recipe for awesomeness
I’m going to page through my mountain of cookbooks that I never use and compile my favorite recipes into one binder. Today’s cookbook is titled Best of the Best from Minnesota Cookbook, so you know it’s full of hot dishes, wild rice and lefse.
So far, here are my favorite-named recipes:
- Norsk-Svensk Suppe (fruit soup)
- Double Decker Knox Blox (gelatin)
- Versatile, Variable, Dependable, Commendable Coffee Cake
- Cheez Whiz-Corned Beef Casserole (it’s not Minnesota without Cheez Whiz!)
- Trainwreck Pork Chops
- Ham Loaves (mmmm…loaves….of ham)
- Spam Casserole
- Drunken Bear (calls for 4 tablespoons of bear lard)
- Bear with Chocolate (calls for 4 servings (!) of bear round steak)
- Prairie Beer Cake
- Aggression Cookies
But before I make any new recipes, I feel it is my duty to make this, courtesy of Shelly and dozens of my coworkers: The Bacon Explosion.
Bacon stuffed with italian sausage and MORE BACON. Ooh, baby!
Do you have any favorite regional recipes? Bonus points if it calls for bear.
Oh my god, please tell me there is another meat under that layer of bacon that is not more bacon. If it is a tenderloin, I might be tempted to try this.
I did the binder thing about a year ago and love that I can just flip through it and find something I would like to cook.
Comment by Penny — January 30, 2009 @ 10:19 am
1. The concept of hotdish is horrifying.
2. CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!
Comment by slynnro — January 30, 2009 @ 10:27 am
I saw that bacon thing yesterday and thought of you IMMEDIATELY.
I like hotdishes, and we don’t make enough of them. I need to remedy that. Would you e-mail me a favorite or two? Or three?
I don’t know that there is much regional cuisine here, but I love, love, love the food experience and culture of New Orleans. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME. Oh, man.
Comment by Artemisia — January 30, 2009 @ 10:41 am
For the binder, I use a photo album. The pages have sleeves so I can easily slip a recipe in or out. If I get careless and something splashes on the page, I can easily wipe it off. On a cold, snowy day, I need to take out all of the recipes that I don’t make anymore and add all of the recipes that I’ve been cutting out of magazines!
Comment by Becky — January 30, 2009 @ 11:14 am
You must share some of those recipes with us!
I LOVE HAMLOAF. We have a recipe for it in meatball form: Ham Balls. I kid you not.
Comment by Nowheymama — January 30, 2009 @ 11:23 am
Regional food here is Mexican. Well, Tex-Mex, anyway, which is my absolute favorite. Can’t go wrong with any recipe calling for fajita chicken.
I don’t know that I have ever had anything even remotely similar to any of the items on your list there. And quite frankly I’m puzzled by hot dish. This is a generic term for what southerners call casserole, yes?
Comment by nonsoccermom — January 30, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Where does one buy bear lard exactly?
Comment by Shelly — January 30, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
Never knew there was such a thing as bear lard and I must have the recipe for Aggression Cookies.
Here in the deep South there are foods with “possum” and “turtle” in the name. Ick.
Comment by Julie — January 30, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
I don’t have any recipes that call for bear, but I can tell you firsthand that bear jerky is REALLY GOOD. As is bear cooked over a campfire after you just butchered it in your garage. Not that we’ve ever done that…..just sayin’.
Comment by Becky — January 30, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
I want some bacon explosion. It sounds amazing!
Comment by sarah — January 31, 2009 @ 8:53 am
Ooooh, I love lefse. And that bacon wrap ordeal looks like a MASTERPIECE. My mouth is watering just looking at that photo.
Comment by amber — January 31, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
um, well, heck. neither my dc nor my nj regional roots call for anything involving bear, like, EVER. i’m pretty sure NJ regional food = something that comes from a diner.
Comment by Alice — February 2, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
I ADORE hotdish of all kinds; however, my husband is strictly meat and more meat. When I was a kid, my neighbor made one she called funeral hotdish – made with cream of mushroom soup, rice, hamburger, hmmm, not sure what else. And then my stepmom always made a tuna noodle hotdish with potato chips on the top. Dang, now I am craving hotdish.
Comment by Grimmie — February 2, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
People out here (Seattle) call them casseroles and it confuses me. It’s HOTDISH PEOPLE!!! HOTDISH!!!!!!!
p.s. & btw I love the new masthead.
Comment by Emily — February 2, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
Hey Shauna! It’s Angie from LJ – we bought your flute
I’m not so much on LJ anymore, but I was just thinking of your blog and wanted to check in and say hi. I’m mostly on Facebook now and also have a blog: http://eclecticcatladyland.blogspot.com/
I will bookmark your blog – are you on FB too?
Comment by Angie Bailey — February 2, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
My Jewish mother would go hungry on the night that is served. LOL
Comment by jessica bern — February 3, 2009 @ 12:01 am
HOTDISH HOTDISH HOTDISH.
I also like anything with Spam. And pickled fish. And lefse. Ableskivers.
Comment by Tessie — February 3, 2009 @ 10:03 am
Angie,
Great to hear from you! Is the flute still working out? I’ll bookmark your site on my Google Reader.
Oh, and I’m on FB as well. I’ll add you.
Comment by Shauna — February 3, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Oops – didn’t see this comment before I asked you to add me on FB on the other comment. How many times can I type the word comment?
Comment by Angie Bailey — February 3, 2009 @ 11:54 am
The flute is blowing strong and still used every day
Comment by Angie Bailey — February 3, 2009 @ 11:54 am
http://chicksandwhisks.blogspot.com/2009/02/shepherds-pie-oldie-but-lovely.html
and of course, Poutine !! Fries, curds of cheese and gravy….Mm…..
Comment by The Chicks — February 6, 2009 @ 10:02 am
That is Incredible!! I am working hard now. I am going to check back often! =)
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