We did not plan for this hurricane accordingly. So today we have no meat and the stove is looking suspect. I looked at what we had and came up with a killer dinner. Literally, this dinner will raise your bp and cholesterol.
Took the deep fryer out, did up some potatoes. Then dropped eggs in there and served them over the steak fries. It’s a Meatless Monday meal that goes against every reason why I have a meatless meal once a week!
Tell me, what is the most bad-for-you meal you’ve made for your family?
Brown sausage/ground beef and/or bacon, about 1/4 pound per person.
Add about 1 cup per person of the pizza sauce of your choice.
Bring it to a simmer, and then drop handfuls of mozzarella cheese into it, stirring after each handful until it melts. This part is technically “to taste”, but we usually use something close to a pound of shreds.
Dip stuff in the Pizza Fondue and nom.
Stuff may include cooked meatballs, cubes of bread, chunks of cheese (yes, really), and, for the truly daring, fried mozzarella sticks. Or, if you’re still intent on that “healthy” illusion, strips of cut up bell peppers, red onions and pea pods.
There’s a north Italian hot oil dip called bagna cauda. Literally it means “hot bath” Equal amounts of butter and olive oil are warmed together gently. Minced garlic is added to taste, so this means “lots”. Then you stir in anchovy filets and get them all broken up.
Kept warm its a dip for cold, fresh veggies and chunks of fresh bread.
I learned of this dish while watching an episode of “Babylon 5” As Dr. Franklin said “I call feel my arteries hardening just being in the same room with it!”
I served it at a B-5 themed dinner. They loved it but I imagine our cholesterol levels were up afterwards.
Bagna is a local specialty where I live. You can get it in a couple of restaurants, and a bagna feed is a New Year’s Day tradition for many. I intend to take that tradition with me someday if/when I move.
Generally you cook the dunked items (beef/chicken/shrimp/veggies) for a bit before removing them and placing them on a slab of soft (french is what I’ve always had) bread that absorbs the oil. When the bread is saturated you eat it.
At the restaurants you get a cast iron skillet on a burner at your table.
Probably the worst we’ve done is fried chicken and velveeta shells ‘n’ cheese. Usually we try to balance the unhealthy with something healthy. Sometimes we just throw caution to the wind.
When I make BLTs, I always use fried slice for the outer layers, instead of toast. People ask me what I do with the leftover bacon grease. I’ll figure that out if I ever have leftover bacon grease.
My grandfather would fry eggs in bacon grease from the bacon he’d cooked just prior, and rather than flipping them over, he’d scoop the grease on top of the fried egg to cook the top.
He died of a heart attack when my mother was a teen.
My grandfather did this as well. He’s 86 and his cholesterol and blood pressure are perfect. My grandmother, who is 10 years younger than him and eats virtually nothing, is on blood pressure medication. Life is not fair.
The worst thing I make for dinner is chicken breasts filled with a cream cheese/onion/herb mixture, wrapped in bacon, then baked. I do not make it often.