posted on September 23, 2000 12:28:04 AM new
chococake,
Hey Barry did you see that "Chocolate Gravy"
No, I must have missed it. Chocolate Gravy, sounds yummy to me. Chocolate Gravy on pancakes or waffels in the morning. Chocolate Gravy sandwiches for lunch.
And Chocolate Gravy on ...Nope... can't finish this... Have to consider the Community Guidelines ... I would be out of bounds ...
posted on September 23, 2000 12:30:39 AM new
Goulash and hamburgers cooked in cream of mushroom soup, use the soup at the bottom of the pan for gravy on your bread. Heather
posted on September 23, 2000 12:37:50 AM new
Chococake: I get you. When you have to serve lots of tea or water to wash down the lumps in the gravy, it's time to seek professional help!
They ain't saying "Mmmm, Mmmm good", they're trying desperately to swallow,"MMMMM! MMMM!" and get your attention for the Heimlich!
posted on September 23, 2000 01:10:57 AM new
Sorry Bunnicula, glad to hear that you are still working on the diet. Wish I had that much ambition. Go girl!
Choco,
As far as I'm concerned gravy, especially white gravy, should have lumps in it. Makes it tastier IMO. Have to say that we have curtailed gravy to a large degree because of the good old fat gram and cholesterol thing.
Calamity
posted on September 23, 2000 07:50:59 AM new
HartCottageQuilts:
Yuk! Brought back memories of our mexican trip years ago. I had a fruit shake in a mercado. Big mistake. I spent two days in a small hotel (& don't speak Spanish) while spouse enjoyed the butterfly net fishermen.
What I didn't realize was they had added
a "fresh" egg when I wasn't looking.
I wasn't born with "COOK" written across my forehead and don't like to cook. Do love (because I am now a vegetarian) simple non-critter foods. Spouse eats once living animals though. That is my spouse's right I guess...as long as I don't have to touch it, cook it or clean it! One child is a vegetarian, another one getting there. We don't have turkey for Thanksgiving anymore. One holiday my oldest sadly ask not to have a turkey that looked like it would get up and run away. She was vivid, and the picture stays with me. That was the last Thanksgiving for turkey with all the trimmings!
Love these, all organic too...
Green beans sauted with garlic.
Black refried beans with shredded cheese in
a whole wheat pita.
Jalepeno cheese bread. Made by a baker who sells at the local farmer's market. They use
all organic ingredients and bakes in an old-fashioned stone oven. Yummmmm! $6.00 a loaf, but worth every penny!
Winter squash broth. Veeery tasty.
Making myself hungry here! I just realized I have missed the Saturday farmer's market. Darn.
posted on September 24, 2000 03:39:02 PM new
When I lived in Michigan I ate pasties, smelt and venison.
When I lived in Maine I ate whoopie pies and lobster rolls.
Now I live in Florida and I eat Publix chicken....or whatever's on sale at the Winn-Dixie!
I almost forgot the best thing about living in Michigan's U.P. They still have Pepsi in the tall glass bottle1
[ edited by yuper592 on Sep 24, 2000 03:41 PM ]
posted on September 24, 2000 05:16:52 PM new
Fried crawdad tails, corn fritters, catfish, cold coleslaw, sliced peeled cucumbers & onions marinated in vinegar water w/pepper & salt, deviled eggs w/paprika - warm peach almond waffle cobbler w/ homemade vanilla ice cream and an ice cold Big Red - made cold by sitting in a galvanized tub of ice while your cooking.
noteye
A sad Texan once commented "I Wish it would rain, not so much for myself, I have seen rain before. But, for my 10 year old son."
posted on September 24, 2000 06:50:09 PM new
I can't believe noone has mentioned good old baked macaroni and cheese!!! I love all the comfort foods - meatloaf with mashed potatoes, beef stew, chicken soup with matzo balls, biscuits and gravy. Okay, so I grew up in a Jewish household but had a red-neck for a daddy!!!
posted on September 24, 2000 06:50:12 PM new
Noteye--- Off subject but did you know that you could make your BIG RED slushy by just adding some ice cream salt to the galvenized tub. My husband learned this trick and uses it all the time.
posted on September 25, 2000 06:31:20 PM new
Ok, enough of this grits/gravy!
I take big shrimp (Key West pinks), wrap them with bacon that has sat out to go limp (no remarks here!). Then I roll the bacon wrapped shrimp in dark brown sugar mixed with Paul Prudhomme spices. Then I stick them on a skewer and grill 'em!
You will never have shrimp better-er!
Humph! Mac and cheese! Use this recipe: boil small elbows, put in glass baking pan, layer, mozzarelle cheese, parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese, all diced. Pour milk into pan =until it reaches 1/3 of the way up, douse with flavored bread crumbs (4'C's), then the secret: mix with brown sugar, diced green/red peppers, diced onions. Bake 350 degrees at least 1/2 hr. eat. Enjoy! Now that's mac/cheese! (This is for the sissies who still use Kraft's - ugh!)
posted on September 26, 2000 01:01:36 AM new
Oh gosh ... let's see ... (I'm from Georgia and hate gravy, by the way, but I do know how to make it! LOL!)
meatloaf, mashed potatos, and rolls
okra fried black
chicken cooked any way
barbecue roast or chicken
pinto beans and cornbread (yum!)
banana pudding
anything cooked on a grill
chili, Fritos, and cheese (a.k.a. chili pie or haystacks)
tacos
mozzarella cheese sticks
waffle fries
Tuna Helper cheese melt, but use ham instead of tuna
ham cooked with honey, mustard, and pineapple (my personal specialty!)
spaghetti with toast
a triple-decker peanut butter sandwich
peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Star Crunch Little Debbies
ice cream sandwiches
homemade waffles
Krystal hamburgers (they're yucky, but it's a local thing!)
Hey, nobody said any of this had to be *good* for you! LOL!
posted on September 26, 2000 01:57:43 PM new
For those of you outside Dixie, thedewey's Krystal burgers are virtually identical to White Castle/White Tower "sliders". The company motto is "Fresh, Hot, Small, Square." They are incredibly greasy (hence the term "sliders" and utterly heavenly, and the average adult (or small pig) can eat half a dozen in the truck on the way home. A sackful of a dozen is less than $6, and they freeze really well, assuming you have any left over by the time you get home.
Just finished a boxful of Star Crunches the other day.
Okay, how many people have been to a Waffle House? Val insists it's run by a cult
posted on September 27, 2000 10:25:43 AM new
HCQ: May I weigh in on the Krystal's versus White Castle culinary debate? I lived in Nashville for six years and tried Kyrstal hamburgers. At best, they are cheap imitations of a true slider, the one and only and original square meat delicacy produced by the WC Lounge. (That's White Castle for you southerners).
posted on September 27, 2000 11:16:29 AM new
My brother had a carnival and many were the nights when we would drive through and order a couple hundred of those little jewels! LOL
posted on September 27, 2000 11:50:24 AM new
Comfort foods for me:
Any thing made with real vermont maple syrup.
When I feel like indulging myself I go to Starbucks and get a caramel frappachino and a maple nut scone and then sit in the comfy chair in Barnes and Nobles next door and go through all the new artsy fartsy books I can't afford.
posted on September 27, 2000 12:01:16 PM new
Speaking of coffee, I went the mall about a month ago and coffee in this Starbuck's type chain called Gloria Jean's. The coffee of the day was German Chocolate Cake. I had a cup and immediately bought a pound to take home. It's heavenly.
posted on September 27, 2000 12:03:14 PM new
Oh, and I forgot, Barry, your meatball sandwich story hit home. There was a pizzeria about four blocks from my house that was there for 30 years.
The meatball sandwiches there were unbeatable. I can taste it now while typing this. I'd been eating them since I was about 8 years old. They went out of business about 8 months ago and I'm still heartbroken over it.
posted on September 27, 2000 12:51:33 PM newtegan - I know whereof you speak.
Long, long ago, in my days in an anarchist collective (I am not making this up), a couple of the members brought in $ by working a sugarbush (for you Southerners, that's making maple syrup). Part of their take was in, well, syrup. Each member of the collective got a pint. We used to flavor our coffee with it, and when we were out of heating oil (everything had to be decided by unanimous vote, and there was always somebody who voted "no" on "supporting the oil cartels", I spent many an afternoon tucked in bed reading Goethe and taking nips of maple syrup.
Another couple guys worked at the original Ben & Jerrys' place, and got paid in ice cream The rest of the time, we ate boiled kale, sprouted wheat "bread" and tempeh.
posted on September 27, 2000 01:57:04 PM new
HartCottageQuilts:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I recently gave up sweet and low because everyone was saying it messed with your
health. (I now have less headaches and more energy, not a lot but defiantly more)
I drink ice water or tea with sugar when we go to restaurants but it tastes too sweet
even with only one spoonful.
I tried the coffee with maple syrup just now when I got out of the pool. It was so
much better than sugar. I use honey but I don't like the coffee/honey taste
combination.
Did you guys ever try the maple syrup on snow. I forget what it was called but it was
good. I wouldn't do it now with acid rain and all, you never know what the snow might contain.
You should see the strange oil slick and ash stuff on the top of the pool water after it rains here. Yuck.
posted on September 27, 2000 03:34:32 PM new
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about sugar-on-snow! Take some syrup out of the pans they're boiling it in, boil it some more to soft-ball stage, drizzle it on that heavy, wet snow typical of Vermont in March, and eat it with doughnuts (the fried cakes kind, not the squishy raised ones) and....uh....pickles. Hey, it's a custom.
More Vermont: Fried smelt. Cut off the head, take out the guts, dredge in flour and fry. Required condiment: ketchup. The backbones make 'em crispy. (HCQ shudders here) Mind you, smelt are not much bigger than sardines, and they're caught one by one on a line. Twenty smelt make a good meal for one. You spend a LOT of time in your shack on the ice, and a LOT of peach brandy (HCQ shudders again) to get dinner thataway. The Dixie version is crawfish, of course, which you catch by the netful but which take an eternity to shell and eat.
posted on September 27, 2000 03:45:41 PM new
This one's for Baduizm:
Callaloo, rice & peas, saltfish, Johnnycakes, pates, rotis, ackee, fresh mango by the bag, and papaya, oh I'm gettin' hungry, and the wonderful Bush Tea!
posted on September 27, 2000 04:27:07 PM new
HCQ, where are you catching smelt one by one?? In Florida? Up North they run twice a year and we catch them in a net. The event is better known as "smelt drinkin" up there. Nothing better than a big plate of fried smelt! Hubby hates em though...says they look like bait!
