hey you know that pepper that comes with the sonoran dog...... We tried to re-create that, took some peppers and I guess you poke holes in it (fork) and soak it in salt water..then put it on the grill....... I don't eat peppers but I guess that takes some of the heat out.
I love me some fried pickles! I first had these when dh took me to Hooters (yeah, classy, I know) and I was addicted! Unfortunately, they are sworn enemies of my gall bladder:cry:.
The restaurant my daughter works at serves fried pickles! SO good! They also have fried mushrooms which are good too but not as good. What about fair food? Anyone ever have a deep fried twinkie? Deep fried snickers? At the Houston Rodeo they deep fry things you never dreamed could be deep fried!
City chicken is actually pork. LOL it is cubes of pork on a stick. They simmer it in chicken broth and there are lots of different recipes for it. Sometimes they call it mock drumsticks. I had never heard of it until I moved to Pittsburgh. Islays was a chain of dairies and restaurants in the Western PA region. They were famous for their chipped ham. It is their pressed ham shaved a certain way. In Pittsburgh, they make chipped or chip chopped BBQ sandwiches using Islay's sauce. You take a pound of the chipped ham and heat it in a saucepan with a jar of Islays BBQ sauce. The sauce is watery and has a distinct vinegar flavor. Then you serve it on a hamburger bun and if you are authentic, you add a pickle. Islays restaurants no longer exist, but you can buy the ham and jars of the sauce at Giant Eagle supermarkets. The dairies closed in the 60's when more people started buying milk at the store instead of getting it delivered. Islays was also the inventor of the original Klondike Bar. Whenever I make ham bbq for my husband, he says it takes him back to elementary school, where the sandwich was a cafeteria staple.
I had them in St. Louis at Fitz's (rootbeer bottler) restaurant. They were batter dipped dill pickles. I came home and fried up some the next day.
The traditional barbecue sauce here is from a place called The Pig Stand (in Ville Platte, LA), and it's mostly finely chopped onion in a red sauce that's mostly oil -- I dunno, never analyzed it or even read the list of ingredients on the label! It's only in recent years that bottled sauces that have a more ketchupy consistency have taken over. Like Heinz, Kraft, etc.
The stuff my DH BBQ's is simply too good to put sauce on. That would be like putting steak sauce on a steak. How could anyone ruin a steak like that? Oh, I guess the only thing about where I live (Alaska) is that we could talk about salmon the way Forest Gump talks about shrimp.
No way!! I bet we "ran into" each other back then! I worked there from 1996 to 1999. small world! Oh man, their rolls... YUMMM I think I'll have to go to Goodson's when I go back at the end of summer for a visit! Oh, speaking of meat stuffed potatoes! Did you ever have Rib Tickler's potatoes?! I'm drooling just thinking of it! I love them!!
I was just about to ask if anyone has had chicken and waffles -- I think it sounds awesome, but haven't found anywhere to try it just yet!
To many places we have lived to say whats regional. I can go from Corn on the cob to Lobster to crawdaddies and fried gator. Currently a local festive food is Yakisoba and so YUMMY. Noodles, seasoning, pickled relish (I think), and topped with seaweed. I add water chestnuts when I make it at home and some green pepper. Ramon - all 101 different kinds and oh so yummy. Cant get past the little suckers on octopus but have tried it. Quite chewy. I really like rice balls with tuna inside them. Am making some with BBQ chicken next week for my son for summer day camp lunches. Sushi is big here, had raw fish for the first time and it wasn't bad but not something I will want to eat on a daily basis.
Amie covered most of my childhood favorites...other than: Pierogies fresh from a local church fundraiser, kilbalsa and saurkraut, pepperoni rolls, and steak salads (lettuce, cheese, tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, steak, french fries, and dressing). BTW...Amie you will appreciate this story: While living in the Philladelphia area with my husband we called a local sandwich shop to place an order. Hubby wanted a cheesesteak, and I was starving for a Pittsburgh style steak salad. So I called them up and asked if they could modify their chefs salad. He says "sure, no problem just let me know how you want it." So I asked him to take off the luncheon meats, add steak meat and before I could finish he said "Let me guess, you're from Pittsburgh and you'd like your salad Primanti Style". I said "YES! I'd love that very much, can you do it?" He did it and from then on that was our sandwich shop!!!
In our neck of the woods, fried gator and crawdaddy boils are the center of most of the get togethers. I've been thinking lately about doing "culture weeks" with my dd. Where you learn all about a culture with crafts, books, and movies, and at the end of the week have her help make a special dinner from that culture. Maybe it's just my creative side dying to make her a little kimono and pin her hair up
Where I live it is fairly Mennonite. So people eat a lot of Farmer Sausage (smoked pork sausage) with Schmont Fat (a cream gravy that you make with the sausage drippings and heavy cream) and cottage cheese perogies. As for hot dogs, it's just a "normal" hot dog with ketchup, mustard, etc. Nothing fancy I've cut out pork for the last few months though, so no more farmer sausage or hot dogs for me!
The very first time I ever ate fried pickles, I went home and had my first and only gall bladder attack. The next day I had my gall bladder out! But it was quite awhile before I ate any more fried pickles...
