Likely they are the same, at least in the basic form. Variations, such as certain sweeteners or fruits, are introduced regularly, to catch the individual's whim.
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Tai Chi
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 09:01 am
Nobody's mentioned wild rice. I think it only grows in North America.
(It's not actually rice but the seed of an aquatic grass.)
Obviously I misunderstood the intent of this thread, I responded as if the question asked was regarding "what foods would be served at a 'typical' meal/resturant that would be considered American. I did not respond in the sense of what I would personally prefer to serve or eat. I stand with my original statement that I find the vast majority of posts above as embarrassing.
Corn Bread
Biscuits and Gravy (ms. picky is picky about those)
Bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches with great ingredients
Tamales - friend's grandmother sold them in downtown LA in the early nineteen hundreds
Boston Baked Beans (don't like them myself, too sweet, and my mother was a boston girl who raved about bean sandwiches
Porterhouse steaks cooked just right
More in a bit.
You know your steaks. Porterhouse is a really good cut of beef.
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Setanta
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 10:39 am
Margo, that was a crap recipe for hush puppies. Basically, hush puppies are cornbread batter, into which the cook mixes ingredients in the way of garnishes or spices (chili powder, minced onions, minced bell peppers, etc., etc.) before dropping them in hot fat in tablespoon sized servings.
Biscuits don't resemble scones at all--not if you do them correctly. They are a form of bread made with baking powder rather than live yeast culture. Both cornbread and biscuits are a product of a pioneer culture. Both foods are eminently portable because no live yeast culture is needed. You just need flour or corn meal, baking powder, salt and a form of solid fact, such as lard. All of the ingredients keep well without refrigeration, and a farmer in the wilderness can produce everything he needs for them except the baking powder, which he can buy in bulk once a year when he goes to town to sell his crop.
Biscuits and gravy is often served as a "main course" for breakfast in diners in America. The gravy is usually a white gravy made with flour, milk and pork sausage. You get one of those big, 12" plates with two or three big biscuits cut in half, and then covered with white pork gravy, and that's enough food for a farm hand.
Drunks often go to diners at two or three a.m., after the bars close, to have two eggs, ham, sausage, bacon or steak, toast, hash brown potatoes, biscuits and gravy, and coffee. That way, when they wake up hung-over, they can also enjoy being sick to their stomachs.
Confession time, I like mine with a little cocktail sauce on them, as I generally eat hush puppies when I'm eatin' fried cat fish.
Don't know how true this is, but this is how I heard hush puppies got their name.....
While frying up fish or other battered food, the hounds would gather around making a racket, wanting some.
The cook would flang a bit of the fried batter at them and say "Hush puppy!"
I just gotta put in Hank Sr.'s version of Jambalaya...
this is true Americana,
along with this other food related song of his....
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chai2
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 12:21 pm
since we're talking cajun food, you'll see that the childs menu shouldn't be a problem...
What's wrong with those bloody cajun!? Eating their pets!
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OmSigDAVID
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:10 pm
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
Obviously I misunderstood the intent of this thread, I responded as if the question asked was regarding "what foods would be served at a 'typical' meal/resturant that would be considered American. I did not respond in the sense of what I would personally prefer to serve or eat.
I stand with my original statement that I find the vast majority of posts above as embarrassing.
HOW is it embarrassing, Dys? I don 't get your point.
David
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ossobuco
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:16 pm
@Tai Chi,
I may be the only person I know who doesn't like wild rice, never have. Big eh! for me (yes, yes, I like many other kinds of rice). Maybe all those weren't cooked right.
I may be the only person I know who doesn't like wild rice, never have. Big eh! for me (yes, yes, I like many other kinds of rice). Maybe all those weren't cooked right.
What is your opinion of Ossobuco?
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OmSigDAVID
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:26 pm
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
Obviously I misunderstood the intent of this thread, I responded as if the question asked was regarding "what foods would be served at a 'typical' meal/resturant that would be considered American. I did not respond in the sense of what I would personally prefer to serve or eat.
I stand with my original statement that I find the vast majority of posts above as embarrassing.
OK, Dys: lemme supplement my last question with another one, totaling 2 questions:
1. HOW is it embarrassing
and
2. if u opened your own restaurant of American food, WHAT woud YOU put on its menu ?
(presumably, non-embarrassing food choices)
David
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ossobuco
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:29 pm
I like rolled biscuits as much as I like the biscuits Set describes.
Rolled with bits of ice cold butter in my experience, but I supppose also lard, in layers so that the final biscuit looks like..
Geez, I can't even find a photo, they must be very out of style - but they are based on similar premise to things like phyllo layers.
I'm not as keen on the wads that show up under most white gravy, speaking for myself, though I'd agree these biscuits aren't right for that either, they're more stand alone.
I'm very picky about the burnt pellets that turn up in many coffee shops.
I am no expert where certain foods originated. My Mom used to make green tomato chow-chow. She canned it. It's a sort of relish. We enjoyed it with most every dinner until it was gone. The ingredients list is not her recipe. It came from a website.
4 quarts green tomatoes
1 large head of cabbage
10 medium onions
5 medium green peppers
7 medium sweet red peppers
1/2 cup salt
15 cups vinegar
5 cups sugar
3 tablespoons dry mustard
2 teaspoons powdered ginger
1 tablespoon turmeric
4 tablespoons mustard seeds
3 tablespoons celery seed
2 tablespoons pickling spice
Being a poor Okie, likely her ingredients list would have been shorter.
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Setanta
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:40 pm
I believe chow-chow is very Southern. I also believe that there are as many recipes for chow-chow as there are mothers making it.
I once worked for an Indian gentleman, and he was telling me about curries. I asked him how many curries there are--i was thinking along the lines of three or four, you know, red curry, yellow curry, green curry, etc. But he thought about it for a few minutes and said, "Of six . . . maybe seven hundred million . . . how many adult women do you think there are in India?"
He was serious, too. He was thinking two or three curry recipes per adult woman . . .
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OmSigDAVID
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Sun 10 Jan, 2010 08:42 pm
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
djjd62 wrote:
wonder bread
government cheese
grape soda
oops, i might have meant to post that in the "Harry Reid: racist or political realist?" thread
ooh boy, goin' straight to hell if such a place exists
I heard that archeologists recently discovered it.
Its a ravine outside of Jerusalem, formerly used as a garbage dump
(I don 't know whether thay still use it for that or not)
where trash was burned. There was some question
of whether human sacrifice had also been done there.
Presumably, the local residents might have been handed
a bag of garbage 1nc or 2ice a week and told to go to hell.
