I am back from another grocery expedition, and this time, instead of bringing back three bags of onion rings, I brought back four. At this point I think I’ve come close to cleaning out the store’s inventory.
My addiction has been strengthened by the fact that I now have a dipping sauce for them. I thought that chipotle mayo would work well, but alas, I didn’t have any. Rummaging about the other night, just on a lark I thought I might try Greek feta salad dressing. It works beautifully as a dipping sauce for onion rings!
Toffee in any form. A cheap Heath Bar or expensive small batch, bring it on. Second to that: caramel. Did you know that you can buy a large jar of sea-salt dark chocolate covered caramels at Costco? Third to that: butterscotch. In other words, all things made by cooking butter and sugar together.
Their butterscotch lollipops are to die for-as well as their little pops wrapped hard candies. Their vanilla flavors of both things are also very good.
Yes. Interestingly, President’s Choice products used to be available in many US supermarket chains at various times between the 1980s and the early 2000s. Wikipedia has a bit of a blurb about that here. They were gradually discontinued mostly because those chains were acquired by bigger ones, who presumably had their own store brands that were more profitable. Today President’s Choice is mostly just in Canada, at Loblaws and at other supermarkets that are part of the Loblaw group.
TBH, though, with a few exceptions PC products are not as interesting or innovative as they were back in the days when Dave Nichol was president of the Loblaw Companies. He used to travel the world in search of interesting foods, and then develop products to reproduce them, most famously the once-extensive line of President’s Choice sauces. There was even a publication called Insider’s Report that announced new PC products and offered all sorts of food tips. I miss those days.
I had a Violet Crumble for the first time the other day; I can already see that I just can’t look in that direction very often. It is honeycomb candy dipped in chocolate. I guess butter is not involved, but that burnt sugar taste is so, so good. When you can scrape the chocolate off with your teeth, and then crunch little bites of the toffee, it’s just too tempting. Or, a caramel apple made with a really fresh, tart, juicy apple.
I love most any fast food chain food. Any of the main burger chains have at least one burger I like. they don’t compare to a good home cooked meal but I can eat a Mc D’s double cheeseburger and 6 pc nuggets at least once a week.
But I could eat Taco Bell tacos every day and not get sick of them. I like pretty much everything they make.
And sign me up for Cambells tomato or cream of mushroom soup. Yes I can make a much better version of both but those are instant comfort foods in a can. Add a grilled cheese sandwich and I’m ready for a football game and a nap.
for those who like Chex Mix try it with the 3 cereals and whole cashews and Pecans. The nuts taste great and give a soft texture that offsets the crunchy cereal.
Yeah, salt & vinegar potato chips are one of my kryptonites. I always end up eating too many and end up with the inside of my mouth half-pickled.
I almost always eat too much at once of my wife’s King Ranch Chicken casserole. She follows the Texas Monthly recipe, except that she uses fire roasted poblano peppers and smoked chicken or turkey, depending on which one we have around. And a lot more cheese than the recipe calls for. She’ll also use the fire-roasted Ro-Tel if it’s available. She also doesn’t pre-moisten the tortillas; she just incorporates the extra stock into the sauce. Apparently the tortillas keep their shape and texture a bit more.
Either way, it’s fantastic. Like this past weekend when we had a friend over for dinner, we sent him home with some leftovers, and I’ve got texts from him every day talking about how good it is.
Found a new one: Fresh Gourmet Crispy Hatch Chilies. They’re kind of like Durkee’s Onions only with pieces of Hatch Chilies. Found them at CostCo, bought a bag, and it was gone in a couple days because I couldn’t stop dipping into the bag when it was next to me.
Bought another bag and would parcel them out a half ounce at a time into a paper cup. That one lasted nine days.
Just had a lovely Reuben sandwich with both corned beef and pastrami! It’s been one of my favorite meals since I was in fifth or sixth grade. My dad would sometimes take me to the Lincoln Del on the (then) outskirts of Minneapolis just so I could have one.
Now I think I’ll have a French Vanilla sundae with butterscotch topping for dessert.
When I was about 10 we were driving from California to Ohio to visit my mom’s family. On the way, we stopped at one of my dad’s old army buddies’ house. The wife made a casserole that sounds just like this one (but I don’t remember the cayenne). It was delicious! I remember it after 60 years. Is the “King Ranch” version that old?
There’s something called “enchilada pie” that my mom and aunt used to periodically cook, and it was something they learned to cook when they’d spend summers in south-central New Mexico, and it’s pretty similar. Not exactly the same, but similar.
I imagine that some sort of Mexican-ish casserole dish is probably not uncommon throughout the Southwest for things like church potlucks, etc…
I have the cookie aisle on ignore, it’s forbidden territory. But I did buy chocolate morsels to make cookies. The baking aisle is permissible to visit.
