This week I made a peanut butter and jelly (PB & J) sandwich for lunch. After I’d evenly spread the peanut butter on one side and the plum jelly smoothly on the other, I realized I forgot to toast it. There’s just something delish to me about a slightly warm and mildly crispy PB & J.
My dad, mom, and I enjoyed Tuna, Noodle, & Pea casserole. However, when we ate it, it was more of a one-dish wonder, since we didn’t put it into a casserole dish and bake it with chips or crackers on top. Now and then, I would hear my dad ask my mom to make it the way his mom made it (baked), but by then my brother and I preferred it unbaked. Now and again, she’d bake it just for dad.
What are your preferences?
Tags: casserole, Food, like, PB & J, peanut butter and jelly, toast, tuna noodle pea
I very much enjoy Joanne Fluke’s books. This is one with her and two other authors I appreciate, Laura Levine and Leslie Meier. It’s been a while since I read it, but I think it was Joanne’s story that included a recipe with the two ingredients you see below: beets and pineapple.
Any recipe with both of those items in one end product is not for me. It just doesn’t work with the following food combination issues:
- Fruit and veggies don’t mix in the same dish (see example below)
- All meats are to be thoroughly cooked (this includes fish)
- Sugar and meat don’t mix (no honey smoked ham or maple flavored bacon on my plate, but I can transfer it to yours)
- Fruit and meat don’t mix (pineapple and ham pizza – there’s more for you to enjoy)
I am sure I have more oddities, i.e. preferences. What are some of yours?
Tags: beat, dish, Food, fruit, joanne fluke, laura levine, leslie meier, meat, pineapple, pizza, recipe, sugar, veggie
I saw this somewhere or other and thought I’d try it for Christmas Dinner 2011. It is two black olives for the body, a small ball of mozzarella cheese for the belly (split the belly and stuff the mozzarella ball inside), and carrot for the nose and feet (kinda gross if you think about the nose which was cut out from the feet).
It was a great trial, but it was also merely a cute decoration. The error in this trial? Most of my family will not eat a black olive even if it would save them from starvation on a desert island.
Moral of the Story: Cross check your ingredients against the food preferences of your family and friends. Unless you want to finish them off yourself over the next week. Which could be fun too.
Tags: black olive, carrot, christmas, dinner, Food, holiday, meal, mozzarella cheese, penguin, trial and error
I give thanks for tasty treats. Here is a before photo of Fried Green Tomatoes.
I am celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow not only with family, but also with vegetarians who know how to make near any veggie absolutely delicious.
I look forward to tasty treats with my fantastic family. I pray you have a joyous Thanksgiving!
Tags: delicious, dinner, Family, Food, fried green tomoatoes, giving thanks, november 27, thanksgiving, tomatoes, vegetarian, veggie
Giving thanks for friends and their pets. Not only do I have heart for furry friends, but most of my friends do as well. Some friends of these friends were born, as I was, with an innate love of the amazing canine and/or feline companions. I not only get to be honored by the presence of my friends, but also their pets who are greatly loved. Although this little guy got in trouble with his mom when I stayed in their home last year. I woke up with him as my blanket. Oops!
All well-loved pets should suck up MORE to company because those are the alternate feeders. Dogs (and particular cats) know that their parents/caregivers will feed them – it’s unconditional. But they also know a good backup plan is invaluable. Just in case something happens to mom and dad, perhaps her friend will take over the multiple meals per day (and many, many snacks).
Tags: cat, dog, feed, Food, friend, giving thanks, thanksgiving
Wicked Good Pizza is the name of a restaurant I ate at in October 2010 while traveling for work. It is in Frankenmuth, one of the towns I most appreciate in Michigan.
They had clams on the menu. Not many restaurants do. We were shocked by their size and enjoyed every bit.
When I say huge, they were thick like a roll of Life Savers and about as long too. Oh my, they were fried up just right. Nice and crisp. Perfectly warm, not too hot. Even the cole slaw was tasty. I’d definitely go back.
Moral of the Story: Don’t write about food on an empty stomach. These are not local to me. Now what do I eat for supper?
Tags: clam, clams, eat, Food, frankenmuth, supper, wicked good pizza
This is hay. It is used for animals on a farm. But what for?
- This is food.
- This is not bedding.
- This is green or mossy in color.
- This is not straw.
- There are many kinds of hay, and some animals have to eat certain kinds only. One example is that bunnies need something called Timothy.
- For people, from personal experience, I don’t recommend eating it.
Tags: bedding, farm life lesson, Food, green, hay, staw
Oh my, I am so hungry looking at this food!
Don’t you want to eat this fresh plum?
Or is it an apricot?
Can you tell?
I guess I’m going to have to wait a little bit before I enjoy it.
Maybe just a few months.
Perhaps I should find something else in the meantime.
Tags: apricot, blossom, delicious, eat, Food, fruit, plum
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