MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 07:00 PM |
quote: Chilled peach soup and
ice water with a twist of lemon in it makes me think of cemeteries and
antique shops.
Wow that sounds very yummy. Nice and refreshing on a hot summer day.
I had a delicious apple vichyssoise once that was to die for. I've never
had it anywhere else, and I probably never will. I had it on Mother's day
with my mom at her favorite tea room. They were doing a mother's day
brunch.
[Edited on 5/29/2007 by MystryssRavynDarque] ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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Schizo
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 11:50 AM |
Chilled peach soup and ice water with a twist of lemon in it makes me think
of cemeteries and antique shops. ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 26/5/2007 at 09:28 PM |
Oh, also...
My dad's beef jerky (he mails me some these days), his chicken and
dumplings with the floating bisquick kind of dumplings that were so huge
you could take them out and eat them on a plate with pepper, and his corn
meal mush. Yum.
I also love hot boiled peanuts. I can't seem to find them here. My parents
are mailing me some canned kind. It's just not the same as the convenience
store ones from down the road from my parents' home or the ones from road
side produce stands. We used to eat them in the car and throw the shells
out the window. I loved it. ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 26/5/2007 at 09:24 PM |
One of my comfort foods really is a discomort food for me. It's a gigantic
bowl of tuna mac and cheese. I'll cook up a bunch of elbow noodles, stick
them in a large Pyrex bowl and put butter, Tillamook cheese (the only one I
can eat and not get sick immediately), and soy milk. I mix that all
together so it's nice and melty (if the heat from the noodles doesn't melt
it all I pop it in the microwave or back in the pan on the stove. Then I
mix in a drained can of tuna. Wala! I sit with it in my lap and watch TV
shows I like and hold onto the bowl like it is my last meal. Mine. It's a
good thing nobody else really likes it.
My other one is the Campbells Tomato soup. My mom used to make that for me
and my sister a lot. I tried making it with water instead of milk (soy milk
these days) and it was awful. The milk is much better. The water version
tasted burnt. I eat it with bread. I dunk pieces of bread in the soup and
eat them or I let them float around a bit and soak up lots of soup then eat
them. Nummy. ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I
don't
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 23/5/2007 at 05:20 PM |
A bowl of cheerios with lime yogurt on the side. It has to be that really
obnoxios bright green color, too, or it doesn't count. I used to eat it for
dinner all the time when I was a kid and one parent was going out the door
to work while another was coming in. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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Rogue
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posted on 7/5/2007 at 12:40 AM |
OMFG, toasted Brie and French Bread is one of my serious comfort or
decadence foods. Also, a filet mignon with mushroom sauce that is the meat
equivalent of a hot fudge sundae, and cream of mushroom soup eaten straight
from the can that reminds me of the woods as a child when things were
simple and Jimmy was alive. (not that these two facts are related) 7-up
was the sick drink, the only thing I could keep down when I was young and
had bronchitis, and still my fave for hangovers or illness or whatever.
Besides that, yeah, there's this pizza place in Rindge that brings back
some memories and I'd order from them if it wasn't so much of a drive. ____________________ Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time. |
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Schizo
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 05:41 PM |
I have some newly developed comfort foods that make me think of people I
can't be with now but wish I could - there's two varieties of pizza that I
order just to wallow in loneliness... KFC popcorn chicken with ranch
dressing is another one... Sweet Tart jelly beans, fine dark chocolate, a
certain type of alcohol that comes in a dark green bottle (oh my aching
head), filet mignon with wild mushroom sauce... and a kind of chili that I
just can't get now...
Some other foods from further back... my mom's fish chowder, that she used
to make from the fish that Gramps caught (my dad's step grandfather)... a
certain kind of cheap puff-pastry thing that my dad used to get to bring to
work in his lunches - I used to get in all kinds of trouble for stealing
them - I loved them, but they were severely off limits... my mom got a food
dryer, and experimented with various things - she made dried green beans -
they looked like green twist ties, and they were chewy, but surprisingly
good... I don't suppose you could get them anywhere. Maybe I should get
myself a dryer sometime and see if I can make them myself. Toasted Brie
scooped up with slices of French bread makes me think of my first roommate
- who has since moved to Colorado. We never could coordinate our crushes
on each other - I regret that... Buffalo wings and blue cheese dressing
makes me think of last summer with my race team - we would go to Applebees
after races, and they would always order that for an appetizer. Spllit pea
soup and biscuits makes me think of my Bible School days. That was the
traditional Thursday dinner there - don't ask me why - it's a long and
screwed up story.
And when I play Final Fantasy VII, I feel the urge to eat red Jolly
Ranchers. Just forever linked in my mind. ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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Stille
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 01:52 AM |
Turkish coffee makes me feel peaceful and safe. During the past (rather
hectic) winter, I started waking up at 5.30 to have a period of calm before
having to get ready for school. I'd make myself a cup of coffee, put on
some music and read some forums and blogs. I had about an hour before the
sun would rise and the rest of my family would wake up and it was the best
hour of the day. The peaceful dark surrounding me, the bitter, refreshing
taste of coffee, the music becoming clearer as the caffeine worked its
magic on my brain and, most of all, the solitude all worked together to
create a place in the day where I could be entirely relaxed and completely
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Domkitten
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posted on 4/5/2007 at 04:19 AM |
French toast covered in syrup makes me think of things both good and bad,
and things I will not go into detail here because they are too private.
Honey makes me think of a very specific person, and licking the sweet
sticky stuff off that person.
The hardest thing to eat in Korea though is biscuits. They always taste
like home. I don't know where home is anymore, so it is both comforting and
extremely unsettling all at the same time. ____________________ It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus |
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Meranda_Jade
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posted on 3/5/2007 at 12:44 PM |
A lot of my good memories are associated with my Grandma. She was the only
member of my family that I felt ever really cared for me. When I was sick
and had to stay home from school, she'd give me the standard soup and
7up... and when I was feeling better, she made pancakes for me. Pancakes
really aren't a comfort food for me, though. I think that I made too many
of them myself when I was a kid for it to really be a comforting thing.
Recently, when my stepdad passed away, I got a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon,
intending to follow his wishes that we drink one for him. I opened that
bottle and got a good whiff of the sweet, candy-like smell and was
instantly transported back in time to when I was 12 years old and mixed
that drink every night. I looked at Rogue and said, "This smells like
childhood. That is really sad." He said, "That your childhood smells like
bourbon?" I said, "Yeah." I could hardly drink the stuff.
It's not just that I was already thinking of it. The smell of whiskey or
bourbon always does that to me.
I was in my old hometown a while back and noticed that the Sunshine Cafe
where I worked when I was 15 had re-opened. I had to go in and get a
blackberry cobbler ala mode. I used to always get that there. I took my
sister there once, for a cobbler and comfort and planning strategy when we
found out she was pregnant.
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Starlight
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posted on 3/5/2007 at 12:26 PM |
The combination of barq's rootbeer and pizza tends to bring me back to a
time when I was about 15 and had some decent times at Mr. Gatti's pizza
with my parents. For some reason typing that made me remember a video of
Phil Collins and him singing "In the Air Tonight". So, I checked and that
was one of the videos being played on MTV when I was about that age. So,
kinda spooky in a way, I guess.
Vanilla soft-serve ice cream cones dipped in chocolate have, at times, made
me remember summertime as a kid and playing outside. ____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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