I take my coffee and agave with me when I travel. I had to stop drinking coffee for a while. Now i drink one cup but its not as strong as I really like. I bought this thing called an AeroPress and its the most amazing thing. It takes minutes and takes a lot of acid out of the coffee.

I can't drink coffee past 2PM or I'll have trouble sleeping. Of course most of the time I'm in bed by 8.

Charlotte is great! I'm only 4 hours north of there.

GOOD MORNING!

who likes french toast?


I'm gonna make some with cinnamon and some peanut butter and syrup on top. I saw some with the peanut butter inside and some bananas mmm I want to try that too!

http://www.about-recipes.com/imgrec/...Toast-Bund.jpg

I love french toast.
My honey made the other day w/ cranberry *walnut bread with a cinnamon/almond custard.

I like maple with mine--
or sometimes with yogurt and berries
or sometimes with pb / syrup.

Just depends on the mood and type of bread.

I'm going to make Indian curry- butter chicken.

I just got a curry leaf plant I'm growing inside. Its still young but I'm tempted to yank a few of its leaves.

If you like curry try this sometime. It's awesome

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Curried-Meatloaf/

Thanks. let me change this a little. Change it to ground lamb, get rid of the oats (ewwww) use more egg, use curry paste, add Garam Masala Spice, replace the apples with mango but add a little more, keep the raisins or use figs. Definitely nix the ketchup, add some heavy cream.

Thanks for the idea. Now I;m going to have to go make it.

Talking about agave-- I thought you'd be interested in this article. I use to use agave in most of everything (baking, drinks, food) but I had an awful spike in my sugars and talked with my MD about it and it turns out its not really that good for you. Its not a natural sweetener. Check it out!!

Also, you can buy low - acid coffee-- http://www.puroast.com/ -- I have found that this one tastes pretty good.

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funny you posted this--

I just had for lunch a curried veggie turkey loaf-- My honey's mom makes it and its delish.

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awww dang that sucks huh? lol It's always something. But I;m good with honey too. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

This is exactly what I am in the mood for!!! I guess I know what I am doing for dinner at my house tonight... breakfast for dinner... its a house favorite.

After the bullying fiasco with my son yesterday, I decided it was time for a piled high ice cream sundae!!! We got some good, all natural strawberry ice cream, and all the fixings to go with it.... Mine ended up with bananas, ice cream, hot fudge, hot caramel, crushed up oreo cookies, whipped cream, and of course, it was topped with cherries!! (with a side of a lactose pill so I could enjoy it and not pay for it too bad later)

On a side note... we make our own caramel, and its the most amazingly simple recipe I have ever seen.

Place a can of sweetened condensed milk in a large pan of water on top of a rack so its not touching the bottom. Keep at a low boil for 6 hours, adding water as needed so the can is always covered... open, and enjoy...

Bullying fiascos are never good - I hope all parties have recovered. Your sundae sounds incredible!
And yes, that method makes the best caramel ever.

Speaking of which, I thought you might like this "experiments in dulce de leche". While it doesn't provide any surprises, I think it's still interesting...

http://theheartoffood.com/experiment...stion-of-time/

Noooooo! That is the best bit! I hope to try and make bagels some day... the recipe tells me that you boil them first before baking. I think that's interesting!

I LOVE oysters. I had a vegetarian friend who used to say she wouldn't eat anything with eyes. I said to her, "so that means you wouldn't eat a potato, but you'd eat an oyster?" She totally didn't get it.

Do you uhh.....need our address again...???

<<lovesssss caramelllll....toffee too...js :)

Nice link Ursy thank you. Interesting how the results were sampled after the dulce de leche solidified. I think that I would want to sample the warm product.

Bagels are fun to make. The boiling water is the key. There are many theories in NY as to how to make a great bagel. What I have found when consulting with the bagel experts is that you can never skip the boiling step and expect to get a real bagel out of the deal. Some people try to do this and the interior is fluffy not dense and chewy. It may look like a bagel but it is a bagel fraud. Also, the oven that the bagel is baked in makes it. My favorite places use older stone ovens. A brick oven would work as well. A wood fire would be ideal but even a gas heated stone oven where the bagels are cooked on the stone, make the crust hard and crispy and that quick shock of heat seals in the now formed (by boiling) strong gluten strands. This is really an art as much as it is a science.

When I was going to school in NYC back in the day (seems like forever ago now) I would stop by H&H bagels and look to see what was coming out of the big stone ovens (looks similar to huge pizza oven) and get one of those bagels while they were hot. I recall stepping outside into the brutally cold winter mornings with a hot bagel and eating it as I walked down the street to school, thinking that this was the best thing ever. All for about .50 cents.

The bagel police aka Mi Amore, believes that she is helping me by deconstructing the bagel. I really don't to have to sneak around for a bagel. Imagine? It feels so wrong, so dishonest. Some guys sneak away to a strip club with their buddies, I am gonna wind up sneaking off for a bagel or slice of pizza with mine ;)

We both love to eat so, since I am the one who has the challenges with gaining weight, she has become carb police. You would never know that she can eat as much as she does because she clearly burns it off. So people are always asking her how she stays so thin and this is one of her tips. Scoop the bagel.




LOL that is truly funny.

I love oysters too. I have been trying to figure out how to prepare them for Christmas. I think that I will do one platter of raw oysters and one platter of baked oysters, 3 different ways. M.A.'s oldest daughter is coming in from college in CA for 2 weeks and she loves food too, so she will enjoy the oysters as well. Now to decided on the 3 preparations. I am thinking Rockefeller for one. Perhaps a twist on it, and get rid of the Pernod. Not my favorite part. Any suggestions?

I have to make do with an electric oven, but at least I have a pizza stone. Love my pizza stone, it's awesome.