lipp@mariah.DEC (Nicki Lipp - DTN 522-2320) (01/15/85)
<Munch> At 24, I have just gotten braces and cannot eat anything! I need some help with recipes which contain soft food that myself and my husband can tolerate. Spaghetti with tiny noodles for me works well, but a person can't live on that alone. I am already sick of tuna, cottage cheese, and believe it or not, ice cream! Meatloaf is a good idea, but mine is always so dry! HELP!!! Thanks in advance Nicki Lipp DEC Engineering Colorado Springs, CO
stern@inmet.UUCP (01/20/85)
[gobble] I understand your problem. I'm what's known as an orthodontic failure. I had braces on for SIX (that's right, 6) years, and I still have a nasty overbite. Nobody notices it, except for the fact that my lower jaw is smaller than my upper, and it therefore looks like I have a fat face. Since my teeth don't meet, I have to really watch what kinds of things I eat in resturants, on dates, for lunch at work, etc, to avoid looking like a total slob. My suggestions: Make sandwiches on pita bread, not regular bread. Regular bread is much too mushy and sticks to braces and the roof of your mouth, while pita bread kind of tears easily, and is easy to break into bite sized pieces using your teeth (as opposed to hands). Especially if you keep it refrigerated. It might be called Syrian bread, or Syrian pocket bread out where you are. Go to your favorite pizza place, buy a pizza, and wrap it two slices at a time in tin foil. Freeze -- thaw when ready to eat, by cooking in the oven at 400-425. Unwrap it before you heat it up, or you'l have a mess. However, freezing it tends to condense the water under the crust, and when you re-heat it, the crust gets much softer! Despite what Mr. Ortho says, you *can* have corn on the cob. Just cook it normally, and then remove the kernels with a fork. It's messy but worth it (if you like corn). Also try this (my favorite cauliflower recipe): Steam some quantity of cauliflower to desired tenderness. In your case, cut it into bite-sized pieces before steaming. While the cauliflower is percolating, fry some onions and mushrooms (1 small box mushrooms and two onions are enough for 3/4 people) in a bit of butter. Combine: fried mushrooms and onions, bread crumbs and parmesan cheese in a baking dish, and bake for 4-5 minutes at 350. Sorry the quantities aren't exact -- I never measure anything when I cook. While you're into bite sized things, stir-frying vegatables (and meats) also helps those of us who have trouble with the choppers. N.B. -- put a USENET address on future postings so people can send you mail. According to decwrl, decwrl!lipp doesn't exist!!! --Hal Stern Intermetrics, Inc ihnp4!inmet!stern
adm@cbneb.UUCP (02/01/85)
One recipe we enjoy at our house quite a bit is hamburger stroganoff. Use your favorite stroganoff recipe and substitute browned and well drained hamburger for the thin beef strips that you would normally use. Serve over the same short noodles that you're using for spaghetti. If the hamburger is broken up as fine as for spaghetti sauce, it ought to work well. Tim Konfal cbosgd!cbneb!tjk