How in tarnation did I miss this one? Me, a Dane, for whom butter is a basic food group (two legs at the base of the food pyramid in some regions in Denmark). Of course you do this, at least for any child under 10 years old who is still skinny. If I was blissfully unaware of dietary consequences, I’d do it to this very day. Just to confound the fates, I’ll do this with my next peanut butter sandwich!
I too like cereal as a topping for ice cream, and Italian dressing on pasta. I also salt my watermelon.
A favorite T-day dish at my house was whole berry cranberry sauce combined with whole green olives. Nobody outside my family will eat it, but the combination of sweet sauce and salty olives is good.
Yup, depending on your intent…If you want it to taste edible, your method is fine…however…if you want it to really taste like elementary school Cheezy-Mac-Bake, here’s where you’re going astray…
#1) The pasta must either be macaroni or spagetti…no weird “hippie” shapes like, say…fettucini or (heaven forbid) rotini. Your cooking directions for the pasta are, of course, perfect and authentic. Make sure you add LOTS of salt to the water. Salt makes things taste BETTER!
#2)Also, add salt to the sweet catsup-y tomato sauce. Salt makes things taste BETTER! Also, add something yellow (food coloring I think…) to give the sauce that appitizing orange color. Spagetti sauce shouldn’t be RED, the kids might realize that there are tomatos in it.
#3)Also add some pasta water to the sauce. The starch in the water will help the sauce adhere to the pasta. Baking it will give it the desired “gloppy” texture. (In real cooking, the pasta water trick is great in non-baked sauces)
#4)You left out the bread crumbs! Mix bread-crumbs into the mooshy pasta, before adding the sauce
#5) Montery-Jack, Cheddar AND Parmesan cheese? Whaddaythink we’re made of money? You’ll use Mozzerella-like Cheeze Flavored Product OR Cheddar-Like Cheeze Flavored Product. (Although I recall that there are bags of blended White and Yellow-Orange Flavored Cheeze-Like Products. This would be actually be more accurate)
#6)Parmesan is far to complex a flavor for the little darlings. You can either use the famous Powdery Cheeze Like Product, or, if striving for authenticity…bread crumbs from a box (no fresh bread crumbs, please)
#7) For True HORROR, the addition of cut-up left over hot-dogs from yesterday’s lunch can be added prior to baking.
Fenris…who worked briefly in the school cafeteria in high school.
Ever since I can remember, my family has eaten steamed cauliflower and broccoli with mayonaise on it, which usually grosses out my friends. I guess it’s just a Japanese thing.
That being said, I, of course, put soy sauce on everything.
What else would one put on chips? I want to be able to buy salt and vinegar chips! They don’t sell them in Scandanavia. Worked in a Fish and Chip shop through Uni and used to eat them all the time. Also experimented with mayonaisse (plain, tartar sauce, thousand island sauce, etc) and tomato sauce, but salt and vinegar was always the best.
I like chopped hard boiled eggs, jalapenos, tapatio and onions mixed into refried beans and then eaten with hot fresh tortillas. My wife and children are not fond of this concoction.
Peanut butter, (the oily kind with salt and sugar of course.)
Sambal Olec. (Crushed Indonesian red peppers, for those of you who don’t know about it. Comes in a little jar. Liquid fire. Tease your Mexican friends. Laugh a minute.)
Stir it together, and then microwave it until it melts. Tastes great on pork chops, hot sausages, or even fried chicken. You can cook the stuff onto things, or just dip 'em.
I mix a can of chicken noodle soup in with my scambled eggs and then cook them in olive oil. I smother them with hot salsa and eat them on a warmed tortilla.
I have always eaten lima beans with ketchup on them. My parents did it, so I grew up thinking it was conmpletely normal. I don’t know anyone else who does this except my weirdo family and a few freinds who have tried it at my urging and now grudgingly admit to liking it.
Is it just me or is anyone else going through these posts thinking “Hey, that sounds good, I’ll have to try that”?