Attempt #2: Weird recipes

[Tab]

For a walk on the wild side, check out these weird recipes. Note that all are theoretically edible, and some with the grossest visuals are make-believe (good for kids), while others simply make me shudder.

http://www.bertc.com/recipes.htm
http://www.lavamind.com/food.html
http://jamessolheim.com/recipes.html
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/sleuth/2000/1000 /

Note: DO NOT POST ANYTHING WITH THE WORD PLACENTA IN IT. That other thread went wholly in an unexpected direction. I just wanted to talk about weird recipes, but somehow we got sucked to the weirdest of the weird and never recovered.

I want to try again. ;)

[politicat]

1. Most of what my family eats?

German and Irish food seems to be based on a dare, as far as I can sort out. Some are technological dares (like Eagle Brand pudding, where you BOIL a sealed can for an hour (it explodes about once in a hundred tries, sending carmelized milk and tin can shrapnel all over, but if you succeed, you mix the sweet sticky sludge with whipped cream and then take an insulin shot), some are "oh, god what do we do with this?" (the ring bologna "ham" salad, the pimiento cheese on white bread roll-ups), some seem to be necessity foods (I'm still trying to figure out why we decided that bread fried in bacon grease was a good idea...)

Oh, and there's ketchup as jam substitute. And cheddar cheese on pizza.

Some of the things my family finds tasty make me wish they preferred bugs.

[mtnester]

2. Bologna, mayonnaise, jam and potato chips...

on any soft bread...smash it all together, eat.

Conns chips are best.

My dad taught me to like this sandwich when I was a kid, I love it to this day. Let's call it a sandwich, modified Philly style (but I am not from Philly)

Weird I know.

[The empressof all]

3. Oh goodness

The boiled can of sweetened condensed milk is like heaven. I've yet to have one explode...not that I do it often. I love the thick sweet brown caramel cooled and folded into whipped cream as a filling for cakes. It's especially wonderful with a banana cake IMO. I haven't made one of those forever.

[Tab]

4. Now this is the kind of stuff you don't find in a book

Boiled sealed cans of condensed milk?

[The empressof all]

5. Try it Tab

You need to use sweetened condensed milk.

Take the wrapper off the can and place it in a stock pot of water. Bring it up to a boil very slowly then let it simmer covered for several hours. The longer it simmers the darker the caramel. I've gone as long as three hours. Leave the can in the water to cool.

When the can is cool enough to touch you can open it to find thick brown dulce con leche. I use it for cake fillings but I know that it's also wonderful as an ingredient for an ice cream base.

[politicat]

10. It really is very, very good...

But it is dangerous as all hell if you let the water boil dry or if the can even peeks out of the water.

It's delicious stuff, and not at all difficult, but my family insists on making it during holiday events, and between all of the other dishes they have going, and the conversation (and the fact that absent-mindedness runs in the family) and the general chaos of four generations under a single roof (and a few dogs, or occasionally a cat)... well... something usually gets forgotten, and more often than not, it's the Eagle Brand.

In the 30 years of four or five get-togethers a year that I am aware of, we have had three explosions. We've been pretty lucky - first and second degree burns and no major shrapnel wounds - but it's not something I really want family members doing when I'm around anymore.

[wildeyed]

6. Placenta?

I missed that. Link to original thread, please ;) Sounds like a real crowd pleaser.

[Tab]

7. We're not using the 'P' word in this thread

but if you're that curious, it was last posted to on Sunday afternoon, and the title is "Boiled Flamingo anyone?".

It was meant to be this thread, but it took a wrong turn and never recovered, so I had to start over again. :)

[wildeyed]

8. I can see why not.

That was worse than the chipper/shredder/FoodSaver body bag thread by a fair stretch.

[Warpy]

9. Chicken Garbage (French pronunciation)

I don't remember the exact quantities, but it looked harmless enough:

Chicken, cut into serving pieces and browned in olive oil
Green Pepper
Onion
Garlic
Orange peel
Tomato sauce

It tasted just like GARBAGE! (English pronunciation)

[Tab]

11. It didn't taste good?

Because it sounds like it could taste good... I don't know how the orange peel would fit in, but it couldn't throw it off that much, could it?

[Warpy]

12. It tasted just like GARBAGE

I think it's the combination of orange peel and green pepper that does it.