February 13, 2012
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Homework Assignment 2/6
Class, I enjoyed reading the answers to your last assignment. If you head over there now you can read my answers. And if you don't want to lose this page and you're not using IE just right click on the link and select "open in a new tab". I am so happy that so many of you are participating. When I first started this I think I only had 3 or 4 people answer my questions. My heart is aflutter when I see all of you answer and with that being said your grade is A+
Now for your next assignment:
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B.
You can do one or the other or for extra credit you can do both. Make sure you explain your answer if you choose to do A.
Now...get to work.
Here are my answers:
A. I can't really answer this one because it was what you'd cook for me but I'll related what I had this evening: minute steak, hashbrowns with onions and jalepenos, and oven roasted green beans drizzled with olive oil. I enjoyed a nice chilled glass of vintage tap water.B. I think the strangest thing I have ever eaten is either a toss up between octopus or alligator. I had the octopus at a Chinese buffet. They were tiny little octopi and I put a could on my plate. They were served in this red sauce. When I got back to my seat I tried them first. The sauce tasted like watered down ketchup and they were so rubbery. The octopus really had no taste it had more texture. I first had the alligator at a fish and exotic meat store in a town in Wisconsin. They had it in jerky form and had it set out for free samples. I looked at all the samples and figured alligator may be the one I'd enjoy because the others were smoked salmon and pickled blue gill. The alligator was delicious. It actually tasted just like a spicy sausage that you'd find on a pizza. I ended up buying two pounds of the stuff and ate it for my Super Bowl party last year.
Comments (47)
I've eaten escargot. I guess it's not really considered 'strange' since tons of people eat it, but it was gross.
My famous stuffed burgers. Only, super spicy. Why? Because We love you. M-O-U-S-E~
Strangest food I have ever eaten... caramelized cricket/grasshopper/deep fried looking thing? ... ok. I couldn't even bite into. I tried.
so.... since my dog ate my homework last time and I got an A, does that mean that you support the "No Kid Left Behind" program???
I'd make an omelet because that's how advance I am when it comes to cooking. The strangest would be wasabi perhaps. And I'm glad more and more people are participating in these fun assignments.
because I do not need into your pants, your meals actuall have fine options! - I've no reason to not got for whatever interests me. thus this instand your meal is a smokey pile of pork chops greenbeans and spaetzle , apple'n' onion - tabouleh to cover the salad, and vinegar pie for dessert-. - the reason is simple- it's vaguely german alll the way around - if you argue the tabouleh isn't well that's true but the ch coconut cherryr face when you realize its tabouleh to make sure you know it as a grains salad but not the parsley lemon middle east one- perhaps taste the idea of agerman chocolate tabouleh or a zesty cabbage carrot sausage one? I'll think of something -were less than tasty
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weirdest food I've had was grape juice and milk. nearlyevery other surprise wasn't strange really but some where and they
I tried to amend ground beef with ground carrot... I didnt have enuf to feed everybody, so I thought the carrot would kinda stretch it a bit , but the whole thing turned out to be a big, foul smelling glop. I ate it, and immediately regretted it. Other people would not eat it. Smart them.
Wisconsin Chili...just because. It is actually my mums recipe but everyone says that noodles in chili is a Wisconsin thing. Go figure since mum was born there too, lol. But it is still the most awesome food evers, well in my opinion.
And everyone needs to try it!
I don't eat strange food, who knows what would happen?
I'd fry an egg sunny-side up because it's pretty and i'm just that lazy.
The strangest a food... Not sure what it was but it was in Japan.
A. my snarky gut reaction was why the heck would i cook for you when i hardly ever cook for those people i live with. but, ok, i can be nice imaginarily. how about chicken marsala? it's a whole lotta effort but tastes like a trip to heaven. mmm.. pardon me while i wipe my chin.
B. strange food. i've eaten my kids' kitchen experiments. 'nuff said.
I thought there were strange foods in the world until I met Anthony Bourdain (on T.V.). I could never eat the things he's eaten. I about puked when I saw him eating the anus of a wild boar hunted and prepared (pushed the poop out and plopped directly on hot coals) by the Bushmen of Namibia.
for A, is it okay if i cook you brownies? i mean i know that's not a meal, but it's the only thing i can be sure i won't screw up...
Well now that I have Anthony Bourdain on the brain I'm not sure....ewwwww.....to counteract that image how bout some hickory smoked bacon, hashbrowns, buttermilk pancakes and hot coffee....I'll fix red raspberry syrup to top the pancakes and then put some real whipped creme on top.....well, maybe I'll just do maple surple cause I'm not big on sharin the raspberries - why? because breakfast is the most important meal of the day
I ate a chocolate covered grasshopper once - but it was chocolate so I don't think it was all that weird.
A.
I'd cook you a fabulous Czech Beef Gulas, and serve it with potato pancakes, potato dumplings, and a good Czech beer. For dessert I'd make crepes with Nutella. I hosted a very successful Czech dinner party last February so I thought I'd replicate it.
B.
Strangest food? Probably pickled cheese in Prague in 2009. ....slimy, pickled cheese is certainly an acquired taste. It's an interesting experience. After the initial "wtf is this" and getting rid of the pickling juices on it, it tasted pretty good. A slice of it on dark bread, yum.
Let's see, being that I tend to keep things simple, I'd probably make you some grilled shrimp with remoulade sauce, steamed asparagus and either homemade mac and cheese or rice pilaf and yeast rolls. For dessert I'd probably get a little fancier and make a black forest cake or ice cream.
The reason? They're all delicious.
The strangest food I've ever eaten? When I was sixteen I had a thing for pizza with vanilla ice cream. I guess that's about as weird as it gets for me, food wise. Unless you count when I was a little girl and used to eat dirt.
@starmanjones - I'm intrigued - what exactly is vinegar pie?
@ZombieMom_Speaks - just as lemon juice is part of a custard type lemon meringue pie.. a vinegar pie is of the pioneer hardiness of the american move westward. add sugar of course because vinegar is pucker power... a vinegar pie is how the cooks tried to include dessert on often limited stocks to make their brood happy and full. while a simple google search will show you some modern upstart cookery, I refer you to http://www.heritagerecipes.com/pie-recipes/vinegar-pie.htm because this recipe personifies the taste that it might have been to have in the pioneer west. dana fuller ross has wagon's west series which covers the usa at the time, phip kimb liars moon: a long tale is another book of the african experience in the style of oral history...computer eats words.. philip kimball // but while I'm german also in heritage- I'm not raised in that culture and the rule is authentic food is the funny language and the heritage and most importantly the culture behind it- I only whisper at culture
there you are.all has a book called liars moon: a long tale. this sight offers a book on pioneer woman which I haven't read. and because of mr gfob's germanic history I just thought it fun to think pie and hearty food. not the simplest perhaps but with a germanic twist. think on your road journeys not of his beloved wisconsin but interstate eighty and iowas amana colonies- a smoked pork chop in that lil german tourist town.
@starmanjones - Thanks for sharing that - it actually sounds pretty good! Kind of like chess pie but minus the cornmeal. Your pork chop idea was great too. I've never met a man that didn't like pork chops.
@ZombieMom_Speaks - hahaha glad to hear...never had chess pie. I've fallen down on my baking this last decade- I might redeem myself with a spice cake soon... ...I mean I also do up a seriously wicked yummy orange coconut rum raisen muffin. but I was food theming above
hope you enjoy. both the history and the food anthropology is interesting.- watching how wonder bread a luxury then and passe bad eats now- was a step up somehow from the home cooked meal- to precursor grab and go our current lifestyle. why yes lazy baker joshy I'll take 13 to go mix of bluebery corns, rummy orange whatevers and some cinfully apple one with a pink peppercorn for the hell of it ..and chop chop!
Fish fry
If I cooked you a meal, it would consist entirely of cupcakes. These ones (because I'm from the freakin' SOUTH, you must have them), and these ones, and for dessert, these ones (they're my very favorite).
As for the strangest thing I've ever eaten... probably escargot. I'm not terribly daring when it comes to what goes in my mouth.
A. Deep Fried Beer. (http://tinyurl.com/2v8de2g)
I would make sushi, because it is probably something you would be impressed with because not too many people know how to make sushi. I happen to think my sushi is pretty good, and the few people I have served it to liked it. Of course, if you don't do sushi that plan is out the window, so I will make shish kebabs for you and eat the sushi myself. XD
The strangest food I ever ate was at a sushi restaurant. They had octopus there, so we all tried it. It didn't taste that terrible or remarkable, but the texture was really, really bizarre, so I didn't eat another piece. They also served mochi for desert, which are like these little colored, sweet balls that I think are made from beans? They also have a very, very odd texture (totally different from octopus), so we kept eating them just for that.
Fish fry
What does the winner get?
One meal hmmmmm.
Perhaps the best deer camp meal I ever prepared if I could ever do it again. Why? Because it was like an orgasm of the taste buds and lord knows your wife isn't gonna do it for you...
Crown roast of baby venison stuffed with carrots, potatoes and onions, (+ garlic and celery)
Served with home made mint jelly and a glass of Southern Comfort on the rocks.
The key is to use a very young fawn, properly taken and butchered.
Melt in your mouth meatyness...
I have eaten a lot of strange foods. I can't say which was the strangest, but chocolate covered calimari ranks up near the top!
Strangest food... somewhere between octopus and ostrich.
Both on dares. Got $10 out of it.
I make kick ass fried chicken, so that is what you'd get.
I'd make this for you because once you taste it, I'd own a little bit of your soul.
Yep, that's how I roll with my cooking: soulstealer!
I missed you!
@heythereJOANN - I saw it for the first time in a store a few weeks ago. It was so strange to see frozen snails in the freezer next to frozen eel.
@BenelliMan - Oh yeah I heard about those burgers and they made me so hungry
@hesacontradiction - no I support the "Give a Benefit of a Doubt because I'm Pretty Creepy" program
@nov_way - Oh one of my favorite snacks is wasabi peas and omelets sound good. I had one a while back that was called a Mexican omelet. It had taco meat, tomatoes, onion, and nacho cheese.
@starmanjones - sounds good...grape juice and milk? Hmmm I watch Laverne & Shirley and Laverne drinks milk and Pepsi quite often
@roscoes_farm - hahaha...I once tried to make experimental hamburgers and mixed salsa with my ground beef...that was a mess
@StrawberrySunrises - I never understood why Wisconsin gets that stereotype of having noodles in chili. I don't put noodles in but my mom always did. I complained after I went off to school and now if she ever has chili she doesn't put them in. My church used to but the person who made the chili died and the new person who makes it won't put them in but they always make some so people can add them if they want.
@dirtbubble - I'm going to try to make burgers this week with a fried egg in the center.
From my experience, Japan has a lot of strange food
@promisesunshine - hahaha...well chicken marsala sounds delightful and wow that sounds like my mom. Oh and I think eating children's experimental cooking is part of the job. I made my parents eat my "cheese souffle" which was a piece of bread and a handful of shredded cheese microwaved for 30 seconds
@sleekpeek - I think that Andrew Zimmern eats worse stuff but I'm partial because he did a special show set in Minnesota and he covered meat raffles and lutefisk
@Peridot21 - lucky for you I love brownies, I made two batches tonight to take with me tomorrow. I used my magic brownie pan.
@mlbncsga - oh man red raspberry syrup...that sounds so good, I use blueberry syrup quite a bit. Hopefully I can get enough raspberries this year to have some mashed up syrup.
I saw chocolate covered grasshoppers years ago but I didn't get them. I settled for chocolate covered potato chips.
@Cestovatelka - mmm that sounds good, I have your recipe saved somewhere but I haven't made it yet and I still have yet to try nutella.
Hmmm pickled cheese, I haven't heard of that, it has to be better than Limburger at lest the smell
@ZombieMom_Speaks - I'll stick with the mac and cheese because the last time I ate shrimp I developed hives
I had a friend in grade school that ate grass. We'd sit outside and he would eat grass blade by blade and my dad always joked that he was going to hire him to cut the grass
@James2012 -@dmcx2010 - oh man I haven't been to a fish fry in a while. Most every bar and restaurant has them every Friday night. I love beer battered cod and could sit there and eat so much. Now that Lent is approaching the firemen in town will have special fish fries to raise money and it's easy to get to because they have it a block from my house.
@Wait_by_Moonlight - oh man those cupcakes...I saw bacon and egg cupcakes today and my mind was blown.
I saw escargot for the first time in a store a few weeks ago, they were in a frozen foods section right next to the frozen eel that happened to look like a giant coil of sausage.
@Lakakalo - god that sounds good
@leaflesstree - you know I am trying to get into sushi because my dad gave me a sushi making kit for Christmas. The only thing that's kept me from making it was in my small town of 1400 I couldn't find nori.
I ate octopus at a Chinese buffet and it was cold and was in a sauce that felt like and tasted like ketchup. I don't think I could ever eat it again.
@DivaJyoti - eprops
@Aloysius_son - man that sounds so good, I could really go for some venison right about now
As for the calamari, I couldn't imagine that being served with chocolate. It actually doesn't sound half bad
@emily_shannon - I would imagine ostrich not being that bad but the one time I had octopus it was awful, I wish I would've gotten money to eat it.
@ExposedWrists - oh man I want this chicken but I've grown fond of my soul and I could imagine that if I ate it I'd be like Bart Simpson when he sold his soul to Milhouse.
@godfatherofgreenbay - haha.... love it!
A. For you, I would cook beer cheese soup, because I'm pretty sure that's one of your favorite foods. I think.
B. The strangest food I have ever eaten is frogs legs, at an Asian buffet. I also tried wasabi, green tea ice cream, and sushi there.
Ok... the truth being told... I don't cook. I can't. My husband does all the shoppping and I rarely leave the house on my "off" hours. I occasionally make an apparence at the pharmacy so as to ward off any rumors that my husband is a pill addict and I'm a fictional character like Harvey the Rabbit. My children told my husband when they were two that I tried to poison them by heating speggetios (?) up in the microwave. The last time I went grocery shopping was Jan. 1997 and get lost everytime I go to the store (damn walmart keeps moving things on me!) Wow. They say confession is good for the soul. I feel so liberated!
@starmanjones - whew - glad i'm not the only other person who doesn't have to worry about gogb shorts... and contents thereof... now i'm surprised there weren't no mention of them rocky mountain oyster kabobs...
i'd prolly make some kinda fish... just to watch your approach to such named food delicacies...
weirdest crap i ever tasted... i got smoke comin' out my ears!!! sweet jesus!!! prolly some crazy sushi shit out my wife's way from her friends in hawai'i... every time we go - they got some crazy stuff... an' i gotta try, can't be insultin' no local folk...
livers some nasty stuff... done that once when i was little... never again...
@roscoes_farm - you know? that reminds me that I owe jack lelane juicer folks a bif fuck you about that just put the veggie pulp in with the meat loaf- mc yick! assholes fuck you assholes for ruining a fine dinner. sorry to hear you bungled a feed session- that's tragedy.
@xplorrn - I feel geuinely bad that I disrespect the sacrifice of animals who die to feed me for hating this or that parts is parts. but I just can not do liver. same thing for kidney. I do like heart as part of many sausages we needn't discuss the actual recipes it makes sisy pants here squeamish. and god invented dogs to take care of my servings of menudo... I mean that stuff smuellllls sooo good but um icky yuck... follow?
- this goes for stewed sharkfin and gelatnous duck feck feet, not aching to whack a cobra for fried cobra bone but ha! on him /her ha! I wear glasses so lil jerkwad can spit and I might survive the ouch coming 
but asside from being a realllll sissy squeamish one about "delicacies" I'm ready to try 
... wanna talk phillipino to bangeledeshie tamarind fish? I mean I know its both doably easy and mmmmtastic.
@starmanjones - I know what you mean about that juicer.. I had to get a better one, cause that one is always clogged up !!
@godfatherofgreenbay - yeah... that does turn out WRONG fer sure.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Whoa. I have no wish to kill you. I guess I'll substitute a steak, then.
For both questions... I'm sure you're not ready for my answers. So, no answer from me.
I don't eat strange stuff. I did used to eat the erasers off of pencils when I was a kid.
I would cook you the chocolate cheesecake bars I made today and serve them with Mexican beer. It would be a well rounded meal.
@godfatherofgreenbay - it's not really hard at all to make. I also had trouble finding nori at first. The first few times I actually had to get it at a Japanese supermarket in NYC. But lately the supermarkets have been carrying it. I haven't been in the mood to make sushi, though that's another story.
I've eaten squid (pretty good fried), buffalo (pretty good fried and dipped in gravy), alligator (pretty good fried but really tough)... nastiest thing i've eaten was herring with raw onions off a cart in amsterdam made me sick for over a week. i'm allergic to herring.
@RestlessButterfly - oh why is that?
@whyzat - well I think that is interesting, I had students that ate paper. It was so weird. I also had a friend in grade school that routinely ate paper and chewed on pencils. I figured he didn't do so well in school because he was relying on the pencil shavings and paper in his stomach to come up with the right answers. He's also the guy that routinely ate peanut butter and tartar sauce sandwiches at lunch.
@leaflesstree - Yeah I had to go to a special Asian grocery store in Madison to find some. I bought about 30 sheets to start with and I figured if I liked it I can always go back and buy a block of 100 or 500.
@LadyofWaters - Oh yeah, squid is something else I've eaten that is not that normal. I had it in the ink. That was quite interesting. Buffalo is good. I get buffalo burgers at a bar in these parts. The meat is supposedly healthier than hamburger.
My dad loves pickled herring. A couple Christmases ago I bought him a big jar of pickled herring and a jar of herring in a sour cream sauce. I think by the time we finished opening presents he had the big jar empty.
@godfatherofgreenbay - never heard of having squid in the ink. but i've just had it fried. so i guess it wasn't as adventurous. that jar of herring probably would have killed me. sincei only had a small portion when i ate it.