I just made...> Bun talks history of corn

[[deleted user]]

I hope you didn't eat it all by yourself. It does sound delish.

[Kevin]

yup. sauteed the veggies in a bit of olive oil and then stirred in the eggs. with a glass of skim milk

[Sarah]

Made salmon last night with lemon basil butter. I nearly had a preemptive heart attack when I saw that the butter recipe required 8 oz of butter (two sticks) but then I read on and realized that you freeze the whole thing and slice off medallions of the butter to use as needed.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was starving and I don't have any snack food so I cooked myself a big bunch of fresh spinach....

I'll admit it. I like sardines. I'm the only person I know who does. But some cans have the spine still in, which I don't like. Crunchy little vertebrae.

[Sarah]

In an attempt to keep up with my CSA share AND my garden, tonight's dinner was chickpea and tomato salad on naan.

Chickpea and tomato salad:
can of chickpeas (rinsed)
tomatoes (chopped)
zucchini (sliced thinly)
balsamic vinaigrette
salt
pepper
just all tossed together

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Mmmmmmm.

[Kevin]

i just made: another big ol omelet for lunch using hot peppers, onions, eggs and cheese. i used a whole bhut jolokia pepper from my garden and a half of a habanero. whooooo-weeee. the ghost pepper was hot. spicy!!! very tasty but my lips are still tingling two hours afterward. the habanero cooled it down. zippidy-friggin-do-da!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just made a big pot of spanish rice with mustard greens, cabbage, and cilantro sausage.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm scared of Kevin's cooking!

[Sarah]

Just bring a glass of milk with you when you eat at his house.

[Sarah]

Or a fire extinguisher if you're a cartoon.

[Kevin]

hey! i don't make everyone eat spicy food. (although my wife says when i use my homemade spicy olive oil it makes the pans and utensils hot)

[[deleted user]]

My daughter and I made chocolate fudge today. I have been trying to make fudge for ever without success. I thought this was also unsuccessful but then the family tried it and gave it the thumbs up. :)



I think I don't really like fudge. I am going to try chocolate truffles next time !!!! :Þ

[Cynthia]

Gail I went through a huge fudge phase in junior high. I made it weekly and was pretty good at it. Now I don't even like the sight of it! My husband and kids like it at Christmas.

[Sally, la reina]

Yeah I like it at christmas. I eat enough that I get sick of it so I don't miss it the rest of the eyar. I like peanut butter fudge too.

[Kevin]

gail, i can send you my address so you can ship me a box of fudge :)

[RandomAnthony]

Damn. That fudge looks fine to me...

[Kevin]

that sounds like a line from Shaft

[Cynthia]

Jive Shaft.

Get down, Y'all.

[[deleted user]]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "gail, i can send you my address so you can ship me a box of fudge :)"

Now if I could just get it through customs it would be on its way!

[Phil]

I just made a bowl of Froot Loops. It was yummy.

[[deleted user]]

You are really 10 years old aren't you Phil. Now fess up.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "My daughter and I made chocolate fudge today. I have been trying to make fudge for ever without success. I thought this was also unsuccessful but then the family tried it and gave it the thumbs up...."

MMM. Looks good. I love fudge. I hardly ever eat it or make it, though. I love both chocolate and maple fudge. And divinity. (I think that's what it's called.)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "that sounds like a line from Shaft"

Ha.

[Sally, la reina]

I like Fruit Loops, and most all sugar cereal.
yet I don't really like milk all that much and when I start thinking about cereal and what is actually in it I get all eebied out.

Speaking of sugar cereal, did anyone else hear about that recent news that cancer cells are magnetized to corn syrup? It might be psuedoscience because now that I think about it I may have seen an article on my friend the chiropractor's FB wall.
But I do believe that our national obsession for all things corn is causing our health problems.

[Félix]

Corncorncorncorncorncorn

[[deleted user]]

All heath problems can be related to corn?

[Kevin]

yes. corn causes gout, warts, carpal tunnel and a cornucopia of other health issues

[Félix]

I made fried zucchini yesterday for an appetizer. It was yummy. Went great with a bottle of Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages 2008. (That sounds expensive, but it was 10 bucks at Wal-Mart.)

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "yes. corn causes gout, warts, carpal tunnel and a cornucopia of other health issues"

I see what you did there...

[Phil]

Yeah, he sort of cobbled together a pun. It's actually quite pleasant to the ear, and contains more than a kernel of truth.

[Félix]

Amaizing.

[Phil]

Larry wrote: "Amaizing."

And corny.

[Félix]

It's just over-developed grass seed.

[[deleted user]]

BunWat wrote: "I was reading about various old varieties of Indian corn in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and now I want to have a corn and tortilla sampler."

Let me know how you like this book Bun, I found it quiye interesting/

[[deleted user]]

It really turned everything we had learned growing up on its ear. It would have been nice to see some of civilizations.

[[deleted user]]

Interesting comment about the Europeans not recognising the fields for what they were. I read 'The Secret River' just recently which said the same thing about how Europeans didn't recognise Aboriginal agriculture. I wasn't even aware that Aboriginal's had any form of agriculture. It was far too subtle for Europeans to recognise.

[[deleted user]]

Aboriginals used fire as well for similar reasons. They didn't really plant anything as far as I can tell, they cultivated and encouraged what was naturally occuring in the environment.

There aren't many aboriginal foods that are recognised here. Certainly nothing as widely accepted as corn or squash as far as I am aware. Macadamia nuts are the only thing I can think of.

[Kevin]

last night was the final evening that my son keenan and i were home alone as my wife returns from FL tonight after a 2 week visit to her parents. we had a caveman meal fixing steak kabobs, pork chops and sweet potato fries followed by a special baked sweet potato dessert.

this morning i am ill. i have the meat sweats

[Phil]

BunWat wrote: "I did a barbeque this weekend, and forgot to get hamburger buns, but I had lots of hot dog buns for the brats so I just made inside out cheeseburgers, with the burger formed around some cheese into..."

It's not nice to call the children brats.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

But it's ok to call them weiners, right?

[Phil]

Only if you like wieners. And don't touch their buns unless they belong to you. That would be bad.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Does the i come first in weiner/wiener? I thought this word was like weird.

[Phil]

Wiener's aren't weird! :-P

[Kevin]

they make those kinds of burger deals here in kokomo at a place called Louie's Coney Island. they're called bakes

[Sarah]

Has anybody seen the documentary King Corn?

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

It sounds rather corny to me.

[Sarah]

I decided to finally deal with my bumper crop of sage last night. My big dilemma hasn't been the regular sage, but the Pineapple Sage, which I couldn't figure out a use for.

I made crispy sage and white bean salad, which was easy and delicious.

For dessert, thanks to a well timed episode of the Splendid Table, I cut up crispy Pineapple Sage & apple, and tossed it with some sugar and lemon juice. Simple and delicious.

[Cynthia]

Sarah, did your crisp your sage in butter (saute)?? I love pasta with sage crisped in butter. Low, slow heat and the burner. Yum.

[Sarah]

I did olive oil - but I'm sure butter would be better :)

It's also good with roasted butternut squash and shallots and pasta.