Lets try another new feature: Is it Plausible? This time I’ll pose a conspiracy theory and you tell me if you think it’s plausible. Hopefully everyone will enjoy this.
A cheesemaker from Utah is in discussions with Senators from Alabama and California to make it law that all pizza has to use American cheese.
Is this plausible? Let me know in the comments.
Hi y’all, it’s me, Wild Buffalo Betty, tonight ah’m a goin’ to show you the best topping for a hotdog… no, not that kind of dog! A beautiful, or whatever kind o’ sausage you are gonna eat.
First, take a large glop o’ sour cream, I just love sour cream! Put it in a bowl and eat it… er, I mean… a nice large bowl where you can mix something else into it, or if you want to make a large batch, just mix it in the container itself.
Next, add a lot of catnip! Oh, catnip! My favorite thing!
Now mix the two together until the our cream looks greenish in color, yes you need that much, more if possible.
Next, this is the hardest part! Let it sit for at least an hour, over night is better, but I don’t think anyone would have that much will power! I never have any left over for the next day myself, although, Colin doesn’t let me make a very large batch.
There you have it, the absolute best recipe ah’ve ever found! Enjoy!
Tonight I’m doing something a bit different for a Food Mash Up, normally I combined two foods that are not normally thought of together, instead of that, tonight I’m going to make it easier for those of you who have a hard time choosing between an Ice Cream Sandwich and a Banana Split, enjoy!
We have two radically different desserts here to combine:
Banana Split: A concoction of a banana sliced in half, placed in a dish and covered with ice cream, chocolate sauce and topped with a maraschino cherry.
Ice Cream Sandwich: Two cookies placed around a slab of ice cream, which allows for a spoon free, yet not as messy way to enjoy ice cream.
The key is to stay as true to each as possible, while incorporating the best part of each. This is a lot easier than might be expected. There are several other attempts at creating such a delight, but the ones I’ve seen all miss the point of being self contained.
The history of each of these items are blurred to say the least, no one knows who exactly invented either dessert, but suffice to say they are both well loved.
Bananas – sliced the easy way (into circles)
Ice cream -softened but not melted
Large ice cream sandwich cookies – the lager the better.
Maraschino cherries – optional – chopped
Shredded coconut
Good quality chocolate bar – grated
Whipped cream -optional-
Melted chocolate, beginning to cool.
Take one cookie and put a thin coating of ice cream on it, maybe 1/4″ thick, depending on how thick you want the final sandwich to be.
After spreading your ice cream, place a layer of sliced banana on it, make sure to squeeze as many slices as possible on it without too much over lapping. Next spread another thin layer of ice cream over the bananas, being careful to cover all the bananas.
On top of the second layer of ice cream, sprinkle your coconut and chocolate, you want to make sure there is enough of each, however do not cover all of your ice cream, other wise your sandwich may not stay in one piece.
Add a third layer of ice cream. On top of your third layer of ice cream, add your chopped maraschino cherries, again making sure not to cover quite all of the ice cream below.
Add a fourth layer of ice cream or use whipped cream if you’d prefer, top with another cookie.
Freeze the banana spit sandwich until firm, then dip the edges in the melted chocolate and refreeze for half an hour and enjoy.
There you have it, a new treat for a hot summer day, I hope you enjoyed this post.
Thanks for reading!
Tonight I’m going to show you how to ruin soft tacos. This soft take on the classic hard or crisp taco is quite tasty and even easier to ruin than normal tacos.
I hope you’re ready to enjoy a batch of ruined soft tacos!
WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ENJOY GOOD FOOD.
The rest of this post in intended to be humorous and not to be taken as new culinary treats about to sweep the nation.Any attempt to ingest the substance described below is not suggested and should be avoided. If you do attempt to taste any of the following food related ideas, please be warned that disgust, nausea and possibly even death could be the result.
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A soft taco is basically a small flour tortilla with beans, meat, cheese and other toppings piled on one side of the tortilla and the other side folded over.
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The history of tacos is interesting in itself, in fact it seems that what we know today as a soft taco is more traditional than the hard-shelled tacos, though the original soft tacos would have been made with corn tortillas instead of flour ones.
The history of tacos is an uncertain one, though there are references to it having been invented any time between 1500s and the 1800s, though it is possible it is a lot older than either of those dates.
If you’re interested in more details behind the origin of tacos, I suggest these fascinating sites:
https://www.katom.com/blog/national-taco-day-the-history-of-the-taco-and-a-new-go-to-recipe/
http://allabouttacos.weebly.com/
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A soft taco is very simple to make, simply take the filling you normally use for a taco and assemble your soft taco on its side in layers. Normally you’d do it something like this:
Tortilla (of course)
Beans (spread on one half the tortilla)
Meat (right smack dab on top of the beans)
Cheese (On top of the meat)
Salsa
lettuce and sour cream optional.
Fold the tortilla over the filling and enjoy.
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Now we come to the fun part of the post, ruining soft tacos!
You can ruin your soft tacos by doing any single thing listed below, or if you really want a ruined soft taco, mix and match any number of the ideas below. Have fun!
The tortilla is perhaps the most critical part of a soft taco. The best way to ruin a tortilla is to make them yourself, in which case I suggest reading my post on ruining tortillas:
If you don’t have the time to ruin your tortillas from scratch, there are still a few things you can do to store-bought tortillas:
Ruining refried beans is quite easy, I point you to the post I wrote about ruining them:
Ah, cheese, perhaps one of my favorite ways to ruin something. The wrong cheese can turn a great meal into a ruined meal in seconds.
To ruin your soft tacos, consider using any of the following cheeses instead of cheddar:
What’s better than the toppings on a taco, soft or otherwise?
Try a few of these toppings on your next soft taco to ruin it:
Sour cream replacements:
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There you have it, several ways to ruin soft tacos. Did I miss any? What is your favorite way to ruin a soft taco? Have a food you’d like to see me ruin? Leave a comment!
Thanks for reading!
I guess it’s been quite awhile since I ruined a food, tonight I hope to make up for that.
I’m going to ruin oatmeal cookies tonight, if you enjoy oatmeal cookies, I’m sorry. If you dislike oatmeal cookies and wish more people did, make a batch of these for your friends and I promise you they won’t enjoy oatmeal cookies anymore!
Please note that I’m ruining pure oatmeal cookies tonight, not oatmeal raisin cookies, those are worth a post of their own one day.
Are you ready?
Before we begin, once more I feel compelled to offer these words:
WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ENJOY GOOD FOOD.
The rest of this post in intended to be humorous and not to be taken as new culinary treats about to sweep the nation.Any attempt to ingest the substance described below is not suggested and should be avoided. If you do attempt to taste any of the following food related ideas, please be warned that disgust, nausea and possibly even death could be the result.
An oatmeal cookie is a flat cookie normally made with rolled oats. Some oatmeal cookies are frosted or iced, while others are enjoyed plain.
The origins of oatmeal cookies are hazy at best, just like the best foods that I’ve ruined here.
A common belief is that oatmeal cookies are descended from oat cakes made by the Scots and British. At some point during the middle ages raisins were added.
It appears that what we know as an oatmeal cookie today didn’t really exist before some time in the 1880s, roughly.
For more information of the probable origins of oatmeal cookies and the history of oats and oatmeal in general, I heartily recommend the following site:
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html#oatmeal
Oatmeal cookies are among the easier cookies to make, they can contain as few six ingredients or quite a few more, depending on the recipe you use.
A basic oatmeal cookie recipe looks something like this:
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 & 1/2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 & 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 tsp vanilla
Mix everything together and bake at 350° until golden brown, roughly 10 minutes.
Now we come to the fun part, ruining the oatmeal cookie!
There are many ways of ruining this cookie, odd as it may seem for such a simple cookie.
The first place to start is with the oatmeal itself.
While there are likely other ways to ruin the oats, I think these are enough for tonight.
Ah, butter, another wonderful way to ruin anything.
The easiest way to ruin butter is to add food coloring to it, I prefer blue or green, of course, but purple or red will work just as well.
Brown your butter first: melt it in a pan and cook until it turns brown, this supposedly increases the taste, however we want to go well beyond browned to nearly blackened, then allow it to harden up again before using it, this will add a nice burnt taste to your oatmeal cookies, which at the very least will have your guests glancing at the bottom of the cookie to see if it did burn, which will ruin the experience of eating the cookie.
There are many other ways of ruining butter, such as replacing it with rancid lard, but I think the ideas I’ve mentioned are enough for tonight.
If you want to frost or ice your oatmeal cookies, there are many ways to do that which will ruin them. I suggest using mashed potatoes or sour cream.
For more ideas, please check out my post on ruining frosting: https://mageowl.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/how-to-ruin-any-food-frosting/
There are a number of other ways to ruin oatmeal cookies:
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That’s all the ideas I have right now for ruining oatmeal cookies, have I missed any? Let me know in the comments!
Thanks for reading!
Tonight I’m combining a Chimichanga with Chicken Cordon Bleu, it’s an interesting experiment and I hope you enjoy it!
Tonight we have Chicken Cordon bleu from… somewhere and Chimichangas from… well the origin of both of these foods depends on the story you wish to believe, more on that in a bit.
Chicken Cordon Bleu at first glance seems likely to be from France, however it most likely is an American invention, or it was corrupted from various European dishes.
There are two dishes that are very similar to Chicken Cordon Bleu: Chicken Kiev (from the Ukraine) and Veal Cordon Bleu (from Switzerland).
The humble Chimichanga has several origin stories, each one seeming at least semi possible.
Several restauranteurs in the Tucson Arizona area lay claim to the invention of the Chimichanga, mostly in the 1940s, with stories varying from wanting to keep burritos longer, to accidents and swearing.
Another legend says that the chimichanga comes from Sonora, Mexico and have been eaten since the early 1900s.
An interesting and strange origin idea springs from that legend and goes further to claim that the chimichanga was a Chinese invention translated into Mexican food.
More on these rumors can be found on the following sites:
http://www.ocweekly.com/restaurants/was-the-chimichanga-invented-by-chinese-in-mexico-6624206
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichanga
Chicken Cordon Bleu is a dish consisting of a flattened, boneless, skinless chicken breast wrapped around a slice of ham, which is wrapped around a slice of cheese. The cheese varies from recipe to recipe, but it is normally Swiss, mozzarella or a similar cheese.
Chimichangas are at the most basic a deep-fried burrito.
They often consisting of shredded meat instead of ground and seldom if ever have refried beans inside them. Sometimes shredded cheese may be added inside if they are going to be eaten unsmothered.
Chimichangas are often smothered in green chili, cheese and sour cream.
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Now that we have learned a bit about the histories behind our two foods, along with the basics of them, let’s get done to the cooking of our new dish!
What you need:
Flour tortillas
Ham (thin slices or diced)
Cooked chicken (Thinly sliced or diced, leftover chicken works well)
Cheese (Cheddar, Swiss or mozzarella. Or all three if you want.)
These are very simple to make, just take a tortilla and add roughly equal parts of chicken and ham, add a bit of cheese, taking care to evenly distribute everything and keep it in a neat row all while leaving roughly two inches at each end.
To fold up the tortilla start with one end, then the other followed by the sides. Use cooking toothpicks to hold them together, normally one at each end will suffice.
Now all that’s left to do is to fry them until they are crisp. You can either deep fry them or use a skillet if you prefer.
There are a few more things that you can do to top off your Cordon Bleu Chimichangas:
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There you have it, Chicken Cordon Bleu Chimichangas. I hope you enjoyed this recipe. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Thanks for reading!
Why would you want to ruin such a perfect treat? From the frosty mug, the soft, yet wonderfully cold ice cream floating in a pool of perfect root beer, this is a summer classic and something that I won’t ruin.
So sit back and enjoy a root beer float, set your mind at ease that this is one thing that cannot be ruined.
Thanks for reading.
Tonight I thought I’d combine two well liked meals into one, I think you’ll enjoy this: Swedish Meatball Pot Pie!
Tonight we have meatballs from Sweden and Pot Pie from… well ancient times is about as close as I can get.
Can these things be combined to form something interesting? Of course they can and I’m going to show you how! First a bit of history:
Pot pies are one of the oldest foods around, having been recorded as far back as Ancient Rome and most likely long before that.
Pot pies were basically a way to keep the filling moist while it cooked, the crust keeping in the heat and steam. Now however we tend to leave off most of the crust, often only putting it on the top and ignoring the bottom, instead relying on out pans.
An interesting site that has more facts than you’ll ever want to know about pies:
Originating in the Scandinavian countries, Swedish meatballs have proven very popular over the years.
A few sources I found claim that as beef was hard to come by, meatballs were prized treats.
Swedish meatballs are considerably smaller than most other kinds of meatballs.
Unfortunately little is know about how or when the first of what we know as Swedish meatballs were invented.
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Now that we have a bit of history, let’s get on to the actual cooking:
The first thing you need is a pan, of course. It should be nice and deep so you can fill it with lots of meatballs.
As this is a mash-up, I’d like to start with the crust. You need a flaky pie crust for the top, use whatever recipe you are comfortable with, as there are numerous recipes for pie crusts, I suggest you try a few until you find what works for you.
I suggest adding a little bit of garlic or onion powder to your pie crust, just a tiny bit, it shouldn’t throw off your recipe in the slightest, but it’ll give the crust a nice taste.
Next I’d like to take a moment and talk about the pasta. Swedish meatballs always are served with egg noodles, or should be anyway. As this is a pot pie and the filling is going to be meatballs and gravy, we have to get a little creative with the pasta. I suggest taking your cooked egg noodles or lasagna noodles and lining the bottom of your pie pan, you might want to back it for a few minutes to dry the noodles out just a bit so they form a better crust.
Next we need to get the meatballs ready. There are many recipes out there for Swedish meatballs, if you have one you enjoy, go ahead and use that one, otherwise consider the following:
1/2 pound Ground beef
1/2 pound Ground Pork
2/3 cup bread crumbs, soaked in heavy cream
1 Egg
1 finely chopped onion
1 tsp ground Allspice
Salt, pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients together and form meatballs, broil them until brown and mostly cooked, they do not have to be completely cooked as they will finish cooking when the pot pie is baking.
Next make a gravy out of flour, beef broth and seasoning, normally the same seasonings are used, however you can add others as well, dill and garlic are popular, however some recipes even call for ginger among other spices.
Once you have your gravy and meatballs made, you can start to put your pot pie together. There are two methods:
There is another variation of this recipe you can try as well:
Instead of making a bottom crust out of egg noodles, place a small amount of mostly cooked egg noodles on the bottom, cover with a layer of meatballs and gravy, than add another layer of egg noodles before adding more meatballs and gravy, repeat until pan is full, making sure to top with gravy and meatballs.
Once you have your pie pan (or casserole pan if you want to make an extra-large batch) full, top with the pie dough. It’s normally placed on top in one piece, however if you want to make it more interesting and have the time, go ahead and weave it as you would an apple pie.
Bake at 350° for about forty-five minutes to an hour and enjoy!
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There you have it, Swedish Meatball Pot Pie. I hope you enjoyed this recipe. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Thanks for reading!
It’s time for another food mash-up! It’s been a while since I did one of these, but I thought this week would be fitting as St. Patrick’s day was only a few days ago, many of you may have some leftover corned beef sitting around that you’re wondering what to do with, I have the answer!
While there are dozens of recipes out there for Corned Beef tacos, I think my new creations are much better!
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Tonight we have foods from Ireland and Mexico being thrown together.
From Ireland we have Corned beef, cabbage and potatoes.
From Mexico we have Tacos, tortillas and salsa.
Can these things be combined to form something interesting? Of course they can and I’m going to show you how! First a bit of history:
Corned beef is an old meat, the origins of which appear uncertain.
The best guess of why it’s called Corned Beef is that large grains of salt were used in curing the beef, the grains of salt were called corns and hence the name, or so the rumor goes, some sources say the grains of salt were the size of corn kernels.
Yet while normally thought of as an Irish food, Corned beef was seldom eaten by the Irish in Ireland, however they did produce and export it for quite a while.
The word ‘Taco’ is Spanish in origin, from what I can learn it means ‘plug’ or ‘wad’, which might mean that some one some time long in the past wanted to shut some one up and ‘plugged’ their mouth with a taco, but that’s just my guess.
A taco is at its most basic a filling inside a folded tortilla, or inside a taco shell, which is not much more than a corn tortilla that’s been baked or fired into its shape.
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Now that we have a bit of history, let’s get on to the actual cooking:
There are several different ways you can go about making your Corned beef tacos, it mainly depends on the amount of time you have and how much work you want to go to.
First off you need to decide if you want soft tacos or hard tacos. If you want hard tacos, just use regular taco shells, if you want soft tacos, I suggest making your own tortillas.
As there are many tortilla recipes out there, I won’t go in detail, however I do have a few ideas for your homemade tortillas:
Now that you have your taco shells or tortillas ready, it’s time to move on to the filling.
Shred your corned beef, add it to a pan with just a bit of liquid and warm it up. This is a great time to add some onions, garlic and peppers.
Next take some mashed potatoes and warm them up.
Chop some cabbage while you’re waiting for everything to heat up, you want your cabbage a nice small size for easy eating, think shredded lettuce.
When everything is ready, you can begin to assemble your tacos:
In the center of your tortilla (assuming you went with soft tacos, otherwise in the bottom of the taco shell) spread a small amount of mashed potatoes as you normally would beans. Add your shredded corned beef on top, put a bit of cabbage over that and add a spoonful of your favorite salsa, add salt if desired.
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There you have it, corned beef tacos. I hope you enjoyed this recipe. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Thanks for reading!
It’s time to ruin another food! Tonight we’re ruining potato soup, which looks to be quite interesting, both in the ruining of it as well as the history of it.
Are you ready?
Before we begin, once more I feel compelled to offer these words:
WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU ENJOY GOOD FOOD.
The rest of this post in intended to be humorous and not to be taken as new culinary treats about to sweep the nation.Any attempt to ingest the substance described below is not suggested and should be avoided. If you do attempt to taste any of the following food related ideas, please be warned that disgust, nausea and possibly even death could be the result.
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Potato soup is, of course, a soup made from potatoes. It’s comprised of potatoes, broth and often a bit of bacon.
There are many recipes for potato soup, too many to sift through to create a basic soup, so I apologize about not including a recipe for it in this post.
While a basic soup, it is also thought of as a comfort food by many people.
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Potato soup is an odd food, there is little to no information on the history of it, so we’re forced to look a bit further into the history of each part of this food:
The history of soup dates back to just after humans learned how to boil water.
The history of the potato seems linked to the Incas, however there are some people who debate this.
What we’re left with is this: At some point in history, people began to eat potatoes. Someone decided to boil a potato and somehow soup was created.
I fear that this is another food that we’ll never know the exact history of.
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Now we come to the fun part of this post, the ruining of potato soup. I promise you that after this you’ll never look at potato soup in the same way, enjoy!
The quickest and easiest way to ruin potato soup is to replace the potato:
The broth, stock or whatever your recipe calls the liquid for this soup is the next best way to ruin potato soup:
Spices are another nice way to ruin a soup. A good soup is carefully seasoned, just enough of a few spices and everything blends perfectly… however when you ruin a soup, you want to use lots of any or all of these spices!
Yes, once again I have a few ideas that don’t seem to fit into the other categories, I might have been able to squeeze them in, but I thought this spot was better for them:
Marshmallows: A handful or five of marshmallows can work wonders for a soup, if your soup is thick enough, they will make it gooey.
Potatoes: In addition to replacing the potato with something else, you can just use uncooked potatoes and make sure that they stay hard, this is a perfect way to ruin this soup!
Serve it cold: When I say cold, I mean cold! Freeze your soup in bowls and get some dry ice. Before you serve the soup, put a bit of dry ice on top and watch as your guests try to taste it, they will think the steam is because it’s piping hot!
Another way to play havoc with this soup and your guests is to serve it with a scoop of ice cream floating on top, just make sure that it’s an odd flavor of ice cream that won’t taste good with your soup, I suggest strawberry or mint chocolate chip.
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That’s all the ways I could come up with to ruin potato soup, did I miss any? What’s your favorite way to serve potato soup? Let me know in the comments!
I hope you enjoyed this post, thank you for taking the time to read it!
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