Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 2 => Topic started by: bk on June 22, 2004, 12:05:36 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you know the news (which is fit to print), and now it is time for us to have all the posts that are fit to print. Please make sure your posts fit, for there is nothing worse than an ill-fitting post. Looking forward to our breakfast discussion all the livelong day.
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Holy mother of pearl, I was directed to look at a website that is without question the ugliest and most amateur thing I have ever seen. I'll let you all discover it yourselves - my mind is not easily boggled, but it just boggled itself majorly.
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Welcome six GUESTS. Let's be patient while S. Woody White finishes writing his epic post.
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Breakfasts, breakfasts, breakfasts...
I've always been in love with French toast. There's something about the egginess, combined with really good bread, and maybe some cinnamon, and butter, and maple syrup...
And I love bacon, and scrambled eggs. I used to semi-regularly have breakfast at a joint down the street from where der Brucer and I lived, where I'd have scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon, and French toast. And I didn't skimp on the Tobasco on the hash browns. (Tobasco and hash browns are a natural combination.)
However, my new love is scrapple! It's not a West Coast thing, but since I'm not a West Coast thing anymore, either, scrapple is my new thing. Generally, I've had it pan-fried, with catsup, but one of my new co-workers, Tim, has suggested something different. He suggests dusting the scrapple with flour, then grilling it! He also suggests serving it with apple butter, which sounds absolutely delish. (Tim's a farm boy, he should know these things.) Of course, he then took it a couple of steps farther, suggesting making a scrapple sandwich: toast two slices of good bread, slather on the apple butter on the toast, and lay on a couple of grilled scrapple slices between the coated toast to make the sandwich. The next step further, he suggested adding to the sandwich a fried egg.
I think I'm going to leave that to der Brucer; he's more the fried egg type.
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Epic enough? 8)
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Totally epic. And now I'm totally hungry. I will definitely be having some sort of all-day breakfast meal tomorrow.
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Methinks our gracious leader and host has left to find himself something to eat.
While I'm at it, could someone explain to me what makes grits a breakfast food? I've been serving it up on occasion as a starch for dinner. (Tonight's dinner, in fact, was accompanied by grits, which I cooked in chicken broth with some minced and sweated bell pepper and onion, and then stirred in some freshly grated Swiss and Parmesan cheese. It came out a bit looser than I was planning, but yummilicious all the same.) So, as a question, how are grits prepared differently if they're being used as part of a breakfast?
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I'm here, just trying not to vomit on the ground over what I saw earlier.
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I've deleted my post. I hope I didn't offend. :-[
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Up in the middle of the night, with another thought on the Meryl Streep shindig:
Cher looks horrible! She's had so much botox pumped into her face that she can barely move her eyes and lips. Everything else is frozen solid. I don't think she can even turn her head any more!
There, I've said it, and I'm glad. Now I can sleep easier.
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However, my new love is scrapple!
Not in this lifetime. Not if my life depended on it. Do you know what that stuff is made of???? YYYYUUUUUKKKKKK!!!!!! You and my Mom can have a Scrapplefest. Just don't expect me to attend.
Thanks everyone for making me feel better about going for the root canal. I'm leaving in a few to have it done. I'll let you know how it was tonight.
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For weekend breakfasts I like buttermilk pancakes or French toast (made from chalah) with plenty of maple syrup. Homemade blueberry muffins are excellent, too. But I prefer eggs - especially a mushroom omelet - for dinner.
Weekdays, I like a bowl of fresh fruit and yogurt.
And, always, lots of strong, hot coffee.
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I too found the bill (bills, actually: one for the canal, one for the crown) to be the most painful part of the experience. It sounds much worse than it is.
My friend Steve claims that he considered faking root canal because his dentist was so cute.
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I just finished a bowl of oatmeal and raisins which is my usual breakfast (I want high fiber). I also love a good cup of hot coffee in the morning although I drink much less coffee now. When I want to be bad, I love a plate of eggs over easy with bacon, whole wheat toast, hash browns and a bottomless pot of coffee provided by Perkins Cake and Steak (I don't know if it's even called that anymore). For those of you who don't know it, Perkins is like IHOP. It was our college theatre late night hangout during those years when you could drink coffee all night and stay up till 3 and then get up and go back to rehearsal. Ummm, breakfast 24 hours a day. Eggs cooked just enough and then you poke your bacon (that sounds dirty) into the yolk and heaven. Mixing the yolk with the bacon and the hash browns. I'm making myself hungry!!! For change of pace, a good plate of French Toast with real maple syrup is a treat too.
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I love hotel breakfasts. My favorite meal when I'm traveling. If I'm alone, going down to the hotel restaurant with a newspaper, for people watching, reading and a good breakfast, is grand. Or - esp. if I'm in a good hotel on a production company's dime - room service breakfast with two newspapers (USA Today or the NY Times and the local paper - unless I'm in NY in which case the NY Times IS the local paper), the Today show on TV and me in a plush hotel bathrobe and nothing else. Heaven.
Favorite breakfast: Depends on my mood, but there are several:
1. Du-Pars panckakes with a side of crisp bacon.
2. Poached or scrambled eggs with fruit and a side of crisp bacon and a toasted bagel (with marmalade)
3. A big bowl of really good oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar (NOT instant oatmeal)
All of the above with coffee -- half caffeinated/half decaff
Now I want breakfast, but it's 5 AM-ish and I'm going back to bed.
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I'm going to have to make a special trip to Los Angeles just to get to DuPars. Those pancakes sound devoon.
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My absolute favorite breakfast, which I indulge in only once in a blue moon, is steak and eggs. Love it! Especially if I'm in an eatery where you can smell the food being prepared. (I was drooling last night as I watched Whoopi Goldberg serve this up last night in The Color Purple.)
More often enjoyed is a good old western omelet, with maybe some hash brown on the side. My daily breakfast usually consists of a bowl of cheerios and a glass of orange juice, which is really not enough for a growing boy like me.
And then there's coffee. I loves my coffee! At my office we used to have the typical auto drip setup that was serviced by an outside vendor. I thought the coffee tasted fine but a lot of people hated it. Now we have this new machine that makes individual cups using these single-serve packets (also, it makes lattes, cappuccino, tea and espresso shots.) I think it tastes weak, but because it only makes 8 ounces at a time I find myself getting up more often and drinking more of this stuff than I usually do. And there-in lies my dilemma!
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Last night I saw EMPTY HANDED featuring three of the AVENUE Q puppetters without puppets. Despite the fact that two of the three's bios list only puppet work, all three are quite talented performers as themselves, and the evening was well put together. There were a few semi standards (Finn's "Sailing", Styne-Comden & Green's "If", "Taylor the Latte Boy" sung by John Tartaglia) but most of the material was new including a song written for Stephanie d'Abruzzo called "If I Weren't Married and You Weren't Gay" and a c&w spoof performed by Jennifer Barnhart, "Drinking for Two", sung to her uterius. Whenever they leave the avenue, any of these three could easily appear in a show without puppets... unless they go to Vegas and star in SIEGFRIED AND ROD (as they refer to the planned LV production of the show).
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Not in this lifetime. Not if my life depended on it. Do you know what that stuff is made of???? YYYYUUUUUKKKKKK!!!!!! You and my Mom can have a Scrapplefest. Just don't expect me to attend.
Thanks everyone for making me feel better about going for the root canal. I'm leaving in a few to have it done. I'll let you know how it was tonight.
DR Danise, it depends on how the scrapple is made. I've seen scrapple made from choice cuts of pork or ready-made sausage to using parts of a slaughtered hog's head. But still, it not anywhere near as bad as what you think goes into a hot dog. Do yourself a favor and pick some up at a place like Trader Joes and, Like SWW says, cover some slices in flour and fry them up. You'll be hooked for life!
Add me to the list of those with relatively painless root canal experience. To me the worse part about it was having to sit there with my mouth stretched wide open for that length of time. But as far as any kind of Marathon Man type of pain is concerned--feh!
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I came downstairs this morning, only to be reminded that yesterday I finished off my cereal and that I forgot to go to the store to get more for today. All this talk of breakfast food is making me very hungry. Which can only mean one thing: a trip to get a Sausage McMuffin with Egg!
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A bagel with cream cheese and lox is another breakfast favorite.
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Greetings fellow breakfasters!..My favourite breakfast is a recipe a friend of mine gave me. Take about half a dozen good ripe tomatoes, chop roughly, and place in a saucepan, add one large or two medium onions well chopped, a generous pinch of dried mixed herbs and simmer together until the onion is soft, add one or two eggs per person and allow them to poach in the onion tomato mixture. Serve on hot buttered grain toast. Season with salt and pepper to taste. YUMMMM!!!!!
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BTW, can anyone educate a poor man from Oz...Just what in tarnation is Grits anyway????
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Do you know what that stuff is made of???? YYYYUUUUUKKKKKK!!!!!!
Well it 'taint snips and snails and puppy dog tails!
der Brucer - who believes that Scrapple fulfills the admonition "Waste not, want not".
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A few weeks ago I posted about a colleague who had sold her home and was looking for an apartment with a view. I mentioned my building - some of the large apartments have excellent views - and she responded with the putdown, "I've been in your building and the apartments are really ugly."
Yesterday I received an e-mail with the subject line "hi, neighbor." Guess who's moving in?
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...sung to her uterius...
Are you serious,
Sung to her uterius,
How delerious!
der Briucer
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While I'm at it, could someone explain to me what makes grits a breakfast food?
It's not, dear heart. A casual exploration of eateries throughout the Southland (no, not SoCal, the real "Yes, for paradise the Southland is my nominee.
Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy" ) will discover Grits "offered" morning noon and night.
I put "offered" in quotes becasue my first exposure to grits was in the '50s motoring through Dixie (Florida bound to visit the Circus wintering over in Sarasota) when they appeared on every plate, invited or not.
der Brucer (who thought they were digusting at the time - Raw Oysters, Scrapple - yes, Grits - UGH!)
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Hmmm, I am not much of a breakfast person. But I do love blueberry pancakes with two syrups (maple and corn).
I like poached eggs and bacon.
My favorite cereal is HoneyNut CornFlakes and raspberries and blueberries.
Something I rarely have but like: EggMcMuffin and hashbrown!
Never tried scrapple or grits. And never had steak and eggs. I really don't think I could ever be hungry enough in the morning to eat steak.
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The best breakfast I ever had was a breakfast buffet at the Court of Two Sisters in New Orleans on Easter Sunday. Gorgeous weather, the best food ever cooked and as much as you wanted (including eggs benedict which I also love), mimosas under the blooming wisteria outside serenaded by a live jazz band. I'm telling you, it was sheer heaven.
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Grits are a tough one to describe, but add a little cheese to them and they're WONDERFUL. They're...hmm...I don't know what they are, but my momma can make 'em good!
Favorite breakfasts: 1) McDonald's Sausage Biscuit with Egg. I don't know why I love it so, but it's divine...and fast. 2) Anything that uses maple syrup as a topping--Belgian waffles, French toast, American pancakes. Love it. 3) Eggs. Period. 4) Cold pepperoni pizza. 5) A big bowl of cereal--the sugary kind, preferably with "marshmallows" and a prize. And as of late, 6) a fruit 'n yogurt parfait.
I've been listening to THE GRAND TOUR and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. I know a great many of you are huge Jerry Herman fans, but I must say...I'm hard pressed to say which show is which. It all sounds so similiar that I can't tell what's what. Of course I exaggerate--I know the difference between each show--but still! And how many choruses do we need of the same song?
Well, I was supposed to be at work 20 minutes ago and I'm still at home. I called to tell them I'd be late (I sort of overslept), so I'm off. Hasta la bye-bye!
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Breakfast is my favorite! Almost every Saturday and sometimes on Sunday too, my buddy Mark and I will meet for breakfast. As he now lives up in Wilsonville and I live down in Salem we often will meet halfway in Woodburn and go to Elmer's. Whenever there is a wait and they take names Mark always uses the name Elmer...even at other diners! LOL! It always cracks the waitress up!
I love pancakes with lots of butter and syrup, Eggs over easy, bacon and/or sausage, and plenty of coffee. If I don't have that I will generally have a mushroom and spinach omlette.
Of course a lot of that stuff I am not supposed to eat anymore but I do still treat myself and I have found that sugarless syrup is not at all bad!
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I agree completely with you about Cher. I do NOT understand why these people keep doing this to themselves making themselves into aliens, certainly nothing possibly resembling a living human being.
I have nothing against someone getting treatments to "freshen" their appearance, especially in a business where looks are so important. But to keep at it until your features are contorted almost beyond recognition is a sad and pathetic state, I think.
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DR Matt,
You look good in red.
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BK,
On the subject of amateurish websites (are you going to tell us which one boggled the mind and nearly made you woof?), I've seen some really handsome ones. Graphically, they're quite polished and often innovative. But the spelling and grammar are atrocious.
Our Canadian postage recently went up again, and I couldn't remember whether 48 cents was the old or new amount. So I went to the Canada Post site. It included every detail imaginable - but not the cost of a stamp.
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Hey, a friend of mine in New York, Charles Bloom, has his first play opening in July and I would consider it a personal favor if any NY area DRs could attend! It is a musical comedy and is called INSOMNIA. Plot and info are below.
Charles is the son of actress Carolyn Kearney (star of Hot Rod Girl, Damned Citizen, and The Thing that Couldn't Die) and screenwriter Harold Jack Bloom. He is a great guy and I am very, very excited for him. He has toiled long and hard for this moment!
Venue Information
WorkShop Theatre
312 W. 36th St. (4th Floor)
New York, NY 10018(8th
Avenue)
Midtown International Theatre Festival presents Insomnia Monday, July 12, 2004 through Sunday, August 01, 2004
Book, Music and Lyrics by Charles Bloom Based on an idea developed with Lee Lucas
A gay screenwriter in Hollywood tosses and turns with his many and varied, personal and professional demons on a humorous and poignant journey towards love, family and the dawn of self-discovery over the course of a sleepless night in this new musical comedy.
Tickets are only $15.00!
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=INS54 (http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=INS54)
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Oh, and Charles used to be a kid actor himself back in the 70s and early 80s. He was on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, MORK AND MINDY, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, EIGHT IS ENOUGH and was a regular on the TV series THE WAVERLY WONDERS.
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BTW, can anyone educate a poor man from Oz...Just what in tarnation is Grits anyway????
OK
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Grits.com (http://www.grits.com/) (whatelse) reports:
Grits are small broken grains of corn. They were first produced by Native Americans centuries ago. They made both "corn" grits and "hominy" grits.
Falls Mill produces "corn" grits.
Corn GritsFalls Mill mills locally grown whole white hybrid corn. The corn is dried to a 14% moisture content, then each kernel is cleaned with forced air. The kernels of grain are run through the mill stone where they are ground to a certain texture and then sifted through two wire mesh screens. The three products sorted are white corn meal, white corn grits and the bran that pops off. There is a fine bran still in the grits product. This bran will never soften up with cooking. Depending on personal preference, the bran can be left in or removed by rinsing the grits before cooking. Yummy!
Hominy is made from field corn that is soaked in lye water (potash water in the old days) and stirred over the next day or two until the entire shell or bran comes loose and rises to the top. The kernel itself swells to twice its original size. After the remaining kernels have been rinsed several times, they are spread to dry either on cloth or screen dryers.
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The site also offers the following bowl of mixed blessings:
This page is devoted to the celebration of Southern Cooking.
If you're a true Southern cook you already have a container of bacon grease on your stove. Git it ready - you'll need it to get started along with sweet ice tea, several iron skillets, lots o' gravy ('specially Red Eye) and hot Crisco for frying.
(One thing you need to know before cookin'...when we say mayo in the South we really mean Miracle Whip Salad Dressin'.)
Southerners with money believe Hellmann's Mayonnaise is the only mayonnaise...
let's not burst their bubble! A real Southern cook uses salad dressin'!
Now, let's go fry up a grit!
Notes:
The can of bacon grease beside the stove is a good idea - it makes the best shortening in the world (try it in pancakes!)
When they say "sweet tea", they mean "SWEET TEA" - at least 1/3 a cup of sugar per quart. Southern Dentists highly recommend it.
"Miracle Whip" instaed of Mayo - PLEASE!
As the oft-quoted (by me) Tom Lehrer says:
Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war.
But his savory collations add to our esprit de corps.
To think of all the marvelous ways
They're using plastics nowadays.
der Brucer
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Good Morning!
Well, I was hoping I would wake up in a better mood this morning, but, alas... Instead, my alarm clock this morning was a call from my landlord's office telling me that the workmen were finally coming back today to start work on the kitchen ceiling. Well, they're here, and they're pulling things out, drilling, hammering, etc. -the stuff that workmen do. It should take about three days. So much for a quiet morning at home.
In any case, I am glad that the ceiling in the kitchen will finally be fixed. I have yet to cook anything since I've gotten back from DC - and that's not a good thing. And he's also going to look into getting a new screen door for the back door too! So all is not for naught...
*OH, Donna Murphy just came on Regis singing "100 Easy Ways..." - with piano accompaniment... hmmm... -oh, interesting edit.. hmmm...
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Hey, a friend of mine in New York, Charles Bloom, has his first play opening in July and I would consider it a personal favor if any NY area DRs could attend! It is a musical comedy and is called INSOMNIA. Plot and info are below.
Well, I am looking for an excuse to take Woody back to NYC - he has not yet been to Zabar's.
der Brucer (Zabar's is the only place I know where you can buy a bit of Smithfield Ham - and a little bit goes a long way)
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I love breakfast. I love a simple breakfast of cereal and milk, sometimes. Favorite cereals come and go, but have included at various times: Cap'n Crunch, Alphabits, Honey Nut Cheerios, Rice Krispies, and is currently -- when I have cereal, which is rare now that I am trying to watch carbs -- one of those Just Right type combo cereals, with flakes and nuggets and raisins and nuts and all other sorts of good things. The only cereals that I detest are Raisin Bran and Grape Nuts.
My favorite "Jewish" breakfast is, of course, sesame bagel, cut in half. On one half, I would put either sable (with a smear of unsalted butter underneath) or whitefish (or possibly whitefish salad). On the other half would be cream cheese (preferably Philadelphia), on which I would scatter some sliced scallions, and top it with lox. Yum.
I love pancakes. I love French toast (preferably made with Challah, and a bit of vanilla in the soaking custard). I love waffles. I like eggs, but am not in love with them. However, I love a good omelet made with peppers and onions, and maybe some mushrooms and cheese.
As I do not eat pork products, nor mix milk and meat, breakfast meats hold no fascination for me. Breakfast, to me, is a strictly dairy meal. However, on my current no-carb breakfast plan, I eat two hard-boiled eggs (with the yolks popped out), and two slices of turkey bacon. I have found that there is good turkey bacon, and bad turkey bacon. Louis Rich makes good turkey bacon.
But I do loves me a good breakfast.
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OH! And cinnamon rolls (Ann Sather's, when in Chicago, or a frozen brand called Rhode's, which are actually quite good). And coffee cake!
Those are breakfast foods, no?
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Thank you, DR D-i-T. I appreciate the compliment.
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Well, I am looking for an excuse to take Woody back to NYC - he has not yet been to Zabar's.
And from "West End Avenue" (The Magic Show), this great Stephen Schwartz rhyme:
Delis and laundromats and gay bars
West End Avenue
Only a block away from Zabars
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As for breakfast...
Everything that has been mentioned so far! Breakfast it truly the one meal where I know I can and most likely will overeat - especially if I'm going out for breakfast - and there's a buffet!
French Toast - Good thick, fluffy slices with cinnamon and maple syrup. The "stuffed" variations - with cream cheese, fruit, etc. - tend to be a bit of overkill at times.
Eggs, Bacon and/or Sausage, Hash Browns, Toast and/or Biscuits - I usually like my eggs scrambled or over-easy. I'm a big fan of crispy bacon - especially pepper bacon. Now, if it's a really good thick-cut bacon, then I don't mind a little chew to it. The Hash Browns have to have some crisp and crunch to them! Otherwise, they're just steamed potatoes to me. Toast - wheat or rye. Biscuits - so many variables invloved here from the type of flour, to the liquid (water, milk or buttermilk), to the cook (the term "a good biscuit hand" is used a lot in the South). But a perfect biscuit to me is hot out of the oven, light and airy, fluffy, with a good crust - just enough to provide some give when you take that first bite all slathered in butter.
Scrapple - I'm a big scrapple fan too. And I'm a big fan of scrapple sandwiches, although, I usually like my scrapple on a biscuit. -I've never had it grilled, but I'd give it a try - I'm just trying to figure out how thick you'd have to cut it to make sure it doesn't get lost in the grill grates. And I like Tabasco on my scrapple too.
Pancakse and Waffles - My Dad used to make wonderful pancakes while we were growing up. He usually just used Bisquick, but Bisquick pancakes can be quite good. As for waffles, they can vary too from place to place, time to time. I especially like waffles when a piece of bacon has been pressed along with the waffle batter. Two treats in one! Oh, and lots of butter and syrup too - I like the selection of three syrups you get at Perkins.
Steak and Eggs - Nothing like a rib-eye in the morning!
Oatmeal - Sometimes you just gotta have it.
Grits - I don't normally reach for them the first thing in the morning, but sometimes the mood hits... I like them either with butter, salt and pepper, or the opposite route with butter and sugar.
Corned Beef Hash! - I almost forgot! This has to be my all-time favorite breakfast. And if I see it on a menu at a restaurant I'm at for the first time, I'll usually order it as a sort of litmus test. I like the canned stuff - even the Roast Beef Hash - but the true "Diner Red Hash" is quite wonderful - especially once that little bit of heavy cream is mixed in... Sooooooo good. -It's also hard to find. With some piping hots biscuits (with gravy if I'm feeling particular decadent and arterie-clogging), and two eggs, over-easy, I'm all set for the day!
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Dan-In-Toronto: stamps are now 49 cents. You can bring whatever you're mailing to the post office with the 48 cent stamps and then buy a single 1 cent stamp to make up the difference :)
Jason: Cold pizza for breakfast is the best! There's something about the way that the grease congeals around the pepperoni that makes it wonderful, isn't there? :)
This is my favourite topic of the day... EVER!!! I love going out for breakfast on weekend - be it with friends, family or just the newspaper and me.
Favourite Fruity Breakfast:
Yoghourt, granola and fruit mixed together with honey - preferably served with a plain toasted sesame-seed bagel on the side
Favourite "Screw the Fruit - Give me Grease" Breakfast:
Home fries, tomato, onion, smoked meat and eggs all mixed up together to form a sort of scrambled-eggs version of a mish-mash omelette
Favourite Eggy Breakfast:
Two poached eggs on english muffins with asparagus and swiss cheese (eggs benedict with added greenery and minus the hollandaise)
Favourite "What's in the Fridge" Breakfast:
Cold pizza!!! :)
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Oh, I forgot Corned Beef Hash with a poached egg. Thanks for reminding me, Jose. The yolk breaking and mixing in with all those potatoes and hash. With a good cup of hot coffee, what more do I need?
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OH! And cinnamon rolls (Ann Sather's, when in Chicago, or a frozen brand called Rhode's, which are actually quite good). And coffee cake!
Those are breakfast foods, no?
Hmm... Yes, Ann Sather's are quite good - and addictive.
Once when I was working on a workshop in Chicago, the producer put us up at one of the "Residence Inns" - nice little cozy places in various neighborhoods througout the city. We happened to be at the Park Brompton Inn which was/is very convenient to the Lake and to Boystown. ;) Well... Every morning, boxes of still-warm Ann Sather's cinnamon rolls were brought in for the free breakfast spread. It was always a game of "Hmm... Has everyone had at least one yet? Can I grab another one for myself?"
-And then after walking around for the day, I would usually finish my day with another Ann Sather's goodie - usually a brownie.
DR Jason - Are you taking notes? ;)
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mmm...breakfast...
Loves me a good breakfast, any time of the day.
Love eggs, in all forms. Over medium, scrambled, or omlet form are my faves. IHOP makes a Country Omlet with onions, cheese, ham, and hashbrowns right in the omlet that's just delish.
Pancakes, French Toast, and Crepes...love 'em all, without reservations. Really good French Toast has got to be on the top of the list, although pankcakes with butter and maple syrup aren't far behind.
Not a big bacon fan, unless fried extra cripsy. More a sasuage person, but again has to be very well done....no greasy sasuage for me, thank you.
I am also a hot cereal freak. Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat are my two favorites. Those with sugar, raisins, and milk...mmm
Question, especially for our Canadian DR's...has anyone ever heard of a cereal called Red River? We used to have it when I was a kid, and I LOVED it.
Question - What is Scrapple?
Question - of which website does BK speak? The one that made him want to vomit on the ground...did it have anything to do with the post that George deleted? I'm curious...
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Well, I am looking for an excuse to take Woody back to NYC - he has not yet been to Zabar's.
der Brucer (Zabar's is the only place I know where you can buy a bit of Smithfield Ham - and a little bit goes a long way)
Smithfield Ham? You say you need some Smithfield Ham?
Do you prefer it sliced fresh? Or can you make do with the pre-packed, pre-sliced slices? At most of the local markets here in Richmond, you can buy a whole Smithfield ham, or just a few slices in sold in various thicknesses. I've also seen the Smithfield ham slices in the markets around the DC area - sold right next to - well, usually about the bacon and sausage. I'm sure someone around Rehoboth carries Smithfield ham - or a proper Smithfield-type ham. *I'll leave it to you to post what the difference is. ;)
Oh, what I was getting to is... Some of the pre-packs are shelf-stable and are ship well too, so... But nothing beats a trip up to Zabar's.
*Although, if you'd ever like to head South... There are various ham purveyors in and around Williamsburg. My favorite has to be Surry ham - which is a Smithfield type ham, but it's made in Surry County. -While a true Smithfield ham is made in Smithfield County. -And while you're in Williamsburg you can also pick up some dry roasted peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, peanut soup, peanut brittle, chocolate covered peanut brittle, etc. - and maybe even splurge on a dessert at Marcel Desaulnier's place.
I'm not a big fan of the traditional "ham biscuit" - they just always seems a little dry to me. And as you mentioned, a little Smithfield ham goes a long way. No need to add salt to these small sandwiches!
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HEY!?!!? Something must be wrong...
It's already almost noon on the East Coast...
The topic of the day is Breakfast - FOOD!...
And we're not even on Page 3 yet?!??!!
Must be another One-Day Sale in Tarnation today!
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WOW! The workmen already left for the day. They need to put one more layer of "mud" on tomorrow - or the next day - and then it all just needs to be re-painted.
*OH!! While moving things around this morning in the kitchen pre-workmen arriving, I noticed I have a lot of baking goods I should bake up soon - flour, sugar, chocolate (bars and chips; bittersweet, semi-sweet and milk), nuts (pecans and almonds), toffee bits (Heath and Bits-o-Brickle), oatmeal, peanut butter... And since I have yet to break in my new baking sheets and Silpats... I may be collecting shipping addresses next week... ;)
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DR Ann,
Red River cereal is a multi-grain cereal that you cook. I believe it's very similar to the US Wheatena (if they still make that). I don't have a box handy, but I know there's quite a bit of flax seed in there.
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Yummilicious, that's all I have to say. When I get around to eating today or even when I get asquare to eating today it will be some form of breakfast. Can't wait.
Re ugly website - I don't know what George's post was that was deleted. But I know if thinking caps are put on you will know exactly what URL to visit.
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Yes, I like corned beef hash any time of the day, but my mom made the best roast beef hash in the history of the world. Hadn't thought about that in years and years, but it was truly mouth-watering.
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My favorite breakfast cereal as a kid was FREAKIES. Does anyone remember it, it was on store shelves in the mid-70s (and was revived in the late 80s...but it just wasn't the same)? It tasted like Captain Crunch. I don't know that I enjoyed the cereal as much as I loved the Freakies characters...Boss Moss, Cowmumble, Hamhose, Gargle, Grumble, and the rest.
I still have my collection of Freakies figures which I sent away in the mail for 50 cents. I can remember waiting and waiting for them to arrive!
I also have the Freakie mobiles still in a box in my closet! But never did get all of the Freakies patches!
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Sub TOD: Favorite Cereals
Cheerios (with bananas or fresh blueberries)
Cap'n Crunch
Quisp (top favorite as a kid. I bought a box of it online about two years ago and it went in two days.)
Puffa-Puffa Rice (actually, I didn't like the cereal that much, but I loved the name and the song from the commercial when it first came out.)
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My thinking cap is busted.
I haven't a clue what URL to visit.
Someone point me in the right direction!
And, oh! yes! HEATHENS of the NORTH!
Y'all stop messin' around with our grits!
Southern Boy
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My favorite breakfast cereal as a kid was FREAKIES. Does anyone remember it, it was on store shelves in the mid-70s (and was revived in the late 80s...but it just wasn't the same)? It tasted like Captain Crunch. I don't know that I enjoyed the cereal as much as I loved the Freakies characters...Boss Moss, Cowmumble, Hamhose, Gargle, Grumble, and the rest.
I still have my collection of Freakies figures which I sent away in the mail for 50 cents. I can remember waiting and waiting for them to arrive!
I also have the Freakie mobiles still in a box in my closet! But never did get all of the Freakies patches!
I got me a whole box full of cereal toys! A Quisp flying saucer with a shooting grappling hook. A Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. A Trix whistle that was so loud and piercing that my sister borrowed and used it as a rape whistle for a few years. An Archie-mobile. A Davy Jones flicker ring. A Coco Puffs pecking Coco Bird. And a Cap'n Crunch decoder ring.
I also have empty packets of all the Funny Faces drink mix characters (including the politically incorrect Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange.)
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(Zabar's is the only place I know where you can buy a bit of Smithfield Ham - and a little bit goes a long way)
Ironically, next to the counters with kosher pastrami and whitefish and lox. Dontcha love it?
The Hash Browns have to have some crisp and crunch to them! ... Toast - wheat or rye... Oatmeal - Sometimes you just gotta have it.
How could I have forgotten hash browns in my post? They have to have lots of onions (and peppers are ok, too), and MUST be crunchy!
And my favorite breakfast accompaniment: TOAST! White or wheat (not a rye toast fan, though I do like rye bread), with sweet butter.
And of course, oatmeal. With a knob of butter, a little bit of milk, brown sugar and some cinnamon sprinkled on top. Nummers!
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I will not tell y'all what I had typed instead of peppers in my above post. Thank goodness I caught it!
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I will not tell y'all what I had typed instead of peppers in my above post. Thank goodness I caught it!
Was it "puppers"? Or "puppies"?
Was it "Pappers"? Or "pappies"?
Was it "pippers"? Or "pippies"?
Was it "pyppers"? Or "pyppies"?
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Please don't anyone beat "and one for Mahler" to death any longer.....
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Please don't anyone beat "and one for Mahler" to death any longer.....
OH! I get it.. Since Mahler was a composer and he wrote music... which has a "beat"... and since he was also a conductor... so he would stand in front of an orchestra and "beat" the time...
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-Something tells me I need to get out of this apartment sometime today... and soon!
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I get the urge usually once or twice a year to get a box of raisin bran or a box of frosted miniwheats and eat the cereal dry out of the box. I'm not a big milk drinker anyway, and for some reason doing that once or twice a year satisfies my hunger for cereal.
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MESSAGE FROM BK:
There's been a fershluganah power outage in his neighborhood so he won't be posting until the power comes back (or the cows come home).
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Question, especially for our Canadian DR's...has anyone ever heard of a cereal called Red River? We used to have it when I was a kid, and I LOVED it.
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Every box of The Original Red River Cereal contains the natural, wholesome goodness of wheat, rye and flax. That's it. That's all.
der Brucer (who prefers his flax converted to white linen suits)
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What is corned beef hash?
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I also have empty packets of all the Funny Faces drink mix characters (including the politically incorrect Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange.)
Oh, my gosh, I remember those Funny Face Drink mix characters! LOL! Didn't they have actually plastic drink cups as well or something...memory is hazy.
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We have a store that sells Quisp. I used to buy it every now and then.
Hashbrowns with ketchup are yummy!
Lucky Charms were another favorite! Loved those little mashmallows!
Loved Fruity Pebbles and Coco Pebbles too!
Now I eat low carb bran flakes! My how things change as you get older! LOL!
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The only corned beef hash I have ever had was the canned type. When we were kids that was always a special treat. Still pick a can of it up now and then. I think next time I eat breakfast out I will have that to see what real corned beef hash is like!
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During the War (The Big One) the Navy was concerned about having an adequate supply of fresh milk for their Midshipmen – hence, The Naval Academy Dairy.
When I was at Annapolis, the dairy had a “crises” – and over abundance of cream (damn those Guernsey’s). In a desparate attempt to use up the stuff, the academy chef (one CDR Louis LaFarge, by name) turned the surplus into ice cream. One fine morning we all sat down to breakfast and found a large stainless bowl filled with fresh home-made vanilla ice cream. Now, we always had cereal and bowls of fresh fruit on the table…so…..
Take one large dish of vanilla ice cream, smother in fresh strawberries, and abundantly sprinkle with Frosted Flakes – now that’s Good Eats!
It was such a hit, that we had ice-cream for breakfast regularly thereafter.
Der Brucer
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Question - of which website does BK speak? The one that made him want to vomit on the ground...did it have anything to do with the post that George deleted? I'm curious...
I think I know what the site that BK mentioned is, but I just made some comment about finding other sites that make me want to vomit on the ground but I didn't actually vomit because having to clean that up would make me vomit again. I deleted it because I thought that it would be TMI ("Too Much Information" in Internet lingo). I still think it was, but there you are. :-\
As for breakfast, I like food. Actually, one of the best breakfasts that I've had is right here in Olympia. There's a restaurant called The American Grill and they're open only until 3:00 p.m. They serve mostly organic and locally grown products. It's to die from! My favorite is Eggs And...Biscuits and Gravy. Scrambled eggs with a sausage gravy that isn't overpowering in its flavor. They also have course ground sea salt on the table and they make their own ketchup/catsup. MMMMM!
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Oh, my gosh, I remember those Funny Face Drink mix characters! LOL! Didn't they have actually plastic drink cups as well or something...memory is hazy.
O, my gosh II! Yep, I actually had one--Freckle Face Strawberry! I remember that I had grand illusions of sending away for the entire set until my mom informed me otherwise.
I feel another eBay "Recapture-My-Youth" Treasure Hunt coming on...
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Re ugly website - I don't know what George's post was that was deleted. But I know if thinking caps are put on you will know exactly what URL to visit.
I think I figured it out (without a pencil and a pad, I might add.) Ugly is being kind, I think.
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Der Brucer...
Yes sung to the unborn child.. she was pissed because her rotten boyfriend left her and her unborn baby so she was "Drinking for Two". I have no idea who wrote it, but it was a very funny song.
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RLP, me thinks it might be the place that is not to be mentioned. Perhaps not, but they certainly have changed things and it's pretty ugly. Takes ugly to a new level.
As a child in quaint and lovely Coon Rapids our two houses over neighbor worked for Pillsbury and he would often bring home new products. The neighborhood was an unpaid test market. We got to try all the Funny Face drinks before they were released to the public. I remember them all very well. Chinese Cherry became Choo Choo Cherry with a cherry wearing a railroad engineer's hat and I forget what became of Injun Orange
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If nobody is going to actually post the name, then somebody please send me a PM about this "ugly" place before I burst.
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One of my tastiest breakfasts: A few years ago I was still living in Boulder and came to LA for an awards show. As I was nominated, Showtime put me up at the Four Seasons, one of my fave places to stay in LA. It was my birthday the morning after my arrival. The man I was living with at the time had arrived at the hotel a day earlier from somewhere he'd been traveling and had made secret arrangements. Sooo, around 8 am on my birthday, a wonderful room service breakfast arrived (one of my favorite things, as I mentioned earlier) - but not only was there a deevine breakfast - but an entire birthday cake - very rich dark chocolate with real whipped cream on the side. Chocolate cake for breakfast on your birthday is highly recommended.
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I, too, luhs me some hash browns. I can't say, though, that I've ever had corn beef or roast beef hash. What kind of southern boy am I?
My dad makes the most amazing sausage gravy for his homemade biscuits...it's fantastic. Add that to the menu for this coming week. Y'all may think I'm kidding when I say that I've written out my menus for the next week at home, but I'm not.
Do any of you southerners have a good recipe for pimento cheese (or, for you northerners, "Pimento Cheese Spread")? A guy at work is looking for one. I'm sure my mom has one...I'll just have to search for it.
And George, when I get there, I'll post the recipe for that orange bundt cake, which also makes for a yummy breakfast treat.
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Hmmm I cannot imagine eating pizza for breakfast. But cake for breakfast sounds delicious!
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned pastries or donuts or danishes for breakfast. Not that I eat these things for breakfast. But I do love sweets!
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What is corned beef hash?
Scrapple for us cowards.
(Scrapple -- After the ham, bacon, chops and other cuts of meat are taken from a butchered pig - what remains are fixings for scrapple - including -- but not limited to -- the meat scraped off the head. Scrapple may contain pork skin, pork heart, pork liver, pork tongue - even pork brains. Those faint of palate needn't venture any further. It's a cholesterol meltdown!!!!)
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Hmmm I cannot imagine eating pizza for breakfast.
Cold pizza for breakfast is to die for!
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I am surprised that nobody has mentioned pastries or donuts or danishes for breakfast. Not that I eat these things for breakfast. But I do love sweets!
If donuts and danishes are available, I'll save them for a second breakfast.
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Well, I am looking for an excuse to take Woody back to NYC - he has not yet been to Zabar's.
der Brucer (Zabar's is the only place I know where you can buy a bit of Smithfield Ham - and a little bit goes a long way)
Oh Yes I Have!!!
You took me there, silly boy! At your urging, we crossed through Central Park (in the daylight) to get there. And yes, we bought Smithfield ham, and a few cheeses and other numnums.
I don't recall their having scrapple, though. Probably not.
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Power came back on ten minutes ago and now I must hie myself to the Oaks of Sherman. The worst part of the outage was that I couldn't open the garage door (automatic) - I know there's supposed to be a way to switch to manual but I could not find it. Happily, we're back up. The excuse was that someone cut the line in the nabe (it affected quite a bit of the City of Studio near me). I simply said to them, "You're a billion dollar company and you don't have a backup system for emergencies?" They, as always, had no answer.
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I mentioned this about a week or so ago, but tonight there is another one of those AFI Top 100 shows, this year selecting the top 100 movie songs. I'm probably way off base here, but my picks for the top 10 are:
"Over the Rainbow" THE WIZARD OF OZ (surely the #1 song)
"Whistle While You Work" SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
"When You Wish Upon A Star" PINOCCHIO
"As Time Goes By" CASABLANCA
"White Christmas" HOLIDAY INN
"Moon River" BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" MARY POPPINS
"Do Re Mi" THE SOUND OF MUSIC
"Mrs. Robinson" THE GRADUATE
"The Way We Were" THE WAY WE WERE
The listing of the 400 songs that were on the ballot is at www.afi.com (http://afi.com/tvevents/100years/songs.aspx). Some glaring omissions there. No "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White, "Colonel Bogie's March" from Bridge on the River Kwai or "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago (sounds like an anti-Lean conspiracy.)
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DR MBarnum: I'm not lying about this, we were just sorting through the mail bins that came in and lo and behold, there was a postcard advertising your friend's show! We'll see if I can maybe make it...I'll try to bring friends from MTI.
Anyone else here a fan of corn pudding? Mmmm...
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Cold pizza for breakfast is to die for!
I agree. As is cold chinese food (with all due respect to Mama Rose and her brood).
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Re ugly website - I don't know what George's post was that was deleted. But I know if thinking caps are put on you will know exactly what URL to visit.
Oh, I quite agree, esteemed BK. The only problem for me was that I was giggling and heaving at the same time, which led to a backflow into my nasal passages. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
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SWW and Der Brucer, I do hope you can go and see INSOMNIA and have a nice night out in NYC! If I could afford it I would definately be there too!
Not too long ago Charles sent me a recording of his score for a musical titled PABLO which I very much enjoyed. I don't believe the play has been produced yet, but I really enjoyed the songs to it.
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DR MBarnum: I'm not lying about this, we were just sorting through the mail bins that came in and lo and behold, there was a postcard advertising your friend's show! We'll see if I can maybe make it...I'll try to bring friends from MTI.
Anyone else here a fan of corn pudding? Mmmm...
Cool! Do try to go Jason and take as many people with you as you can!!
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OK - Time for me to log off my computer and get something done today... Anything done today... Well, I'm most likely heading up to school to get some more practice in...
-And I still want my music back! :(
OH! - But I did just get a good laugh from watching "The Bold & The Beautiful"! - That has the be THE biggest newborn baby ever! EVER!! And, of course, it was delivered at home. In a candle filled bedroom. And the cute doctor arrived just minutes after the the father - the REAL father - had delivered the baby. Gotta love the soaps!
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I have never tried corn pudding but it sounds good!
I would love to try this Scapple that is being mentioned. I must find a place here that serves it!
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OK. This is what's going to happen. When I get to Louisville, I'm going to post all of my mother's best recipes so all y'all can try 'em. I think you'll enjoy them.
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RE: Corn pudding... YUMMERS! Along with Spoon Bread, Cheddar Cheese Spoon Bread, Spinach "Souffle", Green Bean Casserole, etc... The Ukrop's grocery store chain here in Richmond has a pretty good line of prepared foods. Sometimes, I just make a meal from the side dishes! Oh, and Broccoli and Rice (and Cheese) Casserole too! ...And Cinnamon Apples... And... And... :D
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NOW I'm logging off... NOW! ;)
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Some of the songs listed above for the 100 Best Movie Songs originated on Broadway. Is the list songs written for the movies or songs from any source used in a movie?
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And George, when I get there, I'll post the recipe for that orange bundt cake, which also makes for a yummy breakfast treat.
Thank you!! ;D :-*
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I'm probably the only board member with a copy of Food Lover's Companion at hand, so here goes:
SCRAPPLE: The name of this Pennsylvania Dutch dish is derived from the finely chopped "scraps" of cooked pork that are mixed with fine-ground cornmeal, pork broth and seasonings before being cooked into a mush. The mush is packed into loaf pans and cooled. Slices of the scrapple are cut from the loaves, fried in butter and served hot, usually for breakfast or brunch.
GRITS: Though it's now commonly used to mean "hominy grits," the term "grits" actually refers to any coarsely ground grain such as corn, oats, or rice. Most grits come in a choice of grinds - coarse, medium and fine. Grits can be cooked with water or milk - usually by boiling or baking - and eaten as hot cereal or seved as a side dish.
Which leads us to...
HOMINY: One of the first food gifts the American Indians gave [to the colonists, hominy is dried white or yellow corn kernels from which the hull and germ have been removed. ...Hominy is sold canned, ready-to-eat or dried (which must be reconstituted before using. It is commonly served as a side dish or as part of a casserole. ... When ground, it is called hominy grits, or simply grits. ... Hominy grits are generally simmered with water or milk until very thick. The mixture can be served in this mushlike form or chilled, cut into squares and fried.
Rough translation: think of grits as polenta with soul.
CORNED BEEF: Beef (usually brisket, but also round) cured in a seasoned brine. The term "corned" beef comes from the English use of the word "corn," meaning any small particle, such as a grain of salt.
HASH: A dish of finely chopped meat (roast beef and corned beef are the most common) usually fired together until lightly browned. Other chopped vegetables, such as green pepper, celery and onion, can be added. Hash is sometimes served with gravy or sauce.
Which leads us to the Chicken Hash served at the '21' restaurant in NYC. It is made from skinless, boneless chicken breasts that have been poached in chicken stock and then cooled and cut into 1-inch cubes. This is then rewarmed in a veloute-style cream sauce (heavy cream, dry sherry, thickened with a light roux), and served over wild rice.
Something tells me we ain't losing weight with today's TOD!!!
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Thanks George and Ben for clewing me in on the vomit-on-the-floor inducing site. I hate to be in the dark. Especially when vomiting is involved.
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AFI just says that they are the greatest songs from the movies. Therefore, I assume that if it was sung, heard, played, or possibly even mentioned at any time in any movie -- it qualifies. Among those stars announcing the selceted songs tonight will be Peter Boyle, which I assume means that Puttin On the Ritz will be among the songs honored.
And to think that the special will be hosted by the one person most closely idetified with music from the American motion picture industry, Mr. John Travolta.
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Some of the songs listed above for the 100 Best Movie Songs originated on Broadway. Is the list songs written for the movies or songs from any source used in a movie?
It's very wierd but it's songs as they were used in movies. F'rinstance, they have "It Had to be You" from When Harry Met Sally, "That's Amore" from Moonstruck and "I'm Still Here" from Postcards from the Edge.
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Well...since Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire are dead...who's left who has been in a movie musical?
Richard Gere?
Franco Nero?
Peter O'Toole?
They could get Howard Keel, I suppose, but he hasn't "performed" in years...and they want to draw an audience.
I'm guessing Travolta is the biggest name that has more than just a passing association with musical films.
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I'm up for Breakfast at almost any time of the day, but I especially love it at around 2 or 3 in the morning.
One of my favs is the traditional British Breakfast which besides the eggs, sausage, bacon, and fried, yes, I said fried, toast (slathered in butter, of course) includes baked beans! Yum! It also includes tomatoes and mushrooms usually. Not so yum! And, of course, there's that edible of perfection...THE SCOTCH EGG! Double yum!
Like Dan the Man, I can get into Steak and Eggs.
When in the South, Grits as a side-dish is de rigeur. Peppered and slathered in butter, of course.
One of the best places for Breakfast out here in LA, though I haven't been in years, is the PANTRY, which is open 24 hours and has never been closed since it opened, even when it was moving to a new location. There is usually a line outside the door waiting for seats almost any time, day or night.
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I like corn pudding.
And speaking of grits, The Lovely Wife makes great cheese grits!
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DR Jason, epicurious.com has a recipe called "Mother's Everyday Pimento Cheese"
http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=102560&kw=pimento+cheese&action=filtersearch&filter=recipe-filter.hts&collection=Recipes&ResultTemplate=recipe-results.hts&queryType=and&keyword=pimento+cheese (http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=102560&kw=pimento+cheese&action=filtersearch&filter=recipe-filter.hts&collection=Recipes&ResultTemplate=recipe-results.hts&queryType=and&keyword=pimento+cheese)
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OK. This is what's going to happen. When I get to Louisville, I'm going to post all of my mother's best recipes so all y'all can try 'em. I think you'll enjoy them.
THIS sounds like a real treat! Thank-you!
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Well...since Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire are dead...who's left who has been in a movie musical?
Richard Gere?
Franco Nero?
Peter O'Toole?
If it is music from films, and not just from musicals, why does it have to be someone who starred in musicals? What about Burt Bacharach? What about John Williams?
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Some of the songs listed above for the 100 Best Movie Songs originated on Broadway. Is the list songs written for the movies or songs from any source used in a movie?
I recall that they're using the "used in" definition. Otherwise, "As Time Goes By" wouldn't fit (wasn't written for it's most famous usage, in Casablanca).
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Well...since Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire are dead...who's left who has been in a movie musical?
Richard Gere?
Franco Nero?
Peter O'Toole?
There's also Clint Eastwood, Liv Ullman, Burt Reynolds and Michael Douglas.
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What about Barbra Streisand? What about Shirley MacLaine?
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If it is music from films, and not just from musicals, why does it have to be someone who starred in musicals? What about Burt Bacharach? What about John Williams?
Do you mean John Williams of the Longines Symphonette Society commercials?
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DR CP: The Original Pantry HAS been closed...once! It was briefly shut down by the health department, for some violation. Problem was, the doors hadn't been locked for so long that no one could find the key!
Der Brucer and I are off to do some major shopping. I've printed a list of the AFI song nominees; we'll be discussing it during the drive.
Later!
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Okay, where are those donuts and danishes DR Jennifer mentioned a while ago? It's time for that little breakfast that comes between lunch and dinner--Luneakfanner (it's an old Norwegian tradition.)
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... and fried, yes, I said fried, toast (slathered in butter, of course)...
Lucy, 'splain! It sounds too, too yummy.
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Well, BK, did ask what our favorite breakfast foods are, so I can eliminate those foods that I should be eating for breakfast, and only list those things that I want to have for breakfast – healthy or otherwise.
I am not a big fan of pancakes or waffles, which, I suppose, would probably include those disgusting syrup-filled things that McDonalds is pushing lately. I do eat French Toast from time to time, but I usually stay away from sweets for breakfast.
Omelettes are my favorite breakfast food, usually with cheese, sausage, and veggies. Plus the hash browns, preferably with gravy, and white or sourdough toast. Also, Eggs Benedict, or a wonderful variation is Shrimp Benedict which replaces the Canadian Bacon or Ham with shrimp. Yumm!
And another vote for cold pizza.
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I have had hominy, both by itself and in Menudo. I prefer it in Menudo.
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Yes, TCB, there is a BIG difference between what I can have for breakfast and what I want to have for breakfast! LOL!
But quite often I cheat!
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I have had hominy, both by itself and in Menudo. I prefer it in Menudo.
Isn't Menudo that Latin boy band???
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Actually "That's Amore" was written for the movies, just not for "Moonstruck". It was written for the Martin & Lewis film "The Caddy:.
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I have had hominy, both by itself and in Menudo. I prefer it in Menudo.
Isn't Menudo that Latin boy band???
I though DR MBarnum was talking about eating in the nude.
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Isn't Menudo that Latin boy band???
You beat me to the punch, DR TCB! (And your comments were more appropriate for the family-friendly site that this is.....)
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I got it now....Music from the Movies...why Travolta as an emcee when there are more "musical" choices?
Never mind...
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I looked up The Pantry - or as it's called in all the listings: The ORIGINAL Pantry - to see where it was and discovered that it's owned by ex-Mayor Richard Riordan.
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The last guy I dated seriously, which lasted about six months, made scrumptuous corn pudding.
When I was young, I did not like breakfast food for breakfast. In fact, because I had to get up so early to go to school, the only thing I could swallow in the morning for breakfast was something sweet like a doughnut or cinammon bun. This constituted my breakfast for about 13 years. But I loved eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, hash browns, so occasionally I'd talk my mother into having breakfast for dinner. Actually, it didn't take much persuading. My whole family liked that kind of food any time or the day or night for meals.
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And you've got Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli, Rick Moranis, plus Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor for others who have performedd in musicals and are still with us.
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I got it now....Music from the Movies...why Travolta as an emcee when there are more "musical" choices?
Never mind...
RLP, you crack me up.
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Okay, my stumped me Dan the Man, what musical did Michael Douglas do?
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For some reason I rarely eat eggs for dinner. But I know many people who do.
With all these descriptions I feel like I've been missing out on so much food. I never have big breakfasts, unless it's a pancake brunch. Although I have been known to eat lunch at 10:30am or 11am on occasion.
I think I would like a recipe for hash browns. Are they difficult to make?
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A Breakfast related Page 5 dance!
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Okay, my stumped me Dan the Man, what musical did Michael Douglas do?
One of the worst: A Chorus Line.
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Quite enjoyed "Murder in the Mews" and "The Disappearance of Johnnie Waverly" on my POIROT boxed set. I prefer reading the Poirot novels, but the Poirot short stories seem well served by these TV versions.
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Jose: Spoon bread...MMMMMmmmm! And biscuits with apple butter!?!? And broccoli casserole with rice...Oh, my gosh...I'm drooling.
Thank you, S. Woody, for your definitions of food. After reading your description of scrapple, it seems to me that perhaps I have had it before. My grandfather makes a concoction he calls "Mush," and it sounds an awful lot like scrapple. My dad loves it, and I recall my mother being completely grossed out by the idea of it. If I recall correctly, I was rather impartial to it.
Anyone here heard of a Hot Brown? It's a hot turkey sandwich, sometimes with ham, too, on white toast covered in a cheese sauce with bacon strips and tomato slices on top. I used to hate them, but I grew into them and now I don't mind them so much. They're actually quite tasty, and a perfect way to get rid of some of that leftover turkey after Thanksgiving or Christmas. Here's a link to a recipe: http://southernfood.about.com/library/rec03/bl30621b.htm
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A Breakfast related Page 5 dance!
One of the worst: A Chorus Line.
That is probably why I blanked it out.
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My mouth is watering just reading today's messages! I only made it to page 3 before I had to make a peanut butter sandwich (my typical work-day running out the door with a cup of coffee, car keys, backpack, and briefcase).
My favorite all-time breakfast was at a restaurant (now closed :( ) in college. Two eggs (over-easy), potato pancakes, and a big fluffy homemade biscuit. On--and lots of coffee--just regular, strong, coffee with lots of real cream.
I also like breakfast casseroles w/ various breakfast meats (you make it the night before and pop it in the oven first thing in the morning).
I love cereal (I have to mix several different kinds) with yogurt or milk with a little peanut butter mixed in. However, I tend to eat cereal at night more than for breakfast.
I could go on (I do believe this is my longest post yet), but I have to get back to work!
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My favorite breakfast food would have to be biscuits and gravy, as cooked by my very own self or my father (or his mother, but that's a bit difficult now, as she died some 18 years ago). We use dried beef for our gravy, rather than the standard sausage... quite tasty. Also very fond of a good Eggs Benedict.
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I want breakfast!!
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The above, BTW, is just a general statement. I actually had my usual breakfast of oatmeal and berries this morning. But all this talk of breakfast has made me want MORE breakfast. Breakfast for lunch and breakfast for dinner.
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Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! DAMN!
All this breakfast food talk is driving me up the wall.
I LOVE "Waffle House" pecan waffles with warm syrup, a side of bacon and hot coffee.
I LOVE grits and bacon, or grits and sausage.
I LOVE chipped beef on toast (AKA SOS).
I LOVE corn pudding and squash casserole and fried summer squash and fried okra and beefeater tomatoes and crowder peas and fresh corn.
I LOVE potato salad made with mayonnaise and mustard as a dressing with diced onion, celery and pickle.
I LOVE devilled eggs -- AUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!
It's all SCRUMPTIOUS!
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My friend Jennifer is forever talking about how good S#@t On a Shingle is...I've never had it.
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OH! And cinnamon rolls (Ann Sather's, when in Chicago, or a frozen brand called Rhode's, which are actually quite good).
Whenever Michael and I visit Chicago, breakfast at Ann Sather's is a must, and it's easy to get to, right off of the Belmont train stop. The eggs benedict with salmon is wonderful! And they hire the most adorable waiters in the known universe.
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Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! DAMN!
All this breakfast food talk is driving me up the wall.
I LOVE "Waffle House" pecan waffles with warm syrup, a side of bacon and hot coffee.
I LOVE grits and bacon, or grits and sausage.
I LOVE chipped beef on toast (AKA SOS).
I LOVE corn pudding and squash casserole and fried summer squash and fried okra and beefeater tomatoes and crowder peas and fresh corn.
I LOVE potato salad made with mayonnaise and mustard as a dressing with diced onion, celery and pickle.
I LOVE devilled eggs -- AUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!
It's all SCRUMPTIOUS!
DR RLP, your anguish has moved me. I am hearby declaring the rest of today as breakfast time! I am now heading out to an IHOP. I suggest you all do likewise.
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Jason, I was actually going to ask if your mom had a recipe for Hot Brown...a Kentucky favourite of mine, though anymore it's hard to justify eating it, given all its artery-clogging calories...but Yum! Same for spoon bread which the Lovely Wife on occasion whips up a batch. The Lovely Wife also whips up killer Bourbon Balls for Derby each year. And each year she always swears such a labour-intensive task will be the last, but I think our party goers would revolt if she did. It's all they can talk about.
I must say however, I've never been overly wild about Burgoo.
RLP, Deviled Eggs...nirvana for me!
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For Dan TM:
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Sometimes, I have a Hostess breakfast. You know, Twinkies, Ho-Hos or Ding-Dongs, with a huge glass of ice-cold milk.
(Okay, TCB...I've given you an opening, and if you don't use it, you'll cut me to the quick!)
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Jason, I was actually going to ask if your mom had a recipe for Hot Brown...a Kentucky favourite of mine, though anymore it's hard to justify eating it, given all its artery-clogging calories...but Yum! Same for spoon bread which the Lovely Wife on occasion whips up a batch. The Lovely Wife also whips up killer Bourbon Balls for Derby each year. And each year she always swears such a labour-intensive task will be the last, but I think our party goers would revolt if she did. It's all they can talk about.
I must say however, I've never been overly wild about Burgoo.
RLP, Deviled Eggs...nirvana for me!
Charles, what is Burgoo?
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Good Evening!
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All this talk of food today... On my walk back from practicing - and still no music :( - I made a stop into the Strawberry Street Market, and grabbed some dinner from the hot food counter in the back of the store. I was about to get their fried chicken - which is very good - but opted instead for their daily special: baked, stuffed chicken breast. It was soooo good. And basically drowning in gravy. For my two sides, I choose mac 'n cheese and green beans, and a square of cornbread. And just to make sure I had a complete meal, I picked up a slice of chocolate cheesecake - which was actually a slice of regular cheesecake topped with a generous pour of chocolate ganache.
ALL GONE! Needless to say, I'm very full right now, and I'll probably end up taking another walk later on just to make sure everything settles correctly.
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-Excuse me.
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All right.
Another breakfast favorite:
A piece of toast, folded.
Add jelly.
Two strips of bacon.
YUM-MY!
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I have a bunch of recipes for burgoo and brunswick stew.
They are similar, I believe.
I'm an absolute FIEND for Brunswick Stew.
I've planned my entire retirement toward becoming an eccentric southern gentleman who will have a huge cooking vat in his yard for the express purpose of making a year's supply (at a time) of Brunswick Stew which I will personally put up for my -- and my friends who share the love -- of the delectable stew that is uniquely "Brunswick".
It has to be cooked outside in the summer time....so the gnats will swarm and season it!
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More random food thoughts...
Hot Brown - YUM! -Basically an open-face turkey sandwich. I actually prefer french fries on the side rather than the traditional mashed potatoes, and I always ask for gravy on my fries! I also like open-face roast beef sandwiches.
Cream Chipped Beef - aka S.O.S. - This was another thing my dad would make from time to time. Since he was in the Coast Guard, it was something he used to make for the mess hall and/or in the galley on board ship. I haven't had it in a couple of years, hmmm...
Deviled Eggs - One of the fringe benefits of working at Ford's Theatre is that there is one crew guy, Billy, who loves to cook for the cast, and most of what he makes is very homey and comfy. He always makes deviled eggs at least three or four times during a run a show there. And he always brings in a few variations: plain, with olives, with bits of sausage under the yolk mixture, with crisp bits of bacon on top, etc. Sooo good. -And they make a nice light dinner before the show too!
Burgoo - I've had it once. I liked it, but I prefer Brunswick Stew (in it's many variations and "traditions").
-And, yes, I'm still full from dinner! :-X
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Breakfasts
American: The French Grand Slam at Denny'
Jewish: Bagles, Lox and Cream Cheese
Oriental: Dim Sum (a little nosh of everything)
French: Crepes.
Diet: Fruit and Cottage Cheese
College: Carnation Instant
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I would think Laura's Theme would not have been included was because it was only an instrumental in the film. Lyrics were added afterwards to many other favorite theme scores like Where Do I Begin? from Love Story. The Summer Knows from The Summer of '42 and Speak Softly Love from The Godfather.
As for Col. Bogey's March it was also an instrumental.
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Page Six Dance
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And One For Mahler
GERMAN BREAKFAST PANCAKES
serves 6
6 Eggs
1/8 ts Salt
1 c Flour -- unsifted
12 c Milk
1 t Sugar
1/4 lb Butter
- Powdered Sugar
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Lightly beat eggs with salt. Gradually add flour to milk, blending until smooth. Add this mixture and the sugar to the eggs and blend well. Place the butter into the cast iron skillets and place them into the oven until butter melts. Brush butter up sides of skillet(s). Add the batter to the pan and bake for 15 minutes, or until the pancakes rise and puff and are lightly browned. Lower the temperature to 400°F if pancakes are browning too fast. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve immediately with one or more of the toppings suggested below.
Topping Suggestions: Fruit jam, fresh berries, sliced fresh fruit, sour cream, applesauce, sugar and cinnamon.
At the restaurant we first tried these at, The Original Pancake House, they use a similar pancake but serve it one of two ways.
An Apple Pancake is served with warmed Fried Apples (like Cracker Barrel's)/Apple Pie Filling inside the middle.
The German Pancake is served with the powdered sugar sifted over the middle and fresh squeezed lemon juice squirted on top of that. When served, just take a butter knife and spread the powdered sugar and lemon juice out over the rest of the middle of the pancake.
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Ah, yes....absolutely...the horse is dead, dead, dead!
May the fershluganah beast rest in peace at some point.
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Dim Sum my favorite place is in Montreal at Maison Kam Fung (Kam Fung House) I wish I could find one in Florida where I live that is just as good
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Well... I need to head out for a while and blow of some steam... ARRGGHH!! -Film at 11:00 - well, hopefully not..
Laters...
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Evening all!
The root canal wasn’t as bad as I thought. In fact, I feel much better. My tooth isn’t throbbing and the Advil seems to be doing the trick as far as pain control.
The doctor was a real cutie but way to young for me. He said I was one the best patients he’s worked on. When it was over and he said it was nice to meet me, I told him I’d like to say, “We’ll have to do this again sometime but I think not.” He got a big kick out of that.
The worst part was when then put the dam in my mouth. A piece of rubber that stretched over my entire mouth. I had told the assistant before it started that I was mouth breather and she said she would put a hole in it for me. She did but for a moment or two there I was honestly very close to a panic attack.
I am a little tired. It might be the meds.
Breakfast foods. Hummm, you know on the weekends I’m lucky if I eat one meal a day. I do love bacon and eggs. Pancakes, waffles, French Toast.... That was one thing I really enjoyed on my trip. The eating. Breakfast, especially. Yum! :)
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German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes.... German pancakes....
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Glad you came through it so well, Danise!
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Actually, I'm not at all sure what goes into Burgoo -- a stewlike concoction. And I think I've only had it maybe once in my life. It is a big thing around Kentucky Derby time and people conjure it up for their Derby parties...We never do, opting for b-b-q shredded chicken instead (of which BK is admirer).
I'm sure Jason or RLP can enlighten us further.
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I'm still thinking about German pancakes... Ich bin ein Pancaker.
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AOL is really something. I was talking to them today about a phony AOL letter I received and took the opportunity to ask why I'm being kicked off so much recently. The young man was telling me things to do to fix this - which all had to do with Windows. I kept telling him I have a Mac. When this was finally understood, he said he'd consult their Mac department and email me info. So the email arrives - a generic fix-it doc. One of the options is to click on the "stay connected" section. I did. What came up is "This URL cannot be accessed!"
BTW - The AOL man asked me the usual questions about my use of the Internet. When I told him that I'm a screenwriter and use if for research -- he spent five minutes telling me the idea he had for a movie. (He would have spent more, but I stopped him.)
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One of the options is to click on the "stay connected" section. I did. What came up is "This URL cannot be accessed!"
LOL!
I was an AOL subscriber for about five years. About two years ago, Michael and I decided that AOL was not for us...and what a good decision that turned out to be! Our current internet provider is infinitely better, and better still, local. Which means they can send people to your house and fix what needs fixing.
Customer service! What a concept!
Okay, end of anti-AOL rant.
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Everyone has an idea for a movie.
Not surprisingly, I have an idea for a movie.
It's Die Hard meets On Golden Pond!!!
Money in the bank, I tells ya...money in the bank!
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Finally back after a very long seven hours at Mr. Grant Geissman's house, doing some very interesting things. We did take an hour for lunch and I WOULD have had breakfast but I hate the place we went (Mel's Diner) and their breakfasts are no good, so I played safe and had a BLTA and onion rings. A small egg-based meal could be in the offing later.
Thanks to all for keeping the home fries burning, especially with such splendidly splendid posts. We must do a hainsies/kimlets west coast Pantry meet soon.
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DR Panni: did your AOL tech tell you to "uninstall your AOL adapter?" That is their be-all end-all fix-it phrase no matter what the problem is. I could call them and tell them there's no world peace and they would say, "Well you need to uninstall your AOL adapter." I kid you not.
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Yes, the old AOL adaptor. It, of course, fixes nothing.
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DR Panni: did your AOL tech tell you to "uninstall your AOL adapter?" That is their be-all end-all fix-it phrase no matter what the problem is. I could call them and tell them there's no world peace and they would say, "Well you need to uninstall your AOL adapter." I kid you not.
No, this man knew nothing. Other than he had a movie idea - but he didn't know what to call "that thing" you write. I said "Screenplay?" He said, "No, the movie, the stuff they say, you know."
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I just made myself scrambled eggs with mushrooms and turkey sausage for dinner. Yum. But no German pancakes. Sigh...
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I just made myself scrambled eggs with mushrooms and turkey sausage for dinner. Yum. But no German pancakes. Sigh...
Panni, my mom is German. I'm sure that if you ever visit Washington state, she'd make German pancakes for you!
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Tonight is the season premiere of Nip/Tuck. An excellent show. Vanessa Redgrave will be guesting as the randy mother of series regular (and daughter) Joely Richardson. The whole first season is available on DVD.
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Panni, my mom is German. I'm sure that if you ever visit Washington state, she'd make German pancakes for you!
Danke schon! Meanwhile, could she mail me some?
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I'm going out to get some ice cream. Perhaps they have a German Pancake flavor.
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DR Panni: I thought that "nip and tuck" was what happened after too many German pancakes. (and or icecream).
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I will part company with those of you who are fond of chipped beef on toast. Oh, I can eat it, and did fairly often growing up. My dad, an army man, loved it, so my mom would cook it for him.
But I can't say I've had it in 30 years or more.
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I can understand many folks' addiction to nip/tuck, but I'm a wuss and just can't watch the graphic operations. So, I opted out last season.
THE JURY is much more my speed.
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Good Evening!
I'm back from my second walk of the day... I needed it. Not only to help the dinner I had earlier to settle in my stomach, but also to walk off some "bad" news I got earlier this evening. I'm actually still in shock about it - more shock actually than disappointment right now. -And, I guess, even a little bit of anger. It's just one of those situations where I never thought anything could go wrong. Heck, I approached them about the project. And since I've been working with this organization for years at this point... And I even devoted a couple of weeks to them recently on my own time and own dime. For all I knew, everything was still on track. But, as it turned out, someone else somehow entered the picture. And, worst of all, it appears that the decision was made a few weeks ago, and I was just informed tonight. By e-mail. And I've been attempting to follow up on things for the past couple of months(!), but did not receive any word back until tonight. So... What can you do? Well, I'm gonna attempt to get some answers to the plethora of questions I have currently racing through my head - that's what I'm gonna do tomorrow.
The news really did throw me for a loop. On a professional, I can take it. But there is actually some personal history involved here, and that's what makes it hurt. Makes it shocking.
What I'm hoping is that I misread the e-mail, but since the e-mail was only two sentences long(!), I doubt it. But I can dream, can't I?
On the bright side of things, I can at least take myself out of that "holding pattern". But since I was also kept in a "waiting mode" yesterday, this was not what I needed tonight.
Ah, well...
OK - End of rant... Hopefully, I won't have to rant again tomorrow.
The walk helped, and I even bought some Lotto tickets on the way back. Alas, I didn't win tonight - they just showed the drawing on TV. Oh, and I bought an old-fashioned popsicle, cherry-flavored. So much pleasure in simple things.
I caught the beginning and the end of the AFI's "100 Years, 100 Songs" special. Interesting choices all around. No real surprises, imho, although, undoubtedly some favorites have been left out, and there were probably some questionable choices and rankings in the minds of some people. But the list was already whittled down from 400 choices - and it's good to know that the original "ballot" would have been much, much longer.
-I just have to ask... What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!? He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while.
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Also watched the poignant CITY FOR CONQUEST today. Hadn't seen it in quite a few years, and it came on at the perfect time when I was settling in for my evening's entertainment. TCM's print had a fair amount of damage for a 1940 movie, but it was nevertheless enjoyable.
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DR Jose wrote: "What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!? He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while."
I didn't watch the show, so I have to ask what you mean by this? Was he old? Fat? Sarcastic? Bored?
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Meant to add how sorry I was to read about not getting your music back, DR Jose, and also sorry about this most recent upset about your project. Things happen for a reason, so maybe you'll be doing something else even more interesting now that you won't have this.
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Sorry to hear about your news Jose. Hope something wonderful (thank you R & H) happens to make up for it very soon. Best wishes from C, M & F too.
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RE: German Pancakes
One of the first "real" recipes I remember coming across was one for "Dutch Babies" - which are very much like the German Pancakes that DR Michael Shayne posted. It was in a cookbook that my mom's hospital in Seattle had put out. The whole concept of baking a pancake is what appealed to me. And the description of them rising and puffing up in the oven sounded quite delicious. However, it wasn't until many years later when I finally got to make them - mainly because I finally had an oven proof skillet. But I can still recall walking through many a cookware department and wanting to buy a set of small cast iron skillets just so that I could make the "Dutch Babies". *When I've done them lately, I do them in a big 12-inch skillet. The finished product is quite impressive when it comes out of the oven. Just remember that the pan handle is hot(!) - don't forget the pot holder. Trust me, don't forget the pot holder! -Ouch!
Oh, and I usually serve them with some sort of freshly prepared fruit concoction and/or syrup and/or fruit preserves. Orange marmalade and lingonberry preserves work quite nicely.
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Everyone has an idea for a movie.
Not surprisingly, I have an idea for a movie.
It's Die Hard meets On Golden Pond!!!
Money in the bank, I tells ya...money in the bank!
I've always wondered where Jane Fonda really wandered off to in that film!
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DR Jose wrote: "What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!? He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while."
I didn't watch the show, so I have to ask what you mean by this? Was he old? Fat? Sarcastic? Bored?
Yes. Yes. Yes. And, most likely, Yes.
He just couldn't seem to speak properly. His speech pattern seemed labored to me. And he seemed to be trying to hide a lisp - well, at least a very slushy "ssss". He also seemed to be squinting a lot. Maybe he was just having a hard time reading the teleprompter. I dunno.
And the hair! The Hair?!?!? Just not flatterting at all.
-And he really wasn't on all that much!
Of course, the kicker was at the end of the show when they cued up "Stayin' Alive", and he started his strut off the set. Ugh!
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DR Jose wrote: "What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!? He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while."
I didn't watch the show, so I have to ask what you mean by this? Was he old? Fat? Sarcastic? Bored?
He wasn't fat (that was Hamlish), and he wasn't old. Actually, that was the problem. He wasn't his young self any more, but he doesn't look like he's aged into his body. He's at an in-between stage, and it doesn't look good on him.
But he's the come-back kid. In a few years, he might be looking good again.
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GERMAN BREAKFAST PANCAKES
serves 6
6 Eggs
1/8 ts Salt
1 c Flour -- unsifted
12 c Milk
1 t Sugar
1/4 lb Butter
- Powdered Sugar
Sorry, this list of ingredients doesn't read right. One cup of flour and six eggs...and TWELVE cups of milk? This is going to be a hellava thin batter! I've a hunch a half cup of milk will suffice.
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Sorry to hear about your news, Jose. Unfortunately, this busines sometimes throws huge disappointments your way. But then it also throws huge wonderful surprises. Here's hoping one of those is just around the corner for you.
(IMHO - there is no excuse for rudeness, however. Being told in a two sentence e-mail that you do not have a job on which you had already put in time, by someone with whom you have history, is downright RUDE. And that is inexcusable.)
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DR Jose, very sorry about your unpleasant news. With any luck perhaps one of those lotto tickets will turn your mood into a happier one!!
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I would think Laura's Theme would not have been included was because it was only an instrumental in the film. Lyrics were added afterwards to many other favorite theme scores like Where Do I Begin? from Love Story. The Summer Knows from The Summer of '42 and Speak Softly Love from The Godfather.
As for Col. Bogey's March it was also an instrumental.
Yep, I kind of realized what they were going for at the beginning of the show when Travolta seemed to keep repeating the word lyrics. Still, I can't get over some omissions from the 400 song ballot, namely the aforementioned "Heigh-Ho" and, unbelievably, any Beatle song!
If I may toot my own horn here, I do have to let ya all know that I picked seven out of the top ten. From a list of 400 songs, that ain't bad...
BTW (internet lingo), breakfast at IHOP was delish. I had their steak omelette with salsa and a side of pancakes. I wish all my breakfasts could be as good. Alas, back to the bowl of Cheerios tomorrow...
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Kentucky Burgoo, as defined by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker in The Joy of Cooking, 1975.
Quote: The accent is on the first syllable. This thick, long simmered potpourri, a catch-as-catch-can mixture of meats, fowl and garden gleanings - with squirrel thrown in, in some authentic local versions -
(Can't get away from them squirrels, can we? ;))
has an assortment of Old World forebears as numerous and far-flung as the Gypsies. In Spain it is known as Olla Podrida; in Ireland it surfaces as Mulligan Stew. But in Kentucky it came into it's own as the local solution to feeding the multitudes; it used to be made, in amounts to serve several hundreds, in a huge hog-butchering kettle over an outdoor fire, providing an occasion for great socializing, a "stirring" overnight vigil.
Unquote.
The kids from Joy toss stewing beef and pork shoulder into a kettle with water or stock, simmering that for maybe 90 minutes. They then add a disjointed chicken, cooking for an hour until the meat falls from the bones. The bones are removed, the meat returned to the pot, and they start throwing in veggies. Tomatoes, lima beans, hot red pepper, green peppers, onions, carrots, celery, 'taters, okra. This cooks for 45 more minutes, then fresh corn is added to cook for another 15 minutes.
But they also talk about lamb, veal, or whatever else is available being tossed in. (Sorry, Jane, this is not going to be a fave at your house.)
All of which, I'm sure, can be beat by Jason's family. But this gives us a starting point.
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Those kinds of lists usually drive me crazy so I try to avoid them. Sometimes, they're almost unavoidable like that stupid "hot" list in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY this week. Such silly arbitrary selections and rankings, and some of them obviously placed by publicity departments/agents to hawk something upcoming.
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All of which, I'm sure, can be beat by Jason's family. But this gives us a starting point.
Sorry, S. Woody, we don't do burgoo. We do burgers, but not burgoo. I think mom made it once and that was that. Never again, she said.
Sorry about your bad news, Jose. Maybe this is a sign it's time to move to New York. ;D
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I'm at a loss for how to react, Jose. I'm feeling bad for you, but this is like someone has pulled the rug from under you, and I don't have the slightest idea how to help catch you to ease your fall.
You're too talented to be kept down for long. But that doesn't help right now, no matter how I wish it could.
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Thanks to all the DRs so far your condolences, as it were, and your well wishes.
As DR Panni pointed out... It was/is the whole being told in a e-mail thing that has really upset me. Especially after I've made many efforts to contact the powers that be in person for the past two months. And whenever I have contacted them when they said they would be back in the office, they weren't in the office. So, frustration upon frustration. I just can't help but take it as a personal slight right now.
DR Jason - The thoughts of New York did cross my mind as soon as I finished reading the e-mail... and re-reading it... and reading it again yet one more time. We may have to talk. Soon. ;)
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Jose, I am so sorry to hear about your news, but it can only mean that better news is around the corner.
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I'm at a loss for how to react, Jose. I'm feeling bad for you, but this is like someone has pulled the rug from under you, and I don't have the slightest idea how to help catch you to ease your fall.
You're too talented to be kept down for long. But that doesn't help right now, no matter how I wish it could.
Do you and DerBrucer need a houseboy for the summer? I refuse to wear a french maid's outfit, but you can call me Ito if you'd like.
;D
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[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]!! >:(!! VIBES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR DR JOSE !! >:(!![/move]
...for when you seek out the answers to what went down tomorrow. And...
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%] :) :D ;D VIBES OF PROSPERITY ;D :D :)[/move]
...for what's coming up in your future!
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Having just gone through a similar kind of kiss-off e-mail, I empathize with Jose. People who behave like this get theirs in the end, that's all I can tell you.
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So sorry, Jose. That's really smeggy.
And now I want breakfast. Oh well. I guess this chocolate bar and Cherry Coke will have to do.
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Good Evening!
Thanks again to everyone here on HHW for their words of encouragement and general sense of "stiff upper lip-ness". All your warm wishes have truly helped to ease a lot of the sting. -And I also appreciate the sense of "they'll get theirs" too! ;)
We'll see what the morning brings... And speaking of the morning, I need to get bed soon. -Especially since I may be heading northward tomorrow afternoon... Just because... ;)
Now back to the food!
Goodnight.
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And one for Mahler.
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Interesting episode of Nip/Tuck. Dealing with society's obsession with age and appearance. I still can't look at the graphic surgical stuff - but this is one of the few series that despite the outward trappings is actually dealing with something real. And on FX! The episode was presented with no commercials, as well.
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So sorry, Jose. That's really smeggy.
It's about time we had a return of all that wonderful fun in that absolutely non Smeggy show to TV in Ozland DR Sandra. Long live Red Dwarf.
I may eventually have to buy the DVDs.