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Spygirl

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't remember if I've ever posted in here...


I love fried weinies/hot dogs. Take the hot dog, cut it down the center so you have to long halves. Then, fry them in a pan until they basically burn on both sides. Scramble some eggs, toast some bread, and make a egg & weinie sandwich. This was my most favorite breakfast food B.S. (before surgery) Wonder if this will ever catch on at McDonalds?

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about bar-b-que weinies: cut wieners into aprox 1" pieces, cover w/bbq sauce in a pan & cook on med until the sauce "glues" itself to the weiner pieces. Um, um good. Kids love this (a box of mac & ch goes really good with this).

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I used to love that sandwich spread, too, especially with a bologna (baloney in Texas, lol :) )sandwich! I think it had relish and maybe a little ketchup in it--kind of like thousand island dressing like Texasdeb said. And speaking of thousand island dressing that was the ONLY dressing I liked before ranch came along.

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ME TOO Cathie! Th/Is dressing is my fav. but now I like ranch & also catalina. Mostly like ranch as a dipping sauce (veggies, fried mushrms, etc) Sometime I will cut up a cucumber & carrots & get the low fat ranch dressing out & just munch away without that guilt trip.

Y2krazy

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfranjoshfan....My mom called that "puddin' cake" a self-saucing cake...and I saw a recipe for it too. I was watching the FoodNetwork but
can't remember which show...

Texasdeb....Spam or ham salad is really good if you add a dab of green relish and a half cup of shredded cheddar cheese. Then butter the OUTSIDE of the bread and grill it in the frying pan....just like a grilled cheese sandwich...except with ham...Mmmm good!

Tuna salad also good this way, except add some chopped green onion and celery...no relish...

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Catalina, too. First used it in the 60's in a recipe for taco salad (before the rest of the world heard of tacos, lol). I don't eat chips anymore so ranch is for veggies for me, too. I also love Russian dressing on salads once in awhile but it is a bit too sweet for regular use.

Mygetaway

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For some reason Spy's hot dog and egg's reminded me of my Dad's "garbage can" omlette's. He would throw hamburger or hotdogs leftover from dinner, along with cut up chunks of a baked potato into the frying pan with an onion. Then he'd add the eggs and cheese, and bake it like a souffle type thing on the stove. It was always so yummy. **edit** (I should add that this was like 26 years ago.. way before Denny's skillet's/Hobo hash, etc....LOL)

I also used to think that coffee consumed on those early weekend mornings, out in the rowboat while fishing, smelled funny. It took me a few years to figure out his coffee always had an extra little "punch" to it... LOL

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I ate that taco salad w/catalina dressing too! It had fritos & ranch style beans and reg salad fixins & lots of cheese (I always cut up avacado in it too). Used to be a must have @ wkend bbq's.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i like thousand island dressing--bleu cheese is my fave, and thousand island is probably my second favorite, but the sandwich spread i am talking about did not have any ketchup in it. and i love tartar sauce, (home made with mayo, chopped onions, lemon juice and chopped pickles in it)...but that sandwich spread was horrid!

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhhhhh...ranch style beans--same recipe, TexasDeb! My old recipe calls for a 29 cent bag of Fritos, which is at least $1.29 now.

For some reason I am famished...

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Too funny. Amazing how Cathie & I have similar food histories. Grandma used to make "clean out the frig." stew or ugh - meatloaf every wk. The stew wasn't so bad - I have even done this myself. But, the meatloaf was disgusting. Not so much that it tasted bad, but who wants to find pieces of Macaroni, rice, spagh, peas, you name it in their meatloaf?

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I notice on your profile you are in Abilene, Deb. Is that where you grew up? I am in Fort Worth, so maybe it was a regional thing. Some really good cooking back then, that I can blame for my adult weight problems, lol.

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Y2krazy - your post reminded me of something I make on occasion, but I've had friends that tell me it's weird....mainly (I think) because they think of fish sticks as being "tacky" or something. :) I just came up with this sandwich on my own, but I'm sure it must be done elsewhere....it's delicious!

Everybody knows how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, right? 2 slices of bread, cheese on the inside, butter on the outsid, then grill. Well, what I like to do is add 3 or 4 already heated fishsticks (and mayo if desired) to the inside of that sandwich before grilling!

It's way yummy sandwich. :)

Sia

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I, too, love a bowl of hot steamed white rice prepared with just a pat of butter while the rice boils. Then I want a little skim milk and lots of sugar on top of the rice and some buttered toast on the side. Mmmmmmmm.....makes me hungry.

Actually, I won't eat any hot cereal without some buttered toast on the side. This goes for Oatmeal, Coco-Wheats, Cream of Wheat, Bulgur Wheat, and cooked brown or white rice.

Whoami

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My one dog Bomba is really wierd. We call him Psycho Dog, cause he goes off on the wierdest things. I love him to death. Is that a qualified entry for this thread?

Edited to add....of course I also love his brother Boomer to death too. But Boomer is a little more normal.

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grew up in OK. Met & married a TX guy @ a very young age. Stayed married for 13 yrs (3 kids). My X is still a great friend even though we've been divorced for 15 yrs. (I'm almost 46 - in Sept.) I'm in Glenn Rose almost every wk-end. Daughter & Son-inlaw live there. ENJOY chatting w/you!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gosh, cathie, 29 cents of fritos now wouldn't be enough for one serving of your dish! lol isn't it sad how much things have increased in price!? my mom used to make hamburgers for all 9 family members for about 27 cents of hamburger.

my grandmother used to make a very rich chocolate cake that had tomato soup in it and another wonderful cake made with mashed potatoes...i have to try and find the recipes. the grown ups always told us kids about the tomato soup cake, knowing we wouldn't want it. who wanted a cake that tasted like tomatoes. it took a while for us to figure out they were only trying to hoard it for themselves! she also made a pumpkin cake with 2 bundt-like pans. she would put them together and make a pumpkin shape...use orange frosting and put tiny disney characters on top. she was the coolest!

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Grandma WAS my role model. I'm not totally like her, but I am alot the same (have my own grand babbies now). I don't want to be just like her because I can never see myself expecting my family to eat "clean out the frig." meatloaf!

Cjr

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 08:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Mom used to slice hot dogs down the center add a slice of cheese and wrap bacon around it all then put them in the broiler. We loved them.

I also love to boil some macaroni, throw it in a frying pan with butter and onion, add eggs and scramble it all together. I add garlic salt and pepper.

My kids love hamburger gravy over rice or mashed potatoes. You fry up hamburger and either make a milk gravy with it or a brown gravy. Either way it is great! This might not be unusual to some but no one I know has ever made it.

I am dieting right now and making myself very hungry!

Cathie

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My mom did the hot dogs that way, too, with toothpicks holding the bacon in place.

I've done the hamburger thing with a packet of Lipton onion soup mix and milk or sour cream mixed into the cooked hamburger, served over rice or toast. It's our version of SOS.

Texasdeb

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 09:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never liked sos b/4 but I think I'm going to try our Cathie's version.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i used to do the pigs in a blanket, but i wrapped a flattened pillsbury biscuit around them and then broiled or baked it. the triangular cut ones they have in the roll nowadays work really well. (you have to precook the bacon a little, or use the ready cook they have out now, so it gets done enough, being as it's under the biscuit dough)...
i babysat the little boy of some good friends of ours many years ago when he was in kindergarten. he loved pigs in a blanket. he called us up to invite us to his graduation from high school about 3 years back. he told me no one made pigs in a blanket like i did, and he could still taste them after all those years.
so, as his gift, i wrote out a card that said, "for your graduation gift, i was going to make you 50 pigs in a blanket. i went to the store to purchase 50 hot dogs, 50 slices of bacon, 50 slices of cheese and 50 pieces of biscuit dough"...inside, i said, "the hell with the hot dogs, bacon and cheese--here's the dough!" and i put a check in for 50 dollars.

Cjr

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The pigs in a blanket sound good and what a sweet way to give a gift Tabbyking. He will treaure that card!

Melfie1222

Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 05:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Chai... when I was a kid I knew a family that ate plain uncooked ramen noodles often as part of their dinner... the mom would set the table and before bringing dinner to the table she put at each place setting one ramen bunch, I guess sort of their appetizer, lol. I thought it was one of the weirdest things I had ever seen... but they are kind of yummy!

Readonly

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My dad used to eat something he called "coffee soup." He break up crackers or toast into a bowl, pour coffee over it, and sprinkle a little sugar over the top. He often had this for breakfast. I can still see him sitting at the table preparing his coffee soup. I miss him.