you gonna eat that? the mst3k food thread

[Afgncaap5]

It's not technically food but I've discovered a nearby place that actually sells bottled Jones Soda. I've been gradually working my way off soda for a while now, but I'm willing to indulge in some of this; real sugar, and the gas station sells a lot of the flavors I liked (Blue Bubblegum, Fufu Berry, Orange & Cream, and a few others). Joy of joys there's a delightful picture of a lion on the front of this one; last time I knew a place that sold Jones, all the bottles had pictures of indie bands and musicians, which was fine for a while but... well, I'm glad to get lots of random pictures now instead of ones focused on a theme.

Anyway... now let's get back to some food talk while I finish off this soothing bottle of orange & cream soda.

[kmorgan]

HAPPY St. DAVID'S DAY! You can still celebrate with Welsh cookies:

½ cup (1 stick) butter
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup shortening
6 cups flour
2 cups sugar
6 tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
½ cup milk
1 tsp. salt
1 cup raisins or currants
1 tsp. nutmeg


Mix together butter, shortening, sugar, eggs and milk. Sift together and add dry ingredients. Add raisins and mix. (A heavy-duty mixer comes in handy for this; dough is stiff.) Roll out dough to about 1/8" and cut into circles. Bake as you would pancakes on a 400 electric griddle. Do not overbake; they don't take long to brown and overbaking makes them hard as a rock. Watch carefully and you will see them begin to puff up in about 1 ½ minutes and that means it's time to turn them. The second side will take only about 1 minute. They will be soft but as they cool on a rack they harden a little. Makes about 6 doz.

Enjoy!

[crowschmo]

I was at a restaurant tonight and for dessert I had "Triple Chocolate Heaven". Chocolate cake, with chocolate chips and chocolate cream frosting. The frosting also had a hint of orange. Holy crap. It was aptly named.

[crowschmo]

Question: Why would ANYONE, in one's right mind, still eat at Chipotle?

[crowschmo]

There was a festival on the beach this weekend, so, I just had some fried dough pizza and deep fried Oreos.

[sol-survivor]

Today I made some chicken noodle soup kind of like my late Mom used to make:




The main difference is she used to cook raw chicken until done and then once it's cool rip it apart into bite-sized pieces. Now I just do the same thing with a rotisserie chicken. I will usually buy two chickens and use the meat from one right away and freeze the meat from the other for another time. I use purchased chicken broth, usually Swanson's, to which I add an envelope of chicken bouillon for a little extra flavor. I also make my own noodles the way Mom always did. It's actually pretty easy, just time consuming and messy. I get the broth simmering in a big pot first. I whisk 3 whole eggs plus 2 yolks with about a teaspoon of salt until foamy, and then mix in enough flour to make a stiff dough that isn't too sticky. I roll it out thin an a floured board a little at a time and cut it into strips with an herb mincer, and then cut the noodles into shorter strips if they're too long. I drop the noodles one at a time into the simmering broth and once they're all in the pot I let them cook a little longer just to make sure they're completely done before I add the chicken, especially if it was meat that I froze since I don't thaw it first. The meat in this batch went directly from the freezer to the pot. Once the chicken is in the mix I let it simmer while stirring occasionally until the chicken is thawed and the soup is heated through completely. My brother makes it the same way but he'll add vegetables to it, which I prefer not to do.

[crowschmo]

There's a deli in the city where I live that I had no idea existed, as it's off a side road I don't usually travel. They also make their own pasta and sauce and other Italian stuff. I bought their sauce, their bread (frozen), and their stuffed shells (also frozen).

I heated up the bread and stuffed shells with the sauce - oh my. Better than any restaurant pasta dish I've had. Very tasty, so I bought it again not too long afterwards.

I didn't want to make the shells the second time as soon as I got home as I didn't feel like cooking that day, so I saved them for the next day and got their Italian subs from the deli for that day's dinner. Also very good.

I will be getting stuff from there regularly. Good stuff.

[crowschmo]

I ALMOST had an interesting culinary experience. There was a foraging tour at a park done by a guy who knows what wild things are edible. I was curious, so I went. I was expecting to come home with all sorts of wild berries and mushrooms and greens for interesting salads and such, but, alas, it was rained out as a thunder storm passed over not long after we got started. Of course. It's been raining practically every other day for almost two years now, it's ridiculous.

We all waited in our cars in the parking lot for a while, but it wasn't really abating, so we called it a day. I did taste some wood sorrel (they kind of have leaves like clover, but they have little yellow flowers instead of the white or purple globe-y type flowers that clover has, and they have heart shaped leaves and the clovers "have no heart" - see, I learned something). Pretty tasty, actually, and I gathered enough to have a bit in a salad when I got home. I also had seeds of something else that I forget the name of that tasted like garlic.

I was picturing having wild mushrooms and rice pilaf or something, like - yeah, THIS is the stuff we should be eating. I still think it would be interesting, so I might try it again next time he does it.

[crowschmo]

Tried an Italian sub from Jersey Mike's. Good stuff. (I don't know how wide spread that place is). Edit: I just checked, I guess there's quite a few locations in a lot of states.

I had it on the rosemary Parmesan bread. Very tasty.

[sol-survivor]

Here's how I just spent a week off, baking tons of cookies. It sure felt like tons by the end of the week, anyway. I call it my Annual Cookie Baking Orgy. The only reasons I can do so many in a week is taking a week's vacation from work, a heavy duty mixer, and parchment paper. There is no way I could do all this mixing them by hand. Most of the cookies will be given away to various places, and some already have been. The plates shown here either went back to work with me or to a local business I go to fairly often. Since I am kind of known in the Gypsy's Games section for using butter, I have noted which ones use it.

First plate, left to right, Coconut Pecan Cookies, Snowballs, Oatmeal Black Walnut Craisin. All three have butter.



Second plate, left to right, Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip, Peanut Butter Cup, Peanut Butter. The dough in the Peanut Butter Cup is the refrigerated Pillsbury dough and is the only dough I didn't do from scratch, although another one coming up uses a muffin mix. The other two have butter.



Third plate, upper left, lower left, and then right, Orange Cranberry Drops, Lemon Crinkles, Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies, Drop Sugar Cookies, Soft Pumpkin Drops. The Raspberry Cheesecake is the one I mentioned that is made using a muffin mix, Jiffy Raspberry Muffin Mix to be exact. The Soft Pumpkin Drops are one of the few that don't use butter, using shortening instead. Even the Raspberry Cheesecake ones have butter in them.



Fourth plate, left to right, Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Crinkles. The Chocolate Crinkles uses oil, the Red Velvet uses butter.



Fifth plate, left to right, Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip, M&M Cookies, Potato Chip Dark Chocolate Chip. The last does have crushed ripple potato chips in it and all have butter.



Sixth and last plate, left to right, Dark Chocolate Mint Chip, Mint Chocolate Blossoms, Chocolate Peppermint Chunk. All have butter.

I didn't keep track of how much butter I used, probably around 10 pounds, give or take, but I did kill a 7-pound bag of brown sugar along with two two-pound bags. Probably around five or six five-pound bags of flour because that's what fits in the flour canister, and I think three or four four-pound bags of white sugar. Plus a few dozen eggs.

Oh, and the total number of cookies made was 2694, or 224.5 dozen. Yes, you may question my sanity now.

[crowschmo]

^^^^ Holy crap! They all look good.

I love Chocolate Crinkles.

[sol-survivor]

Dec 17, 2019 15:50:25 GMT -5 crowschmo said:

I love Chocolate Crinkles.

Me, too. These are chewy like a powdered sugar covered brownie. Probably because a double batch uses 8 eggs.

[crowschmo]

Went out to eat last night with my mom and sister. We went to a Mexican restaurant. We had an appetizer that was Navajo fry bread topped with chicken, black beans, jalapenos, watercress, spinach, goat cheese and Mexican sour cream.

Deee-lish.

[crowschmo]

There's a fairly new Thai place in my city. Had it a few days ago. They have Pad Thai and such. I had the orange chicken, spring rolls and cream cheese wontons. Those wontons are to die for. All very good.

[Mod City]

My brother and a friend caught their limit of bluegill and bass the other night. He fried some up tonight. A light beer batter and a dash of salt. That's it. I wasn't there but he promised me he'd do another round next time I'm over.