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Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Tacos out of a truck at Caltech. They offer two kinds of salsa, "civilized" and "evil", and both are tasty!
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
French fries dipped in apple sauce. Tasty.
What's on Your Easter Menu: Ham or Lamb?
Ham...... with a cripsy glaze. Match that up with homemade macaroni and cheese and green beans with roasted corn topped with parm regg and romano cheese. Yum!
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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)
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Tacos out of a truck at Caltech. They offer two kinds of salsa, "civilized" and "evil", and both are tasty!
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
French fries dipped in apple sauce. Tasty.
What's on Your Easter Menu: Ham or Lamb?
Ham...... with a cripsy glaze. Match that up with homemade macaroni and cheese and green beans with roasted corn topped with parm regg and romano cheese. Yum!
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
Anything that has jus as a side...... or a spaghetti sandwich. That would be an interesting upscale sandwich.
What's So Weird About That?
Nothing extreme here. Just odd.... french fries dipped in apple sauce. Chicken nuggets dipped in mashed potatoes..... like it was a condiment. And ketchup buns... learned that one from Mummy.
PS: LOVED dots, and hated pizza as a kid.
Cook the Book: 'The Great Wings Book'
Wings, definitely. And some nachos, with fresh jalapenos.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
Humboldt Fog.... mmmmmm.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Boneless Heritage Ham
Spicy grainy mustard, melted swiss, tomatoes on any kind of hot toasty bread.
What was the best thing you ate in '08?
The best experience of 2008 was definitely eating at minibar.... 27 glorious bite-sized courses stretched over two hours. And getting to watch the chefs make everything right in front of you was as much a feast for the eyes as it was for the stomach.
Too many to choose from... BLTs with fresh summer tomatoes and the best bacon in the world (Whole Foods Black Forest bacon, it won our household "bacon-off" competition), butter and sugar corn on the cob, anything at EatBar, the west coast ribeye at Red Rock Canyon, everything at craftsteak... oh happy memories....
Top Chef Calendar Giveaway: What's Your Favorite Sugar-free Dessert?
Fruit and cheese, definitely. Sweet, savory and sugar-free!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage
Willard's.... best you can get in Chantilly, VA.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Black forest cake. Mmmmmmm....
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Ribeye...... seared over charcoal for crunchy on the outside, and medium-rare on the inside
Gibbles Potato Chips
Gibbles! One of my favorite things about Pittsburgh since I was a little girl. My grandmother still mails a bag to me for every holiday and my birthday.
Always good to see more people embrace the awesomeness of lard-fried chips.
What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
I used to go to the LA Reader office on Friday mornings to collect my mail, then I'd stop in the chain drugstore nearby to pick up a piece of beef jerky, and a package of vanilla creme sandwich cookies, which I'd eat while driving to my day job. Not together, just back-to-back. Can't remember if I ate the jerky or the cookies first, nor why I thought those would make a good breakfast.
Gibbles Potato Chips
If you like a big crunch try Krunchers chips especially the hot buffalo wing flavor.
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’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?
Frosty and Fries (not weird)
Dunking Chocolate chip cookies in Orange juice... YUMM!
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.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
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Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
We were visiting the West Coast when we first came across Fish Tacos. Being from the Midwest (and this was a long time ago) we'd never heard of them and were quite leery of trying them. After some serious nudging from local friends, we broke down and gave them a try - and WOW! We've been practically addicted ever since!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
I can remember the fish tacos at a place called Islands in San Diego! The were the best! The had shreded cabbage instead of lettuce! Thank you for the giveaway!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
El Sombrero Restaurant.....genuine Mexican tacos! They are the best.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Ata a community dinner a lady from Mexico brought the most delicious tacos.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
The first good tacos I had while serving in the military in the southwest. Not the hard shelled fall to pieces filled with ground beef and bad cheese from school lunch days.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
tacos when i went to san antonio for the first time. Wow!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Shrimp tacos on the beach in Zihuatanejo.
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About Tootsie
Location: Centreville, VA
About: 26, work in the healthcare industry now, but longtime ex-restaurant folk (front of the house and expo)..... love to cook, eat and imbibe beverages
Favorite foods: Bacon, cheese (what doesn't it go on?), potatoes, ham (it ends in "mmmmm"), anything Mexican... maybe listing what I don't like would be easier.....
Last bite on earth: Poutine from Pizza Italie..... nom nom nom

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)