Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
Squirrels are just rats with good PR.
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Gifting foods - or how to send a long-distance hug
D'Artagnan does great food gift baskets, and there's always the old standby -- Honey Baked Ham.
Speaking of Mayo....Mayo or Miracle Whip?
What? Are there no Duke's Mayo fans out there in SE Land?
Throwdown: Chick-fil-A vs. McDonald's Southern Style Chicken
You know the taste secret to the Chick fil A chicken, right? They marinate it in pickle juice. This is not an urban legend -- one of my students is the manager of the local CFA.
And their chicken salad is ground up CFA fried chicken breasts.
I can only eat the grilled ones, but they're still the best around.
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I'm Ginger CM - really named Ginger, don't have red hair. I split time between Tampa and a small town south of Atlanta (where I'm a college professor in mass comm at Flannery O'Connor's alma mater). I love to read about food, though I'm gluten (and a bunch of other things) intolerant and can't eat most of the stuff I see on here. I have a gf blog (gfingf.blogspot.com) and jokingly call myself the GF Paula Deen. 'Cept she's way, way richer than I am.
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Real jambalaya??
Oh, I use tomatoes in jambalaya, both in the mix I give as Christmas presents, and in the mixture I put on the table. For every food, there is a purist (or two or a hundred) out there.
Real jambalaya??
I work with people from Lousiana who also say 1. Real Jambalaya does not have tomatoes in it; 2. You would never mix pork and seafood. It's either pork or seafood. Apparently, chicken and pork are OK; and 3. Okra is optional depending on the part of the state you're from.
Louisana people are almost as bad about jambalaya as Texans are about chili. Persnickity...yeah, that's a good word for it.
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Has anyone developed an alternative for "cream of --- " soups?
Use a healthier brand than the red one. Health Valley, Imagine, Pacific, all have tasty organic brands that are free of the nastier additives, and they have real big chunks of mushroom and taste really good. Even the Progresso brand is healthier than Campbell's.
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Throwdown: Chick-fil-A vs. McDonald's Southern Style Chicken
Just thought of something else.... I bet CFA's Sandwichs are less fats then mcdonalds, im not sure on that one, i forgot how many calories and fat is in a CFA but know that its really not to bad considering its fried and its fast food.
I just noticed all my spelling errors on those comments, i spelled sandwich wrong like 100 times. sorry
Throwdown: Chick-fil-A vs. McDonald's Southern Style Chicken
Oh yeah and the CFA that i work at uses homemade biscuts, i know that some CFA's use frozen biscuts but not all of them.
Throwdown: Chick-fil-A vs. McDonald's Southern Style Chicken
I would just like to comment to the person who said that the secret to the CFA sandwhich is that they marinate the chicken in pickle juice. I have worked at a CFA for 6 years now i have been a manager for 3. We do not marinate are CFA Sandwhichs in pickles juice. Our Grills and our old strips are marinated in pickle juice but the regular CFA is not. The secret to our Sandwhich and what makes it 100 times better then Mcdonalds is that its FRESH! not frozen, we bread ALL of our chicken (except the Chargrills of course). When i think of Country fried Chicken Sandwhich, i think of fresh chicken, not a frozen patty that gets reheated. We also have a timed holding system, if the chicken has been sitting for to long we can't serve it. I dunno that all Chick-Fil-A's follow this holding system but i know that they are supposed to and the CFA that i work at in Kentucky does follow the rules.Also, our bun is evenly buttered, the mcdonalds sandwhich above looks as if they used a squirt bottle to spray the butter on. Something i did notice about the CFA sandwhich above is the pickles, they are supposed to be evenly placed on the bun, not over-lapping. Something else that makes the CFA sandwhich is the foil steam bag that we put are sadwhich in, it keeps the sandwhich hot and very moist. I do find it alittle bit weird that the Mcdonalds sandwhich costs more then our CFA sandwhich though considering that its a frozen patty and also its MCDONALDS arn't they supposed to be really cheap? Well with the quality of there food the whole menu should be 99 cents. I have worked at CFA for 6 years now and yes i am tired of eating there 5 days a week, (i eat chargrills everyday almost) i would still, hands down, chose CFA over mcdonalds.
We do have a new limited time coffee carmel milk shake that is out of this world and you should try it. Also we have new chicken strips (no longer marinated in pickle juice) that are amazing as well. Oh and our new Chicken Salad recipe! yummy!
Side note- KFC is the only other place that i know that breads their chicken but i know that not all of their chicken is breaded, i know that the popcorn chicken is frozen, not sure about the rest.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
hahaha thanks eatorama, wasn't sure if anyone was going to quote that fantastic line :)
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
The three bites of squirrel can be served as the main entree after the chipmunk amuse bouche.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
It seems our quest and desire for different types of meat never ends.
We're eating the squirrels now.
Humans are lucky there are so many different animal species on the planet, otherwise we'd probably be eating each other.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
Not bad really. I've had some pretty decent squirrel stew.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
Eddie doesn't eat squirrel anymore since he found out they were high in cholesterol.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
Why not eat free-range squirrel? People hunt doves and rabbits and the squirrel seems like a middle ground between the two.
I'm just waiting for the day I see them piled up at the greenmarket for $10/pound like ramps, another once-disdained "hillbilly" food.
Squirrel: The Eco-Friendly Meat du Jour?
Even the plumpest looking squirrel has very little meat on it. Most of what you see is just puffed out fur. You need several to make a meal and even then its not much meat. But if you bag a few the way to cook 'em is to pan fry them like chicken. Just don't eat the brain as consumption has been linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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