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Did anyone else get the 3 lb tootsie assorted bag? Did anyone else have exactly 11 trick or treaters? (The weather in Utah was wretched that night). Did anyone else wind up with a bunch of tootsie candy which is mostly okay except for the Orange and Vanilla Flavor rolls? Well, it turns out they go together alright as a dreamsicle kind of combo.
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When I was a kid, I used to put peanut butter, rice crispies, and raisins into little balls, and then cook them. They were SOOO good.
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And now for a misbegotten creation of the bare larder. I was out of flour and peanut butter, so I attempted to make a flourless oatmeal bar. (Because, hey, you can make peanut butter cookies without flour). I guess it was okay. I think the cultural prohibition on eating nasal exudate made it a little difficult to savor.
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Crisp jonathan apples, gouda cheese, and hot semolina bread, the crust still crisp from the oven. Best. Snack. Ever.
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I can't say enough about Chocolate Chip Cookies and Coke. I'd rather have Coke with my Choc Chip Cookies than milk. (Please no lame cocaine jokes)
I also like ice cream and bread. Most kinds of bread, but especially breadsticks. Mmmm.. Not seasoned ones, though, that's icky. Just butter.
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Nope, I'm talking about a corn on corn experience!
Yes, I mean the candies.
Cookies and coke? My wife loves cookies and Dr. Pepper, but somehow I find the combination revolting. The only sweet food/sweet drink combination that I like is pancakes or waffles with orange juice.
When I was a kid I used to insist on hot tang with my pancakes, waffles, and grape nuts, but it's been a long time since I've tried that. I like the tang to be near boiling. I was kind of a strange kid, I think.
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There are foods we've discovered do NOT go together.
I once tried a test marketed new yeast beer. It tasted like Banana Beer.
Worst of all, in a pickup poker game with some friends, the only thing we had to use as chips came from a hotel vending machine. Someone brought a bag of M&M's. Someone else brought a bag of Skittles. They made good chips, as long as you didn't eat your winnings.
When you did eat your winnings, you had to be very careful. The two candies look remarkably alike, but: the Chocolaty goodness of M&M's does NOT go well with the tart/sweet goodness of Skittles.
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quote:Did anyone else wind up with a bunch of tootsie candy which is mostly okay except for the Orange and Vanilla Flavor rolls?
Are you saying that you actually like regular Tootsie Rolls? I thought they were one of those candies that everybody buys but nobody likes, like candy corn and Smarties. The non-chocolate Tootsie Rolls are the only ones that are really worth eating.
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quote: Are you saying that you actually like regular Tootsie Rolls? I thought they were one of those candies that everybody buys but nobody likes, like candy corn and Smarties. The non-chocolate Tootsie Rolls are the only ones that are really worth eating.
Further proof that Jon Boy is weird.
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ok, here is the ultimate: ciabatta bread, balsamic vinaigre (how do you spell that in english? vinager? vinagar?), fresh basil, tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella.
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ribbons of green, raw papaya, mixed with an incindiary chili-lime liquid (also known as som tam).
I'll have to try that dark chocolate, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, mango combination. Any suggestions in terms of proportions or anything? Is sounds delicious.
Milk chocolate and oranges go together well. By itself I much prefer dark chocolate, but with an orange, only milk chocolate will do. Oh, and the orange should be room temperature or so, or the chocolate won't melt right in your mouth.
goat cheese, grapes, and stoned wheat thins go together will as well.
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Cubed top round steak, marinated in a olive oil, garlic, basil, oregano, thyme, parsley, rosemary paste. Serve over jasmine rice, with a fresh garden salad.
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I love tootsie rolls, smarties (mmmm. powdery.), candy corn, and those candy corn writ large -- the mellowcream pumpkin. Of course, I also like peeps so perhaps I don't have much credibility in this area.
[what you do see, is you take the container of peeps bunnies and you grab a knife and make a slit in the plastic covering along one edge of the box and then you let the peeps sit for a day or two and get a littly crusty. Semi-stale peeps totally rock.]
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I went through a manic phase a few years back when I wanted to eat granola with Prego spaghetti sauce on it. Also the draining from olive cans heated to 98.6 degrees.
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Now that is fun. I've never actually nuked a peep before, but I've microwaved plenty of marshmallows, and they're basically the same thing. If you hurry, after the marshmallow comes out of the microwave, you can use a toothpick to sculpt it into interesting shapes. It hardens in less than a minute, though, so you have to work fast.
Anybody ever had a real marshmallow? Not the corn syrup things we grew up on, but the sweetened paste made from marshmallow root? I never have, but I'd like to try it.
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scrambled eggs with fish sauce mixed in, cooked in a fair amount of vegetable oil, topped with Sriratcha sauce, and sprinkled with fresh cilantro.
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whisk 6 eggs, 2 cups milk, 1/2 cup raw or brown sugar, 2 cups flour, and 4 tablespoons butter (no margarine) you've melted in your crepe pan. Add some vanilla.
Pour mxture, 1/3 cup at a time, into an 8-10 in pan at med-hi, rotating as you pour to spread out. flip in a few seconds, re-grease pan with butter when necessary.
Cut 5 or 6 mangoes (really, I have no concept of quantity ) and cook them in a saucepan with 1/2 cup or so of raw sugar and cinnamon. Cook until they get mushy - mush them up some more.
Melt dark chocolate on a double boiler, add cinnamon and cayenne pepper to taste, add a little milk once chocolate is melted so it won't solidify again.
Put mango mush in crepes, drizzle with chocolate, and sprinkle with powdered sugar out of a tea strainer.
What about the other one? Do you have a recipe for that one? (I'd try and be creative myself and put the ingredients together on my own, but I'm afraid of what might happen. )
Edit: Oh, and does one make ciabatta bread, or can you get it at the store?
As a tootsie roll abuser, I want to second or (I lost track here) at least affirm that.
The hardest part of the seven years I wore braces wasn't the pain, the additional oral hygiene, etc. It was having to abstain totally from tootsie rolls the whole time.
Further clarification request: When saying Jon Boy (or anyone for that matter) do we mean that in a good way or a bad way? Or just a weird way?
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I have yet to successfully make ciabatta - I buy it at my friendly local bakery, On the Rise.
There's no secret recipe - you just assemble it into a sandwich. You can also make a yummy pasta salad with the aforementioned ingredients and a little salt and olive oil over penne pasta. Mmmmmm.
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Dr. Pepper and cheese crackers with peanut butter inside. You know which ones I mean, the orange crackers sandwiching the peanut butter, coming in a package of six. Mmm...chemical-y...
Bread and a carrot.
Coffee and cigarettes. Oh, okay, cigarettes aren't a food. Okay then, coffee and cake. *smile*
Blood and Weetabix ("The Weetabix gives the blood texture"--Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, I am twelve).
French fries and Ranch dressing. Just about anything and Ranch dressing.
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