Gourmet List

espemartinez3 asked:


This year, I am in charge of putting together holiday gift baskets for our employees and customers. Each employee must stay within the $75 range and each customer basket must stay in the $150 range. Our company does this every year and we are known for picking only the best foods (gourmet if possible)! In order to stick to the budget, I am having to cut out some of the more expensive items and replace them with still delicious, but less expensive foods.

Here is my list of foods thus far. Any food enthusists are welcome for input! (Also, if you see a certain type of food here that you know of a cheaper brand but same quality – let me know! THX!):

Lake Champlain 5 star bars
Pieces of Vermont maple sugar candy snowmen
Virginia Chutney Co. 3 jar gift set
Franklin Fountain Wilbur fudge
Popalops giant gummi bears
Velatis caramels
ToffeeHouse toffee bark
Harry David moose munch
Harry David brownies
King Arthur Flour hot lava cake kit
King Arthur Flour cinnamon streusel muffin mix
Michaelene’s Gourmet Granola
Licorice Intl strawberry kookaburra twists
Hickory Farms beef stick
New Hope Mills buttermilk pancake mix
Pure NY state maple syrup
Route 29 Napa snowball truffles
Macaroon Shop coconut macaroons

iSarah asked:


** I currently have scored 35 Gourmet Club points!* Question is How many points do I have to get to get a Runner-up Trophy on my lookup? Hint, Its NOT 693, that is the regular trophy **

that and another riddle:

**When the RoboPet PetPet shop Fully Restocks, about how many petpets are in the shop at once?Hint: i know its more than 21**

please no guessing and please list your source

xandra242002 asked:


I found a mushroom soup base by a brand called Pure Base (see link) http://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Pure-Soup-Base-Mushroom/dp/B000OR3UDI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8s=gourmet-foodqid=1196730607sr=1-3

There is an ingredient listed called Butter Yeast Extract and I am not sure what it is or if it is considered vegan. I have searched online to find a definition and I’ve had no luck. I have also had difficulty finding the company who makes Pure Base so that I can contact them. If anyone can help me find any or all of this information (definition, vegan?, and or company info), I would be greatful. Thanks all for your help. _

cronu4 asked:


can u read my skript and if u don’t like it help me
also i will need to make to play out to senarious relating to the product on vedio help me out

Triple C Oven, will be the newest and most welcome addition to your kitchen. Your other appliance and gadgets are going to get a tad dusty because Triple C Oven will have everything you need for breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper. It’s the latest, most innovative oven that is on the market today. Triple C Oven was named for its ability to cook, cut, and clean, but it has so much more to offer than any utensil or appliance in your kitchen. Not only will it replace all your appliances in the kitchen, it will also save you money on hiring chefs, ordering from restaurants, or even cooking your self. All you have to do is just put in the ingredients; write the specific menu in the easy-to-use Menu-on-the-Go computer and click Enter. That is all you have to do. It will only take five minutes out of your cooking life. Triple C Oven also stores the ingredients that were not used for cooking the meal that you programmed into it and it can use those ingredients in your next order.
Life with Triple C Oven will be ten times simpler than with any other ordinary oven. Did you ever worry what your kids or you, the hard working mother will eat at the dinner table? Well maybe with an ordinary oven you did, but now it’s going to be the list of your worries. Now you and your kids can eat breakfast at any time in the morning without getting late. Your kids can eat snacks of any variety. And talk about gourmet, Triple C Oven comes preprogrammed with recipes from some of the top chefs in the country today.
Lousing weight was never easy, because with ordinary oven we are never precise
Abut how much recipe we should use, but with Triple C Oven, the one only best product on the market could even help us loose weight. You can program how much calories you want your recipe to have and it will give you precisely to the point.
Eating healthy was a luxury for some of us, not anymore. Coming home tired is a disadvantage to your healthy live, because when you are tired you grab whatever is in the refrigerator, or in the cupboards and it’s usually nothing healthy. With Triple C Oven you can have a full healthy meal that you spend on a full healthy five minutes preparing.
The Triple C Oven is the latest product on the market. It will have a five years guaranty. Triple C Oven will be worth every penny. It will cost $800 dollars. You can buy it at any Retail store
can u give an example on how to be more specific

Middy S asked:


TV in the USA in the 1970’s brought us quite a few fun and over the top detective shows, and many of these 1970’s era TV Detectives had one gimmick or quirk to set them apart from the pack.
Look over this partial list of fun 70’s era USA based Detective series and take your pick of the one you think was the most ridiculous and least plausible, and pick one you think could be the most realistic.

1. CANNON: A very heavyset Lincoln Continetal Mark driving, penthouse living, gourmet loving ex-cop who charged huge fees to solve cases.

2. BARNABY JONES: Geriatric, milk swigging, rickitey and thin as a matchstick Buddy Ebsen as a retired Detective who goes back on the job.

3. COLUMBO: Seemingly bumbling, but quite brilliant and strangely gleeful in how he mentally toys, tortures, and drives the murderer nearly insane.

4. McCloud: Stubborn New Mexico Sherriff, always aggravating to the crabby Police Chief, let loose in modern NYC with a horse, cowboy hat and six shooter.
BARETTA: Grubby, old Chevy driving, slum loving and living ex-Cop who really liked his pet Parrot.

6. ROCKFORD FILES: Lived in a trailer on the beach with his Dad, loved driving Firebirds.

7. BANACHEK: Polish, wealthy and a bit snobby, driven around alot in big Cadillac limos by colorful driver and solved big cases for 1 Million each.

8. McMillian and Wife: Husband and Wife who lived in San Fransicsco, Hubby was Police Commisioner, wife was a restless busybody.

9. KOJAK: Loved lollipops, bit of a smartass, chromedome Detective in grubby NYC who loved driving ugly cars with mini emergency lights on dash constantly flashing.

10. MANNIX: Smooth talking, good looking ex-cop who had a penchant for loosing control of his many different cool cars while driving in the hills around L.A. because of cut brake lines and getting rammed, and in having old WWII buddies always trying to kill him.

r0cker1ta asked:


I’m looking for unique salad dressings I’m trying to eat healthier more salads and sandwiches for lunch. But honestly the usual Ranch is getting old I would like to change it up with something a little more gourmet. Anything that’s different I tried a Classic Cesar the other day that was good it’s on my shopping list. Can you guys recommend anything? Store bought or any home made recipes. I would love something with mango or something nutty or anything that’s different I’m not greatly concerned about the amount of calories it has, I just want it to taste good so that I don’t get bored with my salads. Oh anything that has a international feel t it would eb awesome too. liek i’ve had an Asian Sesame that’s on my shopping list too and the Creamy cilantro dressing from Pollo Loco Awesome. Please Help. Thank’s. ;D
I love tropical fruit’s I dont know if that helps and I do like Spicy sauces like chipotle, jalapeno and habanero.
Also if the dressings make good marinades or dipping sauces please let me know that would be awesome. Thank you.

Hound Dawg asked:


Success Without a College Degree?
Six Hot Shots Who Made It
Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor

Many think the only way to succeed is through education. While piling on the degrees can earn you piles of dough — and debt — it’s not the only option.

Some of today’s most successful people don’t have a college degree. But what they lack in academic credentials, they make up for in tenacity, brains, guts and strong business sense.

Richard Branson
In 1970, Richard Branson founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer, and not long afterward he opened a record shop in London. Two years later, the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded Tubular Bells. Since then many household names, including Ben Harper, Fatboy Slim, Perry Farrell, Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, Janet Jackson and The Rolling Stones have helped to make Virgin Music one of the top record companies in the world.

Branson sold the equity of Virgin Music Group — record labels, music publishing and recording studios — in 1992 in a $1 billion deal, but he remains chairman of Virgin Group, which today includes Virgin Atlantic, Books, Games, LifeCare, Limousines, Megastores and Hotels.

Barry Diller
Barry Diller started his career in the mail room of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired by ABC in 1966 where he created the ABC Movie of the Week, pioneering the concept of the made-for-television movie.

At age 32, he became president of Paramount Pictures, which produced a string of successful television shows (Laverne and Shirley, Taxi, Cheers) and feature films (Saturday Night Fever, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Beverly Hills Cop) under his helm. From 1984 to 1992, he was chairman and CEO of Fox Studios and was responsible for creating the Fox Broadcasting Company. Today, Diller is the chairman of Expedia and the chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which includes Citysearch, Evite, Home Shopping Network, Lending Tree, Match.com and Ticketmaster .

Matt Drudge
Pundit, blogger and radio personality Matt Drudge is best known as the proprietor of the Drudge Report Web site. The only good grades I got in school were for current events, he has said of his education. Drudge opted out of college and floated among a number of odd jobs including convenience store clerk, book salesman and grocery store sales assistant.

In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles and took a job in the gift shop of CBS studios, eventually working his way up to manager. The inside scoop he learned while in this position was allegedly part of the inspiration for founding his gossip rag The Drudge Report. The tabloid made gained notoriety when it was the first to break the news of a relationship between White House intern Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Janus Friis
Named to Time Magazine’s 2006 list of 100 most influential people, Janus Friis holds no formal education. He worked at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark’s first ISPs and later worked at Tele2, the leading alternative consumer oriented pan-European telecom operator. It was at Tele2 where Friis met Niklas Zennström, with whom he co-founded the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application. In early 2006, Friis and Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6 billion.

Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray’s career started at Macy’s department store, first at the candy counter and then as the manager of the fresh foods department. Ray quickly followed with stints in gourmet markets and restaurants in New York. At gourmet food market Cowan Lobel, she began a series of cooking classes — 30 Minute Meals. Those classes became so popular that she was soon doing weekly segments for the evening news.

Today, Ray is an Emmy-winning television personality who hosts a nationally syndicated talk show and four different programs the Food Network, publishes her own magazine, and has written multiple cookbooks.

Jeff Valdez
Named one of AdAge’s Marketing 50 in 2005, Jeff Valdez grew up the youngest of nine children in a housing project in Pueblo, Colorado. As a young adult, he moved through several jobs and ended up as a drummer with a lounge band called Wildfire. Valdez later returned to Colorado after about 10 years of touring and opened a comedy club where he did stand-up. In 1990, he threw his hat into the political ring and made a failed bid for mayor of Colorado Springs. But in 2004, he launched Si TV, the first all-English language network targeting a Hispanic audience.

Anna Wintour
Best identified by her trademark sunglasses and pageboy hairstyle, Anna Wintour is an icon of the fashion world. She reportedly attended North London Collegiate School, but never graduated. She started in 1970 working in the fashion department of Harpers and Queen in London. In 1976, she was named fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, followed by a brief stint at New York Magazine, three years as creative director of American Vogue, and finally named editor of British Vogue in 1986.

In 1998, she became editor-in-chief of American Vogue. Wintour’s work style is so notorious, the novel The Devil Wears Prada and its subsequent motion picture are said to be based on her. In recent years, she’s focused on many philanthropic endeavors including raising more than $10 million for AIDS, putting Vogue’s support behind women-owned businesses in Kabul, Afganistan, and promoting various post-9/11 campaigns.

Sources: Virgin Group Web site, Tavis Smiley on PBS, FoodTV.com, Washington Post Company Web site, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Time.com, BusinessWeek.com, Hispanictrends.com, Skype.com, Vogue.com

Bluebeard asked:


foods, and you tell me how many of them you would consider to be goumet foods. My guess is that you will pick very few of them, unless you are from the South. I think that gourmet food is food enjoyed by the rich and famous in the Northeastern part of the U. S. How many of the following would you consider to be gourmet? 1. Chicken Fried Steak with cream gravy 2. girts 3. Purple Hull peas 4. Blackeyed peas. 5. cornbread 6. turnip greens 7. fried okra. 8. Deep fried fresh water catfish. My guess is that you think very few of these would be gourmet food. Am I right? If so, it just proves that Southern culture and Southern foods are considered inferior by many of you. Tell me what you think.

Gretchen K asked:


Let’s say you’re planning an all vegetarian/vegan wedding. Now, I’m aware this is sometimes a hot topic, and some people get upset or offended at the thought of going to an event that does not serve meat. The food, however, will be very, very good — we’re not talking about some wilted lettuce and a weird tofu dish. It will be catered by an awesome gourmet place that knows how to make superb vegan/vegetarian food, with lots of of variety, delicious dishes, and amazing desserts. A lot of care really is going into the food and every attempt is being made to keep guests happy.

Of course, the v-word itself seems to set some people off. My first thought was to very clearly explain what the menu will be (and why) on something like either a wedding website or an insert with the invitation (the former seems more appropriate, of course). This description can list all the tasty foods that will be served — maybe even include pictures — and basically try to prepare guests and reassure them that they will be well-fed.

However, a friend told me that some people get all worked up over the idea of being served a meat-free meal, and so they might dread it or be angry going into the event if they knew in advance. But if they showed up without knowing beforehand it was all vegetarian, but they saw all the delicious, well-presented food right in front of them, then maybe they wouldn’t be so upset. Basically, her take was you can save everyone some grief if you just clam up (no pun) and not mention in advance that there will be no meat or fish anywhere in your wedding.

What do you think? I still think full disclosure might be the best way to go — that way, hardcore meat eaters will know to swing by a fast food joint before or after the reception, or if they’re that upset about it, not come at all. But I think there is a point in not making a bigger deal out of it than it needs to be.

Please don’t bother to debate whether or not to have a vegetarian wedding in the first place. That has already been decided for many good reasons. Thanks.

Middy S asked:


TV in the USA in the 1970’s brought us quite a few fun and over the top detective shows, and many of these 1970’s era TV Detectives had one gimmick or quirk to set them apart from the pack.
Look over this partial list of fun 70’s era USA based Detective series and take your pick of the one you think was the most ridiculous and least plausible, and pick one you think could be the most realistic.

1. CANNON: A very heavyset Lincoln Continetal Mark driving, penthouse living, gourmet loving ex-cop who charged huge fees to solve cases.

2. BARNABY JONES: Geriatric, milk swigging, rickitey and thin as a matchstick Buddy Ebsen as a retired Detective who goes back on the job.

3. COLUMBO: Seemingly bumbling, but quite brilliant and strangely gleeful in how he mentally toys, tortures, and drives the murderer nearly insane.

4. McCloud: Stubborn New Mexico Sherriff, always aggravating to the crabby Police Chief, let loose in modern NYC with a horse, cowboy hat and six shooter.
5. BARETTA: Grubby, old Chevy driving, slum loving and living ex-Cop who really liked his pet Parrot.

6. ROCKFORD FILES: Lived in a trailer on the beach with his Dad, loved driving Firebirds.

7. BANACHEK: Polish, wealthy and a bit snobby, driven around alot in big Cadillac limos by colorful driver and solved big cases for 1 Million each.

8. McMillian and Wife: Husband and Wife who lived in San Fransicsco, Hubby was Police Commisioner, wife was a restless busybody.

9. KOJAK: Loved lollipops, bit of a smartass, chromedome Detective in grubby NYC who loved driving ugly cars with mini emergency lights on dash constantly flashing.

10. MANNIX: Smooth talking, good looking ex-cop who had a penchant for loosing control of his many different cool cars while driving in the hills around L.A. because of cut brake lines and getting rammed, and in having old WWII buddies always trying to kill him.