Foodies

[CarolineOh]

I confess that I am a total foodie. I can't be the only one here can I?
My sister and I went to this incredible market today, and I just walked around with my mouth hanging open.
They had hundreds of kinds of cheese and I wanted to sample each one.
Cases of gorgeous pastries.
Live lobsters and lake perch in big tanks.
Whole ducks.
Bins filled with olives and marinated mushrooms.
Morels, my god, they had a big pile of fresh morels.
Andouille sausage, chorizo sausage, siciliano sausage.
Kumquats. Tamarinds.Plantains.
Rows and rows of salsas and oils and mustards and hot sauces.
They had a coffee shop and a sushi bar.
We walked around the store eating waffle cones full of teramisu gelato.
Yes, I am a foodie.
I watch the Food Channel incessantly.
I own hundreds of cookbooks.
I have kitchen appliances whose purpose I only vaguely understand.
I pour over the Williams Sonoma catalog like a teenage boy with a copy of Penthouse.
My name is Caroline, and I am a foodie.

 

[unclej]

well, i don't usually like public displays but.....my name is unclej and i'm a foodie.

i love to cook..i love to talk about food and even though i chose to live way the hell out in the country and pepper jack is considered an exotic cheese i make do.

when i do make a rare trek to austin i stock up on stuff that can't be found in my little villiage.

i'm unclej, and i'm a foodie.

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

Thanks fellow foodies...You just reminded me that the Naked Chef is on tonight. I'd be Jamie Olivers whore if he'd let me.

 

[CarolineOh]

Thanks fellow foodies...You just reminded me that the Naked Chef is on tonight. I'd be Jamie Olivers whore if he'd let me.

Isn't he adorable? I loved the episode where he was teaching the school kids how to cook, and all the girls were making eyes at him like he was a rock star.

And, OK, I'll admit it, I think the chairman on Iron Chef is hot. Every time he chomps on that pepper, I whimper.

 

[Bindii]

I confess that I am a total foodie. I can't be the only one here can I?
My sister and I went to this incredible market today, and I just walked around with my mouth hanging open.
They had hundreds of kinds of cheese and I wanted to sample each one.
Cases of gorgeous pastries.
Live lobsters and lake perch in big tanks.
Whole ducks.
Bins filled with olives and marinated mushrooms.
Morels, my god, they had a big pile of fresh morels.
Andouille sausage, chorizo sausage, siciliano sausage.
Kumquats. Tamarinds.Plantains.
Rows and rows of salsas and oils and mustards and hot sauces.
They had a coffee shop and a sushi bar.
We walked around the store eating waffle cones full of teramisu gelato.
Yes, I am a foodie.
I watch the Food Channel incessantly.
I own hundreds of cookbooks.
I have kitchen appliances whose purpose I only vaguely understand.
I pour over the Williams Sonoma catalog like a teenage boy with a copy of Penthouse.
My name is Caroline, and I am a foodie.

But was there any Tim Tams there?

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

I'm wondering how I can sit on the washer while watching the food network.

Is that bad?

 

[CarolineOh]

Re: Re: Foodies

But was there any Tim Tams there?

Ok, I'll bite. What are Tim Tams?

 

[lobito]

Thanks fellow foodies...You just reminded me that the Naked Chef is on tonight. I'd be Jamie Olivers whore if he'd let me.

fuck that! he's mine rain woman!

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Guilty...

I must confess I am also a "foodie".

I love food and I love to cook. My sister and I have this deep passion for breads and pasteries. Whenever we go shopping we go and buy hot loaves of french bread right when it hot. While we are doing the rest of our shopping we will simply eat it out of the bag, when we get to the counter we just pay for the empty bag. My roommate and I used to do the same thing - people would look @ us as we ate the french bread.

I also enjoy trying new dishes , especially hot and spicy foods. I have a weakness for hot salsas ... whenever we got into Mexico we find the most amazing resturants there...

 

[CarolineOh]

Mmmmmm.
I just partook of some of the bounty of our shopping trip.
A nice crusty baguette, some yummy Belgian cheese, and olives stuffed with bleu cheese.

 

[someplace]

I used my Foodie-ism for financial gain

by owning an international "gourmet" food store. Such fun to search out, sample and experiment with all the scrumptious yummies. I got to talk to people from all over all day about food too and then had to search out new products and sources and shop till I dropped. Such fun until I divorced my partner. Now I work in a law firm [boring]. Oh well, I still have a killer cookbook collection. Remember: Once a foodie, Always a foodie......

 

[CarolineOh]

Re: Guilty...

I must confess I am also a "foodie".

I love food and I love to cook. My sister and I have this deep passion for breads and pasteries. Whenever we go shopping we go and buy hot loaves of french bread right when it hot. While we are doing the rest of our shopping we will simply eat it out of the bag, when we get to the counter we just pay for the empty bag. My roommate and I used to do the same thing - people would look @ us as we ate the french bread.

I also enjoy trying new dishes , especially hot and spicy foods. I have a weakness for hot salsas ... whenever we got into Mexico we find the most amazing resturants there...

This market we went to yesterday(For any Michiganders reading, it was Papa Joe's, on Woodward in Birmingham) has a separate counter just to go pay for things you want to eat as you walked around.
I buy my produce for work directly at the farmer's market, so I am used to walking around eating while I am buying, so it's a damn good thing, otherwise, we might have gotten in big trouble

 

[christo]

I too am a Food Network junkie. I'm more and eatie than a foodie. I'm not much of a cook. I'm too impatient, I get in the kitchen and I want everything done NOW. I don't want to wait 35 minutes for something to cook at 325 degrees, I wanted to crank it up to 450 and have it done in 10 minutes. And it doesn't work that way.

One of my 5 favorite books of all time is Tony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential". It's hilarious, interesting, entertaining--I've read it cover to cover three or four times. His new book is a companion to his show on Food Network "A Cook's Tour". The show is good, a bit too goofy at times, but I still love it. I was watching the episode where he goes into the desert with Bedouins to eat a roasted lamb, and he eats the testicles, and all my friends were like, "Oh God, that's fucking sick!" And then they all looked at me, knowing that I'll eat a license plate if you put Red-Hot on it, and one asked, "Would you eat THAT?"

In a New York Minute, I would.

I don't get the appeal of Jamie Oliver. I can't stand his accent, he looks like a goof...I just can't stand him.

I'm totally addicted now to "Iron Chef". One of the funniest shows on TV. Campy to the extreme, as so much of Japanese popular culture is. The head of the show, when he bites into the pepper, and he gets that totally psycho smile on his face...priceless.

And then you have the dubbed annoucers calling the action. It's like watching a Godzilla vs. Ghidera movie, but instead of trashing Tokyo, they're stir-frying prawns.

The three judges at the end always include this dim-bulb actress who always said, "Ah...this is really good!" Or, "Ahh...this is delicious!" I'd love hear one of them say, just once, "Jesus Christ! This tastes like a goddam ashtray!"

I'd also love to have the psycho guy announce the theme ingredient and have him lift the cover and scream, "Peaunt Butter!" Or, "Beer!"

In Pittsburgh we have a long market area just outside downtown called the Strip District, where you can get all sorts of fresh veggies, cheese, bread, seafood, biscotti...and there's also all sorts of street vendors selling kebabs and stuff like that. There's also 3 brewpubs within walking distance and a bunch of nightclubs around. I may have to take a trip down there this weekend for a taste adventure. Been too long.

 

[KinkyKat]

I confess that I am a total foodie. I can't be the only one here can I?
My sister and I went to this incredible market today, and I just walked around with my mouth hanging open.
They had hundreds of kinds of cheese and I wanted to sample each one.
Cases of gorgeous pastries.
Live lobsters and lake perch in big tanks.
Whole ducks.
Bins filled with olives and marinated mushrooms.
Morels, my god, they had a big pile of fresh morels.
Andouille sausage, chorizo sausage, siciliano sausage.
Kumquats. Tamarinds.Plantains.
Rows and rows of salsas and oils and mustards and hot sauces.
They had a coffee shop and a sushi bar.
We walked around the store eating waffle cones full of teramisu gelato.
Yes, I am a foodie.
I watch the Food Channel incessantly.
I own hundreds of cookbooks.
I have kitchen appliances whose purpose I only vaguely understand.
I pour over the Williams Sonoma catalog like a teenage boy with a copy of Penthouse.
My name is Caroline, and I am a foodie.

O..........M..............G

I think we're related.

Live lobsters, the cookbooks, William Sonoma, gourmet coffees, spices and herbs.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

 

[*~sekzee1~*]

Re: Re: Re: Foodies

Ok, I'll bite. What are Tim Tams?

They are only the MOST DEVINE chocolate biscuits....yummmmmmmmmmmmm my mouth is watering at just the thought of them...................

 

[CarolineOh]

Re: Re: Foodies

O..........M..............G

I think we're related.

Live lobsters, the cookbooks, William Sonoma, gourmet coffees, spices and herbs.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Let's go shopping. Wear the outfit in your AV.

 

[CarolineOh]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Foodies

They are only the MOST DEVINE chocolate biscuits....yummmmmmmmmmmmm my mouth is watering at just the thought of them...................

Hey, they might have them. I'll take a look next time. thanks.

 

[QuickDuck]

EEEEEEK!!!! i saw Ducks on the list!

I shall have to go into hiding