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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

@csbrown: my mom and grandparents did the smushed cornbread in milk thing - often as a before-bedtime snack - but preferred buttermilk to "sweet" milk for this treat.

@derfman: I am still obsessed with the sawdust hamburgers. You ATE sawdust? I have never heard of this! Not being critical, not one bit - just astounded at the possibility. Was this an early substitute for soy protein? And as far as "making" the buns: my sister and I loved to get fresh spongy white bread, tear the crusts off, then roll the bread into gummy little balls, which we then ate (but not at the same time as our fried vienna sausages.....)

I am learning SO MUCH from these posts!

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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

@ derfman -- what would you father actually DO with the sawdust and bacon fat "hamburgers" to make you so afraid of real hamburgers? This is fascinating!!

My sister and I used to fix fried vienna sausage buttons every Saturday morning to accompany our TV-watching. In high school, my friends and I went through a peanut-butter-and-mustard sandwich phase. And I think we probably would have starved without Swanson TV dinners, Gorton's fish cakes, and Morton's frozen mac & cheese.

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Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'

Ground chuck, medium rare, with grilled Vidalia onion, sauteed mushrooms, cheddar cheese, and a giant slice of homegrown tomato on a toasted buttered bun. Heaven!

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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

@csbrown: my mom and grandparents did the smushed cornbread in milk thing - often as a before-bedtime snack - but preferred buttermilk to "sweet" milk for this treat.

@derfman: I am still obsessed with the sawdust hamburgers. You ATE sawdust? I have never heard of this! Not being critical, not one bit - just astounded at the possibility. Was this an early substitute for soy protein? And as far as "making" the buns: my sister and I loved to get fresh spongy white bread, tear the crusts off, then roll the bread into gummy little balls, which we then ate (but not at the same time as our fried vienna sausages.....)

I am learning SO MUCH from these posts!

From Serious Eats

What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?

@ derfman -- what would you father actually DO with the sawdust and bacon fat "hamburgers" to make you so afraid of real hamburgers? This is fascinating!!

My sister and I used to fix fried vienna sausage buttons every Saturday morning to accompany our TV-watching. In high school, my friends and I went through a peanut-butter-and-mustard sandwich phase. And I think we probably would have starved without Swanson TV dinners, Gorton's fish cakes, and Morton's frozen mac & cheese.

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Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'

Ground chuck, medium rare, with grilled Vidalia onion, sauteed mushrooms, cheddar cheese, and a giant slice of homegrown tomato on a toasted buttered bun. Heaven!

From Recipes

Grilling: Chicken Sausage with Basil and Tomatoes

Where do you purchase the sausage casings? I assume from a butcher - I'm in Savannah, GA and may have to get creative. We LOVE chicken sausages and I'm fired up to make these SOON. Thanks for sharing!

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Summer reading and food: Anyone read these two or suggestions?

I am enjoying "The Food of a Younger Land" by Mark Kurlansky. Not a memoir, but a collection of essays from writers who were sent all over America to record our country's food traditions in the 1940s. Fascinating! Another fabulous foodie read is Diana Abu-Jaber's novel "Crescent" - one of the best audio books I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. You'll be craving Lebanese food for weeks! I can hardly wait to read some of the other posters' suggestions, as well. Thanks for the tips!!

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Cooking from the Glossies: Key Lime Coconut Cake

Oooh hahahahhahahaha! Deformed green balls of death! I love this post! Can't WAIT to use up my own mouldering green death balls. Thank you for a complete LOL moment.

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Dinner Tonight: Chilaquiles Rojos

I too love chilaquiles and a couple of the Mexican restaurants here in Savannah have them on the menu or will prepare them on request. I've also had Chilaquiles Verdes, using a green sauce prepared with (I'm assumng) tomatillos instead of whole red tomatoes and cilantro pureed in with the sauce in addition to being a garnish on top. Either way - major yumminess! Thanks, Nick, for a GREAT basic recipe!

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Cook the Book: 'The Cook's Country Cookbook'

Mac! And! Cheese! Always and forever. And a big ol' dish of butterbeans always gets scarfed down, as well.

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Cook the Book: 'A Platter of Figs'

Cranberries! I buy enough to freeze so we can have fresh cran-orange relish all year round. I also get very excited about delicata squash (try Laurie Colwin's squash tian with chopped garlic, olive oil and parmesan) AND Beaujolais Nouveau, which is just plain good fun.

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Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'

When I first went to college at Ga. Southern in 1969, the "date" restaurant in town was The Paragon, and they had the best apple pie I've ever put in my mouth. You could always get it piping hot with a slab of melty cheese on top - or vanilla ice cream. I don't know what they did to make that pie so wonderful, but it surely was a memory-maker.

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Eating for Two: Peanut Butter Cookies

Why go to all that trouble? IMHO, the best pb cookie recipe in the universe is this one that you can stir up in about 5 seconds!
Easiest Bestest PB Cookies
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
pinch baking soda
splash vanilla
Mix well until nice and smooth. Scoop cookies with small scoop and place on cookie sheet lined with parchment or sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 6-10 minutes until golden brown. Cool until they don't burn your tongue and serve with a lovely glass of cold milk. Pure heaven.

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Cook the Book: 'Screen Doors and Sweet Tea'

I love a Sea Breeze - vodka, cranberry juice, and a squeeze of fresh lime. Ahhh!

From Talk

Cookout Dessert

My hands-down favorite, if you have access to a freezer to store it until dessert-time, is lemonade pie with pretzel crust. Make a pretzel crust just as you would a graham cracker crust - except use pretzels, of course. Crushed pretzels, butter, sugar. Pat evenly into pie plate. Bake, then cool. Then, slightly soften 1 quart of vanilla ice cream and mix until smooth with one 6-oz. can of lemonade (or limeade, or pink lemonade). If you can stand not to eat the entire frosty bowl while you're standing there, pile the filling in the cooled pretzel crust and freeze several hours until firm. These are incredibly addictive and we eat them all summer long. They are PERFECT with cookout food. You can garnish with little puffs of whipped cream and lemon zest, or paper-thin lemon slices, or a little of the pretzel mix that you've held back. Enjoy!

From Talk

Basil for days

Really! I've always pureed my basil with just olive oil and frozen it. Using water never occurred to me. I'm going to do that tonight!

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Do you eat a bed-time snack? What is it?

Ice cream, please! Or in the summer when we have it, a lovely slice of frozen lemonade pie.

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Everyone Loves a Lemon Layer Cake

Here's the link to the photo on the Cooking Light website. http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1734321
But I'll bet the raspberry version is MUCH more beautiful. OK, who'll be the first to make it and post a photo?? YUM.

From Talk

How do you eat your hot dogs?

Chili Cheese Slaw Dog, please! Or a Varsity chili dog with good old French's yellow mustard and chopped onions. Hot-lanta here I come! YUMM-EE!

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What are you known for?

Muchas gracias, rosezilla! Can't WAIT to try that tri!

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What are you known for?

Rosezilla - how do you do your tri-tip? I'm a newbie to this cut -- have a couple in the freezer from a recent trip to Costco, and would love to do it right! THANKS!

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

My favorite foods on my birthday when I was little: fried chicken (for once I got the wishbone!), yellow squash & onions, green beans, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing and pecans on top, and sweet tea, of course. Sigh.

From Talk

Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?

Several years ago we moved to Michigan from Savannah, GA and stayed about 6 years. It was fun realizing the differences in food items that were and weren't available regionally. One time, I ordered a case of pickled peaches since none of the stores up there had even HEARD of such a thing. Whenever we'd return from a trip South, I'd return with coolers of ripe tomatoes and quarts of frozen Brunswick stew and local shrimp. We always brought back green peanuts in season, since "boiled peanuts" were another unheard-of food group (sound familiar, Matt & Ted Lee?), and had friends who regularly shipped stone-ground grits and our favorite BBQ sauces. There's nothing like a taste of home when you're living somewhere else, that's for sure!

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How do you eat your hot dogs?

Fewteeth.. I know you are probably long gone from here, but I'll ask anyway. What exactly is a "sewer beetle?" Something you invented?

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One word answer only, please...Coke or Pepsi?

RESULTS OF THE POLL:
41 of you prefer Coke or some other Coke product (either Diet or Mexican); I also included those who said they'd drink either Coke or Pepsi.
A mere 8 people who responded said they preferred Pepsi, or would drink either.
9 of you said Neither or something entirely different.
Coke wins!
Thanks to all of you who good-naturedly participated in this poll, and satisfied my curiosity.

From Talk

One word answer only, please...Coke or Pepsi?

Diet Vanilla Coke - oh wait, they stopped making that. :(

From Talk

One word answer only, please...Coke or Pepsi?

sometimes i like coke.....but then i feel like a pepsi...an when i cant get either one i like RC Cola.....hell i even drink Sweetbay cola....but never anything diet.

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One word answer only, please...Coke or Pepsi?

*with sfgoo on this one*

Coke (Mexican in the glass bottle)

otherwise...
neither

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