Something Delicious

[Sun]

Originally Posted by JustLovelyJenn

There is not an oyster festival that I am aware of, although if there were I would go. I love seafood.

The Penn Cove Mussel festival is really amazing. The local restaurants all prepare their own mussel chowder recipes and for $10 you can tour all of them for tasting. They also house several guest chefs to give demonstrations on how to cook with mussels, and offer tours of the local mussel farm, as well as there being a wonderful street fair with merchants and performers. In the evening they also do an art walk and the local businesses stay open late for the festival goers who are winding down for the evening.

Here is the link if anyone is interested.
Penn Cove Mussel Festival

An oyster festival would be a great event for the region.

I found this one Oysterfest

[JustLovelyJenn]

Originally Posted by Sun

An oyster festival would be a great event for the region.

I found this one Oysterfest

I have no idea how I had never heard of this, its only about an hour and a half from where I live. It's so going on my calender.

[Okiebug61]

Originally Posted by Sun

An oyster festival would be a great event for the region.

I found this one Oysterfest

http://www.frederickokchamber.org/oysterfry.htm

Just in case you ever get lost in Oklahoma and are looking for oysters. :-)

[Sun]

Originally Posted by Okiebug61

http://www.frederickokchamber.org/oysterfry.htm

Just in case you ever get lost in Oklahoma and are looking for oysters. :-)

Good Morning Okie...woah major head trip, Oysters in Oklahoma? Wow very cool. Wish I could travel to all of these festivals and check them out. Film a documentary maybe, what a fascinating studly of US foods.

I recall having some of the best steak ever in OK while travelling cross country.

Which brings me to another topic for discussion:

What are the regional favorites in your area and, or the location that you grew up in?

Have those favorites changed over the years or are they pretty much the same?

How would you

[ahk]

good morning!
I'm going to a Food Truck Holiday stroll today for lunch-- to try samples of their delish foods they sell. I will report back of what I ate-- I'm looking forward to some down time with a friend, food, and talk/laughs.
I don't drink much coffee, but by Friday I drank a large coffee w/ extra shot. I was zippy all day til about 6p at that point I was at my folks house talking with my dad, he took a nap and shortly I did too. Then I wake by hearing crunch crunch-- my dad offers me some cheese puffs from TJs. Times like that I am very thankful -- cause they don't come that often anymore.
I just thought I'd share my little story --
Have a good Saturday!! Eat, Be Well, and Smile--

[Sun]

Originally Posted by ahk

good morning!
I'm going to a Food Truck Holiday stroll today for lunch-- to try samples of their delish foods they sell. I will report back of what I ate-- I'm looking forward to some down time with a friend, food, and talk/laughs.
I don't drink much coffee, but by Friday I drank a large coffee w/ extra shot. I was zippy all day til about 6p at that point I was at my folks house talking with my dad, he took a nap and shortly I did too. Then I wake by hearing crunch crunch-- my dad offers me some cheese puffs from TJs. Times like that I am very thankful -- cause they don't come that often anymore.
I just thought I'd share my little story --
Have a good Saturday!! Eat, Be Well, and Smile--

Good Morning ahk! Take it easy on the coffee in the future unless you need to zip around That sounds like a fun event. I am going to start uploading pics to Photobucket when I attend an event so that I can post some shots here.

Great story, reminds me of my Dad. Not the crunching part, but the visiting part. My Dad always wanted me to visit and cook once I had left home. Jenn's post about the Mussel Festival also reminded me of him because his favorite dish was Mussels in garlic sauce which I made for him whenever I could. He was a great cook so I really like it when he would cook. He could knock out a killer Calzone, something that is hard to find outside of the NY/NJ area. My Dad died too young, how I wish that he was still alive today, so that we could cook and talk some more.

Treasure those moments!

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Blue_Daddy-O

Such great information Bit!!! ) Thank you... I'll be back with the recipe and maybe we can figure this out. I can't eat any muffins made at any of the stores around including whole foods and sprouts and not going to give in to maltitol!! I love muffins and miss them!

Hi Blue! Now I'm very curious; if you can't eat muffins even from the healthfood stores, that doesn't sound like you've gone gluten free, but you must be avoiding something... I'd be glad to try to help you find recipes, if you don't mind sharing what it is you're avoiding.

[Sun]

Originally Posted by Bit

Hi Blue! Now I'm very curious; if you can't eat muffins even from the healthfood stores, that doesn't sound like you've gone gluten free, but you must be avoiding something... I'd be glad to try to help you find recipes, if you don't mind sharing what it is you're avoiding.

Hi Cath!

You are so good at troubleshooting recipes. Thank you. I am curious as well as to how to get a good result with this recipe

[Okiebug61]

Originally Posted by Sun

Good Morning Okie...woah major head trip, Oysters in Oklahoma? Wow very cool. Wish I could travel to all of these festivals and check them out. Film a documentary maybe, what a fascinating studly of US foods.

I recall having some of the best steak ever in OK while travelling cross country.

Which brings me to another topic for discussion:

What are the regional favorites in your area and, or the location that you grew up in?

Have those favorites changed over the years or are they pretty much the same?

How would you

Tex Mex and Country Cooking! Good ole tender chicken fried steak, mash potatos, creamed gravy, green beans.

Stayed the same.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Originally Posted by Sun

Good Morning Okie...woah major head trip, Oysters in Oklahoma? Wow very cool. Wish I could travel to all of these festivals and check them out. Film a documentary maybe, what a fascinating studly of US foods.

I recall having some of the best steak ever in OK while travelling cross country.

Which brings me to another topic for discussion:

What are the regional favorites in your area and, or the location that you grew up in?

Have those favorites changed over the years or are they pretty much the same?

How would you

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest for most of my life everyone talks about the seafood. Fresh seafood is amazing, especially during clam season. Everyone goes clam digging it seems (however, I have never been) and then there are amazing feast that night of fresh clams made every way you can imagine (those I have been to).

I love it here for the seafood. One of my favorite seafood places is on the wharf in Seattle. They cover your table with butcher paper and litterally DUMP a giant bowl of seafood, corn, and potatoes out for you to enjoy. You are given a mallet, a wooden cutting board, melted butter, and an endless supply of sour dough bread to accompany it.

Check it out if you like... The Crab Pot

[Sun]

Originally Posted by JustLovelyJenn

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest for most of my life everyone talks about the seafood. Fresh seafood is amazing, especially during clam season. Everyone goes clam digging it seems (however, I have never been) and then there are amazing feast that night of fresh clams made every way you can imagine (those I have been to).

I love it here for the seafood. One of my favorite seafood places is on the wharf in Seattle. They cover your table with butcher paper and litterally DUMP a giant bowl of seafood, corn, and potatoes out for you to enjoy. You are given a mallet, a wooden cutting board, melted butter, and an endless supply of sour dough bread to accompany it.

Check it out if you like... The Crab Pot

Sounds like a clam bake. That is my kind of place. I think I need to make a trip to Seattle

[JustLovelyJenn]

Originally Posted by Sun

Sounds like a clam bake. That is my kind of place. I think I need to make a trip to Seattle

Let me know if you do come up, I can play tour guide for a day or two.

[Bit]

I got a new crockpot! Tis a six-quart oval with a clickety dial! Now I can do my New England boiled dinners with bigger cuts of meat, and get all the red taters in at once!

I got two of the right chickens for bone broth too.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Sun

Sounds like a clam bake. That is my kind of place. I think I need to make a trip to Seattle

The place I was talking about earlier, Anthony's, is just up the way from where Jenn is talking about.

The PNW has awesome seafood!

[Sun]

Originally Posted by Gemme

The place I was talking about earlier, Anthony's, is just up the way from where Jenn is talking about.

The PNW has awesome seafood!

Hiya Gemme!

I see that. I was only in Seattle briefly to catch a cruise ship and did not get to explore the local culture very much though I did get to Pikes Place Market. I look forward to getting up there sometime in the coming year.

[Okiebug61]

I am oven baking the blue and gold bacon we buy from the FFA kid up the street. I have my homemade sweet potato pancake mix ready for the grill and the keurig is ready to brew Red a nice cup of coffee when she wakes up. I love the smell of breakfast and I love cooking for Red.

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by Okiebug61

I am oven baking the blue and gold bacon we buy from the FFA kid up the street. I have my homemade sweet potato pancake mix ready for the grill and the keurig is ready to brew Red a nice cup of coffee when she wakes up. I love the smell of breakfast and I love cooking for Red.

You're a great guy! Red is one lucky girl...

[Sun]

Originally Posted by Okiebug61

I am oven baking the blue and gold bacon we buy from the FFA kid up the street. I have my homemade sweet potato pancake mix ready for the grill and the keurig is ready to brew Red a nice cup of coffee when she wakes up. I love the smell of breakfast and I love cooking for Red.

Good job Okie.

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Sun

Ooh potato soup. How do you make yours?

Oh I see you have to eat the chicken first. Guess I was eager for some chicken stock so I would have pulled the chicken off the bones. Must be my lack of home cooked food that creates this visual urgency in my brain. Then I project that. Aye.

I think that I am coming down with a cold, so my craving for chicken soup just jumped about 90% which means there is still time to fight this. If I get truly sick, I want nothing to do with food of any sort.

I don't make the 'tato soup. Gryph does.

Y'all are probably gonna think this is heresy here in the foodie thread, but we eat it and love it.

Gryph's Potato Soup

6 large baking potatoes, scrubbed and chopped into 8 or more pieces each
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
fresh-ground pepper
dill seasoning mix (he uses the one from Pampered Chef)
parsley (he uses dried because that's what we've got)

Boil the potatoes until they're done enough for potato salad. Drain; reserve the equivalent of two cans of water or so. Mix the soups, the potatoes, the water and heat through. Season to taste--this soup can handle a moderate amount of seasoning. Serve.

As for the chicken, I did pull it off the bones but only enough to eat for supper. I was starved! And I have broth in the fridge yet, so no hurries. We brought home leftovers from the neighborhood holiday dinner and then Gryph brought home the leftover soup from another dinner, so we've been working our way through them slowly. We haven't even finished the pork-potatoes-and-sauerkraut yet--tis an embarrassment of riches! We may have to share with a friend.

Hope you feel better quick! I'm on day three of echinacea with goldenseal myself.