At the Minnesota State Faire last year, I had deep fried cheesecake batter. Yes, this is correct.
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Agreed on the Midwest. I refuse to ever go to LA so I'm just gonna say you're 100% objectively correct that their food sucks with all the confidence of a Chicago native, because our food is better than everyone else's.
Best taco truck I've ever had was in LA.
Best taco truck I ever had was Korean cheesesteak fusion.
I haven't found good food trucks in my new town (I've gone mostly vegetarian and this isn't a very friendly city for that), its disappointing.
Part of me want to be the change I wanna see in the world and partner with a local vegan place to do street tacos or something
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Yes about the Midwest.
LA on the other end has an insane variety of foods, so while they have organic, vegan restaurants where everything is super healthy, they also have southern BBQ foods, steak houses, Asian foods, Italian foods, etc.
I think there's a heavier focus on organic, vegan restaurants up in the San Francisco area.
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If it's in the South you have to deep-fry it as well.
I grew up in the midwest. We survived on processed ingredients. I now live in the Bay Area.
I tell my partner that I need the shitty Kraft cheese for my grilled cheese sandwich, not the cheeses from Whole Foods or Trader Joes, because that's what I had growing up. I need the shitty ingredients for certain specific foods because I want that taste. It's not a lot of meals, but a handful must match my childhood.
the microplastics give it that crunchyness
The Boar’s Head yellow American cheese is a great melter and actually has some cheese flavor compared to Kraft singles.
Honestly just better off getting a block of muenster
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When mom cooked breakfast, she'd collect bacon grease (as, like, supplemental butter) and add that to subsequent meals. AFAIK, it still happens, but is probably less common.
Cooking for two people, I do half a pound of thick cut bacon, and when it's done and the bacon off to the side, put in 6 eggs scrambled up right into the grease. I've found this is the perfect ratio of bacon grease to eggs.
I have a special container to keep bacon grease in. But I'd only use it to fry in.
I do this! I use it in my cast iron before cooking most things I was using butter for. I mean, the grease comes free with the bacon, it would be a shame to waste it
You don't have a coffee can full of bacon grease on your counter?
Bacon grease has a higher smoke point, a longer shelf life, and makes veggies taste amazing. It's also high in saturated fat and sodium, but ya don't need much of it - often just a knife tip's worth. The only time we buy bacon is when we run out of bacon grease for cooking, maybe 3 times a year.
I know it's bad for me, so I use it very sparingly, but I have a jar of bacon grease that gets used every so often. I'll be honest, I don't know anyone outside my family that still does it.
I'm also from bumfuck nowhere, so that could be an influencing factor on why I am the way I am.
Good news, it's not bad for you at all compared to industrially refined oils. Enjoy your bacon grease!
I don’t use it sparingly and I also have a jar of bacon grease.
The day I learned to put a coffee filter or paper towel in the jar under the lid ring to filter the hot oil? Game changer.
My grocery store carries “bulk bacon” which is packs of low quality fatty bacon that’s great for cooking. I buy that sometimes and the grease off a pound fills a pint jar about halfway, sometimes more.
Isn't that basically lard and can't you just buy the lard in a jar or can?
Reduce, reuse, recycle
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I can assure you that this is not uncommon at all xD
I made your favorite! Deep-fried bacon-wrapped pumpkins stuffed with chive butter in a 5 gallon painters bucket of fondue.
Pumpkins? Gross, that's a vegetable
... And deep fry it