Good Morning

[dulcemariamar]

Hello! What is new with you???

Here it is hot as hell. I think we are supposed to get over a 100 today. I am planning of making some brownies from a box mix after I spent all day yesterday making homemade cupcakes that did not come out right. :-( I love baking but I hate it when things come out horrible.
Maybe, I should stop using recipes from blogs.

QOTD: Which Carnival food do you love? :
Snow Cones
Funnel Cake
Cotton Cake
Other___________

[doctoranda]

Here it looks and feels as Fall, it's actually cold and dark outside I have a million things on my to-do lost but only feel like eating cheese and watch TV. I have trouble with Mondays and this one being all cold and gloomy... ahhhh. Hopefully I will get at leat half of my stuff done though. I am dragging my feed to start working on the dissertation again so maybe I'll just drop my shoes off for repair and go to the pet store instead. Hey those things need to be done too!

QOTD: I am affraid I don't like Carnival food. If there's French fries or nachos I will eat that though (although maybe not really carnival food??)!

[dorothyinAus]

Good morning! The weekend was an adventure -- getting stuck in Melbourne due to flooding Friday & Saturday and then on Sunday, the gas bottle went empty, so we had to hurry over to ILs to borrow their oven to finish baking my bread (a cottage cheese dill loaf) and the baked chicken I had planned for dinner. Thankfully, I had enough to share with them so we had our dinner at their house. FIL was miserable on the sofa with pulled shoulder muscles so DH offered to do some housework around their house while I finished cooking dinner. MIL added some homegrown frozen green beans and some corn to round out the meal -- I hadn't started the succotash I had planned for dinner when the gas bottle went dry. It was an adventure. And then my parents, who were in Kodiak, AK on their cruise called every 4 hours for an update on the status and tracks of Tropical Storm Debby which is hanging around the Gulf of Mexico with no agreement on the "spaghetti models" as to the track or forecasted strength.

QOTD: I love cotton candy, but never really consider it a "Carnival" food. It's a Mardi Gras parade treat -- purchased from the vendors who walk down the parade routes about half an hour before the parade rolls. Snow cones are best known in NOLA as the summer treat sno-balls. I have never had funnel cakes.

[irish]

Morning. Busy work day catching up after Thursday & Friday off. And I'm giving a training course on Wednesday that I need to update. Going for dinner with my friend who is home from Oz - she cancelled our play date last Friday which was a bit of a bummer (and it was very last minute so I didn't have time to do alternative things with N and she was cranky having to play with only me all day!)

QOTD: I don't really like carnival food... ice-cream cones perhaps... Or is that a snow cone?

[anna7602]

This is DD's last week of school and she woke up with a fever at 5am. So, she's home with me and I can't work, can't grocery shop, and basically can't do anything I needed to do today. I was a little stressed already about getting everything done this week and now I'm down a full day. And, while it's probably not rational or good for me/us, I am pretty pi$$ed at DH for going off to the office this morning.

My carnival food faves are funnel cake and deep-fried Oreos, usually available from the same vendor.

[allibally]

It is so hot here. Luckily overnight the temperature dropped and we were able to open windows and air out. The whole week is suppose to be highs between 80-100. So glad my mom gifted us a portable a/c that we usually only run for sleeping.

I have no plans for the day. :/ I want to go to Bath and Body and take advantage of the big deals.

QOTD: Snow cones, cotton candy, and funnel cake! I loved that Germany and Switzerland were into chocolate covered fruit on a stick. Plus the fried apple slice that Zurich had at fairs. Yummy. I once even had homemade potato chips in Zurich.

My favorite is funnel cake. And since this is my first summer in the US in three years I am on the hunt for it. Perhaps my first trip to the Wisconsin state fair is in my future.

[allibally]

Irish. Snow cones are shaved ice with colored flavoring pumped on them.

The street vendors sell them here. I am tempted... but question cleanliness. Guess I need to go to a fair.

[ktkl09]

Hello! It's cool and rainy here. I just finished round one of work and I'm about to go to round two. I hate Mondays :-(.

QOTD: Carnival food usually grosses me out, but I like caramel or candy covered apples.

[popcorn]

Morning! My morning sickness started this weekend and was here in full force this morning. Yuck. Oh well, it gives me an excuse to sit around.

QOTD: Funnel cakes and elephant ears are my favorites. Mmmmmm.

[grosnl19]

Not much...have to find a place to have my photo taken for my Dutch visa, yippee! I also have to figure out how to shop a FedEx package from here...FedEx's website isn't very helpful.

QOTD: Cotton candy and sweet corn. Where I grew up (in WI) sweet corn was a staple at fairs.

[grosnl19]

Jun 25, 2012 5:05:12 GMT -5 allibally said:

It is so hot here. Luckily overnight the temperature dropped and we were able to open windows and air out. The whole week is suppose to be highs between 80-100. So glad my mom gifted us a portable a/c that we usually only run for sleeping.

I have no plans for the day. :/ I want to go to Bath and Body and take advantage of the big deals.

QOTD: Snow cones, cotton candy, and funnel cake! I loved that Germany and Switzerland were into chocolate covered fruit on a stick. Plus the fried apple slice that Zurich had at fairs. Yummy. I once even had homemade potato chips in Zurich.

My favorite is funnel cake. And since this is my first summer in the US in three years I am on the hunt for it. Perhaps my first trip to the Wisconsin state fair is in my future.

I am from Milwaukee and WI State Fair is my favorite. You have to try a cream puff, yum! I swear all we do is eat and look at the animals...some more things you need to try...Saz's BBQ sandwich with sour cream and chive fries, flavored milk from Kohl's stand, sweet corn from the Kwanies Club, root beer from the brown barrels that are all over the fair ground and a strawberry sundae from the Dairy Farmers of WI stand.

[grosnl19]

dulcemarinar...I get most/if not all recipes from the internet/blogs so don't be discouraged.

One of my favorites that I use religiously annies-eats.com/

[potatopie]

Jun 25, 2012 6:34:08 GMT -5 grosnl19 said:

I am from Milwaukee and WI State Fair is my favorite. You have to try a cream puff, yum! I swear all we do is eat and look at the animals...some more things you need to try...Saz's BBQ sandwich with sour cream and chive fries, flavored milk from Kohl's stand, sweet corn from the Kwanies Club, root beer from the brown barrels that are all over the fair ground and a strawberry sundae from the Dairy Farmers of WI stand.

Milwaukee? Did we cover this before? I'm from Racine.

I used to work at a summer camp up in Plymouth, and part of our work weekends was to clean up at the State Fair. The vendors would give us leftover food (fried zucchini!) and we got to run around and check out all the animals with no one around.

[dulcemariamar]

Thanks! I have looked at this page a lot, but I still have to try something from it.
It wouldnt be bad, if I had a dishwasher.

[irish]

Jun 25, 2012 5:09:03 GMT -5 allibally said:

Irish. Snow cones are shaved ice with colored flavoring pumped on them.

The street vendors sell them here. I am tempted... but question cleanliness. Guess I need to go to a fair.

Thanks! We don't do that here... but we do put flavouring on our whipped ice-cream cones!! And put a stick of Flake in it and call it a "99"...

[crimsonandclover]

Morning! We got back from vacation yesterday, and DD had a horrible night, but was up at her usual time. Meh.

QOTD: I don't really like carnivals. I guess I'll count the Christmas markets, though. There I love having bratwurst in a hard roll, roasted almonds, and mulled wine.

[bugabean]

I love all carnival food, but funnel cakes are probably my favorite. I just had cotton candy a couple weeks ago at Tivoli and it made me happy.

What is "a stick of Flake"?

[irish]

Jun 25, 2012 8:08:35 GMT -5 bugabean said:

What is "a stick of Flake"?

I edited my post and put a picture of a 99 in it... thought people might not know what it was!

[fernane]

Incredibly hot and humid here nursing a bad sunburn from snorkeling over the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. Had a nice weekend getaway to the Cham Islands, so just laying low this week and hanging out with DS.

QOTD: funnel cake!!

[doctoranda]

Just thought of something. If kettle corn is a Carnival food I vote for that!

[travelingturtle]

I like funnel cake, elephant ears, arepa, corn at carnivals in the states. Here, I like the hungarian fried bread thing that is similar to elephant ears.

[Wanderista]

Nothing is especially new here, just counting down and prepping for the next leg of travel.

QOTD: I love certain carnival foods. I love sno-cones, man, those take me back. My favorite as a kid was always blue raspberry, totally a made up fake corn sugar color. I loved going to fairs when I was little. I only do that out in rural places though like Midwestern county fairs. Those are such fun. I remember eating all kinds of crazy things like fried cheese curds.

I don't really do carnivals in DC but there are lots of great cultural festivals there. I love something called the Smithsonian Folklife Festival which features foods from around the world. Unfortunately I am missing it this year but there are lots of other cool events throughout the year there.

Oh and those 99 Flakes rock.

[allibally]

Jun 25, 2012 7:12:16 GMT -5 potatopie said:

Jun 25, 2012 6:34:08 GMT -5 grosnl19 said:

I am from Milwaukee and WI State Fair is my favorite. You have to try a cream puff, yum! I swear all we do is eat and look at the animals...some more things you need to try...Saz's BBQ sandwich with sour cream and chive fries, flavored milk from Kohl's stand, sweet corn from the Kwanies Club, root beer from the brown barrels that are all over the fair ground and a strawberry sundae from the Dairy Farmers of WI stand.

Milwaukee? Did we cover this before? I'm from Racine.

I used to work at a summer camp up in Plymouth, and part of our work weekends was to clean up at the State Fair. The vendors would give us leftover food (fried zucchini!) and we got to run around and check out all the animals with no one around.

I know of and had most of these foods from WI state fair. But I lived most of my life an hour north of Milwaukee and never went to the state fair. How sad!

Summerfest though... Love the food there too. See if I can manage to go next week.

[grosnl19]

Jun 25, 2012 7:12:16 GMT -5 potatopie said:

Jun 25, 2012 6:34:08 GMT -5 grosnl19 said:

I am from Milwaukee and WI State Fair is my favorite. You have to try a cream puff, yum! I swear all we do is eat and look at the animals...some more things you need to try...Saz's BBQ sandwich with sour cream and chive fries, flavored milk from Kohl's stand, sweet corn from the Kwanies Club, root beer from the brown barrels that are all over the fair ground and a strawberry sundae from the Dairy Farmers of WI stand.

Milwaukee? Did we cover this before? I'm from Racine.

I used to work at a summer camp up in Plymouth, and part of our work weekends was to clean up at the State Fair. The vendors would give us leftover food (fried zucchini!) and we got to run around and check out all the animals with no one around.

No, I didn't know that. I lived in Milwaukee until I was 24 when I moved to the Chicago area (I also went to UWM). DH is from Germantown, WI and actually lived in Racine from 2004-2006 (he worked at CNH). All my family is still there and some of my friends so we get back there often.

[potatopie]

Cool, grosnl! You me and alli can start building up the chicago/Wi GTG group. I'm come home for a lot of visits. Hopefully longer ones in the future too!

If you guys move back to the States will it be in that area?