March 31, 2012 by The Yum Yum
Someone told me last night about the possibility of making a Vegan cheese using cashews and cauliflower.
The challenge is totally on.
Also, I’ve decided I’m going to start taking cream cheese, flavoring it with different spices, and then sculpting it into a shape that I approve of, then cooking it in some manner. This should prove excellent.
Now I’m craving brie again…gah!
Beaux
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March 30, 2012 by The Yum Yum
Life had a strange way of tiring us all out.
Or maybe God’s just grinding me down day by day, who knows?
I plan to start doing Youtube videos really soon to elucidate everyone on my own personal religious journey. I’m sure you’re looking forward to all that.
That being said, I know I missed writing yesterday, but I didn’t have any particular food topic about which to write. That sounds strange, since I always seem to be talking about food or, more accurately, I always seem to be eating.
One of the strangest things I’ve noticed is that I can go for a long period of time without eating during a day and realize that I haven’t actually had anything to eat. I blame this on my consumption coffee and tea with milk in them. The milk seems to fill me up, giving me a sense of having eaten something rich, and so I think my body doesn’t consider that it hasn’t had any proper food.
Also, today I found that awkward moment where I could have been eating white chocolate all this time. I didn’t like white chocolate as a kid- I remember when Hershey’s first released their White Chocolate Cookies and Creme bar, and I remember thinking how disgusting it tasted.
The reality is that white chocolate isn’t actually chocolate, and that in my old age, I’ve decided that I do like white chocolate quite a bit. I think white chocolate is one of those foods that you can’t eat by itself; white chocolate has to go with or on something.
Think of this in terms of white chocolate-covered pretzels, a particular favorite of mine. The sweetness, the saltiness, the all-around goodness of the crunch, and also the fact that the more imaginative among us likes to suck all the white chocolate off of the pretzels just because we can.
Of course, I’m sure you could mix white chocolate with fruit as well.
This all came up because my friend Michael posted a picture of himself with white chocolate peanut butter Reese’s cups, and I became very hungry all of a sudden.
Dear God, deliver me.
WAAAAH, Holy Week is coming up! Ack! I have to cook something for the Seder Supper on Thursday AND for Easter Sunday. I think. Anyway, that’s a lot of major cooking, and since the spread will probably be really nice, I’ll be taking lots of photographs.
Also, did you know that St. Michael’s does a monthly food program? We collect food to donate to help fight hunger every month. Good Works are not dead after all!
That being said, I have to figure out what to cook tonight. Gigi made biscuits recently and ended up making One Big Biscuit in a skillet in the oven. That was interesting.
Get your nosh on!
Beaux
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March 28, 2012 by The Yum Yum
By now, I’m sure everyone’s tired of my writing about fried rice, but whether or not anyone’s tired of reading about my adventures in fried rice will never, ever be the point where I stop writing about it.
The one pot of rice I cooked the other day worked for three days on my behalf to make more fried rice. I still haven’t figured out the absolute trick to getting the perfect texture, but I’ve done a decent job the past two times, I think; it wasn’t quite as crispy as I might have liked but at least we didn’t have slop or just charred bits of nothing.
I added a can of mixed vegetable to this fried rice; think “veg-all” and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Very delicious, very nutritious, since there’s not a lot of oil used in a non-stick skillet. However, all my food tends to stay a little salty, so there you go.
Today’s cooking adventure really came down to whether or not I would make pizza or fried rice, and the pizza would’ve ended up in the microwave, which is not only not recommended but also just kind of awful on the part of anyone who’s attempting to cook things and have a cooking blog.
That being said, I’ve also returned to the suffering of eating garlic cloves since my sinuses are again acting crazy. Gah!
Also, guess what? This Sunday kicks off HOLY WEEK!
You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to say that.
I think the objective of Holy Week would actually be to cook less food and to eat less, but since the Seder Supper on Maundy Thursday at St. Michael’s requires that we bring a covered dish, I’m going to have to take something…and macaroni and cheese sounds like the most appropriate dish, moohahah!
Go get your nosh on, folks!
Beaux
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March 27, 2012 by The Yum Yum
So, Friday’s has these strange spinach chips that were absolutely delicious.
Last night was Caleb’s birthday. Happy 21st, Caleb! We went to Friday’s to eat, and Caleb had already celebrated the whole initiation into being 21 right as the clock struck midnight before- therefore, the lot of us were spared.
We had an excellent server named Hailey. She managed to take our party of 10 (or was there more?), get our orders in, and get our food out to us, no prob, Bob.
I really appreciate servers who take time to talk to the guests and who are kind to them; Hailey met all the requirements I would want in server! So try to request her if you go to Friday’s.
Also, what did I get?
Green bean fries!
The pictures didn’t come out so well, so I’m not gonna post them tonight. They did, however, taste delicious, and they really hit the spot last night.
So Happy Birthday to Caleb again, and get your nosh on, folks!
Beaux
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March 25, 2012 by The Yum Yum
A pleasant surprise happened today at the post-Mass fellowship at St. Michael’s: the leftovers from the Italian dinner fundraiser were offered up for our delight.
And what a meal we had!
There were two types of lasagna- a vegetarian and a meat option; two types of spaghetti sauce- again, vegetarian and meat; Italian bread, salad, and spumoni ice cream.
I had a piece of the vegetarian lasagna which was absolutely amazing, along with some of the Italian bread, a good chunk of which I brought home with me and ended up making pepper-jack and Italian bread sandwiches, haha.
Spumoni ice cream was the real star of the show; I had never heard of it before, but a few people encouraged me to try it. I’m not the world’s biggest ice cream fan, much preferring to have yogurt any day, and by yogurt, I don’t mean mock-ice cream frozen yogurt, I mean real, actual, chilled yogurt.
That’s beside the point.
Spumoni ice cream is layered with different flavors. This particular batch contained pistachio, cherry with bits of nuts and cherries in it, and chocolate.
I was sold on the pistachio.
But back to the frozen yogurt for just a second; I do take it back, there was one particular kind of frozen yogurt that Ms. Alice used to have in her freezer that I loved. I’m sure that it was strawberry because it had dancing strawberries across the top and bottom; not literally dancing, mind you, but with alternating patterns.
Pistachio ice cream and pistachio pudding happen to be delicious in a way that one can’t really convey.
Now I want some frozen pistachio pudding. What mechanism of devilry is this?
Anyway, to all my blog readers, I’ll do my part in evangelism by inviting the locals to come attend Mass at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Ozark, Alabama. You’re not obligated to come; you’re just invited!
Plus we’re doing the fellowship thing every Sunday, in addition to an actual covered-dish meal once a month, so you get Christ and then you get fed.
You also never know when spumoni ice cream may make its way to through the door once again!
So, get your nosh on!
Beaux
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March 24, 2012 by The Yum Yum
Made cabbage and potatoes again. This time, I added butter beans to the mix.
Oh. My. GRAPEFRUIT.
(Yeah, you totally didn’t expect me to say “grapefruit” just then, did you?)
That was a good life choice, to say the least. The potato mash definitely makes things filling and delicious. I’m consuming a huge number of vegetables all together as a filling meal! Throwing dairy into the mix would make it too rich, though there is a bit o’ butter included.
So, folks, I encourage you to make thick, veggie foods to get your nosh on, because it’s healthy and everyone loves it. You can also eat the vegetables with bread as a side, so you’re getting nutrients, flavor, and everything all at once.
I’m so excited because there’s a huge pot of veggies waiting for me that will seem endless for a few days!
How’s everyone enjoying the true spring weather? I’m really glad everything’s blooming now and that the weather’s warmed up a good deal, though I’ve had a few sinus battles here and there.
All right, go get your nosh on, kids!
Beaux
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March 23, 2012 by The Yum Yum
Dinner with Le Friends again.
Jim made the corrected version of the deeelicious cabbage and such that I made yesterday, only he added some things, which created a concoction of
cabbage
onions
potatoes
cauliflower
carrots
garlic
The meal was wonderful. However, it’s one of those meals that likes to stop by and then get out, if you catch my drift.
Christopher also got some cheesy bread sticks. Yay for cheese and bread!
I hope everyone else will start having such delicious and healthy meals. It’s actually quite filling, believe it or not. Jim makes this all in a pressure cooker and then slops it out on the plates.
It turned out soooo beautifully to be a vegetable slop!
So, folks, GO GET YOUR NOSH ON!
Beaux
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March 22, 2012 by The Yum Yum
DARE to cook food!
Good news: my rosaries came in.
Also good news: St. Augustine’s Prayerbook came in as well. I’m well on my way to becoming an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian.
Expect the Facebook religion to update soon
Anyway, I also found out today that you’re really not supposed to note what you gave up for Lent, and then I’ve done a lot of talking about it; I guess I’m excited to talk about Lent in general, to mention that I even celebrated it, and to note my mini-triumphs over chocolate.
Anyway, to get to the point, I called Chris yesterday to ask him and Jim how to make the cabbage and potatoes.
And this is what I did:
I took a quarter of a large head of cabbage and chopped it up.
I took probably six or seven potatoes of a larger sized and cubed them.
I took half an onion and chopped it.
All the ingredients went together in a boiler for about 50 minutes.
Towards the end, I turned the heat up and added butter.
Basically, you put everything in, let it boil, reduce and let it simmer for an hour, then turn the heat up again and boil the hell out of the water. Make sure you salt it enough, and toss in a quarter of a stick to half a stick of butter.
I added veggie bouillon to mine, and the whole thing ended up like a soup. So. GOOD.
So get your nosh on, folks!
Beaux
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March 20, 2012 by The Yum Yum
I had written an entire blog post for tonight.
Then, as life would have it, the internet, being slower than a snail’s poop stuck in a blizzard, caused my browser to crash because computers are meant to handle information at a certain speed, and when they don’t get that speed-fix, everything stops working, and then it interrupts anything I might be trying to accomplish to further myself in life.
But that’s fine.
Today is my blog’s two-year anniversary. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE YUM YUM! I’m not particularly inclined to celebrate as it’s Lent, not exactly the season we’re supposed to jump around in happiness.
That being said, have a salad, put some taco sauce on it instead of salad dressing, have a glass of wine, smoke a bowl if you’re a stoner, and GET YOUR F.N. NOSH ON, BABY!
Beaux
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March 19, 2012 by The Yum Yum
So, while in Wal-Mart last night, I saw Cadbury Cream Eggs.
And believe it or not, I didn’t want them.
The strangest thing happened- I saw them, and suddenly all desire to eat them, all temptation, was gone. YAY! So I can safely say the whole temptation of chocolate may have temporarily disappeared.
Anyway, I’ve felt pretty bad about the delicious, rich foods I’ve eaten recently, so today I’m making efforts to eat a healthier set of meals.
Boiled cabbage it is!
Followed by a banana! My fave.
But seriously, I did come up with a kind of equation for eating healthier.
It looks like this:
-fats -sugars +spices +veggies xgrill or bake
That’s a pretty simple formula, don’t you think? Here’s how to translate it.
Reduce the fats, reduce the sugars, add spices, add veggies, and prepare by grilling or baking.
Boiled foods often come out too soggy, fried foods often come out too fatty, but baked foods and grilled foods are almost always delectable and fun.
Adding veggies to any meal is invariably helpful, especially like how Jim put the jalapeños on the fish the other night. Simple things, like some diced tomatoes or onions, can garnish almost any food. And if you do have to eat something unhealthy (re: Totino’s pizzas that I love so much), make sure you add veggies and spices to it; no harm done in that.
Maybe I will be able to return to the giving up of sugar one day. That’s actually an ideal of mine, believe it or not- to not eat sugar at all. Maybe one day I’ll have that power, haha, but in the meantime, we’re like BFFs!
Get your nosh on.
Beaux
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