Deal, but at least drop a couple pics to help ease my tremendous disappointment...

Aw. You're lucky, I did find a couple pictures that I took a while back.

*blushes*

It's super yummy, too. :)

Brown Butter Toffee Blondies


Chocolate Chip Cookies


Stars and Stripes Sugar Cookies


I'll snap a few next time I actually cook something, too. :)

Dads birthday cake.
(with chocolate covered cherries)

Made this a while back. Steak and asparagus with hollandaise sauce. Simple and delicious.

Nice greek, tiramisu right? I bet that is delicious! And Maven, Brown Butter Toffee Blondies. WHAT!? Thats fat kid heaven, I need some lol!

Soft baked lemon ginger cookies

I tried to make this a while back and it didn't really taste nice. I just used Vegeta to flavour the soup.

I cook, a lot. I do all the cooking in my house but I have to admit I don't understand the "foodie" thing. Everyone eats (like the Sesame Street song) so calling yourself a foodie is like calling youself an "Airie" everybody likes to eat, some people are just really descriptive and snooty about it.

Hrmmm...I know I have pics of at LEAST one thing I've made.


Salmon Smothered in Summer.

Pan seared Salmon with Fresh Basil, Late Summer Tomatoes, Course Salt and Black Pepper, served on butter burnt brown rice.


My wife doesn't eat pig or cow, so we eat a lot of turkey and chicken...

Last night it was Turkey stroganoff (homemade, no recipe)

Turkey chops seasoned with Rosemary, Paprika, Season Salt, Red pepper then sauteed in smart balance with finely chopped onion.

When the turkey chops are cooked through cut into bite size chunks. Return turkey to pan with onions and SB add 1 can of chicken broth, simmer and reduce. When liquid is reduced to about 1 1/2 cups add 3 dollops of sour cream, increase heat to a slow boil and add more paprika and fresh ground black pepper (to taste) Stir the sour cream into the broth completely, be careful not to overheat. If the sauce is not thick enough to your liking thicken with cornstarch (mix small amount of cornstarch in just enough cold water to dissolve) simmer and stir to thicken but DO NOT overheat the sauce. Serve with peas over whole wheat egg noodles.

Tonight for dinner? Cheddar Chicken Croissants, Chicken breast strips grilled wrapped in Bacon (turkey for the wife) slathered with Sweet Baby Ray's with melted cheddar served on Croissant.

# epicure: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# Foodie is an informal term for a particular class of aficionado of food and drink. The word was coined in 1984 by Paul Levy, Ann Barr and Mat Sloan for their book The Official Foodie Handbook.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodie

# a person with a special interest or knowledge of food, a gourmet
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foodie

Anyone who says "Late Summer Tomatoes" more than likely takes more pride in ingredients than the average Joe. Heres your membership =)

Awesome picture!

We are pescetarian so I am always looking for a new fish recipe, I will definitely have to try this out.

foodie = a plimate who instructs another plimate in another city precisely where to go get me pastry!!!

just sayin...

Although MBK covered it pretty well, a direct analogy inspired by your good self is that pushing the shutter release on a camera does not make you a photographer. In the same way, cooking so that you have food to eat is not the same as cooking for the pleasure of the transformation and eating to get by is not the same as eating for the joy of it.

Actually....In the strictest sense of the term...a Photographer is a person who takes a picture. Now a professional photographer...thats a different thing.

I don't think of myself as a foodie, my SIL does, and she is straight up goofy about it. I cook, I take chances, I don't use recipes, I can go to the fridge look at what it contains and make a meal out of the contents, I'm utilitarian...but I know what "good" food is. My SIL "the foodie" eats like a 5 year old and will only try 2 or three selections on any given menu, and still freaks out if her food touches. I'd say she is gastrOCD, not gourmet or possessing a knowledge or appreciation for fine or even good food. She wouldn't know a chanterelle from a s**take or even a cherry stone from a soft shell let alone eat either, but yet...she is a "foodie" because she posts on food blogs and writes uninformed reviews of everything from burger joints, to bistros. Yeah so, I like food, I eat, and I try to make things interesting, and enjoy entertaining but....I'm NOT a foodie.

Well we could go round and round on the semantics of it all night (I for one would certainly never call myself a foodie, but that's because I think the word is ugly). If what your SIL does counts as being a foodie, then I'm certainly not one.

So I think then we're on the same page here, and perhaps all we need is a new name for the thread.

So long as it doesn't involve the word "gastronaut". That makes me want to punch people.

Do you feel the same about "psychonaut"?

Sorry Bud, I'm back in Ohio now =(...

Since pexy won't share his tiramisu recipe, maybe this website will help. Solely devoted to tiramisu, it surely has a recipe to suit every palate.

Vegeta's pissed it didn't turn out the way you wanted it.



/threadjack

I'm not keen - if we're doing the portmanteau thing I'd prefer psychoactivist.

I hate you.

Glad you're home.

*stomps off to pout*