How about food? Is anyone's favorite something other than a nice spider goulash? How about potato salad or sweet corn? How about food on a stick from the state fair? How about potato soup or homemade chili? Let's open this up to hear about your favorite comfort foods. Recipes can be included if it does not bring in the legal team from Kentucky Fried.
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Some of the best comfort foods are those that are simply put, hard to screw up. Chili can be made many, many ways, and is usually good. Meat loaf is good almost any way you make it.
I don't think you can beat burgers on the grill, a beer, and good potato salad.
The best potato salad ever could be purchased at Jim's Super Value. A small brunette was there that made it. She put in plenty of onions that made it crunchy. She also made a great macaroni salad.
Jim's also had a real good bakery. Maybe not as good as Saba's, but very good. They did just about anything you wanted for parties, too. They always had a giant bowl of some kind of soup going too all the time.
Ham loaf is better than meatloaf.
Ham loaf, ham balls, ham in general all suffer from the same problem - way too salty. An excellent choice for people who put lots of salt on their food.
I'm with anonymous. But where can you find hamloaf/hamballs at a restaurant?
D.Dave - I have an excellent hamloaf recipe I could email you privately. Get w/Rick.
Last Saturday at my place - Four racks of ribs on the smoker, baked beans, coleslaw, & potato salad. Jack Daniels served as a side.
Also 4 Guatemalans painting the third story dormers on my house. No lie. After eating and sides, I wouldn't let them back up on the ladders; so I sent them home till next weekend. Maybe pulled pork. I need them to start earlier.
The odds of Diamond Dave using your recipe and cooking that ham loaf are not good, Marty. The last time I was in his home, Diamond Dave was unsure of where his kitchen was located, and thought that his refrigerator was just a bulletin board, which he used to post his many colorings.
Diamond Dave - There is actually no sure way to know if you are in your kitchen or not. Depending on the quality of the cook, you could be flushing the toilet or the stove. The finger taste test remains as your best bet.
Here is the only ham loaf recipe you will ever need:
1. In a large bowl, combine two pounds ground ham, 1 1/2 pounds ground pork, two eggs, a cup of dried bread crumbs, a cup of evaporated milk, and a little salt and pepper.
2. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 90 minutes.
3. While the loaf is baking, combine one cup of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon mustard powder, and 1/4 cup cider vinegar. Mix well and pour over the loaf for the final 15 minutes of baking.
There. Thats all thats involved in making ham loaf.
iona you are so dense -
3 lbs Fareway Ham Loaf
1 pkg onion soup mix
2 cups herb seasoned stuffing mix
2 eggs beaten
1/2 cup milk
Mix by hand.
Put in greased casserole
Cover w/foil
Bake @ 325 degrees for an hour and a half
Ooh your sooo close, but here goes:
Mix together a pound of ground smoked ham, almost a pound of ground pork, a couple of eggs and enough dry bread crumbs to make it all stick together. Bake it in a loaf pan at 350 for about 90 minutes.
To add your glaze, mix brown sugar, mustard, and soy sauce to taste.
Voila!
That sounds better than mine.
Man, I don't know. I'm no cook, but they all sound basically the same to me. So far.
Marty, thanks for the recipe. Rick 'plained about my cooking talents. I've discovered I walk thru the kitchen when arriving and leaving my place. Thanks, Iona. Thanks, Pam.
At least you walk through your kitchen. Thats much better than ignoring it completely.
Drain one can pineapple, sae a little syrup. Pour 2 tbsp melted butter in the bottom of a loaf pan. Arrange pineapple slices over butter and sprinkle with brown sugar.
Combine a pound of ground cooked ham with a half pound of lean ground pork, 2 cups soft breadcrumbs some chopped onion, a couple eggs, salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Press mixture over pineapple layer. Bake at 350 for 90 minutes. Invert on a platter.
Believe it or not, this is my wife's, so only good comments.
A great recipe for marijuana butter (medicinal purposes only):
step 1: remove stems and seeds from one pound medicinal marijuana
step 2: place one pound butter in top half of double boiler and cook on low heat until melted
step 3: add in marijuana and allow to simmer for two hours, stirring occasionally
step 4: remove mixture from heat and strain into a large container (cheesecloth works well)
step 5: refrigerate until butter is solid
1 egg, beaten
1 cup buttermilk
1 3lb chicken, cut into six pieces
1 cup flour
1 tsp ground oregano
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp dried sage
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried marjoram
1 tsp pepper
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp onion salt
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp msg seasoning (Accent)
1 3lb can Crisco
Combine the egg and buttermilk in a large bowl. Soak the chicken in the mixture.
Put the flour in a separate bowl and fold in the 11 herbs and spices. Roll the chicken in the seasoned flour until completely covered.
Add the Crisco to a pressure fryer and heat to 365 degrees.
Lower 4 pieces of chicken into the hot oil, and lock the lid in place. Allow to fry for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.
Remove chicken and drain on metal rack. Repeat with the remaining two pieces.
The secret to this recipe is using the pressure fryer. You now know how to make Kentucky Fried Chicken - sorry, guys, I hope you don't get sued!
Better than ham loaf is just getting your favorite bird, stuffing and baking it, and serving it all with generous piles of mashed potatoes.
For some reason, people seem to think that you only do this around the holidays. Utter nonsense.
I actually do the turkey, dressing, and mashed potatoes thing 4 or 5 times a year. Turkey is cheap and it's just a great meal. Next day is hot turkey sandwiches w/mashed potatoes and gravy. Not bad.
Don't forget the deviled eggs.
Anyone like oyster stew? I have a great recipe for that.
Sorry, but if you want the best-ever oyster stew recipe you'll have to talk to Marty Bryant.
I remember making spaghetti out of a box and all you guys liked it. Must have been called the munchies, but my hamloaf I skip the breadcrumbs and add graham cracker crumbs to add a great taste to the loaf or hamballs, This is my moms recipe
When the British came over to settle this continent, they brought over a bunch of chickens to eat, thinking that maybe that was a good idea, and that they might complement that diet with some bark and acorns, if they could find any of that S@#$t. This explains the lack of dental hygiene, the scrawny build and mental deficiencies found among the "native" white population of the U.S. Eastern seaboard states. Once the Germans and Polacks came over, they thought it was a good idea to bring and raise a bunch of cattle and pigs; and eat a lot of thick steaks and pork chops and S*&$t like that. These guys were clearly not f#$@king around. They might eat a chicken if it walked by while they were eating huge chunks of beef and pork, but they didn't go out of their way to go and find chickens to eat. It just wasn't worth the time. This explains why all the drop dead beautiful women and great looking guys are all midwest transplants to the remaining U.S.
If anyone wants that oyster stew recipe let me know.
Ok you guys, try these deviled eggs -
6 hard-cooked eggs, peeled and cut (lengthwise)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/2 tsp dry ground mustard
1/2 tsp white vinegar
dash salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
paprika for garnish
Remove the egg yolks to a small bowl and mash with a fork. Add all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Fill empty eggs with the mixture and sprinkle with paprika. Refrigerate well before serving.
The last Anonymous post
Sounds suspiciously like Big Nasty.
Or does someone like plagiarizing his pungent style?
Rick lauded his mom's great goulash. I like goulash, but didn't understand why goulash would be praised so highly. It was excellent, very creamy and she says Heinz ketchup is the key. The recipe is a little of this, a little of that, so it sounds like a written recipe is not forthcoming.
Now that anonymous gave us the KFC recipe, anyone have the formula for Coca Cola?
D.Dave - Yes, that was me, but I am on vacation. Try to keep it down.
Rick's Mom's Goulash -
12 oz pasta-not spaghetti
1 lb ground beef
1 onion, chopped
Salt & pepper to taste
Heinze Ketchup
Cook pasta as directed. Drain.
Saute ground beef and onion.
Mix everything together and add ketchup till it's right.
Marty- I'm shocked, shocked. Thanks.
Big- Consider it done. I'll soften my tone.
That is the way mom tells you she does it. But when anyone tries to watch her make it and write it down, she boots them out of the kitchen. I have witnessed this first-hand.
What I want to know is, what's the most complex recipe you have ever made. I would love to compare Marty's answer to Diamond Dave's.
Pancakes or (it sounds like "pappas con wewos")patatoes with eggs, onions and cheese and peppers. Real sophisticated, huh?
How about for you Rick or anyone else?
It would have to be a shrimp bisque soup recipe that I got from the chef at the Louisville Chop House. It is too long to get into here, and you have to reduce portions because he gave me the restaurant recipe (about 6 gallons). It's great, though.
I've never got very complicated, but I've baked chicken, duck, and turkey with stuffing. I've grilled ribs, steaks, and chops. I've stuffed chops and baked them. I can make burgers and meat loaf. I can make potato soup, oyster stew, and clam chowder. Trust me, none of these are difficult; the only people not doing this are too lazy to try.
Marty Bryant's version of the goulash recipe is not accurate. Don't add salt and pepper.
So if I am to read this right, that goulash recipe that you all like so well is basically pasta and ketchup.
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