I am hot

But don't worry I wasn't nosey! I don't know your address!

Last week-end when I was driving to South Haven I did think about calling ya to visit ya though!

Yep. A nice roast and mashed potatoes and gravy..And corn. I can't eat mashed potatoes without corn, I like to mix it all up. Only way I can do without corn is at KFC. They have the best gravy. Gosh, I'm starved.

Oh now see I cannot handle chunky things mixed in with mashed potatoes. I am a texture kind of girl. That is why I cannot handle shepherd's pie. I like everything on my plate in it's own pile. If I choose to mix it that is one thing, but I want the choice!

Not me..I'm a dipper, too. Everything has to be dipped in some sort of sauce, and never can it be ketchup. I don't really like Ranch, either, but it'll do in a pinch. Mcdonald's hot mustard is great with everything, and so is guacamole.

Oh have you had the zesty sauce at burger king? I hear you on hot mustard...I dunk my fries in that. Love the good ranch....hate hidden valley..yuck.

I'm dying for a big, fat, sloppy, greasy pizza today. there is a gas station down the road from my neighborhood that makes better pizzas than pizza hut or papa john's. I need one for dinner.

Tonight is the first real NFL game of the season, the HOF game, so I will justify it that way.

I love hot fudge sundaes, too...

OMG you are reading my mind. A pizza and a hot fudge sundae would rock my world right now. Minus the football of course :oops:

You know what I have in my freezer? Dove bars. They're ice cream on a stick covered with real Dove choclate with almonds. There's only 4 in a box and they cost like $4, but I needed them.

That is another thing I am wierd about. I don't like chunky things in my ice cream either! lol I hate nuts.

wow. Well, I understand the texture thing, I can't stand jello or pudding.

I don't do beans, either. I can't even choke down chili.

I love buffets, though, more than anything. My husband thinks they're gross. he won't go to fire mountain. Polly, lets you and me go there sometime, because that's the only way I'm going to get to go.

I LOVE FIRE MOUNTAIN!!!! I hate beans too...yuck, except green beans.

I like jello and pudding as long as their aren't any fruits or nuts in it.

My mom puts apples and celery and walnuts in jello and places it all in a pretty mold and calls it a salad. Yuck Blah!

That's gross. Like when people put shredded carrots and mandarin oranges in orange jello, I'm like "what is wrong with you?" This isn't GOOD!

Right, and the same is true of cottage cheese mixed in Jello! I do not understand some people. Does your mom put marshmallows on sweet potatoes? Mine does, and how gross is that! My mom also used to crush up the last few potato chips in the bag and put them on top of tuna casserole. I will never make my children eat crap like that!

My mom puts french dressing and black pepper on cottage cheese. Now that's sick.

Tuna casserole is wrong no matter what. We're catholic, so we never ate meat on Friday during Lent. So..My Mom frequently made salmon patties, which are beyond sick. She always served them with peas, which are my least favorite vegetable.

I think cottage cheese is nasty regardless. I have seen people put friggin peaches in that stuff! Gross!

My grandpa pores milk over his green beans or peas. That always made me ill to watch him eat that.

Tuna fish and peanut butter are my dire straits food. They sit in the cupboard untouched until I am too broke to buy anything better, and then I eat them. I usually like to make croquettes with tuna though.

I have also always wondered what the need is to put ketchup on meat loaf....

Or tomato soup.

I can't tolerate mac and cheese either. My husband loves the stuff..And he pours a can of tomato soup in there with the milk.

I love peanut butter, but it has to be Jif, no exceptions. And I like Doritos with it, on the side and on the sandwich. Plus a big glass of milk with a ton of quik powder in it.

Glad it's too hot to eat,you guys are killing my appetite :lol: ...Karen

sorry karen...Lol, I'm getting hungrier...

Stop talking food please it is madness! I'm on a diet because of my stupid still-high blood pressure!

Tomato soup in mac and cheese? Where was this man raised? That sounds horrific!

Tomato Soup is gross period.

I will only drink milk if it is chocolate. That strawberry milk has always turned my stomach.

Yuck!!!..Karen

LOL Bossy it has been to hot to eat lately.

Ari, we aren't talking about any 'good' food.

I know it..Or banana milk. My husband grew up with some very thrifty parents. My father-in-law is a Nuclear Engineer at the plant in South haven, so come on, he makes dang good money. Plus My Mother-in-law is a nurse practitioner.

Eating dinner there is awful..One time she made a pork roast and I thought it was turkey. And dinner during Lent..She makes boxed scalloped potatoes and adds cream of mushroom soup and frozen lima beans and carrots. She serves a side of not-rinsed gritty spinach salad and freezer burnt bread. My husband said they used to eat spam sandwiches, they'd grill them like burgers. Thank God I have never had spam before.

No joke-just reading all of this makes ME want to go on a diet!...Karen

OH girl... I feel you. My mom adds a can of mixed veggies to everything.... I think I would rather choke myself and die than eat a lima bean.

Spam actually isn't that bad! LOL

I run every day and play raquetball a couple times a week just so I can freakin' eat. I swear, I eat really healthy all week long, then give up the ghost on Sat and Sun...And I'm not joking, If I didn't excercise as much as I do I'd be in awful awful awful shape. I'm pathetic.

Now with football season coming I tend to eat really bad..The first month of season is a "month of firsts"...First game, Dolphin's first game, first Sunday game, first afternoon game....You get the picture. So each of those firsts must be celebrated with velveta dip..A jar of Mrs. Renfro's habanero salsa melted with velveta mexican cheese. That'll put the love handles on in a hurry

Allright everyone, top this! In Denmark, where my husband grew up, fish is the abundant source of protein and is sold and consumed in many forms. Including pickled raw fish and jellied fish which my husband is just gaga about! It is eaten on a piece of rye bread! To me, it smells like feet, but it's the only way my husband will take fish. I also once followed him out into the kitchen in the middle of the night while we were visiting his parents for Christmas, I saw him eating what looked like a baguette, but it was actually a whole smoked eel! Still had the skin and the head on!

What is excercise? I am not familiar with that concept?

Mexican Velveeta, ground beef, hormel chili w/ NO BEANS, and a can of Mexican Cheese Soup makes a dip to die for!

Yewwww-gross me out-I wouldn't kiss him for months :lol: ...Karen

yep, I know..we call that baby poop. Sooo good! I love spinach dip, too.

And for chips..helluva good french onion dip.

Ari, that does not sounds good to me.

My ex's mom and dad are Jamaican, and they bring back salted dried fish from their trips. She boils it in water with corn meal, onion, tomatoes, and who knows what else. It is actually an African dish. It smells absolutely horrific when it is cooking. I tried a bite to be polite, and it was FABULOUS! I should have known because she is the best cook in the whole wide world.

oh sick..Ari, did he eat the eyes?

There is an upside! On Christmas Eve my brother in law prepared roast pork and roast duck for dinner, and it was four star!

No he didn't eat the eyes. Wouldn't surprise me if he tried fish eyes before!

I have the best recipe for spinach dip.

1 pack creamed spinach
1 jar marinated artichoke hearts
1/4 cup of real mayo
1/4 cup of sour cream
1 cup of finely shredded parmesan cheese

Drain and chop the artichokes and throw it all together in a pan. Bake it til it is golden on the top.

Trust me, double the recipe, otherwise you will wish that you had!

howsabout a recipe for healthy poached salmon?

1 salmon (duh)
2 cups water
3 slices white onion
2 lemon slices
3 peppercorns
2 sprigs of parsley

bring everything except the salmon to a simmer in a shallow pot, when the poaching mixture is boiling, add the salmon and cook for 10 minutes or until cooked through. The highlight of my blood pressure lowering diet!

I feel for you Ari. Salmon is a fish that I have a hard time choking down.

I actually like fish! I like salmon, tilapia, whitefish, and ocean perch. I'm living on this and chicken with steamed vegetables. Fresh fruit, and soy smoothies for breakfast. The diet really isn't as bad, though I do miss London broils and oven fries.

It was 177/120 a second ago. F@cking job strangles the crap out of me!

I like tilapia, catfish, and perch. Cannot do salmon though.

No salmon, thank you very much.
ok, here's yummy one..

cookie bars...

in mixing bowl combine 2 cups flour, 1 t baking powder, 1/4 t baking soda, 1/4 t salt.

in seperate mixing bowl cream 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar. Add 2 T milk and 1 t vanilla, mix well.

slowly add in flour mix, beating well.
stir in one cup choclate chips.

spread in greased 9x13 pan,bake at 350 for 25-30 min.

My goodness..These are like nothing you've ever had. They are light and yummy.

Oh that sounds yummy!

Is this Debt CC's official recipe thread?

yep..Look how long it's gotten, Polly..You are the author of a terrific thread!

Shoot, I was just sitting here swimming in my own sweat when I started it!

I know..My husband is outside cutting the grass with no shirt on. He looks pretty good, too..

Too bad the game starts in 30 minutes.

I really need to go out there and cut the grass tonight myself. I'll be keeping my shirt on though :lol:
I have to run to Walgreens, and I thought I'd pick up a pizza for the kids.

I'm having pizza too...

What on it?

My kids will only eat pepperoni.

pepperoni and onion..Pan crust with garlic dipping sauce.