What did you eat today?
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Too much ideology has gotten mixed in with this over the years.
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I try to keep it personal. If I eat too much, or get too much salt, or too much sugar, I feel lousy....
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I think that "I feel lousy" is the practical definition of having had "too much" of anything.
I divided the results into four and froze two; I just took out one of the refrigerated ones and was surprised to find the pasta had absorbed most of the sauce. I've made this dish thousands of times with various brands of pasta and its never happened before. The sauce I used, Sausage and Pepper, is ranked the 21st-best Rao's sauce and was delicious. I'm looking forward to some of the higher-rated sauces.
Rao's own website and Goldbelly both charge substantially more for these sauces, although they carry a wider variety.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
Quote: SOOPOOI don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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Next time make a big salad but remove some of the veggies and replace with an equivalent amount of moist grilled chicken..or any other animal. A can of tuna even.You get you veggies and some nice protein. It's the protein that satiates.
Quote: SOOPOOI don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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I add a scoop of potato salad or macaroni salad to top my "big salad". Some people add a deviled egg or a scoop of cottage cheese.
The deli in my old neighborhood served pumpernickel toast points with cream cheese along with their big fancy salads.
Reading your "poor man's meal", I realize I haven't had a good meatloaf in a very long time. I am fiercely in the mushroom gravy camp, and believe tomato ketchup glaze is a crime against beef.
Quote: DieterQuote: SOOPOOI don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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I add a scoop of potato salad or macaroni salad to top my "big salad". Some people add a deviled egg or a scoop of cottage cheese.
The deli in my old neighborhood served pumpernickel toast points with cream cheese along with their big fancy salads.
Reading your "poor man's meal", I realize I haven't had a good meatloaf in a very long time. I am fiercely in the mushroom gravy camp, and believe tomato ketchup glaze is a crime against beef.
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Ketchup itself is a crime, it's pure sugar.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: SOOPOOI don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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I add a scoop of potato salad or macaroni salad to top my "big salad". Some people add a deviled egg or a scoop of cottage cheese.
The deli in my old neighborhood served pumpernickel toast points with cream cheese along with their big fancy salads.
Reading your "poor man's meal", I realize I haven't had a good meatloaf in a very long time. I am fiercely in the mushroom gravy camp, and believe tomato ketchup glaze is a crime against beef.
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Ketchup itself is a crime, it's pure sugar.
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Perhaps, but I find it excusable on hash browned potatoes.
Between the sugar and vinegar, it is basically a sweet & sour sauce.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: SOOPOOI don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.
In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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I add a scoop of potato salad or macaroni salad to top my "big salad". Some people add a deviled egg or a scoop of cottage cheese.
The deli in my old neighborhood served pumpernickel toast points with cream cheese along with their big fancy salads.
Reading your "poor man's meal", I realize I haven't had a good meatloaf in a very long time. I am fiercely in the mushroom gravy camp, and believe tomato ketchup glaze is a crime against beef.
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Ketchup itself is a crime, it's pure sugar.
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It is also disgusting, along with all other condiments.
You are forbidden to say such about the mustards. Or hot sauces.Quote: DRich
It is also disgusting, along with all other condiments.
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Quote: odiousgambitYou are forbidden to say such about the mustards. Or hot sauces.Quote: DRich
It is also disgusting, along with all other condiments.
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I eat almost everything plain. Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, tacos, etc. Just meat and cheese with nothing else on it.
Quote: billryanWhy is adding cheese to a burger acceptable, but a tomato in any form is not? Why is it okay to add bread but not a pickle?
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Very simple, cheese and bread are good, tomato's and pickles are disgusting.
Quote: billryanI'm an extremely picky eater and have a pretty strong gag reflex. I've never understood why anyone would eat something they don't like, or why anyone would force someone to do so.
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It's a way to present sadism as benevolence. Think of it as malicious compliance with Matthew 25:35.
That's why it's traditionally couched in language about starving children in some place they've never been.
If I can't trust you to not try to make me eat something I don't want at 2 AM, I can't trust you at 6 PM either so I won't be eating here ever, at all.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: billryanI'm an extremely picky eater and have a pretty strong gag reflex. I've never understood why anyone would eat something they don't like, or why anyone would force someone to do so.
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It's a way to present sadism as benevolence. Think of it as malicious compliance with Matthew 25:35.
That's why it's traditionally couched in language about starving children in some place they've never been.
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"If the Armenians are starving, they can have my plate!"
With a few exceptions, I'm not really picky. It has to have some salt in it, it can't be overcooked into mush. Beyond that, it's preferences - I'd rather not include cilantro (No, it doesn't taste like soap, I just think it tastes bad.)
Today, I'm having a pulled pork sandwich at a roadside barbecue place. I wish they had a vinegar sauce, but that's not really the style around here.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyHere's something I'm not eating today: anything served at restaurants that have a "late night" menu. It's dogfood, all the stuff that's cheap and easy and that nobody wants, that they try to force on you when they don't think you have a choice.
If I can't trust you to not try to make me eat something I don't want at 2 AM, I can't trust you at 6 PM either so I won't be eating here ever, at all.
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You are fairly new to Vegas, so I'll assume you haven't found the right late-night specials. There are some hidden jewels out there. My knowledge is out of date, but keep hunting.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyHere's something I'm not eating today: anything served at restaurants that have a "late night" menu. It's dogfood, all the stuff that's cheap and easy and that nobody wants, that they try to force on you when they don't think you have a choice.
If I can't trust you to not try to make me eat something I don't want at 2 AM, I can't trust you at 6 PM either so I won't be eating here ever, at all.
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You almost have that correct. All the food served in restaurants is dog food as far as I'm concerned and now it's overpriced dog food. Only fit for a dog because it's invariably overcooked or undercooked and therefore almost inedible. But people wolf it down because they're such abysmally bad cooks themselves they can't tell the difference between good food and bad food.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AutomaticMonkeyHere's something I'm not eating today: anything served at restaurants that have a "late night" menu. It's dogfood, all the stuff that's cheap and easy and that nobody wants, that they try to force on you when they don't think you have a choice.
If I can't trust you to not try to make me eat something I don't want at 2 AM, I can't trust you at 6 PM either so I won't be eating here ever, at all.
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You almost have that correct. All the food served in restaurants is dog food as far as I'm concerned and now it's overpriced dog food. Only fit for a dog because it's invariably overcooked or undercooked and therefore almost inedible. But people wolf it down because they're such abysmally bad cooks themselves they can't tell the difference between good food and bad food.
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I'll take mine overcooked, thanks! Especially when eating at a restaurant. Few feelings are worse than being doubled over on the bowl.
And I think it tastes better. Food should have a char. Meat, pizza, hot sandwiches I think are all enhanced by the char. Some vegetables too. To slice an eggplant, or slice a zucchino longways and grill it on a charcoal grill can be very good.
Quote: odiousgambitThey say if you are an extremely picky eater all your life that you probably had a strong gag reflex as a small child. People tend to say "my parents made me try all on my plate " which makes it sound like good or bad parenting. Truth likely is in the middle. My folks had little trouble with me so gag problem not there
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My parents made us eat every bite they put on the plate. No leaving the dinner table until it was gone. Sadly, the dog was not a big fan of salad and vegetables so he did not help much. My common play was to put food in my pockets and empty them on trips to the toilet. It was not unusual for my dinner to be over 2.5 hours.
