cake gluten free chocolate chip cookies? they taste like crunchy vegetable oil with chocolate chips. gluten free bread? tastes like bland nothing (except udi's, that shit is GREAT). the rice pizza crust? tastes like rice pizza crust. so in a sense it's good because it forces me to eat healthier.

onward to tonight's fabulous dinner.
i can't really cook often here because we live with other people and it's hard for me to really cook without cross-contamination so most of my meals are pre-packaged and or salads.

this evening for dinner i decided to have pancakes. typically i use pamela's pancake and baking mix, so far that's my favorite because the gluten free bisquick is ehhhhhhhh. well, i mix my pamela's mix and i decide to crumble up and throw in the rest of my blueberry stilton cheese. it tasted awesome.
the end

[Chojin]

how can you be injun and allergic to wheat

don't you people basically live off of frybread

[ThrashO]

rest of my blueberry stilton cheese. it tasted awesome.

Dude I think my grandma tried to get me to eat Stilton when I was a kid, isn't that the shit that looks like it's loaded with dead bugs?

If so, I hope you know there's a special circle of hell for people who ruin pancakes. >:

Also, I'm eating wings that came free with a pizza from dominos. Boy do I know why they're free :puke

[Kitsa]

I was all excited because I had a bunch of stuff fresh from the garden and was going to make it all for dinner. I picked a small basket of blackberries (and got the SHIT scratched out of me in the process) and agonized over what I was going to do with them...pie? preserves? sauce?

Finally I decided that I was going to make sort of a crumble thing, and because I wanted it to be extra good I disregarded my own recipe for the crumble stuff and went with someone else's. Long story short, big mistake. It's dry and, even though I added cherries to sweeten it up a bit and add more liquid, it's sour :(

Anyway, I also had roasted summer squash in marinara sauce, and garlic bread. The rest of the produce I gave to my mom (wax beans, strawberries, zucchini, peas).

[Dixie]

blueberry stilton is not like regular stilton. it's sharp and creamy and has lovely blueberries in it. i think you're thinking of blue stilton which is like most blue cheeses and has veins in it.

Chojin, i have no idea. i am certainly not thrilled about it, but it could be worse. avoiding wheat/gluten isn't too hard these days, liking doing it is another story.

Kitsa, i'm sorry about your blackberries :( you should donate it to someone you don't like. but it sounds like your garden is very lovely and filled with delicious! do you salt your squash when you roast it? i've always hated squash and someone reccomended salting it and frying it.

[creeposaurus]

Make Blackberry Jam so they won't go to waste Kitsa! You can throw in some honey so it won't taste as sour.

[Kitsa]

When I want italian-ish food, I just pan-sear it with some garlic powder (never garlic salt!) and serve it with marinara sauce. I like it better than pasta.

When I'm cooking stir-fry, I do it at very high heat, in the thinnest gloss of peanut oil, and serve it with peanut sauce or ginger dressing.

[Kitsa]

I've been eating too damn much the past couple of days, and all of it wonderful. There's a certain deli that makes the best roast beef sandwiches on the planet...I normally am not big on meat, but omfg. They shred the lettuce superfine, so it's more like fancy-shredded cheese, and there's a big pile of it on a toasted bun with homemade mayo. Fucking amazing sandwich.

So I had that last night, and then for lunch the past two days I've had roast turkey and stuffing. I feel like I'm living some sort of bizarre Thanksgiving thing out of season.

[k0k0]

So a few months back I found out I was allergic to wheat. We're not talking "oh i have a tummy ache. I must be gluten intolerant.", i get horrible skin rashes from eating wheat. this wasn't a sudden thing either. i've had severe eczema most of my life, i just figured out what triggered it in february.

so, now i eat gluten free. most of the time it pisses me off because the replacements for the things i like to eat taste fucking horrible.

I found out 2 months ago I was allergic to wheat also. And I've had keratosis pilaris most of my life, which is a bunch of small bumps on my skin and it looks like it's going away since I stopped eating wheat completely also. Have you found any kind of recipe for pizza crust that is good? Every time I've made pizza crusts from gluten free mixes from the store. I've tried 4 different kinds and they all taste yeasty, and that aftertaste stays with me for over a day. Also, have you also noticed that gluten free breads taste like stale bread?

[All Hail Duke]

had a small steak, mashed potatos and gravy, a biscuit and a glass of sweet tea

most i've eaten in the past few days

[Shrubfest]

Tea, juice, cereal, antihistamine, multivitamin, levothyroxin and ibuprofen.

Nutritious.

[Mad Melvin]

I just got back from a bar and i'm super hungry. I had a frozen margherita pizza in the freezer, so I put some shrimps and octopi rings on top of it and put it in the oven. Yum. Maybe I should take some aspirin on the side 'cause my head hurts like hell.

[Womti]

I'm just ate eric choad's credit card.

[Shrubfest]

Do you just vomit words?

[Dixie]

I found out 2 months ago I was allergic to wheat also. And I've had keratosis pilaris most of my life, which is a bunch of small bumps on my skin and it looks like it's going away since I stopped eating wheat completely also. Have you found any kind of recipe for pizza crust that is good? Every time I've made pizza crusts from gluten free mixes from the store. I've tried 4 different kinds and they all taste yeasty, and that aftertaste stays with me for over a day. Also, have you also noticed that gluten free breads taste like stale bread?

Udi's Gluten-free whitebread tastes great fresh without being toasted. but once those breads get frozen you HAVE to toast them. All other gluten-free breads need to be toasted. Honestly I never buy anything but Udi's nowdays.
pizza crust is tricky. I don't think i would trust gluten-free pizza crust mix personally. now, i live with my soon-to-be in-laws. I can't do alot of cooking here so i haven't been able to experiment. if you look online there are lots and lots of recipes for gluten free pizza crust. Most of the manufactured ones are rice flour based. they're kinda ehhhhh. the best one i've had so far was at a place called the Mellow Mushroom in raleigh nc. theirs tasted potato flour based. it was sweet and soft! it gets soggy, but i put it in the fridge for a couple of days and reheated it and it was still good.
this sounds like a good recipe for pizza crust:
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Gluten-Free-Pizza-Crust
as soon as i get my own house i will be doing all sorts of gluten free baking experimentations :)
i wish you luck!
let me know how it turns out for you if you try it!

[Zhukov]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/Vincered/DSC_1226.jpg

I make the best curries in the world.

[Nick]

http://26.media.tumblr.com/eRzxOQo1Lo6afgjiqRHmMDr4o1_500.jpg

Dear god, these!

[Pentegarn]

One has to wonder why you aren't eating a bowl of Boo Berry?

[Nick]

Because I don't like BooBerry? The stores in Alabama don't even sell it.

[Esuohlim]

DON'T LIKE BOO BERRY? :faint

DON'T LIKE.... :faint :faint :faint

[Zomboid]

:lol

I can't give away anymore pickles, OTHERWISE THAT'S WHAT YOU'D BE EATING RIGHT NOW, MILHOUSE!!!!!! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :picklehat

[Pentegarn]

DON'T LIKE BOO BERRY? :faint

DON'T LIKE.... :faint :faint :faint

Thrillho is right that is a sign of the Apocalypse

Z0GFRcFm-aY&ob=av2n

[Zhukov]

http://arnotts.com.au/downloads/didyouknow/546a_NICE__minisite.jpg

[bigtimecow]

parmesan goldfish. mmmmmm

[Kitsa]

Chocolate milkshake for the first time in yeeeears.

[Tacobot]

Nutter Butter's

[MarioRPG]

Raspberry pop tarts yeaaaah such a nutritious breakfast.

[Kitsa]

I had a turkey "hot shot" (turkey on bread with mashed potatoes on the side, covered in gravy). I'm supposed to eat bland food and it's the blandest thing I could find on the menu. It was pretty gross. I just ate the turkey.

[Womti]

chicken-flavored maruchan ramen and brisk lemon iced tea.

[Pentegarn]

Was a good day by the old off ramp i see

[Kitsa]

I had a sandwich at Friday's. It had some sort of whiskey sauce on it. It was good, but I spilled it on my shirt. Then I smelled like that sauce all day because I couldn't get all of it eradicated.

Then I saw someone I haven't seen in months, and he got to see me looking like a slob with drips of sauce down my shirt that were still wet from me trying to scrub them out. Also, I smelled like whiskey barbecue sauce. 100% class.

[k0k0]

I usually stick to 1500 calories or less a day, but one day out of the week I'll eat myself something tasty.

I made a frito pie and ate that with a dr pepper followed up with a snickers bar.

[Fathom Zero]

Five tacos from the Bell. I think I'm gonna die.

[k0k0]

When I was a little guy, like 9 or 10, I used to eat 3 burritos and 3 tacos from taco bell all the time. I was the skinniest little kid too. I've never been able to eat as much as when I was a kid.

[Fathom Zero]

Things from Taco Bell are 'food' in name alone.

[Mike]

Goldfish and Stolichnaya

[Chojin]

PILLS

GOOD BUY CROOL WURLD

[executioneer]

aw man I just took some pills too :( maaaan

[Kitsa]

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/friedcoke.jpg

"Fried Coke" at a fair.

All it is, is funnel cake batter with coke syrup in it. They make it like a normal funnel cake, flip it around in a ridiculous amount of cinnamon sugar, pour more coke syrup over top, and finish it off with a big gob of whipped cream and cherries. It was ok, I guess, as funnel cakes go. I hate greasy stuff so I don't think I could do this more often than once a year. It was hard to eat because it was so sticky and sugary...the ones I'd seen before were like donut holes, and that's what I thought I was getting.

[k0k0]

The only thing I'll eat at the fairs are turkey legs or corn on the cob. I'll usually have one in each hand.

[Shyandquietguy]

For breakfast I am having Hamburger Helper with Jimmy Dean pork substituted for the hamburger and a freezer pop.

PS: Kitsa that thing looks gross but good you know what I mean?

[Sam]

I just had the worst hamburger ever. I took one bite of it and threw it down in disgust. Then I threw up in disgust.

[Kitsa]

I went to this creepy place called Buffalo Jack's. It's old and dark, and there are all these taxidermy animals looking down at you reproachfully while you eat.

I ordered a turkey club sandwich and the turkey actually had shards of bone in it. Bone and hair in food are really nasty. Also, the fries were still frozen.

I shall take my business elsewhere.

[MailCall]

Grilled cheese and fries from Five Guys.

[Kitsa]

doubleshot and a caramello bar.

I have eaten very unhealthily this weekend.

[Womti]

2 hot dogs, chicken noodle soup and 4 chocolate chip granola bars

[k0k0]

Sounds like a good dumpster day.

[Womti]

it's actually more like food from a day program

[Pentegarn]

Food from a day? :confused

2 hot dogs, chicken noodle soup and 4 chocolate chip granola bars

You know the outreach program frowns upon stealing those extra granola bars from the children. They need to eat too you heartless ass

[Womti]

:lol :x :picklehat

[Kitsa]

I made an Indian cauliflower dish that I make all the time, and it's usually ok, but this time it turned out fucking horrible for no reason I can think of. The only thing I changed was that I took the oil down from five tablespoons to two, because I thought it was too oily before.

It was completely bleh :(

[MarioRPG]

I've come to the conclusion that scalloped potatoes are still gross.

[Kitsa]

My mother in law makes a dish she calls "hobo potatoes" which, to the best of my knowledge, just involve sliced potatoes and foil. Maybe you should try that.

Tonight I drowned my spelling-bee sorrows in barbecue sauce. Dynamite!

[Fathom Zero]

I'm not eating it right now, but I dreamed I ate it:

Currywurst and pommes frites in a folded paper cone. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I want some bad. They say that, if nothing else, you can remember tastes and smells from when you were very young. Boy, do I ever.

[Seven Force]

Sounds great

[Kitsa]

I don't know about the currywurst but pommes frites sound okay. They're best right off the cart.

I'm eating some chex mix of my own invention. I hate the squiggly stick things and the rye chips in chex mix, so I just made one that's all chex with some m&ms and peanuts in it. I forgot to get pretzels for it :(

[Kitsa]

I made apple crisp today because I had to find some use for the 60+ lbs of apples we picked at the orchard. Last time I followed a recipe and it sucked, so this time I went back to my own thing and it turned out fucking awesome.

[Zhukov]

I'm just about to eat eggs and bacon for dinner. Nothing else in the house but eggs and bacon - both of which have a fair chance of being off.

[MarioRPG]

I made apple crisp today because I had to find some use for the 60+ lbs of apples we picked at the orchard. Last time I followed a recipe and it sucked, so this time I went back to my own thing and it turned out fucking awesome.

I was in a very similar situation, but I borrowed someone elses recipe. Apple crisp is bomb

[dextire]

Enjoying some Black Pepper Jack Doritos now that they finally brought them back.

[replicant]

Just had a small amount of german chocolate ice cream from BR!

[executioneer]

top round steak i cooked in worcestershire sauce, sriracha, and tequila

[Shyandquietguy]

100 grand fun size bar.

That I bought myself!

[k0k0]

All I had to eat tonight was a single serving of mashed potatoes and a couple lunchmeat slices of turkey.

[All Hail Duke]

sloppy joes and leftover candy

[Kitsa]

Milky Way bar.

[Kitsa]

Goofing around in the kitchen and came up with a cinnamon roll cookie. It's all kinds of kickass but they're the damnedest things to cook. In for 7 minutes, underdone. In for 7 minutes 30 seconds, underdone. In for 8 minutes, burned. :( :thefuck

[k0k0]

I tried making gluten free biscuits this morning. They ended up looking more like cookies. And they were terrible.

[Fathom Zero]

I like my cookies slightly underdone. Yum.

[Kitsa]

Got a new cookbook for French macaroons (as opposed to the coconut-and-condensed-milk blobs that haunt Passover). I love macaroons, but they're insanely effort-intensive and they take an entire day to make, once you factor in the whipping and the piping and the drying and the baking and the setting and the filling. So I've got the stuff to make pistachio ones, but I haven't gotten to it yet because I haven't had an entire day to spend on one batch of cookies.

I'd like to make eggnog ones, too, but my eggnog flavoring oil is 2 years old and I've got to find some new.

[Kitsa]

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/dinnerresized.jpg


Made it all mydamnself, too, from scratch. Plus two pies, one sweet potato and one pumpkin.

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/stuffing.jpg

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/cranberrysauce.jpg

http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/kitsa_for_imockery2/sweetpotatocasserole.jpg

[Esuohlim]

As a poor Ethiopian child I can't help but feel jealousy and anger toward your Thanksgiving rituals of excess and gluttony!

Fuck you Americans, all I ate today were my boogers

[k0k0]

I had nothing because although my sister said she would make the main course without gluten, she used cream of mushroom on the roast. And everything else she made had gluten. So I ate absolutely nothing. Who the fuck makes a roast on thanksgiving over turkey anyways? Savages, that's who.

[dextire]

Dang, that looks like it's from a magazine. :xmas1
Did you brine the turkey?

I finally found a stuffing recipe that works. I don't like sage in most dishes, but sage stuffing is delicious.

[k0k0]

And kitsa, that truly does look like it was from a magazine. Reason number 9 that I wish you were my mother.

[Kitsa]

Thanks. I didn't brine the turkey because one year (under the influence of chef Michael Ruhlman, whom I'd just heard speak a week or so before), I brined it and forgot what that would do to the gravy. The resulting salt-sludge turned me off brining for the rest of my life. The turkey was ok...no better, no worse. I went back to rubbing the cavity with kosher salt and stuffing it with mirepoix and it turns out ok often enough to stick with.

Last year I went nuts and made a really ridiculously involved chestnut stuffing that tasted great but took forever. I never want to roast and peel chestnuts again. This year I simplified it, got precooked vacuum-packed chestnuts, and it turned out better. Here's exactly how-

-Buy one box of stove top turkey dressing and one box of sage dressing.
-Make according to directions, but instead of water use chicken broth. Just use both boxes of dressing dumped in together.
-While you're waiting for the broth to boil, saute diced celery and onions with chopped roasted chestnuts in butter until they're softened and golden-brown on the edges.
- When the stuffing is at the "take it off the heat and put a lid on it to steam it" phase, stir in the celery, onions and chestnuts until they're well-incorporated in the rest of it. Put it in a greased casserole dish and bake under foil for the last 45 minutes the turkey is baking. If it looks dry, add more chicken broth. To crisp it up, take the foil off and raise the oven temp for a few minutes.

Thank you for the compliments. I could have done a tablecloth and nice dinnerware, but my kid would have had it all ruined in minutes and I didn't need that sort of aggravation.

[dextire]

The main reason I use a brine is because I cook such a large bird (up to 20lbs) that it would be dry if I didn't.
I also add a bunch of whole black pepper, ginger, and allspice to the brine and after about 24 hours it really soaks through the whole bird and adds a lot of flavor.

For gravy I cook the giblets in a skillet, then chop them super fine and add chicken broth and flour.

[Zhukov]

Looks amazing, but I still can't help but think that chicken tastes way better than turkey.

[Kitsa]

Turkey can taste kind of gamey sometimes, but there's room in my world for both.

[ThrashO]

anybody else think dark meat is fucking gross? I can't stand it :x

[k0k0]

Eat a dick. Turkey legs are the god's meat.

[Fathom Zero]

Anything but dark meat is like trying to eat clumps of sawdust.

[Pentegarn]

A bunch of leftover chicken noodles followed by 1 cookie for dessert

[Kitsa]

Once a year at a pre-appointed time, I go to an isolated parking lot and pay $18 for a crate of real, actually-have-flavor-to-them Florida oranges off the back of a truck.

Apart from the fear that a coral snake is snuggled around one of them, they're incredible.

[Kitsa]

Sara Lee "mince" pie. I think most "mincemeat" has contained little or no meat for a very long time. This is like a dark spicy apple raisin thing. It's ok I guess. I like it better than the English mince pies I've had because there are no mystery hard chunks or fig newtony seeds.

[Tacobot]

An avocado with a little pepper and lemon.

[Zhukov]

Just got back from a mate's place, where he made me some kind of garlic, ginger, tofu and noodle soup thing. It was delicious as.

[Ex Leper]

Leftover Ziti

[Kitsa]

I've gotten more into intense couponing while grocery shopping lately. Not like the insufferable ones on TV who dumpster dive for coupons and then take 40 carts to the checkout, but more in that direction than the occasional 10 cents off for something. Tomorrow I'm going to try and do about $120 in food for less than $25. Pretty sure I can if everything works out. The other day I managed 7 tubes of toothpaste and 7 toothbrushes for 28 cents, so it can happen.

Since it's a hobby I've managed to find that combines math, food and shopping for food, and it regularly scores me free shit, I'm fairly happy with it.

[Babs]

Jalapeno chicken from new grand buffet. It's not going over well with my sensitive asshole. My response...
18wHoMOBPh4
It's not funny :tear

[All Hail Duke]

rolos

[Kitsa]

horrible, horrible curry. Going to have to go back to making my own, which I hate to do because it stinks up the house :(

[Zhukov]

I've gotten more into intense couponing while grocery shopping lately. Not like the insufferable ones on TV who dumpster dive for coupons and then take 40 carts to the checkout, but more in that direction than the occasional 10 cents off for something. Tomorrow I'm going to try and do about $120 in food for less than $25. Pretty sure I can if everything works out. The other day I managed 7 tubes of toothpaste and 7 toothbrushes for 28 cents, so it can happen.

Since it's a hobby I've managed to find that combines math, food and shopping for food, and it regularly scores me free shit, I'm fairly happy with it.
Just learn to shoplift.


I also had a horrible curry yesterday. It was just spicy tomato sauce with boiled chicken (the off-cuts) thrown in. Really revolting. I paid $14 for it and nearly threw it back in their faces. Lucky for them I was starving.

Right now I am eating spaghetti.

[Kitsa]

This is actually better than shoplifting because in some instances the stores actually pay you to take the stuff off their hands. It just takes a lot of work to figure out where you can accomplish that. If you don't want to keep the item yourself, which I guess you wouldn't, being a communist and all, you could always donate it to the needy and count the footwork as part of the donation.

For example, I got this for twenty-eight cents, which is...what, about the same in AUD?
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/28cents.jpg

There are also coupons this week that would enable you to get a glucometer for $1 (sending them to a free clinic) and various hygiene products for nothing or nearly nothing. I've had dental floss that cost less than the coupon for it, resulting in an "overage" I could use to pay for other things. There's a seasonings packet that's marked 77 cents, if you print out the dollar coupon and buy several of them there's a dollar in overage you can spend on something else right there.

It's effort-intensive, but it's also nice to walk off with a full cart of groceries for less than 20 bucks.

[Zhukov]

I was only kidding, I don't mean to bag out coupons. Sounds like you've gotten some good deals.

I am sort of expecting you to pose with your toothpaste in one hand and a wad of hundred dollar bills in the other to show how gangster you are, though.

[Kitsa]

Traditionally, my presence in a photo automatically ungangsters it. :/

[monster_movie_night]

I had a Big Carl combo at Carl JR it sucks that they took long to copy Mcdonald's Big Mac and out of Big Mac, whopper and a Big Carl i would obviously go for Big Carl :)

[Tacobot]

Buttered rolls eh s'ok

[All Hail Duke]

saltines

[All Hail Duke]

made some spicy southwestern carribean jerk burgers w/ honey bbq sauce on toasted kaiser rolls, pretty good

[Zhukov]

Cheese sandwiches.

[dontlookback]

Yodel.

[Kitsa]

Skinny cow candy. It's not half bad. It's like a Turtle but with rice krispies instead of pecans.

[All Hail Duke]

pancakes

[Zhukov]

So I made this biscuit batter stuff, but it is far too sugary to bake, so I'm just eating it straight from the bowl. It's just butter, sugar, sweetened condensed milk and some flour.

It's hurting my chest though, and I'm not sure I can finish it without my heart giving out.

[Zhukov]

Anyone have any quick and easy recipes for apple pie that they would like to share?

I saw a good one where you just mix flour, sugar and eggs in a bowl, then dump a sliced apple in there and bake it, but I can't remember the ingredient measurements.

[Kitsa]

I make apple crumble because I hate pie crust

[kahljorn]

i got these really good burritos from some mexican food place

the salsa is weird though. one of them tastes like an indian chutney w/ mint sauce mixedin and the other one is all sweet chipotle flavored. its good as hell though

[caffman]

Spicy rice with chicken, pepperoni, Chorizo slices and chunks with a creole base

[MarioRPG]

Right now I'm eating good ol' Raisin Bran, but tonight I'll hopefully make something out of this:
http://i.imgur.com/fxp2m.png

[Kitsa]

Black beans with grilled red bell peppers, onions and hot sauce

[darkvare]

frijoles charros so delicious

[Tacobot]

Hot cheetos a Kit Kat and a Chocodile. Chocodiles suck dix.

[Kitsa]

Tea and Popsicles :(

[Big McLargehuge]

I am sneaking jelly beans in the computer commons at my school.

[Tadao]

My wife and I went gluten free. It's not that hard actually and most of the foods are GMO free as well. :(

Anyways, I feel better and I've been cutting back on meds to see if it's working. So far so good.

:eek

[Fathom Zero]

Duzzat mean your bones and joints are better? :eek

[Tadao]

50 percent less pain :eek

[Fathom Zero]

FASCINATING :EEK

[Guitar Woman]

Is it possible to buy an entire bag of just the little brown toast slices in Party Mix?

[Tadao]

yes

[ThrashO]

Is it possible to buy an entire bag of just the little brown toast slices in Party Mix?

those are fucking disgusting

maybe you should eat an entire bag of dicks instead

[Kitsa]

at least dicks don't break your teeth (:supermanjoke)

pizza hut thin crust veggie pizza.

[Esuohlim]

I scrambled some eggs with one turkey meatball and some hot sauce and put that on a hamburger bun because I'm pretty poor these days :(

[All Hail Duke]

had a cheese danish for breakfast

[Kitsa]

Curried tofu (pretty fucking good- has scrambled egg texture without eggy taste) and stir fried bell peppers/onions/bok choy in corn tortillas

[All Hail Duke]

had a chilli dog and a strawberry shake from weinerschnitzel

[Kitsa]

Arugula salad with pear slices and warm red quinoa, topped with homemade dijon vinaigrette ( 2 tsp dijon, 1 tsp balsamic, 1 tsp red wine, 1 tsp honey or agave, 1 tsp water), fresh fruit on the side. The dressing and the pear tone the arugula way down.

It was from a recipe in the Happy Herbivore Everyday cookbook, out of which I've tried 7 meals with no duds so far.

[Fathom Zero]

RIBS.

FOUR RACKS.

AND CORN.

[Kitsa]

I went to a Strawberry Festival west of here. There were strawberry burritos, strawberry cannoli, strawberry salsa, strawberry bbq sauce, deep fried strawberries, all manner of strawberry pastries, strawberry drinks, etc etc etc.

I didn't get any of the strawberry stuff because I went one year and saw behind a food tent that they were just cracking open store boxes of berries and throwing them right in the food without washing them, and that freaked me right the hell out.

I almost got a donut but then I saw they were like red velvet cake and that's got an entire bottle of red food color in it so I didn't do that either :(

[Fathom Zero]

maaaaaaaaaaan red's good for you

[Kitsa]

Tried Kashi's Mayan Pasta Bake. It was ok. It was a fried plantain and some pumpkin seeds on top of a sort of casserole of polenta, quinoa, black beans, sweet potato and enchilada sauce. It tasted better than it looked; frozen stuff always looks like a train wreck compared to what's on the box.

[kahljorn]

im surprised that tasted good

im more surprised that you saw that list of ingredients and thought it sounded good together :O

[Kitsa]

When you cut stuff out of your diet you'd be surprised at what starts sounding good. If you spice vegan stuff right, it's pretty good, pretty complex. Pretty much the only flavors meat has going for it are...what, salt and fat, basically.

And I was mistaken about the name- it was Mayan Harvest Bake. The plaintains had a golden-brown coating and it looked, at first glance, like chicken on a bed of rice.

[kahljorn]

"salt and fat, basically."

but those are basically the only good flavors

[Fathom Zero]

I CONCUR

FAT IS AN EXCELLENT VECTOR FOR FLAVOR

[Kitsa]

Eh, I just had to take a whole class on the neurological perception of "yumminess" based on caloric density of foods because biologically we're lazy fucks who want the biggest bang for our buck.

Fat is 4,000 calories a pound, pretty much, regardless of type. Salad greens are 100 calories a pound.

[kahljorn]

I DONT THINK THATS WHAT MAKES FAT delicious

[Kitsa]

Then enlighten me please

[Fathom Zero]

If that was true, 20 veggie burgers would be delicious

But I would rather eat some ham.

[Kitsa]

Not so, because eating 20 veggie burgers would require effort, and what we want is least effort for most reward.

[Fathom Zero]

exactly, the most flavor per pound

fat

[Esuohlim]

Then a stick of butter or a bowl of mayonnaise would sound amazing.

[Fathom Zero]

There's a lot of fats out there and there's not just fat in those.

Those are gross.

[kahljorn]

but a stick uf butter can becomecookies and a bowl of mayonaisse can become some kind of salad

also fat is delicious because all of those little animals scurry around eating their favorite foods and save the best parts for later, which is what we're eating
;)

[Kitsa]

or you could look at it as getting your nutrients secondhand

thirdhand if they feed the livestock animal meal

[kahljorn]

the animals cooked u a treat inside of their bodies and now you enjoy it or else >:

[Kitsa]

I'm ok, but you go ahead.

Yesterday I watched that Hutterite show on NatGeo and they shot a cow in the face :tear

[Esuohlim]

shot a cow in the face :tear

lol hey kahl this reminds of a certain scene from a certain movie ;)

[kahljorn]

i like how cows bring tears to her eyes but not the gentle face of brad pitt

[Kitsa]

It is what it is

[Fathom Zero]

what if a cow became brad pitt

[Kitsa]

I'm going to go on the record and say I wouldn't eat either of them.

[Kitsa]

Peanut butter peppers and brown rice. My kid ate kale chips. She's a sport.

[Kitsa]

Homemade rum raisin cake with uncooked rum in the icing. Shit gives you a solid buzz.

[Colonel Flagg]

Meatball parm with a diet root beer.

[Kitsa]

Tried to make my own ginger dressing like the kind I love in Japanese steakhouses.

Failed at making my own ginger dressing like the kind I love in Japanese steakhouses. :tear

That salad was painful.

[Fathom Zero]

hahahaha

Vanilla shake, bby

[kahljorn]

Tried to make my own ginger dressing like the kind I love in Japanese steakhouses.

Failed at making my own ginger dressing like the kind I love in Japanese steakhouses. :tear

That salad was painful.


haha
how did you make it?
fresh ginger is hellish

[Kitsa]

I basically used this recipe (http://www.food.com/recipe/makoto-style-japanese-salad-dressing-60315), and I might have gotten myself in trouble trying to sub for the oil (I am trying to get rid of any excess oil, stopped cooking with oil, etc). I used unsweetened applesauce in place of oil, and all I had were red onions, so that might have made a difference.

It didn't say exactly how much ginger root "a peeled piece" was, so I might have used more of that than it called for, too.

idk, in comparison to the original I would say it was...

less "umami"
not as garlicky
too tomato-y
too sweet
burned with the fire of a thousand hells

[kahljorn]

tbh i think the secret to the restaurant ginger stuff is they cook it or they let the vinegar make it soft (pickled?) or they used jarred ginger. It really has the consistency of the ginger in a jar kinda. Fresh ginger will never taste the way it does in the restaurant. Fresh ginger is all fibrous and extremely hot and has that taste like those wetnaps they give you at steak houses

[Kitsa]

I agree with you about the jarred ginger, and I will do that next time. I usually use the pureed ginger in a tube because it cooks way faster- I have a Japanese ginger grater but it eats the hell out of my hands if I slip.

[Kitsa]

Or pink pickled sushi ginger, that could be it

[kahljorn]

it could be that. If you just let the ginger soak in some vinegar for a while it should soften it up and help to "cook" it. i dunno though that stuff is delicious.
Also i think it has orange juice in it but maybe thats just from the vinegar

also my parents found a storebought ginger dressing that tastes fairly similar to the one in restaurants. Ill see if i can find the name

[Kitsa]

if it's Makoto, that's what I'm trying to duplicate. Shit's $4 a bottle.

[Kitsa]

Right now I'm drinking an awesome thing that tastes like a chocolate milkshake but is not.

It's a chopped up frozen banana, a squeeze of agave nectar, about a cup of almond milk and two spoonfuls of unsweetened cocoa powder in a blender. Sometimes I add a spoonful of peanut butter, but I was feeling fat today so I didn't.

Otherwise, this stuff is great.

[Fathom Zero]

Made Jim Beam barbecue sauce.

yummmmmmmmmm

[Esuohlim]

I went to Chinatown today and got some pineapple shrimp fried rice

I have never seen so many people using umbrellas on a sunny day. Is this a stereotype? It should be

[Fathom Zero]

sun burns, bro

are you not pale enough to notice?

I THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE OF US

[Guitar Woman]

Drankin' a watermelon Four Loko because I'm falling down dead tired and also wanted some booze.

It's fucking horrifying. It tastes like a Jolly Rancher covered in salt, and also like how a men's bathroom smells. Never again.

[Kitsa]

Red potatoes sauteed with baby bella mushrooms and fresh green beans in thyme and garlic; cauliflower seasoned with pepper, turmeric and garam masala; broccoli with ginger sauce.

[Aaarg]

i'd been good about not eating meat for a few weeks but yesterday somebody gave us a bunch of tomatoes and we had blt wraps because goddammit... blts are good.

[Kitsa]

I use Morningstar farms bacon and do blts on whole grain English muffins.

[darkvare]

thi is what i'm eating today fellas
http://ist1-1.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/3/5/0/4/35040/1/9/4/t/194tJ/new%20016.JPG

[Kitsa]

wow, you must really like it.

I'm eating groundnut stew, one of my new favorite meals.

[Kitsa]

Two frozen bananas in a blender with almondmilk, cocoa, agave nectar and espresso powder. Fucking awesome.

[dextire]

Do you think honey or simple syrup would be a good substitute for the agave nectar, or do you need the real stuff for the best flavor?

[Kitsa]

I wouldn't do simple syrup bc it's watery, but honey would be fine. I'm allergic, so I use agave.

[All Hail Duke]

cinnamon gummy bears

[dextire]

Pumpkin Spice Eggo Waffles.

http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/dextire/Imock%20misc/pumpkin-spice-eggos_zpsad978d30.jpg

These are my favorite frozen waffles. They have cinnamon, nutmeg, and even ginger, with just a hint of pumpkin spice. Very good. :halloween2

[saturnknight]

Home Made Chicken wraps with bbqw sauce on it.... and a mango mio

[Kitsa]

Channa masala and broccoli with an obscene amount of fresh naan

[dextire]

After failing horribly to create cookies, I made some Halloween marshmallow treats with orange marshmallow pumpkins and "Marshmallow Pebbles" cereal.

http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/dextire/Imock%20misc/marshmallow-pebbles-halloween_zps9df0f6fe.jpg

[All Hail Duke]

pain killers and water

[Kitsa]

coke zero.

[Nick]

Nothing like a early morning left-over cheeseburger to make you feel nauseated.

[Fathom Zero]

Hummus and tortilla chips.

[Kitsa]

beer chili and tortilla chips

I love my beer chili so damn much if I do say so myself

[Fathom Zero]

can you hook a brother up with a recipe?

[Zomboid]

Reese peanut butter cup, braws. I've already eaten most of the good leftovers, like the cabbage rolls, lazy cabbage rolls, perogies, ham, and stuffing, so now I just have turkey and some other stuff left. Fuck that. I'D RATHER STARVE!

[Fathom Zero]

Is there at least any dark meat left?

[SKATERMONKEY]

Raisin toast. Breakfast of champions.

[Kitsa]

can you hook a brother up with a recipe?

Absolutely I can.

You take a big pot. Or a big crockpot. Whatever.

For every "recipe" of chili, you need-

1 can or bottle of beer. I normally use Sam Adams or Yuengling.
1 of the big cans of BROOKS CHILI HOT BEANS. Important. Only Brooks. None of the others season it right.
1 lb of cooked and drained ground beef OR one bag of Morningstar meat crumbles if you don't do meat.
1 8-oz can of tomato sauce
2 cans of "chili-ready" tomatoes, I usually get RedGold or RoTel brand, the kind with the diced tomatoes and chilis in there.

Just dump everything in together and cook it on medium-high until it bubbles, then drop it to a simmer and let it cook down until it's nice and thick. Excellent with tortilla chips.

[Fathom Zero]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that sounds good

[Kitsa]

It is, and the leftovers taste even better because the spices keep on seasoning it.

[Fathom Zero]

The problem is that Brooks Beans n'existent pas where I'm at. I'll work out my own thing, then, I guess.

[Kitsa]

You can use the seasoning packets in their stead, but it makes the resultant stuff a little darker and spicier.

[Fathom Zero]

I s'pose I could cut it a little bit with something else or use less.

ty ty