May I take your order?

[Drakefell01]

Thanks for the tip I will try the water idea since I don't drink alcohol.

 

What do you plan for dinner?

[Drakefell01]

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[Drakefell01]

Tomato's get your tomato's!

What's your favorite kind of tomato?

[Karna5]

I don't much care for cooked tomatoes, though a good tomato soup can be delicious if lightly spiced. I hate red pizza sauce and usually order (or make) my pizza without sauce if possible.

Fresh uncooked tomatoes of perfect ripeness, not too squishy, with maybe a touch of salt, can taste good. Sometimes, if I have this type of tomato available, I cook buttered spaghetti with parmesan cheese and dice some of those tomatoes onto the already cooked noodles, blending the fresh and cool flavors of the fruit with buttery richness of the noodles.

The size of the tomato doesn't matter as much to me as the texture and degree of ripeness.

[Drakefell01]

I love italian tomatoes but I find the others to be too sweet.

[Karna5]

Just now, Drakefell01 said:

I love italian tomatoes but I find the others to be too sweet.

What are italian tomatoes? You mentioned you don't live in Europe, so I'm guessing you buy the seeds and grow them yourself? Or do you have them shipped? I thought shipped tomatoes tend to be less sweet as they need to be shipped unripe and complete their ripening off the vine (and thus have less fructose than vine ripened tomatoes).

[Karna5]

Post script: I haven't eaten in nearly 24 hours. I think I'll hit the kitchen and cook something. But thinking about it, I bet the italian tomatoes are shipped and probably the reason they seem less sweet to you than local tomatoes. I'm also guessing an italian tomatoe eaten in Italy would be sweeter than one imported to the U.S.

[Drakefell01]

In canada we get all sorts of imports from other countries in the world and the one store near me gets the italian tomatoes which are a more acidic tomato and the acid neutralizes the sweetness.

[Drakefell01]

Who here likes donuts?

 

[Karna5]

Does anyone here ever cook with Cheez Its? Back in 1986 when I was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit I never thought of cooking with them (though I'd had them a few times). One day after class I walked to one of my friend's houses on Trumbel street in a neighborhood so poor police don't pull you over if you run red lights because you weren't supposed to stop at red lights. It's how you get car jacked. (I lost my best friend to a car jacking around that time in another poor section of Detroit.)

My friend always wore $500 jackets and fancy clothing, so I figured he was wealthy (as opposed to me who was always flat broke and wearing clothing with tons of tears and holes). But when I walked into his house, the living room was lit by the light of a television, and his aunt was sitting in front of the TV On the only chair. She had a pot with urine in it next to her. My friend pulled up a milk crate for me and asked me if I wanted to sit, and I looked at the crate and saw it was completely covered in large roaches, almost every inch of it roaches. I politely declined to sit. In a bit I wanted to use the rest room, so my friend took me upstairs where he unscrewed a lightbulb from one room and screwed it into the bathroom so I could have light. There was only one light bulb in the house, and they moved it from room to room as needed.

After a bit he cooked himself a lunch of Progresso soup, and while it was boiling on the stove he crumbled into it Cheez Its. It looked so delicious. He didn't offer me any, of course, and I didn't ask.

Ever since then, several times a year, when my girlfriend orders boxes of Cheez Its for us, I make a point to use some of them in cooking. For instance, for my last meal, I cooked noodles with cream sauce, peas, potatoes and, after they were done cooking, a cup or so of Cheez Its.

It really is delicious and can be used in any recipe where you'd normally use parmesan cheese or the like.