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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

My mother would make Peanut butter, butter and bologna sandwiches. My dad would make bowls of rice topped with milk and sugar for dessert or breakfast. And as a small child I would eat anything with spaghetti sauce including bread pudding. When I got to be around three or four I started makeing "al a Q" That's what I would call it when I cut the vegetables and meat up as small as I could and stirred them into the mashed potatoes and then the gravy went on top of that; if there was any. If no one is watching I still eat my food that way. Cream cheese and jelly was always normal to us as well as sugar and butter on french toast. Also, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on fresh bread.

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Cook the Book: 'Serious Barbecue' by Adam Perry Lang

I live in Florida and my greatest success was cooking 3 meals a day and snacks on my dad's gas grill after the hurricanes in 2004. Eggs and bacon on the grill was a neat trick.

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What Gender Are Your Kitchen Appliances?

I have 6 qt. kitchen aid pro i'm pretty sure it's a boy. It was my first baby and I named him "the beast." Every time we moved since I got him 5 years ago I have been the only one allowed to carry him. Other's have tried but then realizing that I was serious about killing them if they dropped him they promptly and gently put him down.

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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

My mother would make Peanut butter, butter and bologna sandwiches. My dad would make bowls of rice topped with milk and sugar for dessert or breakfast. And as a small child I would eat anything with spaghetti sauce including bread pudding. When I got to be around three or four I started makeing "al a Q" That's what I would call it when I cut the vegetables and meat up as small as I could and stirred them into the mashed potatoes and then the gravy went on top of that; if there was any. If no one is watching I still eat my food that way. Cream cheese and jelly was always normal to us as well as sugar and butter on french toast. Also, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on fresh bread.

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Cook the Book: 'Serious Barbecue' by Adam Perry Lang

I live in Florida and my greatest success was cooking 3 meals a day and snacks on my dad's gas grill after the hurricanes in 2004. Eggs and bacon on the grill was a neat trick.

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What Gender Are Your Kitchen Appliances?

I have 6 qt. kitchen aid pro i'm pretty sure it's a boy. It was my first baby and I named him "the beast." Every time we moved since I got him 5 years ago I have been the only one allowed to carry him. Other's have tried but then realizing that I was serious about killing them if they dropped him they promptly and gently put him down.

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Orlando Restaurant Recommendations

Ming Court. The kids will love it because there is a koi pond with a little bridge you walk over and the dim sum is good. It is on I-drive so you are close to Universal and some of the other neat little attractions.

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So, what are you eating 'the morning after'?

breakfast of champions- alton brown's apple pie recipe a la mode

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Cook the Book: 'Baked, New Frontiers in Baking'

strawberry cream pie. how could anyone outgrow strawberry cream pie with a layer of thickened fresh strawberries and mounds of whip cream .

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Honey-Brined and Smoked Turkey

sharsd do you have a grill? We jury rig a smoker out of a grill and foil pans. Although it was good on a roasted bird too. Better smoked; doesn't taste so much like turkey that way.

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Honey-Brined and Smoked Turkey

I made this last year and now it is my go to bird. Totally awesome.

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Peach Rum Cake Recipe

Wow, that sounds awesome. I make a rum cake every year that is very similar; but i would have never thought to do the peaches. I am very excited about this recipe.

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overdose of delicious!

I just ate my second bowl of chocolate pudding of the day out of the 6 batch of chocolate pudding in the last month and the second one of the day I think I'm going to be sick.

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Cooking Challenge

Deep frying and making gum paste flowers.

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Thanksgiving Breakfast Help

Cinnamon rolls for thanksgiving breakfast. They will be getting fruit pies that night; but, homemade cinnamon rolls are truly magic things. I make them every year for Thanksgiving, one pan for my inlaws and one for my parents. There are never leftovers.

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Cook the Book: 'Second Helpings of Roast Chicken'

i use a lot of olive oil and leftovers never get eaten in time

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Are you an 'everything but the bird' or a 'turkey' person?

Sides unless it is smoked turkey. The best was last year, I made Alton Brown's Honey brined smoked turkey. All I ate was turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy; At least the first plate.

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Gross Out Food Moment

first off that drinking someone else's moucas made me gag. Growing up we had two refrigerators the "front" for food and leftovers and the "back" for drinks. If by some mistake or necessity food was put in the "back" refrigerator it wouldn't be touched for months. When i was fifteen and about to leave to go out with my friends my mother made me clean out the "back" fridge. Someone had made American Chop Suey roughly 3 months earlier. When I opened it the elbow macaroni had turned purple and there were several varieties of mold growing. However, the most disturbing part was that it was moving. I wabted to throw the whole thing out but my mom made me empty it and then clean out the pan it was in. I threw up for five minutes and everytime I smelled it I threw up again. And thinking about it, I may throw up again.

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Jump start on holiday treats!

rum cake
chocolate chip cookies
oatmeal cookies
Everything else is up in the air. I'm not sure how Christmas baking is going to work with a baby.

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What do foodies do?

stay at home mom of an 8 month old boy

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outdoor cooking ideas for Thanksgiving

the best turkey I have ever had was Alton Brown's Honey Brined Smoked Turkey. I don't even like turkey but it was amazing. It easily adapted to the grill.

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Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'

ahhhh i love them all. but for everyday a raw tomato sauce with lots of basil a little garlic salt and pepper in the food processor. for special occaisions alfredo. or when im alone olive oil, anchovies, and parm. or sunday night bolognese. chicken parm with marinara. pesto with homemade pasta

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