posted on September 21, 2000 03:29:38 PM new
Oh, wait. I just had something new that you southerners are going to laugh about. It's humus. Great stuff! High praise coming from a northerner. Does anyone have the recipe?
posted on September 21, 2000 06:50:59 PM new
Jeez, Muriel, that gave me the heebies. "Humus" is earth mold - i.e., compost. "Hummus" (2 M's) is easy. Back in my counterculture days I had a Syrian food pushcart, so I used to make it every day.
Smoosh up a couple cans of chick peas (save the liquid to thin the hummus if you need to), a couple cloves of fresh garlic, fresh lemon juice and really fruity olive oil in a food processor. Add some salt and you're done. (If you are a purist you can go the old-fashioned route of soaking and cooking dried chick peas, but I'm too lazy and so were my Lebanese neighbors and Val's family - she's half Syrian). No big secret except good oil and fresh garlic and lemon, and really good pita. In Boston I lived around the corner from a Lebanese bakery. Hot lahmejun, some kibbe and a big gob of hummus - what a life.
Okay, anybody but me grow up with "fastnacht kuechel" - what I guess would be considered the German version of hot cross buns, except they're a kind of doughnut? Or "whistle pigs"?
[ edited by HartCottageQuilts on Sep 21, 2000 06:51 PM ]
posted on September 21, 2000 06:59:15 PM new
Speakin of pickled horse peckers...NUTS...LOTS of Nuts ( and I don't mean the "bawled" type...icky!)
Rocky Mountain Oysters!!!!!....mmmmmmm
thin sliced steer nuts, breaded and deep fried!!!(Rainy..if you wanna try em, go to Gerry Andahls' Ranch Restaurant in Everett...right on 99 if I remember right, they have great steaks too!!!)
A town in Montana(can't remeber the name) has an annual "Testicle Festival"...VERY tasty little tidbits, and well loved in the Midwest!
The other I remeber, but never appreciated was "Smelt Feeds"...little fish about the size of herring with the guts popped out, then breaded and fried whole...."nevermind Clark..he's just yakkin on a bone!"
Keith
(the Exec Chef!)
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
(oops..wrong highway..been too long!)
[ edited by ubiedaman on Sep 21, 2000 07:54 PM ]
posted on September 21, 2000 07:00:19 PM new
OOOOOOOH...I forgot "Country Ham" from when I lived down South ...LOVE that stuff..and Red-eye Gravy...yummers!!!
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on September 21, 2000 07:26:30 PM new
ubiedaman-I heard Gerry Andahl (not sure how you spell his name) had a restaurant up there in Everett, but he serves Rocky Mtn Oysters? oh .... sorry but yuck.... LOL
When I lived in OK, I cooked those, didn't like to, and didn't eat them, but those guys down there love 'em. Course I didn't have the nerve to try them
posted on September 21, 2000 11:07:54 PM new
Ah, homecooking. My mother was not a great (or good) cook. I seem to remember she put Zucchini in everything, she still loves it. I won't eat Zucchini unless you hold a gun to my head. What I remember is something she called a tomatowhizzer sandwich, its bread, Cheese Whiz and sliced tomato, I still eat tomatowhizzers.
I love meatballs. Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorites but a meatball sandwich is the best. A local pizza place made the best meatball sandwiches ever made. They were so good (I could not get enough of them) I moved in with the people who owned the place. They made their own meatballs, every Tuesday. Everyone would help, and everyone was up to their elbows in the stuff. Hand mix it all and hand roll the meatballs. They were served in a secret tomato sauce and stuffed in the heal of a loaf of bread that was baked special so when the loaf was cut in half there were two heals to stuff. That was gooood eating.
Barry (they also made Pasta E Fagioli that was out of this world) Barris
posted on September 21, 2000 11:58:55 PM new
Barry(you did it again)Barris I guess we just like the same kinds of food. Finally something my stomach could handle. Boy does that meatball sandwich sound good!
posted on September 22, 2000 08:53:59 AM new
Oh my!! Food! I LOVE food! Being an Acadian French-Canadian, some of our regional specialities include:
Pâté- meat pie made with various meats such as chicken, deer, beef, pork, & wild rabbit
Poutine Râpée- a 3 inch ball of raw potato and cooked mashed potato mixture, boiled and a small piece of salt pork hidden in the middle
Fricôt- a chicken stew with potatoes, onions, and dumplings
Poutine aux Bleuêts- like a blueberry pie, but square or rectangular and over 2 inches deep. My grandmother always put her dough scraps inside the pie and those were the best part of the poutine!
Pètes de Soeur (translation: Nun Farts. No idea why)- A type of cinnamon roll: biscuit dough rolled out, buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon and brown sugar. Then rolled up and cut into 1inch slices. Cooked flat on a pan.
And of course, living on the coast means fish & seafood- Especially Cod, Salmon, Herring, Mackeral, Haddock, Pollock, Sardines, Clams, Mussels, Lobster, Scallops, Shrimp, Oysters, Periwinkles... And from our rivers and lakes: more Salmon, Trout, & Smelt. I could go on and on. I love seafood!
Oh. And I almost forgot my husband's favorite, although I could never acquire a taste for it: Dulse. It's a dried, flat purple seaweed. A local delicacy. It is high in iron and many people use it to flavor soups and such.
posted on September 22, 2000 10:50:21 AM new
Home cooking.
Lessee, smothered chicken, mashed potatoes with pan gravy, mixed turnip and collard greens, sliced tomatoes and onions, baked macaroni and cheese, fried corn,candied yams,
hot water corn bread, black eyed peas and rice, green beans with potatoes, chess pie, red velvet cake, sweet potatoe pie, navy beans with ham chunks topped with chow-chow and diced onions, yellow cornbread and seet iced tea.
posted on September 22, 2000 05:25:50 PM new
As I sit here nibbling a carrot as part of my low-cholesterol diet, I can seriously say that I hate you all. I am eaten up with envy. Stop torturing me! This thread has begun to haunt my dreams...
posted on September 22, 2000 05:49:10 PM new
Whoopie Pies
Shoo Fly Pie
Fried Raisin Pie (okay not MY favorite, my dad's)
Waffles and Chicken Gravy
Chicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Baklava
Pulled Pork BBQ from Memphis (NO COLESLAW!)
Beef Bar B Que from KC
Green Chili from Rancho de Corrales in NM
Filet Mignon
Real Ribeye Steak
Yankee Potroast with potatoes and baby carrots
Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie in Flaky Crust
Grandma's Cinnamon Rolls--huge, sticky and yummy!
Bratwurst
Pork Tenders
Texas Chili
(NO Ohio Chili PLEASE--just CANNOT get into that cinnamon in the thin chili thing)
Pizza from Mama Tuzzi's MMMMMmmmm.
And Pizza from Dalo's Mmmm....
Cheese Bagels from Panterra's (previously the St. Louis Bread Company)
French Silk Pie!
Oh gosh! Stop me! I LOVE food and have lived all over!
posted on September 22, 2000 06:10:17 PM new
Oh Lord! Stop me! Tom -Model Citizen where are you? He and I started a long thread about food almost 1 1/2 years ago and many copied those recipes down. My latest:
boil small, red bliss potatoes, cool. Add diced celery/red onion, bacon, fresh dill. Mix with 1/2 mayo, 1/2 sour cream, 1/2 dijon mustard (ok, so I can't add!). Mix gently, chill, stir again, and thats the best pot salad in this world until I give you my Pickled German Potato Salad!
Wait! I will give you my Clams Casino from the South Shore of Lawn Guyland soon!
posted on September 22, 2000 08:58:59 PM new
I can't believe so many people have mentioned gravy (mostly southerners). Do you mean you really have gravy often or it's just a favorite? I love gravy but only have it at Thanksgiving with turkey and a couple of times a year with KFC.
Also do you usually eat a lot of fried foods? Do you have your cholesterol checked regularly. LOL
I think we eat much healthier in CA
[ edited by chococake on Sep 22, 2000 09:01 PM ]
posted on September 22, 2000 11:06:49 PM new
When my mother first arrived in the U.S., from Japan, she missed eating rice. The nearest substitute she found was GRITS. Ever since we have eaten our GRITS with butter, soysauce, and ajinomoto (monosodiumglutamate).My father is the only one who eats his GRITS with sugar and milk.
posted on September 22, 2000 11:35:21 PM new
As a New Yorker (upstate, but close to New York City) you can't beat Nathan's Hot Dogs.
Oh, and the Deli sandwiches (all over NYC). Try a Ruben. Try a Ruben Grill...
A Ruben sandwich, Dark bread or Rye bread, Corned Beef, Sauerkraut, Swiss Cheese and a secret sauce (Russian salad dressing).
Can be served open face (bread only on the bottom) and put under the broiler until hot and the cheese melted or Grilled (bread on both sides) and grilled like a grilled cheese sandwich.
Barry (please, don't get me started on Chinese food) Barris
posted on September 22, 2000 11:40:35 PM new
Oh My - Did somebody say something about raisin pies????
It's a genetic weakness in my Ozark mountain family. My grandpa - (In his late 70's) will still sneak around a steal an extra piece if there is one left. (Not likely if I am around)
My pa thinks that they are the finest eating (well, that and a really good southern pecan pie) that exists.
And myself - well, that's what I ask for instead of a cake for my birthday.
And as an aside to Chococake. My grandfather's place will have gravy 'bout 4 out of 7 evenings. And biscuits and gravy?? (Swoon)with black coffee for breakfast -yum.
All this HDL and LDL carries no weight with me - I have had white gravy, thick and sprinkled with pepper - ladled over piles of taters fried in bacon grease - hundreds of times and yet I continue to live. I have milked the cows and spooned the cream off the top the next morning for my coffee when I want it white. (despite the claims that even THINKING about such things will kill you, according to the food police)(and my height/weight is not out of line in the least)
I think I'll go fix me a midnight 'sammach.
People of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but your rice cakes! We will stop their tyranny and return them to the packing material from where they came!
Redneck nutspec
[ edited by nutspec on Sep 22, 2000 11:43 PM ]
posted on September 22, 2000 11:43:19 PM new
Miss Tex . . we are making plans to go thru Llano on the way to Fredricksburg. Do you think we will need reservations? lol
Chococake. .I have noticed that your user id is my favorite dessert!. I can't speak for everyone from the south but we eat gravy A LOT! It is like the perfect condiment! It isn't something we save for special occasion and in fact, sometimes we have SOS which is just hamburger, gravy and bread for a meal.
They call this "comfort food" and if we had our cholestrol checked, we wouldn't be comfortable, now would we? But we are a Happy Bunch!
Tex
Oh I almost forgot! When I was a kid, my grandfather used to make chocolate gravy! OOOW it was great stuff. My aunt makes it for me when she comes to visit. Honest!!!
[ edited by texas1958 on Sep 22, 2000 11:47 PM ]
posted on September 22, 2000 11:52:40 PM new
Nutspec. . .you are my mentor! Gravy and taters for 3 meals a day.
My mother loves raisin pie but that isn't my fav! And here it goes again but what about good old fried peach pies. (Yes it does seem as if we fry everything, but it is all good!) Yummy!
posted on September 22, 2000 11:53:16 PM new
ROFL you guys are so funny. I remember Barry(another chocolate lover)Barris and I were talking about of course chocolate. Terri joined in and said oh no she would pass on that but her passion was gravy on just about anything. I thought she was kidding. I honestly didn't know people still eat like that.
posted on September 23, 2000 12:03:19 AM new
Homegrown zucchini, yellow squash, onions and green peppers cooked together (just a little, like stir fry) and then, just before you think it's cooked enough you add peeled (homegrown) tomatoes and a couple of cups of mozzarella cheese. Turn off the heat, let the cheese melt and then shovel it by heaps into yo mouf. Good with any meat, or by itself. You can almost feel all those C's and A's swimming in your veins afterward! Peach cobbler for dessert!!!!!
posted on September 23, 2000 12:03:19 AM new
Homegrown zucchini, yellow squash, onions and green peppers cooked together (just a little, like stir fry) and then, just before you think it's cooked enough you add peeled (homegrown) tomatoes and a couple of cups of mozzarella cheese. Turn off the heat, let the cheese melt and then shovel it by heaps into yo mouf. Good with any meat, or by itself. You can almost feel all those C's and A's swimming in your veins afterward! Peach cobbler for dessert!!!!!
posted on September 23, 2000 12:06:01 AM new
Jeez, I said it was good - didn't know it was that good! Put on your glasses, might be unloading the WOMD any minute!
[ edited by yorequest on Sep 23, 2000 12:08 AM ]teehee
[ edited by yorequest on Sep 23, 2000 12:17 AM ]
posted on September 23, 2000 12:14:46 AM new
Barry(ummmm that was good, thank you)Barris
I forgot to mention I can't even make gravy! I have tried every hint in every book. Even tried Martha Stewards way of making little balls of flour and butter and dropping it in the drippings. Still lumpy or thin. Now don't all you southern ladies faint. I have given up and use gravy from a jar.
posted on September 23, 2000 12:24:42 AM new
Never been much of a gravy fan, myself. Maybe cause Grandma liked it a lot and she struggled with her weight (mainly getting it in and out of the car, or up the stairs). But gravy in a jar!? I'd have to suspect that's what they made out of the left over pickled horse peckers they couldn't sell.
Great, wouldn't you know that line would be at the top of a page? chococake: The secret to making gravy is in the temperature-hot-before you add the liquid. Get a good scald on it, as Grandma (see above) would say. Hope that helps.
Good with any meat, or by itself. You can almost feel all those C's and A's swimming in your veins afterward! 
Peach cobbler for dessert!!!!!
Put on your glasses, might be unloading the WOMD any minute!
