What foods are uniquely '80s'?
Ecto coolers!
pudding pops
sugar smacks
bingorillas
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Cookout Dessert
A few days ago there was a recipe on her for ponchatoula strawberry cupcakes from the cookbook, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea that was made with fresh strawberries and a strawberry cream cheese frosting.....I just made them and they are delicious! I think they would make an excellent cookout summer-y dessert.
Kitschy Recipes
Watergate Salad is one of my favorites (pistachio instant pudding, cool whip, crushed pineapple and mini-marshmallows) and actually a big hit at potlucks. A family favorite is (and dirty little secret) is dump cake : cake mix, cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, layered and dotted with sliced margarine...which my mother always calls oleo....lol.
Your Typical Breakfast: Weekday and Weekend
During the week I try to set a good example for the kids, I'm big on having some protein for breakfast so I always try to get an egg, in some form, down their little gullets. I also have, at any given time, 6-7 tupperware containers full of washed, cut-up fruit in the fridge, which makes it easy to toss some on our plates in the morning. I love cheese omelets, oatmeal, chocolate malt-o-meal, hotcakes and turkey bacon...those are our weekday staples.
On weekends we usually head to out to eat for breakfast and we eat a lot heartier foods, corned beef hash, hash browns, eggs, turkey sausage. Sunday is always hotcake day with either turkey sausage or turkey bacon....I like to try a different hotcake every Sunday....last Sunday we had strawberry hotcakes, next Sunday we'll be having buckwheat with apple topping (or chocolate chip, pumpkin, sweet potato, blueberry, peach, whole wheat hotcakes, hotcakes made with cornmeal, banana pecan, german, pb&j hotcakes, buttermilk hotcakes....we are a family obsessed with our Sunday hotcakes.)
Cook the Book: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Homemade sweet tea....no one in the world makes it like my grams.
Father's Day cake ideas?
My father loves two cakes, he requests one for his birthday and one for Father's Day...Boston Cream Pie and Tres Leches Cake with whipped cream and Strawberries on top.
Birthday Cake
I love Boston Cream....that's always been by B-day cake of choice (with carrot cake running a close second).
Baking Bread
I echo the vote for The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart...the best bread book out there!
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Kitschy Recipes
Hey, what's wrong with cookies in cans!?! :P
I'll probably be in the minority defending Spam (meat in a can), Snack Mate (cheese in a spray can), Reddiwip (whipped cream in a spray can), and...I just realized how much stuff comes out of a can here. lol
@GegeMac: A lot of the cheese sold in our supermarkets are "cheese products;" Velveeta is just one of many. At least in the US, if you see sliced cheese hanging in a plastic bag or stacked like bricks, it's more than likely a cheese product. The real cheese is usually kept in a different refrigerated section, like near the bakery or wine section of the grocery store.
The thing with Velveeta is that you don't have to refrigerate it, and it nukes w/o much effort to a smooth, viscous consistency making it convenient to use for dips and such.
I remember seeing Velveeta for sale back home in Hawaii for $11/pound 15 years ago, so my mom (and I) never bothered with it. I was shocked at how cheap it was on the mainland at $3-4/pound. I have yet to eat Velveeta.
Kitschy Recipes
@ Cassaendra. Thanks for the info. Seriously though I don't think we have dough in a can (maybe I'm just not looking hard enough in the supermarket). Also I think I confused myself, because what I know as a biscuit, I think you call a cookie......
Fair call on the vegemite thing - although I'll have to stand my ground and defend to the death one of my country's "cultural icons" ; )
Cook the Book: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Alcoholic- margaritas hands down (fresh limes though)
Non Alcoholic- iced tea
Cook the Book: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Gin and tonics are my favorite for something cool to drink while sitting on my patio.
Cook the Book: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Mint juleps! Forget mojitos, I prefer this classic work of art in bourbon, mint, sugar and ice - the perfect compliment to relaxing on a porch swing or rocker.
Cook the Book: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Give me a refreshing Gordon's Cup made with cucumber and limes - you can add a splash of Midori for extra pizazz!
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Location: Southern USA
About: I like to bake rather than cook. I love to experiment with odd-sounding cakes and pies. I collect retro and vintage cookbooks.
Favorite foods: anything sweet, I have a whole mouth of sweet teeth! I really like coconut sticky rice, nutella, pancakes, pecan pie. Non-sweet: pastrami, homemade hash, latkes, brisket, hashbrown casserole, BBQ chicken.
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