Independence Day: High Fat Theater

[anotheranon]

D. and I plotted this all week :)

Yesterday we trashed - completely - any semblance of healthy eating in favor of good all-American junk food favorites:

• Hot dogs, with all manner of condiments as we came up with on our own and with a little help from LJ/FB suggestions. Truth told, I only want onions with mine (Vidalia, minced, please), but I got the works for D. Even sauerkraut, which I hate but that he loves :)
  
  
• Mac and cheese. Not the carefully melted and blended 4-cheese-in-the-oven variety, but the cheap, nasty boil-on-the-stove, sauce from a packet kind. I am almost embarrassed how much I was craving this - it was a gooey Velveeta-y (yes, we went there) nostalgic trip of the tongue!
  
  
• Cole slaw - possibly the only green thing on my plate. I love good slaw.
  
  
• Potato salad (old fashioned). Not the highlight IMHO but absolutely necessary for a good old American 4th.
  
  
• Apple pie - frozen, not homemade (this is junk food, remember?) A la carte with ice cream for D.; with chocolate frozen yogurt on the side for me (because even in my worst indulgences I CANNOT eat ice cream)
  
  
• Beer - Yeungling (no idea whether this is a good beer or not, but we like it). We don't drink it often, but it was the obvious beverage of choice with the above (except maybe the dessert).
  

Happy Independence days (on the 1st and 4th, belatedly here and up north)...

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Which types of slaw and potato salad?

I like a good Dixie coleslaw (I like the hint of sweet.) and I made my version of hot German potato salad (this time it had sauted onions and garlic, oregano, parsley, salt, pepper, celery seeds, malt vinegar, and dijon mustard.) for a friend's party.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Whatever kind is made at the Safeway deli ;)

Seriously, they had several kinds of potato salad, and their "old fashioned" was pretty bland - maybe the others were better.

How do you define "Dixie coleslaw"? I like the sweet too (carrots?) but never knew there were slaw varieties!

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I'm particular about both slaw and potato salad.

Slaw should be grated green cabbage and carrots and sweet. I know it when I see it and taste it; it's not something we made at home.

I make a hot potato salad, aka German potato salad. When I get store bought I like it with skins on and not a lot of extras (I don't like it with scallions.)

It is kind of amazing at how many different varieties there are.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Wow! YOU ate hotdogs???!!! (I recall how iffy you were about 'em in T.O.)

Sounds as if you, D, and your collective tastebuds had one helluva good time (and we just won't tell the tastebuds that cabbage and potatoes are both so overflowing with vitamins that the slaw 'n' salad likely more than made up for all the other stuff ***grin***)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Well, organic bratwurst and beef sausage - not the $0.99 "ball park" franks or whatever :P Better cuts of meat are just better, and I did spring for quality "hot dogs".

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Good for you. :-) I feed my occasional hotdog craving with 100% beef European-style weiners ... quite tasty and definitely made from identifiable parts of the cow ***grin***.

[dustdaughter.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about Yeungling, especially when I was in grad school in DE. Maybe because it was the best beer made locally.

Nothing wrong with Velveeta. Unless you wonder why they call it Velveeta instead of cheese but we're not going down that road. ;)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Velveeta shells and cheese is an ugly vice. Until this weekend I couldn't remember the last time I had it, but it is oh so sticky-good!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

You've just reminded me of a time my mother was weeding her vast collection of jars that she recycled for homemade relishes, etc. When they were all hauled up from the cellar we were entertaining ourselves reading the info on the lids ... really OLD Cheez Whiz jars listed actual cheddar cheese as an ingredient; newer ones contained no dairy ingredients at all (note: this was many years ago and nobody in our immediate family had consumed the stuff for about a decade and a half ... obviously for good reason ... some of these jars were from home produce trades)