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My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
My own favorite thing about Thanksgiving is seeing most of the people that I love. As the oldest sister of a family of eight children, it is the one day of the year that almost all of us are together, along with assorted friends and satellite family. We always eat at my youngest sister's house and last year there were forty-eight people there. There was a roast turkey, a deep-fried turkey, a whole ham, and a whole huge brisket, along with side dishes too numerous to mention. My personal favorite(s): GRAVY - made by me, and a strange creamed corn casserole that is very sweet and was actually my grandmother's original recipe. Oh yeah, I almost forget the praline pecan cheesecake. That's not too bad to end a huge meal with. Then we all play "Guitar Hero" after consuming immoderate amounts of wine and beer. Great! My favorite day of the year. PlanetChaos, the dog fart reminder is hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh on a Monday morning.
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Sailor Dave - I actually DID make quinoa and kale for dinner one time, and then melted about a half pound of butter to pour over it. Oh, yes, and grated another half pound of extra sharp cheddar to go over the top of that. Ironically, in this discussion, the two ladies whose cooking ALWAYS makes me drool (Ina and Paula) are mentioned several times. Paula dropped the information the other day that her husband is now on a diet. OMG! Who is going to cook for him?
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Melted butter and (real) maple syrup.
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Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Sounds delicious, really delicious and two carbs, yummmmm. One question though: where do you buy your whole chicken legs? That is expensive! We have a hispanic market here in my town and can buy either drumsticks, thighs, or whole legs for 88 cents a pound usually. The REGULAR price is $1.29 per pound.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
My own favorite thing about Thanksgiving is seeing most of the people that I love. As the oldest sister of a family of eight children, it is the one day of the year that almost all of us are together, along with assorted friends and satellite family. We always eat at my youngest sister's house and last year there were forty-eight people there. There was a roast turkey, a deep-fried turkey, a whole ham, and a whole huge brisket, along with side dishes too numerous to mention. My personal favorite(s): GRAVY - made by me, and a strange creamed corn casserole that is very sweet and was actually my grandmother's original recipe. Oh yeah, I almost forget the praline pecan cheesecake. That's not too bad to end a huge meal with. Then we all play "Guitar Hero" after consuming immoderate amounts of wine and beer. Great! My favorite day of the year. PlanetChaos, the dog fart reminder is hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh on a Monday morning.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Sailor Dave - I actually DID make quinoa and kale for dinner one time, and then melted about a half pound of butter to pour over it. Oh, yes, and grated another half pound of extra sharp cheddar to go over the top of that. Ironically, in this discussion, the two ladies whose cooking ALWAYS makes me drool (Ina and Paula) are mentioned several times. Paula dropped the information the other day that her husband is now on a diet. OMG! Who is going to cook for him?
If You Smelled Like Any Food...
Melted butter and (real) maple syrup.
Off the Beaten Path: Taking One for the Team at LQQM Kung Fu Bing in Chinatown
Ming Tsai and his Mom made bings one day on his PBS show and they looked awesome. Ming made cheeseburgers with the works and totally encased them in bing dough. Yummy!
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 80: Remembering Our Serious Eater Beagle Brass
Brass's story brought bake lovely memories of our wonderful "Puppy" - a mixed breed terrier of dubious parentage and who blessed our lives for 19 years. She, too, was a serious eater, and our favorite Puppy story is the year that she was left in our van with a gift wrapped FIVE POUND box of See's Candy for approximately two minutes, while I stepped out of the van to mail some letters. In that two minutes, Puppy managed to open the box of candy and devour every single piece! Thank God she was not chocolate sensitive. We took her to the vet, who said basically to wait and see what happens. What happened was that Puppy went home and slept for about two days straight and following that short rehab period, was fine. I'd like to say she never tried to eat any more candy, but that would be a lie, since no food was safe from her skinny little terrier self. I still miss her very much twenty-five years later.
Thank you for the lovely story.
The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas
Here in southern California we are fortunate enough to have Jarritos brand soda, we love tamarindo, mandarina, pina (pineapple), toronja (grapefruit), fruit punch and my own personal favorite - mango. Delicious and always in bottles and in my opinion, soda tastes better from a bottle.
We also have a wonderful store in Los Angeles called Galco's Soda Pop stop. They carry EVERYTHING in soda. For instance, they have 46 kinds of root beer, alone. Brands that you didn't even know were being made anymore. Website is galcos.com and it's fun to visit.
How do YOU make a tomato sandwich?
Best Foods (or Hellman's) mayo and plenty of it, a tiny dab of wasabi, good quality bad white bread - if that makes sense, fat slices of any fresh tomatoes, Hass avocado, and lots of salt and pepper.
My dear mom's favorite sandwich was simply Mayonnaise and Wonder Bread. And my brother's fave was bread, butter and sugar. Gee, I wonder why there is a weight problem among so many of my family members........
Summer reading and food: Anyone read these two or suggestions?
Anything by MFK Fisher.
Summer BBQ - How to deal with something tactfully
Since the weekend is past, what DID you bring to this rude hostess? I'm on pins and needles.
Help me remember this breakfast cereal
Thank you, heartofglass, for the link to 80s stuff. Wow! And they actually have "cereal finder" link and an alphabetic list of which cereals are still available. Sadly, my own personal favorite, Kellogg's Concentrate, seems no long available. Perhaps that was because you could eat the entire tiny box of Concentrate at one sitting rather than the recommended serving size. We loved that stuff, though.
Whole Chicken in a Can Taste Test
First I must apologize to 1stmakearoux. I ADORE Spam. Now to this obscenity in a can. I have only seen it in the midwest and I remember my Grandmother in Plymouth, Michigan using it often for [tasteless] chicken salads and sandwiches. It was very cheap at that time - about sixty years ago and it indeed looked gross. The only good part of the chicken in a can was the chicken soup Grandma made with the gelled broth. Now that was actually tasty. Thanks, winkyjo, for the visual of "cow in a can."
I Ate L.A.
As a native socal resident, loved your reviews. We do have serious great eats here, despite some easterners comments to the contrary. My thought about the Dodger Dogs: it is part of the Dodger game experience - I personally would not eat one anywhere but at Dodger Stadium, but NEED one when I'm at a Dodger game. Go figure.
$29.95 for America's Test Kitchen website?
I never subscribe to magazines directly from the "source." There are many reputable magazine brokers who sell on Ebay. Often you can find the Test Kitchen mag. This last holiday season I subscribed to several gift magazine subscriptions for really low prices - three years of Vanity Fair, for example, for ten bucks. America's Test Kitchen does have a good and informative TV show. The magazine is terrific, but nowadays, who but the Madoffs can afford it?
Quick vegetarian Recipe?
Hi, and welcome to the food website where you will have the most fun playing with your food since you were a kid. Go to kitchen-parade.com and follow the link to "A Veggie Venture." Wonderful recipes and a terrific blog. Lots of new and interesting ways to do veggies (my daughter is a vegan and I am always in search of surprises for her).
Sandy D.
Quick vegetarian Recipe?
Hi, and welcome to the best food site on the internet!
Eating Well and Cheaply: Any More Ideas Out There?
Brooke29 has the greatest idea: I shop at hispanic markets and there are many of them here on California's central coast. Incredible produce & meat specials (at the ones I use). Also, and again, if you are lucky enough to live in an agricultural area, farm stands. There are many, many of them here also. I shopped two days ago at one of my favorite roadside farm stands and found bell peppers (red & yellow) at 3 for a buck, lettuce at 69 cents each (iceberg, leaf, romaine, red leaf, etc. - all 69 cents each). Even though it is January, they had hydroponic Roma tomatoes for 99 cents a pound. So much more "stuff" and all excellent fresh pesticide-free goodies.
Big City Slider Station Works Almost As Well as in its Infomercial
Has anyone seen Billy's energy drink infomercial? Perfect spokesman for it. I almost bought some, because, obviously, it REALLY works.
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
I would bet that nobody remembers Kellogg's Concentrate cereal. We loved it. It was supposedly healthy, but the problem was that the portion size was very tiny, so you ended up eating four servings just to get a "regular" bowl of cereal. My adult children still talk about Concentrate.
America's Regional Hot Dog Styles
Love hot dogs of most any ilk. Just wanted to add that Pink's in L.A. serves a good dog, but the best part of a visit to Pink's is the people watching there. The full spectrum and many movie people adore Pink's, so you never know who you'll see there. A must see joint when you visit us here in Socal.
Parents with different nationalities, what do you still make?
I was raised by my dear Nana, and she was from the deep south. My grandfather was Yugoslavian (and my other grandmother was Hungarian). Nana was a wonderful and adventurous cook with lots of traditional southern food - fried chicken, greens of every kind, fried green tomatoes, great mac and cheese, the absolute best spare ribs I've ever eaten, chicken fried steak (frying was done in a huge cast iron skillet that must have been a zillion years old and every meal was accompanied by either biscuits or cornbread, and usually a white cream gravy). She branched out into Serbian dishes and I remember a wonderful bean soup with kielbasa and something she called "Serbian Ravioli." Also something I remember she called "shevacheechi" or something like that, which was ground meat shaped into small rolls. I LOVED that dish. There was stuffed cabbage and stuffed peppers, and lots of sauerkraut dishes. Boy, what great memories! Thank you for this topic.
Which turkey to buy?
I will start by stating that the best turkey I ever cooked was a "Tropical Traditions" free range turkey. It was expensive, but absolutely delicious. Williams-Sonoma has a turkey called a "Willie Bird," I believe, that is also expensive and delicious (not quite as delicious as the tropical bird - that was a real winner). You can find a Honeysuckle White at the supermarket, and it is a good, hormone-free tasty turkey with a large amount of breast meat. If you don't overcook the turkey, it will be juicy. I use the breast side down method and it never fails. Just don't cook it too long. Have a happy holiday season.
Sandy D.
Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Made this last night using 3 large chicken breasts and 3 sweet potatoes - chicken was almost perfect in 50. After that we put the potatoes in a large pan and crisped them up along with some butter and already roasted garlic, turned the oven up to 400 and added a bottle of beer and 2 minced jalapenos to the pan for the chicken and put it in for another 8 minutes.
Shredded the chicken for tacos with some homemade avocado salsa and the potatoes were a perfect side dish. We skipped the rice since the potatoes were enough starch for us. Delicious!
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
@julea
I'm with you - all my friends know that I'll be bringing the "shape of the can" - it has become a minor competition to see who can dump the cranberry sauce out in perfect "can" shape. However, my favorite part is the other thing no one else I know likes but me - mincemeat pie.
Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Made this tonight with skinless, boneless chicken and brown rice. The sweet potatoes took 50 min. and the chicken 40 min. We drizzled extra honey on the sweet potatoes too. This was a great, simple, quick meal.
Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
The chicken and sweet potatoes recipe inspired my husband. My husband didn't include onions (for me) but subbed celery and sprinkled S&B (Japanese) curry powder. We ate it with plain white rice. I loved it.
This was a delicious, filling, and cheap meal -- it cost us less than $1.00 for 2 whole legs and ~$1.00 for 2 sweet potatoes. We roasted zucchini and yellow squash which were $0.50 each.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Stuffing(!), cranberry sauce-- don't hate me, I love the canned stuff--, pumpkin pie, pearl onions, and of course, a little turkey is mandatory.
Everything else is meh.
What I REALLY love is the leftover turkey/cranberry sauce sandwiches.
Godly.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal...
Another creative leftover suggestion: pumpernickel bread, cream cheese on bread, avocado, mashed and spread, thin slices of breast, stacked and lettuce. This was the best sandwich I ever had. LA, 1978 at some restaurant. They had named it The" Martha Raye" , after the actress.
Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
That's funny, I always think of sweet potatoes as a vegetable, not a starch, since they are so good for you. We eat plenty of greens, trust me...just ask my long-suffering husband. Anyway, I think squash cut into slightly larger chunks would work, too. I'd have to experiment with roasting times. Is squash also a starch?
I buy free-range hormone-free blah blah blah meat, so it does tend to be expensive. That's why this column often features rice and beans.
Oh man, freekeh--I had never heard of this and now am excited to hunt it down. Thanks, teamgf!
Eat for Eight Bucks: Chili Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Just created this recipe, but with chicken breast instead - also, did not made the rice (used some couscous I had on hand). However, I plan to make the rice next time, but using freekeh - since I often use freekeh in place of rice or pasta. Thank you!
Off the Beaten Path: Taking One for the Team at LQQM Kung Fu Bing in Chinatown
The Boyfriend went up to take a pic with the panda, but I wouldn't touch anything with a cheesy mascot and unabashedly try to be the next KFC. I'm glad you are brave enough to try so I don't have to. For that I thank you.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
French toast made from doughnuts, filled with ice cream and gingered mangos and topped with hot caramel sauce. Since I do not foresee making this again (blessedly my beau does not have a sweet tooth), no regrets for this one-time splurge.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
A sauce made with sliced breakfast sausages, cream of chicken soup, Hellman's mayonnaise, lemon juice, ground pepper, broccoli, shredded aged cheddar on top and served over pasta or rice. The sauce smells vile but it actually tastes delicious and I would even go so far as call it comfort food. I often find myself craving this sauce during winter.
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Just had this one, recipe follows for all of you seriously in need of upping your cholesterol levels:
Boil or bake a potato and keep hot. Soft boil an egg: The white should just be set and the yolk still runny. Cut a cross in the potato and squeeze to expose inside and create a hollow. Add salt and a generous dollop of butter. Slice the top off the egg and dribble/scoop the yolk into the potato. Top with grated Tusser's or Cheddar cheese and shredded pepper ham. Pig out.
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fried hot dog - melt butter in frying pan, fry a split oscar meyer 100% beef frank until golden brown and crispy. Melt American cheese slice on top. For added goodness, butter and broil hot dog bun in oven. Place hot dog in bun and add your usual toppings. Also, makes me think of similar fried bologna sandwiches. Man, I love processed meat!
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in compliance with my low-carb diet...
low carb "nachos"
layer deep fried pork rinds in a pan,* sprinkle on some hot sauce, then smother with an assortment of sliced cheeses (pre-shredded will not do!)
place in broiler until cheese is bubbly.
*best when using the ultra large pork rinds found in Mexican groceries
eat immediately. keep a cell phone within reach to dial 911!
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It has to be the casseroles I make once or twice a year....hashbrown casserole (hashbrowns, butter, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, onions and cheese) or chicken casserole (cooked, shredded chicken breasts, cream of chicken soup, ro-tel and crushed doritos...all mixed together and then topped with cheese and baked).
Dessert-wise: Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake...It has 4 sticks of butter in just the cake, that's not even counting the Italian Meringue Buttercream frosting...that has 5 sticks of butter!!
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@butterfingers -
oh
my
gosh.
my sister used to eat that!
you two are two in a million i would assume LOL
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Once I made a shortbread recipe that called for 2 sticks of butter...... for 9 cookies.
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@betteirene -- I'm afraid that regional American cooking is going to disappear. Between chain restaurants, cookbooks and magazines, eating and cooking is getting much more homogenized.
I'm a fan of sugar cream pie, I just don't eat it daily -- or even monthly. I had the butter and sugar sandwiches when I was a youngster -- also peanut butter and brown sugar. I'm not sure that a butter/sugar sandwich is any worse than grilled cheese made with processed cheese food.
There's also some evidence that by adding the bacon or bacon grease to greens, for instance, you make them taste better and people eat more of the greens. The fat makes some of the nutrients in the greens more accessible.
@MarvinDog -- I think the French might be surprised to find out that duck confit is unhealthy.
@tacoo -- It's all about moderation. Unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we've been taught that if a lot of something is bad, then none is best.
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@freakyhair...Word. Love that recipe but holy cow!! The butter content rivals Paula Deen's toxic concoctions. Luckily it's a huge batch.
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It's a tossup among three for me:
As a child I LOVED white bread and mayonnaise sandwiches with my Pepsi... luckily, Grandma wouldn't let me have them - I had to sneak them. ~Shudder~
With holidays/Winter approaching, time to break out the fudge, too. My fave is basically sweetened condensed milk and choccolate chips. Mmmm, sugar, fat and chocolate - what's not to love?
And, I hate to admit that lately I've had a hankering for college food, specifically Chili Casserole: Canned chili (my favorite rhymes with 'Shtennison's Not') layered with oodles of cheddar cheese and corn tortillas and baked. Doesn't seem that bad until you read the ingredients on the can (what IS 'textured protein'?!) and realise the cheese is basically about a pound of hydrolised fat... The only healthy thing in it is the 6 corn tortillas.
But then, nowadays opening a can of anything but organic tomatoes feels sinful, so who am I to judge?
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Cinnabon clone buns. so....much...butter....
http://www.thecookingphotographer.com/2009/07/clone-wars-er-i-mean-cinnabon-clones.html
They were good, but not good enough to eat all that butter. I had 1, and gave the rest away.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
A black olive sandwich!
A can of chopped black olives mixed with far too much mayo spread on 2 pieces of white bread slathered with too much mayo, for the ultimate olive/mayo sandwich with a large spoonful of mayo au naturale as the appetizer before the sandwich. The first 3/4 was great and by the end my hunger for it was fullfilled. Not to be eatten again for at least a month or twenty-two.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
I made a bread pudding out of chocolate/orange quick bread and then covered the whole thing with caramel sauce.
Soooo....bread that consisted mostly of chocolate, sugar, processed flour and orange juice baked in a bed of eggy custard slathered with homemade caramel.
Ruined by health concerns? Hardly! I had some, and so did my guests, and we all enjoyed the heck out of it. Would I do it again? Maybe in another year or two. After all, it was amazingly delicious.
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@BobbieAnne I make that with matzoh for Passover every year. I got the recipe from Gourmet - it's called Caramel Matzoh Crunch, and peopel just devour it.
The 'most unhealthy' thing I have made recently was a jelly doughnut bread pudding from the New York Times - 14 jelly doughnuts, heavy cream, eggs, sugar, and it disappeared in seconds.
I also make brownies that have granulated sugar, brown sugar and Karo syrup, 6 oz. chocolate, 1/2 # butter and 7 eggs in each batch.
@IndyGal I agree - I don't make this stuff for myself, but I bring it to parties and events where there will be lots of people. So you eat 1 or 2 pieces, once in a while, no problem.
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I noticed the hillbilly theme we got going here and it reminded me of a trip we took from Chicago to visit the kin in Gilbert, W.Va. Instead of following the usual interstates through IN and OH and eating at Shoney's, we took a scenic route over three days and made a pit stop at a Cracker Barrel in TN one day and went to the Loveless Cafe for dinner.
One Sunday after we got back home, I tried to duplicate Cracker Barrel's breakfast menu. I made biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, eggs, grits, fried potatoes (instead of hash brown casserole) and fried apples. Every now and then, we'll get a hankerin' for a meal like this, but it's such a pain to get the timing right that I won't do it unless I've got help. It's disgustingly unhealthy, but man, once in a while we just gotta have it.
Don't you just adore regional American cooking? I just love it when a recipe starts with a stick of butter, or when you take something perfectly healthy, like green beans or spinach, and doctor it up with a a pound of bacon and a couple of spoons full of bacon grease.
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Sounds delicious, really delicious and two carbs, yummmmm. One question though: where do you buy your whole chicken legs? That is expensive! We have a hispanic market here in my town and can buy either drumsticks, thighs, or whole legs for 88 cents a pound usually. The REGULAR price is $1.29 per pound.