Jackpine Radical Cooking

but it does taste better when it’s not boiled to death.

I also found out it’s called “flower cabbage” when translated from Russian. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse –

Except, for no reason I can think of, scrapple.  Scrapple fried until it is crisp and brown on the outside.  I love a nice medium rare burger with Dijon mustard and plenty of black pepper and maybe a whisp of garlic, though, but not likely to show up at McDonald’s.  Anyway, when I was growing up, we were too poor to have a car OR go to Mc…[Read more]

I can remember getting the mustard-burger at Whataburger growing up (when they had that A-frame style building and were often drive up like Sonic today) along with lots of chopped onions. Heaven!

But, ketchup on a burger? Never. That’s a northern thing. Ketchup only goes on fries, and meatloaf for some reason 😄

Meat isn’t on the menu anymore,…[Read more]

It’s supposed to have a different (earthier?) flavor from the usual (green cardamom) due to some sort of fermentation – might have to try an Indian specialty shop for that.

I love the usual kind, especially when combined with ginger.

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My favorite’s Pride of Szegred, made in Hungary.

I’m not as likely to do chicken, but I can see that it would work very well there.

If I had to make chicken any other way, and regardless if I use spices, I have this thing about using lots of onions on chicken. I wonder how onions and smoked paprika would combo up.

I use it as a substitute for black pepper….

But paprika is not my latest spice discovery – that honor goes to none other than cardamom – somewhere between cinnamon and nutmeg…I had used it earlier on Indian food…But recently, I cooked Russian cuisine for orthodox Easter.Kulich for which I utilized a saved recipe from 1978..The bread/sweet…[Read more]

Downside is they don’t have cheeeburgers…. as if that dayglo orange stuff McDonalds uses actually has any dairy content in it?

I’ve even eaten at McDonalds in Ukraine and Russia. It also does taste better there – both countries have stricter rules on preservatives and food quality.

I like the McChicken sandwich.

1975.

McD’s fish sandwiched got me through college.

I remember when the first McDonald’s opened in my neighborhood. I had never eaten a McDonald’s burger before. We had a couple of other fast food burger joints in the neighborhood almost identical to McDonald’s. One family owned. The other a franchise called “Wetson’s”. When I ate my first McDonald’s burger, I didn’t like it. Unlike the other…[Read more]