trashy_eats

A few weekends ago, I made loaded potato buffalo chicken casserole and it was just amazing. Seriously, if you like loaded potatoes and buffalo chicken - make this tonight.

It's not entirely trashy in terms of preparation but, omg, it's awesome. I did not coat the potatoes in hot sauce as I wanted it to be tastebud friendly to anyone who ate it. It was still plenty spicy though. Also, I think I will use real bacon pieces found near the salad dressings instead of frying it. I really do not like frying bacon. That task is usually left to my husband. I poured a bit of ranch dressing on my serving which just made it even better.

As for my plea for help last weekend:
http://trashy-eats.livejournal.com/1766397.html

I made a stuffed shells dish and strawberry cake. The guys and my dad really really enjoyed it. For link happy people, I made:
I Hate Ricotta Cheese -Meat & 2 Cheese Stuffed Shells
Strawberry Refrigerator Cake - Essentially a boxed cake mix, pureed strawberries, cool whip & pudding. My guy has declared this as his favorite cake - ever. It may have even replaced his life long love of yellow cake/chocolate frosting.

Nearly every Saturday, my husband and his friend hang out so they can play video games, nom on food, etc. I usually cook something very guy friendly because, well, more food is consumed when it's two guys eating rather than just my husband and me.

Bring on your best ideas! Nachos, chili, taco bakes, and the buffalo chicken casserole is out because I make these too often. I don't mind some prep work because I dearly love cooking for these guys (mostly for my husband).

( And, the recipe for the loaded potato buffalo chicken casserole because it's just so full of win that the guys and I approve! )

So we had a bunch of stuff in the freezer to use up and decided to mix it with other things in the pantry, fridge, etc.

Came up with this:




Below the cut-tag are the ingredients, pics and preparation. This should all go in the oven at 350 deg until cheese gets bubbly. Microwaving the pizza rolls first helped to accelerate this and also you can squish them down in the bottom if you want a flat crust. You can also add in chopped up hot dogs, onions and garnish with sour cream (the sour cream plopped on top of each serving really made this good!)


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Reposted from a friend's journal with permission:

Wait - you're alternating spoonfuls of salsa with spoonfuls of alfredo sauce?
Yeah. The salsa helps open my sinuses and the alfredo kills the fire on my tongue.
Riiiiight.
We're out of milk. And I tried whipped cream, but it just didn't work as well.
That's it. I'm leaving.
Hey, if you're going out - pick up some milk?

I was having a starch craving and a bean craving, so I found a can of Jalapeno Ranch Beans in the cupboard and some salad macaroni in the pantry and there was grated cheese in the fridge! So I boiled the pasta, heated the beans on the stove, and after I drained the pasta, I melted a little butter in the pasta, then I mixed the pasta and the beans together and covered them in cheese, which I stirred in.

Delicious!

Hands up who has a hangover.

No? Either I don't believe you. Or more likely, you are still drunk.

In the UK, when one requires a certain "hair of the dog" the next morning. One more than likely turns to that most reviving of drinks, the  Bloody Mary. That amazing cocktail of tomato juice, Worcester Sauce, tabasco, optionally perhaps some salt and pepper and a natty celery-stick mixing spoon but most importantly, a double shot of vodka.

Well, no longer do we have to restrict ourselves to a liquid lunch.

Marks and Spencer, our favourite semi-upmarket purveyor of ready-meals has come up with the Hand Cooked Bloody Mary flavour crisp:




They are quite robust, rustic things,. In a similar way to old-style Kettle chips.
True to the cocktail they do contain (dried) tomatoes and celery (extract). They also contain garlic and onion  and cardamon, taste more or a spicy taco seasoning than of tabasco and I no matter how hard I try I can't find any alcohol in them.

So, sorry M+S. While these are nice enough in a spicy tomato kind of way. I might have to continue to seek my Sunday refreshments at the hand of the barman instead.

Just had my first hotdog in years and it was delish. I'm not a veggie but I only eat veggie hotdogs because even I am not trashy enough to eat the 11% pork trimmings and mechanically recovered chicken bumholes and connective tissue kind that they sell in cans in our local Tesco Express.

I got a bag of ten frozen ones and have eight left to play around with so I'm thinking of making something trashy out of them. My mum used to put frankfurters in her potato salad but other than that I've no idea how to make a meal out of them, aside from the obvious hotdog fixings and some oven chips.

Advice please!

Trashy because of the ingredients!

( Taco dip! (I so want to make this but my husband does not agree) )

I want to make this so I can have munch stuff for my extended weekend but my husband has gorged himself on his own faux Mexican dip this week:

( The Man 'Dip' )

I've come to the conclusion that the last week of my life has been an experiment into whether a person can live entirely off two-minute noodles (smothered in cheese), Nutella, Pepsi, and peanut butter on toast.

(Current signs point to yes.)

Deep-fried Mars bars are officially the most delicious things I have ever tasted.

Sadly, I had to stop at one fun-sized one because I was quite sure my arteries would have clogged instantly had I eaten any more.

One glass for you, one glass for me!

Go grab a glass of mild and get ready because this post is full of rich and tasty Super Brownies!

( Do you have your glass of milk yet?! )

Any suggestions on trashy things to do with Greek yoghurt? I have way more than I expected because I forgot that I already had a tub and bought another tub.

I've just been dumped out of the blue by a close friend/someone I had strong feelings for. I need to drown my sorrows in (preferably sweet) food that doesn't take much effort. What trashy suggestions can you lovely people give?

I slit and grilled two Nathan's hot dogs. Then I spread margarine on a slice of cracked wheat sourdough bread, put it in the pan, put grated Mexican four cheese blend on it then put the hot dogs on top of the cheese. Add another slice of bread with outside buttered. Then cook both sides until cheese is melty! NOM this is so good. Perfect munchie food.

This question might be better for the 'cooking' community but oh well, I like ya'll better.

I want to make this pasta salad- http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/03/pasta-salad-with-tomatoes-zucchini-and-feta/ but I HATE tomatoes. I can tolerate them in sauces or buried in a toasty sandwich but on their own to be eaten cold with a fork? Gross.

Sooooo, what would you sub the tomatoes for in that recipe?

I'm an Australian going to the US (specifically San Francisco) for the first time later this year. Every travel site talks about finding local specialties and the like, but honestly, I really want to try some US fast food and see how it compares. What are some fast-food joints I shouldn't miss?

I have chicken breast fillets, and a pantry full of herbs, spices and ingredients. Come at me with suggestions!

Last week I was having a craving and I couldn't decide whether I wanted a plain grilled cheese sandwich, or a ham, fried egg, and cheese sandwich. So I combined them!

So here's what I did.

Fried 2 slices of deli ham in a pan til brown on each side
Plunked ham on top of a piece of bread and a slice of american cheese
Cracked and fried two eggs in a little butter and ham residue with s&p til the yolks were mostly solid
Plunked eggs on top of ham/cheese/bread
Took second piece of bread and buttered one side, placed butter down in pan
Put a slice of cheese on top of bread in pan
Flipped over the ham/egg/cheese/bread stack on top of cheese and bread in pan
Buttered top of other slice of bread
Flipped when first side was deliciously browned

OH. MY. GOD.
It is really amazing.

I'm hungry, and I intend for my lunch to revolve around cheese in some way, shape or form. I have a pretty well-stocked pantry and fridge at my disposal, so I'd probably have most of the ingredients for whatever tickles my fancy, but meat-wise all I have is bacon. What are your suggestions for a delicious cheesy lunch?

I Reeeaaally wanted some Japanese curry for dinner. Yeah, capital letter Really. But I've been cooking so much lately that I didn't even really want to expend the effort to make rice, much less chop up and cook meat and vegetables.

So I took a box of 'hot' golden curry mix and threw it in a pot with the water, then put in a ripped-up chicken breast that I made a few days ago. Then added the already-cooked carrots and potatoes from when I made corned beef and cabbage yesterday. (Yes, the vegetables still taste kind of like corned beef.)

I'm eating it over leftover angel hair pasta from... Uh. Yeah, I don't remember the last time we had pasta.

I was all ready to take a picture but my camera wasn't cooperating and, well, honestly it doesn't look that trashy.

But I know deep in my heart that it is, and that's what matters.

(Yes, it's delicious.)

I thought this was pretty cute on the side of my milkshake bottle

Storage

KEEP REFRIGERATED 2-5°C. CONSUME WITHIN 3 DAYS OF OPENING.

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SUITABLE FOR VEGETABLISTS

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This cookies and cream flavour is way too sweet by the way. It tastes like caramel!
The chocolate or strawberry are much nicer. www.frijj.co.uk/

Not really though.

I made a bunch of this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/waynes-beef-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe/index.html and had lots of leftovers so I keep making "burritos" out of it and adding hot sauce (texas pete duh).

Pretty normal I suppose, but I like when people post pics of stuff that looks disgusting.

Went to my local McColls for bread and milk this evening and I came out with a box of Three Cheese Findus Crispy Pancakes (pictured below courtesy of the interwebs) and a bag of Bernard Matthews Mini Kievs.




I had very fond memories of eating Findus Crispy Pancakes as a kid. The cheese ones were sublime, they were bright orange in colour, and the cheese mixture was always scalding hot but had a lovely tangy cheese flavour to it. This evening I found them to be very bland, with no cheesiness at all to the sauce, which was like a salt/flour mixture. The DayGlo orange crumb crust has also been toned down.

I'm frightened to try the Mini Kievs now, in case they're not as nice as I remember them being. Some things just aren't as good when they've had all the E numbers taken out!