Anyone for a nightcap?

[midwestyankee]

I am alarmed, gravely so, that food discussions are finding their way into other threads.

I fear that this is about to become the AA thread unless we take charge.

I've already forgotten where I read about mole sauce...and then there was another food digression in a really weird place.

We need to be vigilant about keeping food discourse here. Because, after all, we are not winos. Right?

At least I'm not.



~LB

Nope....not a wino....hic.

 

[LilyBart]

Agreed. Fight the power!

Nope....not a wino....hic.

At this point, I would even be willing to discuss the merits of cream cheese in Alfredo sauce. Or in anything else, for that matter.

Which reminds me of how long it has been since I've had a cream cheese and grape jelly sandwich. *sigh*

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

At this point, I would even be willing to discuss the merits of cream cheese in Alfredo sauce. Or in anything else, for that matter.

Which reminds me of how long it has been since I've had a cream cheese and grape jelly sandwich. *sigh*

~LB

Cream cheese and grape jelly? Are you trying to get bounced from the club, LB?

 

[LilyBart]

Cream cheese and grape jelly? Are you trying to get bounced from the club, LB?

Ha ha! Surely you have had cream cheese and grape jelly on bagel. no? Delish, really....

~LB

 

[LilyBart]

Besides, if you can put cream cheese in Alfredo sauce then I can pair it with a fine grape jelly.

So there.

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

Ha ha! Surely you have had cream cheese and grape jelly on bagel. no? Delish, really....

~LB

My last taste of grape jelly came before I had ever heard of bagels.

 

[LilyBart]

My last taste of grape jelly came before I had ever heard of bagels.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with grape jelly.
Especially homemade grape jelly that hasn't been infected by HFCS.

It's just grapes and a little sugar and pectin. Quite a bit healthier than Fluff. Or our fried bologna sammies.

~LB

 

[midwestyankee]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with grape jelly.
Especially homemade grape jelly that hasn't been infected by HFCS.

It's just grapes and a little sugar and pectin. Quite a bit healthier than Fluff. Or our fried bologna sammies.

~LB

I've never had homemade grape jelly. Lots of homemade strawberry, rhubarb, and blackberry preserves have appeared on my morning toast, but never any homemade grape jelly.

 

[Keroin]

The island has run out of gin. I'm reduced to bad wine.

Oh, we're also out of petrol but who really cares.

At least there's still chocolate ice cream.

I've had grape pie before. It's true.

 

[intothewoods]

The island has run out of gin. I'm reduced to bad wine.

Oh, we're also out of petrol but who really cares.

At least there's still chocolate ice cream.

I've had grape pie before. It's true.

Mmm, chocolate ice cream.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with grape jelly.
Especially homemade grape jelly that hasn't been infected by HFCS.

It's just grapes and a little sugar and pectin. Quite a bit healthier than Fluff. Or our fried bologna sammies.

~LB

I'm very supportive of grape jelly but not on bagels. hides from the wrath of LB.

Cream cheese and grape jelly? Are you trying to get bounced from the club, LB?

MWY you are sooo harsh!


Seriously though, I'm Jewish. I mean, I can't eat a bagel unless it has lox! And then the rest: a little cream cheese, thinly sliced tomato, thinly sliced red onion and capers. And good coffee on the side.

 

[midwestyankee]

MWY you are sooo harsh!

Thank you.

Seriously though, I'm Jewish. I mean, I can't eat a bagel unless it has lox! And then the rest: a little cream cheese, thinly sliced tomato, thinly sliced red onion and capers. And good coffee on the side.

The first bagel I ever had was served with lox. It was the summer after my senior year in high school and I'd just gotten a job washing dishes at a Jewish girls' summer camp in Maine. I was one of 5 males at the camp.

Every Sunday morning, breakfast included bagels, lox, cream cheese, and sliced onions along with the usual everyday breakfast items. Bagels were available in plain, egg, or one or two savory blends (onion, for example) and I have no idea how the camp director sourced bagels in the Maine woods but they were fresh and very, very tasty.

 

[LilyBart]

The island has run out of gin. I'm reduced to bad wine.

Oh, we're also out of petrol but who really cares.

At least there's still chocolate ice cream.

I've had grape pie before. It's true.

Well, that sucks. I hope supplies of gin and petrol are restored quickly.
I have never had grape pie before. I didn't even know it existed until now. Was the pie that you had similar to this one? I thought the lemon verbena ice cream was an interesting accompaniment in this recipe.

I'm very supportive of grape jelly but not on bagels. hides from the wrath of LB.



MWY you are sooo harsh!


Seriously though, I'm Jewish. I mean, I can't eat a bagel unless it has lox! And then the rest: a little cream cheese, thinly sliced tomato, thinly sliced red onion and capers. And good coffee on the side.

At the cafe in my office building, I can get bagels with cream cheese, but no lox. So that's really about the only time I add grape jelly (obviously not homemade), or sometimes strawberry jam when I'm feeling a bit kinky.

Ironically, I had a breakfast today of lox and bagels with the above trimmings. Although the onion could have been a bit more thinly sliced. And I sometimes like a little bit of diced hard boiled egg, but there was none of that today. Though the lox today was especially yummy.

And btw, I'm not forcing anyone to eat grape jelly in any way that they don't want to. All I ask is that you keep in an open mind. Even if I am not so open-minded about cream cheese in Alfredo sauce.

bon appétit!

~LB

 

[intothewoods]

Thank you.



The first bagel I ever had was served with lox. It was the summer after my senior year in high school and I'd just gotten a job washing dishes at a Jewish girls' summer camp in Maine. I was one of 5 males at the camp.

Every Sunday morning, breakfast included bagels, lox, cream cheese, and sliced onions along with the usual everyday breakfast items. Bagels were available in plain, egg, or one or two savory blends (onion, for example) and I have no idea how the camp director sourced bagels in the Maine woods but they were fresh and very, very tasty.

Well, that sucks. I hope supplies of gin and petrol are restored quickly.
I have never had grape pie before. I didn't even know it existed until now. Was the pie that you had similar to this one? I thought the lemon verbena ice cream was an interesting accompaniment in this recipe.



At the cafe in my office building, I can get bagels with cream cheese, but no lox. So that's really about the only time I add grape jelly (obviously not homemade), or sometimes strawberry jam when I'm feeling a bit kinky.

Ironically, I had a breakfast today of lox and bagels with the above trimmings. Although the onion could have been a bit more thinly sliced. And I sometimes like a little bit of diced hard boiled egg, but there was none of that today. Though the lox today was especially yummy.

And btw, I'm not forcing anyone to eat grape jelly in any way that they don't want to. All I ask is that you keep in an open mind. Even if I am not so open-minded about cream cheese in Alfredo sauce.

bon appétit!

~LB

I could start a whole thread about lox and bagels. Sighhhhhh.

 

[WriterDom]

lox? Is that Jewish grits?

 

[Netzach]

lox? Is that Jewish grits?

Bagels = Jewish Grits.

Lox = Jewish Scrapple. Well, no, that's kishkes, technically.
It's smoked salmon for breakfast.

 

[jockdom]

Bagels = Jewish Grits.

Lox = Jewish Scrapple. Well, no, that's kishkes, technically.
It's smoked salmon for breakfast.

Mmmhhh smoked kippers for breakfast.

 

[LilyBart]

Bagels = Jewish Grits.

Lox = Jewish Scrapple. Well, no, that's kishkes, technically.
It's smoked salmon for breakfast.

Ok, so I have lived in enough places to enjoy grits, scrapple and lox. I had never heard of kishkes and my google search ended with some interesting results before I got to the actual food item.

I won't go on about kishkes, but will say that this particular goyim, (westerner that I am now, western US, to be specific) loves scrapple (ignores contents of scrapple) and grits (with butter and syrup, please) and lox as noted earlier. Scrapple and grits are actually childhood foods for me. Not necessarily together.

I also love scrambled eggs with chilis. Go figure.

~LB

p.s. In the interest of my personal health, I rarely eat any of these foods. Except for maybe lox, skip the high carb bagel. I just like talking about grits with butter and syrup, or scrapple. Nice memories....

 

[LilyBart]

Yanks Darling,

What the hell is your av?

Do you have no sympathy for those of us with aged eyeballs?

Can you make it bigger? Please?

 

[midwestyankee]

Yanks Darling,

What the hell is your av?

Do you have no sympathy for those of us with aged eyeballs?

Can you make it bigger? Please?

Keeping my tongue firmly fixed in place with teeth, yes, it's now bigger.

 

[LilyBart]

Keeping my tongue firmly fixed in place with teeth, yes, it's now bigger.

Your comment went over my head apparently.

All I can see now is that it is a dictionary. The name of the dictionary is a mystery.

 

[midwestyankee]

Your comment went over my head apparently.

All I can see now is that it is a dictionary. The name of the dictionary is a mystery.

It is the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, LB. Volume 1 of 2.

 

[CutieMouse]

It is the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, LB. Volume 1 of 2.

Is it bad that even though it's too blurry to make out, I knew it was the compact OED?

 

[ultramarineblue]

It is the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, LB. Volume 1 of 2.

Is it bad that even though it's too blurry to make out, I knew it was the compact OED?

I don't think it's bad....What's bad is that my first response on reading what it was is....Well, if it's so compact, why the hell can't we read the title????

Kinda feeling the need to run and hide...

 

[midwestyankee]

I don't think it's bad....What's bad is that my first response on reading what it was is....Well, if it's so compact, why the hell can't we read the title????

Kinda feeling the need to run and hide...

You do not want to see what the inside looks like, then. The compact edition has four micro-reproduced pages on each page. It comes with its own magnifying glass.

The reason that it's hard to read is that the image is a cropped section of a small jpg so there's just not enough information present in the image to sharpen the lettering any further.

 

[midwestyankee]

Is it bad that even though it's too blurry to make out, I knew it was the compact OED?

Nope....and I would have been very surprised if you hadn't recognized it.