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Dave, good news about your friend and the 3 day recovery. I hope ours goes that way.
Lech- so glad you cracked the code- weird food- haha, the Midwestern marshmallow, potato chip, rice krispy tango. Yes, the possibilities sound endless! 🙂
I finally cracked the code on midwestern cooking. It is the following. This is the most fundamental premise of midwestern cooking. Everything else follows naturally from this:
ALREADY PREPARED FOODS ARE THE BASIC INGREDIENTS.
A New Yorker probably considers carrots, onions, beef, spices, etc. to be basic ingredients that you mix together to make things. That is not how midwestern cooking works. Examples of basic ingredients to a midwesterner inclue:
– Campbells cream of mushroom soup (see above)
– Potato chips
– Velveeta
– Tater tots
– breakfast cereal, like rice crispies for rice crispie treats
– marshmallows
– kool-aid mix
– soda pop
– canned vegetables
– etc, etc, you get the point
So a midwestern meal might consist of a package of tater tots with potato chips added and then marshmallows on top. Or you could put cool-aid mix and rice krispies and velveeta on top of chicken nuggets. The possibilities are endless. But the fundamental premise is that already prepared foods are the basic ingredients.
Hi Dona. I’m at a coffee shop on the Plaza doing work. Work stuff going on so I send the rest of the fam to the science center / children’s museum at union station and camped out here in a wifi hotspot.
By rf on December 24, 2010 10:25 AM
Old-fashioned Republicans with a capital R did believe in charity. These OT Republicans apparently believe in the survival of the fittest, and wouldn’t mind stepping over the bodies of the unfit who starved to death in the street.
Actually I did once step over someone who had died in the street. It was in Mumbai in 1999.
Dave, good news about your friend and the 3 day recovery. I hope ours goes that way.
Lech- so glad you cracked the code- weird food- haha, the Midwestern marshmallow, potato chip, rice krispy tango. Yes, the possibilities sound endless! 🙂
I finally cracked the code on midwestern cooking. It is the following. This is the most fundamental premise of midwestern cooking. Everything else follows naturally from this:
ALREADY PREPARED FOODS ARE THE BASIC INGREDIENTS.
A New Yorker probably considers carrots, onions, beef, spices, etc. to be basic ingredients that you mix together to make things. That is not how midwestern cooking works. Examples of basic ingredients to a midwesterner inclue:
– Campbells cream of mushroom soup (see above)
– Potato chips
– Velveeta
– Tater tots
– breakfast cereal, like rice crispies for rice crispie treats
– marshmallows
– kool-aid mix
– soda pop
– canned vegetables
– etc, etc, you get the point
So a midwestern meal might consist of a package of tater tots with potato chips added and then marshmallows on top. Or you could put cool-aid mix and rice krispies and velveeta on top of chicken nuggets. The possibilities are endless. But the fundamental premise is that already prepared foods are the basic ingredients.
How to make green bean casserole:
1. Empty out a couple of tin cans of green beans into a casserole dish.
2. Pour over the beans a can or two of campbells cream of mushroom soup.
3. Sprinkle a can of french fried onions on the top.
4. Add salt (yes, you heard me, add more salt) and pepper.
5. Bake.
Hi Dona. I’m at a coffee shop on the Plaza doing work. Work stuff going on so I send the rest of the fam to the science center / children’s museum at union station and camped out here in a wifi hotspot.
Hey Dave, He Snappy
Actually, not 1.5″ yet…about .5″. I was looking at a drift spot.
Not too much Dave. Maybe about 1.5″. Allegedly we will get 18″ but you know they always grossly over estimate.
How much snow in Brooklyn now???
By rf on December 24, 2010 10:25 AM
Old-fashioned Republicans with a capital R did believe in charity. These OT Republicans apparently believe in the survival of the fittest, and wouldn’t mind stepping over the bodies of the unfit who starved to death in the street.
Actually I did once step over someone who had died in the street. It was in Mumbai in 1999.