{"id":427,"date":"2007-01-03T22:53:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T03:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2007-01-03T22:53:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T03:53:54","slug":"sweet-salty-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"sweet salty sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tonight for dinner i had one of my family&#8217;s favorite food combinations:  smoked sausage, sauerkraut and sweet rice (rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk).  i also added green beans for a bit of vegetable (although i suppose sauerkraut could be considered a vegetable&#8230;).  does anyone else think this sounds delicious?  because it is. <\/p>\n<p>my two cents on green beans&#8211;<br \/>\ni like my green beans overcooked and soft.  i liked green beans ok when i was a kid, but as an adult i&#8217;ve found them too squeaky and crunchy and &#8230; green.  it wasn&#8217;t until our trip to paris and a meal at a restaurant where i ordered haricots verts and loved them that i realized the problem.  for some reason, americans tend to like their green beans still crunchy.  it sounds so much more sophisticated for me to say that i like my beans &#8220;french style&#8221; rather than &#8220;overcooked and soft&#8221; but it&#8217;s true either way.  maybe i just need to buy my green beans canned.  i tend not to have the patience to cook them long enough otherwise.  tonight&#8217;s beans (from frozen) where still a bit too crisp.  anyone else prefer their green beans less crunchy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tonight for dinner i had one of my family&#8217;s favorite food combinations: smoked sausage, sauerkraut and sweet rice (rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk). i also added green beans for a bit of vegetable (although i suppose sauerkraut could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-down-memory-lane","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}