What are you Eating/Drinking?

[FoolKiller]

I don't always drink beer while eating fajita beef and veggies with refried black beans.

But when I do...

 

[Omnis]

I picked up a 3 pound pack of Gwaltney chicken hotdogs. Made with MSM chicken aka pink slime. They were SO cheap! I could not believe the difference in price between these and the other big name brands, and even the supermarket brand. Pink slime has a place. I'm talking like 2 or 3 cents per ounce.

That said, I also wanted to really see what the fuss was, since the ingredients were pretty straightforward and the nutritional info was pretty good (minus the sodium) for a meat product this cheap.

I can't believe how neutral-tasting these hotdogs are. There is no flavor or seasoning or anything. You just have meat-paste texture in your mouth.

So I think I'm going to cut these into strips and use them as a stand-in for spam or the other potted meats in some of those korean or pacific islander comfort/hangover food recipes.

 

[The87Dodge]

Some of these things.

 

[TB]

Tacos in a bag. Heard of them but never had them. I. Am. A fan.

 

[Crash]

I was on travel and revisited Popeyes for the first time in a few years, and the "medium" sized cup that they gave me was this sized:



Ended up eating at a few other fast food places at well. I haven't eaten that much fast food in such a short period of time; I felt like dying.

 

[Lizard]

Couldn't be bothered making something so raw eggs and rice again.

 

[wvmgmidget]

I had hot dogs with sauce and cole slaw, deviled eggs, and potato salad for dinner tonight.

 

[FoolKiller]

Tonight was spaghetti and meatballs with garlic toast.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Beef Chorizo Burger Patty with Fried 'Taters and Peas.

 

[W3H5]

I'm just about to tuck into a large salami pizza, Italian style, in the best Italian restaurant this side of Bangkok.

I'm here for salami pizza so often (2-3 times a week) I simply order "same" and my order is done.

 

[Lizard]

I'm here for salami pizza so often (2-3 times a week) I simply order "same" and my order is done.

How are you so thin?

 

[W3H5]

How are you so thin?

A magical, mystical technique which is beyond the reach of so many. For thousands of years this art form has been practiced in the darkest, furthest corners of the Earth to keep people living and avoiding unnecessary weight.
It has many names but you mortals may know it as exercise.

Actually, since the start of this year I've got much larger. Still just under 70kg though, which is a healthy weight for a cyclist.

 

[35mm]

Dessert time!

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Cooked up some cubed steak in the George Foreman. With a bell pepper, mushrooms, rice, asparagus, and a side of sliced tomatoes. Enough to feed me for a couple days.

 

[FoolKiller]

Dinner last night was pizza: Fresh tomatoes, chopped basil, fresh mozzarella, garlic balsamic and olive oil on a premade fire roasted crust.

 

[Adamgp]

Cinco de Mayo dinner last night was ancho chile pulled pork and cheese enchiladas.

Brought some of the leftovers for lunch.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Homemade Burrito and Mexican Rice

 

[35mm]

Courgette, broccoli, feta cheese and toasted walnut soup. Very nice.

 

[phillgt2002]

Dinner last night was pizza: Fresh tomatoes, chopped basil, fresh mozzarella, garlic balsamic and olive oil on a premade fire roasted crust.

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That is what realistic pizza is like, right? Skipping all of the meat toppings and leaving basics of sauce, mozzarella, and a little seasoning?

How was it?

 

[kolio]

I am drinking Fruit Punch Hi-C with Sierra Mist and eating chicken strips with fries and gravy. And about to eat a blizzard.

 

[Omnis]

I picked up a 3 pound pack of Gwaltney chicken hotdogs. Made with MSM chicken aka pink slime. They were SO cheap! I could not believe the difference in price between these and the other big name brands, and even the supermarket brand. Pink slime has a place. I'm talking like 2 or 3 cents per ounce.

That said, I also wanted to really see what the fuss was, since the ingredients were pretty straightforward and the nutritional info was pretty good (minus the sodium) for a meat product this cheap.

I can't believe how neutral-tasting these hotdogs are. There is no flavor or seasoning or anything. You just have meat-paste texture in your mouth.

So I think I'm going to cut these into strips and use them as a stand-in for spam or the other potted meats in some of those korean or pacific islander comfort/hangover food recipes.

Wow, this spam is much better than the hot dogs. I lot the low sodium kind because ****ing hell there's a lot of salt in spam standard. I pan fried some up and made Spam n Eggs, seasoning the potted meat with a little bit of garlic and smoked paprika. Now I know why the Islanders love it, although I couldn't eat very much before I was full.

I offered some to my mom but she didn't try it. She is repulsed by it since it reminds her of grade school and camp. So I've been taunting her with the viking spam song all morning, and reciting the menu in my best impression.

I DON'T LIKE SPAM!

 

[Grayfox]

Wow, this spam is much better than the hot dogs. I lot the low sodium kind because ****ing hell there's a lot of salt in spam standard. I pan fried some up and made Spam n Eggs, seasoning the potted meat with a little bit of garlic and smoked paprika. Now I know why the Islanders love it, although I couldn't eat very much before I was full.

I offered some to my mom but she didn't try it. She is repulsed by it since it reminds her of grade school and camp. So I've been taunting her with the viking spam song all morning, and reciting the menu in my best impression.

I DON'T LIKE SPAM!

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/spam.html

 

[FoolKiller]

Last night I made sweet and sour grilled chicken.

That is what realistic pizza is like, right? Skipping all of the meat toppings and leaving basics of sauce, mozzarella, and a little seasoning?

How was it?

I based it off the margherita pizza from my favorite brick oven place. No sauce, just olive oil with the tomatoes and basil covered in fresh mozzarella. I drizzled the balsamic on the tomatoes for extra flavor.

You honestly don't notice the lack of sauce as the tomatoes roast with the olive oil and soften while releasing their juices. The tomato flesh becomes almost sauce-like and the juices and oils all intermingle.

Warning: Rant ahead. TL;DR what we normally call pizza sucks.

I honestly believe the common pizza in the US has become more about generic extravagance than quality. That's not to say I don't enjoy the occasional pepperoni, but there are far better toppings and styles than you will find at Little Papa Dominos Hut. I prefer fresh mozzarella. I like creativity. Give me meatballs and onions or black beans and cilantro. Why is it nearly impossible to find sun-dried tomatoes?

The fact is, when you have to stuff your crust, coat it in salt, or offer dipping sauce with it you have an issue. If I buy chain pizza it is often Little Caesar. I can get a one topping for $5. That's what they are all worth in my mind. Good pizza does not come from oil-soaked, salty pies that literally get made on a conveyor belt. They were great for my childhood birthday parties and in college, but I'm an adult now.

The first time a small, local place opened near me I didn't go because of the price. Once someone convinced me to go I always wanted to go there over anywhere else.

 

[phillgt2002]

Last night I made sweet and sour grilled chicken.

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I based it off the margherita pizza from my favorite brick oven place. No sauce, just olive oil with the tomatoes and basil covered in fresh mozzarella. I drizzled the balsamic on the tomatoes for extra flavor.

You honestly don't notice the lack of sauce as the tomatoes roast with the olive oil and soften while releasing their juices. The tomato flesh becomes almost sauce-like and the juices and oils all intermingle.

Warning: Rant ahead. TL;DR what we normally call pizza sucks.

I honestly believe the common pizza in the US has become more about generic extravagance than quality. That's not to say I don't enjoy the occasional pepperoni, but there are far better toppings and styles than you will find at Little Papa Dominos Hut. I prefer fresh mozzarella. I like creativity. Give me meatballs and onions or black beans and cilantro. Why is it nearly impossible to find sun-dried tomatoes?

The fact is, when you have to stuff your crust, coat it in salt, or offer dipping sauce with it you have an issue. If I buy chain pizza it is often Little Caesar. I can get a one topping for $5. That's what they are all worth in my mind. Good pizza does not come from oil-soaked, salty pies that literally get made on a conveyor belt. They were great for my childhood birthday parties and in college, but I'm an adult now.

The first time a small, local place opened near me I didn't go because of the price. Once someone convinced me to go I always wanted to go there over anywhere else.

Yeah. I've never had the type of pizza you have described. The only pizzas I've had were just greasy, salty messes. I hate the abominations that the chains are coming up with. When it comes to food, simple usually tastes better and is healthier.

I had pizza last evening and it was just a mess, though it was much better than this place I went to called Pizza My Heart a week or two ago.. I was wiping the grease off with a paper towel. It was mushy and just plain unenjoyable.

I try to find the slices with the least amount of meat on them because they're usually less greasy, but even then, the slices are still salty. Now that you've mentioned it, I need to find a real pizza place.

 

[Joel]

I honestly believe the common pizza in the US has become more about generic extravagance than quality. That's not to say I don't enjoy the occasional pepperoni, but there are far better toppings and styles than you will find at Little Papa Dominos Hut. I prefer fresh mozzarella. I like creativity. Give me meatballs and onions or black beans and cilantro. Why is it nearly impossible to find sun-dried tomatoes?

I didn't want to turn into "that guy" when I went to Europe, but the pizza in Europe and particularly in Italy and the French Riviera is just on another level from most of the pizza I've had in North America. The key is that even just a plain margherita pizza is out of this world great, the crust is fantastic, the sauce and the cheese are great, and it's topped with great tasting olive oil. Then when there's such a fantastic base to work off of, they can do exotic stuff without it turning into a mess. Salmon, chorizo, cubed pork belly, eggs, creme fraiche, all sorts of Italian and French cheeses, tons of different types of seafood, there's just so much cool stuff they put on pizzas here.

The basic pizza is already so excellent that adding exotic stuff to it only improves it, rather than something like Pizza Hut deep dish bacon wrapped stuffed crust dorito crumble supreme. When the plain cheese and olive oil pizza is already fantastic, you don't have to do anything silly for a more interesting pizza. You can just put more interesting stuff on the pizza, instead of drastically changing it for novelty's sake. I also think part of it just simply the quality of the olive oil. As you'd expect, the olive oil from near the Mediterranean is fantastic.

None of that is to say that in NA you can't find pizza that's just as good as in Europe, but on average it's much better here because the priorities are different. If you just walk into a random pizza shop in Italy or southern France it's going to be fantastic, whereas at least in Halifax there's a few good spots but a lot of it is just greasy mediocre pizza.

 

[FoolKiller]

And I thought I would have to defend my opinion.

Today I am doing an experiment: cold brew black tea without using cold brew tea. I was doing some reading on sun tea, which I love, and found out that it was at risk of bacteria growth, as it gets no hotter than 130*F. That's perfect conditions.

But sun tea is a slow brew that doesn't take on the acidity and bitterness of hot brewed tea. It is very crisp and refreshing when served cold and we've been having a very hot (88*F today) week. Well, I found this blog post, which did a semi-scientific study on the different ways to brew tea to determine if the quality of sun tea is a myth that adds health risks.

His results were that sun tea does taste better as a cold drink, but the same can be done in the bacteria resistant environment of a refrigerator. So, I took my trusty lunch drink bottle home, which is a 12 ounce glass, dressing bottle. Glass is much easier to clean and reuse, plus it had a wide mouth that can easily fit a bottle brush. Glass is also the universally recommend sun tea brewing container, as it won't transfer any flavors.

Just before bed I filled it with filtered water and stuck a black tea tea bag in it. This morning I removed the tea bag and took it back to work.

The result: a crisp and refreshing glass of iced tea.

 

[wvmgmidget]

The first time a small, local place opened near me I didn't go because of the price. Once someone convinced me to go I always wanted to go there over anywhere else.

If you or anyone else on this site ever find yourself up near where I live we have two really good places here in town that I recommend. One is called Shorty's and it won some award for "Best pizza in the Midwest" if I remember correctly. The other is called Pizza Place, it's a hole in the wall but, it's REALLY good; it happens to be across from my high school (an imitator, well one run by someone else is across the other high school in town but is not as good so beware. There's also one in the mall as well and it's ok I guess) and when we held a track meet about a month ago three of the teams who travelled to our meet stopped there. Anyways sorry for the rambling, my stomach is now growling...

 

[Adamgp]

Another ancho and pork enchilada for lunch.

One more left after this, so that will be tomorrow's lunch as well.

 

[TB]

A can of chicken breast with a touch of mango marinade for flavor. 210 calories, 45 grams of protein and I'm absolutely stuffed.

 

[Omnis]

And I thought I would have to defend my opinion.

Today I am doing an experiment: cold brew black tea without using cold brew tea. I was doing some reading on sun tea, which I love, and found out that it was at risk of bacteria growth, as it gets no hotter than 130*F. That's perfect conditions.

But sun tea is a slow brew that doesn't take on the acidity and bitterness of hot brewed tea. It is very crisp and refreshing when served cold and we've been having a very hot (88*F today) week. Well, I found this blog post, which did a semi-scientific study on the different ways to brew tea to determine if the quality of sun tea is a myth that adds health risks.

His results were that sun tea does taste better as a cold drink, but the same can be done in the bacteria resistant environment of a refrigerator. So, I took my trusty lunch drink bottle home, which is a 12 ounce glass, dressing bottle. Glass is much easier to clean and reuse, plus it had a wide mouth that can easily fit a bottle brush. Glass is also the universally recommend sun tea brewing container, as it won't transfer any flavors.

Just before bed I filled it with filtered water and stuck a black tea tea bag in it. This morning I removed the tea bag and took it back to work.

The result: a crisp and refreshing glass of iced tea.

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Yeah, I know what you're saying. We use these Anchor pitchers that you can get for like 10 cents a piece.

Just fill up with hot tap water, put a giant teabag in it, and throw it in the fridge. We rotate them so we never run out.