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Old 02-15-2014, 10:11 PM



That's right, shy chocoholics need to come chat here. Well, ok, if you're not addicted to chocolate, that is also ok. I've been so busy lately, I didn't even realize the event had started. Lots of bad weather here. Plus my grandmother's birthday was the day before Valentine's day and I zested my thumb while making her cake. Ouch. Anyway, Cookie is snowed in right now, so come and chit chat and eat chocolate.

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Old 02-15-2014, 10:13 PM

COOKIE, YOU MADE IT!

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Old 02-15-2014, 10:13 PM



oi that took forever to come up
mmmm, but worth it!

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Old 02-15-2014, 10:13 PM

What did? The thread?

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Old 02-15-2014, 10:24 PM

Sorry guys! Work and grievous injury has kept me away. Seriously, you should see this awful pair of zesty channels I carved out of my thumb T_T I bled a lot. But at least I was able to make my Grandmother a nice birthday cake.

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Old 02-15-2014, 10:25 PM

AHHH! Poor Cookie!

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:06 PM

It happens. Now I know not to trust withered lemons. Next time, I'll brave the snow to get some fresh ones so I don't end up zesting myself.

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:11 PM

I was thinking about lemons earlier. Aren't, like… aren't they a citrus fruit?

Googled it. They are.

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:19 PM

Yes. They're a citrus. I was making a lemon curd with them. The problem was, my grandparents had bought a pretty crappy batch of lemons that were rather dried out. So when I tried to zest them on the microplane, I ended up zesting myself x_x

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:21 PM

The last time I heard of anyone in my family eating something with lemons, it was lemon cake at Thanksgiving. Apparently, it was holy.

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:47 PM

I wouldn't say that I use lemons in cooking allll the time, but we tend to have some around. My grandmother likes it on her fish. Personally, I rather hate people's tendency to add lemon every damn thing to "brighten" it up. I find that adding lemon, even in the smallest amounts, just makes it taste like lemon! No! I don't want lemon in my blueberry muffins or scones. I want them to taste like freaking blueberry, not lemon! No! I don't want lemon on my fish or chicken or whatever else people like to add lemon to.

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Old 02-15-2014, 11:51 PM

Lemons to brighten things up? You can't do that with sour stuff!

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:07 AM

When you watch cooking shows, they always say they're adding lemons to "bright up the flavors" and stuff like that. But as far as I'm concerned, all you're doing it making it taste like lemon. I suppose lemon is considered a bright flavor, sort of a summer flavor like lemonade, but meh. Do not want.

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:09 AM

That's weird, and I don't like it either.

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:20 AM

I guess I'm not enough of a food snob to properly appreciate having my food "brightened" with a dousing of lemon juice. No thanks, I'll keep my drab non-lemony food if it's all the same.

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:22 AM

It's going to be eaten in the end, so why worry about brightening it up if it already looks edible?

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:33 AM

The brightening is a reference to the flavor. It brightens the flavor, not the color of the dish. Personally, I just think it confuses the flavor. Instead of fish, you have lemon fish. Bleh!

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:33 AM

I don't want a splash of lemon on everything I eat. *sticks tongue out*

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:50 AM

That reminds me, my grandmother also puts lemon on her spinach. I enjoy spinach, but only with butter and salt. Spinach is bitter enough sometimes without adding lemon!

Man, it's amazing how long I can rant about food pet peeves. Or pet peeves in general

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Old 02-16-2014, 12:51 AM

I'm super picky, so I can't talk much about food.

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Old 02-16-2014, 01:13 AM

I'm picky about some things. But even still, I like to try new things once in a while. Recently, my cousin and I went out for Korean food and mmmm. Found some really tasty things to eat. Found a youtube channel where the lady makes Korean food from scratch. I might try some of the recipes. Though disappointingly, don't like kimchi! I love cabbage, but I just can't do kimchi.

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Old 02-16-2014, 01:16 AM

Thoughts of kimchi. *smirk*
I don't like dark seasonings. They look gross.

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Old 02-16-2014, 01:44 AM

I'm ok with seasoning, as long as it's not certain kinds. I HATE fennel seeds. Bleh! Bleh! Very popular in sausages and some marinara sauces. No thanks. I don't like seaweed either, so sprinkles of seaweed on my Japanese food is a big no thanks for me. Same for fish flakes. Ew.

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Old 02-16-2014, 01:49 AM

FISH FLAKES? Why would you murder food like that?

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Old 02-16-2014, 02:18 AM

A lot of Asian cuisines love their fish flakes, like bonito in Japanese cooking. They sprinkle it on top of yakisoba and okonomiyaki. I took my mom our for yakisoba once and they covered it with bonito flakes and they're just waving around in the steam of hte dish like they were alive. She almost didn't eat it. But we scraped them off and all was well.

Or dried fish for snacks, like cuddle fish and squids. It's just not for me. I can't do really fishy tasting food. Fishiness makes my body go "NOPE!" and I spit it out. Can't handle it.

 



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