I'm glad you asked again, because I got nuthin' on the trivia front. Took the first disc of the Carter Family CD set (five CDs total) but I want to do them as they deserve so it won't be this weekend.
On the dinner front, basically a repeat of last weekend. I made the shrimp/corn chowder yesterday and it came out really well, i.e., properly thick. Tonight I'm doing a repeat of the chicken-fried pork chops, accompanied by asparagus with Hollandaise sauce (from this morning when I made Eggs Benedict). Okay, truth be told, the hollandaise was not spectacular because I cut some corners, specifically, I used whole eggs instead of just the yolks because I have no use for the whites by themselves and I'm too damned Scotch and Honorary Jew to let them go to waste. Still, the hollandaise is passable and the Sainted Bride picked up some asparagus at the store (as well as pork chops, which is why I'm cooking those again).
The difference this time? I'm making the scrapple, too. Huzzah! The dear Father-in-law is proud (SB talked to them on the phone while the scrapple was a WIP). He grew up the child of a poor immigrant family in the slums of Philadelphia, same neighborhood as Bill Cosby, in fact, and says that he loved scrapple as a kid. Not that he actually knew the Cos, he grew up several years before the Cos inhabited the same neighborhood, but what the hey. It's still pretty cool.
I've never tried making scrapple before. Before I took off for college thirty-some-umpty-ump years ago, I once made fried cornmeal mush (basically, scrapple without the meat and spices) and it was pretty good. I just haven't tried since. And I'm on an "American" food kick recently, I decided to give it another go. I have high hopes.
Meantime, apologies for no trivia. I'll try to do something next week. Oh well, what the hell, here's a single musical trivia question which anyone should get if they've been paying attention:
I've got a place in Heaven, sir, to do what?
UPDATE: Oh man, I was browsing through the Frug again. Came across a recipe for fried biscuits. I did those once many, many moons ago. Drool. Have to do it again. Soon.
Posted by Ken S at January 27, 2008 05:03 PM | TrackBack (0) |Srapple! The Spider would be proud of you.
Around here, some stores have taken to carrying commercially-prepared scrapple. I have no clue whether or not it's comparable to home-made, or diner-made.
As long as you're working your way through the foods of New Jersey, you may want to try some pork roll, egg, and cheese on a kaiser roll. (The egg is most properly prepared sunny-side up, and ketchup is recommended but not mandatory.)
(Yeah, ketchup on eggs, I know... not everyone's thing, but it works on this sandwich.)
Posted by: nightfly at January 28, 2008 09:17 AM