What will you (or, would you if you could) make for dinner for your mom on Mother's Day? For my mom, I think it would be a simple meal of fried catfish, cornbread, oven-roasted potatoes and cole slaw. We'd start with a Shirley Temple (for her; wine for me) and giant, salted cashews. For dessert we'd have homemade pound cake (her recipe) with sliced fresh peaches and homemade vanilla ice cream. Yeah. She would have liked that.
My idea of Heaven is a place where you can eat, drink and smoke anything you want, and as much as you want, regardless of the calories, cholesterol, fat content, or other bad stuff it might contain. Coconut cream pie, for example, would be considered health food. What would you pig out on in Food Heaven?
What's the best Indian restaurant in Manhattan these days? Extra points if it's near Chelsea. Thanks.
The question about Zippy Dogs (which sadly, I have not experienced) got me thinking. What is the best school cafeteria dish you remember from your past? For me, it was these incredibly buttery, totally un-crumbly, corn muffins from grade school. From high school I fondly remember the school cafeteria's version of pizza. It really wasn't like pizza at all... more like really flat biscuit dough topped with a ground beef/tomatoe sauce mixture and lots of cheddar cheese. What dish do you still lust after from your school days?
It's pouring rain here in NYC and I have an irresistible urge to whip up a big pan of mac and cheese and some bacon corn muffins. What's your favorite stormy weather comfort food?
What's the most disastrous, silly, unique, heart-shaped edible you've made for Valentine's Day? For example, when I was a young cook, I spent a fair amount of time and energy cutting tiny hearts out of cheese to put on top of stuffed baked potatoes that I was preparing for a Valentine's dinner party. They, of course, disintegrated when I baked the potatoes. I was very disappointed.
For a hostess gift, for example, I might take a bottle of good olive oil and a big hunk of parm instead of the more traditional bottle of wine. What do you like to give? What do you like to receive?
Yeah. I'll need the cheese and olives and good wine too. Plus, all of the above. I look forward to meeting you all in Food Heaven! Come find me. I'll be next to the bottomless pit of mint chocolate chip ice cream. (Just past the Please-Eat-More pizza parlor.)
I knew I shouldn't have read this. I want an ice cream cone NOW. Any flavor. Any type of cone.
Toasted bagel with butter AND cream cheese... (It can be done. Let the butter melt and sink in, then slather on the cream cheese.) with strawberry jam on the side. Cold milk with ice cubes in it.
Ed, thank you for this. I thought I was the only one scratching my head over the apparent success of this book. On the other hand, what a master of self promotion this guy is! I wish I had a buzz machine like his.
Here are a few I pulled from the tips & trivia section of my web site. Have fun!
EASTER EGG IDEAS
RUBBER BAND - Twist skinny and fat rubber bands around eggs before dying to create crinkly stripes.
NATURE - Glue tiny pressed leaves, grass, herbs or clover to a dyed egg.
RUBBER CEMENT DRIZZLE - Dip a craft stick into rubber cement and drizzle a freeform design onto egg. Let dry for 15 minutes and then dye the egg. When the dye is dry, rub off the rubber cement with your fingers to reveal the design.
Q-TIP POLKA DOT - Use cotton swabs dipped in paint to make dots on a dyed egg.
ABC - Use alphabet macaroni or scrapbooking rub-on letters to spell out family names or holiday greetings on a dyed egg. Add a pretty ribbon.
SPONGE MARBLED - Cut a kitchen sponge into small strips and dip the tips into paint. Dab paint splotches all over eggs, adding and overlapping colors, until a marbled effect is achieved.
I grew up in the south and one of my Dad's favorite snacks was a glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled up in it.
Richard and aung - My Mom even made JM for special occasions. Of course hers must have been the fancy version because it was called, John Mazetti. Never, never Johnny!
I've often wondered the same thing. Why don't you give it a try and let us know. I like the concept for the reasons you mentioned, but have not tried it, also for the reasons you mentioned. I also do a version of your "Italian fried" and it is quite tasty.
Karen,
How does that old saw go?
He who steals my face steals gold, but he who steals my account gets trash?
On the plus side, in the past few days I've been (to use the vernacular of my geographic region) blessed to have been be-friended by some very nice people in the SE group on Facebook.
On the minus side, I just got a notification from Facebook that I should change my password as they had discovered an attempt to steal my account.
WTF?
I'm on there and so is my blog. I'm also part of the Serious Eats group!
Hillary
Chew on That
I'm there (here?) and just joined SE's facebook group as well. Pteety much the only time I remember to go to Facebook is when I've got a Scrabulous game going, though ;)
@ThatGirl153..........."wish i was hungover right now!" goes on my list of funnyiest things I've heard people say. LOL and thanks for the laugh!
A Big Boy Slim Jim sandwich and a chocolate shake. (wish i was hungover right now!)
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About: Elizabeth is the former creative director of Food & Wine and Eating Well magazines and now owner of Elizabeth W. Gift Baskets in NYC. She is nearly always hungry.
Favorite foods: Pizza, asparagus, strawberries, cheese.
Last bite on earth: Warm, crusty bread slathered with sweet butter. Can I have a glass of wine with that?