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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Oh my gosh, Diann, when you come here I am totally taking you to the Chinese grocery store. They buy EVERYTHING alive, and it smells like it! To make matters worse, on the weekend, they have some kind of cooking demonstration, which you know, should smell GOOD, am I right?
But it's like sauerkraut died, every single time!
I'm also taking you to SF or Monterey because you have never tasted seafood like Dungenous (sp?) crab. Granted, not good for you, but man, oh man, the flavor!!!
I hate seafood!! When my family eats salmon (and even my kids love it) I have a steak. LOL
ROTFLOL! Dead sauerkraut!!!! I love that description!!!
Kristin knows I hate seafood. I ordered calamari in San Francisco when I was with her. I tasted it and said something about the noodles tasting rubbery. She goes, "Diann, do you know what calamari is?" "Um, no." She's like, "It's squid."
SQUID!!!!!
She got the waiter to bring me a different order. What a great friend! *g*
I love seafood. Even as little girl I always ate fish at the buffet, even with all those other choices. Fish and mac and cheese!
But honestly, just get some fish oil capsules. You will get all of the benefits and none of the hazards. Eating fish is getting more dangerous all the time what with the mercury, pcps, or whatever and all that. Besides, I don't think someone can learn to like it. Seems like its something you're either born with, or not.
Lobster and crab legs aren't slimy! LOL Have you ever TRIED them? They're not at all slimy. Love them!
You might try crab fettucine at Red Lobster. It's to die for the noodles might help you decide you like the taste. LOL
Aw, c'mon, Diann. Seafood is good! Now, it will never beat short-ribs from the crock pot, but it still has a great taste. Of course you have to get the right seasonings, because plain cooked fish -- blah. My mom bakes salmon with lemon and thyme and I think dill, and it is delicious!
I do feel sorry for lobsters, though. Have you ever seen them in those grocery store aquariums? It's so sad to see them tapping their claws against the glass as if to say, "Help me! Get me out of here!" I almost want to buy them and set them free; but at twenty dollars a pound, I'd rather not. Besides, Colleen is right: they taste good. (Not exactly good for you, with all that cholesterol and fat and everything, but still... : )
Oh my gosh, I had totally forgotten about that! So funny Di! I can't take even the fish oil, I take hemp oil instead of flax. Hopefully, I won't ever get a drug testing. LOL
I have to admit I don't mind salmon. We went to TGIF and I ordered salmon (something I NEVER do), and it was wonderful. Cedar flavoring, all that. Now do I prefer it over, say, steak and chicken? No. But I feel like I'm being good to myself when I eat it twice every twelve years. :-)
Your mom's salmon sounds good, Gracie!
Okay Di-you don't HAVE to eat shellfish, they're bottom dwellers and pretty much the cockroaches of the sea. Try fish instead (make sure it's wild caught and not farm raised). It's better for you than shellfish.
I like cod, swordfish, grouper and a good tuna steak.
Ugh. Seafood is absolutely disgusting. *gag* If I never eat fish again it will be too soon. My grandma used to make salmon cakes and I had to sit in her house all day afterward. *shudder* The closest I get to fish is Finding Nemo. I think it all tastes the same...fishy. To me, an expensive lobster tasted like a slab o' fish from uh, anywhere else.
Yep, it is. Maybe I could mail you a plate sometime. ; )
But if you really despise the taste of fish, try tilapea. (sp?) It's supposed to be more mild. And fresh fish tastes better than packaged grocery store stuff. It doesn't taste or smell fishy, and you can feel good about eating it!
Though don't replace the steaks...
I could live on seafood for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. Mrs. Paul's, or anything else in the frozen section, does NOT qualify as seafood.
You need to try a fresh caught broiled Gulf red snapper. I'm so glad I live on the Gulf coast because we truly have some of the best seafood in the world. The shrimp in 2005 after the hurricanes churned the Gulf up was DIVINE!
I judge many restaurants by the quality of their seafood. Doesn't matter what else is on the menu, if their shrimp or fish doesn't meet my standards I'm not likely to go back.
And I adore calamari.... And octopus.
I'm like you, Di. Fishsticks are about as far as I'll go.
And I thought I was the only one.
Now I do like grilled shrimp.
But the rest of that stuff can just stay in the sea and look beautiful swimming around. I gave it a good try years ago on our honeymoon in Boston - figured if it ever would taste good, that was the place. Ick.
My husband loves lobster, as well as everything else. I don't get it. For starters, I don't like their beady eyes staring at me on my plate, even if they are already dead.
Secondly, I don't want to have to work so hard when I sit down to dinner! If it needs a hammer and a screwdriver and that much work for such a pitiful amount of meat - not to mention the bib you have to wear - that's just not worth it.
Give me a thick juicy filet mignon and a baked potato anytime!!
Ummmm, yeah. About the lobsters. I'm feeling really bad after reading all your comments of sympathy. When we pass them at Wal-mart, I've got the kids waving at them, blowing kisses and telling them "bye-bye" when we leave. It's never really clicked with them that we're on the grocery side of the store and not the pet supply. Maybe I ought to stop now before it does and some serious scarring occurs.
As a side comment, I'd still eat 'em in a heartbeat!
Girls, girls, properly prepared lobster has no beady eyes! And it's all taken out of the shell for you to enjoy. I've never had to fight for a bite of lobster in my life!
Tilapia is supposed to be a bottom dweller too. I'm telling you, it needs to moo or cluck!
Tilapia is supposed to be a bottom dweller too. I'm telling you, it needs to moo or cluck!
Oh, Di, I'm so with you! I hate seafood. We go to Red Lobster every year for Hubby's birthday and I order chicken. My dad was horrified when I told him. My husband is an avid fisherman, but he does catch and release...isn't he sweet?
The one and only time I baked a salmon, I got very sick. Come to find out I was actually pregnant with our youngest son, but I've refused to cook seafood since. Ugh.
I'm so with you, Linda! A hammer and screwdriver to eat? There's something definitely wrong!
Tanja, do you think your boys would recognize their "friends" if they saw one on your plate? *g*
Rachel, if you eat octopus, you're my hero. The most adventurous I've ever gotten was the calamari and I didn't mean to do that! *g*
Oh, my goodness, Lisa, cooking salmon when you're pregnant?!!! You poor thing! No wonder you'll never touch it again!
Squid, octopus, what's the difference? LOL I'll never forget when you ordered that and didn't know what it was! LOL
I eat fish every day. Literally. My fave is mahi mahi but I also love salmon. Funny how you can get sick on something when you're pregnant and it will turn you off for life. I'm that way about pork. Not a fan after getting sick just cooking i when pregnant for our son.
Some tilapia is a bottom dweller, the breed in Asia I think, but what we eat here is really good fish. Very mild white fish without a fishy flavor. I don't like a heavy fish flavor either. Mahi mahi is to die for.
Maybe because I was born and bred (shouldn't that be bred and born?) in Southern California, I love seafood. I also adore sun-dried tomatos and capers. They really are a nice combination on top of fresh fish. Yum. :D
But my favorite was of cooking fish is grilled - outdoors. Just a dash, okay a LOT of garlic, a bit of salt and pepepr, and that's a great feast. One that's good for your heart.
Plus all that garlic keeps the mosquitos off, too. :D
I just bought some Mahi Mahi today, in fact, Colleen! I'm with you on the seafood. I don't eat a lot of shellfish any more, though, because of the cholesterol.
But Red Snapper - yum. Any flaky fish that comes from the ocean is good.
Now me, I LOVE sushi. That's my fave food on this earth. :D
I don't eat a lot of octopus, but only because it's tasteless. That is unless it's in a good octopus salad. Then it yum-oh.
Ane, your FAVORITE food is sushi, NOT chocolate????!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I thought we were kindred spirits!!!!!!
SUSHI?????????????
Diann, wont try to convert you I like tuna out of a can and thats about as far as i go with seafood.
Im with Kristin give me a steak
(roast lamb is even better)
Yeah, but I have chocolate for dessert. :D I gotta have protein before my chocolate.
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