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What’s your #1 comfort food?
My Mom's chili. It's delicious and I can never get enough of it.
If you were on a deserted island, what one food would you want to have with you?
Cheesecake Factory's Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake. It combines two loves; red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting.
What is/are your signature dishes? (What dishes are you ‘known’ for?)
Kidney beans and rice with shredded taco cheese sprinkled on top until it becomes a gooey mess.
It’s Friday night, you don’t know what to cook. You opt for…
Getting food at Panera or Quizno's. Anything fast that I don't have to bother with.
What’s your biggest weakness when it comes to food?
I have a lot of weaknesses when it comes to food. I absolutely love pies and ice cream and cakes. Anything and everything with chocolate. Sushi is a big weakness, but something I haven't indulged in in quite awhile. Sandwiches...I LOVE sandwiches.
What food can you absolutely not eat?
Brussels sprouts, but that's more a personal dislike. I literally can't drink soy milk or I get physically sick.
What’s the most decadent dish you’ve had?
I don't really go for "decadent" food, but probably the quail I had at a Vietnamese restaurant last year, along with the pork pot. My word was it good.
What’s your favorite type of food?
Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, American. In that order.
Favorite dish?
Depends on where I am and who's making it.
Favorite place is Mandarin House. And my favorite dishes include; General Tso's Chicken, Honey Sesame Beef, Chef's Spicy Crispy Shrimp or Beef, Pork Lo Mein or Fried Rice
If your partner could take you to any restaurant you wanted, which one would it be?
There's too many options, but right now, I'd really like to go back to Victoria Gastro Pub. I haven't been there in a long time, and want to get a shepherd's pie and a trifle.
Are you a soup or salad person?
It really depends on my mood and what is being offered. Caesar salad? I could eat them until I burst. Clam chowder, chicken noodle soup or chili? Holy God I wouldn't know where to start. Unless it's my Mom's chili. Then I will have that.
Buffet, take-out or sit-down restaurant?
Again, depends on my mood and where I'm at. Never eat at a sushi buffet, but I really love Pizza Hut's buffet area and anything from Old Country Buffet. Mama Mia's in my hometown has excellent take-out subs. If we're talking about Mandarin House, it doesn't matter because it's excellent anyway. Narita Sushi, I always sit down in, to get the full benefit of sushi. It's about the ambiance as much as the quality of the food.
What’s the most impressive dinner you’ve ever made?
I made steak and veggies by myself, and the steak was mind-blowingly delicious.
Do you consider yourself a good cook?
I do. I won't be cooking any elaborate courses or be nabbing a Michelin star anytime soon, but I've never heard any complaints about my food.
Do you know what vichyssoise is?
Some weird green French soup? I think I had some in New York and it was not pleasant.
Who’s your favorite TV cook?
Anthony Bourdain {does he count? We'll just say he does}
Can you name at least three TV cooking personalities?
Anthony Bourdain, Emeril and Rachel Ray {¬_¬}
Homemade or homemade from a box?
Homemade every time.
Name 3 or more other foodies you are going to tag
Anyone who stumbles upon this can do it.
Food Quote: We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. —-Adelle Davis
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Full Day's Food for May 10, 2010
Meal: Red Delicious apple in the car followed by Sweet Mallorca Bread and a Grande Earl Grey tea at Starbucks for breakfast.
Rating:
Taste: Apple- 10, Sweet Mallorca Bread- 9, Earl Grey tea- 10
For me, apples either rate a 10 or a 1 on the taste scale. 10 being crunchy, delicious and sweet {depending on the type}. 1 being mushy and disgusting, no matter what type. We bought these apples a few weeks ago, and I tend to grab one on the way to work to tide me over until I get breakfast at Starbucks, something I've started to add to my morning routine over the last month and a half.
During that time I've usually stuck with my usual of a Tall Hot Chocolate and a blueberry scone, but this morning, I thought I would try something else, in the form of the tea and the sweet bread. Now, I am a big tea person, and their tea is Tazo, one of my favorite brands aside from Twinnings. As far as taste and quality of tea goes, you can't beat either one of these. The sweet bread was a new venture, and I'm glad I made the decision to get it this morning. The bread was sweet, but not overpowering, which I liked. The powdered sugar sprinkled on top kicked the sweetness up a small notch, but again, it wasn't overpowering. At 420 calories, according to starbucks.com, 220 of which are from fat, it's not something I'd want everyday, but it will be nice to treat myself to once in awhile.
Meal: Leftover slice of sausage pizza, Fat Free chocolate pudding and water.
Rating:
Taste: leftover pizza- 8, pudding- 8, water- 10
Most of my lunches consist of things like this now. Sometimes I have enough time in the morning to make a sandwich, grab a piece of fruit and then a bottle of water before I run out the door. Most of the time, though, it's something hastily put together from either leftovers; homemade or take out, or just random things I happen to grab. I try to always incorporate water, which has only not been drunk twice, since there's a handy soda/snack machine in the backroom of work.
After I reheated the pizza in the microwave, the crust became very soft, the grease so prevalent in the pan crust pizzas at Pizza Hut cooked out. Probably for the best. Despite this and the softness of the crust, the pizza was still delicious; the sausage yummy, and the cheese perfectly melty.
Are you getting hungry? I certainly am.
The pudding, for being fat free, was surprisingly good. Definitely not the best chocolate pudding I've ever had, but when it's fat free, you take what you can get.
Water...it's water. Unless it's been sitting in the car getting hot or out in the open getting stale, there's not much that can be done to make it nasty.
Meal: Slow cooked steak, frozen mixed vegetables and Light cran-raspberry juice.
Rating:
Taste: steak- 10, vegetables- 10, juice- 10
My Mom and I aren't the biggest "cook all their meals at home" people. We used to be, but since moving in 2003, after almost renovating a house, and you know, getting older, my Mom's stamina for cooking for us has dwindled. My own excuse is a mixture of laziness {largely} and the fact that I'm working two jobs now. It's not that I don't like to cook or that I don't want to, it's just that when there's something to microwave that will be available to me within a 1:50, or a place I can hit on the way home and have delicious artery-clogging food given to me right away, it's easy to lapse into laziness.
My Mom put on the steak she had defrosted the night before, asking me to watch it and turn it over every so often, putting it on a heat setting of '2' out of '9'/'High'. It's important not to cook steak too fast or else it will not taste as good as it does from soaking in its own juices for 20 minutes. I flipped the steak a few times, and seasoned both sides of it with salt and pepper, pushing it around in the juices that had drained from it while it was slow cooking. At the same time, I opened a bag of frozen vegetables, put half in a bowl, filled half of that with water, and then put it in the microwave for 10 minutes. The vegetables were done before the steak was, but keeping them in the microwave made sure they stayed fresh and hot.
Once the steak was cooked to my satisfaction, probably about medium, I cut it in half and divided it up on two plates for myself and my Mom. I drained the vegetables, divided them up, and then rinsed off the cookware. I got myself a glass of Light Cran-Raspberry juice, which I didn't discover until late 2007, and paired that with my dinner.
The end result:
A fairly healthy dinner, for once.
The steak needed no sauces or added seasoning because of how we cooked it. Remember this the next time you reach for the BBQ or A1 steak sauce. All I seasoned it with was salt and pepper. If you only need something minimal like that, or even not that, you are cooking your steak in the best way possible.
Meal: German chocolate cake and skim milk
Rating:
Taste: cake- 10, milk- 9
Well, after an exceptionally healthy dinner, I decide to blow it, and give into my craving for cake by running to Giant Food, one of the many supermarkets in Maryland {for those not in the region}, and grab a 1/2 whole cake they had in the bakery. Thankfully, I wasn't going to get the whole thing since Mom had half of the half with me.
I haven't had German chocolate cake in a long time, and oh my was it worth the wait. Giant always makes delicious cakes {I use 'delicious' a lot, don't I?}, and this was no exception. If they had had one of their cream cheese cakes, it would've been all over.
The milk I had shouldn't need to be explained since....how can you have cake and not have milk with it? They pair so well, like peanut butter and jelly.
Until next time, Bon Appetit!
Food Quote: "We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." —-Adelle Davis
Rating:
Taste: Apple- 10, Sweet Mallorca Bread- 9, Earl Grey tea- 10
For me, apples either rate a 10 or a 1 on the taste scale. 10 being crunchy, delicious and sweet {depending on the type}. 1 being mushy and disgusting, no matter what type. We bought these apples a few weeks ago, and I tend to grab one on the way to work to tide me over until I get breakfast at Starbucks, something I've started to add to my morning routine over the last month and a half.
During that time I've usually stuck with my usual of a Tall Hot Chocolate and a blueberry scone, but this morning, I thought I would try something else, in the form of the tea and the sweet bread. Now, I am a big tea person, and their tea is Tazo, one of my favorite brands aside from Twinnings. As far as taste and quality of tea goes, you can't beat either one of these. The sweet bread was a new venture, and I'm glad I made the decision to get it this morning. The bread was sweet, but not overpowering, which I liked. The powdered sugar sprinkled on top kicked the sweetness up a small notch, but again, it wasn't overpowering. At 420 calories, according to starbucks.com, 220 of which are from fat, it's not something I'd want everyday, but it will be nice to treat myself to once in awhile.
Meal: Leftover slice of sausage pizza, Fat Free chocolate pudding and water.
Rating:
Taste: leftover pizza- 8, pudding- 8, water- 10
Most of my lunches consist of things like this now. Sometimes I have enough time in the morning to make a sandwich, grab a piece of fruit and then a bottle of water before I run out the door. Most of the time, though, it's something hastily put together from either leftovers; homemade or take out, or just random things I happen to grab. I try to always incorporate water, which has only not been drunk twice, since there's a handy soda/snack machine in the backroom of work.
After I reheated the pizza in the microwave, the crust became very soft, the grease so prevalent in the pan crust pizzas at Pizza Hut cooked out. Probably for the best. Despite this and the softness of the crust, the pizza was still delicious; the sausage yummy, and the cheese perfectly melty.
Are you getting hungry? I certainly am.
The pudding, for being fat free, was surprisingly good. Definitely not the best chocolate pudding I've ever had, but when it's fat free, you take what you can get.
Water...it's water. Unless it's been sitting in the car getting hot or out in the open getting stale, there's not much that can be done to make it nasty.
Meal: Slow cooked steak, frozen mixed vegetables and Light cran-raspberry juice.
Rating:
Taste: steak- 10, vegetables- 10, juice- 10
My Mom and I aren't the biggest "cook all their meals at home" people. We used to be, but since moving in 2003, after almost renovating a house, and you know, getting older, my Mom's stamina for cooking for us has dwindled. My own excuse is a mixture of laziness {largely} and the fact that I'm working two jobs now. It's not that I don't like to cook or that I don't want to, it's just that when there's something to microwave that will be available to me within a 1:50, or a place I can hit on the way home and have delicious artery-clogging food given to me right away, it's easy to lapse into laziness.
My Mom put on the steak she had defrosted the night before, asking me to watch it and turn it over every so often, putting it on a heat setting of '2' out of '9'/'High'. It's important not to cook steak too fast or else it will not taste as good as it does from soaking in its own juices for 20 minutes. I flipped the steak a few times, and seasoned both sides of it with salt and pepper, pushing it around in the juices that had drained from it while it was slow cooking. At the same time, I opened a bag of frozen vegetables, put half in a bowl, filled half of that with water, and then put it in the microwave for 10 minutes. The vegetables were done before the steak was, but keeping them in the microwave made sure they stayed fresh and hot.
Once the steak was cooked to my satisfaction, probably about medium, I cut it in half and divided it up on two plates for myself and my Mom. I drained the vegetables, divided them up, and then rinsed off the cookware. I got myself a glass of Light Cran-Raspberry juice, which I didn't discover until late 2007, and paired that with my dinner.
The end result:
A fairly healthy dinner, for once.The steak needed no sauces or added seasoning because of how we cooked it. Remember this the next time you reach for the BBQ or A1 steak sauce. All I seasoned it with was salt and pepper. If you only need something minimal like that, or even not that, you are cooking your steak in the best way possible.
Meal: German chocolate cake and skim milk
Rating:
Taste: cake- 10, milk- 9
Well, after an exceptionally healthy dinner, I decide to blow it, and give into my craving for cake by running to Giant Food, one of the many supermarkets in Maryland {for those not in the region}, and grab a 1/2 whole cake they had in the bakery. Thankfully, I wasn't going to get the whole thing since Mom had half of the half with me.
I haven't had German chocolate cake in a long time, and oh my was it worth the wait. Giant always makes delicious cakes {I use 'delicious' a lot, don't I?}, and this was no exception. If they had had one of their cream cheese cakes, it would've been all over.
The milk I had shouldn't need to be explained since....how can you have cake and not have milk with it? They pair so well, like peanut butter and jelly.
Until next time, Bon Appetit!
Food Quote: "We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." —-Adelle Davis
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