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chexremix


Original Chexâ„¢ Party Mix
a slightly perverted version of the original 50’s recipe

Ingredients:
2/3 cup butter
4 tablespoon Lee and Perrins® Original Worcestershire Sauce
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon Tabascoâ„¢
1/2 teaspoon Lawrysâ„¢ Season Salt
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
2 cup Wheat Chexâ„¢ Squares
3 cup Crixpex – wheat/rice cereal
1/2 cup peanuts (or nuts of your choice)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Melt butter in a shallow pan. Stir in Worcestershire sauce and other ingredients except for the cereal and nuts.

Spread out Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, and nuts (peanuts, pecans or cashews) – on a jelly-roll pan…. Pour warm mixture over it all… “Fold” cereal and sauce together with spatula until evenly coated.

Heat 30 minutes in a 300 degree oven, stirring every 10 minutes.

Cool…

Inhale by the fist-full.

Don’t blog about it.

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ANGLOFIEDRICE

3 slices of Bacon (thick cut… 6 slices of the cheap stuff).
2 cups of green and red peppers
1 medium white onion
2 Tablespoons Butter
2 green onions
1 egg
sesame oil
salt

Prepare 1.5 cups of rice using 3 cups of water.. *add teaspoon of salt to rice and 2 tablespoons of butter while cooking. (place to the side)

In wok, cook:
Bacon in tablespoon of Sesame Oil
cook bacon for a few minutes – should be cooked but not crispy.. (wiggly bacon!)
add white onions – allow them to start to sweat.
add egg – (crack directly into and scramble in wok)
then add peppers – – allow them to start to sweat while egg finishes cooking.
Add rice and chopped green onion
stir fry with 1/4-1/2 cup of Soy (or more) *beware of over doing it.

Serve with something else like potstickers.

Then race to computer and jot down recipe and deny blogging.

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department store lunch


Back in the days before mega-specialty chains like Best Buy and Linens & Things – the department store was the end-all be-all place to go and buy… well… just about everything.

I suppose it was the early development of “Shopping as Socialization”…. Women, (my mother and grandmother included), seemed to make weekly trips to one of the two major department stores at the time: Famous Barr and Sticks Bear & Fuller.

These department stores, being little self-contained retail universes – contained their own restaurants – generally called Tea Rooms.

Famous Barr, a May company store, had a tea-room in every location in St. Louis – and I think I had lunch with Heehonk & Mom in just about every one before they were eventually shut down in the late 80’s.

Ask anyone who grew up here – and chances are they’ll know about the legacy which has survived the closing of the Famous Bar Restaurants: Their French Onion Soup…. That and a sandwich called a “John White Burger”… (burger with cheese sauce and fried onion frizzles on it)..

I hear there’s still one little food counter attached to the downtown Famous where you can still get a cup of French Onion and a John White – but I’ve yet to confirm this rumor.

Meanwhile – I found the recipe for Famous French Onion Soup online, (and double checked it against a copy my mom had) – and Kevin made a vat of it over the weekend.

Not only was it about the best damn soup we ever made – but … it tasted a lot like the original from what I can remember… It must have… While I was eating it I kept getting flashbacks to childhood jaunts to the department store.

I’m just sharing a recipe “(here)” – not blogging.

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“numb-hook?”


My wednesday off…. (insert same ole-same-ole some kind-o-wonderful here).

Over last weekend we re-discovered the international market over in neighboring Kirkwood – and went and stocked up on “exotic fixins”.

fat chick sings taught me how to make this dish called “Namtok” (Cold beef salad) which I’ve since tweaked slightly to suit our own tastes.

If you like kind of spicy food – I highly recommend… I figure this would be great for folks on Atkins too..

1 Flank Steak (weight? it was a little bigger than the size of both my hands).
3 Large Bell Peppers (one Red, one Yellow one Orange)
1 Lobo Laab-Namtok Seasoning Mix Envelope
.25 cup Soy Sauce
1.5 Cup Seasoned Rice Wine Vinegar
2 sprigs of fresh mint
Head of lettuce
Tablespoon (fresh) Crushed Black Pepper

Marinate steak in soy sauce and black pepper for a couple of hours. (note – the season pack has enough flavor in it so don’t fret about the short marinate time on the meat!)

Grill steak on grill with HEAVY SMOKE over indirect fire to medium-rare to medium.

Let the steak rest and cool off for 10 or 15 mins… Slice into thin 4″ strips and toss in a bowl.

Slice up the peppers into equivalent size pieces and add to mix…. Chop up sprigs of mint and add to mix.

Sprinkle in contents of Namtok Seasoning Envelope and add Rice Wine Vinegar.. Mix up… CHILL in the fridge.

The longer it sits in the fridge the better…..(occasionally go in and mix it up). *Let the mix mingle for at least an hour before eating…

Serve chilled, over a bed of lettuce.

*This is a recipe – not a blog.