Ahhhhhh, ramen noodles and hot dogs for supper!

I needed a nice comfort food this foggy NYC night.

I know what you're all thinking, "Isn't that awfully low class of you, Rabrrrrrr, to eat Ramen noodles and hot dogs? Especially after all your railing against http://www.thomaskinkade.com and http://www.preciousmoments.com and http://www.homeinteriors.com and republican 'aesthetics' and the travesty of Top 40 music and N'Stink and Celine and other egregiuos errors of pre-processed foods, tasteless cooking, and otherwise artless existence so typical of America today? Could there be anything more unRabrrrrrrr-like than a meal like this?" - and you're right, yes it is.

But I like it!

I do that when I just eat a big bowl of popcorn for dinner. :D

What is that jpg that's failing to come up on your post?

Only my GOP-EVL license plate. Is it not working for you? It shows for me. :shrug:

but it just came up.

Short Bus President hosts it for me - perhaps he was having "issues".

My first year of grad school, I lived in the grad dorm and had a little fridge, no microwave (weren't allowed in the rooms, although there was a full-service kitchen which I never found) and no meal plan. If I wanted a _hot_ meal, I'd make popcorn.

It was there just two minutes ago, too.

yeah, fun to relive the student days. For me, the poor days were in seminary. College went pretty well, moneywise. But in seminary, I remember trying to budget for like $2 of food each day (and this is in manhattan!), and eating out was a total treat, and eating out and ORDERING A SODA was a REAL treat - really throwing money to the wind! And, very very very rarely, going to eat and ordering a cocktail. But I'd only do that if I was feeling flush, or maybe at the end of a semester. :-)

You know, I have taken to ordering water when I go out to eat. No sense in paying $1.50 for darned drink that cost the restaurant 2 cents or something...

:D

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I don't waste my time with ordering soda, either. To think of the money I've wasted over the years buying sodas, and rotting my teeth with them... oh, I'd like to have all that money back. If I order anything other than water, it will be a cocktail, or tea if it's an oriental restaurant.

hmmm baby. Life dont get much betta den dat.

Somedays I'm just in the mood for a big bowl of garlic mashed potatoes with gravy.

I love garlic mashed potatoes. When you're in that mood, do you go for that semi-good canned gravy? I do: instant potatoes and canned gravy.

Every now and then, it's fun to eat the canned/boxed stuff, and relive my youth.

was a Cordon Bleu-trained Master Chef. My father is a restauranteur. I didn't grow up with canned/boxed/packaged/processed food products, so honestly, I never crave them.

When I want gravy, I make it from scratch. But I've almost always got a bit of demi-glace and some homemade stock in the freezer. So, it's quite doable.

We grew up with lots of canned and boxed stuff, sadly. Not whole meals - thank God - but mom made judiciuous use of cream of mushroom soup, boxed pasta, Velveeta, canned vegetables, etc.

(though she did can her own tomatoes, made her own jelly and jam, did a lot of frozen vegetables that we grew, etc., and made bitchin' breads and PIE CRUSTS OH MY GOD her's were the best, and I miss them, especially her home-made rhubarb pie, which I will never taste again). Mom wasn't Cordon-bleu trained, she was trained on a wood-burning stove. They had a handpump outside to get water, an outhouse, no electricity, and used real bona fide irons, warmed up on the stove, to iron their clothes.

one of these days I'm going to make me a batch of demi-glace, so I can have it handy and ready to go for sauce making. Just gotta get me a lot of smallish tupperware containers that work in the freezer.

Your usually going on about the latest delicious cuisine you've conjured up and now this? I can't believe it! I'll never think of you the same way again. Not that I'm above ramen noodles and I've eaten my share of hot dogs, but I expected so much more out of you.

though technically, ramen noodles didn't enter my life until I was in college. But we had plenty hotdogs growing up!

I bet I haven't cooked a hotdog in four years.

i've eaten a few at picnics, and had one at the zoo Tuesday, but haven't cooked any in a long time.

MMmmm. Crunchy preferred.

Also sometimes will float an egg on top, and let it poach, and sometimes spice it up with some japanese veggies, etc.

But tonight, it's just pure, unadulterated, over-sodiumed plain old "roast beef flavored" top ramen, and the cheapest hot dogs I could find.

here's what's disgusting: 8 hot dogs were 99 cents. 8 hot dog buns were $1.49. What the hell is up with that?

Manacoti and Cabernet. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

in all of your Kinkade bashing endeavors.

God bless.

and is offered as a serious and legitimate auction item, I'll kill myself.

swallowing the barrel of a .45 while facing away from the artwork during a bid.

Red Kindade, painting with blood.

And next on the block is "Red Kinkade", an original, painted just moments ago, the last painting by the late Rabrrrrrr.... do I hear an opening bid of $500,000?

She made up a batch of her famous sauce for me to eat while alone up here in the wilds. It was great. Then I realized I screwed up. I bought a steak to cook out tomorrow night. It's 70-degrees tonight. It will be in the 30s with a 50 mph wind in the NC mountains tomorrow night. Should have grilled the steak tonight and the hot spaghetti tomorrow night. Oh well!

:evilgrin:

i also once ate spaghetti with deer meat sauce for what seemed like 2 weeks straight. ahh, to be poor ..

I'll cook the steak inside tomorrow night.