You Can Never Eat Just One

[livius drusus]

Say you're at a party and someone puts a platter or bowl or trough of goodies in front of you. What is the one thing (or several things) that nomatter how rude and greedy you know you are, how loudly your stomach groans, how badly your new shirt gets stained, you just can't stop eating?

For me, it's really good, garlicky hummus with pita/bagel chips and the sweet, sweet deviled egg. I seriously don't think there's a limit to the number of deviled eggs I can eat. Certainly no limit I've ever drawn near.

Since I've already posted my fave hummus recipe (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=12311&postcount=27), I'll make a note of the way I make deviled eggs here, although I should warn that I never measure the quantities and have no idea exactly how I make them. I just mix shit in until it looks, feels and tastes right.

First, I boil the eggs a la Jaques Pepin: no longer than 8 minutes, then quick dunked into ice water. That ensures a smooth, creamy yolk which in turn ensures that I don't have to ladle mayonnaise (which I hate) into the mixture by the metric ton.

Next, I cut the eggs in half and coax the yolks into a mixing bowl. Into that bowl I add a whisper of mayo, a bunch of original (not country) dijon, salt, pepper, garlic powder (yes, the powder, cause I don't want the overwhelming flavor of fresh; someday I'll try it with roasted garlic but I haven't gotten around to it yet), worcestershire sauce, a dash of white wine vinegar and really, really, crazily finely minced shallots.

I taste it, adjust spices and stuff the goodness back into the half eggs which I then cover with a sprinkling of them shallots and a nice, even dusting of paprika.

Man oh man I want some right now. :homdrool:

[Dingfod]

Maybe not just one. But, since I am trying to watch my carb intake, both for weight loss and to stave off the diabetes that runs in my family, I restrict myself to 5 chips, potato or corn. However, I do know what it's like to eat an entire bag of Doritos and Bean Dip myself while mindlessly watching television.

[seebs]

Chex mix.

I also have a weakness for baby carrots. But chex mix is the thing for me. Although, frankly, if I make my own, the only thing I put in it is the cereal. The pretzels and bagel slices are just a distraction from the good part.

Ugh. And now I have to go make some, even if that means running to the store to buy chex.

[beyelzu]

Say you're at a party and someone puts a platter or bowl or trough of goodies in front of you. What is the one thing (or several things) that nomatter how rude and greedy you know you are, how loudly your stomach groans, how badly your new shirt gets stained, you just can't stop eating?

For me, it's really good, garlicky hummus with pita/bagel chips and the sweet, sweet deviled egg. I seriously don't think there's a limit to the number of deviled eggs I can eat. Certainly no limit I've ever drawn near.

Since I've already posted my fave hummus recipe (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=12311&postcount=27), I'll make a note of the way I make deviled eggs here, although I should warn that I never measure the quantities and have no idea exactly how I make them. I just mix shit in until it looks, feels and tastes right.

First, I boil the eggs a la Jaques Pepin: no longer than 8 minutes, then quick dunked into ice water. That ensures a smooth, creamy yolk which in turn ensures that I don't have to ladle mayonnaise (which I hate) into the mixture by the metric ton.

Next, I cut the eggs in half and coax the yolks into a mixing bowl. Into that bowl I add a whisper of mayo, a bunch of original (not country) dijon, salt, pepper, garlic powder (yes, the powder, cause I don't want the overwhelming flavor of fresh; someday I'll try it with roasted garlic but I haven't gotten around to it yet), worcestershire sauce, a dash of white wine vinegar and really, really, crazily finely minced shallots.

I taste it, adjust spices and stuff the goodness back into the half eggs which I then cover with a sprinkling of them shallots and a nice, even dusting of paprika.

Man oh man I want some right now. :homdrool:



damn you my mouth is watering



II destroy plates of deviled eggs at any family gathering I attend. Only a general acknowledgment that devilled eggs are limited in numbers keeps me from eating them all.

[Lauri D]

Cheese. Little bits of cheese with toothpicks in them.

[livius drusus]

However, I do know what it's like to eat an entire bag of Doritos and Bean Dip myself while mindlessly watching television.

Yeah, but mindless hand to bag-hand to dip-hand to mouth movements aren't really the same thing as unctrollable lust for a certain foodstuff, is it? I mean, when you're eating it, do you feel like it's so fucking good you can't help but keep going or is it more of a habit thing?

Although, frankly, if I make my own, the only thing I put in it is the cereal. The pretzels and bagel slices are just a distraction from the good part.

I agree wholeheartedly, particularly about the pretzels. So what do you add to the cereal to make it Chex mix instead of just Chex in a bag? Some kind of spice combination, I presume. Any details?

Only a general acknowledgment that devilled eggs are limited in numbers keeps me from eating them all.

/me nods soberly
Yes. I know that feeling well. I usually just have to go somewhere where the eggs are not.

Cheese. Little bits of cheese with toothpicks in them.

Huh. Those bug me because they sweat and that grosses me out. I saw some pretty (but entirely unappealing) bright pink and yellow cheese cubes a la toothpick at a wedding last weekend. What kind of cheese is mottled with fuxia, I ask you? :shrug:

[Dingfod]

Yeah, but mindless hand to bag-hand to dip-hand to mouth movements aren't really the same thing as unctrollable lust for a certain foodstuff, is it? I mean, when you're eating it, do you feel like it's so fucking good you can't help but keep going or is it more of a habit thing?Don't even put a bag of those Brach's Maple Nut Goodies in front of me, they're gone so fast you cannot even believe they were there to begin with.

[livius drusus]

Daaamn (http://www.brachs.com/products/product.asp?base_code=021). I can see why, warren.

[Dingfod]

Oh, yeah. I can't even buy a bag of them at all because I cannot resist.

[Lauri D]

Cheese. Little bits of cheese with toothpicks in them.

Huh. Those bug me because they sweat and that grosses me out. I saw some pretty (but entirely unappealing) bright pink and yellow cheese cubes a la toothpick at a wedding last weekend. What kind of cheese is mottled with fuxia, I ask you? :shrug: Ha! It never lasts long enough to start sweating around me (though I agree about the grossness of that).

I have never seen the cheese you are talking about, but now I have to find it and try it. :yup: :mousecheese:

[LadyXoc]

Homemade tortillas. I want to wrap myself in a giant one.

[Shake]

I have a weakness for Pringles ... have been known to go through an entire can in one sitting.

Oreos, once opened in my house, don't last very long, either.

Oh yeah, peanuts too.

[Socratoad]

There is some mysterious chemical transformation that takes place in the common boiled egg between its basic state and its becoming a devilled egg. I could not possibly eat more than four boiled eggs or indeed eggs in any form, even at gunpoint, but the mere devilling of eggs renders it possible for me to consume them by the dozen. :yup:

Any chemists here?

[Dingfod]

^The devil made him eat it. :spinning:

[Socratoad]

^The devil made him eat it. :spinning:


Thanks warren, I needed a good laugh :roflmao:

I suspect we all do :roflmao: :roflmao:

[viscousmemories]

The deviled egg phenomenon is definitely mystifying. I thought I was the only one who could polish off a full tray of those babies without pausing to take a breath. I see that I'm not.

I'm compulsive about a lot of things, though. We got like two 5 lb bags of various mini-chocolate candy bars (milky way, snickers, twix, etc.) for Halloween and had almost no trick-or-treaters. Nevertheless the candy is almost all gone. :piggy:

[Socratoad]

vm, psst, I'm gonna let you in on a small secret. Promise not to tell anyone ....... when ya go to sleep, hordes of tiny leprechauns creep into the room and polish off all remaining goodies. Not even because they like em all that much, but simply because they get a unholy kick out of leaving people such as you and me with guilty consciences.

What other explanation could there possibly be :chin:

[seebs]

Although, frankly, if I make my own, the only thing I put in it is the cereal. The pretzels and bagel slices are just a distraction from the good part.

I agree wholeheartedly, particularly about the pretzels. So what do you add to the cereal to make it Chex mix instead of just Chex in a bag? Some kind of spice combination, I presume. Any details?

Okay, this is approximate.

1. A bit over a stick of butter.
2. A little too much Worstercershire sauce. I generally go with about 1 fl oz.
3. A bunch of onion and garlic powder.
4. Some cajun spice. (Tony wossname's.)
5. Some celery salt. If you can get ground celery seed, that's better, but you will need a little extra salt.

Melt that all together.

Once it's nicely melty, add a bunch of teriyaki glaze. Kikkoman. NOT the thin stuff; the thick stuff.

This is all "to taste", but the idea is to end up with roughly a half-pint or so of thick, brown, pure spice. Then you stir it into about the right amount of chex, and bake it. I use the microwave, but that's annoying and requires a lot of practice to get right.

Mmm.

[LadyShea]

Spinach Dip, but not with chips or crackers. You gotta buy a big bread round, cut the top off, scoop out the middle, tear it into chunks, put the dip in the bread bowl, and eat the dip with the bread chunks. This also looks kick ass on a table.

Not a party food, but I cannot stop eating frozen Girl Scouts Thin Mints.

[wildernesse]

Drat you, livius. I'm not even wild about deviled eggs, but I want a couple right now. Or I could make egg salad--which I love also. I love eggs.

Um, anyway. Things on a buffet that I can't stop myself from eating--mints. Either regular little pastel dinner mints from a box, or the homemade ones made with cream cheese (I think) and pressed into little molds--the kind you see around here at bridal showers or baby showers or luncheons. I can eat those until I am sick. Mmmm. I substitute for them in regular life by eating York Peppermint patties. Seriously, I've recently had to stop buying the bags of little Yorks because of the inability to stop consuming them.

I can binge eat on other things--like Pringles--but I've never ended up eating so much of anything else that I felt horrible, and still thought. . .just one more. Mmmm, mints.

[Lauri D]

Spinach Dip, but not with chips or crackers. You gotta buy a big bread round, cut the top off, scoop out the middle, tear it into chunks, put the dip in the bread bowl, and eat the dip with the bread chunks. This also looks kick ass on a table. Oh god yes. I totally humiliated myself at a Christmas party by hogging almost a whole one of these. I practically had to be rolled out of the place on a stretcher, I was soooo full.

[Socratoad]

Spinach Dip, but not with chips or crackers. You gotta buy a big bread round, cut the top off, scoop out the middle, tear it into chunks, put the dip in the bread bowl, and eat the dip with the bread chunks. This also looks kick ass on a table.

Not a party food, but I cannot stop eating frozen Girl Scouts Thin Mints.

Oh, I've got a treat for you. See if you are able to buy Delba Sunflower Bread. They are a german import. Slather spinach spread on these little slices of heaven ..... its a treat only second to you know what.

It comes in a small rectangular package. Eight slices to the pack

[viscousmemories]

vm, psst, I'm gonna let you in on a small secret. Promise not to tell anyone ....... when ya go to sleep, hordes of tiny leprechauns creep into the room and polish off all remaining goodies. Not even because they like em all that much, but simply because they get a unholy kick out of leaving people such as you and me with guilty consciences.

What other explanation could there possibly be :chin:
Thanks for that, Mr. Toad. I have a feeling those leprechauns are going to be busy tonight! :P

[viscousmemories]

Spinach Dip, but not with chips or crackers. You gotta buy a big bread round, cut the top off, scoop out the middle, tear it into chunks, put the dip in the bread bowl, and eat the dip with the bread chunks. This also looks kick ass on a table. Oh god yes. I totally humiliated myself at a Christmas party by hogging almost a whole one of these. I practically had to be rolled out of the place on a stretcher, I was soooo full.
I'm with you guys on that one. :homdrool:

[Adora]

Inari sushi. Even though they fill me up, I'm always like "Nooo, must eat more!". Damn Japanese and their delicious sweet ricey foodstuffs.

Cabanaosi. I love this stuff. Basically, it's all the shitty leftover bits of the pig/cow/horse in plastic, but my god, it's delicious.

Bread. Just bread. If you put a bowl of bread in the middle of the table, such as fresh buns or a chopped up French stick, or herb foccacia slices, or a loaf of cheese-and-herb-and-seeds, members of my family will basically fight over it like dogs. I'm a carbohydrate addict, and anyone who doesn't like it can go shove it up your arse. Fucking Atkins is ruining the baking industry...

Strawberries. I can buy a 10 dollar punnet of these things at university on Market day, and sit there eating them for an hour. The punnet is prett big as well, about 15cm x 15cm. Heh. Oink.

Sweet Chilli Philly and those really wafery church-biscuit things. OMG so addicted.

[Socratoad]

Macadamia nuts anyone :D

Or is that just Queen Liz and me :chin:

[Ex-zombie]

Speaking of nuts, my downfall is cashews. I'll keep munching until they're gone. I suppose it is possible one of my ancestors was a squirrel. :D

[Socratoad]

Speaking of nuts, my downfall is cashews. I'll keep munching until they're gone. I suppose it is possible one of my ancestors was a squirrel. :D

Oh yes, they have often been known to force their way into my mouth, no matter how hard I try to resist. :yup:

[Corona688]

Crackers and bread products of all varieties. I'm sometimes called 'starch boy'.

[LianaLi]

Seaweed. You know the funny green stuff they wrap around sushi? Well, they make that in snack form too, and I will consume that stuff by the canister. I have to remind myself that it is a horribly expensive import, and sit on my hands in order to stop eating it.

[xorbie]

All beef pigs in a blanket. They're not even that good either. I just don't stop eating.

Also guacamole, with anything. Or chips and salsa.

[Dingfod]

Not so much now, but when I was a teenager, it was pizza. If not stopped by someone or the lack of more pizza I could eat a lot. One time, in a friendly neighborhood effort to bankrupt Pizza Hut via their all you can eat pizza lunch buffet we had a pizza eating contest, I ate 18 slices, or a couple slices more than two large pizzas. I didn't win though, my best friend Donny was the winner, at 26 slices and another friend Mike ate 24.

[livius drusus]

I eschew Ex-zombie's cashews and macadamias are only good in coffee blends and white chocolate chip cookies, but there is one nut which drives me to uncontrollable gluttony, and that, ladies and gentelmen, is the kingly pistacchio. If they've been shelled, it's pretty much over the minute it begins.

:taz:

[Socratoad]

I eschew Ex-zombie's cashews and macadamias are only good in coffee blends and white chocolate chip cookies, but there is one nut which drives me to uncontrollable gluttony, and that, ladies and gentelmen, is the kingly pistachio. If they've been shelled, it's pretty much over the minute it begins.

:taz:

Oh how could I have forgotten the kingly pistachio :chin: . I have learned never to buy them shelled or else I just might munch myself to death.

[Dingfod]

Hmmm, pistachios already shelled, perfect for the lazy, me.

[Socratoad]

Hmmm, pistachios already shelled, perfect for the lazy, me.

You're not lazy, you're self-indulgent :giggle:

[Dingfod]

So, that's why I am fat! No, I am lazy. Laziness plus self-indulgence is why I am the ponderous blob that I am.

[Godless Dave]

devilled eggs

pickles rolled in cream cheese with ham wrapped around them

jalapeno poppers

cream cheese wontons

cream cheese wontons with shrimp/seafood

shrimp cocktail

[livius drusus]

pickles rolled in cream cheese with ham wrapped around them


Um... For real? Are these dill pickles we're talking about? What kind of ham?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Cheese, Cheese burgers, potato and cheese soup, scalloped potatos, chocolate, gummy worms, Nerds etc. etc. Damn! I want some right now! :chomp:

[livius drusus]

Oh dear God not potato and cheese soup! :runaway:

[maddog]

pickles rolled in cream cheese with ham wrapped around them


The version I know is regular old sandwich ham slices, spread with cream cheese, rolled around a green onion, and sliced into little rounds, like a jellyroll or cinnamon bun.
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[freemonkey]

I went to a party this weekend where all they had was can't-eat-just-one foods.... among those that I ate several of were cocktail shrimp, cashews & almonds, smoked salmon, hummus and Oh-My-God-I've-died-and-gone-to-food-heaven warm brie with a flaky pastry crust.

Oh yeah, and little almond biscotti, which I am going to have to learn how to make.

[Skep]

7 (or 8 or 9...) layer dip. I cannot stay away from the stuff. I've been known to growl at others who go near it. :whup:

[Skep]

Oh, and bruschetta, if it's made right.

[livius drusus]

I make a mean bruschetta. What's your definition of made right?

[Godless Dave]

pickles rolled in cream cheese with ham wrapped around them


Um... For real? Are these dill pickles we're talking about? What kind of ham?

Any kind of pickles. Small ones are better.

Take a slice of smoked/cured/cooked ham. Spread cream cheese on it. Wrap it around a pickle. Cut the pickle into bite sized chunks. Repeat with more ham, cream cheese, and pickles.

[Dingfod]

One more of the things I cannot stop if I even start: squirt cheese (the canned kind or the squeezable tube kind, doesn't matter the flavor) on Ritz crackers. Because, everyone knows everything's good when it sits on a Ritz.

[beyelzu]

One more of the things I cannot stop if I even start: squirt cheese (the canned kind or the squeezable tube kind, doesn't matter the flavor) on Ritz crackers. Because, everyone knows everything's good when it sits on a Ritz.
everything is shitz when its on a ritz and not in a good way.


I dont dig the crackerage.


but I love canned cheese straight out of the can into my mouth.

[Dingfod]

Yah, but you can double your empty calorie intake by consuming the Ritzes too.

[Skep]

I make a mean bruschetta. What's your definition of made right?
Quality Italian bread cut 3/4 to 1 inch thick, toasted (preferably on a BBQ grill) so it's crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Rubbed with fresh garlic and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil (preferably Tuscan). Mmmm.....

[livius drusus]

Ahh, the classic. I thought you might be one of those summer bruschetta lovers, with the chopped tomatoes, garlic and fresh basil mixture on top of the bread. I'm like you: it's all about the classic grilled bread with light rubbing of garlic and drizzled with extra virgin the color of a primeval forest.

Yes, I could definitely eat bruschetta forever.

[Godless Dave]

What, no cheese?

Maybe it's not technically bruschetta after you melt cheese on it, but very few food products cannot be improved by melting cheese on top.

[Skep]

Nope, no toppings on my bruschetta. If I want toppings on bread, I make pizza.

[Lauri D]

What, no cheese?

Maybe it's not technically bruschetta after you melt cheese on it, but very few food products cannot be improved by melting cheese on top.
:yeahthat: Preach it, my brotha.

[livius drusus]

Nope, no toppings on my bruschetta. If I want toppings on bread, I make pizza.
Besides, if you top it you change the bread texture. The miracle of classic bruschetta is that perfect millimeter thick crust that forms from the grilling even as the inside remains soft. Any kind of dressing will fuck with that delicate balance.