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The most polarizing food: where do you stand?
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thoughts on Eggnog?0 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
thoughts on Eggnog?
Love it. Only do plant-based now, but it's always a highlight of my holiday season.
Good on its own, great touched up with some bourbon.0 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
thoughts on Eggnog?
Glad you brought it up!
I've never had eggnog before but have had eggnog flavored frozen yogurt and no thank you. 1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
If i'm going to have a frosted cookie it's going to be my mom's homemade cookies. Lofthouse cookies are like white static with a minuscule amount of flavor. What a waste of calories.1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
thoughts on Eggnog?
As on the other thread:
I adore homemade eggnog with aaaallll the eggs, cream and proper alcohol, so thick only part of a glass is drinkable, then you need a spoon. IMO, that's the superior eggnog. (Yes, I'm an eggnog snob.) It's too much work, perhaps too intoxicating but tempting, and way too many calories to range outside of December, and a limited part of the month at that, without causing me trouble.
The commercial kind in cartons is usually too sweet, for my preference - syrupy. If others enjoy that - more for you, I guess. 😉 I might buy one carton a year, which usually is enough to reconfirm prejudices. 🤷♀️
Never had the specific brand you posted.0 -
pancakerunner wrote: »
thoughts on Eggnog?
As on the other thread:
I adore homemade eggnog with aaaallll the eggs, cream and proper alcohol, so thick only part of a glass is drinkable, then you need a spoon. IMO, that's the superior eggnog. (Yes, I'm an eggnog snob.) It's too much work, perhaps too intoxicating but tempting, and way too many calories to range outside of December, and a limited part of the month at that, without causing me trouble.
The commercial kind in cartons is usually too sweet, for my preference - syrupy. If others enjoy that - more for you, I guess. 😉 I might buy one carton a year, which usually is enough to reconfirm prejudices. 🤷♀️
Never had the specific brand you posted.
Omg...all that homemade 'thickness'/texture is just the thing that would make me 🤢. However, I do like the favor of a low fat carton version of it.1 -
Those Lofthouse cookies are "meh" at best.
Now homemade Toll House cookies? Those are my Achilles heel. Can't have them anywhere near me.0 -
Sweet corn: Very fresh, ears with still a couple/three-ish rows of skimpy immature kernels at the tip (so tender kernels down the ear, not the ones that are all bulgy with the tougher skin when fully mature).
Grilling is good, but I don't have a grill, and am lazy, so microwave will do for eating off the cob (easiest method, by far - rip off the excess silk, through whole ears in the microwave, silk wipes right off once cooked). Enough cooking to be fully hot, no more needed. Maybe just the tiniest bit of olive oil so a light dusting of freshly fine-ground black pepper will stick, but plain is just great (no fats, no seasonings at all). Eat it off the cob.
For putting in tomatillo salsa or home-made potato salad, or something like that, when it's the season and we're rich in fresh corn, then roasted or even broiled (still no grill here
) to concentrate the flavor a bit more.
Bring a pot of water to boil (with about a tsp. of sugar). Drop in sweet corn. Remove from heat and cover for 15 minutes. Perfect corn on the cob.0 -
I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
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kristinajeang wrote: »I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
I go back and forth with candy corn. I like it. I don't like it. I like it. I don't like it. It's confusing, I tell ya!0 -
I like sugar cookies but not with that much icing.0
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kristinajeang wrote: »I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
I go back and forth with candy corn. I like it. I don't like it. I like it. I don't like it. It's confusing, I tell ya!
I like the candy pumpkins over the candy corn idk something about the shape??1 -
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Class name for this type of candy (candy corn, the pumpkins, Christmas shapes of similar stuff): Mellowcremes. Often contain shellac (from insect cocoons) and carnauba wax. Also generally not vegetarian (gelatin).
Weird little food, mellowcremes. (I've eaten them, I'm not dissing them.)1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »kristinajeang wrote: »I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
I go back and forth with candy corn. I like it. I don't like it. I like it. I don't like it. It's confusing, I tell ya!
I like the candy pumpkins over the candy corn idk something about the shape??
More soft middle-y part!
But do you bite the green part off first?0 -
Class name for this type of candy (candy corn, the pumpkins, Christmas shapes of similar stuff): Mellowcremes. Often contain shellac (from insect cocoons) and carnauba wax. Also generally not vegetarian (gelatin).
Weird little food, mellowcremes. (I've eaten them, I'm not dissing them.)
I know!
I'm one of the weirdos who actually misses this class of candy.
I've seen recipes for making your own vegan candy corn, but I want the plasticy strange stuff that everyone else is eating! The recipes seem like they'd actually be high quality and that's not what I'm craving!1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »kristinajeang wrote: »I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
I go back and forth with candy corn. I like it. I don't like it. I like it. I don't like it. It's confusing, I tell ya!
I like the candy pumpkins over the candy corn idk something about the shape??
More soft middle-y part!
But do you bite the green part off first?
You weren't asking me but yes, yes I do bite the green part off first. That's how you eat them, ofc.
I adore mellowcreme candies. I love the waxy texture.1 -
RelCanonical wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »kristinajeang wrote: »I think I survived my second pregnancy on lofthouse cookies alone. They are so good and addicting.
I also love eggnog, but can only have a super small portion that I sip slowly.
Sweet corn is amazing and I could eat many ears of it myself.
I love candy corn, but again, can only have a small amount.
I hate jelly beans and those circus peanuts.
I go back and forth with candy corn. I like it. I don't like it. I like it. I don't like it. It's confusing, I tell ya!
I like the candy pumpkins over the candy corn idk something about the shape??
More soft middle-y part!
But do you bite the green part off first?
You weren't asking me but yes, yes I do bite the green part off first. That's how you eat them, ofc.
I adore mellowcreme candies. I love the waxy texture.
Correct.
Do you try to do it perfectly, so there's no green left but you don't bite into the orange? Are you ridiculously pleased with yourself when you succeed?0 -
Class name for this type of candy (candy corn, the pumpkins, Christmas shapes of similar stuff): Mellowcremes. Often contain shellac (from insect cocoons) and carnauba wax. Also generally not vegetarian (gelatin).
Weird little food, mellowcremes. (I've eaten them, I'm not dissing them.)
One thing I cannot stand are mellowcreme jelly bean things... not sure the exact word
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pancakerunner wrote: »Class name for this type of candy (candy corn, the pumpkins, Christmas shapes of similar stuff): Mellowcremes. Often contain shellac (from insect cocoons) and carnauba wax. Also generally not vegetarian (gelatin).
Weird little food, mellowcremes. (I've eaten them, I'm not dissing them.)
One thing I cannot stand are mellowcreme jelly bean things... not sure the exact word
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I don't think those are technically mellowcremes, are they? Those look marshmallow or creme-ish filled. Mellowcremes are like candy corn or the little flat-bottom pumpkins with thick green stems on top, all solid candy of the same type all the way through, IMU, maybe a shiny coating on the outside.
Interview with Brach's, whose parent company that owns the "mellowcreme" trademark:
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/difference-between-mellowcreme-pumpkins-and-candy-corn/1
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