I’m not sure how I invited myself over, but I got some good comfort home cooking at Elisa’s. She made some really good Korean Spicy Yukaejang Soup. It amazes me that people can cook food in their home. I always think that something like this needs to be made at a restaurant. I need to invite myself over to other people’s suppers more often.
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Susie’s Peanut Noodles and Apple Crisp
I was wearing a keyboard tie on Halloween, so I felt the need to do something. I went out with Anthony and Susie for a few drinks in Carroll Gardens. I got buzzed and angry from the bartender serving me $3 happy hour beers and talking shit about Tebow. So it was very welcoming to have Susie make us Peanut Noodles and Apple Crisp. So stuffed. I hadn’t had Apple Crisp since elementary school. It was awesome.
Susie has a great food blog called Cookies and Lipstick. I hope you check it out.
Shonali’s Indian Food Dinner
Shonali made an Indian feast, trying out her parents’ recipes for the first time. I love her parents cooking and Shonali did an amazing job. The food was so good. I ate two and a half plates.
Got to meet Joachim and Liesl’s new baby. And Shonali also got Ike a birthday cake.
…and then he got really wired up.
Shonali’s Parents Made Indian Food (Nashville, Tennessee)
Day 8 of the Shonali tour: Made it into Nashville and Shonali’s parents made all this food for us. Probably the best food I had on tour. It got me afterwards though.
Family portrait…
After our meal, Shonali’s dad came out of his office and starting singing “Ching Ching Chu”. We thought he was directing it at me. I asked him to sing it again to the camera.
Tio Wally Eats America: Galena, MO
I’m happy to have Tio Wally (long-time Me So Hungry reader) aboard to send in his eating adventures from across America. Here’s his introduction.
Greetings from Galena, Missouri!
N 36° 47.079’ W 093° 30.350’ Elev. 885’
By way of introduction I am Tio Wally and I am a truck driver. While some may call the vehicle a semi, a tractor-trailer, a big rig or an 18-wheeler, I like to think of it as a land yacht. Jason is graciously allowing me to contribute to his blog and, better yet, has granted me the privilege of piloting the SS Me So Hungry around the country and file road-food reports. (Those of you with some nautical knowledge know “SS” is the universally recognized abbreviation for Steamship. In this case, however, it stands for Street Scow as this craft has a flat bottom and is used for transferring goods from Point A to Point B.)
As this is my maiden Me So Hungry entry it’s only fitting that I tell how I stock the stores for a cruise. I always start with homey things that I just can’t get “out there” like I like them, homemade comfort foods. Lately it’s been Egg Salad and Tuna Salad. It’s hard-to-virtually impossible to find these things on the road that are any good.
If I’m lucky enough to find Egg Salad I usually have to beef it up with mustard (deviled) or dill weed, depending on how I feel. The only Egg Salad I’ve ever found that I don’t have to “enhance” has been the Amish Deviled Egg Salad from Dierdorf’s(?), a St. Louis-area grocery store chain. Tuna Salad is more difficult still as I like it mixed fairly dry with Mayo, red onion, hard-boiled egg and canned peas. Tuna Salad is a pain to beef up as it requires a knife, a can opener, a bowl big enough to mix it in, hard-boiled eggs (good luck finding them), etc. As the galley is rather small in the land yacht, I don’t screw with that stuff anymore. In both cases, when mixing for the road drier always travels better — you can always make it wetter.
Rather than to take up too much of Jason’s space, let’s get right to the pre-roll check list:
Coleman Thermo-Electric Cooler working? Check.
Apple Juice? Check. Unsweetened, generic store brands travel best as sweetening tends to turn quickly;
Water? Three gallons. Running out of drinking water is a serious, serious crisis;
Lay’s Classic Potato Chips? Check.
Orowheat/Brownberry 100% Whole Wheat Bread? Check.
Homemade sandwich fixins? Check.
Baby Wipes? Check. Ah, baby wipes. A miracle product. When you get really tired you can pull one out and wipe your face and neck and … instant refreshment, you’re good for another 50 miles! Also, it’s a little known fact: Those puppies will take grease off of anything! ANYTHING!!
Empty half-gallon plastic jug? Check.
Okay. Let’s go for a cruise.
Tio Wally pilots the 75-foot, 40-ton(max) land yacht *SS Me So Hungry. He reports on road-food from around the country whenever parking and **InterTube connections permit. *Street Scow and **InterTube (aka “the Internet as memorably explained by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK”) are his terminology, not mine.
Easy Beef Rump Roast Recipe
This was easiest rump roast recipe I did today…
1) Brown the rump roast in a pan on all sides –salt, pepper, Adobo seasoning (optional)
2) Place in crock pot with a bottom layer of sliced onions.
3) Pour a bottle of Lawry’s steak sauce marinade over it. (I bet it’ll be good with other steak sauces too)
4) Cook 4 hours on high and 3 hours on low …probably would be ready in less time.
Super tender and tasty!
Chicken Log
Jon made this amazing Chicken Log for Jody’s birthday. I’ve never seen anything like it. He cooked chicken thighs, pounded the meat down and then rolled it up with chanterelle mushrooms and broccoli rabe. Wrapped the whole log up with the chicken skin. It’s all cooked, but threw it on the grill to crisp it up. Awesome.
Rusty brought his rat for more good pranks.
Rusty Stuffed Pork Chops
Thanks to Charles’ idea for stuffing pork chops with apples and thanks to Sam Murakami for The Expendables on Blu Ray, it was a good Crusty night dinner. Seared the pork chops and then slit them open to stuff them with jalapeño peppers, garlic and peppers and threw them in the oven to bake. Not bad. The apples gave it a bit of tartness, but it wasn’t overpowering.
Jamaican Me Hungry Sandwich
Pulp @ Radio City Music Hall & a Vietnamese Sandwich
White Castle's Angus Steak Chili
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