When we were dating my husband made vanilla and chilli ice cream for a dinner party
I used to make white chocolate and chilli ice cream when we had guests for dinner. It was fun watching them eat the first sweet & creamy spoonful, and then see their eyes widen as the chilli heat came through.
Spreading ones toast first with marmite and then with marmalade, results in Satan appearing in a cloud of sulphur and brimstone to claim you as his own
Marmite have introduced a Marmite Peanut Butter in the UK ... mmmm!
In Australia we have Cheesybite. Not something to my taste as I like my Vegemite topped with a slice of sharp vintage cheddar, rather than the bland cream cheese in this blend.
No. Weetabix is a very densely packed cake of ground grain with husks.
That sounds dreadful.
I watched this goofy YouTube video where British young adults and American young adults tried each other's cereals. Of course, for a laugh riot, they paired a really obnoxious American with a woman who was contemptuous to the guy that she probably considered representative of all Americans, sadly. Anyway, she got to try Froot Loops and he got to try Weetbix. She went on and one about how good Weetbix are and sneered at the Froot Loops...until she got a taste of them and kind of laughed, "I know there's way too much sugar and all sorts of terrible chemicals in this...but...it's really good!"
The obnoxious American refused to even try the Weetbix and I could totally understand why. "Let's eat some insulation! Now with fiberGLASS." But on the other hand, Froot Loops are so gross. If only they weren't saturated with that sugary coating. I ate them by the truckload, as a child.
The town of Gilroy, California, has an annual Garlic Festival. (They grow garlic.) One of their famous items is garlic ice cream.
That is of Satan. So nasty! In Washington state, somewhere near Seattle, a town has a garlic festival and THEY serve chocolate covered garlic. It's wrong. Just an abomination. Charcoal "flavored" ice cream is also of Mr. Scratch and His evil servants.
As for sugary cereal -- I cringe when I think of the sugar-laced things we shoveled down our throats when we were kids: Frosted Flakes, Sugar Corn Pops (remember "Sugar Pops are tops, eat 'em right from the bowl. All you need is milk or cream, you know" -- a near rhyme that would have even sent dear Emily Dickinson groping for her smelling salts), Frosty-Os (sugar coated Cheerios), Coco-Puffs, Fruit Loops -- the list goes on and on. Yet we survived.
As for sugary cereal -- I cringe when I think of the sugar-laced things we shoveled down our throats when we were kids:
I used to eat Weetabix with sugar when I was a child. Mind you, I'd also ladle sugar on top of cornflakes on the rare occasions I had those (travelling somewhere). These days, my taste isn't nearly so sweet, and the idea of a typical US sugary cereal is not at all appealing. Even regular cornflakes are too sweet for my taste.
In my 20s, I was underweight, anemic, and had a goth-punk-flapper style. A coworker, noting I worked the overnight shift (I was in master control at a TV station; he was a reporter) made a joke about my being a vampire. So of course I told him about my garlic allergy.
Thankfully, the garlic allergy has gone away! Sadly, I'm twice the weight I was then. Not really related, but I think my food allergies (all of 'em) going away didn't help. All of a sudden I liked to eat!
People were discussing vegan cheese earlier, and while I'm not vegan (I'm vegetarian), I am interested. I'm no longer allergic to casein, but I still don't do well eating cheese for some reason - apparently not an allergy. But I love cheese and I eat it. I don't mind the fake cheese you can buy in the store. I've recently purchased, for the first time, some nutritional yeast, which I guess a lot of vegans use for a cheesy flavor, but I find it's just a savory flavor. I got it because my B12 is low, and it seemed like the best way for a vegetarian like me to get B12 in my food. Still experimenting. It seems good with other spices - like the other night I roasted vegetables with olive oil and topped them with a mix of mostly Parmesan and nutritional yeast (about equal parts), cumin, black pepper, and sea salt. Very little salt, though - I'm working on eating less of that now that I have high blood pressure too.
It makes me wonder, though, if I would be able to acquire a taste for Marmite/Vegemite now. I hated it when a friend from New Zealand gave me some about 20 or so years ago. But it's too salty and would certainly fall under the category of things I shouldn't eat anyway.
My late grandmother told me once that when she was little (during the Great Depression), she had a craving for brewer's yeast and would just eat cakes of it. I wonder if she was also prone to a B12 deficiency?
As for the rest of Miss Amanda's post - I always loved sugary cereal because, having a milk allergy (casein), I couldn't put milk on my cereal, and the sugary stuff is better dry. Nowadays I don't eat much cereal - even though I can have dairy products, I just don't have the habit of drinking milk or pouring it on cereal. When I do eat cereal, I eat it dry. I still prefer something sweet, but only mildly sweet, like Honey Nut Cheerios.
Speaking of eating cereal dry, there's the ever-popular party mix made from various Chex cereals (Corn Chex, Wheat Chex, Rice Chex) produced by General Mills.
I love Corn Chex, especially with heavy cream or half and half, but the party mix was always too spicy for my taste.
Speaking of eating cereal dry, there's the ever-popular party mix made from various Chex cereals (Corn Chex, Wheat Chex, Rice Chex) produced by General Mills.
I love Corn Chex, especially with heavy cream or half and half, but the party mix was always too spicy for my taste.
I like wheat Chex. It really grabs the seasoning when you make the mix. Homemade is far superior to the crap they sell in the bag.
In Tokyo Disney Resort they are famous for their many kinds of flavoured popcorn, including soy sauce and shrimp flavour. I would think a Marmite version would be not unlike soy sauce.
I am definitely of the 'popcorn is sweet' persuasion. Salted popcorn is a recent arrival in the UK - growing up it was always Butterkist toffee-covered popcorn. Making it fresh was an idea I never really came across until the mid-80s when I met US students.
When I lived in Chicago, there was a popcorn shop on every corner, the way coffee places are in Seattle today. They sold butter, cheese, and caramel varieties, but the "Chicago" thing to do was to get a mix of cheese and caramel. It was really good. I don't miss much from Chicago but I do miss the pizza and the popcorn. (Sadly I can no longer eat popcorn but I can still have pizza.)
I am definitely of the 'popcorn is sweet' persuasion. Salted popcorn is a recent arrival in the UK - growing up it was always Butterkist toffee-covered popcorn.
Really? I'm in the UK, but didn't encounter sweet popcorn till some years after salted. We made it at home in the early 80s. Home-made because a bundle of familial food allergies/reactions made it very difficult to buy anything pre-cooked at that time. I honestly don't recall seeing bags of popcorn in the shops until the late 80s.
@Sandemaniac reckons I'm odd because although I detest Marmite, I like Twiglets (and miso). I think it's because Twiglets are less intensely flavoured than Marmite.
No, I reckon you are odd because you are odd, dear. Luckily I like you that way.
Blowed if I can remember popcorn as a kid (my childhood was, frankly, a bit four yorkshiremen), but I do remember it turning up in one of Gerald Durrell's books where someone made him some, with sea salt. Actually, thinking about that, I must have been surprised at the time because I'd only come across it sweet in packets before. Butterkist rings a bell.
I'm with you @Celtic Knotweed we made popcorn at home. I remember my next sister down putting the pan on the heat without a lid and being amused by the flying puffed kernels. Which meant it was an adult only task from then on. And that must have been early 70s. Otherwise seen in cinemas, rarely, and not purchased.
I don't think I made anything other than salted popcorn until I started making it for my daughter, and then the favourite flavour was peanut butter. Although curry was another version made locally.
It's not in the recipe book I thought it was in, publication date 1969. But we cooked from that quite young.
I'm in the UK, but didn't encounter sweet popcorn till some years after salted. .
You're probably too young for the heyday of Butterkist.
I remember it as a treat at 1950s Saturday morning cinema clubs for those kids with a bit of extra pocket money.
I first met homemade popcorn, and flavourings other than toffee, at the end of the '70s, with the acquisition of friend from the USA, and it is currently very popular with Elder Son's family as they binge-watch boxsets on a Sunday afternoon.
I used to have salted popcorn at the cinema as an adult in the 90s, and prefer it to sweet. Popcorn was never a thing on my council estate in the 70s/80s.
We have a popcorn maker at home and generally the toppings are sweet (and made by husband and younger son) - I must suggest some salted next time.
My dad used to make us popcorn with golden syrup for pudding on the one day a week my mum worked late. Tea was pretty much always fish fingers and chips. I'm inclined to believe that going from home to catered halls to marrying my mum, my dad never learned to cook. This is borne out by his ability to burn spaghetti.
My dad used to make us popcorn with golden syrup for pudding on the one day a week my mum worked late. Tea was pretty much always fish fingers and chips. I'm inclined to believe that going from home to catered halls to marrying my mum, my dad never learned to cook. This is borne out by his ability to burn spaghetti.
Surprisingly easy on a gas burner before it softens, so it's still leaning on the side, but otherwise quite an achievement.
My dad used to make us popcorn with golden syrup for pudding on the one day a week my mum worked late. Tea was pretty much always fish fingers and chips. I'm inclined to believe that going from home to catered halls to marrying my mum, my dad never learned to cook. This is borne out by his ability to burn spaghetti.
Surprisingly easy on a gas burner before it softens, so it's still leaning on the side, but otherwise quite an achievement.
It was already in the water, but it was a camping stove and a very thin pan.
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I sometimes make peanut butter ice cream, which generally proves very popular.
Sweet n sour toast... and .... Homemade peanut butter ice cream !
I really don’t know what I ve been Doing for over sixty years😅
I used to make white chocolate and chilli ice cream when we had guests for dinner. It was fun watching them eat the first sweet & creamy spoonful, and then see their eyes widen as the chilli heat came through.
Isle of Wight has (had?) one too. Garlic and honey and very nice it was too.
FIFY
In Australia we have Cheesybite. Not something to my taste as I like my Vegemite topped with a slice of sharp vintage cheddar, rather than the bland cream cheese in this blend.
A friend of mine recommends mixing it into salted caramel ice cream.
(I don't.)
I tried it, and came to the conclusion I would rather enjoy each of the ingredients alone, but together it kind of spoils both of them.
You spelt "bleurgh!" wrong.
I watched this goofy YouTube video where British young adults and American young adults tried each other's cereals. Of course, for a laugh riot, they paired a really obnoxious American with a woman who was contemptuous to the guy that she probably considered representative of all Americans, sadly. Anyway, she got to try Froot Loops and he got to try Weetbix. She went on and one about how good Weetbix are and sneered at the Froot Loops...until she got a taste of them and kind of laughed, "I know there's way too much sugar and all sorts of terrible chemicals in this...but...it's really good!"
The obnoxious American refused to even try the Weetbix and I could totally understand why. "Let's eat some insulation! Now with fiberGLASS." But on the other hand, Froot Loops are so gross. If only they weren't saturated with that sugary coating. I ate them by the truckload, as a child.
That is of Satan. So nasty! In Washington state, somewhere near Seattle, a town has a garlic festival and THEY serve chocolate covered garlic. It's wrong. Just an abomination. Charcoal "flavored" ice cream is also of Mr. Scratch and His evil servants.
As for sugary cereal -- I cringe when I think of the sugar-laced things we shoveled down our throats when we were kids: Frosted Flakes, Sugar Corn Pops (remember "Sugar Pops are tops, eat 'em right from the bowl. All you need is milk or cream, you know" -- a near rhyme that would have even sent dear Emily Dickinson groping for her smelling salts), Frosty-Os (sugar coated Cheerios), Coco-Puffs, Fruit Loops -- the list goes on and on. Yet we survived.
I used to eat Weetabix with sugar when I was a child. Mind you, I'd also ladle sugar on top of cornflakes on the rare occasions I had those (travelling somewhere). These days, my taste isn't nearly so sweet, and the idea of a typical US sugary cereal is not at all appealing. Even regular cornflakes are too sweet for my taste.
In my 20s, I was underweight, anemic, and had a goth-punk-flapper style. A coworker, noting I worked the overnight shift (I was in master control at a TV station; he was a reporter) made a joke about my being a vampire. So of course I told him about my garlic allergy.
Thankfully, the garlic allergy has gone away! Sadly, I'm twice the weight I was then. Not really related, but I think my food allergies (all of 'em) going away didn't help. All of a sudden I liked to eat!
People were discussing vegan cheese earlier, and while I'm not vegan (I'm vegetarian), I am interested. I'm no longer allergic to casein, but I still don't do well eating cheese for some reason - apparently not an allergy. But I love cheese and I eat it. I don't mind the fake cheese you can buy in the store. I've recently purchased, for the first time, some nutritional yeast, which I guess a lot of vegans use for a cheesy flavor, but I find it's just a savory flavor. I got it because my B12 is low, and it seemed like the best way for a vegetarian like me to get B12 in my food. Still experimenting. It seems good with other spices - like the other night I roasted vegetables with olive oil and topped them with a mix of mostly Parmesan and nutritional yeast (about equal parts), cumin, black pepper, and sea salt. Very little salt, though - I'm working on eating less of that now that I have high blood pressure too.
It makes me wonder, though, if I would be able to acquire a taste for Marmite/Vegemite now. I hated it when a friend from New Zealand gave me some about 20 or so years ago. But it's too salty and would certainly fall under the category of things I shouldn't eat anyway.
My late grandmother told me once that when she was little (during the Great Depression), she had a craving for brewer's yeast and would just eat cakes of it. I wonder if she was also prone to a B12 deficiency?
As for the rest of Miss Amanda's post - I always loved sugary cereal because, having a milk allergy (casein), I couldn't put milk on my cereal, and the sugary stuff is better dry. Nowadays I don't eat much cereal - even though I can have dairy products, I just don't have the habit of drinking milk or pouring it on cereal. When I do eat cereal, I eat it dry. I still prefer something sweet, but only mildly sweet, like Honey Nut Cheerios.
I love Corn Chex, especially with heavy cream or half and half, but the party mix was always too spicy for my taste.
I like wheat Chex. It really grabs the seasoning when you make the mix. Homemade is far superior to the crap they sell in the bag.
I am definitely of the 'popcorn is sweet' persuasion. Salted popcorn is a recent arrival in the UK - growing up it was always Butterkist toffee-covered popcorn. Making it fresh was an idea I never really came across until the mid-80s when I met US students.
@Sandemaniac reckons I'm odd because although I detest Marmite, I like Twiglets (and miso). I think it's because Twiglets are less intensely flavoured than Marmite.
Blowed if I can remember popcorn as a kid (my childhood was, frankly, a bit four yorkshiremen), but I do remember it turning up in one of Gerald Durrell's books where someone made him some, with sea salt. Actually, thinking about that, I must have been surprised at the time because I'd only come across it sweet in packets before. Butterkist rings a bell.
I don't think I made anything other than salted popcorn until I started making it for my daughter, and then the favourite flavour was peanut butter. Although curry was another version made locally.
It's not in the recipe book I thought it was in, publication date 1969. But we cooked from that quite young.
I remember it as a treat at 1950s Saturday morning cinema clubs for those kids with a bit of extra pocket money.
I first met homemade popcorn, and flavourings other than toffee, at the end of the '70s, with the acquisition of friend from the USA, and it is currently very popular with Elder Son's family as they binge-watch boxsets on a Sunday afternoon.
We have a popcorn maker at home and generally the toppings are sweet (and made by husband and younger son) - I must suggest some salted next time.
Surprisingly easy on a gas burner before it softens, so it's still leaning on the side, but otherwise quite an achievement.
It was already in the water, but it was a camping stove and a very thin pan.