Posts by victoriagirl

Mmmmm bacon candy! That sounds amazing, really. Simliar to this: my family has been making this appie forever, it's always a huge hit. I never met anyone who didn't instantly love this.

Wrap half a slice of par-cooked bacon around a water chestnut and secure with a toothpick. Make a whole tray, they go fast. Then bathe them in a solution of 1 part soy sauce, 1 part worchetershire sauce, 1 part brown sugar, and some minced garlic and black pepper. Cook in a 400 oven, basting with sauce repeatedly, until the sauce is all carmelized and sticky.

Hands down, the BEST incarnation of bacon ever.

Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:

Original Post by starlitocean:

there are 3 stalls for my floor at work.  i always choose the 1st.  2nd is the middle - you'll always end up with someone next to you.  3rd is a handicapped one.   this doesn't leave many options in the way of leaving the courtesy stall between us.

talkers drive me nuts.  nuts!  stop talking, i'm in the effing bathroom.  at least wait until we're awkwardly washing our hands next to eachother. 

i can pee with someone else in the bathroom.  i cannot, however, poo.  i will sit there forever like a creeper until everyone else leaves...all the while, hoping they don't recognize my shoes.

OH! and there are some serious nervous pee-ers on my floor.  so awkward.  sitting next to them, knowing they'll out wait you.  it's terrible.

 ROFL ME TOO!!!

 BAH HA HA me three!! I totally do this.

At my office, we have just one stall. The weird part is, the lone stall is in a bathroom with a separate sink and a door that locks. So some people will lock the stall but not the outer door, so you can walk in on them but are separated by the stall door. I don't get it. It's really uncomfortable to stand there while they finish, I usually just flee, but sometimes they are already done and washing their hands and I've turned to flee saying "sorry!" but she will say "oh no come on in" and I have to go into the stall and try to pee while she stands in the sink area and talks me. EW. I am PEEING, I am half-naked and squatting on a toilet, get the f out.

Hmm hotness I don't know, maybe, but I HAVE notcied that Rita has gotten super-annoying this season. I always found her slightly annoying because of her denseness, but this season she seems to have ramped it up even more; dense and unreasonable and generally the kind of stereotypical harpie wife I never want to resemble.

I didn't see last Sunday's episode yet, have to wait until Friday...woo I am excited!

Theoretically, if you heated it really hot repeatedly, it could lose some weight due to moisture loss. But what these other folks are trying to tell you is, there are no calories in the moisture that is lost. If Papa Murphy's offers a calorie per gram measure, you need to weigh the slice before you reheat it, not after.

There should not be any difference in weight between the original hot slice and after it's cold. Cooling does not make it lose moisture (though freezing for a long time will).

But, the fact is, even if they do offer the calories per gram, it's only an estimation. Error due to differences in preparation will make a much bigger impact than any small changes in weight due to moistue loss...so there's really no point in agonizing over it.

Leftovers from last night, taco salad.....ground turkey browned with chopped onions, peppers, mixed beans, and corn, on a bed of lettuce, cheese, fresh salsa, and yogurt, with some guiltless gourmet chili lime tortilla chips. And a pear. It was delicious! I had to bring a lot of containers to work to keep it all separate until lunchtime, but totally worth the extra effort.

I am having a bit of trouble seeing how it could NOT be a control issue...if it really was genuine concern, a frank discussion would have been in order, not just hiding your scale like a parent hiding the cookie jar. How rude.

I watch it...but one thing that bugs me about it is the weigh-in. They get the person to stand on a scale and announce their weight with a great deal of disgust, and it's often in a totally normal weight-range (the idea is that these people only have a little weight to lose, like 10 lbs). And the trainer guy pulls out the measuring tape and with equal disgust announces "Hips - 39 inches!!" and the nutritionist peanut-gallery chick repeats "Thirty - nine ! Inches!" like it's just too horrible to fathom.

Many of us would be thrilled to have 39-inch hips, thankyouverymuch, so I really dislike that part of the show. I think they could present that part in a much healthier way that does not promote self-loathing and disgust over a perfectly normal (though maybe not ideal) shape and weight.

Also I can't help wonder when they do the pantry-raids and find all sorts of terrible junk and show piles ans piles of all the bad food they eat - how is it that these people have only 10 lbs to lose? Just drama for tv I guess.

Too..many...yummy-sounding....soup recipes....brain...overload!!!!

I will have to set up a soup schedule to make all these delicious soups. Except the iguana one, I can do without that ;).

I guess the quality of the beans and how they've been treated make a difference. Like people, if beans are abused, they will have some issues! I never knew about the heat-treating, once I had some come out crunchy despite extra cooking time, I bet that's why.

I've been buying Unico beans from our Italian grocer, and they are great. Unico also makes lots and lots of varieties of canned beans that are good too, so I guess they are just good in general.

If you like refried beans, try making them yourself by just sauteing some minced garlic in olive oil spray then adding cooked or canned beans and smushing them while you saute for a few minutes. I did that with a can of Unico bean medley once, as a substitution because I had no cans of refried beans, and omg they were so much better!

Zombie!! You can be a zombie anything....have an old prom dress? You could be a zombie prom-goer. Just for the fun of dressing up AND being a zombie. All it takes is some plae face-paint or foundation, black eyeshadow around the eye sockets, red-rimmed eyes (I used some red lipstick applied with small brush), some blue or greenish tones mixed in or used for veins, some fake blood and gaping wounds (effects makeup is pretty cheap at the cosume stores). There's lots of zombie pics online for examples. You could even just be zombie you.

The OP was the one espousing the egg-separator, tealparadise, I think the responses were for him.

I have always used the shell-method, but if you (anyone) have a lot of eggs at once, the fastest thing to do is crack them all into a large bowl and gently fish the yolks out with your hand, letting the whites fall between your fingers. I don't see how the gadget would be any faster than the shell method, if time is the concern.

I loooove pickled beets. My mom gave me a few from her garden but not really enough to can, so I will likely just roast them with some olive oil.

To pickle them, just boil for about 40 minutes or until you can get a fork in and out fairly easily. Cool, peel, cut into wedges and stuff into sterilized jars along with a couple cloves of garlic and a chili peppers per jar. While the beets are cooling, put your pickling liquid to boil: one portion vinegar, one portion water, 1/4 portion or so sugar, some pickling spice blend and I like throwing in some extra peppercorns and mustard seeds. Once it's reached a rolling boil, remove from heat a cool one minute then pour hot liquid into jars and seal. You can re-sterilize the jars at that point but I usually don't bother and have never had a problem.

They are ready to eat after just 24 hours, and are soooo good alone or on a salad, and make a nice xmas-y pickle tray with some green cucumber pickles or pickled asparagus, for those xmas parties coming up (yikes!). And make great xmas presents/ hostess gifts with a circle of fabric tied on with a ribbon to make a little hat on the jar.

I care not for the little cornies. Though I will still eat them if they are around.

Jujubes are my weakness. I could (and have) eat them until I have a stomach ache. I now avoid the value tubs of jujubes, sour dinosaurs, sugar-coated jellies, and all the other evil halloween candies. I may buy a small bag from the bulk section, but I am NOT to be trusted around value tubs. On last weekend's road trip my sister brought a bag pf the most delicious candy invention ever - chocolate-coated jellies. OMG. I could have gone a whole life without discovering those...now there's no unlearning that. Dammit.

It's mainly a question of portion size and how it's prepped. The wrap part can be anywhere from 100 to 300 calories depending on size, the veggies don't count for much unless they are roasted in a lot of oil, if they are I'd count about 80 cals for 2 tsp plus maybe 100 cals for veggies if there's a lot, brown rice is 100ish cals per half a cup, black beans are also 100ish cals per half a cup, pico de galo is about 20 cals per 1/4C, soy cheese can be anywhere from 70 to 130 cals per 30g serving.

I'd say that a conservative estimate for a large but not-too-huge one (made with a 10" tortilla) would be around 600 calories.

Ooooh that "over the shoulder sorry" drives me nuts. Most of the time it's clear they are NOT sorry or they would not have done it. I want to shout "No you are not, don't LIE and compound your mistake, just don't do it again!!" You can stick your sorries in a sack. Hmph.

I am trying to give up guilt, myself. I was brought up Catholic so it's extra-hard. Catholics have raised guilt to an art form. Guilt is can help us recognize wehn we have done something wrong, but better to just identify the wrong, learn from it, and move on, and skip the guilt part. Yes that involves making an honest attempt to NOT do the things that made me feel guilty, not just being concience-less.