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"Water Weight"
If you ingest a pound of food or beverage then immediately weigh yourself, you will weigh one pound more than you did before ingesting. Over time, your body will absorb nutrients, convert the calories into energy, fat, muscle, etc... then you excrete/secrete what ever your body didn't absorb. Whether or not you keep the weight gained immediately from ingestion, and how much you keep, depends on what was ingested and how your body uses it.
Why should I buy tilapia?
That's the impression I get as well. If we stopped eating every animal that ate the waste of other animals.... Well, we wouldn't have many animals left to eat. Yes tilapia will eat (or try to eat) just about anything they see, but the same goes for shrimp, crab, catfish... Then there are the bivalves that are just sitting there filtering whatever particles drift their way.
Why should I buy tilapia?
Wait, why is thriving inbrackish water a bad thing? Shrimp, crab, flounder, oysters, mussels, and many other very popular fish thrive in brackish water. Brackish just means the water is saltier than fresh water, but not as salty as the ocean.
Why should I buy tilapia?
Many fish species will eat anything that floats past their face. So will chickens. And pigs. Tilapia raised in the US are actually a pretty good deal for fish farmers - they use tilapia to clean up after other fish species. Farmers get two fish harvests for the price of one, and save money/time on clean up.
Venable Bistro Carrboro
Also curious why he would sell Pizza and Pasta, then open another pizza shop? People were pretty upset when Pizza and Pasta became Tomato Jake's.
Seeing Someone Touch Your Food
Whether or not it's a health code violation depends on local codes. Federal food handling guidelines state gloves should be used when handling ready to eat food, but it's up to individual states/counties/cities to adopt those guidelines, or not. My state does not currently use the federal guidelines, and it's perfectly legal to handle ready to eat food with (clean) bare hands. The state is about to adopt the federal guidelines, and starting in September, gloves will be required.
Tater Salad: How Do You Take It?
Mayo is on the short list of things I will not eat, even to be polite. For most of my life, I didn't think potato salad was even an option. I'd only had German potato salad out of a can, and didn't care for that either. Then I had homemade German potato salad, and later a salad of warm potatoes, green beans, and Italian dressing. Both were wonderful.
ISO Freezable recipes to thaw, not reheat
Other grain salads - barley and brown rice work well. Mix with roasted vegetables and feta. Or make it Mexican style with seasoned beans and salsa.
You could do homemade versions of uncrustables sandwiches with PB&J, ham and cheese, or anything else really. Make the sandwich as usual, but leave a good 1/4 inch border on all side without filling, then use a fork to crimp and seal the edges. Freeze in individual sandwich bags with as much air squeezed out as you can.
If the teens like cold pizza, make a few pies, and freeze individually wrapped slices.
Kaffir lime leaves in northern DE or nearby?
I would call first before doing the driving... But Whole Foods might have them, or Wegman's.
NC now allows rare burgers!
Just read on the N&O website that the rule change is expected to take effect in September. This change is one of many as the state adopts federal food handling guidelines, including a requirement to wear gloves when handling ready-to-eat food.
"Least Favorite Vegetable" Poll
Avocado. I'm convinced there is an avocado taste trait, similar to cilantro tasters. It just doesn't taste like anything to me, and I find the texture very unpleasant. I recently learned that my mom and several other family members have the same (lack of) taste experience.
I want to like rutabaga. It was my grandmother's favorite vegetable, and I'm reminded of here every time I see them in the store. I love baby turnips, but haven't found a rutabaga preparation I like.
Hospital Food----My how it's changed>>>For the better
I work for a medical school, and our affiliated hospital has very good food service. I'm not especially familiar with the patient meal service, but I don't hear a lot of complaints, and the food always smells good when I'm in that part of the building. The cafeteria service for employees/visitors/patients is very good. There are three different cafeterias, each with a different selection. They offer pizza, pasta, sandwiches, made to order salads, BBQ, Mexican, Chinese, sushi, and burgers/hot dogs every day. There also have a "world fare" selection that rotates daily. I've had some very good meals, and some just OK, but haven't had anything terrible yet.
On the other hand, I spent a lot of time visiting a family member at a hospital in Delaware this winter. The food was terrible. They went through the motions of letting the patient select their meals - a food service ambassador stopped by every morning with and iPad and went through the options. Unfortunately, the patient's selections only made it to the tray about half the time. My family member does have diet restrictions due to kidney disease, but they frequently offered him foods that are not recommended for someone with kidney failure. Even when he chose the kidney-friendly foods, the high potassium and phosphorus foods would still show up on his tray. The food itself was over cooked, bland, and unappealing. The only decent option was a roast beef sandwich. The cafeteria for employees and visitors was a little better, with decent pizza and desserts at least, but that gets old quickly when you have a loved on in the hospital for a month. I ended up cooking dinner and bringing it to the hospital several times.
What did you have for lunch today?
A nice size chunk of aged gouda and a salad with radishes, snap peas, and celery. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to have a piece of that gouda for dessert!
please join my I HATE MAYO CLUB..LOL.. anyone welcome..even if you like it rop
Same here, I just avoid it entirely.
Advice for Raleigh pls.
Your best bet would be to start with the recommendations on the thread you started last summer/fall: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/806851
As far as I know, all of the recommendations still hold.
DNC barbecue sauce competition
A mustard sauce from NC and a vinegar sauce from SC? Interesting geographic choices... At least the mustard sauce is from Charlotte, so not too far from "home."
IIRC, the Obamas ate at 12 Bones while in NC for vacation a few years ago, so that choice kind of makes sense.
please join my I HATE MAYO CLUB..LOL.. anyone welcome..even if you like it rop
The foods I don't like fall into two categories - things I don't like, but will eat in the name of politeness, and foods I dislike so much that the involuntary physical reaction to eating them would be more rude than refusing. Mayo falls in the later. The appearance, the texture, the taste.... Just can't do it. Fortunately there are very few foods I can't eat even to be polite, and it's easy enough to avoid mayo.
Fair & carnival food
I usually go to our state fair 2-3 times during the 10 day run each year. My normal routine is a ham biscuit for breakfast, or sometimes mini donuts with cinnamon sugar, fresh from the oil. Lunch is an Italian sausage with peppers and onions. If I stay long enough, I'll get icecream from the local agriculture school or a garlic pretzel, then a bag of cotton candy on the way out. There are also tons of samples from food producers in the state - hush puppies, pickles, peanuts, fudge...
My friends and I often do a "potluck" where we split up and everyone buys the crazy fried food of their choice, then we reconvene and share the spoils. There have been hits (fried mac and cheese, fried cookie dough) and misses (fried twinkie).
Family held "hostage" over refusal to pay mandatory 17 percent tip!
The manager might not want to remove the auto-grat because he would then have to pay the difference to bring the server's wage up to minimum wage. From the comments on the news article, is sounds like this particular restaurant has chronically bad service. Would surprise me at all if the management is just really bad, which could include being so cheap as to not want to pay minimum wage.
Meat glue, turning scraps into filets
As a means of using every part of the cow, I have no problem with this. It actually might be a really good way to prepare "steak" for those that prefer well done meat. I'm not OK with restaurants deceptively selling composite "steaks" as finer cuts.
How are meals served in your home?
I'm on my own for most meals, so I plate in the kitchen and sit on the couch to eat. When I have people over to eat, I tend to serve family style or set up a buffet. My kitchen isn't really large enough to accommodate plating in the kitchen. The only hint of a multi-course meal is having dessert after the dinner plates are cleared.
Growing up, all of our meals family style (and we had breakfast and dinner as a family every day, plus lunch on weekends). Holiday/extended family meals are still served family style, but my parents plate meals in the kitchen when I'm visiting and it's just the 3 of us.
What foods do you refuse to eat?
That's why I'm unwilling to rule out an entire class of animals. I love crustaceans, so I open to the idea that some of their "cousins" could be pretty tasty...
Food Network Does It Again
I think I posted the same/similar on the Paula Dean English peas thread (or I at least thought it at the time). I'm sure there is some intern in the basement of FN headquarters who is tasked with transcribing every. single. recipe. for the website. There are food recommendations on TV that seem perfectly normal (i.e. microwave bacon as a shortcut, or just have a piece of chocolate as a snack), but when translated to the internet as a "recipe" they seem idiotic. I don't hold it against the TV personalities/chefs, they aren't in charge of the web. I don't hold it against the who ever transcribed the "recipe" either, doubt they have much decision making power.
Food Network Does It Again
I always used worms while fishing at my grandparents' house, but we used Wonderbread at summer camp. I once caught a smallmouth bass with my Wonderbread doughball - I'm not sure who was more surprised, the fish or my counselor.
Virginia Beach Eats
I really enjoyed Mojito Cafe last fall while in town visiting my aunt. I had a rice/bean bowl with roast pork, a side of tostones, and bread pudding for dessert. Delicious.
What do you wipe your counters with?
Same here. I have a bunch of old/retired wash clothes in a simple human grocery bag dispenser. My laundry room is conveniently right off the kitchen, so I just toss the cloth in the washer when I'm done.
Jade Palace (Carrboro) - Cantonese menu?
I haven't been to Jade Palace in ages, and from what I remember they serve standard American-Chinese food. OK for what it was, but not something I'm going to go out of my way for. The other day I found myself surrounded by undergrads for several hours, including a group of Chinese-American students who were evaluating the local Chinese food scene. One of them was raving about the Cantonese food at Jade Palace. Well, now I'm thinking about dinner so I went to the Jade Palace website to see if the menu is really that different than I remember - They do have a separate Cantonese menu, but no English translation! Is there anyone out in Chowhound-land who can post a translation? Thanks!
http://www.jadepalacerestaurant.com/chinese.html
