Food Trends for 2010 Sound Quite Delicious

Lake Oswego Review ^ | December 31, 2009 | Barb Randall

[handmade]

Thanks. I have some ideas, but I do keep some on hand and it would be good to have some options.

[handmade]

Actually a small town-no homeless no nothun exciting, except we kids knew to stay away from the roundhouse (where the train engines were serviced and turned around to go back) since that was where the hobos hung out. I never heard of any actual trouble with whoever might have been there hitching a ride on the freights, but oooohh stay away.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yup, I was just kidding about the scum, but I forgot about that term "hobo"

My grandma told me about them, of course she also lived through the depression and saw a lot of things.

[mouse1]

Try the recipe on the cornmeal box. Not too gritty. Great with ribs.

[A knight without armor]

I was given a package of that over Christmas. I’ll be trying it for the first time tomorrow!

[radiohead]

<found a Cadbury ‘Royal Dark’ bar. Score!

LOL. I can just imagine the happiness. : )

I got a bit depressed about the 1000 meal thing. I make a lot of food because I eat vegan. We are in a money-saving mode, but I don’t think my son realizes that sometimes I feel really hostile about having to cook, again, and am perfectly willing to pay someone else to cook. I’m fortunate that, as a professor, I’m either at home or can get home early and don’t have to run home and cook at 5:30, but darned sometimes I just get tired of that kitchen. Even a vegan burger & canned baked beans can seem like too much effort sometimes.

[latina4dubya]

I still can’t get past that sentence that says I have to prepare ONE THOUSAND AND NINETY-FIVE friggin’ meals this year! Aarrgghh!

i just finished my first try at bulk cooking... last weekend i cooked enough food for a month... we've been eating for a week now... it's working out really well... today we had porkchops with gravy... yesterday it was beef stew... a couple of days ago it was chicken tacos... in just 12 hours i cooked all of our food for a month!

[familyop]

"No, because "sustainable" has become the new marketing buzz word that is supposed to imply some sort of self-righteous superiority to a product."

I didn't know that, because I haven't watched television for about 7 years. ...only saw the word used much in the documents of various local governments (mostly counties--"strategic master plan" and the like).

"Your goals are laudable and I fully support them.

Then I might have some links that you'll be interested in and will ask by way of private message.

[familyop]

"I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes the true culprits behind the clmate change and banking scams."

Me, too. They don't want anyone to compete locally with their bosses' manufacturing interests overseas or with their service businesses here. There's no single, big conspiracy--just too many people being really bad neighbors and using un-American tactics in competition.

Here, there are former corporate executives and current interest holders joining former labor union attorneys to keep out any and all business that might sustain much "riff-raff" (men with technical skills). They only retain a few addicts and third-worlders for slavery around their service businesses.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the tip. A grain grinder is on my ‘things to get’ list. I can get one through work.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

When I was working part-time, raising three boys and feeding two adult men at every meal, too...talk about a multi-tasker!...my crockpot saved the day. Lots of great vegetarian/vegan recipes for those. I’d use mine once or twice a week. I still use it a few times a month just for the two of us & my Dad.

Here’s a recipe I’ve become a ‘little’ famous for on the web:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Dianas-Egyptian-Lentils-Rice-96581

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That’s a smart way to go if you have a reliable freezer, for sure! :)

http://busycooks.about.com/od/makeaheadrecipes/a/cookOAMC.htm

We have a LOT of venison to eat up every year, and one of my favorite ways to use up the ground burger is by making Millions of Meatballs:

http://www.bigoven.com/157974-Millions-Of-Meatballs-recipe.html

I LOVE Sweet and Sour Meatballs! Sweet and Sour anything, actually. :)

[Yorlik803]

Or a bacon Cheesburger, onion rings ,ice cold Pabst or Coke.

[handmade]

I came along at the end of the depression. However the railroad round house was there for several years after the depression was “over”. Lot of lessons to be learned, even as a child, from those years.

[handmade]

Be aware some can be used for soy beans and nuts, which are oily aswell as oather grains etc. Mine does not do oily. Try miloing regular dry beans— which can be used to fortify soups and meal loaf etc. Mine just sits on the counter because I use it several times a week.

Have fun with yours.

[garandgal]

I noticed you talking about the sauerkraut that you had in Europe. My Grandma used to make her own, and although I can quite a bit and make my own pickles, I haven’t tackled sauerkraut.

Try Frank’s “sweet” Bavarian style...nearly as good as Grandma’s.

[handmade]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Mears]

You betcha-——and now you’ve gone and made me hungry.

:-)