Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Oh, I think it totally could be sold as such, though. Not that the Elks would buy it, necessarily, but for chefs? Sure. It would be more so than Sara's chicken skewer thing!
Although I don't know that cooking or not cooking changes the cholesterol level of meat.
I can see that. Maybe I'm just being too literal (much like our chefs last night). I also have no idea if crudo would have lower cholesterol. Then again I had peanut butter cup ice cream pie for lunch, so . . .
Well, not adding fat would keep the cholesterol level at base.
Just -- she comes from a Commonwealth country: are they not familiar with dishes from the old country such as Shepherd's Pie? Would that not be something like a meatloaf w/mashed potatoes?
Ooh, a South African dish that is very much like meatloaf.
(Thanks to the Twopsters for finding this.)
I think comfort food is fairly regional in America.
Yup, and also what megan said -- raised by one native-born child of immigrants and one third-generation native, our main homemade comfort foods as kids were meat loaf, roast chicken, and all the Italian and Greek comfort foods that had been passed down through the families, very little altered from the moment our olive-skinned ancestors hopped off their boats. I've had tuna casserole maybe three times in my life, always while visiting at the home of a more distinctly WASPy friend whose parents had migrated to CA from somewhere in the middle, and I have no idea what chicken a la king is at all.
I can't remember what Micah had to choose from but Sarah had a number of dishes that she could choose.
Perhaps none of them resembled anything familiar to her.
What is Jamaican comfort food?
I think I'm about as WASP-y as you can get, but I don't think I've ever had tuna casserole. And Minnesota is the king-of-casseroles.
So far, chicken ala king seems to be the comfort food people have had the least.
(I was surprised that there were no chicken fingers!)
Was there spaghetti? Or mac-'n'cheese?
there was mac and cheese with the fried chicken
The fried chicken came with mac and cheese, I think. I don't remember there being spaghetti. Just lasagna.
I'm pretty sure Sara identified the chicken ala king correctly, though -- basically chicken pot pie without the pie. Where she went from there is a mystery, but it's not because she didn't know what she was looking at.