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Food tips you may or may not appreciate

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Post: # 80396Unread post Shule
Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:15 am

Tip #1: As a substitute for sandwich meat, use cream cheese, and salt and vinegar potato chips.

Tip #2: Eat blueberry Nutri Grain bars with ice cream. Imagine how ice cream sandwiches taste, plus fruit in the mix.

Tip #3: Put a fourth of a teaspoon of baking soda in your orange juice. Don't ask why; just do it, stir, and taste. Ideally use a large to large-ish glass.

Tip #4: Mix a large amount of carob with some standard vanilla ice cream (not the Bryer's/Dryer's-type stuff), and add a little cinnamon. Mix well (but don't over-exert your mixer doing it). Eat.

Tip #5: Mix some of the product of tip #4 with some non-chocolate cake. Stir and eat. It tastes a lot like brownies.

Tip #6: Eat more eggs (not necessarily at once), unless you're allergic.

Tip #7: Oats and peanut butter go well together. Peanut butter usually overpowers other flavors, but oats and peanut butter seem to complement each other. You may want to actually make something with them, though (instead of just having oats and peanut butter together by themselves).

Tip #8: Put garlic and black pepper on the cheese before you grill your quesadillas, and always do this if you grill them in extra virgin olive oil.

Tip #9: Put vegetables/fruits on your pizza--not just meat.

Tip #10: Don't refrigerate your store-bought peppers (but if they're already in your home refrigerator, don't take them out). They get a lot tastier (sweeter and juicier) this way. They last almost as long, too (but the refrigerated ones do last a little longer).

Tip #11: Use cookie cutters. They're awesome.

Tip #12: Use 3-D cookie cutters, too (the old-style ones from the 70s and 80s; I don't mean the seriously 3-D ones they have today). They're awesome.

Tip #13: Use more relish, ideally dill.

Tip #14: Eating tuna sandwich mix with corn tortilla chips (instead of making it into sandwiches) is pretty good.

Tip #15 (and this goes without saying): Never put magnesium chloride in milk.

Tip #16: Carrots and peanut butter (or was it cheese?)

Tip #17: Experiment more with fenugreek; it's an under-utilized spice in American culture.

Tip #18: Mix powdered milk (not the prilled instant kind) with peanut butter and honey; roll it into balls, and then freeze it.

Tip #19: If you make small pancakes, just dip them in your syrup in butter instead of spreading it on them. It's more efficient, and gets the syrup where it needs to be, without making a mess of your plate, without requiring silverware.

Tip #20: Put some cream cheese and extra salt in your maccaroni and cheese. The extra salt helps bring out the cheese flavor when the cream cheese is there. However, don't do this every single time you make maccaroni and cheese for the rest of your life; do it in moderation. And, if you neglect the salt, expect to be tempted to use more cream cheese than is necessary.

Tip #21: Stir-fry-type dishes can potentially be better baked than fried. Yes, you can bake rice to cook it (and season it at the same time); a convection oven is important, though.

Tip #22: Use tarragon on chicken.

Tip #23: Lemon juice and other acidic things are really good with meat.

Tip #24: If you have large amounts of vinegar, set some (ideally lots of it) aside that isn't to be touched for anything but culinary purposes (not cleaning).

Tip #25: This tip is the same as tip #24, except for baking soda.

Tip #26: Amass a large quantity of baking soda. It's inexpensive, and very useful.

Tip #27: Cinnamon toast. It's pretty good, and it's easy to make.

Tip #28: Cut a grapefruit in half, dip the cut portions of the halves in white sugar, and eat with a spoon. Be sure to use the sort of grapefruit that was common in the USA in the 1990s, if you want the exact experience I mean.

Tip #29: Dip your peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwiches in milk (if you have/drink milk). Same for peanut butter cookies, and some other kinds of cookies.

Tip #30: While I appreciate very well-done meat, over-baking fish can make it seem like there's something wrong with the texture and flavor (and it drastically reduces the size). What I mean is, it seems to reduce the quality.

Tip #31: Don't undercook your fish. Think parasites.

Tip #32: Cheese and beans. They go well together.

Tip #33: Beans and rice. Not only are they said to make a complete protein, but they taste good together.

Feel free to add your own tips.
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Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:51 pm

Re:Tip #31- nah ;)



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Re: Food tips you may or may not appreciate

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Post: # 80463Unread post Danny
Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:03 am

Mostly love good shashimi and sushi both.

Dang, now I want some !

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Post: # 80527Unread post worth1
Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:48 am

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