Veg*n Mamas
Yesterday for lunch I reheated sushi rice (carefully, covered in oven) as well as butternut squash - both leftovers. I then made my poached eggs with sesame and soy sauce. The addition of Vietnamese hot garlic sauce (for me, not the kids) and oolong tea completed our meal. I set the table, including flowers, and the children and I sat down. Everyone cleaned their plates and it was nice to have a more formal lunch with the children. I happen to like eating hot, spicy food on hot days!
Tonight I'm making my latest version of lasagna - "My Good Lasagna", so named as a joke for all the ladies who say, "Oh I'll make him up some of My Good Roast Beef," as if they have some Assy Version they also sometimes cook up. Previously food-blogged lasagna recipes: Pegs' Lasagna (a very rich meat-and-veggie) and Vegetarian Lasagna (an elaborate but well-worth-it iteration).
What makes this lasagna noteworthy? My parents are coming over for dinner and my dad likes to *repeatedly* diss my vegetarian cooking (WTF?). I wanted to make something rather simple (not "healthy") with lots of cheese, a long-simmered sauce, and only one favorite vegetable (broccoli). (P.S. besides my snooty father this will probably go over well for toddler and child eaters). The workflow and layering of this lasagna are such that you could make the meal while caring for your small children without breaking a sweat. My recipe link also includes some tips on cooking noodles correctly.
Today's topic for discussion: what is the most unhealthy / nasty / guilt-inducing meal or food you enjoy? Do you scarf it in clandestine fashion or out in the open and proud?
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."
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with cheese sticks. I love salty, greasy food. Fair time in my town is heaven. Luckily it's only once a year and considered a holiday for me. If i had a deep fryer, i'd be in trouble.
To add to cheese sticks...
I love loaded potato skins, pizza, mashed potatoes with a stick of butter, french fries(the good seasoned kind), fried anything(mushrooms, zucchini, tomatoes, elephant ears). I don't like pepperoni but i do like salami which i think is a relative?
ovaltine. I eat the powder by the spoonful.
Meatball sandwiches. With cheese.
I have always loved super processed foods, such as squirt cheese and pop tarts, because I was "deprived" of them when I was a kid -- I rarely actually buy them but they are a disgusting closet pleasure. Oh and weird flavored sodas, like grape and strawberry.
Sardines. Any way you got 'em.
Out of the closet:
Super smelly ass cheese
gnarly big German-style sausages
my list:
-mrs.butterworth's syrup. i just can't do real maple syrup on my pancakes. i've tried!
-coco krispies
-donuts
-and the worst....(i can't even believe i'm admitting to this!) every once in a while, i love me a good corn dog!
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the secret to MY good lasagna (and you cracked me up with the assy version comment) is a bechamel sauce and using no less than 4 different kinds of cheese (jack, ricotta, parm and moz). It's good...and extremely fatty...which makes it even better.
guilty pleasure...
cinnabon--if I am alone in an airport or a mall I will totally get some mini cinnabons, they are so fricking good!
hot chocolate--I'll drink this as an evening treat from time to time and I would only think of making it with whole milk.
chocolate chips and red wine--usually the only chocolate I have in the house (except for the hot chocolate)...I keep going back for more handfuls until the wine is gone.
pork fried rinds with hot chile and lime...mmmmmmm
I know there's more...I just can't think of them...
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It used (before pregnant with #1) to be Jif peanut butter and chocolate chips. I'd just dump a handful of chips into the pb and eat it with a spoon. Now that we've switched to natural pb, I don't have the same urge to do that.
The worst thing that I make is Bryndzova Halusky. It's the Slovak national dish and it's pretty bad for you, but OH SO DELICIOUS!!! The real thing in Slovakia is potato dumplings tossed with uber salty semi-soft sheep cheese and topped with a drizzle of bacon grease and fried onions. Here, a combo of feta and cream cheese substitute for the bryndza and most people turn up their noses at the drizzle of grease, but once they try it, every single person I've served it to freakin' LOVES it. It's time consuming and now that I'm pregnant, I can't eat it cuz of the feta (though I'm pretty sure that I ate it when pregnant with my son). I told DH the other day that I wish that I had made it one more time before I got pregnant. Oh well. My mouth drools just thinking about it.
well, morningstar farms, and i do sort of sneak it because i don't let the kid have it and i'm trying to be all modeling and shit.
tacos with fantastic taco filling. no, i don't mean that i make taco filling that is fantastic, i mean fantastic taco filling which is unbelievable farty and unbelievably salty, but UNBELIEVABLY tasty!
there is also the root beer that i have touted her before, but i will again because it's that good, and it really isn't all that junky. it's sweetened with natural sugar, and contains no artificial crap, and its taste is far superior to any mainstream sodas. like, by a vast, vast margin. Virgil's micro brew root beer this goes really well with the tacos, or anything salty. it also makes a kick ass root beer float with stonyfield farm vanilla ice cream.
my latest junk food discovery is this buffalo bleu potato chips. i would say how good these are, but words escape me. in looking for their site, i found a blogger that seems to share my feelings on it when he says "it's what i have been waiting for in a chip my entire life."
as you can see, i am more about the snacks than the meals. my meals are most often sandwiches or pizzas. i am a cheese whore, i can find some form of cheese to put on anything. my favorite dinner sandwich is fried portobello mushrooms with peppers and brie with a horseradish sauce on a portuguese roll. i act all like i am making it for the family, but i always end up eating most/all of it. got gotta get some basil in that oil with the mushrooms. and don't skimp on the horseradish.
"All persons, whether living or dead, are entirely coincidental." Kurt Vonnegut
I'll have to second the cocoa krispies and the cheese sticks. I could eat cocoa krispies a box at a time if given the opportunity. Before I decided to go the vegetarian route for a while, I also was in love with hot wings, the shitty frozen kind that come in an enormous plastic bag (not that there is really a non-shitty, fresh version of hot wings) with loads of cucumber ranch dressing. Basically, anything that can be dipped in condiments I love, hence my affinity for cheese sticks.
it is so.nasty. And I love it. Actually haven't bought a jar in a really long time....might be time to buy some soon.
Also nutella. Both fluff and nutella are great by the spoonful, spread on graham crackers, with peanut butter...oh and so many more ways.
mmmm. fried pickles, from Sonic in Kansas, I have never seen them anywhere else. I also love pickle and peanut butter sandwiches, something about the sour and sweet and salty peanut butter..yum
I make pizza bagels for breakfast sometimes: toasted bagels with cream cheese, pizza sauce, and cheese broiled. I don't think DH even knows, its totally a guilty pleasure for me very secretly eaten, otherwise DS will make me share.
"Have a safe lunch, use a condiment."
i love dark chocolate. cookies, etc. yum. but i also really like salty snacks like gardettos's. sometimes i snack in the open, sometimes i hide.
when i was on the boardwalk with my dd, trying to come up with something to eat that wasn't crap. i've been trying to eat better for the past couple of days, and i realized that i eat a LOT of crap. i don't get some ice cream, i get a sundae. i don't have some pizza, i eat A pizza. anyway, it made me think of this:
"All persons, whether living or dead, are entirely coincidental." Kurt Vonnegut
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Although I am not eating meat these days, I have always liked pepperoni. Which is like the grossest meat ever, eh? One of my favorite sandwiches is white sub, lots of vinegar, jalapenos, pepperoni, lots of lettuce, olives. My mouth fills with drool thinking about it.
I have been known to eat Top Ramen with an egg scrambled in when I'm desperate and there's nothing easy in the pantry.
Another odd midnight-snack item for me: vinegar and cheese sandwich. Weirdo!
Oh, and cheese sticks. How gross are those? Like we're talking the frozen-then-deep fried kind.
As you can see, I am a greasy / salty snacker, not so much the sweets, chocolate, or ice cream.
"Macaroni - let me finish! - salad."