Tropicalsenior

A bit too much, maybe.

Thank you so much. I am making it right now. I'll have to cut it in half and probably will use a little less sugar but it sounds great.

We all have days when we forgot to take the meat out of the freezer, just got in from outdoors, or just didn't feel like cooking. Do you have a favorite that gets you in and out of the kitchen in record time? I know that I do, mine is frittata. It's also a great way to use up little bits of vegetables in the refrigerator and leftover cheese. My family absolutely loves them and I get out of the kitchen almost guilt-free.

I guess that mine would be anchovy dip. Two ingredients that I always have in my fridge. Takes five minutes to make and out the door. I never take it anywhere that I don't get asked for the recipe.

No, I meant specifically corn dogs. Especially the grease soaked versions at the State Fair.

How are Korean corn dogs any more disgusting than the American ones?

I love raw sea urchin and sushi and sashimi.

This topic reminded me of a neat little cookbook that I bought a long time ago. It was published in 1984 and I have spent a lot of time drooling over regional favorites. Many of them can't be duplicated. They are regional favorites because the ingredients are strictly regional. It contains the usual culprits, Philly Cheesesteak, Chicago Pizza, Hot Brown Sandwich, Cioppino and many more. The one that interests me most is the Vidalia Onion Custard. Quite a few of the pages are covered with drool, but I did get my very best barbecue sauce recipe from it.

I had to stop buying that here in Costa Rica. It was not only dirt cheap but it came complete with the dirt.

I think that would be crushed pineapple.

Rather than take the time to copy it out which might take me forever, I'll send it to you as I got it. I scaled it down slightly and cooked it in the instant pot.

Perhaps another reason that I am reluctant to eat them is that I remember the time that my husband and I went to a popular Seattle Oyster Bar. He had two dozen raw oysters and I had Oysters Rockefeller. He spent the next two days worshiping the porcelain goddess and I didn't.

There is one food craze that I don't understand. I have never eaten raw oysters nor had any desire to eat them. I love cooked oysters and I will eat them in any way shape or form cooked, but please, can somebody explain why anybody would eat them raw.

I've only eaten it in Seattle. A young man that I worked with was from the south and every year, he and his partner and two other couples from the south would have a big Southern BBQ. They would have alligator flown in and served it several ways. The barbecued ribs were wonderful and it was always some of the best food that I ever ate. Those Southerners do know how to eat well.

Years ago, I used to get a cookbook from the library by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of The Yearling. She had quite a few recipes for alligator. Unfortunately, at the time I was living at Lake Tahoe and it didn't have any Alligators so I never got to try any of them. After seeing that picture I'm just as glad I didn't.

I couldn't agree more! So many favorites are totally Regional. I would give anything to try a real Philly cheesesteak or a real Chicago Pizza. Things that we in other areas read about but can only try to imitate. Butte Montana has something that is called 'John's Pork Chop Sandwich'. It is wonderful but only if you buy it at John's Pork Chop Sandwich Shop. He never divulged his recipe and anything else is just a very poor imitation.

@Kim Shook mentioned it in the dinner thread and she has promised us her daughter Jessica's recipe. Some time ago, my niece sent me her mother-in-law's recipe for scalloped pineapple and it turned out to be a pineapple bread pudding. Actually, pretty darn good. I have to agree with you on the green bean casserole. It's just a nice traditional way to ruin good green beans. I've never heard them called calf fries but I have eaten Rocky Mountain oysters. I had to have a few drinks to get up my courage to eat them so I have no idea what they tasted like. Never tried rattlesnake but alligator is delicious.

I agree with you. And pizza is not pizza without anchovies. But then, I am with @Margaret Pilgrim on the sweet barbecue.

Very interesting article. Going through the list I have, at one time or another, had all of them. I have given away or pitched all but three. 1. I love my cheap little Citrus Juicer. I think it cost me about $12. 2. I use my coffee grinder all the time, but I only use it for spices. 3. I have a pasta machine with attachments and probably the only reason that I keep it was that it was a gift from my daughter and I don't know anyone dumb enough to want it. I used it all the time when we couldn't buy good pasta here but now we can, and I don't. I traded my bread machine for a KitchenAid stand mixer and now I get perfect bread all the time. Before I buy any Appliance or Gadget now, I ask myself two questions. How many ways can I use it and where the heck am I going to put it. One or the other usually stops me dead in my tracks. However, I saw one little Gadget the other day that was sure tempting. A beautiful little red toaster just for making hot dogs. It had two holes in the middle for the hot dogs, and bigger slots on each end for hot dog buns. Decided it wasn't practical for me because there are three of us. Then too, there is the fact that we don't eat hot dogs but it sure was a pretty red thing.

Trust me, nothing that my grandmother made was delicious! She used to feed us toast that was burnt black and claimed that it was good for us because we would never get worms.

You probably never drank the whole pitcher of tea.

I've never had cornmeal grits. My grandmother used to make something that she called cornmeal mush that was pretty disgusting. We ate it with butter and syrup and only because we were forced to. The recipes that I have seen for grits seem very similar to this and I've just never been interested.

I just thought I would mention an interesting fact that I learned some years ago. My husband had been on a green tea kick. He bought a huge package of it and then just lost interest. Rather than let it go to waste I decided to make iced tea with it. It was a hot day and it tasted so good that I drank almost the whole pitcher. I had no idea that green tea was a wonderful laxative. I do now! This probably belongs in the 'I will never again' thread!

My mother was an absolutely wonderful cook. I grew up on a farm so all our meals were pretty simple and still pretty stupendous. And except for breakfast, every meal that she made, she had to make two meals. One for us and one for my father who was a pain in the butt. He had every food allergy known to man and a few that he made up all by himself. All he wanted on his food was salt because any other type of seasoning would have killed him. She even had to fry the meat in separate Skillets because the seasoning from our food might migrate onto his and kill him. The meals that she set in front of us were well seasoned and imaginative and Lord help us if we didn't eat it because she said that she was determined not to turn five more people loose into the world like him. That said, she loved him dearly and put up with every one of his idiosyncrasies.

Okay, then stem Ginger wouldn't work for what you want. The first recipe above from David looks to be about the easiest method. When you buy your Ginger, make sure that it is young fresh ginger. That is the pale colored Ginger with the pink tinge. The old Ginger will take hours to soften and will wind up tasting like cardboard sometimes. The new Ginger will cook up much better but will sometimes be quite hot. Just be careful about using it for nausea. You can overdose on it and make yourself even sicker. Been there, done that.