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Just this weekend I had a taste for biscuits & gravy, so I researched onine for what I felt would be an appropriate recipe. Well, not to bring her name up again, but I figured an authentic source would indeed be Ms. Dean.
All I can say is thank goodness I cut the black pepper in half and I wished I had not added any salt, let alone 1 tsp. And we won't discuss the pound of bulk sausage, half pound of bacon, pint of half & half, white flour, and 2 TB of butter.
I can't even say if it was any good because the salt ruined it for me.
Dinner Tonight: Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Apricots
My quick report: this was very good! Next time I might level out the half cup measure of apricots instead of measuring generously, though, because the apricot flavor overpowered that of the sweet potatoes. Fortunately, I love apricots.
The lovely thing about this soup's flavor is that the curry & sweet combinations enhanced each other on the tongue in a delightful way. For the record, my purchased curry is, uh, not new and I considered replacing it first, but went ahead anyway.
A breeze to make, and -- I suppose because it was pureed -- it stayed piping hot in the soup pot for a long, long time.
Dinner Tonight: Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Apricots
I'm making this over the weekend. Will report back.
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In Season: Cauliflower
Cut into smalll flowers and roasted at 350 degrees in a single layer with olive oil and salt, turning once or twice, until browned, about an hour or so. I could eat the entire pan, and I'm not a huge c-flower fan. I also like to toss the roasted cauliflower with whole wheat pasta and some fried-up bacon pieces. Yum yum! I wouldn't hesitate to toss some soft cheese with this, something like mild goat cheese, ricotta, or feta.
And another option: James Patterson has a rich and delicious cauliflower gratin recipe in his "Vegetables" book.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Just this weekend I had a taste for biscuits & gravy, so I researched onine for what I felt would be an appropriate recipe. Well, not to bring her name up again, but I figured an authentic source would indeed be Ms. Dean.
All I can say is thank goodness I cut the black pepper in half and I wished I had not added any salt, let alone 1 tsp. And we won't discuss the pound of bulk sausage, half pound of bacon, pint of half & half, white flour, and 2 TB of butter.
I can't even say if it was any good because the salt ruined it for me.
Dinner Tonight: Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Apricots
My quick report: this was very good! Next time I might level out the half cup measure of apricots instead of measuring generously, though, because the apricot flavor overpowered that of the sweet potatoes. Fortunately, I love apricots.
The lovely thing about this soup's flavor is that the curry & sweet combinations enhanced each other on the tongue in a delightful way. For the record, my purchased curry is, uh, not new and I considered replacing it first, but went ahead anyway.
A breeze to make, and -- I suppose because it was pureed -- it stayed piping hot in the soup pot for a long, long time.
Dinner Tonight: Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Apricots
I'm making this over the weekend. Will report back.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
From the neighborhood all-night greasy spoon: Double cheeseburger on pita with yellow mustard and lots of sliced dill pickles. And maybe some fried mozz sticks with a marinara dipping sauce. Plus a large sugary soda with Excedrin. Then water.
I wake up in the morning and see the yellow mustard stains on my fingernails and remember it all.
EW! Moldy wooden spoon!
My sympathies for the original poster. That same scenario recently happened to me, but it was with a white plastic cutting board that had been sitting in my brand new dishwasher for about that length of time. I was also quite freaked. I tossed the cutting board and ran the DW at the highest level, a sterilization cycle.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
There were three, simultaneously for some reason:
-- The red-checked Betty Crocker 3-ring binder
-- "The New Orleans Cookbook," by Rima and Richard Collins
-- "Northern Italian Cooking," by G. Bugiali, I think
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
The first time I knew I loved bacon was in the late 1950s, when I was six or seven years old. I distinctly remember sitting in my Arkansas grandparents' kitchen and playing a mental food game with myself: "what are my favorite three foods?"
The winners were burned bacon, chocolate ice cream sodas, and buttered popcorn.
Still nothing wrong with those choices!
But to answer the question, I like it because it's good hot or cold, plays well with other foods, satisfies the fat-salt need, and is so versatile in punching up flavor. It's byproduct -- bacon fat -- is also a staple of the cooking of my mother's people (from Hungary).
Yes, I know the contest is over, but I just wanted to comment.
Dinner Tonight: Soy-Marinated Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Welcome to Chicago, Blake! It's a great town.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Most of my meals are taken alone, so I usually eat "normally," whatever the heck that is. Except when I don't, like the dinners of Cheeze-its and wine.
For the laddies- Hottest Food Network Dude?
I think the husband half of the Neely's is adorable. Can't think of his name right now.
Anthony Bourdain drunk on latest episode!?!?
Why, oh why does my cable provider not carry the Travel Channel in my area? I'm missing all this.
Seriously Italian: Zabaione, My Way
Beautifully written! You convinced me to try this.
julie/julia
Loved it! After a very short while, I realized that every time Julia/Meryl was on screen, I had stopped eating my movie food (sorry, it's an important movie theater ritual for me, and I pretended Julia would understand), but stopped eating it not because it was crappy movie food. No, it was because I couldn't stop smiling. You can't smile and eat at the same time, it turns out. But the oddest thing imagineable is that *while* smiling, I also found myself also leaking tears. Okay, crying. And believe me, I am not a cryer. In four months of chemotherapy I think I cried just once. Okay, downer note. But the point is, the movie moved me deeply. Go see it!
Serious Green: 10 Cheap & Green Kitchen Tips
Oh, yeah, jenh718 is so right: that stove rocks! Want it, want it. I'd trade my new Wolf for it.
Dinner Tonight: Zucchini, Mushroom, and Goat Cheese Tart
Question: do you flatten the puff pastry out a little with a rolling before adding the other ingredients? I ask because I've made a Martha recipe for a puff pastry-asparagus-Gruyere tart that required a slight flattening of the pastry first. Maybe I'd know this instinctively if I were a puff pastry diva, but I am not! The recipe sounds great, though, and I just so happen to have a log of goat cheese in my fridge and a Saturday farmer's market in my neighborhood that sells wonderful 'shrooms.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
My best was a tarte tatin whose recipe I got from a Wms-Sonoma cooking class years and years ago in a now-shuttered store on Chestnut Street in Chicago. The homemade caramel sauce drizzled on top was a total bear to make; I kept getting on the phone to call people for advice, the sugar burned, etc. The tarte gave me other fits, as I recall, but I learned to master it. Then I lost the friggin' recipe! Attempts to recreate it years later were an unqualified disaster.
Favorite Chicago Foods?
@2qrs....better check on Red Fish. I think they have closed. But I'm not 100 percent sure.
Pantry 'Ghosts': Do You Have Them?
My ghost is a famous basketball player. When I emptied the pantry earlier this month for a kitchen remodel, I found an individual-sized box of cereal-- I want to say it was Wheaties -- with a picture of Michael Jordan on it. He had hair. I'm guessing this relic dates from the early 1990s. I am keeping it.
Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'
Another vote for spaghetti carbonara. Also mac 'n cheese with hot dogs!
Your most surprising cookbook?
I have a cookbook by TV personality David Letterman's mother. Homey, Hoosier food is the theme, I guess. I think someone gave it to me because I'm a Hoosier. Anyway, her fruit cobbler recipe has become my standard.
Relish Tray: Way or No Way?
Total WAY! And don't forget adding cream cheese stuffed celery, deviled eggs, and fancy cut radishes to the mix!
Recipe Request: Best Brisket Recipes
I second lattelatte's recommendation of "My Mother's Brisket" from epicurious. It's fabulous. For the liquid, I use half dry red wine and half beef broth. Also, I think 350 degrees is too high for braising meat, so I cook it, covered, at 325 degrees instead. Make it at least a day ahead, as everyone says. You cannot miss!
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
French toast made from doughnuts, filled with ice cream and gingered mangos and topped with hot caramel sauce. Since I do not foresee making this again (blessedly my beau does not have a sweet tooth), no regrets for this one-time splurge.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
A sauce made with sliced breakfast sausages, cream of chicken soup, Hellman's mayonnaise, lemon juice, ground pepper, broccoli, shredded aged cheddar on top and served over pasta or rice. The sauce smells vile but it actually tastes delicious and I would even go so far as call it comfort food. I often find myself craving this sauce during winter.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Just had this one, recipe follows for all of you seriously in need of upping your cholesterol levels:
Boil or bake a potato and keep hot. Soft boil an egg: The white should just be set and the yolk still runny. Cut a cross in the potato and squeeze to expose inside and create a hollow. Add salt and a generous dollop of butter. Slice the top off the egg and dribble/scoop the yolk into the potato. Top with grated Tusser's or Cheddar cheese and shredded pepper ham. Pig out.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
fried hot dog - melt butter in frying pan, fry a split oscar meyer 100% beef frank until golden brown and crispy. Melt American cheese slice on top. For added goodness, butter and broil hot dog bun in oven. Place hot dog in bun and add your usual toppings. Also, makes me think of similar fried bologna sandwiches. Man, I love processed meat!
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
in compliance with my low-carb diet...
low carb "nachos"
layer deep fried pork rinds in a pan,* sprinkle on some hot sauce, then smother with an assortment of sliced cheeses (pre-shredded will not do!)
place in broiler until cheese is bubbly.
*best when using the ultra large pork rinds found in Mexican groceries
eat immediately. keep a cell phone within reach to dial 911!
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
It has to be the casseroles I make once or twice a year....hashbrown casserole (hashbrowns, butter, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, onions and cheese) or chicken casserole (cooked, shredded chicken breasts, cream of chicken soup, ro-tel and crushed doritos...all mixed together and then topped with cheese and baked).
Dessert-wise: Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake...It has 4 sticks of butter in just the cake, that's not even counting the Italian Meringue Buttercream frosting...that has 5 sticks of butter!!
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
@butterfingers -
oh
my
gosh.
my sister used to eat that!
you two are two in a million i would assume LOL
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Once I made a shortbread recipe that called for 2 sticks of butter...... for 9 cookies.
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@betteirene -- I'm afraid that regional American cooking is going to disappear. Between chain restaurants, cookbooks and magazines, eating and cooking is getting much more homogenized.
I'm a fan of sugar cream pie, I just don't eat it daily -- or even monthly. I had the butter and sugar sandwiches when I was a youngster -- also peanut butter and brown sugar. I'm not sure that a butter/sugar sandwich is any worse than grilled cheese made with processed cheese food.
There's also some evidence that by adding the bacon or bacon grease to greens, for instance, you make them taste better and people eat more of the greens. The fat makes some of the nutrients in the greens more accessible.
@MarvinDog -- I think the French might be surprised to find out that duck confit is unhealthy.
@tacoo -- It's all about moderation. Unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we've been taught that if a lot of something is bad, then none is best.
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@freakyhair...Word. Love that recipe but holy cow!! The butter content rivals Paula Deen's toxic concoctions. Luckily it's a huge batch.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
It's a tossup among three for me:
As a child I LOVED white bread and mayonnaise sandwiches with my Pepsi... luckily, Grandma wouldn't let me have them - I had to sneak them. ~Shudder~
With holidays/Winter approaching, time to break out the fudge, too. My fave is basically sweetened condensed milk and choccolate chips. Mmmm, sugar, fat and chocolate - what's not to love?
And, I hate to admit that lately I've had a hankering for college food, specifically Chili Casserole: Canned chili (my favorite rhymes with 'Shtennison's Not') layered with oodles of cheddar cheese and corn tortillas and baked. Doesn't seem that bad until you read the ingredients on the can (what IS 'textured protein'?!) and realise the cheese is basically about a pound of hydrolised fat... The only healthy thing in it is the 6 corn tortillas.
But then, nowadays opening a can of anything but organic tomatoes feels sinful, so who am I to judge?
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Cinnabon clone buns. so....much...butter....
http://www.thecookingphotographer.com/2009/07/clone-wars-er-i-mean-cinnabon-clones.html
They were good, but not good enough to eat all that butter. I had 1, and gave the rest away.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
A black olive sandwich!
A can of chopped black olives mixed with far too much mayo spread on 2 pieces of white bread slathered with too much mayo, for the ultimate olive/mayo sandwich with a large spoonful of mayo au naturale as the appetizer before the sandwich. The first 3/4 was great and by the end my hunger for it was fullfilled. Not to be eatten again for at least a month or twenty-two.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
I made a bread pudding out of chocolate/orange quick bread and then covered the whole thing with caramel sauce.
Soooo....bread that consisted mostly of chocolate, sugar, processed flour and orange juice baked in a bed of eggy custard slathered with homemade caramel.
Ruined by health concerns? Hardly! I had some, and so did my guests, and we all enjoyed the heck out of it. Would I do it again? Maybe in another year or two. After all, it was amazingly delicious.
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@BobbieAnne I make that with matzoh for Passover every year. I got the recipe from Gourmet - it's called Caramel Matzoh Crunch, and peopel just devour it.
The 'most unhealthy' thing I have made recently was a jelly doughnut bread pudding from the New York Times - 14 jelly doughnuts, heavy cream, eggs, sugar, and it disappeared in seconds.
I also make brownies that have granulated sugar, brown sugar and Karo syrup, 6 oz. chocolate, 1/2 # butter and 7 eggs in each batch.
@IndyGal I agree - I don't make this stuff for myself, but I bring it to parties and events where there will be lots of people. So you eat 1 or 2 pieces, once in a while, no problem.
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I noticed the hillbilly theme we got going here and it reminded me of a trip we took from Chicago to visit the kin in Gilbert, W.Va. Instead of following the usual interstates through IN and OH and eating at Shoney's, we took a scenic route over three days and made a pit stop at a Cracker Barrel in TN one day and went to the Loveless Cafe for dinner.
One Sunday after we got back home, I tried to duplicate Cracker Barrel's breakfast menu. I made biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, eggs, grits, fried potatoes (instead of hash brown casserole) and fried apples. Every now and then, we'll get a hankerin' for a meal like this, but it's such a pain to get the timing right that I won't do it unless I've got help. It's disgustingly unhealthy, but man, once in a while we just gotta have it.
Don't you just adore regional American cooking? I just love it when a recipe starts with a stick of butter, or when you take something perfectly healthy, like green beans or spinach, and doctor it up with a a pound of bacon and a couple of spoons full of bacon grease.
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Grilled fresh foie gras (with diced mango, port soaked prunes and sherry wine vinegar) over brioche toasts, with duck fat fried potatoes [and green beans to assuage the guilt some]. Quite delicious.
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I've made many things that weren't healthy at all - from real mac & cheese with 6 kinds of cheese to Guy Fieri's Mac & Cheese that is topped with bacon, and the Sweet Potato Gooey Butter Cake from Paula Deen. I think the thing that was the worst was the Toasted Ravioli which is deep fried ravioli. I've made all kinds of deep fried things. It may be bad for you but it tastes soooo good.
I've eaten worse though - Deep Fried Oreos, Deep Fried Macaroni & Cheese (both at different fairs), Deep Fried Mars Bars, Deep Fried Twinkies - but i've never made any of them. I'd rather eat stuff like that out of the house. If I deep fry in the house, it smells like it for days after.
My favorite thing to make at home (But only for holidays) is Potato Latkes. They are sooo fattening but so good. Also, 3x a year I make my own chopped chicken livers for Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah. Ground up chicken livers with chicken fat - can't get much worse for you.
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King Ranch chicken casserole, followed by tater tot casserole (traditional recipe) and then by Paula Deen's tomato pie (third in line because it actually has tomatoes in it, as well as two cups of cheese and a cup of mayo, plus whatever goes into the crust). All so good, yet so bad that they only are allowed to be cooked once a year in my house.
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Marvin Dog...the waffle dish sounds like a close cousin to my "Hillbilly Special." Look about 6 comments above yours!
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My mother makes waffles by partially cooking bacon on the waffle iron, then pouring the waffle batter over the bacon and bacon grease.
The most unhealthy thing I make would have to be either frozen custard, which is egg yolks, cream, sugar and whatever flavor, or duck confit, which is duck leg quarters slowly cooked in duck fat.
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I created a brownie recipe that I call suicide because one 3 X 3 inch square must have the calorie count to send a kindergarten class bouncing off the wall and that is after nap time.
You would be amazed as to how many chocolate ingredients you can fit into one dessert
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Sailor Dave - I actually DID make quinoa and kale for dinner one time, and then melted about a half pound of butter to pour over it. Oh, yes, and grated another half pound of extra sharp cheddar to go over the top of that. Ironically, in this discussion, the two ladies whose cooking ALWAYS makes me drool (Ina and Paula) are mentioned several times. Paula dropped the information the other day that her husband is now on a diet. OMG! Who is going to cook for him?
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I college (many years ago), the dorms hooked up the waffle machines only on Sundays. My friends and I would each have a fresh waffle (one would cover the whole dinner-size plate), topped with ice cream, lots of melted peanut butter, warm Hershey's syrup, and cinnamon sugar. Ug - what a sugar rush!
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When I worked at McDonald's we used to invent sandwiches and mine were worse for you than most.
One time I cooked up a quarter pound burger, deep fried a grilled chicken patty (instead of cooking it the "right" way), fried an egg, cooked a sausage patty, and some bacon. Add it to a toasted bun with mayo, arch deluxe sauce (remember that? Well it was bad for you!) and fries (yes the fries are a condiment). For a garnish a chicken nugget on top. Modifications could have been adding a mcrib (in season) or swapping the breaded chicken for the grilled variety.
Also a big mac made with quarter pound burgers and extra sauce is about the simplest way to go really unhealthy.
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Cut into smalll flowers and roasted at 350 degrees in a single layer with olive oil and salt, turning once or twice, until browned, about an hour or so. I could eat the entire pan, and I'm not a huge c-flower fan. I also like to toss the roasted cauliflower with whole wheat pasta and some fried-up bacon pieces. Yum yum! I wouldn't hesitate to toss some soft cheese with this, something like mild goat cheese, ricotta, or feta.
And another option: James Patterson has a rich and delicious cauliflower gratin recipe in his "Vegetables" book.