Janice Manilow » Food

It was embarrassing

Janice — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:26:04 +0000

Last night my sister and I went to a hafla party to celebrate the first day of spring! We got all dressed up in our newest, prettiest costumes, fussed over our makeup and hair and arrived fashionably ten minutes late. When we arrived, we discovered that no other guests had arrived yet. The party was scheduled to run from 8pm – 11pm, and we know that dozens of people were invited and said that they were coming! As it turns out, we were the ONLY guests to arrive at all – until 10:30! Although we enjoyed ourselves dancing and talking, and sharing choreographs we felt very badly for the hostess that no one else arrived! But I am glad for her sake that we came – it would have been terrible if NO ONE showed up at all!

I really like pizza

Janice — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:11:36 +0000

One of my favorite foods is pizza. I especially like the fresh-dough soft crust. I’ve recently heard that Domino’s has changed their pizza recipe, and I think I’d like to give it a try. My favorite has always been Pizza Hut when I go out – Domino’s was never willing to deliver all the way out to my house, and the few times I bothered to go there to pick it up I really didn’t care for it.

But I found that I can make some pretty good pizza at home, using frozen bread dough and pizza sauce from a jar! My favorite pizza is Hawaiin pizza – which has ham and pineapple on it. My second favorite is hamburger and mushroom. Both are easy to make at home. Come to think about it, I think I’ll be making some homemade pizza this weekend! I’ve made myself hungry writing about it!

I was mortified

Janice — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:42:18 +0000

I wanted to bake a cake earlier today, and I remembered that I had a couple of different cake mixes in the cupboard. So rather than dashing to the store to buy a mix I thought I just find the mixes I already had and bake one of them up. I was mortified to find that both the cake mix and can of frosting had expiration dates of August 2007! So I threw them away. Rummaging around I found more cake mix and frosting that hadn’t expired yet so I pulled them out onto the counter. Reading the directions, it calls for oil. Looking in the pantry I pulled out the jar of oil and see that it is almost empty. Not quite sure I’ll have enough, so I went out to the “auxillary pantry” to pull out a full one. That was was pretty far back on the shelf, so I decided to check the expiration date on that as well. Darn if it was expired too! Not by as much, but expired just the same.

I guess that means that it is past time for me to go through the cupboards and check the expiration dates on all of the goods and throw them out! Not a fun job, but one that needs to be done. I hate wasting food!

I love cookies

Janice — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:49:05 +0000

I love to give unique gift baskets to people for presents. I like to find out what their interests are and then try to come up with a gift basket full of goodies that are related to their interests. For example, if it is a woman who loves to experiment with colognes I might give her a gift basket full of different sweet scented body lotions and creams, and maybe some nice scented soaps to go along with it.

For a health nut, it might be a basket of fruit. For people who enjoy chocolates, it would be a basket full of a wide variety of chocolates. As for me, I love cookies to snack on. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t eat a lot of cookies every day, but I do have a sweet tooth, and chocolate gives me heartburn! So when I think of a sweet tooth I have to think outside of the candy box of chocolates! That’s why I think this gift basket of a variety of cookies would be a perfect gift basket for someone with a sweet tooth like me! The Scottish shortbread and the danish butter cookies are cookies I know I already love! And I see some other cookies that sound interesting to try. Cookie Monster would go crazy over this basket, don’t you think?

Son is cooking supper tonight!

Janice — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:08:22 +0000

As I’m typing this post, my oldest son is cooking tacos for supper! It is always a treat to have someone else do the cooking! And I LOVE tacos! I don’t think we have enough taco shells, though, so I’ll probably have my taco fixings on some nacho chips, or maybe on top of some mashed potatoes. My hubby cooked up some potatoes this morning, and I think they are already mashed and ready to reheat! I’m probably going to have heartburn later tonight, but I’m going to enjoy every bite of supper!

Tea party

Janice — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:32:01 +0000

My Red Hat group wants to go to the local Tea House to have a little tea party. I enjoy dressing up and going there with them! I don’t get much opportunity to do that! I think that when I go I’ll order some white tea to try. I’ve never tasted that before, and I like experimenting with different teas when I get the chance!

Good barbeque

Janice — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:42:21 +0000

Today my hubby suggested that we eat out for supper tonight. But he didn’t want pizza, or chinese, or any of the standard burger joints fast food restaurants. He’s pretty fussy about where we eat, and I didn’t want to spend a fortune on one of the more expensive family restaurants that we like to go to, like Applebee’s or Ruby Tuesday or Outback. So I suggested a little hole-in-the-wall barbeque restaurant that the locals say is the best barbeque in town.

It’s actually part of a truck stop, so the first time we went there I had some reservations about it being a traditional “greasy spoon.” But the barbeque IS the best I’ve found in the area. So I suggested to my hubby that we go there for dinner tonight and he was agreeable to going. I ordered the pork platter, thinking it would be a sandwich but it was a HUGE mound of barbeque pork. I ended up bringing half of it home! That will make a delicious sandwich for tomorrow’s lunch!

What to do with a two hour layover!

Janice — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:56:20 +0000

This morning I’m just killing time, waiting for when I have to leave for work. I don’t have to leave the house for a couple of hours yet. Trying to figure out what I want to do with the two hour layover this morning. The driver is bringing her kids along – all four of them, so she plans to go to McDonald’s to let them blow off steam in their playground area. Since I don’t have access to my car during the layover, I have to go along with where she decides to go! Two hours is a long time when you are just killing time at McDonald’s! I expect I’ll buy a chicken sandwich, but eating doesn’t take an entire two hours! The kids will be making too much noise for me to read! Maybe I’ll bring some yarn and a crochet hook and work on a granny square or two. I’m trying to crochet an afghan for my youngest son’s bed. I think that will work; that’s a fairly portable project!

What’s up with the silent treatment?

Janice — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:43:42 +0000

This morning I woke up early. Well, not early if I had to do a bus run, but early for a day off! And today was a day off! I had determined that I was going to go grocery shopping this morning to avoid the weekend crowds, so I went ahead and got up, had my tea and breakfast, checked my emails, and then woke my hubby to get him rustled up to go with me. He likes to go grocery shopping with me so he can pick out the junk food he likes that I won’t buy if I shop alone!

Anyway, we provide our own reusable shopping bags. When we were ready to go to through the checkout counter, I recognized the cashier from many previous trips to the store. The last time I went there and had our reusable bags I put all of them on the counter first; in front of the groceries and she had a major conniption fit, telling me that I had to hand the bags to her one at a time, and to wait until she asked for them! Well of course that slows down the checkout process a lot but in the interest of keeping the peace that is what I did.

So today when we got up to the cash register’s conveyor belt I asked the cashier if she wanted us to hand the bags to her one at a time, or all at once. All she did was stare at us and shake her head “no.” that was not a “yes or no” question, so I asked her again. Again she just shook her head no. And again! So I finally said “well, I can’t figure out which one it is you want us to do by you not answering me, so I’ll just put all of the bags in the front and if that’s not want you want please tell me.”

Later on during the checkout process she asked me a few questions, so I know she didn’t have laryngitis! So I don’t have a clue what was up with the silent treatment at first!

Ebb and flow

Janice — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:15:48 +0000

One of the more frustrating things that I run into as a shopper is needing to buy something on my grocery list and finding out that the grocery store is out of stock. And not just out of stock for a day, or a week, but for several weeks. And even though in theory one should be able to find out from one of the managers if the store is ever going to carry it again, they all tell you that they have no idea until the item actually arrives. And sometimes that item isn’t sold in the other area stores, so you are totally out of luck! I have a family of picky eaters, and it is frustrating when you can’t get the one and only brand of peanut butter or spaghetti sauce that they eat!