Theophilus

I love good food. I'm not a glutton, but if I'm going to put something into my mouth I want it to taste delicious.

Here's what I want ya all to do. Post one of your favorite foods. Include a picture and the recipe if you can. Let's see what's out there.

One of my favorites it's a little something called a mac n cheese tuna casserole.

1 box shells (Velveeta, and Cheese
1 can tuna (in water)
1/2 cup frozen peas
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
salt
pepper
1 tablespoon chopped parsley

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Oh, my so many memorable meals come to mind. Ceviche, lobster fra Diablo, this remarkble carrot rosemary soup I had years ago at restaurant I worked at on Cape Cod. Yours sounds like a comfort food, so in that catagory it woud have to be Babas stuffed cabbage, I
have no photo, but the recipe is simple. Meatloaf mix, bread soaked in milk, rice egg, garlic, salt and pepper. Wrap in cabbage leaves, cook all day, best the next. Baba my polish grandmother was an amazing cook, who could take simple ingredients and make memories.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

This may sound terrible to some, but taste it first before you flame me:

2 slices of bread (mayo one one, peanut butter on the other)
1 large banana sliced to fit the bread

Your taste buds will thank you! My favorite quick hunger buster.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Another that some would consider gross and unsafe now, but delicious was my Dad's cannibal sandwiches. Good rye bread spread with super fresh ground round, from the butcher, chopped onion, alittle vinegar, and salt and pepper. I loved these as a child,, probably why I have an iron stomach now. We also had many pets, snakes and turtles included and got good and dirty. We were a tougher breed back then.

Theophilus

Another good one is Shepherds Pie. If you've never had it, you simply HAVE to try it!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16156/ground-beef-shepherds-pie/

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Yup definately a comfort food man. Funny I wrote a post last week about a comfort food restaurant, called it, what a racket, $18 for
mac and cheese. Thats crazy, but these are the foods that people want, not these artfully arranged, micro portions. I'm not a glutton either, all 95 lbs of me but I enjoy food, enjoy cooking. It is a blessing from God, we have so much to enjoy.

Theophilus

Our sense of taste is definitely a gift from God. Evolution has no explanation for why our taste buds can taste such a wide selection of different flavors. There is no survival advantage in it. There is also the human eye to consider. It can see 6 million colors and can process more information than our fastest computers. And some people believe it all happened for no reason at all. Just a bunch of random mutations.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Just looking out my window right now the white pines against a crisp blue sky. So beautiful, how do we register beautiful? Also not necessary for survival, but to proclaim the Glory of God. He has given us so much mre than we "need".

Theophilus

Theophilus

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http://www.foodporn.com/ Redirecting perverts to the fridge since....

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Ceviche is the exception, raw fish is defiantly not comfort food. Yuk!

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Comfort food is the stuff mom cooked. Even the crummy pork butt and cabbage, that my mother seemed to savor. The stuff that was available on those cold days, after school. Those things that smell like home. I never had that, my mom was an alcoholic, but she tried.
What I wouldn't give for a bit of pork butt today.

GmanTerry

Do you eat it hot, or cold?

Semper Fi

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

My taste buds have changed over the years except for two foods I still detest, boiled spinach and turnip greens, they still make me gag. My stepmom made the best biscuits and fried chicken I've ever tasted, dad made the best gravies, white, brown or red eye. He was a fireman and did most of the cooking at the fire stations he worked at. He was famous for his fried chitterlings (chitlens), which I would never eat because they stink so bad while being cooked. One day he said try one, every election the guys running for local offices would purchase chitterlings and bring them to his station and feed the firemen to drum up votes. One day he backed me into a corner at home in the kitchen and put his left forearm under my chin and said "you are going to try one, open your mouth or I'm going to put this fork through your mouth". I opened my mouth and to my utter amazement it was delicious. Whenever I could make it home while in the service, I'd stop before I got home and buy a ten pound bucket of them for the two of us.

Wash the chitlens inside and out really well.
Pressure cook them for about 90 minutes or until when you stick a fork in them they slide off like a potato.
Drain them.
Dip them in an egg wash and seasoned flour or you can go the seasoned beer batter way.
Deep fry until crispy like fried chicken.
Place paper napkins or paper bags on a large platter to absorb the excess grease.
Fill a cereal/dipping bowl about half full of ketchup and stir in your favorite hot sauce to taste.
Chow down and eat em while they're hot.
If you've done everything right, there won't be any left.

(For those who don't know, chitlens are hog intestines)

The only part of a hog southerns don't eat is the oink. We got hog head cheese, pickled pigs feet, pork skins, mountain oysters, etc... I think these foods gained popularity during reconstruction but they are starting to fade away. Hope I didn't gross anyone out, but when your are starving you'll eat just about anything and learn to like it.

Theophilus

Why would anyone want to eat it cold? YUCK!