We have had this and it’s makes for a fun supper, especially if there are kids around. Who doesn’t love hot dogs all dressed up? OVEN MEAL WITH FRANKS, HOT POTATO SALAD, PEAS, AND SPICE CAKE Serves 4 Preheat oven to 325˚. Prepare all dishes below and bake together, 1 hour. FRANKS AND HOT POTATO
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“Beaten biscuit originated in the South.”—From the library of Lizette Sandifer Buchanan, Bayou Cuisine: Its Tradition and Transition (1970) BEATEN BISCUIT Of course, I’ll gladly give de rule1 meks beat-biscuit by.Dough I ain’t sure dat you will mekDat bread da same as I. ’Cause cooking’s like religion is—Some’s ’lected, an some ain’t.And rules don’t know
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Another oven meal. Again, not especially fancy but good supper food. OVEN MEAL OF BEEF PATTIES, BROCCOLI, SWEET POTATOES, AND PEACH CRUNCH Serves 4 Preheat oven to 375˚. Prepare all dishes and bake together 40 minutes. BEEF AND APPLE PATTIES ½ lb ground beef1 lb ground pork OR veal1 egg½ tsp saltApple, cut into 6
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Getting to be that time of year when you don’t mind spending a little extra time being creative. And so, from Mr. Big Food’s Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide, I present to you… HOW TO MAKE THREE- AND FIVE-STRAND BRAIDS AND OTHER FANCY BREAD SHAPES from The Creative Cooking Course (1982). We will
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This sounds good, though I don’t think we’ve ever had it! OVEN MEAL OF CHICKEN, RICE, TOMATO CUPS, AND APPLE PIE Serves 12, but easily divided into thirds or half Preheat oven to 325˚. Prepare all dishes and bake together 1 hour. CHICKEN IN CREAM 3 3 lb frying chickens, cut into serving pieces, or
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I mention oven and broiler meals from time to time. The idea is that you have an entire the goes into the oven at the same time and temp, and usually bakes the same amount of time. Obviously, you need to prep things ahead of time. It’s great when you’re having guests and want to
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do it right. I appreciate this. I really do. But it’s not right. In no particular order, here are the things which strike me as being off (without checking Emily or Amy): This is just my opinion, but I would dispense with the dessert utensils and the coffee cup. The whole setting is too cluttered.
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Add an extra five or ten minutes to get anywhere if it involves traveling on a two-lane road. I could have passed in the middle lane, but we had to make a stop in about a quarter mile so it didn’t seem worth it. For the most part the fellows driving these rigs–and the really
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From November 2013. Comment at the time was that this is easily veganized. This was the first of our 2013 Fall & Winter Soup Contest. It’s a simple idea and a lot of fun. Have one soup meal each week for five or six weeks. It helps to keep notes. Each person ranks the soups
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Here we have the delicious end result of our Argentinian Beef Stew adventures. The stew bakes for two hours in a pumpkin shell. We enjoyed a nice glass of Chilean wine with it. And tonight we’re having homemade cream of tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. It is danged cold out there and to tell
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Argentinian Beef Stew in a Pumpkin Shell We chose the largest of the three pumpkins displayed on the breakfast table. There was some debate but better safe than sorry, especially on Halloween! I got the two sets of Fall dishes out Saturday. I think we use the Hull. Oh! And have a glass of Chilean
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Originally posted a while back when I was reading Being a Boy (Charles Dudley Warner, 1877). What a great book! Highly recommended. “The feeling of a boy towards pumpkin-pie has never been properly considered. There is an air of festivity about its approach in the fall. The boy is willing to help pare and cut
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Tonight’s supper! A good use of the old pumpkin, if you ask me. And a perfectly chilly day to be making something that needs 2+ hours in the oven. Enjoy! Mr. Big Food himself: This one came from a California cookbook I got in the mid 1980s for subscribing to the L.A. Times. (I was
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A repost from 2016. A cold front in coming in on Monday. I decided what we’ll need for supper on Marica Cooks Wednesday will be soup & grilled cheese sandwiches. I landed on this most excellent cream of tomato. I’ll skip making real crème fraîche and instead just use the immersion blender to whip some
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So to be authentic, we did the boil in a pasta pot. I got two large brown grocery bags and we laid them out on the kitchen table and dumped the pot. Fun stuff! BEAUFORT (SC) SHRIMP DINNER Serves 12, but “recipe may be cut. Use ½ – ¾ lbs shrimp per person for smaller
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I cannot believe I have never posted this recipe before. It’s a classic and a Big Food Favorite. We made it for a soup tailgate one year and I was surprised to hear how many people knew of the restaurant. From Pea Soup Andersen’s, the famous restaurant in Buellton, CA PEA SOUP ANDERSEN’S SPLIT PEA
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A repost from October 2012. That was when the blog was still hosted by Blogspot, hence the strange formatting. As I think I mentioned, we recently bought 40 pounds of sweet potatoes. Might make this again sometime this fall. I think we’re having Split Pea Anderson’s split pea soup with sweet potato biscuits for supper
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This is a repost from October, 2016–our first year of doing A&S tailgates for 120 or so. I could write a book about the tailgate years. The socket jumped off the ball because no one had tended to the trailer for years until we took over and the socket (or whatever it’s called) was so
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Moist fragrant loaves, filled with fruit and nuts, are an irresistible invitation to sandwiches. —The Encyclopedia of Cooking Complete in 24 Volumes, Volume 14: 500 Ways to Make Tasty Sandwiches (1953) This is good. I substituted 1/2 cup of chopped dried fruit for the nuts. And after looking at a few old recipes for banana
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Big event yesterday! For the last couple of years our Village has put on a Trade Day (a fall festival). Mind–this is not Town (population ~2000), this is Village (pop. ~100). Strange as it sounds, Village is the county seat. Long, long time readers will recall that in 2013 the County Courthouse burnt almost to
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