Food rules (vegans enter at your own risk)

[rallynavvie]

I've been on a bit of a cooking bend lately. Dunno if it's to impress the new girl or just because I've become a bit bored with the usual. My dad is a certified executive chef so I picked up a lot of cooking skills from him while growing up. Tonight I made what I think should be called a suicide burger or something. I took two half-pound patties and made them pretty flat, then put two slices of Wisconsin Swiss between them and sealed it in, rolled it in seeds from a chile pepper (I grow them in my garden) and coarse-ground pepper, then seared it on a charcoal/wood grill. Meanwhile I fried some Nueske's bacon (almost a 1/4" thick stuff ) with the chopped chile pepper flesh and onions. I loaded the burger onto a huge bun and dropped some bacon and bacon-fried onions and pepper onto it. Whoa, I could barely finish mine but she inhaled hers and ate the leftover bacon. How she keeps 115 lbs is an astonishing feat. I'd have thought she had an eating disorder if we hadn't watched a movie for the next few hours. Wow

The other morning I made some killer biscuits and gravy from fresh pork sausage from pigs my aunt was raising at her hobby farm. Slaughtered only a week before and never frozen. Homemade biscuits too. I feel sorry for those of you who can't get good American biscuits and gravy where you are. Mmm, heart attacks for breakfast here...

She's asleep already so I'll have to be up before her to bake blueberry buttermilk scones for breakfast. You Scots have some excellent recipes for them

[lordsmurf]

I think I just got heartburn by reading this.

[VCDHunter]

Biscuits and gravy ?

[Craig Tucker]

Saying biscuits and gravy to a brit is like saying cookies and gravy. Now imagine that

[Craig Tucker]

Saying biscuits and gravy to a brit is like saying cookies and gravy. Now imagine that

Sounds like Homer Simpsons School of cooking.

Sing along.

"you don't win friends with salad, ..........you don't win friends with salad"

[Craig Tucker]

Dont know how I ended up quoting myself there

[Cobra]

Biscuits are some sort of bread thing in America, aren't they?

[Rookie64]

Biscuits are some sort of bread thing in America, aren't they?

Quick bread or like a muffin...but not as sweet

Usually made with flour, baking powder, buttermilk, egg and salt...sometimes cheese.

[lordsmurf]

Biscuits are some sort of bread thing in America, aren't they?

Man .... you guys are missing out.
http://www.pillsbury.com/View/breads/grands_biscuits.asp
Love the buttermilk ones.
But for a morning dish, it's a cork for the day (if you know what I mean!)
A bit heavy to start the day.
It's better for the breakfast-for-supper meals.

Grits are good too.

[DVD_Ripper]

Biscuits and gravy ?

Sweet stuff.... stick to your ribs food. Great on a cold autumn day when your gonna be outside all day... warm going in and keeps you energized all morning.

[rallynavvie]

I don't get heartburn very easily or at all unless I'm already sick with a cold or something. The scones went over really well this morning with a good pot of Kona coffee. Those things are usually a hit over here anyway. I don't know how often y'all eat them on the other side of the pond but they aren't too common here.

More to the Brits liking I do make my own dry curries. Unfortunately I've found that my mix is too spicy for most. I get all the dry ingredients at the local co-op and mix them in a spice blender. Works best for rice dishes, dunno what else you folks use it on. When I was over there I remember seeing it on almost everything. I use both Indian and Thai recipes for my dry curry.

[yalborap]

That burger sounds like a gift of the gods. Which gods? the gods of manliness, of course!

Speaking of burgers, one guy ordered a 25 patty burger at in-n-out. The thing was the size of a small dog and cost like fifty bucks.

But yeah, that's awesome food overall. makes me wish I could cook better than I can(which is pretty good for a teenager, but overall not great.).

[Guest]

Saying biscuits and gravy to a brit is like saying cookies and gravy. Now imagine that

Sounds like Homer Simpsons School of cooking.

Sing along.

"you don't win friends with salad, ..........you don't win friends with salad"

Now for some my patented,spage-age waffles. Carmels,waffle batter,liquid smoke. Emmmm-waffle runoff.

[ViRaL1]

That burger sounds like a gift of the gods. Which gods? the gods of manliness, of course!

Speaking of burgers, one guy ordered a 25 patty burger at in-n-out. The thing was the size of a small dog and cost like fifty bucks.

But yeah, that's awesome food overall. makes me wish I could cook better than I can(which is pretty good for a teenager, but overall not great.).

The biggest I've ever had was a '5x5' with grilled onions. I'm a big eater and I can't even imagine where you would put (or how you'd even attempt to eat) a '25x25.'

COOK is a four-letter word!

[yalborap]

It was probably just for show.

And my plan? To get my entire family(READ: Two guys with huge appetites, and two girls with average.) to an in-n-out, and order a 50 patty burger. it'll take an hour to cook, it'll cost a hundred bucks, and it'll take an entire family to eat it. it is gonna ROCK!

[ViRaL1]

Make sure to bring a couple loaves of bread, unless you plan on just eating it with your hands. You still just get the one bun if I'm not mistaken.

[rallynavvie]

My favorite breakfast spread was one spawned from my younger days up at deer camp. Everything starts with a strong pot of coffee (I started drinking coffee black when I was 9 or so). You fry lots of thick-sliced bacon and pour the drippings into another pot or glass measuring cup. Then fry eggs using some of that grease. Finally fry hashbrowns in whatever remains of the bacon grease. Side that with buttered toast and more coffee. Occasionally toast was subsituted for baking soda biscuits and mix coffee with bacon grease for red eye gravy (consistency of au jous) for dipping. We'd eat all this before the sun was even up so that we could get to our deer stands before sunrise. And surprisingly after this sort of childhood I don't have high cholesterol :P

Tomorrow night I'm having some friends over if the weather cooperates to grill some dry-aged steaks and fresh sweet corn. We're also making a trip to the State Fair this weekend to enjoy foods on a stick. This year's new food is a cob dog, battered and deep fried corn on the cob on a stick. Leave it to the Minnesota State Fair to kill its population on crazy food
http://gopher.mnstatefair.org/FoodFinder/

[offline]

Keep your ruddy "biscuits"!!


We have yorksire batter, fry ups, bubble & squeak, spotted dick
and gook.

Does more than stick to your ribs, it replaces them!

[Capmaster]

spotted dick

I don't even want to know ....

[VCDHunter]

spotted dick

I don't even want to know ....

Liar - I'll bet you're dying to know :P

Its just a pudding mate, nothing more nothing less. Nice though.

@offline

I know the rest but what the hell is "gook" ?

[yalborap]

Pudding from a spotted dick?

I'm not trusting that kind of tapeoca(did I spell it right?) no matter what.

[Craig Tucker]

Its a sponge with currants in it.

[yalborap]

THAT doesn't look like a spotted dick. Looks more like somebody cummed all over a muffin.

[rallynavvie]

You know what a Blizzard is at DQ? Well we have a variant of those made with frozen custard this year at the fair. I can feel the plaque build in my arteries just thinking about it, yum

[Craig Tucker]

THAT doesn't look like a spotted dick. Looks more like somebody cummed all over a muffin.

If your cum looks like that, go see a doctor.

[Doramius]

I had the 1Lb. burger at Carl's Jr. that's made with real angus beef. It was pretty good. My wife wonders where it goes, because I only weigh about a buck 80. I even ate my fries before I started the burger. Sad thing was I finished my drink before I finished the burger. I had to get a 32oz. refill. I'm one of those people who doesn't eat often, but when I do it may be a gorge of food. I'll go to TOny Roma's and eat a full rack of ribs. My wife can only eat a half rack, but I still have her order the full rack because I'll finish hers. And that's after getting an appetizer of Hot Wings and the sampler plate. The bad side is when we're done, we have only 10 minutes to make it home or my pants will foam up. It doesn't matter how much I eat, even if it's only a simple cheeseburger at McDonald's. If I'm not near a toilet in 10 minutes, I'll need a change of pants. Only had this problem after I moved out west.

[yalborap]

You mean diarrhea or cummishness?

[Capmaster]

I had the 1Lb. burger at Carl's Jr. that's made with real angus beef. It was pretty good. My wife wonders where it goes, because I only weigh about a buck 80. I even ate my fries before I started the burger. Sad thing was I finished my drink before I finished the burger. I had to get a 32oz. refill. I'm one of those people who doesn't eat often, but when I do it may be a gorge of food. I'll go to TOny Roma's and eat a full rack of ribs. My wife can only eat a half rack, but I still have her order the full rack because I'll finish hers. And that's after getting an appetizer of Hot Wings and the sampler plate. The bad side is when we're done, we have only 10 minutes to make it home or my pants will foam up. It doesn't matter how much I eat, even if it's only a simple cheeseburger at McDonald's. If I'm not near a toilet in 10 minutes, I'll need a change of pants. Only had this problem after I moved out west.

Doramius,
Have you been examined for a tapeworm? Or is a high metabolism normal in your family? If so, do you know which gene it is so I can try adding it to my DNA?

On the "foaming pants" lactose intolerance can do that. Hey wait, where's the doctor?

[Doramius]

Cap, are you stating that out of regular insight or because you've seen me post that I'm lactose intolerant in other threads? A little dairy is good for me if I ever get constipated (cleans me right out). But too much and it feels like my stomach got pumped and I'm s**ting razors and tacks.

As for my metobolism, it is excessively high. I've seen a bunch of doctors that said it was normal and slow down as I got older. Until recently, I believed that. I met a couple of new doctors that decided to check it out. I also don't feel hunger. I asked the doctor if I had some disease like anorexia. He told me it's not really a disease, but more of a mental disorder. He didn't believe I had that. He did say that there may be signs of me being hungary, but not as extreme as others. He says given a longer period of time without food I might feel them more intensely. Anorexic people have strong hunger feelings, but have chosen to ignore them like a person ignores the hum of an engine. They know it's there, but don't give in to it.

[Roundabout]

He did say that there may be signs of me being hungary, but not as extreme as others.

So that's how Zsa Zsa stayed so thin! It's that Hungarian metabolism (I knew I was born in the wrong country! )