The other day I had a mad craving for Fluff and chocolate graham crackers, a favorite after school snack. Not so great as an adult. I then had to come up with creative ways to use the remaining Fluff, which included melting it over ice cream and adding it to my homemade fudgos (quite tasty).
Also, cinnamon sugar Poptarts, my breakfast as a kid, are insanely, tooth-achingly sweet as an adult. Why did our parents let us eat this stuff???
Oh, I *need* this book!
If I could eat chocolate only once more in my life, I hope that it would be this that killed me: chocolate gianduia mousse cake ( check out the recipe on epicurious.com).
Yikes. You had to post this at lunch time, huh? It needs to come with a warning!
A little hint for anyone squeamish about squishy bread: carry the dressing with you in a travel-sized shampoo bottle and squirt it on right before you eat it (also works for mayo).
This takes me back to my college days, when, like you, I escaped to a little coffee shop off campus and had the most extraordinary prosciutto and gruyere sandwiches on a crusty baguette, with balsamic dijon mustard. Mmmm, maybe it's time to relive a little of college myself!
Slippery ham pot pie... heaven in a bowl... basically, a stew with thick, doughy homemade noodles. Here's the description from Wikipedia:
In the Pennsylvania Dutch region, there is a dish called "bott boi" by Deitsh-speaking natives and is mispronounced "pot pie" by English speakers in the area. This dish is sometimes referred to as "slippery noodle pot pie" to distinguish it from the true pie form of pot pie. Bott Boi is a stew, usually made of a combination of chicken, ham, beef, or wild game with square-cut egg noodles, potatoes, and a healthy stock of onion, optional celery and/or carrots, and parsley. Bouillon is sometimes used to enhance the flavor. The egg noodles are often made from scratch from flour, eggs, salt (optional) and water.
I agree with renzata about the grill idea possibly backfiring. I am a whiz with the grill, but my husband and father-in-law can ALWAYS do it better, and must ALWAYS supervise me!
Having been in this situation before, I definitely recommend lasagne-- easy, can be made ahead, and very impressive to men for some odd reason! I've also done made-to-order calzones, having guests request fillings and then making them myself. But the lasagne, I can attest, is a winner every time!
I can't get over the slimy green hot dogs they served at our school; in my memory they seem to have fine, peach fuzz-like hair growing from them as well.
Then again, I went to school in the same town mentioned in yesterday's post, "Man walks 12 miles for a cheeseburger." If you saw that video, and noted the quality of the burger he walked 12 miles for, it seems there is a serious food quality issue in my home town!
Lord have mercy. It's always terrifying to see my hometown mentioned in national media. C'mon, H-town, can't we get a Nobel Laureate???
And my husband wonders why I tell everyone I'm from D.C.
Really, a Battlefield Market burger? Really? Maybe the now-deceased Corsi's lasagne.... or a Krumpe's doughnut... but little else in that part of Maryland is worth a morning's walk! I would, however, walk all the way from Indiana back to Maryland for my grandmother's slippery ham pot pie!
St Elmo's Steakhouse is a must if you love steak, very spicy shrimp cocktail, and possible Colts sightings! For local flavor, check out SmallerIndiana.com, and go to the user group called "Hole in the Wall Eating Club." http://www.smallerindiana.com/group/holeinthewalleatingclub
Too bad you'll miss the State Fair and all its fried wonders!
As my Mom always said, "think of the poor starving children in Africa!" It might sound trite, but we do often forget how very fortunate we are in the US, having the luxury of being able to toss food! With food prices going up, it only makes sense to freeze anything you can before it starts to go bad-- even extra broth, tomato paste, etc. We're looking to invest in a small deep freeze when we get a bigger kitchen space, so we can freeze more meals. But, like others have said, not buying too much in the first place is where you start (i.e., a family of two or three doesn't need to shop at Costco!).
I wonder if today's kids, 15 years from now, will be getting nostalgic about the same nasty kids foods. Definitely not Bourdain's kid unless she swears off game birds!
If I get a craving for a childhood food I have to cuccumb to it no questions asked. The only thing that I will not eat now (thank God for no craving) is lamb and liverwurst that THEN i liked, now I won't touch it.
Snowballs (yeah the pink things), Candy Corn, those stupid orange peanut shaped marshmellow things (what were they supposed to taste like anyway?), anything marshmellow including Mallow Mars, But for some strange reason I like a smores (only made over an outside fire) maybe once a year.
I always hated bologna, didn't like hotdogs (unless drowning in ketchup) until I was a teenager (and discovered really good mustard, not that yucky yellow stuff) and now I only eat them at the "game" or grilled crispy from The Blarney Stone. Guilty pleasure - and then I am sorry, Big Mac, Chocolate Shake and fries (only once a year) considering you can get a sublime burger with MacDonalds quality fries in so many places in NYC. Must be that special sauce. Always hated any cold cereal and still eat oatmeal (from scratch) the way my mom made it with milk, butter, sugar and cinnamon - a true comfort food on a crisp cold winter morning.
Love:
Snickers
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
but Lindt Chocolate is the adult thing, oh those truffles!
Boo on who said Girl Scout Cookies, support a good cause, eat the thin mints and tagalongs (another guilty pleasure that I insist on sharing with my entire family).
I am a New York food snob and a former restaurant professional so I crave the stuff I can't make myself. Never got into frosting in a can or brownies from a mix. I can make it faster and better.
DISTROY ALL PEEPS! Must try blowing them up in the microwave, thanks for the idea.
Am I the only person who cannot eat Captain Crunch cereal as an adult? OMG the stuff shreds the roof of your mouth and put you into insulin shock. What was I not thinking?
Ramen Noodles. That pure salt seasoning packet and those waxy noodles. My friends and I used to LOVE them for an after school snack. They are the one food I absolutely can't stomach anymore.
I loves me some Skettios, though!
Gad! You execute Peeps -- for fun! (Gulp!) I adore Peeps, and I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother. I also still like Moon Pies, but I nuke them so they become s'mores-like. I also have learned to love exceedingly dark rich chocolate, assorted organ meats and all the other frou-frou foods favored by self-proclaimed gourmands. The difference, I believe, is that in childhood we only THOUGHT we could have eaten Peeps for breakfast, lunch and dinner; we couldn't have then anymore than we could now. All things in moderation -- even Peeps.
PEEPS...my stepmom sends me a package each Easter specifically so I may have the thrill of microwaving those neon-colored chicks of sugar death. I am not a violent lady by nature but watching those things expand and explode is FUN! Just a suggestion...spray the inside of the microwave oven with a very thin coat of cooking spray or something like it, because you'll be using every ounce of elbow grease you possess to clean it! LOL Although cleaning it up would be good exercise...:-)
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