Category: Junk food
Bacon Jalapeno Poppers
| July 7, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Grilling, Junk food, Recipe |
There really isn’t a whole lot to say about jalapeno poppers. Except that they’re goooooooooood. The ubiquitous bar food/frozen food version – stuffed with cream cheese, breaded and deep fried, served with ranch – is good. The cheddar cheese variety, popular in these circa-Wisconsin parts, are good. But, friends, I dare contend that these…
Red Velvet Strawberry Shortcake
| May 4, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Dessert, Junk food, Recipe |
As I’ve proclamed before, I am NOT a baker. The intricacies of proper hydration ratios, the precision needed in measuring, and the fickle baking times, ingredient lists, and possible adverse events are too much for me to worry about. Instead, when I need to make a desert, I usually go with something foolproof like a…
White Pizza with Spinach and Garlic
| March 16, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Junk food, Main Course, Vegetarian |
Oh, old friend, how I’ve missed you so. First “discovered” during a dinner at Piece, our favorite brewery and pizzaria in this fair city, the amazing combination of garlic oil, spinach and sauteed mushrooms on crisp, airy dough has become a mythological goddess to us, guiding me through the hallowed woods of pizza making and,…
Sicilian Pizza, AKA the BEST Pizza Ever
| January 30, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Junk food, Main Course, Recipe, Vegetarian |
I’ve never heard of Sicilian Pizza. Being from MI and now living in Chicago, I’m thoroghly aware that regional pizza styles even between these two close localities vary wildly. Growing up, pizza was a round, thin, soft-in-the-middle, crisp-and-chewy-on-the-edges, cut-into-eight-triangles circle of dough, then sauce, then cheese, then toppings. Probably what most people from middle America…
Old Fashioned Ginger Thins
| January 21, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Dessert, Holidays, Junk food, Vegetarian |
These are A’s favorite cookie, ever, or at least that I’m aware of. His childhood (and current) pal’s mom made these each Christmas, and he’d have to trade his whole lunch to get just one small cookie from said pal – a trade he still thinks was a bargain. Having made them several times now,…
Sausage Rolls
| November 19, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Junk food, Recipe |
What do you do with Italian sausage? This is the question in its entirety that I googled yesterday trying to think of something to do with the two sweet Italian sausage links sitting in my fridge. I quickly crossed of the most common options: Sausage sub/hero/on a bun: not what I wanted, had no buns, kinda boring Pasta with sausage: again,…
The Southern – Chicago
| November 12, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Eating out, Junk food |
The Southern. Has the. Best. Fried. Chicken. Let’s let that sink in for just a few minutes. I’m no expert on fried chicken – far, far from it. I rarely eat it, and can probably count the number of times I’ve ever had it on both hands. It wasn’t a food we ever, ever ate growing up (although I…
CHEX MIX, For Claire
| November 9, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Junk food, Recipe, snacks, Vegetarian |
Oy, listen here. Miss Claire requested, and I’m here to deliver. That most mystic of snack mixes, that wonder of cocktail parties, that favorite food of hyperbole-loving bloggers….. CHEX MIX. Yes, chex mix. You know what it is, and you know you love it. If you don’t…well, then, we just can’t be friends. But how…
Crunchy Baked Onion Rings
| October 14, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Junk food, Main Course, Recipe, Vegetarian |
It all started with an idea, a bookmarked recipe that had languished, untried, in my internet bookmarks folder for months. A recipe which, a few months ago, I finally got around to making–with pretty successful results, mind you. The rings baked up crisp and crunchy and oh-so-onion-y. Not the same as beer-battered onion rings, something…
I got (Rainbow Potato) SKINS…they’re multiplying
| October 7, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Junk food, Recipe |
And I’m losing control…. Can you blame me? There is something about a potato skin that just screams out “INDECENT!” It’s a hollowed-out shell of a potato, often deep fried, then filled with all sorts of fatty, cholesterol-y goodness like cheese and bacon, then, if that weren’t bad enough, you dip it in sour cream and/or…
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