Cheez-its mmm cheesy crackery goodness

My son and I are eating at Vinny T's, the chain from Boston, we're in the Wynnewood PA restaurant. The food here is pretty decent and the space/atmosphere interesting. So I'm having:

Chicken Carciofi: boneless chicken breasts, artichoke hearts, large white mushrooms and fresh plum tomatoes sautéed with a lemon butter sauce and fresh sage. Served with oven-roasted potatoes and roasted vegetables.

The chicken breast is moist, tender, and tasty, the vegies including the mushrooms are all fresh and taste good. I'm lubricating my taste buds with a couple glasses of Merlot. Buon appetito! ...cell phone pic is marginal:

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PS: sorry ring...I'm eating a bunch of little relatives of your beloved potato

Onion Salad:

1 Whole Onion
1 Whole Lime
2 TBSP of Olive Oil
and some parsley.


Cleans out the lungs.

Had cous cous with green onions, zucchini latkes type things, and salmon with soy sauce and chili oil for dinner. It was really yummy, and I was tired of eating zucchini in the same way all the time so this was a great change of pace.

Bacon Bleu Cheese Avocado Hamburger with Homemade Mustard BBQ Sauce...
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Taro in warm coconut milk. No better Thai dessert. :D

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Zig Zag Zin 2005, courtesy of BevMo's $0.05 cent sale.

I've always wanted one of those cool wine spout things... What are they called?


Okay... so I know it's a decanter. But isn't there a special name for that type?

I want one too!

Porron


Not a bad price.

The World Market around here had them on clearance for $8! (but only in store).

Lentils + tomatoes + onions + carrot + celery + cumin + salt = lunch

I am eating a shake made in a magic bullet (not the vibrator), best smoothie device on the planet!

Its got 1 banana, some strawberries, some pineapple, 2 eggs, soy milk, and yogurt in it. Tasty!

Lasagna with a slice of pan Marino (a round of bread flavored with rosemary and extra virgin olive oil, with kosher salt sprinkled all over the crust). Super yummy.

I just had a peanut butter, mayo, and banana sandwich for the first time and it was delicious.

I just ate pierogies with cheese sauce and broccoli.

Yum. I love pierogies!

I made a sandwich:

Rye bread
Light Vegan Mayo
Light mustard
1 Soy chicken patty
1 slice of turkey
2 slices of genoa salami

best ever

I'm eating a bowl of Basic Four cereal with skim milk. I like this stuff...not too sweet, with pieces of various dried fruits and several kinds of nuts and different types of grain cereals. I know it's highly processed stuff, but it suits my taste once a week or so.

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Chicken Cacciatore

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PBJ (strawberry jam) with sugar-free cocoa.

I'm eating some microwaveable egg rolls.

Leftovers from last night's dinner at the local brewpub: a pulled pork sandwich, beer-battered fries, and the best coleslaw ever!

I liked it so much I made more of the orzo pasta salad like I had in post #176, again it has yummy roasted veggies in it, like zuccini, eggplant, feta cheese, also roasted pine nuts, all drizzled with my good olive oil...I'm eating that with a roasted chicken, an occasional bite of pita chips with sea salt, and drinking water.



...and a few Dove silky smooth dark chocolate promises

Couldn't sleep last night so I made some walnut butter with the mortar & pestle. Made a sandwich with that and Nutella for lunch.

Just had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast. I love me some Cheerios. It's been about three years since I last had any and the grocery store in my office's building just started stocking it. They also now have Shreddies! I love them more than I love Cheerios. A steal at $10 per box... :(

Parents made some corned beef, so I had to put together a Reuben.

BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches. No cole slaw sadly.


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Barbara's Bakery Cheese Puffs. They're made with aged cheddar and blue cheese, so they've got a little extra zing. Yummy.

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The "trust the cook" at Pasadena Sandwich Company. $7.95 for a randomly made sandwich. This time it was a double decker Turkey Breast with Roast beef.

Baked Lays BBQ and a Deerfield Root Beer (Walgreen's "gourmet brand").

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corn flakes with milk and sugar..stock standard

Making a Tres Leches cake, cleaning the leftover batter. mmmm

I made dinner.
Against the rules. Muhahahahahahaha...

Looks yummy, noodle.

I'm having a turkey sandwich on whole wheat :)

Curried chickpeas & okra, with a nice big dallop of yogurt.

Leftovers from last night's dinner.
Grilled porkchop (marinated w/ Stubb's pork marinade), brown rice, and grilled veggies (mix of red/green/yellow peppers & onion).

Tried out my new Cuisinart ICE-20, enjoying some Blood Orange Sorbet.

My favorite taco's
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1 pig, 1 cow

from my favorite taco trailer
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that you must try when in Austin.

Roasted and salted macadamia nuts at my desk at work.

Lindy

Oregon Mint Fudge ice cream :)

Lindt 85% cocoa extra dark chocolate. It's Crompcaine.

Bowl of cereal to squash my after workout munchies.

You know how I know I'm a bachelor? I eat cereal like four times a day.

Cheerios are my constant NOM NOM NOM companion.

I eat a lot of cereal but I am not a bachelor. I just like cereal. Yesterday I picked up another big bag of Nature's Path Heirloom flakes. Yummy.

I'm not eating those right now though--right now I'm eating a turkey sammich on Blues Bread with Best Foods mayonnaise (Hellmann's to you Easterners).

Pizza.


Cold pizza to be exact.

Strawberry shortcake :) Tasty!

Just finished an awesome meal at the fam's Easter hoedown. Ham, mashed taters, homemade rolls, mac 'n cheese, spinach salad, corn, chicken 'n dumplings, and blueberry cheesecake. Holidays rule.

We had shrimp tacos with avocados and jack cheese and cilantro. Then plantains and vanilla ice cream.

A delicious Nature Valley oats 'n honey granola bar. Tasty.

I'm drinkin' a beer.
Granted it's a Mic Ultra and that's kinda embarrassing, but fairly soon I will be indulging in a Murphy's (if the stupid ass company has finally gotten their distribution straight) and a lovely bowl of Guinness Beef Stew with some soda bread to celebrate the submission of my first and most critical Doctor Paper (if I don't pass this particular one, I'm out of the program) and the release of my minions who are currently committing aphid genocide on my porch garden with freakish enthusiasm.
Pictures to follow.
Of my minions.
Not the Mic Ultra.
'Cause that's embarrassing.
:thumbsup:

Having my morning coffee and just about to eat a bowl of oatmeal studded with some raisins... all at my desk.

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yea

Turkey pot pie. mmmmmmmmmmmm

Risotto with spring carrots and leeks. Very yummy! You can find the recipe here:
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What is the deal with every risotto recipe asking for a 4:1 broth to rice ratio (or more)? I've made risotto many times and I've never needed it in more than a 2:1 ratio.

Yeah, next time I'm going to only bother heating up 4 cups, but I'd never made risotto before, so I followed the recipe closely.

I love Risotto... I love Risotto Rice Pudding even more... Instead of Chicken Stock and Wine, use milk and spices.

I am currently drinking my morning coffee and thinking about the tasting menu I will be eating tonight.

Late night cookery: Broccoli rabe with bacon and walnuts.

I just finished an avocado sandwich. It was delicious.

A mix of scrambled eggs, fried baby red potatoes, red onion .....and...

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Quoting myself from about a month ago.
I am addicted to macadamia nuts, and just stopped at a Walgreens in Columbus Ohio and bought a bag of macadamia nuts. NINE OUNCES FOR FOUR DOLLARS!!!!!:thumbsup: I thought, this is too cheap, (less than half the usual price in Boston) they can't be any good. I haven't seen macadamia nuts this cheap anywhere except Hawaii. But they are fine. Maybe a little too salty, but certainly very good. I'll have to get more -- see if I can gain some weight on my trip.

Lindy
On the road, I-70 in Ohio

california roll with avocado on it. They call it a dragon roll, but that's a load of bull.

Yellow cupcakes with lemon frosting, still warm from the oven. They are amazing.

Pure evil....
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Somehow I don't think that is really is a good source of whole grain

Unwrapped

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contents according to Taste: This version of Chex Mix included caramel popcorn, Caramel Chex cereal, Chocolate Chex cereal, honey roasted peanuts, round pretzels and milk chocolate candies. The Caramel Chex pieces were basically Corn Chex pieces drizzled in caramel (yum!), and the chocolate Chex pieces weren't as tasty as the chocolate peanut-butter pieces in another variety of Chex Mix. The addition of the caramel popcorn and Caramel Chex pieces made this taste like Cracker Jacks, since there were also peanuts. But it was a great sweet and salty combination, well worth devouring in one sitting.

or watered down apple juice and with berries and maple syrup added - yum (not actually eating this, but still tasty).

Aglio e Olio with ditalini instead of spaghetti.

I made this meal. I got recipe online but I'll tell it in my own language like.

First, chop an onion and a carrot, fry them in vegtable oil kind of medium heat for 8 mins, relatively easy

Next, throw in half a mug full of rice (just raw like)

Stir it all round nice and thorough for a minute

Add 1/2 pint of vegtable stock (warm) and about a half cup of fresh unsweetened orange juice (I used Knorr stock cube)

Now cover that son of a bitch up and leave it to simmer 10 mins on a mildly increased heat to the one you were using on the onions and such

At this point after its had 10 mins add some frozen pea's, two shakes of pepper and two shakes of salt and recover

At this point also commence to grill under medium force the shaved rind of the two oranges you squeezed for your juice and like half a hand of salted peanuts

Let the nuts grill and the rice cook like another 5

Take it all off the heat and combine it, give it a really good forking - rough like: and a bit of fresh parsley if you want darling

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To be honest it was disappointing. It tasted ok, but kind of bland to be honest and the peanuts werent right, the texture just didnt seem nice when combined with the rice.

Still, if a man never tried new things, where would be in this life of ours?

I'm not really eating it now since I just made all this disappear...some yummy sushi rolls with some Tako seaweed salad on which you can see the little red squids

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Peruvian chicken sans the rice; substituted by papitas
 

Bratwurst and onions, nice cold bottle of Old Speckled Hen.

Chorizo and cream cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped Jalapenos. I'm going to be hurting later, but right now I'm in heaven.

chocolate fudge poptarts

i am currently in southern food heaven.

homemade... no fatback (eeeew!), just ham steaks, slow cooked organic collards from the market, black-eyed peas, steamed rice, chopped organic tomatoes and onions.

perfect nor'easter-been-raining-without-stopping-for-three-days-need-to-curl-up-on-the-couch-and-relax dinner. with a blanton's and coke zero, baby.

oh haaaaaaaaaaaail, yeah.

mmmm collards. they just opened a BBQ joint near work that has awesome collards



P.S. and the BBQ is good too

I need to go back to taking pictures of the dinners I make but we just had London Broil, pasta tossed with asparagus, crimini mushrooms, fresh squeezed lemon juice, french grated Parmesan cheese salt and black pepper, with some yummy garlic bread.

^^ While that would be a quite a meal to visualize, that'd also make me jealous, which I never display unless it involves decadent foods, and I'm hungry.

Right now:

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chocoloate chip cookie from Panera

Pepsi & crackers... seamless combo since 1913
 

Lentils with chorizo over rice.

Beans on toast

just finished frying up some snook we caught yesterday

Snook is great! I used to live in Fl. Cocoa Beach. Bruch some good Ranch dressing on a steak and grill it, with some grilled corn on the cob. Yummo!

I'm eating a bowl of peach ice cream with homemade strawberry sauce over it and a touch of chocolate syrup. I don't eat ice cream often, so I gotta do it right when I do.

as i sit here and type this, i am eating fish fried with garlic, celery, onions, soy sauce, and xiaoxing (chinese cooking wine)

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Ribeyes and pork/beef Cevapi.

Just had an orange.....it was good

Klondike Bar, now with thicker chocolatey shell!

Left over red beans & rice with cornbread. Now I'm ready for a nap.

made some corned beef hash for dinner...it was tasty!

Uncanny. :surprised: I just saw an ice cream special last night in which Klondike was featured, and were promoting the thicker chocolate coating.


Right now:

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Who needs to go out to eat? This entire meal costs $14.24..support you local international farmers market!!! Two NY Strips, fresh shrimp, corn on the cob, garlic bread and fresh cucumbers (and home made garlic butter)

Shani, that looks yummy!

I'm eating pita and hummus. Mmm.

watermelon slices
 

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