I went to a food show today

[Heidi3]

My youngest son is a professional cook.. graduated from culinary school owns a catering company and sells home improvements for Sears in order to get money to live on and health bennies..bummer ..but he hangs in ..some day he wants to be a food broker actually ...

anyway he takes me to these food trade shows several times a year where I get to see what is new out of there...

and were we have this contest ..who can get the best schwag or talk the vendors out of the coolest shiit ..I always win..but this year ...I scored ....I talked a guy into giving me the most amazing lamb shanks they are precooked for caterers and they are HUGE!!! they are boil in a bag and you create your own sauce around them ..in 10 min they are fork tender ...and as picky as I am about anything processed ..guys ..these were really (and will be because I have a pile of them for tomorrow) fantastic..they did nothing but roast it to perfection ..

I am going to do a peppercorn sauce for them and be thrilled I scored today


other cool things I want pressure pads on my floors in my downstairs kitchen..omg those feel soooo good he gave me one but I want to do the entire floor

they also give you all the free booze you want but I was the driver so I stuck with coffee tasting...

I ate too much today ...honestly ..but it was a blast to spend the day talking about and schmoozing around food

it is stunning what they are doing with seafood

[Heidi3]

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PS ON THAT FOOD SHOW...remember the part about eating too much ..well I am sick to my stomach and have a horrible headache today ...go figure


eat crap and suffer .....this is called a food hangover

I am not angry with myself.... I had fun ..but today it is water water water and healthy food ...because that feels good to me

[sunflowergrl]

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That is too funny!! My DH and I worked a food show last Tuesday. Too much fun!! They had an entire roast pig there!! Yummy!! We had a blast, and made money also. The newpaper that the company works for put it on, and it was sold out! I worked with DH just so I could get in. If anyone gets a chance to go to one, it is so worth it! I didn't eat anything I wasn't supposed to, but it was very hard!!! They had a candy company there, with a chocolate fountain!!! AHHHH!!! The line was a mile long, and that is the only thing that saved me. What a blast!!

[Heidi3]

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I have to say I tried the chocolate (just a tiny taste on a berry) from a chocolate fountain and I spit it out in my napkin...it was pretty gross ... waxy..transfatty... and actually had very little flavor ...not true chocolate imho...so when you see one again just ignore it knowing it is very low quality food ..and we of course are above eating crap aren't we?

[ladyinred]

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Oh that sounds like so much fun Heidi! Sometimes the hangover is worth it, no? We had a chocolate fountain for my son's bar mitzvah a couple of years ago. It was real Belgian chocolate and to die for!! At one of my conferences a few months ago they had a chocolate fountain. I was avoiding it b/c I was trying to stay on plan but everyone said it was terrible. Upon closer review it looked like the syrup you use to make chocolate milk. Blech!!!

What are pressure pads?

[sunflowergrl]

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Thanks for the heads up on the fountain. I imagine it would depend on if they were cheap on what kind of chocolate they bought. I will allways assume it is cheap so I won't be tempted!!!