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[Cymon]

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Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

For every pound of bacon you buy – buy 2 cans of whole water chestnuts

Cut the bacon strips into 3rds

Wrap one water chestnut in each piece of bacon and hold together with a toothpick

Bake in the oven at 400 degrees until bacon is crispy

While they are cooking make a mixture of equal parts of ketchup and white sugar (when I make 5 pounds of bacon worth I usually use 4 cups of each but if I run out I just make more)

Now – dip the wrapped/cooked water chestnut into the sauce & place it on a clean cookie sheet and cook under a low broiler for 10 minutes or so – don’t walk away too far they are ready one minute and burnt the next.

(the tighter you place these on the cookie sheet the longer it takes to caramelize the sugar)

As soon as the sugar is caramelized they are ready to serve (these are good from hot to room temperature)

[Cymon]

Okay, okay, imagine this;

Turducken.

Wrapped in bacon.

Deep. Fucking. Fried.

(link added for those not in the know.)

A couple of things. First of all, deep frying bacon is redundant. Not to say the bacon won't cook, but the reason to wrap bacon around turkey and the reason to deep fry it are the same. No effect to the bird. SEcondly you can't deep fry a turducken. It won't cook properly. It's too solid. Sorry, I'm sounding like a downer here, but it really isn't that good an idea. Wrapped in back and baked, tho, that would be fine, and have the desired effect.

My problem with Turduckens is they don't cover a large enough cross section of the animal kingdom, they're all fowl. Adding bacon is good, but not enough. Check this out:

• salmon or trout wrapped in
• bacon wrapped in a layer of
• roast beef wrapped again in
• bacon and stuffed inside
• a turkey

Nothing too exotic, but incorporating fish, pork, beef, and fowl. The layers of bacon keep the roast beef, traditionally dry, moist, theoretically. I also considered hamburger, which may be easier to wrap around the salmon.

As a side dish I'd like to figure out a side dish that layered greens, legumes, peppers, squash, and some tube roots in a similar way.

[Valter]

BEEF RAMEN

God, I can't get enough of it.

[jute]

Massaman curry (made with cheap and wonderful Maesri paste).  The perfect food.

Also fond of biscuits and (vegan) "gravy" lately, since it's pretty cold around here.

[december]

My problem with Turduckens is they don't cover a large enough cross section of the animal kingdom, they're all fowl. Adding bacon is good, but not enough.

True turducken has a crawfish stuffing in the center and andoullie sausage bewteen the birds.

[ElTipejoLoco]

Fried chicken, fried shrimp, chicken burgers, fried fish, pizza, wontons, fortune cookies, chocolate chip cookies, fried rice (fried anything?), turkey-and-cheese-toasted-sandwiches/wraps.

Noms.

[kyn]

Bake in the oven at 400 degrees until bacon is crispy

What kind of oven goes up to 400 degrees?

[Inanimate]

Mine?

[ElTipejoLoco]

Mine as well. Unless we're talking, you know, angle-wise.

...

I wouldn't recommend it.

[brog]

Bake in the oven at 400 degrees until bacon is crispy

What kind of oven goes up to 400 degrees?

If they're in americaland, I guess that's only 200 degrees really.

Also: stuffed capsicum.

[kyn]

What kind of oven goes up to 400 degrees?

If they're in americaland, I guess that's only 200 degrees really.

Also: stuffed capsicum.

Ah yes, of course, I totally forgot about that.
CeLsIuS 4 L1F3

[ElTipejoLoco]

Welp, I'm gonna go have me a delicious wrap made. Maybe someone can suggest some food that anybody could pick up from a Walmart and possibly not spoil after, say, two weeks uncooked? Noms.

[george]

possibly my favorite party dessert. I bring you the croqueemboche (apologies to the French for spelling there). The Tower of Cream Puffs.

Don't be alarmed, it's rather simple to make. Cream puffs themselves are quite easy and you can find a good recipe anywhere, the trick is after you make the dough and put them on the cookie sheet let them dry for at least a half hour before cooking. Don't cook on too high a temperature, and leave them in the oven with the door ajar for at least a half hour before removing.

However you don't need to do any of that business, you can buy cream puffs in the store. To assemble the tower make a caramel sauce (again very simple, just don't burn it) and use the caramel to stick the cream puffs together.

For more fun put a flashing bike light inside the tower.

[ElTipejoLoco]

That caramel sauce looks like ketchup.

... It DOES look delicious, though.

[Inanimate]

Oh. My.

Diabetes in a pic.

[Alec]

Good god, it bleeds catsup

[Zest]

I want it. I want it NOW, diabetes be damned.

[letsap]

I have a good recipe for a three egg omelet if everybody knows where to get high density cholesterol from.

[ElTipejoLoco]

I do loves me some home-made omelets. Reveal your secrets, please, letsap.

[Jared C]

Yes.  I would like to know as well.