Re: SOS (WAS: Re: Product Recall: for any of you in the US who eat canned tuna)

On 2/21/2025 6:53 AM, songbird wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:

On 2/20/2025 1:38 PM, songbird wrote:

...grits, polenta, cream of wheat...

    yep, if cooked well they're similar texture.  i can
eat about anything like that as long as it is cooked
well.  add butter and brown sugar and it is even better.
also cocoa versions are good with some peanut butter.

...

Brown sugar and/or cocoa or peanut butter in grits or polenta?  You must
have a major sweet tooth.

    true.  :)  i have dialed it back quite a bit in
recent years but some things i'll still eat at times.
Mom's constantly baking and there are always cookies,
cakes, etc around to tempt me.
    right now there is a small chocolate cake with
chocolate frosting in the fridge, two kinds of
cookies (chocolate chip walnut and molasses with
raspberry jam), i think we also have a peanut butter
pie and several dozen cookies of various kinds in
the freezer and then about 6k of chocolate bars that
are much better than the commercial stuff on standby
for eating or cooking with, plus close to 6lbs of
semi-sweet chocolate chips and then plenty of sugar
and brown sugar on hand, sweetened condensed milk,
a gallon of molasses, etc...

(snippage)
That's a lot of sweet stuff, dude!  I have a half a gallon of salted caramel ice cream in the freezer.  A woman in the building where I work gave everyone a post-Valentines Day heart shaped box filled with Hershey's Kisses.  Those are the only sweets I have in the house.  I don't count the white sugar I use to make "nectar" for the hummingbird feeder.  I rarely cook anything that requires sugar.  I was given a bottle of pure Canadian maple syrup last year but since I'm not a big fan of pancakes or waffles I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. The bottle is pretty, though; shaped like a maple leaf.  I do have an old family recipe for Spice Cake which calls for maple frosting.  It's not likely I'll be baking and frosting a cake anytime soon but it's an option. :)
Jill