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Corned Beef Hash: Way or No Way?
anyone want to share their recipes for homemade cbh? I just made 2 large CB roasts yesterday and have about a pound leftover.
What to bring to an Thanksgiving Pot Luck...in the office.
I have made this often for potlucks at work, I make it the day before and toss it in a crockpot in the morning, also make the rice the night before and microwave it before its time to serve, its cheap to make and people rave about it, I make it with smoked turkey drumsticks:
Red Beans & Rice
Ingredients:
1 bag red/kidney beans (16 oz.)
3-4 Tablespoons oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 large Bell Pepper, chopped
2-3 stalks celery, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced (or to taste)
1-2 smoked ham hocks (or smoked turkey wings)
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
Cajun seasoning to taste
Soak beans in cold water overnight, at least 8 hours, but no longer than 12. (You can skip this step but, if you do, it will take the beans a LOT longer to cook.)
In an 8-quart stock pot, sauté onion, pepper, celery, carrot, and garlic in the oil until soft & translucent. Add beans, cayenne, bay leaves, smoked hocks/wings and thyme. Cover with water, stir, and bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover and simmer for an hour.
After the hour, taste for salt and add Cajun seasoning. If you’re using a no-salt or low-salt Cajun seasoning, you may need to add salt, as well. (I use either Zatarain’s for Tony Chachere’s, both available at Kroger.) Simmer two more hours, or until beans are done to desired softness.
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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My dad would make us the depression era breakfast he grew up on (I should mention I was 4 when i first remember eating this, it was the mid 1970') coffee soup, it was either saltine crakers or bread with coffee poured over and as much sugar as you liked. WOW!
Corned Beef Hash: Way or No Way?
anyone want to share their recipes for homemade cbh? I just made 2 large CB roasts yesterday and have about a pound leftover.
What to bring to an Thanksgiving Pot Luck...in the office.
I have made this often for potlucks at work, I make it the day before and toss it in a crockpot in the morning, also make the rice the night before and microwave it before its time to serve, its cheap to make and people rave about it, I make it with smoked turkey drumsticks:
Red Beans & Rice
Ingredients:
1 bag red/kidney beans (16 oz.)
3-4 Tablespoons oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 large Bell Pepper, chopped
2-3 stalks celery, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced (or to taste)
1-2 smoked ham hocks (or smoked turkey wings)
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
Cajun seasoning to taste
Soak beans in cold water overnight, at least 8 hours, but no longer than 12. (You can skip this step but, if you do, it will take the beans a LOT longer to cook.)
In an 8-quart stock pot, sauté onion, pepper, celery, carrot, and garlic in the oil until soft & translucent. Add beans, cayenne, bay leaves, smoked hocks/wings and thyme. Cover with water, stir, and bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover and simmer for an hour.
After the hour, taste for salt and add Cajun seasoning. If you’re using a no-salt or low-salt Cajun seasoning, you may need to add salt, as well. (I use either Zatarain’s for Tony Chachere’s, both available at Kroger.) Simmer two more hours, or until beans are done to desired softness.
Good spots in the Columus, OH area?
Welcome to town! Lots of good affordable food options:
Cuco's Taqueria- http://www.cucostaqueria.com/ great fish taco's and salsa bar
Right across the street is City BBQ:
http://cityqbbq.com/
Betty's :
http://bettyscolumbus.com/
Pita Hut:
http://www.pitahutgrille.com/ next door to Bob's Bar, you can take out and eat in Bob's, Pita Hut is run by awesome staff, amazing food and salads, coupons on the site
Cuisine Of India http://www.cuisineofindiatogo.com/ amazing buffet on Wednesday nights
What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
Lemons THANK YOU! My mamaw would make Oysted Dressing that sounds just like that and I never got the recipe. I plan on serving 3 types of dressing this year!
What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
Lemons- Care to share the recipe for the Oyster Dressing??
Purchased a Slow Cooker. (Go Phillies!!)
this is our must have dip for Buckeye games, serve with torilla chips:
1 pound ground beef
1 pound italian sausage (not the link variety, use the "roll" we use Bob Evans)
1 onion
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 pound block velveeta cheese
jarred sliced jalepeno peppers
brown ground beef, italian sausage and onion, once hamburger and sausage is cooked put in crock pot and add cream of mushroom soup and cubed velveeta cheese. Cook on low until cheese is melted, chop jalepeno's (start with 3 tablespoons chopped) add to dip and cook on low for 20 minutes, taste and see if more jalepeno's are needed and turn crock pot to warm. This goes quick at our tailgates, I have also in the past added a can of rotel tomatoes
Family dining in Columbus, Ohio
The italian place is Bucca Di Beppo and there is one in Worthington about 10 minutes from the zoo, it is located right off of 270 and 23:
http://www.bucadibeppo.com/
There is also Goose Neck Tavern in Powell which has great home made food, it is probably 5 minutes from the zoo at 9721 Sawmill Rd.
City BBQ is AWESOME and there is one about 3 miles from the zoo that also has a Graeters Ice Cream attached:
http://www.cityqbbq.com/index.php
Out of all of them I would recommend City BBQ
Parkersburg, West Virginia... Where to eat?
Head to Athens and eat at Casa Nueva, you WILL NOT be sorry! Worker owned, local produce, seasonal menu, slow food and great prices. Try the black bean salsa, I have driven 2 hours to have it when the craving hits.
Hit up the Cantina/Bodega next door between 5-8 for the Puerco Pibil..they also make alot of their own infused vodka, the ginger infused vodka with ginger ale is to die for. Actually anyone within a 4 hour drive of Athens should check it out sometime.
Remember your sack lunch?
My parents divorced when I was 3 and up till I was in 2nd grade I lived with my Mom, then she moved to another town an hour away and instead of moving me halfway during the school year my dad would come stay with me and on the weekends my mom would come home. Every morning my dad would try to do my pigtails (always lopsided and crooked, he was a welder and his hands werent made for little girl hairstyling) and pack my lunch. Always the same thing..fried thick cut bologna on white bread with ketchup wrapped in foil, a Little Debbie oatmeal pie and a quarter for milk. It was the weirdest lunch ever but very exotic since my Mom never allowed me to have white bread, she always made her own wheat bread and woul NEVER buy me any "snacks"
Must Have From Trader Joes?
Thanks for all of the awesome suggestions! Keep em' coming!
Eating in Columbus, Ohio
Cant go wrong with any of the places listed here:
http://www.dineoriginalscolumbus.com/database/restaurants.php
Also Comfest is going on that weekend in Goodale park, lots of music and many great food vendors:
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
jello with a middle layer of sour cream, bananas and strawberries (from the freezer) - for school lunch, a scrambled egg sandwich made that morning on white bread with, yes, ketchup - pork roll and swiss cheese with relish and ketchup on english muffins for dinner - still love them all!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Mac & cheese with a can of tuna... which I still love to this day.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Rice chex as a topping for vanilla ice cream. Yum!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
I only eat french toast with granulated sugar on it. No syrup, butter, fruit, nothing. Just granulated sugar.
Ultimate favorite sandwich: cream cheese and jelly. Grape Jelly.
Graham crackers broken up in a bowl and drenched in milk for breakfast.
Not too weird, just not common. :P
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
We also had the bologna/pickle/mayo sandwich filling growing up in Kansas. Though it was usually saved for traval occasions - we'd pack a cooler with the hash and a loaf of bread and stop at picnic tables to eat. I also loved the potato chip/mayo sandwiches.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
We too had SOS (but ours was Budding sliced lunch meat with a can of cream of something on toast), dad too implied it was some sort of Army way of doing things. Also, when we were sick, we could request "milk toast" which was basically cinnamon-sugar toast, cut up into bite sized squares drenched in milk until soggy. And mac-n-cheese with ketchup. Chicken noodle soup with ketchup. Eggs with ketchup. You may be sensing a theme.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Seeing all the references to bologna reminds me that when I was very small we had a maid and she would give me whatever I wanted to eat. It always really annoyed my mom when she found out that I had bologna with ketchup on it for lunch. Not a sandwich, just the bologna.
My sister taught me to eat hot dogs right out of the freezer and to put salt on sliced pickles.
My family still likes something we call "weenie stew" which is basically a red gravy with hot dogs cooked in it. You eat it on spaghetti. But that's the only thing in this post that I still eat, though it's been years since I've had weenie stew. I wonder if I have any red gravy in the freezer.......
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Cheetos dipped in lemon yogurt. In retrospect, I'm roughly a hundred percent certain that my Dad thought this up while stoned.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My sister and I would put Kraft singles on a small plate and microwave it. She liked hers still gooey so she could scoop it up with a shrimp fork, while I liked mine cooked right before burning, so I could peel it off and eat it like a chip.
Also, asparagus and shrimp dipped in mayo, eggs cooked in the microwave mixed with either ketchup or soy sauce, broken up uncooked Taiwanese ramen noodles, toast dipped in hot chocolate, no salt & pepper on the table...only soy sauce.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My favorite sandwich as a kid was an omelet with jam in a pita. The other kids thought it was strange, my sister's fav was yogurt and olive paste. But our food didnt get really weird til we went to high school, it was a boarding school, where everyone have yogurt sandwiches in like a hot dog bun with potato chips and sugar. I still find myself buying hot dog buns every so often.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
I'm glad to see someone else ate cream cheese and green olive sandwiches. I loved these--the green olives with the red pimentos, on white bread. This was my favorite sandwich to take to school. And yeah, I haven't had one since, I now have a craving!
Also, one dinner my mom made was potatoes and spinach with sour cream. Mash up boiled potatoes, add cooked frozen spinach, eat with butter and sour cream. This must have been a left-over Depression-era thing. I now eat it occasionally as comfort food.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Pei dan. I remember watching a fear factor and watching people withdraw in terror from something I'd been eating for as long as I could remember. Pansies.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
@lollie - re: the boxed mac and cheese with sliced hot dogs... my family used to do that too... my parents called it "polka dot macaroni and cheese". (I would always pick out the hot dogs, though... I've never liked them. Loved the mac and cheese as a child, but I would have none of it being defiled by evil hot dogs.)
And I remembered one more: tuna sandwiches with Pringles in them. Not real potato chips... it had to be Pringles.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Wow, lets see here...
- potato chips in sandwiches, and french fries in sandwiches too (before I discovered Primanti's)
- french fries dipped in applesauce
- chicken nuggets slathered with mashed potatoes
- ketchup sandwiches
- broken up graham crackers in a bowl of milk until they get absolutely mushy
- my sister and I would eat curls of margarine when we were little
- condensed soup with so many saltines crushed up into it that there was no broth left (a trick I learned from both of my grandfathers)
- buttered toast dipped into morning tea (the whole English side of my family does it)
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My grandfather used to eat chocolate cake with french's yellow mustard
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
What?? Nobody ate fried baloney and cheddar sammies on white bread? The THRILL of watching that slice fry and suddenly puff in the middle.. how awesome it was to POKE and watch it deflate. Why? I have no idea.
My dad and sis loved peanut butter, mayo, and pickle sam's *shiver*
I still like peanut butter and bacon as well as a schmear of liverwurst with sharp cheddar, pickle and spicy mustard on toast. MMMM! Odd to be a kid and like the liverwurst.. but it was gooood.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My husband grew up eating white bread and ketchup sandwiches, as well as bologna and Dorito sandwiches. His dad would mix Tang with instant coffee. Yerrrgh.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
my dad's "creation" - elbow macaroni, fried hot dogs, and scrambled eggs mixed together and topped with ketchup. I still love it once in a very long while. my kids might eat it but my husband (who is a missionary kid and will eat anything) flatly refuses to try it.
The only soda in our house was Tab, so I was the only 8 year old at camp drinking diet soda for that refreshing artificial sweetener!
And tacos were always corn tortilla shells, manwich sauced-hamburger, mozzarella cheese, chopped dill pickles, and diced tomatoes. Still a yummy, if not authentic, combo!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
toasted marshmallow grilled cheese sandwiches. My husband is horrified, I keep trying to tell him to give them a chance.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
this wasn't necessarily a family food, but when I was young, like 5 or 6, I actually indulged in butter, straight up. Oh to be young again.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Wow great stuff here guys! My mother used to put Ovaltine in my oatmeal, making it "chocolate oatmeal". We used to make kosher hot dog fried rice and also use the cut up dogs in macaroni and red sauce. We are a half filipino household, and though this isn't exactly a food, but I was so accustomed to eating so often with my hands, it freaked my friends out, and so I stopped. But I'll still do it at home!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
I love Loco Mocos (hawaiian dish=rice, hamburger patty, gravy, topped with a fried egg), so my mom had this great idea to mix up my breakfast by putting fried eggs ontop of all leftovers and calling it "____ Moco." Common dishes included "Chow Fun Moco", "Linguini with clams Moco," "Curry rice Moco" and "Spaghetti Moco." To this day I put eggs on all kinds of leftovers to give it that rich delicious taste.
I also ate chili and rice with boiled hot dogs like any good Japanese American, only to discover in college that other Asians were unfamiliar with the practice.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Butter on pop tarts: the only way to eat them.
Potato chips dipped in cream cheese.
Peanuts crushed up in chocolate ice cream.
Corn mixed into mashed potatoes.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Sliced hot dogs, baked beans and mac & cheese all mixed together. So good.
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My dad would make us the depression era breakfast he grew up on (I should mention I was 4 when i first remember eating this, it was the mid 1970') coffee soup, it was either saltine crakers or bread with coffee poured over and as much sugar as you liked. WOW!