And when I'm hungry, I always like to think about good food. It doesn't make me less hungry, but it's fun.

So, I'm thinking of a nice tagliatelle al tartufo. Mmmm... No, wait. A bowl of fish stew. Mmmm, fish stew... Or maybe whole fried fish with black bean sauce. Oooh! Tapas. Yeah. Or maybe just a pint of good vanilla ice cream. With pretzels. And a 2-liter of ginger ale.

Damn, I'm hungry.

What about you?

(Since the only place in town that serves food after midnight is a sandwich joint [ooh...or maybe sandwiches] I guess I'm having ice cream, pretzels, and ginger ale for dinner tonight)

With a menu like that, I'd swear you were pregnant.

Me, I'm not hungry right now...I just had a big slab of prime rib between two pieces of bread. It was a leftover "care package" from my mother after Christmas. I won't be seeing anything like it soon unfortuneately.

Not to make you hungrier of course.

Why does this sound like a fat-free-foods commercial?

I think I'm still full from what I ate last night. There wasn't any "food" in the kitchen so I had to go to the grocery store. When I came back I made a delicious hamburger and some guacamole - for which I use my mother's recipe but it never comes out the same. I accompanied it with not-quite-stale chips (for dipping), strawberry jell-o, and a bottle of water. And since I have no will-power what-so-ever when it comes to guacamole, I damn near ate the whole bowl.

But, now that I think of it, I am starting to get a little peckish.

In Response to Dynedain (#23741):

With a menu like that, I'd swear you were pregnant.

Yeah, that's exactly what someone else said when I told them that I'd had a craving for vanilla ice cream, pretzels, and ginger ale. But see, they're all comfort foods for me. There's nothing like curling up with a good book and a bag of sourdough pretzels. And then, every time you finish a chapter or something, a few spoonfuls of vanilla ice cream. If you keep the ginger ale in the bottle, you can just take a swig when you're thirsty.

In Response to Deathalicious (#23746):

...curling up with a good book...

I would think that a good movie would be better so that you could enjoy the ice cream without having to take your attention away from what you're watching. If the book is really that good then you wouldn't want to distract yourself from it.

And pregnancy cravings are highly overrated.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#23747):

Ha! I've always said that craving pregnancy is highly overrated!

In Response to Teledildonix (#23748):

When I ever craved pregnancy, I didn't say anything. I just ate.

In Response to unFalln (#23749):

Mmm... foetus.

In Response to Deathalicious (#23746):

Well, I made up for it tonight with cold baked potatatos and eggnog.

I like food, food tastes good.
I like food, food tastes good.

Juicy burgers, greasy fries
Turkey legs and raw fish eyes.
Teenage girls with ketchup too
Get out of my way or I'll eat you.

I like food, food tastes good.
I like food, food tastes good.

I think I'll turn dining into eating.

I like food, food tastes good.
I like food, food tastes good.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#23747):

Ah, except I'm a pro at reading while eating. It's all about the placement of the foods. Also, this only works with a hardback book from the library. Paperbacks won't stay open without the hand being there, and I wouldn't dare bring food near a hardback book that I'd paid for myself.

I want you to know that I'm not an ass about this; I usually choose books that are fairly old from the library (not out of preference, it's just that there are plenty of good books from the 80s and early 90s out there). So it's not like I'm ruining a pristine book.

The only exception is an orange thumbprint on a relatively new printing of Drawing of the Three. Oops. Who knew that eating carrots and reading Stephen King at the same time was a bad idea?

By the way, all the stores nearby were closed when I popped out. Apparently the nearby 24 hour convenience store is on vacation. So, I stopped by my regular bar which is a Mexican joint, so they have ice cream for making fried ice cream. No pretzels, but I did get the ginger ale.

Happy happy joy joy. Of course, no reading in the bar. Not that I don't like reading in a bar -- just nothing substantial to read other than the phone book.

In Response to Dynedain (#23752):

Cold baked potatoes are the ultimate snack, if no one's ever tried them. Here's the beautiful thing -- they take nearly zero effort. Once you decide you want one, 2 is as easy and as you add potatoes it becomes increasingly less effort on a per-potato basis.

I recommend organic potatoes. They cost a little more but are really delicious. When you want even just one potato, throw as many potatoes as you can stand into the oven. Well, within reason anyway. Certainly you can probably do 3 pounds without the oven breaking a sweat. Just make sure that they're not lying on top of each other.

Come back and turn the oven off after 40 minutes or so. It really depends on the size of the potatoes. I'm not sure if it's really possible to overcook potatoes, so just make sure that the biggest one is done. Then, turn off the oven and leave the potatoes there. Then, whenever you feel like a potato, grab one from the oven. This probably works until the oven isn't warm anymore, at which time you pop 'em in the fridge.

Cold baked potatoes. Yum.

Also, there's a special kind of cold baked potato you can make where you cut the potato into large sticks and you bake them on top of the stove in oil. You eat that kind of cold baked potatoes hot. They're very good too.

Incidentally, if you use organic potatoes don't even both washing them unless you're a peel eater. You can pull the peel off of the potato before you eat it. It comes right off once it's baked long enough.

In Response to snipergirl (#23751):

Fetus, it's what's for dinner!

In Response to Deathalicious (#23764):

Fetus, the other other white white meat.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#23769):

A site with great recipes for babies, to fulfil your sick hunger
Link [eatbabies.com]

Coincidences, eh?
I was rather peckish last night as well. Shops were all closed and the only takeaways that were open were the sort that you have to be drunk before you'll eat anything from them.
(I didn't notice the obvious solution of getting drunk then getting takeaway until now. )

So, when a raid of the fridge produced little save for a box of eggs, I was left with two choices.

Omelette or waffles.
I decided against the waffles because my usual sugar craving was rather subdued and besides, I had no bacon.

So I threw together a spanish omelette with chorizo and onion.

And now I'm hungry again. Grr.

I feel like sharing:

After a really late Saturday (or early Sunday - whichever works for you) with my friend, a bottle of Parrot Bay Rum, a bit of a bottle of Wild Turkey, and half-drunken tired sex followed by a nap; we decided to go to a local diner here in St. Louis. As we headed to hopeful recovery, my friend regaled of his youth and how he used to have a "Slinger" everyday after a night very similar to the one we had just had. A "Slinger" is hasbrowns, eggs, bacon, topped with chili, cheese, and onion - your basic heartattack on a plate. Now, I went the safe direction with just two eggs, two pieces of sausage, and some hashbrowns; and felt no regrets. My friend on the other hand didn't quite finish his brunch and said to me - as we smoked our cigarettes and attempted very foolishly to recoup from our eveing together - "I think I just took a week off of my life."

In Response to GeminiCrash (#24020):

Sounds a little like a garbage [thelynches.com] plate [ambrosiasw.com]. Aways seems like a good idea after a night out, until you reach the stage of enlightenment [goats.com].

There were a few times that I ate one sober, while up late studying. Tasted good, looked horrible, and you wouldn't be right for days.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#24029):

Sounds like a garbage plate.

Pretty much, except the eggs aren't *scrambled.

*They looked scrambled in the picture that I saw.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#24031):

There isn't any eggs, you're recipe just reminded me of the hodgepodge off the grill that is the 'plate'. You can get 2 burgers, dogs, or some other weird stuff that I've never tried, on top of fries, homefries, or mac salad (or a combo).

Then it's topped with onions, cheese, chili, sauce, and some other unknown elements. It looks especially nice after it's sat in the fridge overnight and fully coagulates.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#24029):

I would say I miss Tahou's, but I've only ever eaten there once. And I was drunk. And I voraciously stuffed all the food into my mouth rapidly. And It didn't taste like anything at all. Partly because I was drunk and partly because I ate it very fast.

They really aren't all that exciting on the whole by my limited experience.

Usually they consist of potato product (hash browns/fried potato cubes/fries, hot sacue, macaroni salid, cheesburgers (no bun!), and onions.

They say if you eat you can drink more? But is the point not to drink more so you can eat? When drinking I like to eat a Subway meatball sub. This is the only time I can eat a Subway meatball sub. If not drinking I find they wiggle on their own. But Jerried will tell you he lost 400 pounds on meatballs!

In Response to sentdata (#24047):

But Jerried will tell you he lost 400 pounds on meatballs!

I think you mean Jared Fogle [subway.com].

In Response to zamphir (#24048):

I am amazed that Subway's are advertising / endorsing this man. I am even more shocked that they don't warn people his diet. Easting the same thing, day in, day out is not at all healthy.

And for a piece of exacting pedentry:

His weight went from 425 lb to 190 lb. I make that 235 lb and not, as claimed, 400lb.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#24056):

This is why achewood needs a handy dandy search facility (jon / phillip there was mention once of releasing this one to others anything happen there?).

Jared is not maikink me vant to eat subway, he is makink me vant to punch him in face

loosely paraphrased.

In Response to jettaboy20 (#24029):

It sounds delicious. Ohhh, but I'd be breaking so many laws [oukosher.org].