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Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
Stewarts (not the Root Beer people) have gas stations all over the Hudson Valley and North. Their hot dogs (steamed) suck, but their IceCream $1.75 for a 1 1/2 scoop cone is a super value and the flavors are better than good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Tonight, i am making chicken fried steak. Got some nice cubed steak from a great butcher in Brooklyn on Gerritsen Ave. Will make some bacon / garlic mashed potatoes, some baby peas (canned) and Apple crisp with what ever ice cream is in the house. My saving gracwe is that when I get home from work and make this, Susan cleans the dishes. She doesn"t have to come hiome from work and cook as well.
Cobble Hill Eats...
Try t Peter's Waterfront Ale House - Great food - good bar and one of the owners is a CIA trained chef. Great BBQ and other food ideas come out of that kitchen. Also a chips shop where the deep fried twinkie was born.. Veddy English. Both on Atlantic Avenue same side of the street. Spices abound at Sahadi's just one block away with a Trader Joe up the street.. Smith Street and Court Street have some of the best dining in the City without the prices and long reservation times of Manhattan. Try Grocery, Saul, Char. Don't forget to go over to Park Slope. Al Di La and Convivium Osteria to name just a few. Real jewels in a borough that prides itself on it's pizza reputation.
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white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
We will be having a few (80 or so) folks over for the Sunday Before Thanksgiving. One of the surprising hits was the Peanutbutter Sandwich That Doesn't Stick to the rRoof of Your Mouth.(Peanut butter and myo each spread on seperate slices of white squishy bread and slapped together.) I cut the crusts off, cut in four triangles and stick a frilly in each finger sandwich for effect. Garnish with your favorite frond.
I also offer grilled PB&J. Slows 'em down before the Turduckens go out.
Living on the Edge: Gas Station Junk Food
Stewarts (not the Root Beer people) have gas stations all over the Hudson Valley and North. Their hot dogs (steamed) suck, but their IceCream $1.75 for a 1 1/2 scoop cone is a super value and the flavors are better than good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Tonight, i am making chicken fried steak. Got some nice cubed steak from a great butcher in Brooklyn on Gerritsen Ave. Will make some bacon / garlic mashed potatoes, some baby peas (canned) and Apple crisp with what ever ice cream is in the house. My saving gracwe is that when I get home from work and make this, Susan cleans the dishes. She doesn"t have to come hiome from work and cook as well.
Cobble Hill Eats...
Try t Peter's Waterfront Ale House - Great food - good bar and one of the owners is a CIA trained chef. Great BBQ and other food ideas come out of that kitchen. Also a chips shop where the deep fried twinkie was born.. Veddy English. Both on Atlantic Avenue same side of the street. Spices abound at Sahadi's just one block away with a Trader Joe up the street.. Smith Street and Court Street have some of the best dining in the City without the prices and long reservation times of Manhattan. Try Grocery, Saul, Char. Don't forget to go over to Park Slope. Al Di La and Convivium Osteria to name just a few. Real jewels in a borough that prides itself on it's pizza reputation.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
An Elvis Reeses peanutbutter cup package.
Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Restaurant Recreations
Went to Nola during Quarter Fest and had Mrs. Hay's Stuffed Chicken Wings. Back to the City and had to have 'em Imposing recipe. If you break the process down and do it in steps, it is a winner. Hint Get a real butcher to get you roaster wings for stuffing. Rest of the stuff you can get in any good Oriental market including ground pork which is mixed with ground shrimp for stuffing into boned wings. We met Mrs. Hays and yes she is Asian.
Sliders in the City?
Shopsins in the Essex Street Market. Kenny do I get a discount?
Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger
New York Times had Donut Pudding printed a few weeks ago. Made it twice and pased it around to friends. Made more raspberry jelly for the second batch and doubled the # of donuts for a really large pan. If you decide to make some kind of donut thing, don't use Dunkin Donuts. They don't have enough jelly in them unless you are driving and eating a donut with the other hand. You can order big ones from the Stop & Shop. Frozen dough, sure but they hold a lot of jelly and when you add cream, eggs and sugar. Yum.
Dinner Tonight: Chicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
You can get your REAL butcher to put the cuts thru his cube machine. Hence the term - cube steak. Make this stuff all the time. Ate it all the way to Alaska. Only real version in Texas. Many others pre-breaded and frozen Yuk.
Time for a Drink: Ramos Fizz
While you are in NO go to Mr. B's on Royal. Order a Brandy Milk Punch. Starts with softened vanilla ice cream.Better than the bread pudding for desert. or for starters or for that matter make a few the whole meal.. While there go to Herbsaint. Have the Cadilac Sazerac?
Dear Food Network, Please Stop
I must have downloaded many recipes from Emeril, ASlden, Michael , Mario, Sara, and the cooks that actuallty helped me refine my palate as well as my skills. PBS food shows made me appreciate other food cultures - " I GARUNTEE"
If on a roadtrip, I want to eat in Philly I will use the DDD list or the Sterns Road Food because they haver found GOOD FOOD not plastic crap.
Bring back more chefs who don't have deadlines and tell me what they like to cook when they are cooking for themselves. My Five Star 6 burner yearns for more sauces.
Actually the good chefs cooking things that I hasve in tthe too many cookbooks remind me that I have all these resources I forget to use.
Want to do something right.Push the TVFN to give Kenny Shopsin and his brood a show. Let's enjoy his down to earth persona and his inventive take-off on good home cooking, not crap made out of Cool Whip.
Zummo’s Café in Scranton, Pennsylvania
As a NYState investigator, I am on Route 81 a lot. Best road joint (my humble opinion) is mile 219 Hartford - Penn Yan Diner I get the Biscuits Sausage & Gravy with a dash of hot sauce. They have 2 different bottlles, and a refill for my Green Tea container 5 bucks with the tea. Also near there mile 194 Clark's Summit - A REAL WAFFLE HOUSE. They will greeat you with a big HELLO and have butter for the pecan waffles. Clean bathrooms also.
Time for a Drink: Stepping into Summer
We went to Mr B's Restaurant in NO. Brandy Milk Punch
Softened Vanilla Ice cream, vanilla, milk just enough to make it flow., Barandy. Blend and grate a little nutmeg on top.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 62: What Does a Serious Eater Do with Restaurant Leftovers?
Since the kids did not get to NYC until the third night of Passover, We decided to go to Sammys for the first night. Suffice to say, the gave us everything with the 20 minute seder (which only lasted 15 minutes) as the the person officiating was working both rooms. The traditional portion of the seder ended with the singing of Roumania Roumania complete with pastramilla and a glasselle wine. We could not finish the broilings and after the egg creams we schlepped the skirt steak home. on Friday, I fired up the griddle on the 5star and plopped a little peanut oil to heat up. The steak went down with a bacon press on top and got turned over after we had a crisp exterior and still soft in the center. Turned it ionce. Heaven on a plate. As for other stuff, my wife forgets to lable the items and they grow weird stuff.
What strange things are in the door of your fridge?
Given the fact that my family has moved back to RI from MI, and can't move into our new house 'til Friday (we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving on the weekend (boo hoo, sniff, sniff) so we're staying in a hotel suite.The only items on the door of the fridge here are Irish butter and some bottles of lemon Perrier.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
olddad, look on a map
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Frito boats - a must
Li'l Smokies with BBQ sauce and grape jelly
Li'l Smokies wrapped in crescent roll dough for mini pigs-in-a-blanket
Ho-Hos, Ding Dongs, Twinkies
Cheese in a can with Chicken-in-a-Biscuit crackers
A Velveeta-based dip
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
chefroberto, where is southeast central USA?
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
@yayfood... BAHAHAHAHHA. so true :-) thanks for the laugh.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Nice stuff! How about Kraft box Mac & "Cheese" with pan-fried Spam bits?
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
oof, my post got cut off. that should read "despite how much I
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
@ChefR0bert - I just noticed that as I read through another post. My unsolicited advice is to ignore it, given how easy it is to miss things like tone and intent when reading words and not having the benefit of facial expression, tone of voice, etc. The murder mystery is more trailer park than farm (my character does psychic readings, apparently!), but ironically enough, my softball team did a white trash bash that went both raunchier and way more 'country'-specific than this one is (to the point where I was glad I couldn't make it, despite how much I
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Oh I know that joyyy.. thank you. I just thought it would be more fun to incorporate that side of things. I've been to parties like that before and they were a lot of fun. However, my quarrel is with sbelle and her attitude which is being carried over from a different post. No worries joyyy.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
@ChefR0bert - I wouldn't take it so personally. "White Trash" to me is a subculture ... but one that is pretty varied by where you are. I have seen plenty of 'white trash' that didn't involve farm-related culture of pitchforks/overalls/etc. And "these type of people" are everywhere (my personal experience living it was in PA), so I don't know if I would agree that the majority is in one part of the country or another, but I liked your other suggestions for sure. The hostess is providing booze, but I trust that she's on the right path with that :P
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
There you go trashing my posts again sbelle... nothing better to do today or just like hearing yourself talk? Last time I checked the majority of these type of people come from Southeast Central USA and the majority of that crowd fits into these schemas.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Caramelized Cheetos
Dessert Recipes From: Extremely Trashy Recipes
2-cups brown sugar
1-cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup white corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
14-1/2 ounce package Cheetos™
Bring the sugar, butter or margarine and syrup to a boil for 5 minutes. Remove from fire. Add baking soda. Stir. Pour over Cheetos in large bowl. Toss and spread on 10×15 buttered pan. Bake at 250 degrees F. for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Pour out on waxed paper rubbed with additional butter or cooking spray. Quickly separate the Caramelized Cheetos™ pieces and try not to give into temptation!
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
one caveat- it is a white trash party- not a hoe down... why anyone would suggest pitchforks, hoes and overalls is beyond me. Have a great time and please let us know how it goes! :-)
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Love this thread! I would definitely agree with fried bologna ... it's actually edible, but defintiely a little trashy. Velveeta cheese dip would fall into that category as well. and PORK RINDS with buckets of PBR's.
Can I come?
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
I had a white trash food and movie party early this year and blogged about it here:
http://ladentable.blogspot.com/2009/04/white-trash-sunday-coolickle-anyone.html
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
I told my bf about this dilemma this morning and without missing a beat, he suggested KFC. I was kind of impressed haha. I'm thinking little smokies, the oyster crackers with ranch seasoning, and 'dirt' are winners, as they are ringing true to childhood memories that I had previously blocked. Thanks younse!
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
White chocolate covered chex mix; we call it white trash. And you could always go with the road kill theme.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
A Jello salad mold would do the trick! Or those oyster crackers with ranch seasoning for snakin'.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Little smokies in bbq sauce and Velvetta cheese and canned chili dip.
It may be "white trash" but people still eat it up.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
I was going to say get Guy Fieri's cookbook. LOL
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
You definitely need some Pabst Blue Ribbon or Old Milwaukee beer held together by the clear plastic. Go to the dollar store and look around for some more things to make it fit the mood. I like the mint toothpicks idea. Definitely pork rinds! And everyone should dress in overalls or plaid. It would be cool if the utensils looked like mini-pitchforks or hoes. Hog should be on the menu along with some road-kill. A whole pig turning on a spicket with a beer can in its mouth would be cool. For the sides, everything should be canned. Canned creamed corn, peeled white potatoes with dried parsley, baby carrots, peas. Tell someone to bring a banjo too!
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Pork rinds and beer.
I actually love them. Don't judge me.
white trash/trailer trash theme party food idea?
Dirt. Make some dirt. (not the actual dirt but the desert that looks like it).
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We will be having a few (80 or so) folks over for the Sunday Before Thanksgiving. One of the surprising hits was the Peanutbutter Sandwich That Doesn't Stick to the rRoof of Your Mouth.(Peanut butter and myo each spread on seperate slices of white squishy bread and slapped together.) I cut the crusts off, cut in four triangles and stick a frilly in each finger sandwich for effect. Garnish with your favorite frond.
I also offer grilled PB&J. Slows 'em down before the Turduckens go out.