Passadumkeg's Profile
Blueberries!
Get Bartlett's Estate Winery (Gouldsboro, Me.) sweet blueberry wine, on line, (They have 1/2 dozen varieties) and mix w/ vodka over ice and get a Downeaster!
What's The One Thing You Can't Eat, even for money.
Three meals a day for 3 weeks straight. Good morning Vietnam. Wounded there 44 years ago toay.
Best Cheap Beer
My eldest, 32 and my youngest, 22 have "liberated" all my beer makeing equipment, including 2 Boot's Chemist home brew kegs. I used it A LOT in 10 years in Norway and Finland. Slowin' down, just "Pop a Top Again"!
what is your "default" ethnic food?
I am Russian- American. I live now in New Mexico. I have 90 lbs of green chile in the freezer and 2 bushels of dried red chiles in the utility room. New Mexicann food is my life, right now.
"Restaurants" Database To Be Eliminated
Bye, bye Chow,
Hello Yelpiness,
I think that I'm gonin' to try.
Buddy Dumkeg
Cincinnati chili has no kidney beans?
No Boston bake beans are an entity unto itself. Although I am a pinto bean junkie, I will bake a pot of Boston baked beans for my Ynakee wife, but refuse to serve the common side of hot dogs. I prefer fish cakes.
I guess I am a food snob. One of the very few foods I refuse to eat when visiting the east is Chilli. It just seems wrong to me to put in kidney beans and ground beef. Right up there w/ SPAM. Sorry. It's like putting sweet potaoes, canned tuna fish and coconut milk together and calling it chowder.
Underwood Brisling Sardines in Mustard Sauce?
We get Surefine products up in Maine as well. In the 90's I used to buy Port Cyde sardines, rejects iunpainted cans for 4 bucks for a case of 48. The cannery then closed. The last of 43 Maine canneries, Port Clyde, was in my school district. I used to buy cases of sardines (and King Oscar), but it was then bought out by Bumble Bee and stopped local sales. I now, living in NM, buy Port Clyde, but the label states they are made in Canada. I don't think they ar3e owned by Sure Fine. I wonder if Bumble bee still owns them. Eech.
Go Muhlenberg!
Cincinnati chili has no kidney beans?
Yup! In New Mexico, there is even meatless, beanless chile.
Cincinnati chili has no kidney beans?
When my dad first came to visit us in Nm, I took him to my favorite New Mexican restaruant. He ordered a bowl of chile. At first taste, it was so firery that he asked me if I was trying to kill my poor father. His second question was where are the beans? I told him he ordered a bowl of chile (very common here), but didn't ask for frijoles, or beans. I wish they'd call eastern chilli, kidney bean stew, 'cause is sure ain't chile to me.
Pie for Breakfast...
Yup, host of the open store front festival. I began teaching here 40+ years ago. I own land on Mt. Taylor. Been to the Asylum. Can't remember. The ribs place is bad.
I owe you a Triscuit green chiile pie as an apology!
Pie for Breakfast...
We'll often meet my Las Vegas brother in Cottonwood, Dead Horse State Park and drive back to Grants through Payson. In Cotton found a great little cafe, with a patio and pie for breakfast. I opted out for a bratwurst on a hard roll w/ home made kraut and potato salad!
In Finland, I mad a "topless" pear and turnip (Swede) pie. Very unusual, got find the recipe this summer.
In Bolivia they served these small meat pies, called saltenas, for breakfast. They were Bolivia's truly additive drug.
Pie for Breakfast...
Yes Bar Harbor area. That's where I work as a Registered Maine Guide, specializing in 3 or 5 day kayak trips along the Maine Island Trail. We pick our own blueberries behind the house. Best pie ever. In Norway, I used to make red and black current and goose berry pies.
Been to La Jolla. We have use of a house in Huntington Beach.
Pie for Breakfast...
We're 4 hours north of K-bunk. The land of blueberry barrens and wild blueberry pie. I can walk to a rocky beach in 5 min and see no one.
Pie for Breakfast...
Our youngest just started teaching w/ me last month. It was he that I wanted to take to Pie Town. There is also a pie festival in the summer.
Pie for Breakfast...
We went to Pie Town, New Mexico last weekend for breakfast (try to find it on a map) There are 2 choices and bothe are great.
http://www.pietowncafe.com/
http://pie-o-neer.com/
My favorite is the apple, green chile and pinon nut or the Cherry Bomb.
Pie for Breakfast...
I think it is very northeast. Very popular in New England and the Pa Dutch country. Unheard of in New Mexico.
Italian-American - Regional Lexicon
Hazelton, Pa has a thick dough, tomato topped bread called "pitz", the kind of speciality locals take on the plane back to their new homes out west.
Where the hell did southern NJ get the panzerotti???? I only know of it there.
Worst Beer Ever?
Not a commercial brew, but truly the worst beer ever. Forty years ago, my cousin, brother and I were teachers in a small New Mexico town. We got paid the last Thrusday of the month. But at Christmas , we got paid in mid-December and had to go 6 weeks, over Xmas, 'till another check in January. In our ultimate young men "maturity", we decide to take a trip to San Francisco. We came back penniless, and lived the month of January on pinto beans and corn bread. But we were thirsty. I decided to try and make kitchen beer. I cleaned out the cupboards of rice, barley, white and brown sugar and bought baking yeast. I mixed and fermented by "eye" and borrowed a bottle capper and caps from a friend. Boy was this stuff vile. We'd drive up to 10 k feet, so the altitude would give us a buzz more quickly. We agreed that after the third bottle, it wasn't half bad and we made it through the month. This experience got me going into real home brewing, 10 years later, when I moved to Norway to teach, and found out how terribly expensive alcohol was in Scandinavian countries.
Skoal!
Green chile cheeseburgers in New Mexico
Here is amap of the Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail. Blakes Lotaburger is the usual go to for a fast food burger. A NM chain.
http://www.newmexico.org/greenchilecheeseburger/cheeseburger_map.php
You should alos find Gil's blog helpful:
http://nmgastronome.com/blog/
"Restaurants" Database To Be Eliminated
I just used the restaurant search this weekend to find a place to eat in Soccoro, NM. Our 5 kids live in 5 different places around the world. We travel a lot to visit them and I use the restaurant search guide a lot when we visit them. My postings on and interest in Chowhound has diminished greatly in the past year. This may just kill it. I don't trust Yelp nearly as much as I do Chowhound.
Sadly,
Dumkeg
Dumkeg's New Mexico Style Breakfast Burritos
I was asked to post these recipes.
I am now back living in New Mexico Breakfast burrritos, not tacos are very popular here. Due to the higher altitudes and colder climate, NM foods differ from Tex & Cal Mex. It's all about the chile. Potato and sometimes pintos are used in breakfast burritos, but never rice.
For green chille burritos fry up a mess of home fries (add diced onion if you wish), throw in precooked and drained chorizo or crumbled breakfast sausage patties, and a bunch of diced roasted NM green chiles. When heated through, crack eggs on top and scramble. Finally dump a couple of handfuls of grated jack/cheddar, turn heat to low and mix cheese in. Use either home made or store bought or flour tortillas, fill w. egg & potato mixture, tuck & roll.
For red chile burritos, I use bacon or chorizo. Cook as above, but just before adding the cheese add home made NM red chile sauce or jarred. Let it get absorbed into the mix and stir, add cheese, stir again. Spoon into tortilla, tuck and roll.
ps TVP, of course, can be used instead of meat or leave the meat out.
Bien provecho,
The Keg
what is your "default" ethnic food?
I had 90 lbs in the freezer. It's half gone!!! We buy dried red chilies by the 50 lb onion bag. Ones gone, the other has a good dent in it. Red chile breakfast burritos coming right up!
In NM, breakfast burritos are always made w/ potato, not usually beans and never rice.
what is your "default" ethnic food?
My son, born in Norway is married to a Korean, and I have 2 grandsons with them in Korea. I frequently make Korean red chile, chicken, potato and carrot soup and kalbi.
Yes, I would like the storm soup.
There is another Chowhound, of Norwegian birth, raised in the Carribean and is married to a Phillipina, honest! I thought you were he w/ a new Chow name. He lives in NJ.
what is your "default" ethnic food?
No sild? No pannestkt torske tonger? Sikkert lapskaus!
