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Please don't feed your children poo poo like boxed Mac and cheese and pretend that it's okay or cheaper to do so because you're tired.
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Apr 26, 2014 18:15
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Please don't feed your children poo poo like boxed Mac and cheese and pretend that it's okay or cheaper to do so because you're tired. I'm kind of with Scientastic on this one, but I don't think people are claiming that. It seems limited to cake mix.
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Apr 26, 2014 18:25
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Nicol Bolas posted:This really touches a nerve with me, because you are making GBS threads on my mom and my stepdad. They are both really good cooks. They are both very educated. Hell, my stepdad went to culinary school. But planning for and feeding a family of four out of fresh stuff is kinda difficult and time-consuming and expensive. They could and did overcome the difficulty regularly (huge pots of chick pea curries, mashed potatoes, dinner-of-recombined-leftovers) but they did not have the time or the money to do it more than once or twice a week. My after-school job in high school bought us fresh vegetables when it had to. All of us would have preferred to have a lovingly cooked meal made of fresh ingredients. Don't tell me that my parents were lovely or under-educated for not being able to have the money or the time to cook for us. They knew how. They couldn't, most of the time. When they could, I learned from them. When they couldn't, I still learned from them, which sometimes just means figuring out how to salvage lovely prepackaged whatever into something halfway decent. When I gently caress up a recipe, that knowledge has served me just as well as the knowledge of blooming my spices in oil for a curry, or how to make a roux. No Wave fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Apr 26, 2014 18:26
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Manuel Calavera posted:Besides Scientastic, some pre-made cakes are bitchin. Are you saying you can outdo a real bakery? I make some poo poo-tastic cake mixes and some excellent cake mixes. I even make some all natural, organic, non-gmo verified, fair trade cocoa mixes. All depends on what you want as a customer and if you want $0.99 a box Dunken Heinz knockoff or if you want a mix covered in buzzwords that costs a fuckton. NosmoKing fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2014 19:20
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I got called out on saying this before, but I'll say it again. Ghirardelli boxed brownie mix makes the most delicious brownies. And I've made brownies from scratch using other recipes, none of them are ever as good.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:41
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It's clear I'm in the minority here, so I'll just shut up. I enjoy making cakes from scratch, and I don't see the point in buying a pre-made mix, but maybe I am conflating mushroom soup mix terribleness with something that isn't as bad. I still won't be using cake mix, but I will stop sneering at those who do. I might go and make a Victoria sponge now.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:46
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Please don't feed your children poo poo like boxed Mac and cheese and pretend that it's okay or cheaper to do so because you're tired. I'd argue that it's definitely cheaper. Show me a recipe for homemade mac and cheese that is cheaper than a 99 cent box.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:50
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I'll go out on a limb and say that macaroni and cheese shouldn't be the main portion of a meal for children (or anyone) at all, but even without making the argument about future healthcare costs from a childhood of eating nutritionally deficient, carb/fat/empty calorie convenience foods, it's been shown over and over and over that calorie-dense, nutritious meals can be made on the cheap with proper budgeting, cooking what's in season or on sale and developing a pantry of staples.
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Apr 26, 2014 20:07
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We're looking at it from two completely different standpoints. If you compare homemade mac and cheese to kraft, homemade will always be more expensive. If you compare kraft mac and cheese to simply saying 'a meal', then yeah, I'm sure you could find something cheaper. Rice/beans is probably more nutritious and cheaper than kraft. If you go a step further and compare the health insurance costs of someone who eats a box of kraft mac and cheese for every meal vs. someone who eats nutritionally dense meals, then yeah, there's a whole different answer. /shrug Goons sperging about sperging in this thread.
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Apr 26, 2014 20:17
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Please don't feed your children poo poo like boxed Mac and cheese and pretend that it's okay or cheaper to do so because you're tired. Do you have kids?
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Apr 26, 2014 20:58
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Cimber posted:Do you have kids? How is that at all relevant?
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Apr 26, 2014 21:11
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:How is that at all relevant? Its a simple question, do you have children? +
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Apr 26, 2014 21:31
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Well, as a mother I...
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Apr 26, 2014 21:38
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I thought we were just talking about cake. But yeah, in a two working parent household (or single working parent), kids will sometimes have crappy meals. And yet, they somehow live.
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Apr 26, 2014 21:43
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My mother made dinner from scratch every night, with a protien, a vegetable and a starch. Every meal. The food was terrible, and probably not much more nutritious than box mixes. Mom is just a poo poo cook. Scratch cooking in and of itself doesn't guarantee any kind of quality.
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Apr 26, 2014 21:48
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EVG posted:I got called out on saying this before, but I'll say it again. Ghirardelli boxed brownie mix makes the most delicious brownies. And I've made brownies from scratch using other recipes, none of them are ever as good. I'll back you up on this. I used to pride myself on my scratch made brownies, but the Ghirardelli brownies are insanely good. Really good quality chocolate. And when they go on sale at CostCo, its cheaper then scratch.
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Apr 26, 2014 21:49
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Squashy Nipples posted:I'll back you up on this. I used to pride myself on my scratch made brownies, but the Ghirardelli brownies are insanely good. Really good quality chocolate. And when they go on sale at CostCo, its cheaper then scratch. I like the Baked brownie recipe (made with TJ's dark chocolate bars) better than the Ghirardelli mix. http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2010/10/08/the-baked-brownie/
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Apr 26, 2014 22:31
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Anyone wringing their hands over the nutrition in box mixes needs to go take a look in the steak thread where people put butter on a giant hunk of red meat.
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Apr 26, 2014 22:37
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Nicol Bolas posted:Anyone wringing their hands over the nutrition in box mixes needs to go take a look in the steak thread where people put butter on a giant hunk of red meat. Most things are improved by butter.
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Apr 26, 2014 22:49
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That's how you make sauce for your steak, right?
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Apr 26, 2014 22:51
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Man I work a week of 16 hr days and I come back to this? Gonna chill out and make some chili. Now, where are my beans...
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Apr 26, 2014 22:53
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Vegetable Melange posted:Man I work a week of 16 hr days and I come back to this? Gonna chill out and make some chili. Now, where are my beans... LOL, nicely done troll sir, nicely done.
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Apr 26, 2014 23:30
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I thought we were just talking about cake. Not in my house they don't. But then I don't serve cake, either. 
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Apr 27, 2014 00:28
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EVG posted:I got called out on saying this before, but I'll say it again. Ghirardelli boxed brownie mix makes the most delicious brownies. And I've made brownies from scratch using other recipes, none of them are ever as good. Trader Joe's has a store brand of brownie mix that you add like, eggs and butter to, and nothing else, and it is amazing.
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Apr 27, 2014 00:40
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Y'all know the secret to good cake isn't the ingredients, right?
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Apr 27, 2014 02:28
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It's my wedding anniversary, and my wife and I are at Giuseppe's, the only really "nice" place about town. It's so old school, I'm about to chow down on veal oscar for dinner.
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Apr 27, 2014 02:42
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wow this thread over the past couple days... In Asheville for Moogfest, drinking inordinate amounts of wine with my buds, saw Kraftwerk, ate at a place run by a Jose Andreas pupil, all is right with the world.
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Apr 27, 2014 03:11
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EVG posted:I got called out on saying this before, but I'll say it again. Ghirardelli boxed brownie mix makes the most delicious brownies. And I've made brownies from scratch using other recipes, none of them are ever as good. I agreed with you 100% until I decided to start buying good cocoa (I use it rarely enough it's little added expense) and made this recipe. If the description sounds good, give it a try.
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Apr 27, 2014 03:14
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mindphlux posted:saw Kraftwerk There's only so many times I can hear stuff like this without coming to the conclusion that I've made all the wrong choices in life.
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Apr 27, 2014 03:16
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Dear gods, I hate finals week. Whatever. It's not until Wednesday that the bleeding starts, so I can bear up a bit. It's just that in my Microbiology class, I'm feeling woefully out of my depth. 90%+ of this course has been more or less a cakewalk, and lots of fun to read up on. However, after mastering the intricacies of the immune system (which was really kind of cool to learn, because it's all so elegant, ESPECIALLY the complement proteins), the last chapter is anitmicrobial drugs. I can get behind learning the mechanisms for how they effect bacterial cells, or viral cells. Integrase/Replicase/Protease inhibitors are really cool to learn about. Beta-lactams, no problems. However, there are endless lists of the drugs to memorise, and categorise, and that poo poo's tedious as gently caress. I hate memorising endless lists of facts. I can even get behind memorising lists of words for the medical terminology course, because it's all information I can use for all the science courses. Human Anatomy, I'm down with, because fair enough. I'm glad that there are medications out there. That's cool. I just hate having to memorise them all. Anyways. I invited my classmate over for a study session. We've been studying together all semester, and she's one of the few people as pumped up about this stuff as I am. So since she was going to be coming for lunch time, I offered to make lunch. I said I could make pasta, or some Indian food. She said she's cool with whatever, and that she likes spicy food, so I went the Indian food route. Made a pot of rice, some daal, and this eggplant dish with cumin seed, urad daal, a boat load of onion, some curry leaves, and dried red chilies. It came out rather well! I don't even /like/ eggplant, but this one was rather nice. I used that skinny long eggplant they sell at the asian grocery store. So after eating lunch, she was like, "If I could eat like this all the time, vegetarian would be really good. I've literally never had a meal that was all vegetarian, and I completely forgot that you are until we just mentioned it a minute ago." I know where it was coming from, and thought it was such a sweet thing to say. 
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Apr 27, 2014 04:56
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Currently in a gastropub that does whiskey flights. I've never been happier.
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Apr 27, 2014 04:56
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Is Kraftwerk still making music? How old are they by now?  Musique Nonstop indeed.
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Apr 27, 2014 05:25
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:I agreed with you 100% until I decided to start buying good cocoa (I use it rarely enough it's little added expense) and made this recipe. If the description sounds good, give it a try. What cocoa do you buy? We always use Penzey's Dutch process cocoa. It may be that I just had bad scratch recipes. It took me a long time to realize that ATK, while informative and entertaining, is not always going tone perfect (despite them pretty much claiming that).
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Apr 27, 2014 13:49
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speaking of cocoa, I found a cocoa mole rub mi in my cabinet this morning. Anyone have an idea what I can make with it?
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Apr 27, 2014 13:57
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EVG posted:What cocoa do you buy? We always use Penzey's Dutch process cocoa. I like Valrhona.
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Apr 27, 2014 14:08
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Scientastic posted:There's only so many times I can hear stuff like this without coming to the conclusion that I've made all the wrong choices in life. I saw GWAR in 2006. Dave Brockie is dead now. I'm not even gonna gloat, because the fact that he's gone is too sad for everyone who never got to see them. Dude lived an awesome life, though.
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Apr 27, 2014 15:15
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I saw Anal oval office 
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Apr 27, 2014 18:58
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Sjurygg posted:I saw Anal oval office How is Mrs. Pr0k?
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Apr 27, 2014 20:40
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Manuel Calavera posted:Is Kraftwerk still making music? How old are they by now? No, of course not. They're smart enough to have just ridden their original work off into the sunset. The show was loving awesome though, they just played their hits live/improvisey and had a giant projector screen doing some 3D visuals and stuff. An audience full of dudes in white 3d glasses with them onstage in tron suits was mostly surreal. They ended with musik nonstop too ^~^
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Apr 27, 2014 20:53
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Scientastic posted:How is Mrs. Pr0k? Meh, she's gay.
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