food

[juldea]

I expect many comments; I'm writing about food.

If you've never tried the spinach-artichoke-cheese dip at TGI Friday's/Applebee’s, do so. I don't like spinach or artichoke but I can eat a whole bowl of that stuff. Just thinking about it makes me hungrier.

My last two packages of Buddig (not budding!) turkey have been strangely flawed. I've never had to pick off hunks of fat from my processed turkey before. Maybe I'm just pickier? Or I just got a bad batch. Or maybe I just usually have it in a sandwich and don't notice.

This week will be interesting for food. I unintentially spent my entire food budget in Arkansas this weekend ($25 meal at Applebee's, yikes) and so I have I think $3 to spend on food, and a not-barren-but-not-full-of-quickly-made-foods kitchen. I think I will be up late tonight doing dishes and making meals to be stored in tupperware.

More on the Mediterranean food served during the dance convention for lunch: There was water and ginger tea to drink, hummus with pita bread or tarragon crackers (which were the only thing the caterers brought that they didn't have enough of), some kind of cold rice salad with grapes in it that was very very good (the salad was tangy, but when you got a bite with a grape in it, the grape made it very sweet and wonderful), some kind of meatball, the wonderful delicious falafel, and another type of cold salad with chicken and olives in it. It was all very good and despite my knowledge that soon after lunch I would be dancing hard again, I had seconds (thirds of the falafel).

I'm eating fruit leather now.

Comments

[cuttooth.livejournal.com]

Mmm...fruit leather...that reminds me, my mom went to Pratt's for the first time and loved it. We're a Pratt's family now. Man, we need to have a "mediterranean foods only" dinner party. That would rule! I love Greek food...mmm...I'll bring the grape leaves...

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Pratt's is a good store. Lots of good healthy things there!

I would be down with a Mediterranian foods party. I get recipes all the time in my dance newsletters. :)

[vambot5.livejournal.com]

I made falafel once. it was really hard because they lost their grease thermometer. it was alright, though. haitham ate like the whole batch. I also made a neat yogurt-cucumber sauce, and I put like a knifetip of beetroot in it, and it turned pink! it tasted the same, but it looked really funny.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

You should make more. Did it come out hard or soft? The kind I had at the convention was soft and crumbled apart easily.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

that happens sometimes with buddig. is it hardened stuff on the edge of the pieces? i always pick that off and give it to the cats.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Actually there was a piece of it in the middle of the slice, which was the weird part. It looked like a hardened blob of clear gelatin. Ick.