Four Foods on Friday #145

I know, I know! Another FFFF meme! But they are so exciting and fun to do! I missed out on several weeks, due to flooding problems here and then a nice vacation. If you are interested, the previous FFFF meme had a fun question– reminiscing about hospital food, woohoo. Images of old ladies in starchy Marcus nursing uniforms rose up… thank God I haven’t experienced it in a long time!

But this week is about high school. That also seems like a million light years away. High school—- how well do you remember eating in the cafeteria? I was an odd student– I avoided eating in school as much as possible. I’d rather skip lunch and sit in my wooden locker (lockers were open in this school) and read or study. I don’t know why, I just never liked eating in public and I did not like the crazy atmosphere of the cafeteria. Once in a while I attempted eating there, but I always felt uncomfortable.

Name four things you ate in the high school cafeteria.

1. Pizza, if I could muster the courage to eat it in there. The pizza was rather bland, though. But it was one of the most popular menu items.

2. Chocolate milk. Well, I didn’t eat it. I drank it.

3. Hot dogs. The hot dog was one of the few foods that were not bland. Why is cafeteria food SO bland? What do they do (or not do) to make it so tasteless? Anyway, hot dogs were better.

4. Apple cobbler. It was canned apples, warmed and covered with a sugary cinnamon struesel topping. It wasn’t the best cobbler, but it was always the best thing on the menu when it was served.

So how about you? What things do you remember from high school? Me, I’d rather not remember school. I didn’t like it– GLORY BE the day I was free!

Four Foods on Friday #144

I’m back from a week’s vacation (my first one in 23 years!), so my head is a little dopey from all the driving we did. Next time, I hope I do a LOT less driving. Ugh, and all that traffic and construction! I am weary of detour and exit signs, you betcha. Until next year, of course.

Anyway, instead of laying in bed all day like I feel like doing, I decided to try and jump into my normal routine as much as possible. What better way to do it than with a meme?!

Name four things you’ve eaten in a hospital and share if they were tasty or not so good.

I like this question. I wish I could answer it! I have only stayed in hospitals when my children were born, and the last one was born well over a decade ago. And after childbirth, any kind of food looks amazing and anything you do is not remembered very well. So…. I’ll do my best with the very little I can remember…

1. Pudding. I think it was pudding. It was good. Can’t remember if it was chocolate or tapioca.

2. Jello. YUK. I hate Jello, and this stuff must have been scraped off someone’s shoes. It was rubbery, tasteless, and chewy. :-p

3. Breakfast. I usually don’t eat breakfast, but in the hospital I was always so hungry for it. The “porridge” was terrible, even with heaps of sugar added. The toast was cold. But the OJ was good.

4. Tea. I’m mostly a coffee drinker with an occasional cup of tea. Coffee affects babies, so I had to skip it and go with the tea. It was too strong.

The best part of the time spent in the hospital was when the husband brought in a McDonald’s hamburger and fries.

Four Foods on Friday #141

Time for the FFoF meme!

1. What color is the rice in your favorite fried rice?
2. Does your favorite fried rice have bean sprouts in it?
3. Does your favorite Chinese food come in a carton or a plastic container?
4. How long does it take for Chinese takeout from your favorite place to be delivered?

1. This question surprised me. How many colors could it be, white or yellow, right? Or maybe, if you’re an artist or something, you could describe the color as “eggshell” or “ochre.” But then I read Val’s reply and she said “brown.”

Brown?

Ew. I don’t know if I could handle brown fried rice. Brown as in…. dirt brown? Brown the color of horse equipment? Or brown as in chocolate milk brown? I am not much for rice as it is…. I don’t think I could handle brown! The fried rice I get is yellow, a nice egg-yolk yellow.

2. Gee, no. You guys must have some fancy Chinese establishment out there! Here, our fried rice is either plan, veggie, pork or shrimp. And “shrimp fried rice” is an overstatement. It should be labeled as “plain fried rice with maybe half a shrimp.”

3. The rice comes in cartons; the meat and veggies come in plastic containers. BOY are those things hard to rinse (we have to recycle them). How much grease is in that food, anyway???

4. Well, they SAY “Ten minute.” Usually, it’s about 11.45 minutes. Haha, kidding! Not like I’ve ever timed them! hahaha!

Thanks for reading. See you next week!

Four Foods on Friday #140

What a slacker I am! Yep. I’ve missed so many questions for this meme, I don’t think I will bother catching up. Instead, I chose the most interesting question (interesting to me, anyway!):

This week there is one question about Chinese food.

1. What are your four favorite foods from a Chinese restaurant?

Oooooohhhhhh, Chinese food… yummmmmm. I never tried it until I was engaged. I guess my parents never bought it because it was too expensive for a large family? I don’t know. We almost never ate out, never did take out, either. My poor mom, LOL! We never traveled much, either. Can you imagine the travel expenses and motor home repairs for a huge family?

Anyway. I love Chinese food. I haven’t strayed very much from my favorites– they never grow tiresome to me and I really like them. So I haven’t expanded my horizons much. Here’s the stuff I like.

1. Vegetable fried rice, with either roast pork or broccoli. I LOVE broccoli so much– there never seems to be enough of it in the rice!

2. Beef and snow peas. I prefer Chinese beef to chicken. Chicken is always mushy and tasteless. The beef is good (or maybe it’s just the sauce?). Anyway, I adore snow peas. Yum!

3. Garlic broccoli. It’s VERY spicy, and I really don’t handle spicy food very well. But when I mix the garlic broccoli with the Chinese veggies, it’s so good.

4. Beef and broccoli. Boring, I know. But that broccoli is SO SO GOOD!

I heard the next FFFF will ask about Japanese food. Uh oh! I haven’t tried much Japanese food, except sushi from the grocery store (OH YUM) and saki, like 23 years ago.

Four Foods on Friday #137

I buy (and cook and eat) ramen noodles like I read cell phone reviews: only when I need them.

I try to avoid ramen noodles, although my son loves loves loves them. The pre-packaged kind (with the small aluminum packets filled with powdered seasoning) are so unhealthy. I don’t like all that sodium and chemical stuff in it. But I think the ramens themselves are “ok.”

But when I buy the ramen and my son cooks them, the delicious smell of them makes me want them.

This week there are four questions about ramen noodles.

1. How do you usually make ramen noodles?
2. What’s your favorite flavor of ramen noodles?
3. Do you add anything to your ramen noodles?
4. Is there a flavor of ramen noodles do you wish was on the market?

1. Like I said, I try not to. But we eat them maybe 2-3 times every other month.

2. Chicken or beef. I dislike the “shrimp.” That’s shrimp, yeahhhhh rrrright.

3. Unfortunately, usually just the powdered seasoning packets. I used to get creative and add small florets of broccoli or kale or whatever. But I’m busy. I don’t make lunch for the kids anymore, they make their own.

4. Hmm, interesting question. Maybe chocolate flavored?!?! LOL. I am pretty happy with the chicken and beef.

How about you?

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