Four Foods on Friday # 27
Welcome back, friends, for the twenty-seventh edition of Four Foods on Friday. I'm patting myself on the back for remembering to play two weeks in a row. It appears my mental note worked as well as laptop memory to keep me in the loop.
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#1. What brand of frozen dinners do you think are the best and why?
Marie Callender's taste the most like real food. The problem is most of the larger dinners require more than a toss in the microwave. I'd get frustrated when I'd take on to work for lunch only to find I needed a plate to place the chicken on or sharp knife to open a packet. At home, they would be my dinner of choice.
What I actually buy is Weight Watchers, Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine. I figure no frozen dinner is worth the excess of the "regular" style. Plus, they tend to have less sodium (okay, it's still a ton). Not a surprise, the Lean Cuisine have the best taste and texture of veggies, but usually highest Weight Watchers Point Count.
#2. What is your favorite frozen waffle or breakfast food?
My favorite frozen breakfast food is... ice cream.
Not recommended for everyday, but try mint chocolate chip or cookies and cream. I dare you to say it doesn't hit the spot.
#3. Frozen appetizers. Which one is your favorite?
Stuffed Jalapenos. I won't complain about cheddar, but cream cheese is my favorite.
#4. Share a recipe or meal made from at least one frozen food.
Since Chris started using our local butcher shop (if you don't, you should), we don't use many frozen convenience foods for meals.
One thing we haven't replaced is frozen chicken tenders for subs. We make them on French bread with Chris' secret wing sauce. (In Buffalo, you don't say "Buffalo wings" - dead give away you don't know what you're doing. Chris would ban me from wings if I didn't honor them as my four years in Western New York taught me.)
Bonus photo challenge: We need twice the space on the door for condiments and whatnot. Notice the big bottle on the top shelf - Frank's RedHot for wing sauce. If it's not Frank's, don't bother.
Ice cream on bread is a great breakfast food.
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I've never heard of putting ice cream on bread. What kind of bread would you use?
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In central New York, we call them "chicken wings." I actually never had them until I moved to Utica, NY, although I've lived in NYS all my life.
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I'm much bigger on "chicken fingers" simply because I don't like the bones. I bet you can get some great subs and pizza in Utica, too. Living in the mid-west is food purgatory.
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Tina - my oldest son loves Frank's hot sauce too!
I agree, there have been a couple of occasions where I have to use my own interpretation of the instructions to get it cooked.
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Our microwaves at work are practically nuclear, so I never go past two minutes on anything frozen. You can always put it on for more, but once it's overdone, yuck.
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First time I ever heard about ice-cream for breakfast!!!
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Dessert for breakfast started for me on the road trips of my childhood. I would get car sick if I ate food, but an empty stomach is just as bad. A slice of pie or packet of cookies was enough to settle my tummy.
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Tina! I love your answers! Esp the 2nd one!!! Ice cream for breakfast!!! Woot!! I love fried ice cream! (It's ice-cream in a dough ball that's fried. YUM!)
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I've never had fried ice cream. That sounds so good. Is it still frozen in the middle?
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