Category: food

I always intend on “finishing one jar before opening the next” (such as with juice or, in this case, pasta sauce). But, wouldn’t you know it, I accidentally opened a second jar of pasta sauce. D’oh!

So, we now have two jars of pasta sauce taking up valuable space in the fridge. And, not just the “regular size” jars (26oz), but these are both 48oz monsters that I actually got at a good price ($1.26 each at Target). Sorry about that, Jason.

Some people have food recipes that no one else seems to like. And, from MetaFilter is this site that lists many such questionable recipes. This will give you the general idea:

I like to take bologna and put it on a hot dog bun with string cheese and orange marmalade in the middle of the bologna, then micro wave it to melt the cheese a little--about 1 minute. Yum! I also like grape jelly and roast beef sandwhiches. I like grilled cheese sanwhiches, with strawberry jam and ham as the filling. Hamburgers on a plate, no bun, smothered in syrup or honey is good too. […]

But, even the MetaFilter thread itself is a good source for many such recipes. In particular, I’ll excerpt this one for Jason ;).

Crack two eggs in a bowl, mix with bbq sauce, cheyenne pepper, tabasco and chives. Scramble it, put it on english muffin with bacon, melt cheese over it.

My arteries are fine... so far. [emphasis mine]

Weirdness aside, these two actually seem a bit tempting, though I’d have to tweak the recipe for non-Pillsbury brand dough:

Oddity # 1:

Take small candy bars (typically called “fun size” here in the States — seen the most at Halloween) and wrap them in canned (Pilsbury) crescent roll dough, seal ’em up, bake them according to the directions on the dough.

Butterfingers work best. Crispy and brown pastry shell, melty goodness on the inside.

Oddity # 2:

Grilled peanut butter, banana and honey sandwiches. Smear butter on the outside and grill them like you would a grilled cheese sandwich. Call me Elvis.

There’s been much talk lately about low-carb/high-protein diets — such as the “Atkin’s Diet” — spurned on by an article in the NY Times.

In the strict Atkins formula, dieters can have as much fat as they want. And, that can lead to some absurd situations, such as a burst in the sales of pork-rinds as a diet food (I’m not kidding) because of their high-protein/low-carb makeup.

At any rate, the author of that NY Times article says that the low-fat philosophy currently popular may not be perfect (in fact, he disagrees with much of the current low-fat teachings).

Incidentally, that link to the NY Times’ website requires you to register at the site to read the article. So, if you'd rather not deal with that, the article is also available without registration here.

That type of diet not exactly what I’m going with for my eating habits, as I’m trying to stay with low-fat (especially low saturated-fat) in addition to the low-carbs and “increased” protein.

I try to live healthily, but sometimes I'm just not sure what to believe. This follow-up article on CNN was helpful, though. There, they called three of the researchers who were quoted in the article:

These are three folks, all of them at Harvard. And we said: "Do you really think Dr. Atkins is right? Do you really suggest that your patients eat this pork chop with butter on top?"

And they all said: “Oh, no. We do not suggest that to our patients.” They said: “What we think is that maybe Atkins is on to something when he says fat is not that bad. But” — and here is the big but — “but we tell our patients to eat ‘good fats.’ We don’t tell them to eat butter. We don’t tell them to eat whole-fat milk, and we don’t tell them to eat cheeseburgers, which is what Dr. Atkins suggests. We tell them to eat fish. We tell them to eat nuts. We tell them to eat olive oil.” [...]

In addition to the discussion on Slashdot, there was also a story on Plastic about the NY Times article. My favorite part was probably this post about odd breakfast items. Some people think it’s odd that I have a tuna sandwich for breakfast (and lunch), so I could relate to some of the points in the post:

For the last three weeks or so, I’ve been eating hamburgers for breakfast. (If you think that’s disgusting, my friend eats something he affectionately named “waffle burgers.” [emphasis mine]) Get up, make a big-ass hamburger, take a half-hour to let the after-hamburger doldrums wear off, and that sets me up right for the rest of the day. [...]

I’ll be interested to see how current medical studies of the Atkins Diet turn out.