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Farm Kitchen:  Meaningless Food Rules  |
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sillyfoulks
True Blue Farmgirl
164 Posts
Elizabeth
Illinois
USA
164 Posts |
 Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 06:57:29 AM
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I am typically a food seperator with a couple exceptions. I like my spaghetti or lasagna mixed with corn,chicken fried steak mixed with mashed potatoes and gravy, and then there is mexican food. It doesn't matter if it is enchalidas, chimichunga, chili rellenos, or anything else, every bite has to have some beans, rice, guac, sour cream, tomatoes, and lettuce.
I am the only one in the house that doesn't eat ketchup. I just can't stand it. I can cook with it. I have an awesome sweet and sour sauce made from ketchup. Mircle whip ruins a good sandwich. Just having it on my fingers turns my stomach. Ranch dressing is good on anything, including potatoes (baked & french fried), and pizza. And I can't eat a fried egg if I have to chase down the yoke.
There is a few things DH does that I just don't get. Ketchup w/beans and cornbread, applesauce w/chili, and salt and pepper on cottage cheese.
Elizabeth
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Destiny~
True Blue Farmgirl
195 Posts
Dar
west
TX
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 11:10:34 AM
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Gotta have:
with tomato soup gotta have a tuna fish sandwich.
with vege soup gotta have a peanut butter(and sometime jelly) sandwich.
When cooking for hubby (I don't eat meat)-gotta have:
with Pork chops gotta have applesauce and either mashed or scalloped potatoes.
"Let us, together, sow seeds for a better harvest-a harvest for hope."
Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 11:20:24 AM
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Oh..with tomato soup it has to be a grilled cheese sandwich!! But..it has to be made with real butter, cheddar cheese on whole wheat grainy type bread.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 12:51:18 PM
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Gee I remember a time living on tomato soup and grilled cheese!! Tomato soup has to have a pinch of dill in it though.
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
404 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 2:45:16 PM
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For me personally, grilled cheese only goes with cream of mushroom soup. And of course the grilled cheese sandwich is dipped in ketchup. Yum!
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Apr 27 2006 : 8:01:36 PM
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These are really funny! I KNOW I have some definite food rules! My DH says I'm really weird about meat and getting weirder. He's right. I eat very little red meat.
Never steak but love the baked potato.
Tomato soup must have grilled cheese.
Peanut butter on english muffins.
Honey on cornbread.
Apples(never Delicious) with cheese or with peanut butter.
I love all vegetables with the possible exception of eggplant.
Salt on canteloupe(never heard of it on watermelon)
Always real butter....I agree with the whoever said that about the cow and the scientist.
Beer with pizza, usually dark beer, like Black Butte Porter.
I don't drink pop. I think it's nasty and a very bad habit.
My bacon must be crisp to burnt.
Oatmeal is Scottish oatmeal or pinhead oats with a little brown sugar and cream if it's available.
Coffee..........fresh with a little milk or cream, no artificial stuff.
I think that covers it. Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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JennyWren
True Blue Farmgirl
201 Posts
USA
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Posted - Apr 28 2006 : 06:54:20 AM
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Must have Italian food EVERY Sunday while watching Soprano's..
Everything is made from scratch. *except I cheat and buy store bought bread.
Never had Hamburger Helper in the house NEVER will.
Always have seafood as at least an appetizer for the holidays.
Always serve something new for the holidays.
Never drink Grape ANYTHING (got sick on a tilt a whirl after drinking grape soda fast, got off and threw up on the attendents feet (sooooooo embarrassing as a 5 year old) *except I like grape juice.
Cook outside during the summer.
Everytime we have a huge snowstorm.. I barbeque. Kids loved it when they were young, still do it.
I mix coleslaw (the Kentucky Fried Chicken type) with mashed potatoes.
Garlic was made for just about every type of meat. Especially beef.
Everyone should eat yogurt at least once a day. I make it by the gallon. Quart really.
The best vanilla, is the kind my Mother in law sends me from Germany. I use the super fresh beans to make my own vanilla, store bought doesn't cut it.
If you treat an individual as what he is, he will stay that way, but if you
treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.
-- Goethe
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Apr 28 2006 : 06:59:28 AM
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No, no, no. You have it all wrong. Grilled cheese goes with vegetable soup. Preferably, Progresso brand minestrone. Homemade will do, but Progresso is better for this application.
And government surplus cheese makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever (or at least it did when I was little). They should sell that stuff as "Gov't Surplus Brand". It could put a dent in the national debt.
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JennyWren
True Blue Farmgirl
201 Posts
USA
201 Posts |
Posted - Apr 28 2006 : 08:11:56 AM
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I love this forum! As I was driving to the store, I thought to myself all the way there.. about these silly food rules and thought of a couple more...
Butter makes EVERYTHING taste better! The turkey is a little dry, put butter on it! You want Oatmeal? Put butter on it... You don't like the way that tastes? But butter on it! And I wonder why I have gained weight? 
Rootbear floats are a gift from God.. But it has to be made with REAL vanilla icecream and Mug Rootbear....
American cheese is good.. Gov't cheese is better for grilled cheese sandwichs ..which should only be served with Tomato soup! 
Such silly stuff.. Such fun!
If you treat an individual as what he is, he will stay that way, but if you
treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.
-- Goethe
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Edited by - JennyWren on Apr 28 2006 10:42:16 AM |
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rabbithorns
True Blue Farmgirl
544 Posts
Allison
Fort Scott
KS
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - Apr 28 2006 : 09:31:20 AM
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Am I the only one who knows grilled cheese goes with tomato soup? 
And Kay, on Newton's Apple kids' science show one time, they analyzed coke and pepsi and I found out why I'm a coke-freak. Pepsi has added spice lavors such as nutmeg and cinnamon. I can't stand cinnamon, so I have had to conclude that I'm a snob about coke because there is a difference in taste. At least I don't feel crazy now that I understand the reason!
This is fun. I've actually been wanting to try some folks' rules on to expand my horizons. |
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crazymoose
Farmgirl in Training
38 Posts
Caryn
Auburn
WA
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Posted - Apr 28 2006 : 2:59:38 PM
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Grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup
Apple sauce with pork chops
Roast beef, cooked carrots and potatoes one night, leftovers made into homemade soup with other added ingredients
Meatloaf leftovers turn into meatloaf sandwich with mayo and ketchup
Salmon loaf good, leftovers still good
Christmas and Thanksgiving Turkey not Ham
I like yams, but not candied
Tuna salad at Christmas, looks like tuna, but is jello with nuts and candied cherries and other stuff, a dessert salad
I can mix cream corn with mashed potatoes, not regular corn
Tuna mix for sandwich is: tuna, mayo, and sweet relish. Don’t like boiled egg in it.
Tuna sandwich can be served hot with a white cheese?
When I was little the only way to eat eggs was to put ketchup on them. Now I don’t. A fried eggs need to be fried with toast; cookie cut middle out and fry together. Scrambled eggs need the cheese from the glass jar, don’t know name.
I don’t eat pancakes because my dad tried to make double a batch of it and ended up putting too much baking soda or powder in it and they were flat and smelled like fish.
I don’t really like strawberries because when I was little I had lipstick that smelled like it and thought it would taste like it, it did not. Ruined me on strawberries.
My family’s Texas barbeque sauce only goes on ribs beef or pork or chicken and must be grilled otherwise doesn’t taste right. Eaten with hands and the messier the better.
Shrimp must be breaded and eaten warm, not cold, and not where you have to peel everything off (tried it in Miss.)
After I have gone clamming and cut and cleaned clams, I will not eat them nor do I care for the smell.
The only fish I like eaten raw is mackerel
Hotdogs can only be eaten on hotdog bun with ketchup.
Yellow mustard is gross, the dark stuff is better. The stuff in Arkansas is really good.
When baking cake or brownies or the like, use applesauce instead of oil.
As for my family members: my sister eats pizza with a fork. I have an uncle who used to pinch the legs off grasshoppers and eat the legs. I have another uncle who put ketchup on everything including his ice cream, while he grew up.
I like chicken nuggets, but after working at fast food place and learning that they can bounce like those little rubber balls, I stay away from them at that particular food joint.
A & W root beer float is the best!
Has to be Dr. Pepper in a can not plastic, not diet coke. Mt. Dew in a can.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott |
Edited by - crazymoose on Apr 28 2006 3:01:05 PM |
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
1054 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 07:57:05 AM
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DH doesn't eat red meat, however he like pepperoni/sausage pizza, hotdogs and brats, hmmm. I have a thing in my mind I can't have a dessert before I have the meal, whether is be lunch or dinner, but I'll have ice cream at an odd time of day without eating a healthy thing first - weird. Don't like raw carrots, but like them cooked, just the opposite with peas, like them raw but won't eat cooked. Homemade chicken fingers have to have mash potatoes and corn, seems strange without them. We like breakfast for dinner, DH likes pizza for breakfast. I only like mustard on a hotdog, DH likes everything on his.
Caryn, you are right - A & W rootbeer floats are the best!
Anne
"Second star to the right, straight on till morning" Peter Pan
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
404 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 10:45:18 AM
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I seem to be the only one who like cream of mushroom soup with grilled cheese....(whimper) :(
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
1045 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 12:00:22 PM
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I like it, Alison! I don't have a grilled cheese food rule.
Well, I guess I do; it has to be real cheddar, and extra sharp, please. On whole wheat or sourdough.
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celebrate2727
True Blue Farmgirl
989 Posts
Beth
MJF
Farmgirl
989 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 3:21:06 PM
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Just a few food things I learned from an exchange student from Brazil-
they like mayo on corn on the cob
they don't have marshmellows nor do they know what a s'more is
their coffee is so heavy and dark it resembles mudd when made
they don't have blueberries at least where he is from)
and for some reason he liked mustard on everything.
I don't have food rules per say though yes, grilled cheese and tomato soup is like ice cold milk and an oreo cookie- they forever go together what a classic combination( yeah thats the commercial)
But when I taught preschool for lunch we would have hot dogs, baked beans, and chips like 4 times a month. so I would take the baked beans, crunch up the chips and put them on top and then add ketchup. that was one tasty little concoction. Oh and the number one rule at the table-
you make it- you eat it. 4 year olds love to experiment, this helps keep them in line.
blessings
beth
Dreaming of Friday Night Lights
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akcowgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Valerie
Homer
Alaska
USA
296 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 9:40:08 PM
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Best Foods Mayo is the only Mayo worth buying. If the store is out i go with out.
I am not big on sour cream but i have to have cottage cheese on my homemade tacos
flour taco sheels are the only way to go.
The orange chedder cheese has to be melted on the taco shell in a pan so the shell is a little toasted.
I must must must have cream cheese to mix into my spagetti and the spagetti sauce is always homemade with WHOLE black olives.
Fryed chicken must be accompanied by mashed potatoes and green peas with homemade gravy. All mixed together is the best.
Previous poster is right faked mashed potatoes are just wrong.
The first "glunk" of milk is always the best.
I just relized that all of my food rules came from the stuff that my mom did growing up.
This is not a food rule but a kitchen pet peave. the oven is not a place to store dishes. Dear other half thinksit is and i alway turn on the stove to preheat and end up having to figure out were to put at lest one hot pan before i can put dinner in the oven.
Valerie
Yes, I live in my own little world. But that's ok they know me here.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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akcowgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Valerie
Homer
Alaska
USA
296 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2006 : 10:03:12 PM
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In my world grilled cheese sandwichs are made with mayo on the out side not butter.
Seafood from a resturant or store is just wrong. You want me to pay HOW MUCH for a tiny fillet of salmon that someone on the east coast put red dye #5 into not a chance. (my dad is a commercial fisherman)
coffee must be made in a coffee cone and new grounds put in after each cup so coffee is very strong.
coffee must have milk not cream and honey ( i know i am weird)
black tea must be drank with milk and honey in it ( grandma was from england)
grilled cheese sandwiches and cream a mushroom soup are the best.
Only real butter even my dog who gets her pills in butter hates that fake stuff. she wrinkles her nose
mustard is the best
dill pickles and relish are the best. non of the sweet stuff Yuck
ok i think that is it for now
Valerie
Yes, I live in my own little world. But that's ok they know me here.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2006 : 09:57:51 AM
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Allison -- I am a total snob too when it comes to my pop. I can drink Coke if it has ice in it, like at a drive through. But other than that it's Pepsi all the way. And no aluminum cans for me, thank you. It has to be from a bottle -- although I wish you could still get it in glass bottles. That was when it was really good!
I love toasted cheese with any kind of soup. I love mushroom soup!
Made cinnamon/sugar toast for my daughter yesterday with real butter. She actually turned her nose up at it! I keep a tub of margarine (YUK) because that's what my husband likes. This AM Stephanie asked for toast made with margarine, not real butter. That's sick!
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2006 : 1:45:09 PM
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Barqs rootbeer is the best rootbeer because it isn't as icky sweet as A&W or Mug.
I love tomato soup made with MILK! YUM!
I agree with the statment about vegetable soup to go with grilled cheese. I love that together too.
I had thought of another weird thing. This drives my husband up the wall but MANY times a year I would be thrilled to just eat a bowl of cereal for dinner and that's it. He can't stand just doing that. It's totally nonsensical to him.
I discovered a yummy combo yesterday. I had cooked some frozen broccoli in the microwave and we also had salad. I put ranch dressing and Italian dressing together on my cooked broccoli and that was really good!
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·.
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Destiny~
True Blue Farmgirl
195 Posts
Dar
west
TX
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2006 : 05:54:54 AM
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Grilled cheese sandwhich has to have mayo on all four sides and must include tomato-grilled cheese and tomato sandwhich. YUM! I guess that's my version of the tomato soup.
"Let us, together, sow seeds for a better harvest-a harvest for hope."
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
404 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2006 : 3:09:52 PM
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Valerie...I'm so happy you like cream of mushroom soup with your grilled cheese sandwiches too. I thought I was the only one!
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2006 : 3:59:12 PM
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I love grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. Have to dunk the sandwich in the soup, of course. I put peanut butter on my whole wheat english muffins in the a.m. Love lobster, especially the new england lobster rolls on the toasted rectangular buns. Love turkey with lots of gravy and I mix my corn in with the mashed potatoes too.
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owwlady
True Blue Farmgirl
899 Posts
Jan
Tomahawk
WI
USA
899 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2006 : 08:53:54 AM
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| Peanut butter and Frito sandwiches...the salt and the crunch of the Fritos really makes the sandwich. My Mom thought I was nuts, now she's hooked. I've been eating those since grade school and learned that you have to pack the Fritos in a baggie seperate and add them to the sandwich when you're ready to eat it or the Fritos get soggy and there goes your crunch! Still love "ants on a log" from my Girl Scout days...had some two days ago. That's celery, peanut butter, and raisins. Yummy... |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - May 02 2006 : 10:27:30 AM
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I can't tell you how good a peanut butter and frito sandwich sounds. We used to try all sorts of things in our peanut butter sanwiches and bacon or fritos (or both even better) was my favorite. I havn't had one in years. Now to get some fritos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Meaningless Food Rules
