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September 29, 2009

Enough About Me: Questions for You

1) What is a really good fall recipe?

2) What is your favorite sports team?

3) What should I read next?

4) How do I get my kids to eat fish?

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  1. 1. A really good fall recipe is to cook on the grill. Seriously a lot of people in the central atlantic region close up the grill in the fall. Use it until it gets really cold. The smell and the food makes it feel like summer.

    2. I like the Eagles and the Saints.

    3. I am not sure of your taste in books but my favorite book of all time is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman.

    4. Tuna Steak, with a Vinergar brown sugar maridnade. Or Breaded fried flounder.

  2. 1) Carmel Corn (sooo bad, but so good!) – 1 stick butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup dark corn syrup, 1 tsp of baking soda.
    Preheat oven to 250. Pop 2 to 3 bags of microwave popcorn and put it into you largest bowl (or a big brown paper bag), while bringing the butter, sugar and corn syrup to a boil. Let boil 4 minutes, remove from heat & add baking soda. Slowly pour over popcorn and stir (or shake). Spread out in a big roasting pan and put in oven. Cook for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

    2) Red Sox (even if they are crapping it up in craptastic fashion)

    3) I’m reading My Sister’s Keeper and bawling my way through it.

    4) in stick form? Got nothing, that’s the only way my daughter will eat it.

  3. 1) What is a really good fall recipe?
    Braised beef (cheap roast in half wine and half beef broth) with roasted root veg (use red onions, garlic, rosemary, olive oil and a small amount of balsamic vinegar @ 450 for about 25 minutes, tossing every seven to 10 minutes.

    2) What is your favorite sports team?
    Indianapolis Colts, though I’m on long-term hiatus from sports right now – pending grown up family.

    3) What should I read next?
    I’m reading The Lies of Locke Lamora right now – quite fun.

    4) How do I get my kids to eat fish?
    I just convinced my husband to eat salmon at home – the kids are next on the list.

  4. 1) Pumpkin Pie. I absolutely adore it.

    2) Pittsburgh Steelers

    3) Read? what’s that?

    4) Fish sticks… that’s the only way I can get mine to eat fish. :)

  5. 1) homemade chili
    2) St Louis Cardinals
    3) I’ve heard, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is good!
    4) Costco — tortilla crusted tilapia.

  6. 1) Pumpkin Leek Soup–even my kids like it or anything in a crock pot. This is my favorite time of year because I love fall veggies!
    2) Seattle Seahawks and Washington Capitals…Do my sons’ teams count?
    3) The Wayward Bus or Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
    4) Agreed–fish sticks. My older two have always eaten fish but my youngest is tough sell. That or turn them onto it by going fishing.

  7. 1. my friend makes an awesome pumpkin cake/cream cheese icing roll-up. It’s a “secret family recipe” but i think it’s just pumpkin cake baked in a jelly roll pan and rolled up with fluffy cream cheese icing.

    2. don’t like sports. the only thing I can tolerate (barely) is my kindergartner’s soccer team.

    3. Candyfreak by Steve Almond. I can totally relate to this guy’s freak.

    4. Why do you want them to eat fish? It’s probably because I have the least picky eaters ever, but I might be the only mom around who doesn’t sweat what her kids are or aren’t eating. No vegetables at lunch? Well, they’ll eat broccoli for dinner. No fish? Whatevs, they’ll have flax seed muffins tomorrow morning. But then i wonder if they aren’t not picky because we put stuff in front of them, eat it without complaint, and don’t fight with them about food (other than the “you must eat your dinner before dessert thing). But then I think about everything I’ve been smug about as a parent (pottytraining, anyone?) and how it’s bitten me in the ass later. So, I wouldn’t owrry about it. Eat your fish. They’ll either want some or not. Give ‘em flax or eggs or other things with omega 3’s and pretend you don’t give them fish because you’re concerned about mercury poisoning.

  8. 1. Anything with pumpkin makes me think of fall. Muffins? Last night someone told me about pumpkin bread pudding and my head exploded. The grilling idea is also a good one. Warming up apple cider with a little cinnamon makes the house smell like fall. Snickerdoodles.

    2. One? Oy. Boston Red Sox, if you insist.

    3. Since you like food, anything by Ruth Reichl but I’m gonna guess you’ve read all of her books already.

    4. My doc recommended fish sticks when I was out of ideas for new finger food after my kids were on solids. They have always loved them. When he was <2, Oliver insisted I remove the breading. I tried giving him fish I cooked without breading and he wouldn't touch it. He's a freak.

    You might try calling it chicken. That's what we do with pork, or anything else we think the kids won't like. They are not yet on to our lying, cheating ways.

  9. 1. Really good fall recipe: do you flambe? It’s not really hard, you just need a long match or one of those fire-lighting thingies. Anyway, pan-roasted chicken with peach-bourbon glaze, right here: http://akitchenyear.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-4-pan-roasted-chicken-with-peach.html

    There’s also a picture of Anthony Bourdain naked holding a giant beef bone in that post. You’re welcome.

    2. What is your favorite sports team? Honestly, one of the best things about not living in D.C. anymore is the fact that I no longer have to endure the sight of a retard in a Redskins jersey having a public shouting match with a retard in a Cowboys jersey. That said, my favorite sports team is, currently, the Tigers.

    3. What to read next: I’m reading “South of Broad” by Pat Conroy. It’s wonderful.

    4. How do I get my kids to eat fish? I eat tuna noodle casserole, and that’s it, so I’m maybe not the person to help you there.

  10. 1. Roasted root veggies. Olive oil + sea salt = yum

    2. Red Sox, but I’d like to be a DC United fan if I can muster my attention.

    3. I’m currently enjoying Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

    4. In addition to fish sticks… If they can handle a little heat, I recommend blackening anything, maybe a firm white fish. We usually do this with salmon: sprinkle with seasoning, less than 10 minutes under the broiler on low. Paul Prudhomme’s Blackening mix is easy. Cut it with breadcumbs to reduce the heat. The spice hides any fishy-ness.

  11. 1) Soups say fall to me. Corn chowder. Potato.

    2) Sadly, my first love is the Kansas City Royals. I also love the Chiefs. But, both teams have been run into the ground by some of the worst front offices in professional sports. Fortunately, I also love the Kansas Jayhawks.

    3) I can never pick which of the unread books on my shelves to read next.

    4) As a non-fish eater (all seafood makes me sick), I can’t help you on this one. My natural reaction is to stick up for people who don’t want to eat fish.

  12. 1) Chili. With beer.

    2) Duh.

    3) I don’t know what you should read next, but I’m going to read “Trail of Crumbs” by Kim Sunee. Or the 4th Twilight book, if I happen upon that first.

    4) Start with fish sticks maybe?

  13. p.s., are you up for any Caps games this fall?

  14. 1. butternut squash soup. love it.
    2. kentucky wildcats
    3. have a great laugh – i hope they serve beer in hell tucker max
    4.serve grilled tuna marinated soy/sesame oil marinade cut it up and have them try it. they will love it. my daughter is picky eater #1 and loves it. and swordfish.

  15. 1) Chili or Chicken and Dumplings. I also have an awesome dip recipe. I lbs cooked pork sausage. Add it to a crock pot with 1 lb. diced velveeta, can of cream of mushroom soup, can of rotel. Heat, stir, and then stand in your kitchen and stuff your face.
    2) Steelers. The end.
    3. I am reading , “Magical Thinking” and “The Locust and the Bird” currently.
    4. I occasionally feed my girls fish sticks and when they whine, I act all hurt and tell them that I JUST fed them fish sticks last week and the LOVED them. Yes. I lie to them.

  16. 1) Succotash – I’m a sucker for okra and corn in any combination, though. There’s a decent recipe here: http://www.suntimes.com/recipes/vegetables/30337,csober24r.recipe.

    2) OU Sooners. But only by default. I’m not a big sports fan, but I do keep up with my college team out of respect.

    3) I just bought Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut – it looks really good. You know, if you like Vonnegut, that is.

    4) Batter it, fry it and put enough tartar sauce on it that it no longer has any nutrional value. Alternatively, put it in a McDonalds bag before you serve it, and call it “McFish Nuggets”

  17. 1) Go to allrecipes.com and look up Apple Dumpling Cake – just heavenly. Always gets comliments and recipe requests.

    2)I’m not into sports.

    3)Pick up a good magazine – a quick read.

    4)good luck with the fish and when you find something that works, post it. I have a hard time trying to convince my kids to eat something I myself don’t like.

  18. 1. Butternut Squash or toasted pumpkin seeds (after pumpkin carving of course).

    2. Patriots

    3. Ender’s Game – your kids will love it in a few years.

    4. Fried and with lots of ketchup – kids will eat anything drowned in ketchup, right?

  19. ) What is a really good fall recipe? anything in a crock pot, but esp. chili.

    2) What is your favorite sports team? None. I hate football. I am learning to love hockey, though (Go Caps!)

    3) What should I read next? I am succumbing to the will of the masses and reading Twilight, even though I am very much NOT in that demographic. I’m probably not the best person to answer this, since I have bad literary taste.

    4) How do I get my kids to eat fish? I started with, no joke, breading and pan frying flounder, the whitest of white fish. My kids now love almost all types of fish, but mostly salmon. I think my mother started my sisters and I on fish sticks (the horror! and she was from Boston so new better!) and fried clams (really, clam strips, at Howard Johnson’s) — everything tasted good if its been fried, right?

  20. and Jennifer? I am going to the OU-Texas A&M game! My first college football game ever, and a chance to visit OK and AR in one visit (leaving me with only 4 states left to see)!

  21. 1. Baked oatmeal. YUM.
    2. the Terps (basketball, of course)
    3. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (read it on vacation this year, so good!)
    4. Oscar eats fish, but not because of anything we did. I always assumed he’d hate it so I never even offered it to him. He just saw us eating it and of course wanted some and loved it. He won’t do fish sticks though.

  22. 1. Pumpkin zucchini bread
    2. SF Giants and the Syracuse Orange basketball team
    3. I just reread The Grapes of Wrath and it was incredible.
    4. Fish sticks w/ bbq sauce to dip them in.

  23. 1: Try this! http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1189/is_1_281/ai_n31187719/ The second chili recipe is my favorite (esp since it doesn’t have beans, which my kids don’t like.)

    2: Sports?

    3: Try this! Loved this book with all my heart. BEAUTIFULLY written, a real page turner, romantic and heartbreaking, with a ton of twists. http://www.amazon.com/Pieces-Sisters-Life-Elizabeth-Arnold/dp/0385340656/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254243711&sr=8-1

    4: Have you tried rolling it in grated parmigan? I just coat (white fish) in parm, fry it till the parm melts and turns golden and then put it over pasta with tomato sauce. As long as it’s an un-fishy fish, they won’t even be able to tell what they’re eating!

  24. 1) Pumpkin brownies. With homemade cream cheese frosting. Ooohhhh I need to make these this week.

    2) The Unicorns. My five year olds soccer team. :)

    3) I just read Rise & Shine By Anna Quinlan. Not sure what type of books you like, but I loved this one.

    4) Tell them it’s chicken?

  25. 1. White chocolate & pumpkin cheesecake

    2. Ravens!

    3. http://www.amazon.com/Zeitoun-Dave-Eggers/dp/1934781630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254244904&sr=8-1

    4. Whatever kind of fish you like, use the ranch dressing mix, the powder stuff, add some italian bread crumbs, shake & bake (or cook however you want). Or use ranch dressing as a marinade and then cook. They love ranch.

  26. 1. Butternut squash ravioli’s w/fresh sage

    2. I hate sports. Can’t help you there.

    3. “Running with Scissors” by Augesten Burroughs.

    4. Take fish and dip in milk and Panko flakes. Fry it up in a pan! Kids will eat anything when it’s fried because it looks like chicken nuggets!

  27. 1. Our fall favorites = chili, homemade chicken soup and spaghetti sauce. I make extra to put in the freezer for later. Also, whole roasted chicken, beef roast/brisket, Salmon and homemade pizza. Love the warm comfort foods in the fall.

    2. Seattle Sounders

    3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver)

    4. I never liked fish as a kid. But, I never stopped trying, and now I am loving all kinds of fish.

  28. 1) Chop up butternut squash, coat with oil, add chopped up sage, salt, pepper. Stick in oven. Brown some sausages while it cooks. Combine and eat with pasta or bread or even on lettuce.

    2) NE Patriots (over Portland Trailblazers by a nose). I actually don’t care about football at all, while I enjoy basketball, but when I lived in RI the owner of the Pats had his team undergo anger and money management classes.

    3) I’m almost done with and enjoying The Good Thief (hannah tinti)

    4) buy expensive fish. Ada only likes the pricey stuff. Oh, and cod, so maybe feed them fishsticks and then work up to cod done other ways. We have a family friend who catches and smokes salmon, so she is kind of spoiled.

  29. 1-any kind of crockpot soup or stew. I’ve got a couple of recipes on my site. Easy and yummy.
    2-Broncos
    3-I don’t know.
    4-What about fish tacos?

  30. 1. How about standing on a very high, very rickety chair and closing your eyes (yes, I’m British, and “fall” is “autumn” over here – even though I’m actually in France)
    2. Not really (at all) into sports of any kind, sorry!
    3. I really enjoyed Jodi Piccoult’s “19 minutes”
    4. My two girls are fish eaters of sorts, without any particular effort on my part (#2 can be very picky, but more about vegetables and fruit than protein, though she has had her moments and tends to the “fastfood” version of most things if given the choice. Which she generally isn’t. I’m mean). Both love deep-fried fish (is that really fish?) and will also always eat tuna. They will nearly always eat salmon, smoked salmon and white fish, so I guess I can’t really help you…

  31. 1) Anything pumpkin is great. I recently made a deelish pumpkin-apple soup. Also pumpkin ravioli is good. And nothing is better than pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

    2) No sports for me thanks.

    3) I just finished the “Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society”. I chose it for it’s weird name but I liked it too.

    4) I cannot stand fish. No way. No how. (Even covered in an inch of ketchup) I remember sitting for hours at the dinner table by myself on fish nights. I never did learn to like it. If they don’t like it just leave ‘em be. They’ll either like it or not as they grow up.

  32. 1. I think chili makes a great fall recipe.

    2. I don’t do sports.

    3. I picked for bookclub to read next month The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was excellent!

    4. Fish sticks. No real smell. Easy to cook. Dunk it in ketchup.

  33. 1. Sweet potato soup.
    2. Um, sports team? I’ve heard of those. Does my college ballroom dance team count?
    3. I’m reading Pope Joan and enjoying it. My favourite of all time is The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu.
    4. I’ve been planning to post this recipe for a while now. Even my picky picky one loves it.

  34. 1. Butternut Squash Risotto

    2. Red Sox, Pats, oh, hell, any team except the Cowboys and anything associated with a Manning brother.

    3. The Lost Continent – Travels in Small Town America, Bill Bryson. If you’ve already read that, try The Best American Travel Writing of (whatever year you can find).

    4. Tilapia sauteed in butter and lemon, or anything with a teriyaki sauce.

  35. Get them to sample the fish at Costco, then they will want you to buy it and serve it just the same way. This is how we brought tilapia happily into our home.

  36. 1. Chocolate chip pumpkin muffins

    2. St Louis Cardinals, but only because I live in St Louis and they kick you out if the Cards aren’t top of your list

    3. Anything by Maggie O’Farrell. They’re very dark and gothic but absolutely wonderful. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is my favorite by her.

    4. Fish? Gross. I’m going to second a previous comment of eh, don’t sweat it. If you and Gabe are eating it (and giving the Goon Squad plenty of other Omega 3’s) they’ll eventually either warm up to it or they won’t. My parents love fish but I just can’t handle the fishy taste. *shrug* You can get all the good stuff other places.

  37. 1. Fall and winter means chili to me. Although, the way my heartburn is acting up these days, I’m not sure that’s the best idea. And I LOVE soup in the fall!

    2. At this time of year, Chicago Bears and Arizona State Sun Devils.

    3. I am reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It’s technically YA, but it is very mature and very interesting. I have a hard time putting it down!

    4. No idea. I’m 32 and barely just started eating fish. Deep fry it? Drench it in ketchup?

  38. 1. Butternut squash soup
    2. Ummm… Oakland A’s, I guess.
    3. “The Romeo Flag” by Carolyn Hougan
    4. Cook it in butter. Lots and lots of butter. Betty Crocker has a great recipe, called something like “Orange-Almond Trout”. Something like that. Anyway, we use catfish, which doesn’t have much flavor of its own, and you end up with something that tastes a whole lot like… butter. Never heard a complaint yet.

    #1 the redux: On second thought, as I read through the comments, Kait’s (11:29) chocolate chip pumpkin muffins sound really really good. I vote for that. :)

  39. 1) Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup!!

    2) San Diego Chargers. to the death.

    3) Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, so wonderful.

    4) Tell them it’s chicken!! Salmon = Pink Chicken.

  40. 1) What is a really good fall recipe? Caramel apples. Caramel add milk and thin out in saucepan. Dunk apples. Stick inserted post dipping. Ta da!

    2) What is your favorite sports team? Providence Bruins. I love me some AHL hockey. Fresh blood on the ice, baby!

    3) What should I read next?
    Just finished ‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett. Really good.
    4) How do I get my kids to eat fish?
    Pfft… I can’t even get myself to eat fish. Why bother?

  41. 1) Just made a chicken lemon pasta bake with gooey italian cheeses from thepioneerwoman.com website. So good!

    2)I am a big NFL fan, Broncos and the Patriots (just for my husband’s sake). I also like the Vikings, because Brett Farve in football pants should never go away. (Although Brett Farve in Wranglers is even better).

    3) I just finished three different books that I had picked up at different times to read. The Deathly Hallows (HP7) although you might have already read that. The Glass Castle, great read. Pretty in Plaid (by the fabulous Jen Lancaster).

    4) Tuna casserole, salmon with lots of butter and lemon, crab cakes? My oldest loves fish, so I can’t say that I’ve had a problem with that. She’s been stealing salmon off my plate for years! Good luck!

  42. 1. My pumpkin pie recipe. It is the best pumpkin pie in the whole entire world.
    2. The Washington Capitals. C-A-P-S Caps! Caps! Caps!
    3. I just finished Elmore Leonard’s Road Dogs — it was great!
    4. I don’t know; I’m not partial to fish myself (except for tuna and really good salmon). (And shellfish. I love shellfish. Hey! That might work — show them how to pick crabs!)

  43. Cheating and only seconding someone else’s recommendation. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is fantastic. Probably my favorite book of the year.

  44. 1. Anything involving bananas. Leave the skin lying around and you’ll tread on it and fall down. Voila, a fall recipe.
    2. Parramatta Eels (who are in the NRL grand final on Sunday here in Australia)
    3. Anything, as long as you make time for a good half hour reading a day all else is right with the world.
    4. Tuna Bake. Fish Cakes. BBQ salmon or tuna fillets. Yum.

  45. 1) One of my favorites is Smokey Sweet Potato Chicken Stoup. It’s a Rachel Ray recipe (http://blunoz.blogspot.com/2007/10/retaliation.html)

    2) I don’t really follow sports.

    3) I’m reading The Accidental Billionaires about the guys who created Facebook. It’s pretty interesting so far.

    4) No clue. If you figure this one out, then please let me know. We have a hard time convincing my boys to even TRY anything that isn’t chicken nuggets, grilled cheese, or pizza.

  46. 1)Drive to McDonald’s, talk to speaker, grab bag, drive back to home.

    2)The DENVER BRONCOS

    3) I just finished Old Man’s War by John Scalzi – if you like Science Fiction, you will enjoy this. It’s a pretty quick read as well. Also just finished The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, has a little science fiction mixed in with historical fiction, a little hardeer to read, but worth it.

    4) Tell them it’s chicken. :)

  47. Oh, good. You have a lot of sweet answers. My brain is empty.

  48. 1. I’m with Pam. Anything in the crock-pot, but especially chili….

    2. We’re Carolina Panther’s fans — even though they’ve done nothing but stink it up thus far…

    3. The Help.

    4. Get a package of frozen tilapia filets (wich are cheap) and thaw them. Shovel 1 cup of whole raw almonds into a food processor and chop the shit out of them until they are really small crumbs. Spread them out into a pie plate and “dip” the filets into them, pressing the crumbs into both sides until they’re thoroughly covered. (By the way, I let my 5 year old do this part because he loves it, AND he’s invested in eating what he’d made.) Slap those suckers down on a griddle, or a non-stick frying pan, and cook on both sides, 5 minutes each. The almond crust gets really toasty brown and it’s REALLY good. Oh — and did I remember to tell you to put some salt and pepper into the almonds when you are chopping them up in the food processor? Do that.

    Anyway… The tilapia filets are really mild, so they don’t taste “fishy” at all. The salted, peppered almond crust is YUMMY, and my kids chow it down. And honestly — when they help me prepare everything, they eat better. They get excited about it.

  49. What is a really good fall recipe?

    Stuffed butternut squash (stuffed with sausage, pears and apples) Let me know if you want the recipe.

    2) What is your favorite sports team?
    Washington Capitals

    3) What should I read next?
    a classic :-D

    4) How do I get my kids to eat fish?
    My kids love the following recipes…
    sweet glazes on salmon (but then again Alex will eat any orange food)
    cornflake crusted tilapia (they thought it was chicken at first but somehow “it tastes different, but we like it!”

  50. Fun questions!
    1. Recipe? Uhm… Pass!
    2. Go Yankees!
    3. Love is a Mix Tape was fantastic and set in Charlottesville, VA so a sort-of local thing. I also loved the Glass Castle and reread it recently.
    4. That is a tough one. As a child I only ate fish if it came to me in “stick” form. Ick!

    Good luck!
    P.S. Where are all the Yankees fans??!?! So many Sox fans here, wtf?!

  51. 1.spag squash!
    2hate sports
    3.Wuthering Heights
    4.make fish tacos
    xoxoxo

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