Doctored off the shelf

jmcquown said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

sarah bennett wrote:

>boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.

Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
that's just not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

Carol

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and fish
don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea of tuna with
the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

Jill

It's not fish, it's canned tuna 🙂

--

saerah

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"I think there's a clause in the Shaman's and Jujumen's Local #57 Union
contract that they have to have reciprocity for each other's shop rules."
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One time on Usenet said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

sarah bennett wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.

Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
that's just not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

Quoted message said:

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and fish
don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea of tuna with
the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

"Oogy"? Is that a techinical term, Jill? ;-)

Jani - who wouldn't like tuna in mac & cheese either...

notbob said:

I don't recall if we've done this recently, but what the Hell. What
is your current quickie off the shelf food you doctor to make
edible? My current fave is Dennison's chili:

1 can Dennison Turkey Chili
1/4 C white onion, diced
1/2 oz cheddar or American cheese (1 slice)
3 healthy dashes Frank's hot sauce

jarred salsa with some added diced onion, fresh cilantro, chopped garlic and the
juice of a lime

S'mee said:

One time on Usenet said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
> sarah bennett wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

>> boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.
>
> Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
> that's just not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

Quoted message said:

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and
fish don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea
of tuna with the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

"Oogy"? Is that a techinical term, Jill? ;-)

Of course it is! 😉

Quoted message said:

Jani - who wouldn't like tuna in mac & cheese either...

It just didn't strike me as a great combination. Hell, I've probably been
missing out all these years, who knows? I've added diced ham to mac &
cheese. I've added slices of kielbasa to mac & cheese. Mom used to even
put cooked ground beef in mac & cheese - think Hamburger Helper. Those
things just seem to "fit" better, if you know what I mean. But I'm not
dissin' anyone who wants to add a can of tuna. Just not my cup of tea.

Jill

Roberta said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

> sarah bennett wrote:
>
>> boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.
>
> Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
> that's

just

Quoted message said:

> not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

In the Midwest it can even be a basis of sorts for a tuna - noodle
casserole...

Cooked tuna (out of the can)is terrible to me....I can't stand the
smell, let alone the taste :P I do like blackened Yellow Fin Tuna,
but only fresh fresh....I have eaten it at resturaunts on the East
coast (in FL and GA) and it was good - ordered it even slightly
inland and find it is TERRIBLE!! (I am NOT a huge fan of fish of any
kind - it has to be really fresh because if it's old at all it has
the fishy taste :P)

Roberta (in VA)

Even my cat won't eat canned tuna! When she first came around I had to pill
her to make sure she didn't have heartworms; the vet said tuck it in some
canned (water packed) tuna. I bought the regular Starkist. She turned her
nose up. I bought the more expensive Albacore stuff... she looked at me
like I was a madwoman. 🙂 After that, I learned how to pill a cat.

I'm not a fan of seared tuna steaks, either. Guess I just don't like tuna!

Jill

On Fri 04 Nov 2005 01:10:00p, jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

Roberta said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown"
> <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>
>> sarah bennett wrote:
>>
>>> boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.
>>
>> Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
>> that's

just

>> not right.
>
> Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
> bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

In the Midwest it can even be a basis of sorts for a tuna - noodle
casserole...

Cooked tuna (out of the can)is terrible to me....I can't stand the
smell, let alone the taste :P I do like blackened Yellow Fin Tuna,
but only fresh fresh....I have eaten it at resturaunts on the East
coast (in FL and GA) and it was good - ordered it even slightly inland
and find it is TERRIBLE!! (I am NOT a huge fan of fish of any kind -
it has to be really fresh because if it's old at all it has the fishy
taste :P)

Roberta (in VA)

Even my cat won't eat canned tuna! When she first came around I had to
pill her to make sure she didn't have heartworms; the vet said tuck it
in some canned (water packed) tuna. I bought the regular Starkist. She
turned her nose up. I bought the more expensive Albacore stuff... she
looked at me like I was a madwoman. 🙂 After that, I learned how to
pill a cat.

I'm not a fan of seared tuna steaks, either. Guess I just don't like
tuna!

Jill

I make the occasional can of albacore into tuna salad to eat as
sandwiches. I have cooked fresh tuna only once and that was on the grill.
The recipe called for pressing a mixture of crack peppercorns, fresh lemon
zest, and a chiffonade of fresh mint leaves into the surface before
grilling. Just before hitting the heat, brushed with olive oil. It was
pretty tasty.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

In article <[email hidden]>,

jmcquown said:

Roberta said:

Gregory Morrow said:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:45:07 -0600, "jmcquown"
> <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>
>> sarah bennett wrote:
>>
>>> boxed macaroni and cheese + frozen peas and a can of tuna.
>>
>> Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
>> that's

just

>> not right.
>
> Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
> bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

In the Midwest it can even be a basis of sorts for a tuna - noodle
casserole...

Cooked tuna (out of the can)is terrible to me....I can't stand the
smell, let alone the taste :P I do like blackened Yellow Fin Tuna,
but only fresh fresh....I have eaten it at resturaunts on the East
coast (in FL and GA) and it was good - ordered it even slightly
inland and find it is TERRIBLE!! (I am NOT a huge fan of fish of any
kind - it has to be really fresh because if it's old at all it has
the fishy taste :P)

Roberta (in VA)

Even my cat won't eat canned tuna! When she first came around I had to pill
her to make sure she didn't have heartworms; the vet said tuck it in some
canned (water packed) tuna. I bought the regular Starkist. She turned her
nose up. I bought the more expensive Albacore stuff... she looked at me
like I was a madwoman. 🙂 After that, I learned how to pill a cat.

I'm not a fan of seared tuna steaks, either. Guess I just don't like tuna!

Jill

Wow that's amazing. My cats all FREAK over canned tuna!!!!!
They'll fight over who gets to lick the can! :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 12:00:35 -0600, "jmcquown" <[email hidden]>
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and fish
don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea of tuna with
the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

You would not have been happy growing up in my mother's household.
Lent meant No Meat (fish not counting as meat) and my sibs and I lived
in fear of <drum roll> her green tuna casserole. She used spinach
noodles, tuna, cream of mushroom soup, some of those canned french
fried onion things and cheese of some sort and God only knows what
else. It was horrible.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

Wayne Boatwright said:

Lately I've only been buying the gold can of BumbleBee Prime Fillet
Solid White Albacore. After lengthy searches, it's the only one I've
found that doesn't look like debris scraped off the bottom of a ship!
It's a nice solid pieces of tuna that looks like what most tuna used
to look like.

Wayne,

I found that brand at the ACME yesterday and it's kinda/sorta similar to
the regular solid white albacore but it did taste better. It was $1.89
for a 6-ounce can.

Hours later, I found it at the BJ Wholesale club in six packs for about
$7.50, so I bought three of those.

I did a simple tuna salad (tuna+mayo) with iceberg lettuce and american
cheese slice on whole wheat waffles taste test. YUM!!!!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Andy

On Sat 05 Nov 2005 03:39:46a, Andy wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

Lately I've only been buying the gold can of BumbleBee Prime Fillet
Solid White Albacore. After lengthy searches, it's the only one I've
found that doesn't look like debris scraped off the bottom of a ship!
It's a nice solid pieces of tuna that looks like what most tuna used
to look like.

Wayne,

I found that brand at the ACME yesterday and it's kinda/sorta similar to
the regular solid white albacore but it did taste better. It was $1.89
for a 6-ounce can.

Hours later, I found it at the BJ Wholesale club in six packs for about
$7.50, so I bought three of those.

I did a simple tuna salad (tuna+mayo) with iceberg lettuce and american
cheese slice on whole wheat waffles taste test. YUM!!!!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Andy

You're welcome, Andy. Wow, I shall have to look for better buys. One of
my favorite things to make with tuna is a good tuna melt. What you made
sounds very good!

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

"Terry Pulliam Burd" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

You would not have been happy growing up in my mother's household.
Lent meant No Meat (fish not counting as meat) and my sibs

I am so sorry Dear One. Mine was a different story, but in kind. I would
never have had a meal that included anything except beef with the occasional
incursion of bacon and ham. I never ate fish until I was in my 20's.

Quoted message said:

and I lived
in fear of <drum roll> her green tuna casserole. She used spinach
noodles, tuna, cream of mushroom soup, some of those canned french
fried onion things and cheese of some sort and God only knows what
else. It was horrible.

When I married my life's love, I had no idea that all she would produce in
the kitchen was tuna casseroles (2 kinds actually). It was not only a shock
that wore out quickly, but also was the imputius to start me on my cooking
life.

When people ask me why I started cooking, I always say: Tuna Casserole. I
was surprised to find that I had a tallent for it. It is also the reason, to
lenghen this out, why I went from 148 lbs. to 164 lbs. in two years. From
there it was upwards. <argh!>

But, dear Terry, I have lost 17 lbs. in the last 2 months! Not tasty and not
fun, but, I hope, life prolonging. Long enough I hope to invade your humble
abode with a hord of other foodies! Egad! It is almost time to start
planning for your de-virgination (cook-in-wise).

Yer Obd't Sv't, etc,

Charlie

Quoted message said:

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
that's just not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

Quoted message said:

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and fish
don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea of tuna
with
the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

The latest issue of Bon Appetit has a recipe for ... get this ... 'Lobster
macaroni and cheese' ... I can't think of a bigger waste of lobster if I
tried. First ingredient, 2 1/34 - 2 pound live lobsters.

Not hardly. Nope.

If you're looking, it's a few pages before the recipe for 'skate fillets
with
braised cabbage risotto' ... skate being described as having 'a sweet
flavor similar to scallops.'

It's settled. Bon Appetit reads rfc. While I've got their ear, STOP
trying to be like Gourmet! If I liked Gourmet I'd renew it!

nancy (feels better now)

Charles Gifford said:

But, dear Terry, I have lost 17 lbs. in the last 2 months! Not tasty and not
fun, but, I hope, life prolonging. Long enough I hope to invade your humble
abode with a hord of other foodies! Egad! It is almost time to start
planning for your de-virgination (cook-in-wise).

And when will this cook-in be? 😉

Christine, who needs to plan her life out months in advance.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Nancy Young said:

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> Mac & cheese (box or otherwise) with canned tuna?! I'm sorry,
> that's just not right.

Lots of people eat that. I'm not one of them, but I'd be willing to
bet that Crash would happily eat a bowl of it.

Quoted message said:

I'm not denying it! But you know how some people think cheese and fish
don't go together? I'm normally not one of them, but the idea of tuna
with
the cheese used in mac & cheese sounds... oogy 🙂

The latest issue of Bon Appetit has a recipe for ... get this ... 'Lobster
macaroni and cheese' ... I can't think of a bigger waste of lobster if I
tried. First ingredient, 2 1/34 - 2 pound live lobsters.

Not hardly. Nope.

Maybe if you lived in Maine where it's cheap. ;-D
I prefer my lobster plain, dipped in lemon butter with crusty fresh
sourdough bread.

Quoted message said:

If you're looking, it's a few pages before the recipe for 'skate fillets
with
braised cabbage risotto' ... skate being described as having 'a sweet
flavor similar to scallops.'

<snork> Let's not go there again!
Fish with cabbage??? No way!

Quoted message said:

It's settled. Bon Appetit reads rfc. While I've got their ear, STOP
trying to be like Gourmet! If I liked Gourmet I'd renew it!

nancy (feels better now)

No, Bon Appetit NEEDS RFC!!!

You're preachin' to the choir kid!

Cheers!

Quoted message said:

--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

"Christine Dabney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

And when will this cook-in be? 😉

Christine, who needs to plan her life out months in advance.

Not sure yet, it depends on Terry, but I think somewhere around June as a
combined OC/SD Cook-In.

Charlie

projectile vomit chick said:

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0600, in rec.food.cooking, Damsel in dis
Dress <[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

This isn't even an emergency thing. This is a treat for us.

Chicken a la Carol

Cream of chicken soup
1/2 soup can of milk
1 small can chicken white meat
1/2 jar minced pimiento
1/4 cup finely minced green bell peppers

Heat through and pour over biscuits, puff pastry (patty shells) or
rice.

Is this Jimmy Tango in drag?

You got it, sistah! Care to tango?
This is for you @}-->-->-->-->----

With affection,
Carol

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:31:02 GMT, "Charles Gifford"
<[email hidden]> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

But, dear Terry, I have lost 17 lbs. in the last 2 months! Not tasty and not
fun, but, I hope, life prolonging.

Congratulations, Charlie! Good on ya!

Quoted message said:

Long enough I hope to invade your humble
abode with a hord of other foodies!

From your mouth to God's ear!

Quoted message said:

Egad! It is almost time to start
planning for your de-virgination (cook-in-wise).

I *do* hope you're referring to hosting a cookin? Otherwise, I really
don't think you can outrun Bill... :-)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:55:21 GMT, "Charles Gifford"
<[email hidden]> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

"Christine Dabney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

And when will this cook-in be? 😉

Christine, who needs to plan her life out months in advance.

Not sure yet, it depends on Terry, but I think somewhere around June as a
combined OC/SD Cook-In.

Okay with me, although the June Gloom factor may make the view off the
deck less interesting. Charlie, as long as you're willing to do the
planning, I'm willing to do the hosting!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:15:41 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
<[email hidden]> rummaged among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

projectile vomit chick said:

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0600, in rec.food.cooking, Damsel in dis
Dress <[email hidden]> hit the crackpipe and declared:

Quoted message said:

This isn't even an emergency thing. This is a treat for us.

Chicken a la Carol

Cream of chicken soup
1/2 soup can of milk
1 small can chicken white meat
1/2 jar minced pimiento
1/4 cup finely minced green bell peppers

Heat through and pour over biscuits, puff pastry (patty shells) or
rice.

Is this Jimmy Tango in drag?

You got it, sistah! Care to tango?
This is for you @}-->-->-->-->----

Ya know, we have creeping senility growing expotentially in this
newsgroup. It wasn't "Jimmy Tango," it was "Timmy Tango." Whoever
posted as "Jimmy Tango" got it just a tad off, IIRC. Sheesh!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

In article <[email hidden]>,

Terry Pulliam Burd said:

IIRC

I'm used to a lot of internet abbreviations, but this is one I still
don't know the meaning of...... ;-)

???????????

TIA!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson