Love it, I make it for myself a couple times a year and it horrifies my nutritionist
Again, I make it a couple times a year and it horrifies my nutritionist
toasted cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, again my nutritionist hates me, but I make it a couple times a year.
I could never get a taste for the meat gloop inside and the sauce is sickeningly sweet.
Don’t forget the thin slice of onion, and put it on toasted rye:p
Take the hearts [even pork or beef, not just poultry] and cut into bite sized pieces, soak in salted water for half an hour [koshering, removes any blood that makes them taste livery] put them into a mini bean pot with a couple cloves of garlic chopped up, half or whole small tennisball sized onion chopped up, a teaspoon of italian herbs and cover with a good red wine and put the lid on, bake at about 250 degrees fahrenheit for 3 or 4 hours undisturbed and serve with a pile of noodles or thick slices of sourdough bread. Nom with glee.
Actually I wouldn’t call heart a guilty pleasure, they are pretty low in fat if you trim any residual fat and blood vessels off it is pretty much pure muscle meat. It is a bit more expensive than it used to be [sadly] but it is one of my preferred comfort foods.
When I was single I used to eat boxed macaroni and cheese mixed with canned chili. I particularly liked it as a “morning after” breakfast along with a couple cold IPA’s. If I felt like eating healthy, I’d scrape the grease layer off the chili before dumping it in with the macaroni.
Mmm frozen raspberries. Best on a hot summer day but I will eat this even in the dead of winter when it gets me thoroughly chilled and I have to crawl into bed with a hot-water bottle. Sometimes I just pre-emptively eat the frozen raspberries in bed, with the hot-water bottle.
For those who think that a tuna sandwich is gross, I like to eat tuna right out of the can, which makes a good low calorie, high protein snack (yes, I like the juice too, which is a fifth of the can according to the label).
As a kid, my mother would boil the giblets from chicken and turkey and give them to me, hearts, gizzards (several hours of slow cooking makes these tender), necks and all (fried chicken livers too). Plus macaroni and cheese with American “cheese” slices melted in.
Also, while I don’t really like Chef Boyardee “regular” ravioli or Spaghetti-Os, I like the overstuffed beef ravioli.
When I think of hamburgers, I think of White Castles; yes, those which many people say gives them the runs and such (never had any bowel problems after eating them, but then I eat only one package/two hamburgers (regular), which is less than one quarter-pounder - without the bun; imagine if all hamburgers were only this big, then we wouldn’t be blaming them for obesity).
Although I personally don’t think any of these are “disgusting”, because of course I wouldn’t like or eat them.
I love chicken skin grilled on skewers. It’s cut in leetle teeny pieces so each bite doesn’t turn into a horrific realization that you’re munching on a mouthful of chicken skin, then salt/peppered/grilled niiiice and crispy. Eat it HOT, wash down with beer, and you’re in heaven.
I also love deep-fried chicken cartilage (nankotsu). Little squeeze of lemon, NOM NOM NOM.
I already posted about my love for corned-beef hash, but reading the follow-ups have reminded me of some of mine.
Pickle brine - I have used it as a vodka chaser, in a pinch.
Tuna water - instead of down the drain, it goes in my mouth.
Unmicrowaved microwave burritos - some brands have a wonderful texture when unheated.
Bouillon cubes - I’ll suck on one every now and then.
There’s also a “stew” I make once in a while, of drained ramen, a can of tuna, some saltines, peanut butter, and shredded cheese, all blended in the same bowl.
It’s the thin watery liquid that accumulates on top of a plain, full fat yogurt after you’ve scooped a little of the yogurt out and then let the container sit overnight in the fridge.
Tijuana Mama pickled sausages. Every gas station in the country stocks them presumably just for me and this one hot girl I used to work with because I have never seen or heard of anyone else buying one and the cashiers haven’t either. If you aren’t familiar with them, they are shrink wrapped things with a trashy Mexican woman on the front. They look like hot dogs that are dyed bright red but taste nothing like a hot dog because they are strongly pickled in vinegar and hot spices. Yumm.
I love pickle, olive, and peppercini brine. Love it.
And every now and then I crave deviled ham. I’m always sorry if I eat it, though. It just doesn’t taste the same as when I was a kid.
A couple of weeks ago I introduced my husband to the joys of canned Mexican casserole. You would think, that with all the fine authentic Mexican food that is available around here, that I’d never want to eat canned Mexican food again. But when I was growing up, my mother would occasionally open a can of beef tamales and chili, heat them together (after removing the paper), and serve. I got a craving for this and made it, and told my husband to just shut up and TRY it. And he loves it, especially with grated cheese and diced onion.
Sweet holy Jesus. The Japanese eat some weird shit but that sounds GOOD. Then again, I’ve been known to run chicken skins through the toaster oven to make a crispy crunchy chicken-flavored cracker. There’s no horrific realiziation, not for me. Unless it’s the realization that it’s all gone.
We used to eat Chef Boyardee canned cheese ravioli, which wasn’t too bad, though it was overcooked to mush. I can’t find it anywhere anymore. Which is probably just as well.
There are some foods that only make sense to me on those very rare occasions when I’ve imbibed enough to be a bit wobbly:[ul][]Rollmops.[]Pickled eggs.[]Pickled Wieners.[]Goose liver paté on crackers.[]Over-easy fried egg sandwich with mayonnaise cayenne pepper.[]Vidalia onion sandwich.[*]I WILL WALK TWO MILES FOR PHO WITH BEEF TENDON, TRIPE, FISH SAUCE, ERYNGIUM FOETIDUM, AND BIRD’S EYE PEPPERS RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT![/ul]
You’re talking about whey, right? I use it to reconstitute cottage cheese. For some reason they drain the whey from the cottage cheese before packaging here, so it’s dry and crumbly.
Never occurred to me that someone might find this disgusting, but I used to eat it all the time and often get craving for it. I like hidden valley ranch mix too sometimes instead.
I used to dip crackers in it but I can’t eat them anymore. Sometimes I dip plain tortilla chips in it, though. Also, I like the new style Greek plain yogurt with it better than regular yogurt. It’s hard to find low fat Greek yogurt though, most of it is no-fat which isn’t as good tasting.
